Ben Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3654249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | BEN JACKSON |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0351-8377 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 87 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 85 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Auditory-cued exercise therapy (Acet) in 7–12-year-old children with listening difficulties – a feasibility and pilot trial protocol
(Central) Auditory Processing Disorder ([C]APD) is an umbrella term for children who have difficulty with listening, despite normal hearing. Children with (C)APD frequently experience academic, behavioural, emotional, cognitive and social difficulties, and lack accessible, long-lasting wholistic treatments. Hence, a transdisciplinary intervention has been developed – Auditory-Cued Exercise Therapy (ACET). This manuscript details the protocol for …
What is the Point of the Labour Party
Eating and exercise motivation and behaviors in trans and gender diverse adults
Eating disorder (ED) rates in trans and gender diverse people range between 2% and 22%, with rates of disordered eating and exercise behaviors likely to be higher.Although several mechanisms have been proposed, including gender affirmation processes and minority stress, the specific pathways contributing to this heightened risk remain underexplored.Using a mixed methods approach, we investigated eating and exercise motivations and behaviors in tr…
Measuring delivery and impact in community-based health promotion initiatives
Background: Robust evaluation is critical for understanding and enhancing the impact of health promotion initiatives. However, many community-based organisations face challenges in planning and conducting evaluation due to limitations in knowledge, resources, and the applicability of existing evaluation frameworks. The Healthway Evaluation Framework, and its accompanying practical Measurement Toolkit, was designed to support evaluation planning, …
What helps cardiac patients exercise after treatment, and when? Understanding physical activity and exercise participation following exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation
Despite evidence suggesting regular exercise (i.e. structured, repetitive and purposeful physical activity) attenuates cardiac patients’ decline in health, our understanding of factors affecting long-term exercise participation among this patient cohort is limited. This problem is pertinent, given that less than half of cardiac patients adhere to exercise following discharge from formal exercise-based rehabilitation programmes. In this study, we …
Understanding and optimising gratitude interventions
OBJECTIVE: Gratitude has consistently been associated with various beneficial health-related outcomes, including subjective wellbeing, positive mental health, and positive physical health. In light of such effects, positive psychology researchers and practitioners have often implemented gratitude interventions in an attempt to build individuals' orientations toward appreciation and thankfulness. Recent meta-analyses and reviews have revealed, how…
Preliminary validity evidence for a rapid fundamental movement skill assessment tool for primary education settings
Introduction Assessment of motor competence is critical for planning and monitoring children's development. However, many assessment tools require time, training, and resources not available to most teachers. We aimed to evaluate the external aspect of construct validity of a rapid product-oriented fundamental movement skill assessment tool designed specifically for primary education settings. Methods Fundamental movement skills of 73 children ag…
Nigel Farage is no Ramsay MacDonald
Social Democracy without Foundations? David Marquand and the Historiography of the ‘Keynesian Welfare State
David Marquand was a historian. This article considers his historical writings of the 1970s to the 1990s and places them in dialogue with other historians who have written about similar themes. The article draws out connections and comparisons between Marquand's work and his peers/successors, but also assesses how far we might now want to modify Marquand's interpretation of twentieth century British political history. Particular attention is paid…
Poverty and the Labour Party
Understanding parent perspectives on engagement with online youth-focused mental health programs
OBJECTIVE: Online youth-focused health programs often include parent modules-that equip parents with skills to assist their child in improving their health-alongside youth-specific content. BRAVE Self-Help, an evidence-based program designed for children and teenagers with early signs of anxiety, is a popular Australian program that includes six parent modules. Despite its popularity and proven efficacy, BRAVE Self-Help shares the same challenge …
Barriers and enablers to promoting grandchildren’s physical activity and reducing screen time
Findings suggest that grandparents may benefit from resources that assist them to identify activities that are inexpensive and require minimal effort to organize. Activities that account for grandparents' age and health status, as well as any environmental barriers, are likely to be well-received
Beveridge's Wager
A Hundred Years of Labour Governments
Structured exercise programs for higher education students experiencing mental health challenges
The incidence of mental illness is greatest among young adults, and those enrolled in higher education may be particularly vulnerable compared to the general young adult population. Many higher education institutions employ student support staff tasked with implementing strategies to improve student wellbeing and mental illness. However, these strategies tend to be focused on clinical therapies and pharmacological interventions with limited lifes…
Emotional intelligence and interpersonal relationship quality as predictors of high school physical education teachers’ intrinsic motivation
Support needs and experiences of young people living in families with mental illness
INTRODUCTION: Children and adolescents living in families affected by mental illness are at elevated risk of developing mental health problems. A range of interventions have been designed to help these young people; however, the effectiveness of these programs is, in some cases, mixed. Our aim was to understand in detail the support needs and experiences of a group of Australian children and adolescents living in families with mental illness. MET…
It’s been a lifelong thing for me’
This study demonstrates that parents face challenges in supporting healthy lifestyle for children/adolescents with severe obesity due to parents own internal weight biases and their negative experiences within the healthcare system when seeking help
The Right Advice, from the Right Person, in the Right Way
Family-based lifestyle interventions for children/adolescents with severe levels of obesity are numerous, but evidence indicates programs fail to elicit short- or longer-term weight loss outcomes. Families with lived experience can provide valuable insight as we strive to improve outcomes from programs. Our aim was to explore elements that families desired in a program designed to treat severe levels of obesity in young people. We recruited a cro…
Celtic Nationalisms and the Global Break-up of Britain
This response to Stuart Ward's Untied Kingdom examines his treatment of Scottish and Welsh nationalisms. This is a crucial part of the book because it is here that Ward completes his narrative arc, which depicts the loss of empire as a fundamentally destabilising force for the UK state and its basis in a shared British identity. So how should we think about the pressure that decolonisation places on British identity within Britain? While admiring…
Can Gordon Brown and Keir Starmer Save the UK
GORDON BROWN'S Commission on the UK's Future received a brief flurry of public attention on its launch before creeping back into the usual obscurity faced by worthy enquiries into policy issues. But there was a lot to like in this report, more in fact than was evident from the media coverage. It has not been sufficiently credited, for example, that the report's diagnosis seeks to align Labour with a substantial left critique of the UK, familiar t…
Introduction
WHERE STANDS Scottish politics? It's a question with significant implications for next year's UK general election and for the dynamics of British politics thereafter. The departure of Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland's first minister earlier this year marks the end of a long and intense phase of constitutional drama. It also casts doubt on the durability of the SNP's electoral hegemony, one of the cardinal achievements of Sturgeon and her predecessor,…
The rise and rise (?) of the Scottish National Party
Relationships between social interactions, basic psychological needs, and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic
OBJECTIVE: Social lockdowns associated with COVID-19 have led individuals to increasingly rely on video conferencing and other technology-based interactions to fulfil social needs. The extent to which these interactions, as well as traditional face-to-face interactions, satisfied psychological needs and supported wellbeing during different periods of the COVID-19 pandemic is yet to be elucidated. In this study, university students' social interac…
Genomics-informed outbreak investigations of Sars-CoV-2 using civet
The scale of data produced during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has been unprecedented, with more than 13 million sequences shared publicly at the time of writing. This wealth of sequence data provides important context for interpreting local outbreaks. However, placing sequences of interest into national and international context is difficult given the size of the global dataset. Often outbreak investigations and genomic surveillance efforts require r…
At the Origins of Neo-Liberalism
It is often suggested that the earliest theorists of neo-liberalism first entered public controversy in the 1930s and 1940s to dispel the illusion that the welfare state represented a stable middle way between capitalism and socialism. This article argues that this is an anachronistic account of the origins of neo-liberalism, since the earliest exponents of neo-liberal doctrine focused on socialist central planning rather than the welfare state a…
The Conceptual History of Social Justice
Social justice is a crucial ideal in contemporary political thought. Yet the concept of social justice is a recent addition to our political vocabulary, and comparatively little is known about its introduction into political debate or its early theoretical trajectory. Some important research has begun to address this issue, adding a valuable historical perspective to present-day controversies about the concept. This article uses this literature t…
The Political Thought of Scottish Nationalism
This article examines the key arguments and intellectual influences that have come together over recent decades to produce the case for Scottish independence. In particular, the article draws attention to three crucial, but discordant, ideological themes that have become recurrent features of Scottish nationalist discourse: an analysis of the British state indebted to the New Left; a surprising enthusiasm for the politics of the British labour mo…
The Politics of the Labour Manifesto
at the outset of the 2017 election campaign, there seemed to be a good chance that the Labour party would be broken—possibly irreparably—on the anvil of nationalism. After all, that was why Theresa May had called the election. Enormous credit is therefore due to Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour left for running an excellent campaign that capitalised on the abject weaknesses of the Conservatives and ultimately saved Labour from what many people—includ…
In Search of Social Democracy
Part I After the golden age: social democracy in crisis1 Explanations for the neo-liberal direction of social democracy:Germany, Sweden and Australia compared
In search of social democracy
Part I After the golden age: social democracy in crisis1 Explanations for the neo-liberal direction of social democracy:Germany, Sweden and Australia compared
Currents of Neo-Liberalism
This article investigates the emergence of neo-liberalism in Britain and its intellectual relationship with each of the three main British political ideologies. The article distinguishes between different currents of neo-liberalism that have been absorbed into British political thought, and shows that this process to some extent pre-dated the electoral success of Thatcherism in the 1980s. The article further suggests that labelling recent British…
Freedom, the Common Good, and the Rule of Law
This article examines the intellectual relationship between Friedrich Hayek and Walter Lippmann in the 1930s and 1940s, and argues that Lippmann's writings on economic planning were a neglected influence on the development of Hayek's political thought in this period. Lippmann's work provided a first approximation of arguments that Hayek would later make this own: that planning would destroy civil and political freedom; that a certain form of lega…
Relational efficacy beliefs and relationship quality within coach-athlete dyads
The primary purpose of this study was to examine the role of efficacy beliefs in predicting perceptions of relationship quality (i.e., closeness, commitment, and complementarity) within coach-athlete dyads. Data from 63 youth athletes and their coaches were analyzed using actor-partner interdependence models and revealed actor effects for self-efficacy on complementarity (for both dyad members) and closeness (for coaches only). A number of actor …
Factors influencing physical activity participation among older people with low activity levels
Despite the well-documented health benefits of physical activity in older adults, participation levels remain low. With rapid global population ageing, intensive efforts are needed to encourage higher levels of participation to ameliorate the negative effects of physical inactivity for older individuals and society as a whole. The aim of this qualitative study was to inform future physical activity promotion interventions by examining factors con…
Charity Begins at Home”
Formal volunteering is an important economic and social activity. In many countries, prevalence of volunteering is decreasing overall, including among older people who constitute a major volunteering resource. This qualitative study explored reasons for non-volunteering among seniors, with a focus on those who attribute their non-volunteering to their existing helping commitments. Forty-nine Australian interviewees aged 60 + years described a ran…
Understanding and alleviating maternal postpartum distress
Effects of diurnal exercise timing on appetite, energy intake and body composition
Understanding the determinants of stress-induced eating – A qualitative study
Getting Labour Together
What do the different wings of the Labour Party actually disagree about? Sometimes it seems like almost everything, in spite of the warm words about party unity offered by the various leadership contenders in recent weeks. But on closer investigation, the disagreement between left and right is less about policy—on which there is in fact some convergence about the broad direction of travel—and more about entitlement: which faction is the legitimat…
Hayek, Keynes, and the Origins of Neo-Liberalism
In reply to the comment by Andrew Farrant and Edward McPhail on Ben Jackson's article ‘At the origins of neo-liberalism’, this communication briefly examines the development of the political thought of Friedrich Hayek in the 1940s. It argues that the chronology of Hayek's critical analysis of the ‘Keynesian welfare state’ is more complex than Farrant and McPhail suggest. Farrant and McPhail underestimate the extent to which neo-liberalism in the …
Poverty and the Labour Party
A Hundred Years of Labour Governments
Hard Labour
There is something about the Labour party that makes otherwise rigorous left-wing thinkers misplace their critical faculties. Guardian columnists, radical academics, authors of pungent essays for the New Left Review: all are liable to lapse into an unilluminating moralism when the discussion turns to British party politics. Where such writers deftly place the latest American elections or the rise of socialism in Latin America in their structural …
Relationship commitment in athletic dyads
Representation, Responsibility and Reliability in Participant-Observation
The Conceptual History of Social Justice
Social justice is a crucial ideal in contemporary political thought. Yet the concept of social justice is a recent addition to our political vocabulary, and comparatively little is known about its introduction into political debate or its early theoretical trajectory. Some important research has begun to address this issue, adding a valuable historical perspective to present-day controversies about the concept. This article uses this literature t…
Margins of Disorder
Equality and the British Left
In Search of Social Democracy
Part I After the golden age: social democracy in crisis1 Explanations for the neo-liberal direction of social democracy:Germany, Sweden and Australia compared
Athletes’ Perceptions of Coaching Competency Scale II-High School Teams
The purpose of this validity study was to improve measurement of athletes’ evaluations of their head coach’s coaching competency, an important multidimensional construct in models of coaching effectiveness. A revised version of the Coaching Competency Scale (CCS) was developed for athletes of high school teams (APCCS II-HST). Data were collected from athletes ( N = 748) of seven relevant sports. Athlete observations were clustered within teams ( …
The Failure of a Dream
Relationship commitment in athletic dyads
At the Origins of Neo-Liberalism
It is often suggested that the earliest theorists of neo-liberalism first entered public controversy in the 1930s and 1940s to dispel the illusion that the welfare state represented a stable middle way between capitalism and socialism. This article argues that this is an anachronistic account of the origins of neo-liberalism, since the earliest exponents of neo-liberal doctrine focused on socialist central planning rather than the welfare state a…
Relational efficacy beliefs and relationship quality within coach-athlete dyads
The primary purpose of this study was to examine the role of efficacy beliefs in predicting perceptions of relationship quality (i.e., closeness, commitment, and complementarity) within coach-athlete dyads. Data from 63 youth athletes and their coaches were analyzed using actor-partner interdependence models and revealed actor effects for self-efficacy on complementarity (for both dyad members) and closeness (for coaches only). A number of actor …
Outsourcing Physical Education in primary schools
In place of generalist delivery, externally provided physical activity programmes (EPPAPs) are potentially an effective method for offering primary school students specialist physical education (PE) instruction, as well as providing training for generalist classroom teachers. In the present study, a group of generalist teachers were interviewed regarding the professional benefits of their class's involvement in a 6-month EPPAP. Semi-structured in…
Modern Pluralism
Pluralism is among the most vital intellectual movements of the modern era. Liberal pluralism helped reinforce and promote greater separation of political and religious spheres. Socialist pluralism promoted the political role of trade unions and the rise of corporatism. Empirical pluralism helped legitimate the role of interest groups in democratic government. Today pluralism inspires thinking about key issues such as multiculturalism and network…
Hayek, Keynes, and the Origins of Neo-Liberalism
In reply to the comment by Andrew Farrant and Edward McPhail on Ben Jackson's article ‘At the origins of neo-liberalism’, this communication briefly examines the development of the political thought of Friedrich Hayek in the 1940s. It argues that the chronology of Hayek's critical analysis of the ‘Keynesian welfare state’ is more complex than Farrant and McPhail suggest. Farrant and McPhail underestimate the extent to which neo-liberalism in the …
Freedom, the Common Good, and the Rule of Law
This article examines the intellectual relationship between Friedrich Hayek and Walter Lippmann in the 1930s and 1940s, and argues that Lippmann's writings on economic planning were a neglected influence on the development of Hayek's political thought in this period. Lippmann's work provided a first approximation of arguments that Hayek would later make this own: that planning would destroy civil and political freedom; that a certain form of lega…
The crisis of neoliberalism - By Gérard Duménil and Dominique Levy. Constructions of neoliberal reason - By Jamie Peck
The effect of learning climate on snack consumption and ego depletion among undergraduate students
Blood, Sweat and Toil
The Political Thought of Scottish Nationalism
This article examines the key arguments and intellectual influences that have come together over recent decades to produce the case for Scottish independence. In particular, the article draws attention to three crucial, but discordant, ideological themes that have become recurrent features of Scottish nationalist discourse: an analysis of the British state indebted to the New Left; a surprising enthusiasm for the politics of the British labour mo…
Seek, and You Will Find
Despite hundreds of studies on the effects of expectations on evaluations, few commentaries have focused on summarising the relevance of these findings for physical activity pursuits. Moreover, a parsimonious framework on the nature of these relationships in physical activity is yet to be developed. Such a framework is important given the significance of physical activity evaluations in predicting future physical activity participation. Based on …
The relationship between transformational teaching and adolescent physical activity
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which transformational teaching, exhibited by secondary school physical education teachers, predicts within-class physical activity and leisure-time physical activity among adolescents. The study used a prospective observational design and involved data collected from 874 Grade 10 adolescents ( Mage = 15.41, ( SD) = .61). Through use of structural equation modeling, the results revealed that …
Lionel Robbins, by Susan Howson
Lionel Robbins (1898–1984) enjoyed a remarkable career in British public life. He moved rapidly from an early appointment as Economics Fellow at New College, Oxford, to a professorship at the LSE by the age of thirty-one. In the 1930s, he played a leading role in building one of the world’s best Economics departments at the LSE, while making a trenchant contribution to that decade’s robust public exchanges about economic policy. During the Second…
English Votes for English Laws
In wildest fantasy who could have foretold ten years ago that we were about to face a national referendum whether to stay in EEC or not on renegotiated terms which few people can understand any better than the original ones; a Cabinet that has had to agree to divide so that all can hold on to office, but which has already broadened the public disagreements into the whole field of basic economic policy; and, as if this were not enough, to have in …
Hard Labour
There is something about the Labour party that makes otherwise rigorous left-wing thinkers misplace their critical faculties. Guardian columnists, radical academics, authors of pungent essays for the New Left Review: all are liable to lapse into an unilluminating moralism when the discussion turns to British party politics. Where such writers deftly place the latest American elections or the rise of socialism in Latin America in their structural …
Currents of Neo-Liberalism
This article investigates the emergence of neo-liberalism in Britain and its intellectual relationship with each of the three main British political ideologies. The article distinguishes between different currents of neo-liberalism that have been absorbed into British political thought, and shows that this process to some extent pre-dated the electoral success of Thatcherism in the 1980s. The article further suggests that labelling recent British…
Persuasion and Communication in Sport, Exercise, and Physical Activity
This chapter describes Cialdini's six principles of persuasion and reviews studies in which they have been tested in laboratory or real-life settings. It provides examples of intervention strategies that aim to implement those principles in the context of physical activity and sport. The chapter discusses similarities and differences among the six principles of persuasion, reveals potential implications for the promotion of physical activity part…
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