Andrew Mitchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3753168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Mitchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0978-5046 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Getting by but not getting ahead: Muslim families, community networks, and school lunch accommodations in Kumamoto City, Japan
As Japan’s Muslim population grows, religious accommodation in public schooling is increasingly pressing, yet existing research has focused on individual families and schools while overlooking Muslim community networks. This study examines why Muslim families in Kumamoto City are ‘getting by’ in securing school lunch accommodations but not ‘getting ahead’: why, despite an organised community centred around the Kumamoto Islamic Centre (KIC), paren…
Strengthening anal cancer prevention in Abuja, Nigeria: Identifying barriers and potential strategies to improve training
Anal cancer poses a significant risk for sexual minority males (SMM) living with HIV, with a 100-fold higher incidence compared to the general population. Despite success in high-income settings, training on anal cancer prevention in Africa faces challenges due to limited resources and lack of trained practitioners. We evaluated adapting training using an implementation science framework in a Nigerian SMM-friendly clinic. The Consolidated Framewo…
Assessing a Syndemic of Discrimination, Material Insecurity, Depression, Substance Use, and Violence Among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Nigeria Using Mixed Methods
Sexual and gender minority people (SGM) in Nigeria experience disproportionate HIV burden, with an HIV prevalence four to ten times higher than the national average. Better understanding the factors that create HIV vulnerability in this population is important for designing effective interventions, particularly in a context largely hostile to SGM. We assessed a conceptual model describing a syndemic of discrimination, material insecurity, depress…
Building Equality: A “Litmus Test” for Recognising and Evidencing Inequalities and Segregation in the Built Environment
The current convergence of global challenges, particularly the climate change emergency, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the Black Lives Matter movement, have highlighted the need for a new lens to challenge and interrogate key urban planning assumptions related to spatial urban inequality. Yet urban inequality is often and invariably described from a limited economic perspective, commonly interpreted and measured as income inequality. This is an over…
Thinking the Event of Things
Developmental discourses of transition in the Indian transport sector: A corpus linguistic survey of the literature
India is a large nation state facing the twin challenges of economic development and the need to transition away from its path dependence on coal towards a low-carbon infrastructure. By applying corpus linguistics to a sampled literature on decarbonising India's transport sector, we explore three motifs of difference, viz. ‘change’, ‘decarbonisation’ and ‘transition’, and how these motifs are applied within the context of this academic literature…
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2023
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual Medals and Awards recognise achievements in researching, communicating, and teaching a wide range of geographical knowledge. The speeches and citations are a record of the 2023 celebrations, which occurred at the Society on 5 June 2023, with contributions from Andrew Mitchell, Felix Driver, Anson Mackay, Jos Barlow, Harriet Fraser, and Noel Castree
Seroprevalence of Sars-CoV-2 in four states of Nigeria in October 2020: A population-based household survey
The observed epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in sub-Saharan Africa has varied greatly from that in Europe and the United States, with much lower reported incidence. Population-based studies are needed to estimate true cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 to inform public health interventions. This study estimated SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in four selected states in Nigeria in October 2020. We implemented a two-stage cluster sample household survey in fo…
Effects of Soundscape Complexity on Urban Noise Annoyance Ratings: A Large-Scale Online Listening Experiment
Noise annoyance has been often reported as one of the main adverse effects of noise exposure on human health, and there is consensus that it relates to several factors going beyond the mere energy content of the signal. Research has historically focused on a limited set of sound sources (e.g., transport and industrial noise); only more recently is attention being given to more holistic aspects of urban acoustic environments and the role they play…
Normative approach to risk management for insurers
The Prevalence and Predictors of Hypertension and the Metabolic Syndrome in Police Personnel
Hypertension and metabolic syndrome (METSYN) are reportedly high in police forces. This may contribute to health deterioration and absenteeism in police personnel. Police forces comprise of staff in 'operational' and 'non-operational' job types but it is not known if job type is associated to hypertension and METSYN prevalence. This study aimed to explore the prevalence of hypertension and METSYN, the factors associated with the risk of hypertens…
Your Kingdom Come, Your Will Be Done: A Study of Matthew 6:10
One of the most quoted and important verses today, Matt 6:10, is generally misunderstood. The second petition of the Lord’s Prayer is a prayer for the eschatological ushering in of the kingdom. It cannot have the sense of a gradual coming of the kingdom. The third petition is a prayer that God’s purposes come to pass. It is not, as is often suggested, a prayer for the increase in obedience to God’s will. These petitions are not synonymous
Geographic and socio-demographic predictors of household food insecurity in Canada, 2011–12
The probability of household food insecurity in Canada and the severity of the experience depends on a household's province or territory of residence, income, main source of income, housing tenure, education, Aboriginal status, and household structure. Our findings highlight the intersection of household food insecurity with public policy decisions in Canada and the disproportionate burden of food insecurity among Indigenous peoples
Household Food Insecurity in Ontario during a Period of Poverty Reduction, 2005–2014
Using data from five cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey spanning 2005 to 2014, we assessed changes in household food insecurity in Ontario after the 2007 introduction of the Ontario Child Benefit and the 2008 implementation of the province’s poverty reduction strategy. Although the provincial prevalence of food insecurity remained relatively stable, food insecurity declined significantly among families who received the Ontario Child B…
Rethinking Thinking: Heidegger in the 1950s
Chilcot Report: Department for International Aid
Global Fund investments in human resources for health: Innovation and missed opportunities for health systems strengthening
BACKGROUND: Since the early 2000s, there have been large increases in donor financing of human resources for health (HRH), yet few studies have examined their effects on health systems. OBJECTIVE: To determine the scope and impact of investments in HRH by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), the largest investor in HRH outside national governments. METHODS: We used mixed research methodology to analyse budget all…
Chronic Physical and Mental Health Conditions among Adults May Increase Vulnerability to Household Food Insecurity
The coming of history: Heidegger and Nietzsche against the present
Sabedores-sabedoras: Indigenous Methods of Recuperation, Preservation and Management of Forest Varzea, Amazonas – Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador
A scholarly article by authors Ann M. Mitchell, Blanca Vargas de Corredor, and Alexander I. Gray, Andrés Corredor published in The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability: Annual Review
Cycling Off and On Welfare in Canada
Internationally, traditional approaches to social assistance (welfare) have increasingly been replaced with 'active' labour market policies. Alongside other industrialised countries, Canada embraced this shift, with its emphasis on the 'shortest route' to paid employment.There has been little research on the outcomes of these dramatic changes in Canada, especially longer term. This article explores the post-welfare labour market experiences of pe…
Searching for Local Solutions: Making Welfare Policy on the Ground in Ontario
Over recent decades welfare dependency has played a powerful role in defining the welfare “problem” and in passing appropriate “solutions.” One result has been the proliferation of short-term, low-cost employment programs and training programs that have emerged as critical sites for challenging and reforming the attitudes and behaviors of welfare recipients. By exploring work-readiness programs in four communities in Ontario, Canada, we provide i…
Globalization, Precarious Work, and the Food Bank
This paper explores whether people are better off working in the precarious employment associated with a neoliberal globalized economy. Firstly, we show the impacts of globalization on the composition of food bank users in Toronto, Canada. We then compare two groups offood bank users, one with at least one household member working, the other without. Our findings demonstrate that the life experiences of the two groups remain depressingly similar:…
Work First’ and Immigrants in Toronto
This paper examines the experiences of immigrants in Toronto as they pass through, and leave, Ontario Works (OW), a ‘Work First’ approach to social assistance that prioritizes rapid labour force attachment. We examine the Ontario Works activities of immigrants, compared to native born Canadians, and their respective post-OW job characteristics. We find that immigrants experience a significant relative wage disadvantage after participation, and su…
Fataluku medicinal ethnobotany and the East Timorese military resistance
BackgroundAn ethnobotanical study of medicinal and poisonous plants used by the East Timor resistance was undertaken in the Lautem District of East Timor to study medicinal plant use in the region. Interviews were conducted with a single key consultant from the resistance army who belonged to the Fataluku culture. This study is of importance as a historical document and because no previous medicinal ethnobotanical studies on this region exist.Met…
Rituals of Degradation: Administration as Policy in the Ontario Works Programme
After the election of a neo-liberal provincial government in 1995, Ontario was at the forefront of work-based welfare reform in Canada. Many of the sweeping reforms carried out under the banner of the “Common Sense Revolution” received widespread coverage: for example, reductions in welfare rates, the introduction of the Ontario Works programme, the adoption of a zero-tolerance policy for so-called welfare fraud, and changes to the rules relating…
Quantitative Ethnobotany of Two East Timorese Cultures
Fataluku medicinal ethnobotany and the East Timorese military resistance
BackgroundAn ethnobotanical study of medicinal and poisonous plants used by the East Timor resistance was undertaken in the Lautem District of East Timor to study medicinal plant use in the region. Interviews were conducted with a single key consultant from the resistance army who belonged to the Fataluku culture. This study is of importance as a historical document and because no previous medicinal ethnobotanical studies on this region exist.Met…
Exploring the Local Implementation of Ontario Works
Similarly, Ernie Lightman, Dean Herd, and Andrew Mitchell argue that the role of the federal government has been redefined rather than removed from welfare policy. While the decentralization of the Canada Health and Social Transfer resulted in the Ontario government's further downloading of responsibilities to the municipalities, the policy framework is still established by the federal government
Household Food Insecurity in Ontario during a Period of Poverty Reduction, 2005–2014
Using data from five cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey spanning 2005 to 2014, we assessed changes in household food insecurity in Ontario after the 2007 introduction of the Ontario Child Benefit and the 2008 implementation of the province’s poverty reduction strategy. Although the provincial prevalence of food insecurity remained relatively stable, food insecurity declined significantly among families who received the Ontario Child B…
Welfare to What? After Workfare in Toronto
An employment survey among people in Toronto who left Ontario Works — a classic “work‐first” regime — shows clear secondary labour market status. Most interventions typical of work‐first programmes did not have a positive effect on job quality: contrary to the “stepping stones” theory that poor initial jobs lead to better jobs, those who changed jobs after leaving assistance experienced poorer job quality. A shift in orientation to “sustainable e…
Cycling Off and On Welfare in Canada
Internationally, traditional approaches to social assistance (welfare) have increasingly been replaced with 'active' labour market policies. Alongside other industrialised countries, Canada embraced this shift, with its emphasis on the 'shortest route' to paid employment.There has been little research on the outcomes of these dramatic changes in Canada, especially longer term. This article explores the post-welfare labour market experiences of pe…
One Year On: Tracking the Experiences of Current and Former Welfare Recipients in Toronto
Despite large welfare caseload declines in Ontario in recent years, little is known about the longer-term circumstances of people who leave welfare or remain on a much-changed system. This paper reports on a second round of qualitative interviews with current and former workfare participants in Toronto. The findings demonstrate how the lives of most remain marked by poverty, hunger and uncertainty, and reveal contradictions between the realities …
Reconstructing the evolutionary history of the Lorisidae using morphological, molecular, and geological data
Major aspects of lorisid phylogeny and systematics remain unresolved, despite several studies (involving morphology, histology, karyology, immunology, and DNA sequencing) aimed at elucidating them. Our study is the first to investigate the evolution of this enigmatic group using molecular and morphological data for all four well-established genera: Arctocebus, Loris, Nycticebus, and Perodicticus. Data sets consisting of 386 bp of 12S rRNA, 535 bp…
Searching for Local Solutions: Making Welfare Policy on the Ground in Ontario
Over recent decades welfare dependency has played a powerful role in defining the welfare “problem” and in passing appropriate “solutions.” One result has been the proliferation of short-term, low-cost employment programs and training programs that have emerged as critical sites for challenging and reforming the attitudes and behaviors of welfare recipients. By exploring work-readiness programs in four communities in Ontario, Canada, we provide i…
Work First’ and Immigrants in Toronto
This paper examines the experiences of immigrants in Toronto as they pass through, and leave, Ontario Works (OW), a ‘Work First’ approach to social assistance that prioritizes rapid labour force attachment. We examine the Ontario Works activities of immigrants, compared to native born Canadians, and their respective post-OW job characteristics. We find that immigrants experience a significant relative wage disadvantage after participation, and su…
Global Fund investments in human resources for health: Innovation and missed opportunities for health systems strengthening
BACKGROUND: Since the early 2000s, there have been large increases in donor financing of human resources for health (HRH), yet few studies have examined their effects on health systems. OBJECTIVE: To determine the scope and impact of investments in HRH by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), the largest investor in HRH outside national governments. METHODS: We used mixed research methodology to analyse budget all…
Globalization, Precarious Work, and the Food Bank
This paper explores whether people are better off working in the precarious employment associated with a neoliberal globalized economy. Firstly, we show the impacts of globalization on the composition of food bank users in Toronto, Canada. We then compare two groups offood bank users, one with at least one household member working, the other without. Our findings demonstrate that the life experiences of the two groups remain depressingly similar:…
Al Young, Sitting Pretty, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976, 254 pages
Al Young, Sitting Pretty, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976, 254 pages Get access Al Young, Sitting Pretty, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976 254 pages Arlene Mitchell Arlene Mitchell Marple-Newtown High School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 4, Issue 2, September 1977, Page 16, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/4.2.16a Published: 01 September 1977
Economic aspects of the malvaceae in Australia
Torture and Photography: Abu Ghraib
Torture and Photography: Abu Ghraib attempts to think the mutual relation, ships between torture and photography, addressing issues of objectivity, publicity, and distance. In a world where bodies have been divested of human rights, the objectification of the camera seems the perfect complement. Exploring the prophylactic character of film, the author proposes human touch as always in excess of this objectified state of affairs. Along with memora…
One Year On: Tracking the Experiences of Current and Former Welfare Recipients in Toronto
Despite large welfare caseload declines in Ontario in recent years, little is known about the longer-term circumstances of people who leave welfare or remain on a much-changed system. This paper reports on a second round of qualitative interviews with current and former workfare participants in Toronto. The findings demonstrate how the lives of most remain marked by poverty, hunger and uncertainty, and reveal contradictions between the realities …
Workfare in Toronto: More of the Same
This paper uses a recent survey of welfare leavers in Toronto to examine Workfare, a uniquely American initiative introduced into Canada, with its different welfare state history and traditions. When classic American workfare was imported by an enthusiastic government in Ontario, its application led to employment outcomes remarkably similar to those in the US (reduced caseloads, insecure and contingent employment, high recidivism). Yet, Canada's …
Rituals of Degradation: Administration as Policy in the Ontario Works Programme
After the election of a neo-liberal provincial government in 1995, Ontario was at the forefront of work-based welfare reform in Canada. Many of the sweeping reforms carried out under the banner of the “Common Sense Revolution” received widespread coverage: for example, reductions in welfare rates, the introduction of the Ontario Works programme, the adoption of a zero-tolerance policy for so-called welfare fraud, and changes to the rules relating…
Welfare to What? After Workfare in Toronto
An employment survey among people in Toronto who left Ontario Works — a classic “work‐first” regime — shows clear secondary labour market status. Most interventions typical of work‐first programmes did not have a positive effect on job quality: contrary to the “stepping stones” theory that poor initial jobs lead to better jobs, those who changed jobs after leaving assistance experienced poorer job quality. A shift in orientation to “sustainable e…
Reconstructing the evolutionary history of the Lorisidae using morphological, molecular, and geological data
Major aspects of lorisid phylogeny and systematics remain unresolved, despite several studies (involving morphology, histology, karyology, immunology, and DNA sequencing) aimed at elucidating them. Our study is the first to investigate the evolution of this enigmatic group using molecular and morphological data for all four well-established genera: Arctocebus, Loris, Nycticebus, and Perodicticus. Data sets consisting of 386 bp of 12S rRNA, 535 bp…
Exploring the Local Implementation of Ontario Works
Similarly, Ernie Lightman, Dean Herd, and Andrew Mitchell argue that the role of the federal government has been redefined rather than removed from welfare policy. While the decentralization of the Canada Health and Social Transfer resulted in the Ontario government's further downloading of responsibilities to the municipalities, the policy framework is still established by the federal government
Quantitative Ethnobotany of Two East Timorese Cultures
Work First’ and Immigrants in Toronto
This paper examines the experiences of immigrants in Toronto as they pass through, and leave, Ontario Works (OW), a ‘Work First’ approach to social assistance that prioritizes rapid labour force attachment. We examine the Ontario Works activities of immigrants, compared to native born Canadians, and their respective post-OW job characteristics. We find that immigrants experience a significant relative wage disadvantage after participation, and su…
Fataluku medicinal ethnobotany and the East Timorese military resistance
BackgroundAn ethnobotanical study of medicinal and poisonous plants used by the East Timor resistance was undertaken in the Lautem District of East Timor to study medicinal plant use in the region. Interviews were conducted with a single key consultant from the resistance army who belonged to the Fataluku culture. This study is of importance as a historical document and because no previous medicinal ethnobotanical studies on this region exist.Met…
Globalization, Precarious Work, and the Food Bank
This paper explores whether people are better off working in the precarious employment associated with a neoliberal globalized economy. Firstly, we show the impacts of globalization on the composition of food bank users in Toronto, Canada. We then compare two groups offood bank users, one with at least one household member working, the other without. Our findings demonstrate that the life experiences of the two groups remain depressingly similar:…
Searching for Local Solutions: Making Welfare Policy on the Ground in Ontario
Over recent decades welfare dependency has played a powerful role in defining the welfare “problem” and in passing appropriate “solutions.” One result has been the proliferation of short-term, low-cost employment programs and training programs that have emerged as critical sites for challenging and reforming the attitudes and behaviors of welfare recipients. By exploring work-readiness programs in four communities in Ontario, Canada, we provide i…
Sabedores-sabedoras: Indigenous Methods of Recuperation, Preservation and Management of Forest Varzea, Amazonas – Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador
A scholarly article by authors Ann M. Mitchell, Blanca Vargas de Corredor, and Alexander I. Gray, Andrés Corredor published in The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability: Annual Review
Cycling Off and On Welfare in Canada
Internationally, traditional approaches to social assistance (welfare) have increasingly been replaced with 'active' labour market policies. Alongside other industrialised countries, Canada embraced this shift, with its emphasis on the 'shortest route' to paid employment.There has been little research on the outcomes of these dramatic changes in Canada, especially longer term. This article explores the post-welfare labour market experiences of pe…
Chronic Physical and Mental Health Conditions among Adults May Increase Vulnerability to Household Food Insecurity
The coming of history: Heidegger and Nietzsche against the present
Global Fund investments in human resources for health: Innovation and missed opportunities for health systems strengthening
BACKGROUND: Since the early 2000s, there have been large increases in donor financing of human resources for health (HRH), yet few studies have examined their effects on health systems. OBJECTIVE: To determine the scope and impact of investments in HRH by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), the largest investor in HRH outside national governments. METHODS: We used mixed research methodology to analyse budget all…
Chilcot Report: Department for International Aid
Rethinking Thinking: Heidegger in the 1950s
Geographic and socio-demographic predictors of household food insecurity in Canada, 2011–12
The probability of household food insecurity in Canada and the severity of the experience depends on a household's province or territory of residence, income, main source of income, housing tenure, education, Aboriginal status, and household structure. Our findings highlight the intersection of household food insecurity with public policy decisions in Canada and the disproportionate burden of food insecurity among Indigenous peoples
Household Food Insecurity in Ontario during a Period of Poverty Reduction, 2005–2014
Using data from five cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey spanning 2005 to 2014, we assessed changes in household food insecurity in Ontario after the 2007 introduction of the Ontario Child Benefit and the 2008 implementation of the province’s poverty reduction strategy. Although the provincial prevalence of food insecurity remained relatively stable, food insecurity declined significantly among families who received the Ontario Child B…
Your Kingdom Come, Your Will Be Done: A Study of Matthew 6:10
One of the most quoted and important verses today, Matt 6:10, is generally misunderstood. The second petition of the Lord’s Prayer is a prayer for the eschatological ushering in of the kingdom. It cannot have the sense of a gradual coming of the kingdom. The third petition is a prayer that God’s purposes come to pass. It is not, as is often suggested, a prayer for the increase in obedience to God’s will. These petitions are not synonymous
Normative approach to risk management for insurers
Political science (15 works) · Economics (13 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Welfare (8 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works)