Catherine Hobbs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3652252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Hobbs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Hobbs |
| SIGNATURE | HOBBS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Former Visiting Fellow, Newcastle Business School Northumbria University Newcastle UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2324-5882 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Applying critical systems thinking through phronetic pluralism
Contemporary governance challenges require both systemic leadership and adaptive learning to navigate effectively. Yet systems theory and systems thinking remain on the relative margins of management praxis, subject to accusations of theoretical remoteness or impracticality. In this paper, we explore how concepts central to Critical Systems Theory (CST) can be impactfully carried into practice. We discuss the genesis and operation of Human Learni…
Long-term analysis of a psychoeducational course on university students’ mental well-being
Although many higher educational institute (HEI) psychoeducational courses teaching positive psychology interventions report benefits to mental well-being upon completion, they have not typically addressed whether such beneficial effects are sustained long-term beyond the period of the courses. Here, we report a pre-registered follow-up of 228 undergraduate students, from a variety of disciplines, who took a positive psychology course 1 or 2 year…
Voices Kept in Context
The Era of the Witness (review)
Reviewed by: The Era of the Witness Catherine Hobbs (bio) Annette Wieviorka . The Era of the Witness [L'ère du témoin; Paris: Plon, 1998]. Trans. Jared Stark. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006. 168 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-7316-6, $19.95. This admirably compact and readable history by one of France's few Holocaust historians clearly sets out the problematic of the conflict between personal testimonies—often highly emotional, at times factually wrong—told or wr…
Rhetoric on the margins of modernity
Nineteenth-Century Women Learn to Write
The essays in this volume address questions exploring the nature of education in the nineteenth century. Literacy has been called a double-edged sword because it can be used for both social control and social reform. During the nineteenth century it became a key element in the social transformation to Victorian culture with its cult of true womanhood advocating piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness. But both black and white women could r…
Nineteenth-Century Women Learn to Write
Defending Rhetorics
Nineteenth-Century Women Learn to Write
Applying critical systems thinking through phronetic pluralism
Contemporary governance challenges require both systemic leadership and adaptive learning to navigate effectively. Yet systems theory and systems thinking remain on the relative margins of management praxis, subject to accusations of theoretical remoteness or impracticality. In this paper, we explore how concepts central to Critical Systems Theory (CST) can be impactfully carried into practice. We discuss the genesis and operation of Human Learni…
Defending Rhetorics
Nineteenth-Century Women Learn to Write
The essays in this volume address questions exploring the nature of education in the nineteenth century. Literacy has been called a double-edged sword because it can be used for both social control and social reform. During the nineteenth century it became a key element in the social transformation to Victorian culture with its cult of true womanhood advocating piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness. But both black and white women could r…
Nineteenth-Century Women Learn to Write
Rhetoric on the margins of modernity
The Era of the Witness (review)
Reviewed by: The Era of the Witness Catherine Hobbs (bio) Annette Wieviorka . The Era of the Witness [L'ère du témoin; Paris: Plon, 1998]. Trans. Jared Stark. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006. 168 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-7316-6, $19.95. This admirably compact and readable history by one of France's few Holocaust historians clearly sets out the problematic of the conflict between personal testimonies—often highly emotional, at times factually wrong—told or wr…
Voices Kept in Context
Long-term analysis of a psychoeducational course on university students’ mental well-being
Although many higher educational institute (HEI) psychoeducational courses teaching positive psychology interventions report benefits to mental well-being upon completion, they have not typically addressed whether such beneficial effects are sustained long-term beyond the period of the courses. Here, we report a pre-registered follow-up of 228 undergraduate students, from a variety of disciplines, who took a positive psychology course 1 or 2 year…
Applying critical systems thinking through phronetic pluralism
Contemporary governance challenges require both systemic leadership and adaptive learning to navigate effectively. Yet systems theory and systems thinking remain on the relative margins of management praxis, subject to accusations of theoretical remoteness or impracticality. In this paper, we explore how concepts central to Critical Systems Theory (CST) can be impactfully carried into practice. We discuss the genesis and operation of Human Learni…
History (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · 1668-1744 (1 works) · 1714-1799 (1 works) · 1714-1799 (1 works) · 18th century (1 works) · 18th century (1 works)