Michael Thomas

Biographic Data

ID3720330
NAMEMichael Thomas
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMEThomas
SIGNATURETHOMAS M
AFFILIATIONSLiverpool John Moores University
ORCID0000-0002-2180-3094
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS62
TOTAL CITATIONS79
AUTHOR COUNT62
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1966
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • Gifted but Misunderstood? An Interpretive Systematic Review of Gifted Education Policy, Practice, and Socio-Emotional Experience in England

    Open AccessSimge Karakaş Mısır, Michael ThomasARTICLEJournal of Intelligence2026

    This systematic review analyses the evolution of gifted education in England between 2010 and 2025. The year 2010 serves as a critical turning point, characterized by the withdrawal of the national Gifted and Talented (G&T) policy and the subsequent delegation of identification and provision responsibilities to schools. This change created a gap in the literature due to a lack of focused research examining the challenges and deficiencies that eme…

  • Employment and financial experiences in millennial family caregivers

    Open AccessMegan Hebdon, Megan C Thomas Hebdon et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Introduction: Millennial caregivers comprise 25% of the family caregiving population, and they have unique financial and employment challenges due to life stage and generational experiences. The purpose of this study is to understand financial and employment experiences of Millennial family caregivers. Methods: This qualitative descriptive study uses secondary data obtained from two qualitative descriptive studies of Millennial family caregivers,…

  • Evaluating the teaching ‘fitness’ of Ghanaian teachers with disabilities to instruct online in a pandemic era

    Open AccessMichael Agyemang Adarkwah, Samuel Amponsah et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2026References: 11

  • Du Bois on sociology, double consciousness and imagination

    Open AccessMichael Halewood, M A Thomas et al.ARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2026References: 9

    This article explores Du Bois’ specific understanding of Sociology, arguing that he utilized and developed a specific form of active imagining. Du Bois’ use of imagination is a process of reimagining, grounded in his experience of racialized modernity. He uses sociological narratives to redirect the imaginations of his audiences by teaching them to see what they have been trained to ignore. Simultaneously, he develops and deploys ways of thinking…

  • Developmental trajectories of grammatical comprehension in individuals with Williams syndrome

    Open AccessHarry Purser, Vesna Stojanovik et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2025

    Despite earlier claims that language abilities are intact in individuals with Williams syndrome (WS), many studies have shown that language development is often delayed and atypical, that is, it develops in line with different cognitive abilities compared to typically developing populations. It is unclear, however, whether general cognitive development predicts language comprehension in WS. The current study is the first to examine the developmen…

  • Gender inequalities and academic leadership in Nigeria, South Africa and the United Kingdom: A systematic literature review (2013–2023)

    Open AccessAyca G Kaymakcioglu, Michael ThomasARTICLESocial Sciences & Humanities Open2024

    This study provides the first systematic review of the literature on women's leadership in higher education in Nigeria, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. The primary aim of the review was to identify themes related to barriers and explore strategies suggested in the literature to overcome obstacles hindering women's academic leadership. The study undertook a systematic literature review of 37 articles published in the decade between 2013 and …

  • Experiences and Supportive Care Needs of Latinx Millennial Caregivers

    Open AccessCatie Cleary, Galilea Dupree et al.ARTICLEJournal of Transcultural Nursing2024

    INTRODUCTION: Latinx Millennial caregivers are an understudied minority group in the United States. Due to life stage and cultural values, these caregivers struggle to balance conflicting priorities with career, family, and caregiving. They also face systemic barriers and healthcare disparities. METHODS: = 29) were recruited locally and nationally. Qualitative data were collected using five focus groups and one individual interview. Interviews we…

  • Socioeconomic factors, sleep timing and duration, and amygdala resting-state functional connectivity in children

    Open AccessMelissa Hansen, Katrina R Simon et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2024

    Introduction Reduced sleep health has been consistently linked with increased negative emotion in children. While sleep characteristics have been associated with neural function in adults and adolescents, much less is known about these associations in children while considering socioeconomic context. In this study, we examined the associations among socioeconomic factors, sleep duration and timing, and resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC)…

  • Reading the Sensual in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room

    Open AccessRonnel Keith Berry, M A Thomas et al.ARTICLETransatlantica2023

    In The Fire Next Time, African American writer James Baldwin describes the sensual as, “respect[ing] and rejoice[ing] in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread” (1998c 311). Baldwinian sensuality is divorced from its hedonistic interpretation, instead expressing a form of knowledge and a practice of living in openness to each other and the complexity of our hum…

  • Professional development among in-service teachers: Motivational factors, pathways and coping strategies

    Samuel Amponsah, Ernest Ampadu et al.ARTICLEEducational Review2023

    While research indicates that teachers’ continuing professional development (TCPD) is highly significant for the successful implementation of effective classroom instruction, few research studies to date have explored the role of TCPD in Ghana. This paper aims to map the pathways of TCPD for in-service teachers in Ghana while exploring the motivations and coping strategies of these adult learners. The study employs a cross-sectional survey design…

  • La responsabilité de préparer et de prévenir (R2P2): Développer une architecture de gouvernance de la sécurité climatique

    Michael Thomas, Rachel Fleishman et al.ARTICLELes Champs de Mars2022

    Le changement climatique représente une menace sans précédent, qui impacte les systèmes physiques, sanitaires, économiques et politiques, et qui affecte les populations vulnérables. Il est aussi une menace pour la sécurité internationale, nationale et humaine. Les effets du changement climatique aggravent les facteurs qui affaiblissent les liens sociétaux, détruisent les ressources critiques, mettent à l’épreuve les capacités militaires et affaib…

  • Teacher subjectivation in the quality dispositive: The example of VET in Austria

    Open AccessHannes Hautz, Michael Thomas et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology of…2021Cited by: 4References: 9

    Current reforms in vocational education and training (VET) are characterised by a constant striving for quality assurance and improvement. To this end, a powerful reform network has emerged that shapes the subjectivation processes of teachers. Drawing on Foucault (1980), we term this complex formation a ‘dispositive’. The paper introduces dispositive analytics as an innovative approach for educational research. Taking Austria as an example of a ‘…

  • Re-examining the Status of the English Language in Anglophone Western Africa: A Comparative Study of Ghana and Nigeria

    Open AccessOris Tom-Lawyer, Michael ThomasARTICLEEnglish Linguistics Research2020

    This paper re-examines the status of English as a Second Language (ESL) in Anglophone Western Africa by comparing its use in Nigeria and Ghana. The research is based on the premise that the medium of instruction impacts the quality of education (Ferguson, 2013). The significance of the research is that it is one of the first studies to compare the standard of English language usage in the two countries to establish whether there is a positive lin…

  • Religious/Spiritual Struggles and Spiritual Resilience in Marginalised Older Adults

    Open AccessHolly Nelson-Becker, Michael ThomasARTICLEReligions2020Cited by: 2References: 29

    Spiritual and religious struggles emerge in times where life meaning is unclear, has changed or is challenged. Resilience has been addressed in terms of psychological, social, emotional and physical capacity or competence related to struggle. However, there is a relatively sparse literature defining and addressing spiritual resilience, both what it is and how it is demonstrated. This is especially true of the oppressive and marginalised experienc…

  • Variations in migration motives over distance

    Open AccessMichael J Thomas, Michael Thomas et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2019Cited by: 17References: 21

    It is often assumed that long-distance migration is dominated by employment or educationally led motives and that local-scale mobility is linked to family and housing adjustments. Unfortunately, few empirical studies examining the relationship between moti

  • Was Television Responsible for a New Generation of Smokers

    Open AccessMichael ThomasARTICLEJournal of Consumer Research2019Cited by: 3References: 41

    Consumers' response to mass media can be difficult to assess because individuals choose for themselves the amount of media they consume, and that choice may be correlated with their other consumption decisions. To avoid this selection problem, this article examines the introduction of television to the US, during which some cities gained access to television years before others. This natural experiment makes it possible to estimate the causal imp…

  • A new look at the housing antecedents of separation

    Open AccessRory Coulter, Michael J Thomas et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2019Cited by: 5References: 69

    Research connecting partnership dissolution to housing dynamics usually concentrates on the adverse and gendered effects of separation on housing careers. Much less is known about whether housing circumstances are also influential antecedents of separation

  • Union dissolution and migration

    Open AccessThomas J Cooke, Clara H Mulder et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2016Cited by: 24References: 39

    While there is a limited body of research regarding residential mobility and migration following union dissolution, there is a particular dearth of studies that go into detail about the factors that shape how union dissolution may result in long-distance m

  • Modelling Multilevel Variations in Distance Moved between Origins and Destinations in England and Wales

    Open AccessMichael J Thomas, Michael Thomas et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2015Cited by: 7References: 38

    Using individual records from a large and geographically detailed national research opinion survey, this paper uniquely adopts a multilevel cross-classified statistical framework to demonstrate the relative importance of individual and simultaneous origin/destination contextual (neighbourhood and city region) variations in the distance moved by residential migrants in England and Wales. The model results confirm distinct microlevel variations in …

  • Atrocity stories and triumph stories: Using couple narratives to evaluate same-sex marriage and civil partnership

    Michael Thomas, Mike ThomasARTICLENarrative Inquiry2014Cited by: 6References: 9

    This paper investigates conflicting narratives available to lesbian and gay couples as a result of marriage and civil partnership. Whereas marginalisation may have made stories of exclusion particularly resonant for same-sex couples, marriage and civil partnership offer scope for new stories around inclusion and equality. Drawing on empirical research with married and civil partner same-sex couples in the UK, US and Canada, the paper contrasts co…

  • Wolfgang Behringer. Kulturgeschichte des Sports: Vom antiken Olympia bis ins 21. Jahrhundert

    Michael Krüger, Michael Thomas et al.ARTICLESport und Gesellschaft2012

  • Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas

    Open AccessMichael ThomasARTICLESystem2012

  • Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching with Technology

    Michael Thomas, Hayo ReindersBOOKTask-Based Language Learning and…2010Cited by: 8References: 1

    Michael Thomas BA (Hons) Cert. TESOL M.Ed. MBA Ph.D. FHEA is Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and International Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He has held positions at universities in the UK, Germany and Japan. His research interests are in computer-assisted language learning (CALL), task-based language teaching (TBLT), online and distance education, and educational policy. He has recently completed a four-volume m…

  • Rock and Roll: Impatience

    Michael Tilson Thomas, Michael ThomasARTICLETDR/The Drama Review2008

    September 01 2008 Rock and Roll: Impatience Michael Thomas Michael Thomas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Thomas Online ISSN: 1531-4715 Print ISSN: 1054-2043 © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2008 TDR/The Drama Review (2008) 52 (3 (199)): 2–3. https://doi.org/10.1162/dram.2008.52.3.2 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Views…

  • Chapter 12. God Image Psychotherapy: Comparing Approaches

    Glendon L Moriarty, Michael J Thomas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Spirituality in Mental…2007

    This chapter compares the seven different God image therapy approaches outlined in Part II of this book. These approaches include: attachment therapy, existential-integrative psychotherapy, neuroscientific therapy, rational emotive behavior therapy, time-limited dynamic psychotherapy, liberal protestant pastoral psychotherapy and theistic psychotherapy. First, similarities and differences are explored. Next, God image psychotherapy integration is…