Matthew Wade
Biographic Data
| ID | 3652202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Wade |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Wade |
| SIGNATURE | WADE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8401-2428 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How school phone policies influence adolescent phone use and wellbeing (SMART Schools): A qualitative comparative case study
Restrictive school phone policies are expected to positively influence adolescent in-school phone use and improve pupil wellbeing. However, there is a lack of research that explains how school phone policies impact on phone use and wellbeing. This qualitative comparative case study aimed to provide such explanatory data. Data were collected from 40 focus group interviews in 7 case study secondary schools in England (4 with permissive phone polici…
Secondary school smartphone policies in England: A descriptive analysis of how schools rationalize, design, and implement restrictive and permissive phone policies
This study provides a descriptive analysis of the content and implementation of smartphone policies across 30 secondary schools in England, comparing schools that do (permissive) or do not (restrictive) allow phone use during recreational time. School policy documents were collected, along with survey data from pupil (n = 1198), teacher (n = 53), and SLT (n = 30) participants. Phones were positioned as benefitting safety, learning, and communicat…
Ten Kings’ Clothes: Royal Danish Dress, 1596–1863
Crafting your own virtual charity sport event: Emotional energy, rituals, digital intimacy and the benefits of inclusivity
COVID-19 created a global sporting standstill for mega-events like the Olympics and had a similarly profound impact on small and local events such as charity sport events. These events were forced to pivot to virtual offerings to continue to deliver the event experience and impacts, including critical fundraising outcomes. This paper uses semi-structured interviews with participants in Cancer Council Tasmania's first virtual Women's 5 km walk/run…
Crowdfunding platforms as conduits for ideological struggle and extremism: On the need for greater regulation and digital constitutionalism
Crowdfunding platforms remain understudied as conduits for ideological struggle. While other social media platforms may enable the expression of hateful and harmful ideas, crowdfunding can actively facilitate their enaction through financial support. In addressing such risks, crowdfunding platforms attempt to mitigate complicity but retain legitimacy . That is, ensuring their fundraising tools are not exploited for intolerant, violent or hate‐bas…
"I Decked Myself Out in Pink": Examining the Role of the Pink Uniform in a Virtual Sports Charity Event
Introduction From the annual ‘Pink Test’ cricket match in Australia to Mother’s Day fun runs, there has been a proliferation of ‘pink’ uniformed charity events. This article analyses the pink uniform of the 2020 Cancer Council Tasmania’s Women’s first virtual 5K walk/run (W5K). The Women’s 5K event took take place virtually in September 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions. The annual event, which runs through the CBD of Launceston, a regional city …
The National ReferAll Database: An Open Dataset of Exercise Referral Schemes Across the UK
In 2014, The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) called for the development of a system to collate local data on exercise referral schemes (ERS). This database would be used to facilitate continued evaluation of ERS. The use of health databases can spur scientific investigation and the generation of evidence regarding healthcare practice. NICE's recommendation has not yet been met by public health bodies. Through collaboratio…
Effect of exercise referral schemes upon health and well-being: Initial observational insights using individual patient data meta-analysis from the National Referral Database
The challenges of responding to misinformation during a pandemic: Content Moderation and the Limitations of the Concept of Harm
Social media have been central in informing people about the COVID-19 pandemic. They influence the ways in which information is perceived, communicated and shared online, especially with physical distancing measures in place. While these technologies have given people the opportunity to contribute to public discussions about COVID-19, the narratives disseminated on social media have also been characterised by uncertainty, disagreement, false and …
Risky disciplining: On interdisciplinarity between sociology and cognitive neuroscience in the governing of morality
The neuroscience of morality presents novel approaches in exploring the cognitive and affective underpinnings of moral conduct, and is steadily accumulating influence within discursive frames of biocitizenship. Many claims are infused with varieties of neuro-actuarialism in governing morally risky subjects, with implications that other fields should observe closely. Sociologists and other social scientists, however, have typically been reluctant …
Soundtrack for love: Wedding videography, music and romantic memory
Professionally produced wedding videos are evocative artefacts. Capturing the ritual of the wedding, the wedding video stands as a postcard that showcases the conspicuous display of emotion that assumes a central place in the memorialization and indeed the very praxis of the modern wedding ritual. The role of music in the wedding video is crucial; representing a key partner to the imagery of the wedding, the musical dimensions emotionally charge …
Tactics of the 'Ugly Australian: Morality, masculinity, nationalism and governance amid a cheating controversy in sport
Cricket occupies an ambivalent place in the Australian cultural imaginary, caught between former colonial origins and current pluralist aspirations, and retaining conservative leanings that can veer into 'ugly assimilationism'. Elite representatives are variably celebrated as national icons or uneasy sources of collective identity, given tendencies to become 'Ugly Australians'. Within the Australian cricket team, this combustive mix of nationalis…
Programming and supervision of resistance training leads to positive effects on strength and body composition: Results from two randomised trials of community fitness programmes
Study 1: ISRCTN13024854 , retrospectively registered 20/02/2018. Study 2: ISRCTN13509468 , retrospectively registered 20/02/2018)
Virtuous Play: The Ethics, Pleasures, and Burdens of Brain Training
Through normative appeals of cognitive enhancement, the brain has become a site of both promise and peril. Displaying oneself as ethically sound may now include showing requisite care for cognitive capacities. Moreover, enhancing our cognitive reserves is framed as aspirational means of averting neurodegenerative disease and neoliberal precarity. Such demanding labours of self-care warrant close scrutiny. Promissory discourses proclaim our ‘neuro…
Instrumental Intimacy: EEG Wearables and Neuroscientific Control by Melissa Littlefield
Reviewed by: Instrumental Intimacy: EEG Wearables and Neuroscientific Control by Melissa Littlefield Matthew Wade (bio) Melissa Littlefield, Instrumental Intimacy: EEG Wearables and Neuroscientific Control. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018, 176 pp. $44.95 cloth. Melissa Littlefield's Instrumental Intimacy carries the reader through a lively history of the movement of electroencephalography (EEG's)—an electrophysiological method of …
A Sociology of the Total Organization: Atomistic Unity in the French Foreign Legion
Seeker-friendly: The Hillsong megachurch as an enchanting total institution
The increasingly voluntary quality of religious expression has prompted many faith-based entities to embrace 'secular' means of evangelism. This is evident within the Sydney-based Hillsong Church, which has grown rapidly in attendees, capital resources and global reach. This 'seeker-friendly' strategy, however, raises questions around whether the 'megachurch' can sustain itself in offering respite from wearying Weberian processes of rationalisati…
Worshipping Bodies: Affective Labour in the Hillsong Church
The Australian megachurch, Hillsong, is as well known for its music and spectacle as it is for the content of its religious ideas. This is largely due, as Connell argues in his geography of Hillsong, to the peculiar mix of the theological and the modern that a highly globalised and mediatised context can today produce. This paper re-examines the phenomenon of Hillsong through the theory of affect, which has gained notable analytical purchase in g…
Worshipping Bodies: Affective Labour in the Hillsong Church
The Australian megachurch, Hillsong, is as well known for its music and spectacle as it is for the content of its religious ideas. This is largely due, as Connell argues in his geography of Hillsong, to the peculiar mix of the theological and the modern that a highly globalised and mediatised context can today produce. This paper re-examines the phenomenon of Hillsong through the theory of affect, which has gained notable analytical purchase in g…
Seeker-friendly: The Hillsong megachurch as an enchanting total institution
The increasingly voluntary quality of religious expression has prompted many faith-based entities to embrace 'secular' means of evangelism. This is evident within the Sydney-based Hillsong Church, which has grown rapidly in attendees, capital resources and global reach. This 'seeker-friendly' strategy, however, raises questions around whether the 'megachurch' can sustain itself in offering respite from wearying Weberian processes of rationalisati…
The challenges of responding to misinformation during a pandemic: Content Moderation and the Limitations of the Concept of Harm
Social media have been central in informing people about the COVID-19 pandemic. They influence the ways in which information is perceived, communicated and shared online, especially with physical distancing measures in place. While these technologies have given people the opportunity to contribute to public discussions about COVID-19, the narratives disseminated on social media have also been characterised by uncertainty, disagreement, false and …
Virtuous Play: The Ethics, Pleasures, and Burdens of Brain Training
Through normative appeals of cognitive enhancement, the brain has become a site of both promise and peril. Displaying oneself as ethically sound may now include showing requisite care for cognitive capacities. Moreover, enhancing our cognitive reserves is framed as aspirational means of averting neurodegenerative disease and neoliberal precarity. Such demanding labours of self-care warrant close scrutiny. Promissory discourses proclaim our ‘neuro…
Tactics of the 'Ugly Australian: Morality, masculinity, nationalism and governance amid a cheating controversy in sport
Cricket occupies an ambivalent place in the Australian cultural imaginary, caught between former colonial origins and current pluralist aspirations, and retaining conservative leanings that can veer into 'ugly assimilationism'. Elite representatives are variably celebrated as national icons or uneasy sources of collective identity, given tendencies to become 'Ugly Australians'. Within the Australian cricket team, this combustive mix of nationalis…
Risky disciplining: On interdisciplinarity between sociology and cognitive neuroscience in the governing of morality
The neuroscience of morality presents novel approaches in exploring the cognitive and affective underpinnings of moral conduct, and is steadily accumulating influence within discursive frames of biocitizenship. Many claims are infused with varieties of neuro-actuarialism in governing morally risky subjects, with implications that other fields should observe closely. Sociologists and other social scientists, however, have typically been reluctant …
Soundtrack for love: Wedding videography, music and romantic memory
Professionally produced wedding videos are evocative artefacts. Capturing the ritual of the wedding, the wedding video stands as a postcard that showcases the conspicuous display of emotion that assumes a central place in the memorialization and indeed the very praxis of the modern wedding ritual. The role of music in the wedding video is crucial; representing a key partner to the imagery of the wedding, the musical dimensions emotionally charge …
Worshipping Bodies: Affective Labour in the Hillsong Church
The Australian megachurch, Hillsong, is as well known for its music and spectacle as it is for the content of its religious ideas. This is largely due, as Connell argues in his geography of Hillsong, to the peculiar mix of the theological and the modern that a highly globalised and mediatised context can today produce. This paper re-examines the phenomenon of Hillsong through the theory of affect, which has gained notable analytical purchase in g…
Seeker-friendly: The Hillsong megachurch as an enchanting total institution
The increasingly voluntary quality of religious expression has prompted many faith-based entities to embrace 'secular' means of evangelism. This is evident within the Sydney-based Hillsong Church, which has grown rapidly in attendees, capital resources and global reach. This 'seeker-friendly' strategy, however, raises questions around whether the 'megachurch' can sustain itself in offering respite from wearying Weberian processes of rationalisati…
A Sociology of the Total Organization: Atomistic Unity in the French Foreign Legion
Programming and supervision of resistance training leads to positive effects on strength and body composition: Results from two randomised trials of community fitness programmes
Study 1: ISRCTN13024854 , retrospectively registered 20/02/2018. Study 2: ISRCTN13509468 , retrospectively registered 20/02/2018)
Virtuous Play: The Ethics, Pleasures, and Burdens of Brain Training
Through normative appeals of cognitive enhancement, the brain has become a site of both promise and peril. Displaying oneself as ethically sound may now include showing requisite care for cognitive capacities. Moreover, enhancing our cognitive reserves is framed as aspirational means of averting neurodegenerative disease and neoliberal precarity. Such demanding labours of self-care warrant close scrutiny. Promissory discourses proclaim our ‘neuro…
Instrumental Intimacy: EEG Wearables and Neuroscientific Control by Melissa Littlefield
Reviewed by: Instrumental Intimacy: EEG Wearables and Neuroscientific Control by Melissa Littlefield Matthew Wade (bio) Melissa Littlefield, Instrumental Intimacy: EEG Wearables and Neuroscientific Control. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018, 176 pp. $44.95 cloth. Melissa Littlefield's Instrumental Intimacy carries the reader through a lively history of the movement of electroencephalography (EEG's)—an electrophysiological method of …
Soundtrack for love: Wedding videography, music and romantic memory
Professionally produced wedding videos are evocative artefacts. Capturing the ritual of the wedding, the wedding video stands as a postcard that showcases the conspicuous display of emotion that assumes a central place in the memorialization and indeed the very praxis of the modern wedding ritual. The role of music in the wedding video is crucial; representing a key partner to the imagery of the wedding, the musical dimensions emotionally charge …
Tactics of the 'Ugly Australian: Morality, masculinity, nationalism and governance amid a cheating controversy in sport
Cricket occupies an ambivalent place in the Australian cultural imaginary, caught between former colonial origins and current pluralist aspirations, and retaining conservative leanings that can veer into 'ugly assimilationism'. Elite representatives are variably celebrated as national icons or uneasy sources of collective identity, given tendencies to become 'Ugly Australians'. Within the Australian cricket team, this combustive mix of nationalis…
Effect of exercise referral schemes upon health and well-being: Initial observational insights using individual patient data meta-analysis from the National Referral Database
The challenges of responding to misinformation during a pandemic: Content Moderation and the Limitations of the Concept of Harm
Social media have been central in informing people about the COVID-19 pandemic. They influence the ways in which information is perceived, communicated and shared online, especially with physical distancing measures in place. While these technologies have given people the opportunity to contribute to public discussions about COVID-19, the narratives disseminated on social media have also been characterised by uncertainty, disagreement, false and …
Risky disciplining: On interdisciplinarity between sociology and cognitive neuroscience in the governing of morality
The neuroscience of morality presents novel approaches in exploring the cognitive and affective underpinnings of moral conduct, and is steadily accumulating influence within discursive frames of biocitizenship. Many claims are infused with varieties of neuro-actuarialism in governing morally risky subjects, with implications that other fields should observe closely. Sociologists and other social scientists, however, have typically been reluctant …
The National ReferAll Database: An Open Dataset of Exercise Referral Schemes Across the UK
In 2014, The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) called for the development of a system to collate local data on exercise referral schemes (ERS). This database would be used to facilitate continued evaluation of ERS. The use of health databases can spur scientific investigation and the generation of evidence regarding healthcare practice. NICE's recommendation has not yet been met by public health bodies. Through collaboratio…
"I Decked Myself Out in Pink": Examining the Role of the Pink Uniform in a Virtual Sports Charity Event
Introduction From the annual ‘Pink Test’ cricket match in Australia to Mother’s Day fun runs, there has been a proliferation of ‘pink’ uniformed charity events. This article analyses the pink uniform of the 2020 Cancer Council Tasmania’s Women’s first virtual 5K walk/run (W5K). The Women’s 5K event took take place virtually in September 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions. The annual event, which runs through the CBD of Launceston, a regional city …
Crowdfunding platforms as conduits for ideological struggle and extremism: On the need for greater regulation and digital constitutionalism
Crowdfunding platforms remain understudied as conduits for ideological struggle. While other social media platforms may enable the expression of hateful and harmful ideas, crowdfunding can actively facilitate their enaction through financial support. In addressing such risks, crowdfunding platforms attempt to mitigate complicity but retain legitimacy . That is, ensuring their fundraising tools are not exploited for intolerant, violent or hate‐bas…
Secondary school smartphone policies in England: A descriptive analysis of how schools rationalize, design, and implement restrictive and permissive phone policies
This study provides a descriptive analysis of the content and implementation of smartphone policies across 30 secondary schools in England, comparing schools that do (permissive) or do not (restrictive) allow phone use during recreational time. School policy documents were collected, along with survey data from pupil (n = 1198), teacher (n = 53), and SLT (n = 30) participants. Phones were positioned as benefitting safety, learning, and communicat…
Ten Kings’ Clothes: Royal Danish Dress, 1596–1863
Crafting your own virtual charity sport event: Emotional energy, rituals, digital intimacy and the benefits of inclusivity
COVID-19 created a global sporting standstill for mega-events like the Olympics and had a similarly profound impact on small and local events such as charity sport events. These events were forced to pivot to virtual offerings to continue to deliver the event experience and impacts, including critical fundraising outcomes. This paper uses semi-structured interviews with participants in Cancer Council Tasmania's first virtual Women's 5 km walk/run…
How school phone policies influence adolescent phone use and wellbeing (SMART Schools): A qualitative comparative case study
Restrictive school phone policies are expected to positively influence adolescent in-school phone use and improve pupil wellbeing. However, there is a lack of research that explains how school phone policies impact on phone use and wellbeing. This qualitative comparative case study aimed to provide such explanatory data. Data were collected from 40 focus group interviews in 7 case study secondary schools in England (4 with permissive phone polici…
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