Sarah Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5648-7271 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Pre-service teachers reflect on racial dynamics during a short-term study abroad experience
There is a dire need in teacher education to prepare culturally responsive teachers who can effectively teach and build community among increasingly diverse populations of learners. Short-term study abroad programmes incorporating critical approaches offer a promising method for pre-service teachers critically to reflect on differences, a key aspect of cultural responsiveness. This phenomenological study examined the impact a week-long study tour…
Impact of a local community lay health navigator program on acute hospital needs: A pragmatic propensity-score matching study
Background: Northern Health, along with health systems worldwide, is experiencing increasing demand due to population growth, aging and increasing rates of multimorbid chronic disease alongside complex social conditions. NH catchment area includes culturally and linguistically diverse residents, with lower levels of income, educational achievement, health literacy and employment than the Victorian average. As health services grow, they become inc…
Impact of Clinician-Supported Peer Health Navigation on Hospital Resource Utilisation amongst High Risk Adults: A Pragmatic Propensity-Score Matching Study
The NPW programme reduced admissions, bed-days, and outpatient non-attendance, suggesting peer health navigators supported by health professionals improve resource use and patient engagement
There’s Never Just One Type’: A Mixed Methods Realist Evaluation of Adolescent-Focused Low-Intensity Life Story Work
Life story work is a way of supporting children who spend time in out-of-home care to make sense of their experiences. It is highly valued yet poorly evidenced and inconsistently implemented with adolescents aged 12–18 years old. We sought to improve our understandings of the ways in which carers are already supporting what we describe as adolescent-focused low-intensity life story work (AF-LI-LSW) to improve the quality, consistency and availabi…
Perceived Task- and Relationship-Oriented Leader Behavior on Followers’ Team-Oriented Attitudes
“Somebodies” and “Nobodies”: Generative AI and Audiovisual Performer Labor
No one is going to recess: How children evaluate collective and targeted punishment
This study examined children's responses to targeted and collective punishment. Thirty-six 4-5-year-olds and 36 6-7-year-olds (36 females; 54 White; data collected 2018-2019 in the United States) experienced three classroom punishment situations: Targeted (only transgressing student punished), Collective (one student transgressed, all students punished), and Baseline (all students transgressed, all punished). The older children evaluated collecti…
Initial development of perceptions of ability and intent factors of (un)trustworthiness in short‐term teams
Individual perceptions of team trustworthiness are critical antecedents to the development of relationships within teams. Yet, clarity is needed regarding the focus of these individual perceptions and how they change, particularly at the outset of team interactions. Two distinct research streams have emerged regarding trustworthiness. One proposes a difference between perceived ability and intent, whereas the other proposes a difference between c…
Hearing and Listening: Bridging the Leadership Divide between School Connectedness and Students’ Lived Realities
The purpose of this research was to examine the disconnect between urban school expectations and actual lived realities of marginalized students. Taking into consideration the conversation surrounding the definitions of urban education, and the importance of school connectedness with youth, we chose to focus on the lives of five former high students navigating their education. Our qualitative study found that the students’ lives presented challen…
Transparency in persuasive technology, immersive technology, and online marketing: Facilitating users’ informed decision making and practical implications
In the current age of emerging technologies and big data , transparency has become an important issue for technology users and online consumers. However, there is a lack of consensus on what constitutes transparency across domains of research, not to mention transparency guidelines for designers and marketers. In this review, we explored the question of what transparency means in current research and practices by reviewing the literature in three…
Rotavirus genotypes in children under five years hospitalized with diarrhea in low and middle-income countries: Results from the WHO-coordinated Global Rotavirus Surveillance Network
Rotavirus is the most common pathogen causing pediatric diarrhea and an important cause of morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries. Previous evidence suggests that the introduction of rotavirus vaccines in national immunization schedules resulted in dramatic declines in disease burden but may also be changing the rotavirus genetic landscape and driving the emergence of new genotypes. We report genotype data of more than 16,000…
Aetiology and incidence of diarrhoea requiring hospitalisation in children under 5 years of age in 28 low-income and middle-income countries: Findings from the Global Pediatric Diarrhea Surveillance n…
Introduction Diarrhoea remains a leading cause of child morbidity and mortality. Systematically collected and analysed data on the aetiology of hospitalised diarrhoea in low-income and middle-income countries are needed to prioritise interventions. Methods We established the Global Pediatric Diarrhea Surveillance network, in which children under 5 years hospitalised with diarrhoea were enrolled at 33 sentinel surveillance hospitals in 28 low-inco…
Nurturing Father and Daughter Relationships and Family Well-Being: A Community-Based Transformative Initiative
Research supports that the positive involvement of fathers in caregiving activities cultivates family cohesion and fosters the emotional well-being of fathers and their families. However, there are limited community-based resources that support and celebrate the development of nurturing fatherhood and focus on strengthening father-daughter relationships. In collaboration with diverse communities in Calgary, Canada, a local network launched a comm…
The Specter of Slavery in the British Art Museum
In Pieter Wonder’s oil painting, Patrons and Lovers of Art (1830), considered to be an idealised prefiguration of London’s National Gallery, we can identify sixteen British gentlemen collectors and connoisseurs, and forty-four Old Master and British paintings which are today considered collection highlights of major art museums across Europe and North America. This essay focuses on the lives of two of Wonder’s sitters in order to better understan…
Art History and Racial Capitalism
Sharing the Field: Reflections of More-Than-Human Field/work Encounters
The "field" has long been contested as spatially and temporally bounded. Feminist epistemologies have re-imagined and engaged field/work as shared, messy and co-constitutive, while critical more-than-human methodologies in the transdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities are further expanding our understanding of who and what counts in the production of knowledge in the field. This compendium article orbits around a collective concern …
Introduction to the special issue: Keanu Reeves as palimpsest
Keanu Reeves, John Wick, and the myths and tensions between star brands and franchise properties
This article examines Keanu Reeves’ role in the John Wick franchise, studying the tensions that lie between studio-managed intellectual property networks and star brand. A valuable star vehicle, John Wick embedded Reeves’ star persona within its filmic fabric, reinvigorating his star status beyond the digital memes that characterised him as the twenty-first century unfolded. John Wick was swiftly franchised, becoming an important media property i…
A Potter's Progress: Emanuel Suter and the Business of Craft
In A Potter's Progress: Emanuel Suter and the Business of Craft, Scott Hamilton Suter explores the life and work of upper Shenandoah Valley potter Emanuel Suter—the author's great-great-grandfather. The result is a deeply researched and telling example of how we can tell far-reaching stories by focusing on a person and a region. Too often today, scholars look down upon regional cultural histories, but Scott Suter argues successfully that delving …
Information Seeking Behaviors and Intentions in Response to Environmental Health Risk Messages: A Test of A Reduced Risk Information Seeking Model
This study tests the effects of environmental health risk messages on perceived risk, information needs and decisions to seek information, testing a reduced risk information seeking and processing model (R-RISP). Participants (N = 1,823) were randomized to one of three risk conditions (arsenic, bisphenol A [BPA] or volatile organic compounds [VOCs]) and one of the three message conditions (high threat, low threat or no message); participants in t…
Repetitive negative thinking: Transdiagnostic correlate and risk factor for mental disorders? A proof-of-concept study in German soldiers before and after deployment to Afghanistan
Findings provide evidence for RNT as a transdiagnostic correlate and a vulnerability factor for the development of mental disorders
Colonial ways of seeing: Caribbean visual cultures 1750–1900
This is the introduction to the collection of essays dedicated to colonial Caribbean visual cultures between 1750 and 1900. Examining the ways of seeing that emerged under the conditions of slavery and its immediate aftermath, this piece explores some of the methodological and theoretical challenges of working with the visual and material afterlives of empire. What traces of Black lives can yet be mined in the fragments and biases of the colonial…
Swollen detail, or what a vessel might give: Agostino Brunias and the visual and material culture of colonial Dominica
This essay asks how colonial visual imagery might be interrogated alongside material culture in order to recover some knowledge of the quotidian lives of the enslaved. It encourages viewing that focuses on the material traces hitherto neglected by scholars: vessels for carrying fresh water. If archaeologists have focused on the tangible remains of pots, we suggest ways in which artistic representation might also offer insights into everyday livin…
Primed for Suffering: Gender, Subjectivity, and Spectatorship in Spanish Crisis Cinema
Examining three fiction films (Techo y comida, Ayer no termina nunca, and Magical Girl), this essay illuminates the traces of the economic crisis in recent Spanish cinema, focusing on how it is inscribed on female-gendered bodies and subjectivities. In exploring how female pain accumulates across the boundaries of genre in these disparate films, it asks what kind of gendered subjects these films construct, and what work women's suffering is asked…
Breaking Isolation: Social Work in Solidarity with Migrant Workers through and beyond Covid-19
In the early months of COVID-19's proliferation through Canadian communities, the now largely documented uneven impacts and burdens of the illness were emerging. Among the early COVID-19 casualties were workers in Alberta's meatpacking plants, with infection rates so high that the news quickly gained international attention. The Cargill meatpacking plant, overwhelmingly staffed by temporary foreign workers with no permanent status or citizenship …
Celebrity in the 'Twitterverse: History, authenticity and the multiplicity of stardom Situating the 'newness' of Twitter
Analyses within celebrity studies of the increasing use of Twitter as an effective tool of communication by stars and their fans emphasise shifts in the parameters of stardom. The convergence, connection and the potential for interactive address between star and audience that the online platform creates appears to position the concept of stardom in the twenty-first century as something new. This article argues that while Twitter may represent a d…
Sharing the Field: Reflections of More-Than-Human Field/work Encounters
The "field" has long been contested as spatially and temporally bounded. Feminist epistemologies have re-imagined and engaged field/work as shared, messy and co-constitutive, while critical more-than-human methodologies in the transdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities are further expanding our understanding of who and what counts in the production of knowledge in the field. This compendium article orbits around a collective concern …
Quantity Does Not Always Mean Quality: The Importance of Qualitative Social Science in Conservation Research
Qualitative methods are important to gain a deep understanding of complex problems and poorly researched areas. They can be particularly useful to help explain underlying conservation problems. However, the significance in choosing and justifying appropriate methodological frameworks in conservation studies should be given more attention to ensure data are collected and analysed appropriately. We explain when, why, and how qualitative methods sho…
Growing up in a Violent Environment: Relationship to Health-Related Beliefs and Behaviors
The present study examines the relationship between violence exposure and (a) experimentation with cigarettes and alcohol, (b) intentions to use cigarettes and alcohol, (c) health locus of control, and (d) health values. Findings based on a sample of inner city youth indicate intentions to smoke cigarettes was positively correlated with greater exposure to violence. Internal and Powerful Others Health Locus of Control scales were negatively corre…
Breaking Isolation: Social Work in Solidarity with Migrant Workers through and beyond Covid-19
In the early months of COVID-19's proliferation through Canadian communities, the now largely documented uneven impacts and burdens of the illness were emerging. Among the early COVID-19 casualties were workers in Alberta's meatpacking plants, with infection rates so high that the news quickly gained international attention. The Cargill meatpacking plant, overwhelmingly staffed by temporary foreign workers with no permanent status or citizenship …
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On the spot”: Travelling artists and abolitionism, 1770–1830
In the age of abolition, travelling artists played an important role as eyewitnesses of slave societies across the New World. While oil paintings appeared in the esteemed halls of the Royal Academy, watercolours and drawings were reproduced in a plethora of travel books and abolitionist literature. This essay argues for greater recognition of the unique role of the itinerant artist in the development of abolitionism, focusing in particular on the…
Early emotional development in infants and toddlers: Perspectives of Early Head Start staff and parents
As part of a curriculum‐development project, focus groups were implemented with Early Head Start staff and with parents of infants and toddlers enrolled in Early Head Start. Focus groups were designed to identify staff and parent beliefs about early emotional development. Three major themes were identified that crossed the staff and parent focus groups: (a) Infants' and toddlers' abilities to have emotions and to be aware of others' emotions; (b)…
A star of the airwaves: Peter Lorre master of the macabre and American radio programming
The article argues that within analyses of star performers from the classical Hollywood period, the role played by the medium of radio has been significantly underestimated. Building upon new developments in star discourses which question the role of the cinema as the dominant medium in the creation of star personae, this article examines the relationship between Hollywood and American broadcast media through a study of the multi-medial persona o…
Rhetorical uses of theme in newspaper editorials
In this paper we look at some ways in which thematization can be used to control hortatory rhetoric. Varying the complexity of thematic structure, for instance, can produce minimalistic, informal text or an academic formal style, reminiscent of Bernstein's restricted and elaborated codes, respectively. More or less discourse participant themes can create an impression of outspokenness or impartiality and marked themes may be a measure of hortator…
Hearing and Listening: Bridging the Leadership Divide between School Connectedness and Students’ Lived Realities
The purpose of this research was to examine the disconnect between urban school expectations and actual lived realities of marginalized students. Taking into consideration the conversation surrounding the definitions of urban education, and the importance of school connectedness with youth, we chose to focus on the lives of five former high students navigating their education. Our qualitative study found that the students’ lives presented challen…
Colonial ways of seeing: Caribbean visual cultures 1750–1900
This is the introduction to the collection of essays dedicated to colonial Caribbean visual cultures between 1750 and 1900. Examining the ways of seeing that emerged under the conditions of slavery and its immediate aftermath, this piece explores some of the methodological and theoretical challenges of working with the visual and material afterlives of empire. What traces of Black lives can yet be mined in the fragments and biases of the colonial…
The star in VR
Since the mid-2010s there has been sustained investment in Virtual Reality (VR) media and technology, aiming to target a mass consumer market; however the industry is far from stable and challenges of adoption for the mass consumer entertainment market remain. This article examines how film stardom is being employed as a means of facilitating VR, aiding negotiation and engagement with new technologies, texts, audiences and markets. It considers t…
From cathedral of the Isles to obscurity - the archaeology and history of Skeabost Island, Snizort
The island of Snizort at Skeabost, or Eilean Chaluim Chille, in northern Skye contains the important but neglected and poorly known remains of the late medieval cathedral of Sodor or the Isles. It was one of the largest churches in the Hebrides, with architectural features that indicate a link to the monastery of Iona. This paper discusses the archaeological remains and then sets them in their wider archaeological context. It then examines the hi…
Growing up in a Violent Environment: Relationship to Health-Related Beliefs and Behaviors
The present study examines the relationship between violence exposure and (a) experimentation with cigarettes and alcohol, (b) intentions to use cigarettes and alcohol, (c) health locus of control, and (d) health values. Findings based on a sample of inner city youth indicate intentions to smoke cigarettes was positively correlated with greater exposure to violence. Internal and Powerful Others Health Locus of Control scales were negatively corre…
Rhetorical uses of theme in newspaper editorials
In this paper we look at some ways in which thematization can be used to control hortatory rhetoric. Varying the complexity of thematic structure, for instance, can produce minimalistic, informal text or an academic formal style, reminiscent of Bernstein's restricted and elaborated codes, respectively. More or less discourse participant themes can create an impression of outspokenness or impartiality and marked themes may be a measure of hortator…
Tense Choices in Citations
Examines tense, aspect, and voice choices in the reporting verbs in a corpus of research articles from the "Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine." Investigates how such choices correlate with other syntactic elements in the citations, as well as with the discourse functions of the citations in their contexts
Association learning of likes and dislikes: A review of 25 years of research on human evaluative conditioning
Evaluative conditioning refers to changes in the liking of a stimulus that are due to the fact that the stimulus has been paired with other, positive or negative stimuli. Although evaluative conditioning appears to be subjected to certain boundary conditions, significant evaluative conditioning effects have been obtained using a large variety of stimuli and procedures. Some data suggest that evaluative conditioning can occur under conditions that…
Association learning of likes and dislikes: A review of 25 years of research on human evaluative conditioning
Evaluative conditioning refers to changes in the liking of a stimulus that are due to the fact that the stimulus has been paired with other, positive or negative stimuli. Although evaluative conditioning appears to be subjected to certain boundary conditions, significant evaluative conditioning effects have been obtained using a large variety of stimuli and procedures. Some data suggest that evaluative conditioning can occur under conditions that…
Louisiana Tobacco Control: Creating Momentum With Limited Funds
The influx of tobacco settlement money has generated unprecedented potential to address the public health problem of tobacco use.1 In states such as California, Massachusetts, and Florida, where resources have been allocated to tobacco control efforts, much has been achieved.2 Yet a recent survey of state legislatures found that less than 10% of settlement funds are designated for smoking prevention.3 With this level of funding, existing blueprin…
A star of the airwaves: Peter Lorre master of the macabre and American radio programming
The article argues that within analyses of star performers from the classical Hollywood period, the role played by the medium of radio has been significantly underestimated. Building upon new developments in star discourses which question the role of the cinema as the dominant medium in the creation of star personae, this article examines the relationship between Hollywood and American broadcast media through a study of the multi-medial persona o…
Marketing orientation and arts organisations: The case for business sponsorship
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the implications of a greater marketing orientation among arts organisations and its impact on funding through sponsorship. Design/methodology/approach Utilising a qualitative methodology, the study employs case studies for the purpose of formulating tentative and emergent knowledge. Findings The case study observations reveal the adoption of a marketing orientation across the sample and most signif…
Early emotional development in infants and toddlers: Perspectives of Early Head Start staff and parents
As part of a curriculum‐development project, focus groups were implemented with Early Head Start staff and with parents of infants and toddlers enrolled in Early Head Start. Focus groups were designed to identify staff and parent beliefs about early emotional development. Three major themes were identified that crossed the staff and parent focus groups: (a) Infants' and toddlers' abilities to have emotions and to be aware of others' emotions; (b)…
On the spot”: Travelling artists and abolitionism, 1770–1830
In the age of abolition, travelling artists played an important role as eyewitnesses of slave societies across the New World. While oil paintings appeared in the esteemed halls of the Royal Academy, watercolours and drawings were reproduced in a plethora of travel books and abolitionist literature. This essay argues for greater recognition of the unique role of the itinerant artist in the development of abolitionism, focusing in particular on the…
Cult Film Stardom
The term 'cult film star' has been employed in popular journalistic writing for the last 25 years, but what makes cult stars distinct from other film stars has rarely been addressed. This collection e
Celebrity in the 'Twitterverse: History, authenticity and the multiplicity of stardom Situating the 'newness' of Twitter
Analyses within celebrity studies of the increasing use of Twitter as an effective tool of communication by stars and their fans emphasise shifts in the parameters of stardom. The convergence, connection and the potential for interactive address between star and audience that the online platform creates appears to position the concept of stardom in the twenty-first century as something new. This article argues that while Twitter may represent a d…
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From cathedral of the Isles to obscurity - the archaeology and history of Skeabost Island, Snizort
The island of Snizort at Skeabost, or Eilean Chaluim Chille, in northern Skye contains the important but neglected and poorly known remains of the late medieval cathedral of Sodor or the Isles. It was one of the largest churches in the Hebrides, with architectural features that indicate a link to the monastery of Iona. This paper discusses the archaeological remains and then sets them in their wider archaeological context. It then examines the hi…
Beyond the Parish Church: A Study of Chapels in the Parishes of Kirkapoll on Tiree and Snizort on Skye
The ecclesiastical landscape of dispersed rural communities in the late Middle Ages consisted both of their parish church and other structures usually referred to as chapels. The laity's main encounters with the Church were meant to occur at the parish church to which they belonged from the cradle to the grave; however, in practice, the laity's allegiances were much more complex. This article discusses with reference to two parishes in the Hebrid…
Effects of an air pollution personal alert system on health service usage in a high-risk general population: A quasi-experimental study using linked data
BACKGROUND: There is no evidence to date on whether an intervention alerting people to high levels of pollution is effective in reducing health service utilisation. We evaluated alert accuracy and the effect of a targeted personal air pollution alert system, airAware, on emergency hospital admissions, emergency department attendances, general practitioner contacts and prescribed medications. METHODS: Quasi-experimental study describing accuracy o…
Living and dying at Auldhame, East Lothian: The excavation of an Anglian monastic settlement and medieval parish church . By Anne Crone and Erlend Hindmarch with Alex Woolf
Quantity Does Not Always Mean Quality: The Importance of Qualitative Social Science in Conservation Research
Qualitative methods are important to gain a deep understanding of complex problems and poorly researched areas. They can be particularly useful to help explain underlying conservation problems. However, the significance in choosing and justifying appropriate methodological frameworks in conservation studies should be given more attention to ensure data are collected and analysed appropriately. We explain when, why, and how qualitative methods sho…
The New Brutalism: Agency, Embodiment and Performance in Daniel Craig's 007
The casting and spectacular body of Daniel Craig has had a major impact on the reinvention of Bond as a more brutal (and brutalized) character and on the films' representations of masculinity and power. This article examines Craig's acting, and in doing so, repositions Craig as an active creative agent in the construction of Bond, as well as an embodiment of Bond. Craig's Bond may reject sophistication and ornamentation but Craig does not give an…
Designing a co‐productive study to overcome known methodological challenges in organ donation research with bereaved family members
BACKGROUND: Co-production of research into public health services has yet to demonstrate tangible benefits. Few studies have reported the impact of co-production on research outcomes. The previous studies of organ donation have identified challenges in engaging with public organizations responsible, gaining ethical approval for sensitive studies with the recently bereaved and difficulty in recruiting bereaved family members who were approached ab…
Cross-cultural validation of a French version of the Emotional Processing Scale (EPS-25)
Entrenched ties between outdoor recreation and conservation pose challenges for sustainable land management
Public demand for outdoor recreation has proved a major impetus for land protection in the United States since the mid-twentieth century, particularly in the US West. Many federal, state, and municipal conservation tools—policies, management programs, and funding initiatives—aim to ensure recreation access to public lands in conjunction with natural resources protection. However, as recreation use increases, driven by amenity migration and econom…
The star in VR
Since the mid-2010s there has been sustained investment in Virtual Reality (VR) media and technology, aiming to target a mass consumer market; however the industry is far from stable and challenges of adoption for the mass consumer entertainment market remain. This article examines how film stardom is being employed as a means of facilitating VR, aiding negotiation and engagement with new technologies, texts, audiences and markets. It considers t…
Visual Storytelling, Intergenerational Environmental Justice and Indigenous Sovereignty: Exploring Images and Stories amid a Contested Oil Pipeline Project
Visual practices of representing fossil fuel projects are entangled in diverse values and relations that often go underexplored. In Canada, visual media campaigns to aggressively push forward the fossil fuel industry not only relegate to obscurity indigenous values but mask evidence on health impacts as well as the aspirations of those most affected, including indigenous communities whose food sovereignty and stewardship relationship to the land …
Singing from the same song sheet? Exploring "civil society" through the eyes of NGO practitioners
Although historically a contested concept, it has been argued that civil society has become a victim of its own ubiquity in development; its potential for radicalism and innovation blunted by donor-driven narratives and the unquestioning acceptance of those narratives by donor-dependent NGOs. Donor influence is charged with weakening civil society as an arena for political debate and citizen-driven change. This article presents findings from qual…
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