David Welch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3734670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Welch |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Welch |
| SIGNATURE | WELCH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7066-2830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Assessing and evaluating the Dangerous Decibels classroom programme
Objective: To develop an improved tool with which to assess the efficacy of the Dangerous Decibels (DD) programme, delivered as a training programme. The theoretical foundations for the tool were the capabilities, opportunities, motivation-behaviour (COM-B) model, and a separate set of scales was included at the level of individual components of the programme. Design: The research was conducted in three phases: draft questionnaire design, Delphi …
Resources and Attitudes Influence Acculturation of Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants
Early detection of hearing loss leads to early intervention-related decisions. Most children with cochlear implants (CIs) are born to hearing parents. Prior evidence suggests that this increased access to oral communication and the “hearing” world means oral communication is prioritized by hearing parents. Language plays a key role within culture and these communication decisions are likely to be associated with children’s level of d/Deaf accultu…
Completing a soundscape questionnaire reduces the psychological distance of sound and hearing
Objective: People are often resistant to hearing-health education messages such as those aimed at the prevention of noise-induced hearing loss. This resistance may be due to psychological distance: the perceived relevance of hearing and awareness of sound to daily life. The soundscape is the internal, perceptual, experience of a sound environment. The objective of this study was to explore people’s thought processes when completing a questionnair…
Shared cultural ancestry predicts the global diffusion of democracy
Understanding global variation in democratic outcomes is critical to efforts to promote and sustain democracy today. Here, we use data on the democratic status of 221 modern and historical nations stretching back up to 200 years to show that, particularly over the last 50 years, nations with shared linguistic and, more recently, religious ancestry have more similar democratic outcomes. We also find evidence that for most of the last 50 years the …
Music Listening and Homeostatic Regulation
This paper argues for a biological conception of music listening as an evolutionary achievement that is related to a long history of cognitive and affective-emotional functions, which are grounded in basic homeostatic regulation. Starting from the three levels of description, the acoustic description of sounds, the neurological level of processing, and the psychological correlates of neural stimulation, it conceives of listeners as open systems t…
Attitudes to noise and behaviour towards hearing protection among Pasifika university students in New Zealand
It is estimated that 1.1 billion young people worldwide are at risk of hearing loss due to high levels of noise exposure. Hearing loss can contribute to low self‐esteem, poor employment prospects and social problems. The aim of this research was to explore the attitudes and beliefs towards noise, hearing loss and hearing protection among Pasifika university students in New Zealand. 96 Pasifika students completed the Youth Attitude to Noise Scale …
Why Do People Like Loud Sound? A Qualitative Study
Many people choose to expose themselves to potentially dangerous sounds such as loud music, either via speakers, personal audio systems, or at clubs. The Conditioning, Adaptation and Acculturation to Loud Music (CAALM) Model has proposed a theoretical basis for this behaviour. To compare the model to data, we interviewed a group of people who were either regular nightclub-goers or who controlled the sound levels in nightclubs (bar managers, music…
World War II Propaganda
Shows in illuminating detail how the Allied and Axis forces used visual images and other propaganda material to sway public opinion during World War II. Author David Welch provides a neatly organized primary resource that focuses on key themes associated with World War II propaganda. Readers will not only be engrossed with a wide range of propaganda artifacts, they will also receive a better and more nuanced understanding of the nature of this pr…
A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire
Firearms have been studied by imperial historians mainly as means of human destruction and material production. Yet, as suggested by constructivist approaches to the history of technology, firearms have always been invested with a whole array of additional social meanings. By placing these latter at the centre of analysis, the essays presented in A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire extend the study of guns beyond the confines of m…
The Covariance between Air Pollution Annoyance and Noise Annoyance, and Its Relationship with Health-Related Quality of Life
Air pollution originating from road traffic is a known risk factor of respiratory and cardiovascular disease (both in terms of chronic and acute effects). While adverse effects on cardiovascular health have also been linked with noise (after controlling for air pollution), noise exposure has been commonly linked to sleep impairment and negative emotional reactions. Health is multi-faceted, both conceptually and operationally; Health-Related Quali…
Substitute for Power
Substitute for Power: Wartime British Propaganda to the Balkans, 1939–44., by Ioannis Stefanidis." The International History Review, 38(3), pp. 617–618
Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation
The Negative Affect Hypothesis of Noise Sensitivity
Some studies indicate that noise sensitivity is explained by negative affect, a dispositional tendency to negatively evaluate situations and the self. Individuals high in such traits may report a greater sensitivity to other sensory stimuli, such as smell, bright light and pain. However, research investigating the relationship between noise sensitivity and sensitivity to stimuli associated with other sensory modalities has not always supported th…
‘Opening Pandora’s Box’
‘Today Germany, Tomorrow The World’
Images of the Hun
Nazi Propaganda (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)
Based on a detailed examination of specific aspects of Nazi propaganda, this book (originally published in 1983) enhances the understanding of National Socialism by revealing both its power and its limitations. The work tackles aspects of Nazi propaganda which had been neglected in the past, but together they demonstrate the disproportionate role assigned to propaganda in one of the most highly politicised societies in contemporary European histo…
Germany and Propaganda in World War I
Adolf Hitler, writing in Mein Kampf, was scathing in his condemnation of German propaganda in World War I, declaring that Germany failed to recognise that the mobilization of public opinion was a weapon of the first order. This, despite the fact that propaganda had been regarded by the German leadership, arguably for the first time, as an intrinsic part of the war effort. In this book, David Welch fully examines German society - politics, propaga…
The Final Throw of the Dice. General Ludendorff
In order to counter reports of a widening gulf between state authority and popular feeling about the war, General Ludendorff launched a major propaganda campaign in July 1917 called Vaterländische Unterricht (patriotic instructions). Four major themes were identified: 1] The Causes of the War. 2] Confidence in Final Victory. 3] The Necessity and Importance of Leadership and 4] The Enemy. It was Ludendorff’s «last throw of the propaganda dice» and…
Propaganda, Power and Persuasion
As Philip Taylor has written, ‘The challenge (of the modern information age) is to ensure that no single propaganda source gains monopoly over the information and images that shape our thoughts. If this happens, the war propagandists will be back in business again.’ Propaganda came of age in the Twentieth Century. The development of mass- and multi-media offered a fertile ground for propaganda while global conflict provided the impetus needed for…
Do Quiet Areas Afford Greater Health-Related Quality of Life than Noisy Areas
People typically choose to live in quiet areas in order to safeguard their health and wellbeing. However, the benefits of living in quiet areas are relatively understudied compared to the burdens associated with living in noisy areas. Additionally, research is increasingly focusing on the relationship between the human response to noise and measures of health and wellbeing, complementing traditional dose-response approaches, and further elucidati…
Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation
Perceptions of Neighborhood Problems and Health‐related Quality of Life
This article examines the association between perceptions of neighborhood problems and health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) in a sample of New Zealand residents (n = 692). A modified version of the Neighborhood Problems Scale (originally developed by Steptoe and Feldman, 2001) and the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL‐BREF) were used to assess perceptions of neighborhood problems and HRQOL, respectively. Multiple linear regressi…
Cinema and the Swastika
This is the first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to infiltrate - economically, polit
Exploring the Relationship between Noise Sensitivity, Annoyance and Health-Related Quality of Life in a Sample of Adults Exposed to Environmental Noise
The relationship between environmental noise and health is poorly understood but of fundamental importance to public health. This study estimated the relationship between noise sensitivity, noise annoyance and health-related quality of life in a sample of adults residing close to the Auckland International Airport, New Zealand. A small sample (n = 105) completed surveys measuring noise sensitivity, noise annoyance, and quality of life. Noise sens…
Nazi Propaganda and the Volksgemeinschaft
This article argues that the concept of a ‘national’ or ‘people’s’ community ( Volksgemeinschaft) was a key element in the ‘revolutionary’ aims of the nazi regime, and illustrates the remarkably ambitious nature of its propaganda. Propaganda presented an image of society that had successfully manufactured a ‘national community’ by transcending social and class divisiveness through a new ethnic unity based on ‘true’ German values. But was there a …
Propaganda, Power and Persuasion
As Philip Taylor has written, ‘The challenge (of the modern information age) is to ensure that no single propaganda source gains monopoly over the information and images that shape our thoughts. If this happens, the war propagandists will be back in business again.’ Propaganda came of age in the Twentieth Century. The development of mass- and multi-media offered a fertile ground for propaganda while global conflict provided the impetus needed for…
Avoiding Losses/Taking Risks
Institutional Development in the Face of Complexity
The proletarian cinema and the Weimar Republic
Perceptions of Neighborhood Problems and Health‐related Quality of Life
This article examines the association between perceptions of neighborhood problems and health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) in a sample of New Zealand residents (n = 692). A modified version of the Neighborhood Problems Scale (originally developed by Steptoe and Feldman, 2001) and the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL‐BREF) were used to assess perceptions of neighborhood problems and HRQOL, respectively. Multiple linear regressi…
Citizenship and Politics
Writing in 1965 in Britain Looks to Germany , Donald Cameron Watt concluded: Perhaps the biggest successes scored by the Education Branch lay in the programme of exchange visits at all levels, in the discovery and encouragement of a new generation of teachers in Germany....and most imaginatively of all in the opening up of the Wilton Park Centre to which leaders of opinion in Germany came for short residential courses on British democratic practi…
Shared cultural ancestry predicts the global diffusion of democracy
Understanding global variation in democratic outcomes is critical to efforts to promote and sustain democracy today. Here, we use data on the democratic status of 221 modern and historical nations stretching back up to 200 years to show that, particularly over the last 50 years, nations with shared linguistic and, more recently, religious ancestry have more similar democratic outcomes. We also find evidence that for most of the last 50 years the …
Plant motifs in Kimberley rock-art, Australia
Flowers, leaves, stems, branches, fruit, vines, inflorescence, roots and tubers are all depicted in the rock-art of the Kimberley region, Australia. The ecological knowledge of Aboriginal people with regard to plant usage for food, housing, utensils, weapons, string-making and ceremonial regalia is enormous, and some of this knowledge is reflected in rock-art. Sometimes plant features are combined with human and animal forms to represent mytholog…
News into the Next Century
Manufacturing a Consensus
The point has to be made at once that any attempt to quantify public reaction to Nazi propaganda is fraught with difficulties. Accurate measurement of the effectiveness of Nazi propaganda is weakened by the absence of public opinion surveys and the fact that, in a society that resorted so readily to coercions and terror, reported opinion did not necessarily reflect the true feelings and moods of the public, especially if these views were opposed …
The Eighteenth-Century French Novel. Techniques of Illusion
Preface Notes to the second edition 1. Prolegomena, theory and background 2. Fiction, history and truth 3. Memoirs and pseudo-memoirs 4. Lesage and conventions 5. Prevost: the new 'realism' 6. Marivaux: characters in depth 7. Crebillon: innovations in points of view 8. Letter-novels: history and technique 9. Crebillon's letter-novels 10. Rousseau: a new seriousness 11. Diderot: theory and practice 12. Restif de la Bretonne and Laclos: the culmina…
Ritual Intonation of Yoruba Praise-Poetry (Oríkì)
Among the Yoruba people of S. W. Nigeria, there are innumerable poetic genres, or manners of intonation, rigidly prescribed by ritual convention (labelled simply “chant” in the West). Some of these genres—notably Ijálá and Rárà—have already been treated by scholars at the textual and/or linguistic levels. Śangó praise-poetry has hitherto received attention only from the literary standpoint. In a recent classification of indigenous poetic genres (…
The proletarian cinema and the Weimar Republic
Propaganda and the German Cinema 1933–1945
This is the most comprehensive analysis to date of Nazi film propaganda in its political, social, and economic contexts, from the pre-war cinema as it fell under the control of the Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, through to the end of the Second World War. David Welch studies more than one hundred films of all types, identifying those aspects of Nazi ideology that were concealed in the framework of popular entertainment
Nazi Propaganda
Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933-1945
The history and organization of the Nazi cinema Goebbels the propagandist comradeship, heroism and the party blood and soil (blut und boden) the principle of leadership (fuhrerprinzip) war and the military image the image of the enemy conclusion appendix
A Medium for the Masses
Propaganda and Indoctrination in the Third Reich
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access DAVID WELCH DAVID WELCH Polytechnic of Central London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIV, Issue 413, October 1989, Pages 1086-b–1087, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIV.413.1086-b Published: 01 October 1989
Manufacturing a Consensus
The point has to be made at once that any attempt to quantify public reaction to Nazi propaganda is fraught with difficulties. Accurate measurement of the effectiveness of Nazi propaganda is weakened by the absence of public opinion surveys and the fact that, in a society that resorted so readily to coercions and terror, reported opinion did not necessarily reflect the true feelings and moods of the public, especially if these views were opposed …
Political 're-education' and the use of radio in Germany after 1945
Avoiding Losses/Taking Risks
Citizenship and Politics
Writing in 1965 in Britain Looks to Germany , Donald Cameron Watt concluded: Perhaps the biggest successes scored by the Education Branch lay in the programme of exchange visits at all levels, in the discovery and encouragement of a new generation of teachers in Germany....and most imaginatively of all in the opening up of the Wilton Park Centre to which leaders of opinion in Germany came for short residential courses on British democratic practi…
Germany, Propaganda and Total War, 1914-1918
News into the Next Century
The Third Reich
Propaganda and Mass Persuasion
A truly international, authoritative A–Z guide to five centuries of propaganda, in both wartime and peacetime, which covers key moments, techniques, concepts, and some of the most influential propagandists in history. This fascinating survey provides a comprehensive introduction to propaganda, its changing nature, its practitioners, and its impact on the past five centuries of world history. Written by leading experts, it covers the masters of th…
Plant motifs in Kimberley rock-art, Australia
Flowers, leaves, stems, branches, fruit, vines, inflorescence, roots and tubers are all depicted in the rock-art of the Kimberley region, Australia. The ecological knowledge of Aboriginal people with regard to plant usage for food, housing, utensils, weapons, string-making and ceremonial regalia is enormous, and some of this knowledge is reflected in rock-art. Sometimes plant features are combined with human and animal forms to represent mytholog…
Nazi Propaganda and the Volksgemeinschaft
This article argues that the concept of a ‘national’ or ‘people’s’ community ( Volksgemeinschaft) was a key element in the ‘revolutionary’ aims of the nazi regime, and illustrates the remarkably ambitious nature of its propaganda. Propaganda presented an image of society that had successfully manufactured a ‘national community’ by transcending social and class divisiveness through a new ethnic unity based on ‘true’ German values. But was there a …
Institutional Development in the Face of Complexity
La collectivité franco-ontarienne
La collectivité franco-ontarienne : une présence historique liée à son développement socioéconomique. An article from journal Francophonies d'Amérique (La vitalité des communautés francophones du Canada), on Érudit
Cinema and the Swastika
Psychosocial correlates of 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) ratings in a birth cohort
The Third Reich
Introduction 1. The Conquest of the Masses 2. Goebbels the Propagandist 3. Restructuring the Means of Communication 4. Propaganda and Public Opinion 1933-39 5. Nazi Propaganda at War, 1939-1945 Conclusion Postscript: Germany's Search for a Bearable Past Appendix: Document Section
Exploring the Relationship between Noise Sensitivity, Annoyance and Health-Related Quality of Life in a Sample of Adults Exposed to Environmental Noise
The relationship between environmental noise and health is poorly understood but of fundamental importance to public health. This study estimated the relationship between noise sensitivity, noise annoyance and health-related quality of life in a sample of adults residing close to the Auckland International Airport, New Zealand. A small sample (n = 105) completed surveys measuring noise sensitivity, noise annoyance, and quality of life. Noise sens…
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