Rebecca Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5168-8429 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Disjuncture by default: Arrhythmic life-worlds and intergenerational injustice
This paper presents a novel interrogation of the how the temporalities of young and older adulthood intersect in the context of enabling/disabling everyday political action. The rigid time-space structures that typically characterise young adulthood (such as formal education systems) often determine the contexts of and opportunities for young people’s activism, whether situated inside or outside of those structures. Yet the key enabling mechanism…
Cognitive behavioural therapy for older adults with depressive symptoms living in residential aged care: A pilot study of a systemic treatment model
Is Tickling a Reinforcer for Adult Rats
On being a body listening: Vocal expression beyond words in Ant Hampton and Britt Hatzius’ this is not my voice speaking and nature theater of Oklahoma life and times - episodes 3 & 4
Vocal expression beyond words, such as the excess of speech production found in coughs, rhythm, intonation, humming, offer a mode of being that does not require the endorsement of the world through language, but rather favours the act of dwelling in sonority. I make use of creative and critical writing to evidence how my body listens in the auditorium. I consider Ant Hampton and Britt Hatzius’ This is Not My Voice Speaking (2011) and Nature Theat…
Biodiversity offsets perform poorly for both people and nature, but better approaches are available
Sustainability requires that we restore biodiversity and wider ecosystem services, yet developments such as new housing inevitably cause environmental impacts. Accordingly, developers are increasingly required to resource offset projects, delivering biodiversity or wider environmental net gains. However, analyses of offsets in England show that the large majority are conducted within development sites rather than targeted toward better opportunit…
The Impact of Food Environments on Midlife Australian Adults With Addictive Eating Behaviors
Research into addictive eating has gained traction over recent years, however there is still debate among experts surrounding the nature of the condition. Using reflexive thematic analysis this paper considers addictive eating through a participant focused lens, specifically focussing on the phenomena of the food environment and its impact on individuals with addictive eating. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken to explore the participants…
On Listening in to the Scientific Mundane: Parameters for understanding uncertainty and political indeterminacy
Scientific discovery often makes for a spectacular image or news story, as recent photographs of Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way, evidence. However, the mundane processes of scientific research, with their bureaucratic nuances, unsolvable conundrums, small talk, reporting, meetings, and seemingly inconsequential details, are often undocumented. Between January 2022 – May 2023 Rebecca Collins was artist…
Exploring differences in perceptions of gentrification, neighborhood satisfaction, social cohesion, and health among residents of two predominantly African American Pittsburgh neighborhoods (n = 60)
These findings suggest that while gentrification can bring much needed improvements to neighborhoods, it can also bring other disruptive changes that affect the health and wellbeing of existing residents
The role of values in future scenarios: What types of values underpin (un)sustainable and (un)just futures
Values have been recognized as critical leverage points for sustainability transformations. However, there is limited evidence unpacking which types of values are associated with specific types of sustainable and unsustainable futures, as described by future scenarios and other types of futures-related works. This paper builds on a review of 460 future scenarios, visions, and other types of futures-related works in the Intergovernmental Science-P…
Temporal tensions in young adults’ efforts towards influencing institutional climate action
In this Viewpoint we draw attention to an overlooked tension at the intersection of young adults’ and older adults’ everyday life-world temporalities, and argue that this tension presents a considerable intergenerational challenge for the enabling of young people’s agency for climate action. We articulate the often-cyclical nature of young people’s everyday temporalities, especially for those within formal education systems based on year-on-year …
The intimate socialities of going carbon neutral
This paper argues that the generation of social intimacy is critical to enabling acts of environmental care. By interrogating the intimate socialities of a group of young people who grew up in a village community committed to carbon reduction, I untangle the influence of everyday intimacies on everyday (un)sustainabilities, particularly in relation to the popular but uncritical positioning of young people as ‘sustainability saviours’. I problemat…
The Experiences of Post-ICU Covid-19 Survivors: An Existential Perspective using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
COVID-19 has highlighted the vulnerability of intensive care unit (ICU) patients and the negative sequelae associated with ICU treatment. While the potentially traumatic impact of ICU is well documented, less is known about the ICU survivor's subjective experience and how it influences life post-discharge. Existential psychology addresses the universal concerns of existence, including death, isolation, and meaninglessness, and offers a holistic v…
Ambivalent storage, multi-scalar generosity, and challenges of/for everyday consumption
Storage plays an important role in domestic practices as a banal yet essential means of practically accomplishing ‘living together’ and caring for people and material ‘stuff’. However, storage and stored things also occupy a provocative and paradoxical place in debates around the sustainability of household consumption. Driven by renewed popular and scholarly attention to ‘decluttering’ and eschewing anything that does not ‘spark joy’, this paper…
The road to “local green recovery”: Signposts from Covid‐19 lockdown life in the UK
Responding to the conspicuous absence of reference to the local scale in national and global discourses of “green recovery” from COVID‐19, this paper articulates a series of interlinked research agendas united by a focus on what a “green recovery” might involve at a local scale within the context of the United Kingdom. We argue that geography as a discipline is particularly well placed to contribute to theoretical and practical framings of “green…
Nature, nurture, (Neo-)nostalgia? Back-casting for a more socially and environmentally sustainable post-Covid future
Commentaries on lived experiences of COVID-19-induced 'lockdown' have simultaneously directed public imaginations backwards to draw inspiration and fortitude from historical periods of national and global challenge, and forwards into futures characterised by greater environmental sensitivity and community resilience. In this article, we argue that individuals' and households' practical coping strategies from different phases of lockdown within th…
Aural Attunement is a form of performative writing used to write about nonhuman affective relations in Emma Bennett’s Slideshow Birdshow (2013)
In this article aural attunement is put forward as a means of performative writing to attend closely to affective relations with nonhuman entities (namely birds). Embodied knowledge harnessed in the writing aims to emulate the experience of being a listening-spectator at Slideshow Birdshow (2013), a solo contemporary performance piece by Emma Bennett. Whilst it is recognised that non-representational theory is a catch-all term to describe affect,…
No control and overwhelming cravings: Australian adults’ perspectives on the experience of food addiction
The feasibility of a personality targeted intervention for addictive overeating: FoodFix
Violent crime, police presence and poor sleep in two low-income urban predominantly Black American neighbourhoods
Objective To examine violent crime in relation to sleep and explore pathways, including psychological distress, safety perceptions and perceived police presence, that may account for associations. Methods In 2018, 515 predominantly Black American (94%) adults (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) provided survey data: actigraphy-assessed sleep duration and wakefulness after sleep onset (WASO). We estimated pathways from violent crime (2016–2018) to sle…
Evaluation of Los Angeles County's WhyWeRise Mental Health Campaign
Interviews and a survey indicate that WhyWeRise, a social marketing campaign promoting community engagement with mental health issues, reached at least 30 percent of Los Angeles County youth ages 14–24 and mobilized them to improve societal support for those experiencing mental health challenges. Those exposed to the campaign were more likely than those unexposed to feel empowered to change how their communities deal with mental health issues.
Excessive . . . but not wasteful? Youth cultures of everyday waste (avoidance)
This article contributes to ongoing debates around the cultural production of waste by arguing for a clearer distinction between concepts of ‘waste’ and ‘excess’ and by suggesting the benefits of this distinction for tackling the perceived consumer cultural waste ‘problem’. Drawing on recent qualitative research with UK adolescents, I consider how a range of (youth/consumer) cultural drivers, social norms and moral imperatives shape young people’…
Great games and keeping it cool: New political, social and cultural geographies of young people’s environmental activism
Drawing on recent framings of young people’s environmental activism as a ‘game’, alongside long-standing characterisations of youth as responsibilised environmental change-agents, in this Viewpoint I identify fertile research opportunities in the liminal spaces between moments of young people’s action and the political and socio-cultural spaces through which those actions (might) diffuse. I argue that youth geographers should take care to engage …
Do investments in low-income neighborhoods produce objective change in health-related neighborhood conditions
Prevalence of depression and burden among informal care-givers of people with dementia: A meta-analysis
This meta-analysis examined the prevalence of depression and burden among informal care-givers of people with dementia (PwD) and compared the prevalence of depression between male and female, and spousal and non-spousal, care-givers. The quality of studies was evaluated and moderator variables explored. A search of six electronic databases (PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, MEDLINE Complete, SCOPUS, Web of Science and ProQuest) was conducted from the first…
Youth transitions as ‘wiki-transitions’ in youth policies platforms
In recent years, a number of youth-focused online platforms have emerged which, in different ways, seek to support young people across Europe in building pathways to independent adulthood. In this article, we draw on data from Edgeryders, a recent youth policy research project, to reflect on the extent to which online discussion platforms are useful instruments for understanding the challenges youth face in their transitions to independent adulth…
Keeping it in the family? Re-focusing household sustainability
Collaborative Individualization? Peer-to-peer Action in Youth Transitions
In this article we propose the notion of collaborative individualization (henceforth, C.I.) as a means of characterizing young people’s attempts to define their identities as simultaneously self-reliant and in need of support and collaboration. Our arguments are based on the findings of a transnational case study: a recent Council of Europe policy project called Edgeryders, an online platform whose participants were invited to discuss their exper…
Ambivalent storage, multi-scalar generosity, and challenges of/for everyday consumption
Storage plays an important role in domestic practices as a banal yet essential means of practically accomplishing ‘living together’ and caring for people and material ‘stuff’. However, storage and stored things also occupy a provocative and paradoxical place in debates around the sustainability of household consumption. Driven by renewed popular and scholarly attention to ‘decluttering’ and eschewing anything that does not ‘spark joy’, this paper…
Great games and keeping it cool: New political, social and cultural geographies of young people’s environmental activism
Drawing on recent framings of young people’s environmental activism as a ‘game’, alongside long-standing characterisations of youth as responsibilised environmental change-agents, in this Viewpoint I identify fertile research opportunities in the liminal spaces between moments of young people’s action and the political and socio-cultural spaces through which those actions (might) diffuse. I argue that youth geographers should take care to engage …
Feeling happy and thinking about food. Counteractive effects of mood and memory on food consumption
Store Impulse Marketing Strategies and Body Mass Index
Objectives. We quantified the use of placement and price reduction marketing strategies in different food retail outlets to identify associations between these strategies and the risk of overweight and obesity among customers. Methods. In 2011 we collected dietary and health information from 1372 residents in “food deserts” in Pittsburgh, PA. We audited neighborhood restaurants and food stores (n = 40) including 16 distant food venues at which re…
Youth in motion: Spatialising youth movement(s) in the social sciences
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Children's Geographies on 26th March 2013, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14733285.2013.779840
The role of values in future scenarios: What types of values underpin (un)sustainable and (un)just futures
Values have been recognized as critical leverage points for sustainability transformations. However, there is limited evidence unpacking which types of values are associated with specific types of sustainable and unsustainable futures, as described by future scenarios and other types of futures-related works. This paper builds on a review of 460 future scenarios, visions, and other types of futures-related works in the Intergovernmental Science-P…
The road to “local green recovery”: Signposts from Covid‐19 lockdown life in the UK
Responding to the conspicuous absence of reference to the local scale in national and global discourses of “green recovery” from COVID‐19, this paper articulates a series of interlinked research agendas united by a focus on what a “green recovery” might involve at a local scale within the context of the United Kingdom. We argue that geography as a discipline is particularly well placed to contribute to theoretical and practical framings of “green…
Nature, nurture, (Neo-)nostalgia? Back-casting for a more socially and environmentally sustainable post-Covid future
Commentaries on lived experiences of COVID-19-induced 'lockdown' have simultaneously directed public imaginations backwards to draw inspiration and fortitude from historical periods of national and global challenge, and forwards into futures characterised by greater environmental sensitivity and community resilience. In this article, we argue that individuals' and households' practical coping strategies from different phases of lockdown within th…
Prevalence of depression and burden among informal care-givers of people with dementia: A meta-analysis
This meta-analysis examined the prevalence of depression and burden among informal care-givers of people with dementia (PwD) and compared the prevalence of depression between male and female, and spousal and non-spousal, care-givers. The quality of studies was evaluated and moderator variables explored. A search of six electronic databases (PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, MEDLINE Complete, SCOPUS, Web of Science and ProQuest) was conducted from the first…
Volunteers Befriending Older Adults in Aged Care Residencies: Three Case Studies
ObjectiveThe benefits of befriending programs for aged care residents are well documented. However, there is a paucity of research on the befriender's experience. The aim of this paper is to provide insight into the experiences of befriending from the perspective of befrienders in aged care residencies. It is intended to provide a snapshot into the complexities inherent in the befriending role, in order to prepare potential befrienders with a rea…
Concealing the poverty of traditional historiography: Myth as mystification in historical discourse
In this article, I examine the various characterizations of myth in historical discourse and explicate the processes and mechanisms by which myth functions as a mediator of various tensions within historical discourse. The three principal distinctions between myth and history are drawn in terms of: truth and falsity; oral and written traditions; and finally generality and specificity. An analysis of these distinctions reveals that myth is a funct…
The intimate socialities of going carbon neutral
This paper argues that the generation of social intimacy is critical to enabling acts of environmental care. By interrogating the intimate socialities of a group of young people who grew up in a village community committed to carbon reduction, I untangle the influence of everyday intimacies on everyday (un)sustainabilities, particularly in relation to the popular but uncritical positioning of young people as ‘sustainability saviours’. I problemat…
Do investments in low-income neighborhoods produce objective change in health-related neighborhood conditions
The value of green walls to urban biodiversity
California’s Historic Effort to Reduce the Stigma of Mental Illness: The Mental Health Services Act
In a historic effort to reduce the stigma of mental illness, California voters approved the Mental Health Services Act in 2004. The law funds a comprehensive statewide prevention initiative that places stigma and discrimination reduction at its center, with 25 projects providing interventions at the institutional, societal, and individual levels. Stakeholders selected specific strategies from the research-based California Strategic Plan on Reduci…
Temporal tensions in young adults’ efforts towards influencing institutional climate action
In this Viewpoint we draw attention to an overlooked tension at the intersection of young adults’ and older adults’ everyday life-world temporalities, and argue that this tension presents a considerable intergenerational challenge for the enabling of young people’s agency for climate action. We articulate the often-cyclical nature of young people’s everyday temporalities, especially for those within formal education systems based on year-on-year …
The Experiences of Post-ICU Covid-19 Survivors: An Existential Perspective using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
COVID-19 has highlighted the vulnerability of intensive care unit (ICU) patients and the negative sequelae associated with ICU treatment. While the potentially traumatic impact of ICU is well documented, less is known about the ICU survivor's subjective experience and how it influences life post-discharge. Existential psychology addresses the universal concerns of existence, including death, isolation, and meaninglessness, and offers a holistic v…
No control and overwhelming cravings: Australian adults’ perspectives on the experience of food addiction
The feasibility of a personality targeted intervention for addictive overeating: FoodFix
Violent crime, police presence and poor sleep in two low-income urban predominantly Black American neighbourhoods
Objective To examine violent crime in relation to sleep and explore pathways, including psychological distress, safety perceptions and perceived police presence, that may account for associations. Methods In 2018, 515 predominantly Black American (94%) adults (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) provided survey data: actigraphy-assessed sleep duration and wakefulness after sleep onset (WASO). We estimated pathways from violent crime (2016–2018) to sle…
Are we losing our way?” Navigational aids, socio‐sensory way‐finding and the spatial awareness of young adults
Recent advances in the accessibility and reliability of mobile technologies, roaming services and associated data have led to an increased use of modern navigational devices using Global Navigation Satellite Systems ( GNSS ). This paper reports on a study that explored concerns about over‐reliance on these navigational technologies, specifically among young people in the Global North. Based on an experiment in which participants were asked to nav…
A tale of two teens: Disciplinary boundaries and geographical opportunities in youth consumption and sustainability research
Our understanding of how and why young people consume, and thus how easy it might be to encourage more sustainable modes of consumption amongst this group, is currently patchy and somewhat hampered by the preoccupations of those who have concerned themselves with this subject so far. This paper substantiates this claim by presenting two caricatures of how youth consumption has previously been framed. We suggest geographical studies are well place…
Shorter notice. Muslim Spain and Portugal. Kennedy
Accepted
Health-related quality of life in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection in the United States: Results from the HIV cost and services utilization study
After 9-11: Stress and Coping Across America
We assembled a team of researchers who designed and conducted a telephone survey of a nationally representative sample of U.S. households three to five days after the attacks. The purpose of the survey was to determine the immediate reactions of adults to the events and their perceptions of their children's reactions. Our primary goal was to learn whether people around the country experienced symptoms of stress at rates anywhere near those of peo…
Concealing the poverty of traditional historiography: Myth as mystification in historical discourse
In this article, I examine the various characterizations of myth in historical discourse and explicate the processes and mechanisms by which myth functions as a mediator of various tensions within historical discourse. The three principal distinctions between myth and history are drawn in terms of: truth and falsity; oral and written traditions; and finally generality and specificity. An analysis of these distinctions reveals that myth is a funct…
Abuse in the Close Relationships of People With HIV
The Emotional and Behavioral Impact of Terrorism on Children: Results from a National Survey
To examine the emotional and behavioral impact of terrorism on children across the country, telephone interviews were conducted with a national probability sample of 395 parents of 5- to 18-year-old children from November 9 to 28, 2001. Parents reported on child emotional and behavioral reactions to terrorism, parent-child discussions about terrorism, and terrorism-related school activities. Thirty percent of parents reported more than 4 terroris…
Perceived discrimination in clinical care in a nationally representative sample of HIV-infected adults receiving health care
Body Representation in the First Year of Life
Like faces, bodies are significant sources of social information. However, research suggests that infants do not develop body representation (i.e., knowledge about typical human bodies) until the second year of life, although they are sensitive to facial information much earlier. Yet, previous research only examined whether infants are sensitive to the typical arrangement of body parts. We examined whether younger infants have body knowledge of a…
A tale of two teens: Disciplinary boundaries and geographical opportunities in youth consumption and sustainability research
Our understanding of how and why young people consume, and thus how easy it might be to encourage more sustainable modes of consumption amongst this group, is currently patchy and somewhat hampered by the preoccupations of those who have concerned themselves with this subject so far. This paper substantiates this claim by presenting two caricatures of how youth consumption has previously been framed. We suggest geographical studies are well place…
Youth in motion: Spatialising youth movement(s) in the social sciences
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Children's Geographies on 26th March 2013, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14733285.2013.779840
The interactive effects of mood and memory on food intake
California’s Historic Effort to Reduce the Stigma of Mental Illness: The Mental Health Services Act
In a historic effort to reduce the stigma of mental illness, California voters approved the Mental Health Services Act in 2004. The law funds a comprehensive statewide prevention initiative that places stigma and discrimination reduction at its center, with 25 projects providing interventions at the institutional, societal, and individual levels. Stakeholders selected specific strategies from the research-based California Strategic Plan on Reduci…
Collaborative Individualization? Peer-to-peer Action in Youth Transitions
In this article we propose the notion of collaborative individualization (henceforth, C.I.) as a means of characterizing young people’s attempts to define their identities as simultaneously self-reliant and in need of support and collaboration. Our arguments are based on the findings of a transnational case study: a recent Council of Europe policy project called Edgeryders, an online platform whose participants were invited to discuss their exper…
Feeling happy and thinking about food. Counteractive effects of mood and memory on food consumption
Store Impulse Marketing Strategies and Body Mass Index
Objectives. We quantified the use of placement and price reduction marketing strategies in different food retail outlets to identify associations between these strategies and the risk of overweight and obesity among customers. Methods. In 2011 we collected dietary and health information from 1372 residents in “food deserts” in Pittsburgh, PA. We audited neighborhood restaurants and food stores (n = 40) including 16 distant food venues at which re…
Keeping it in the family? Re-focusing household sustainability
Volunteers Befriending Older Adults in Aged Care Residencies: Three Case Studies
ObjectiveThe benefits of befriending programs for aged care residents are well documented. However, there is a paucity of research on the befriender's experience. The aim of this paper is to provide insight into the experiences of befriending from the perspective of befrienders in aged care residencies. It is intended to provide a snapshot into the complexities inherent in the befriending role, in order to prepare potential befrienders with a rea…
Children and Environment
Interdisciplinary studies of children and the environment have progressed rapidly in recent years, offering new understanding of the experiences of approximately half of the planet's 7 billion people who are now aged 25 years or younger. Children first emerged as a distinct subject of study in contemporary human geography in the 1950s in relation to research into human spatial awareness and map‐making. By the 1990s, children and the environment h…
The value of green walls to urban biodiversity
Sound, Space and Bodies: Building Relations in the Work of Invisible Flock and Atelier Bildraum
IntroductionIn this article, I discuss the potential of sound to construct fictional spaces and build relations between bodies using two performance installations as case studies. The first is Invisible Flock's 105+dB, a site-specific sound work which transports crowd recordings of a soccer match to alternative geographical locations. The second is Atelier Bildraum's Bildraum, an installation performance using live photography, architectural mode…
Youth transitions as ‘wiki-transitions’ in youth policies platforms
In recent years, a number of youth-focused online platforms have emerged which, in different ways, seek to support young people across Europe in building pathways to independent adulthood. In this article, we draw on data from Edgeryders, a recent youth policy research project, to reflect on the extent to which online discussion platforms are useful instruments for understanding the challenges youth face in their transitions to independent adulth…
Are we losing our way?” Navigational aids, socio‐sensory way‐finding and the spatial awareness of young adults
Recent advances in the accessibility and reliability of mobile technologies, roaming services and associated data have led to an increased use of modern navigational devices using Global Navigation Satellite Systems ( GNSS ). This paper reports on a study that explored concerns about over‐reliance on these navigational technologies, specifically among young people in the Global North. Based on an experiment in which participants were asked to nav…
Evaluation of Los Angeles County's WhyWeRise Mental Health Campaign
Interviews and a survey indicate that WhyWeRise, a social marketing campaign promoting community engagement with mental health issues, reached at least 30 percent of Los Angeles County youth ages 14–24 and mobilized them to improve societal support for those experiencing mental health challenges. Those exposed to the campaign were more likely than those unexposed to feel empowered to change how their communities deal with mental health issues.
Excessive . . . but not wasteful? Youth cultures of everyday waste (avoidance)
This article contributes to ongoing debates around the cultural production of waste by arguing for a clearer distinction between concepts of ‘waste’ and ‘excess’ and by suggesting the benefits of this distinction for tackling the perceived consumer cultural waste ‘problem’. Drawing on recent qualitative research with UK adolescents, I consider how a range of (youth/consumer) cultural drivers, social norms and moral imperatives shape young people’…
Great games and keeping it cool: New political, social and cultural geographies of young people’s environmental activism
Drawing on recent framings of young people’s environmental activism as a ‘game’, alongside long-standing characterisations of youth as responsibilised environmental change-agents, in this Viewpoint I identify fertile research opportunities in the liminal spaces between moments of young people’s action and the political and socio-cultural spaces through which those actions (might) diffuse. I argue that youth geographers should take care to engage …
Psychology (25 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Political science (19 works) · Medicine (18 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Social science (8 works)