Rachel Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3769794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-1488-734X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance by Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown (review)
The transformation-mainstreaming conundrum: Making sense of tensions in adaptation practice
As the scale of climate change impacts become apparent, organisations globally are seeking to adapt. They face dual imperatives of transformation—going beyond business-as-usual to embrace disruptive changes to their decision-making processes—and mainstreaming—enacting adaptation initiatives with minimal change to existing capabilities and structures. In practice, these important imperatives can conflict, leading to the emergence of multiple tensi…
Jabari M. Evans, Hip-Hop Civics: Connected Learning in the Rap Classroom
Geology and Archaeology of Hampshire: For people who aren’t geologists or archaeologists
O nó górdio da modernidade: Universalismo E Escrita Da História Na Formação De Um Disputado Conceito
O objetivo deste artigo é problematizar algumas das tensões em torno do conceito de modernidade. Central para diferentes áreas das ciências humanas, “modernidade” congrega, em um mesmo vocábulo, um conceito e uma proposta de periodização, ambos instrumentos essenciais da escrita historiográfica. Pretende-se aqui explorar de que forma a análise do conceito de modernidade, em conexão com uma ideia específica de universalismo, pode nos ajudar a comp…
Study protocol for Early Tracking of Childhood Health determinants (ETCHED): A longitudinal observational life course study
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03481829. Updated July 19, 2024, https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03481829?cond=ETCHED&rank=1
Adapting ripple effects mapping for evaluating public health initiatives in complex systems: Reflections and recommendations from seven case studies
Ripple effects mapping is a qualitative and participatory method, developed to capture the dynamic nature and interacting elements of an initiative, and its impacts. We present our experiences of using ripple effects mapping to evaluate complex public health initiatives across seven case studies in Bradford, UK. Seven researchers engaged in qualitative reflective practice to capture their individual experiences of using ripple effects mapping wit…
Park Glasshouse, Birmingham — a Site of 19th-Century Innovation
In 2020 excavations took place on the site of the former Park Glasshouse, Birmingham, established in 1788, and subsequently the location of the Baker and Allen German Silver Works, opened in 1895. Sufficient of the glasshouse survived to enable several phases of development to be identified, one of which involved the installation, trialling and adoption c. 1860 of what then was an innovative Siemens gas regenerator that considerably improved the …
Wastewater-based monitoring of Sars-CoV-2 at UK airports and its potential role in international public health surveillance
It is well established that air travel plays a key role in the global spread of many enteric and respiratory diseases, including COVID-19. Even with travel restrictions (e.g. mask wearing, negative COVID-19 test prior to departure), SARS-CoV-2 may be transmitted by asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic individuals carrying the virus. Due to the limitation of current clinical surveillance approaches, complementary methods need to be developed to allow e…
Attachments to Mother, Father, and Romantic Partner as Predictors of Life Satisfaction
Two correlational survey studies were conducted among adult samples (Ns = 205; 697) to test the effects on general life satisfaction of attachment to three close others: mother, father, and romantic partner. Results showed that attachment to mother and father also matter in adulthood, in that they are associated with adult life satisfaction. Secure attachments to mother and father were positively associated with life satisfaction, and anxious and…
The Indigenous Adolescent Oral Health Partnership Study: A Co-Design Study Protocol
TRN: ISRCTN15496753 Date of registration: 20 October 2021
History and Memory of the Old Eighth Ward
The City Beautiful movement in Harrisburg brought many improvements to the capital city, but it also brought destruction to the diverse neighborhood directly east of the capitol building, known today as the “Old Eighth Ward.” Even though this community no longer exists, newspaper accounts of its razing and digital mapping of the families of the Old Eighth Ward preserve this story of displacement within public memory
‘We have the time to listen’: Community Health Trainers, identity work and boundaries
This article contributes empirical findings and sociological theoretical perspectives to discussions of the role of community lay health workers, including in improving the health of individuals and communities. We focus on the role of the Health Trainer (HT), at its inception described as one of the most innovative developments in UK Public Health policy. As lay health workers, HTs are tasked with reducing health inequalities in disadvantaged co…
Stressed, Depressed and Exhausted: Six Years as a Teacher in UK State Education
This article foregrounds the experiences of a newly qualified teacher - 'Daniel' - in the state education sector in the United Kingdom. It provides an insight into the under-explored realities of teaching work and an empirical connection with a segment of the UK public sector that successive governments have positioned as central to economic and social prosperity. It centres on why nine out of ten teachers who participated in the 2017 National Sk…
A food environments feedback system (FoodBack) for empowering citizens and change agents to create healthier community food places
This study developed a systems-based approach (called FoodBack) to empower citizens and change agents to create healthier community food places. Formative evaluations were held with citizens and change agents in six diverse New Zealand communities, supplemented by semi-structured interviews with 85 change agents in Auckland and Hamilton in 2015-2016. The emerging system was additionally reviewed by public health experts from diverse organizations…
Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality
You're Just Chopped Off at the End: Retired Servicemen's Identity Work Struggles in the Military to Civilian Transition
Promoting positive transition to retirement and cultural adaption for ex-service personnel has been identified as a priority for both social-science research and for public health policy in the UK. The Royal British Legion aims to provide support to service and retired service personnel, but to date the transition to retirement experiences of older (60-plus) ex-service personnel remain under-researched. In this article, we employ a symbolic inter…
Risky bodies, risky spaces, maternal 'instincts: Swimming and motherhood
Swimming and aquatic activity are fields in which gendered, embodied identities are brought to the fore, and the co-presence of other bodies can have a significant impact upon lived experiences. To date, however, there has been little research on sport and physical cultures that investigates how meanings associated with space impact upon women's embodied experiences of participating in swimming, specifically in the presence of their young childre…
Conspicuously Consuming: The Red Hat Society and Midlife Women's Identity
Drawing from interviews and fieldwork with Red Hat Society members (RHS), we consider the growing consumer culture of the RHS, how members conspicuously consume red and purple dress, and for what purposes they do so. RHS members in this study develop visible group identity, reinforce traditional gendered behavior, and challenge publicly what it means to be "old." We investigate consumption as a means of discerning whether midlife women's particip…
Generational continuity and change in British Asian health and health behaviour
OBJECTIVES: To trace patterns of health and health behaviour in those with ancestry in the Indian subcontinent (British Asians) compared with the general population of their age (1) in the younger generation age 14-15 mainly born in the UK and (2) in the older mainly migrant generation. DESIGN: Cross sectional random sample surveys of two age groups in Glasgow. SAMPLES: 334 British Asians (86% born in the UK) and 490 non-Asians, all aged 14-15; 1…
“I’m not a feminist, but…”: Factors contributing to the discrepancy between pro-feminist orientation and feminist social identity
Sampling Asian minorities to assess health and welfare
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aims were (1) to sample a specified subgroup of the Asian minority; (2) to give proper representation to those outside the areas of concentration; and (3) to evaluate the costs and benefits of the method. DESIGN--Glasgow postcodes with varying concentrations of Asians were sampled, and 173 Asians aged 30-40 were interviewed after household screening of 1439 Asian names identified on the electoral roll or valuation roll. Areas…
Nestor's War Effort (Stat. Ach. 1.422)
Here in the Achilleid Statius catalogues the contributions of Greek towns to Agamemnon's expedition against Troy. Every item of equipment is appropriate to its origin. There is one puzzle, however: why is it that murorum tormenta are the peculiar contribution of Pylos and Messene? O. A. W. Dilke (1954) suggests that the proximity of classical Messene to Mt Ithome would have reminded Statius of the siege of that place by the Spartans in 464–59 b.c…
Pregnancy outcomes among Spanish-surname women in California
We compared pregnancy outcomes among United States-born and Mexican-born women having Spanish surnames with US-born Whites and Blacks using California's 1981 matched birth-death cohort file. Maternal risk characteristics between US-born Black women and US-born women with Spanish surnames were similar. In contrast, Latino women, regardless of national origin, delivered small proportions of low weight infants as compared to Blacks. Birthweight-spec…
Cesarean section, fetal monitoring, and perinatal mortality in California
The rate of cesarean section in California has been growing at a compound rate of about 10 per cent per annum since 1969, coinciding with the advent of fetal monitoring. It is of interest, therefore, to study the distribution and efficacy of obstetric interventions. Information derived from the 1977 California birth cohort and a survey questionnaire was used to study the factors associated with the rate of cesarean section in 323 hospitals. Signi…
Pregnancy outcomes among Spanish-surname women in California
We compared pregnancy outcomes among United States-born and Mexican-born women having Spanish surnames with US-born Whites and Blacks using California's 1981 matched birth-death cohort file. Maternal risk characteristics between US-born Black women and US-born women with Spanish surnames were similar. In contrast, Latino women, regardless of national origin, delivered small proportions of low weight infants as compared to Blacks. Birthweight-spec…
Cesarean section, fetal monitoring, and perinatal mortality in California
The rate of cesarean section in California has been growing at a compound rate of about 10 per cent per annum since 1969, coinciding with the advent of fetal monitoring. It is of interest, therefore, to study the distribution and efficacy of obstetric interventions. Information derived from the 1977 California birth cohort and a survey questionnaire was used to study the factors associated with the rate of cesarean section in 323 hospitals. Signi…
Sampling Asian minorities to assess health and welfare
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aims were (1) to sample a specified subgroup of the Asian minority; (2) to give proper representation to those outside the areas of concentration; and (3) to evaluate the costs and benefits of the method. DESIGN--Glasgow postcodes with varying concentrations of Asians were sampled, and 173 Asians aged 30-40 were interviewed after household screening of 1439 Asian names identified on the electoral roll or valuation roll. Areas…
Risky bodies, risky spaces, maternal 'instincts: Swimming and motherhood
Swimming and aquatic activity are fields in which gendered, embodied identities are brought to the fore, and the co-presence of other bodies can have a significant impact upon lived experiences. To date, however, there has been little research on sport and physical cultures that investigates how meanings associated with space impact upon women's embodied experiences of participating in swimming, specifically in the presence of their young childre…
Stressed, Depressed and Exhausted: Six Years as a Teacher in UK State Education
This article foregrounds the experiences of a newly qualified teacher - 'Daniel' - in the state education sector in the United Kingdom. It provides an insight into the under-explored realities of teaching work and an empirical connection with a segment of the UK public sector that successive governments have positioned as central to economic and social prosperity. It centres on why nine out of ten teachers who participated in the 2017 National Sk…
Conspicuously Consuming: The Red Hat Society and Midlife Women's Identity
Drawing from interviews and fieldwork with Red Hat Society members (RHS), we consider the growing consumer culture of the RHS, how members conspicuously consume red and purple dress, and for what purposes they do so. RHS members in this study develop visible group identity, reinforce traditional gendered behavior, and challenge publicly what it means to be "old." We investigate consumption as a means of discerning whether midlife women's particip…
You're Just Chopped Off at the End: Retired Servicemen's Identity Work Struggles in the Military to Civilian Transition
Promoting positive transition to retirement and cultural adaption for ex-service personnel has been identified as a priority for both social-science research and for public health policy in the UK. The Royal British Legion aims to provide support to service and retired service personnel, but to date the transition to retirement experiences of older (60-plus) ex-service personnel remain under-researched. In this article, we employ a symbolic inter…
Cesarean section, fetal monitoring, and perinatal mortality in California
The rate of cesarean section in California has been growing at a compound rate of about 10 per cent per annum since 1969, coinciding with the advent of fetal monitoring. It is of interest, therefore, to study the distribution and efficacy of obstetric interventions. Information derived from the 1977 California birth cohort and a survey questionnaire was used to study the factors associated with the rate of cesarean section in 323 hospitals. Signi…
Nestor's War Effort (Stat. Ach. 1.422)
Here in the Achilleid Statius catalogues the contributions of Greek towns to Agamemnon's expedition against Troy. Every item of equipment is appropriate to its origin. There is one puzzle, however: why is it that murorum tormenta are the peculiar contribution of Pylos and Messene? O. A. W. Dilke (1954) suggests that the proximity of classical Messene to Mt Ithome would have reminded Statius of the siege of that place by the Spartans in 464–59 b.c…
Pregnancy outcomes among Spanish-surname women in California
We compared pregnancy outcomes among United States-born and Mexican-born women having Spanish surnames with US-born Whites and Blacks using California's 1981 matched birth-death cohort file. Maternal risk characteristics between US-born Black women and US-born women with Spanish surnames were similar. In contrast, Latino women, regardless of national origin, delivered small proportions of low weight infants as compared to Blacks. Birthweight-spec…
Sampling Asian minorities to assess health and welfare
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aims were (1) to sample a specified subgroup of the Asian minority; (2) to give proper representation to those outside the areas of concentration; and (3) to evaluate the costs and benefits of the method. DESIGN--Glasgow postcodes with varying concentrations of Asians were sampled, and 173 Asians aged 30-40 were interviewed after household screening of 1439 Asian names identified on the electoral roll or valuation roll. Areas…
“I’m not a feminist, but…”: Factors contributing to the discrepancy between pro-feminist orientation and feminist social identity
Generational continuity and change in British Asian health and health behaviour
OBJECTIVES: To trace patterns of health and health behaviour in those with ancestry in the Indian subcontinent (British Asians) compared with the general population of their age (1) in the younger generation age 14-15 mainly born in the UK and (2) in the older mainly migrant generation. DESIGN: Cross sectional random sample surveys of two age groups in Glasgow. SAMPLES: 334 British Asians (86% born in the UK) and 490 non-Asians, all aged 14-15; 1…
Conspicuously Consuming: The Red Hat Society and Midlife Women's Identity
Drawing from interviews and fieldwork with Red Hat Society members (RHS), we consider the growing consumer culture of the RHS, how members conspicuously consume red and purple dress, and for what purposes they do so. RHS members in this study develop visible group identity, reinforce traditional gendered behavior, and challenge publicly what it means to be "old." We investigate consumption as a means of discerning whether midlife women's particip…
Risky bodies, risky spaces, maternal 'instincts: Swimming and motherhood
Swimming and aquatic activity are fields in which gendered, embodied identities are brought to the fore, and the co-presence of other bodies can have a significant impact upon lived experiences. To date, however, there has been little research on sport and physical cultures that investigates how meanings associated with space impact upon women's embodied experiences of participating in swimming, specifically in the presence of their young childre…
Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality
You're Just Chopped Off at the End: Retired Servicemen's Identity Work Struggles in the Military to Civilian Transition
Promoting positive transition to retirement and cultural adaption for ex-service personnel has been identified as a priority for both social-science research and for public health policy in the UK. The Royal British Legion aims to provide support to service and retired service personnel, but to date the transition to retirement experiences of older (60-plus) ex-service personnel remain under-researched. In this article, we employ a symbolic inter…
A food environments feedback system (FoodBack) for empowering citizens and change agents to create healthier community food places
This study developed a systems-based approach (called FoodBack) to empower citizens and change agents to create healthier community food places. Formative evaluations were held with citizens and change agents in six diverse New Zealand communities, supplemented by semi-structured interviews with 85 change agents in Auckland and Hamilton in 2015-2016. The emerging system was additionally reviewed by public health experts from diverse organizations…
History and Memory of the Old Eighth Ward
The City Beautiful movement in Harrisburg brought many improvements to the capital city, but it also brought destruction to the diverse neighborhood directly east of the capitol building, known today as the “Old Eighth Ward.” Even though this community no longer exists, newspaper accounts of its razing and digital mapping of the families of the Old Eighth Ward preserve this story of displacement within public memory
‘We have the time to listen’: Community Health Trainers, identity work and boundaries
This article contributes empirical findings and sociological theoretical perspectives to discussions of the role of community lay health workers, including in improving the health of individuals and communities. We focus on the role of the Health Trainer (HT), at its inception described as one of the most innovative developments in UK Public Health policy. As lay health workers, HTs are tasked with reducing health inequalities in disadvantaged co…
Stressed, Depressed and Exhausted: Six Years as a Teacher in UK State Education
This article foregrounds the experiences of a newly qualified teacher - 'Daniel' - in the state education sector in the United Kingdom. It provides an insight into the under-explored realities of teaching work and an empirical connection with a segment of the UK public sector that successive governments have positioned as central to economic and social prosperity. It centres on why nine out of ten teachers who participated in the 2017 National Sk…
Attachments to Mother, Father, and Romantic Partner as Predictors of Life Satisfaction
Two correlational survey studies were conducted among adult samples (Ns = 205; 697) to test the effects on general life satisfaction of attachment to three close others: mother, father, and romantic partner. Results showed that attachment to mother and father also matter in adulthood, in that they are associated with adult life satisfaction. Secure attachments to mother and father were positively associated with life satisfaction, and anxious and…
The Indigenous Adolescent Oral Health Partnership Study: A Co-Design Study Protocol
TRN: ISRCTN15496753 Date of registration: 20 October 2021
Park Glasshouse, Birmingham — a Site of 19th-Century Innovation
In 2020 excavations took place on the site of the former Park Glasshouse, Birmingham, established in 1788, and subsequently the location of the Baker and Allen German Silver Works, opened in 1895. Sufficient of the glasshouse survived to enable several phases of development to be identified, one of which involved the installation, trialling and adoption c. 1860 of what then was an innovative Siemens gas regenerator that considerably improved the …
Wastewater-based monitoring of Sars-CoV-2 at UK airports and its potential role in international public health surveillance
It is well established that air travel plays a key role in the global spread of many enteric and respiratory diseases, including COVID-19. Even with travel restrictions (e.g. mask wearing, negative COVID-19 test prior to departure), SARS-CoV-2 may be transmitted by asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic individuals carrying the virus. Due to the limitation of current clinical surveillance approaches, complementary methods need to be developed to allow e…
O nó górdio da modernidade: Universalismo E Escrita Da História Na Formação De Um Disputado Conceito
O objetivo deste artigo é problematizar algumas das tensões em torno do conceito de modernidade. Central para diferentes áreas das ciências humanas, “modernidade” congrega, em um mesmo vocábulo, um conceito e uma proposta de periodização, ambos instrumentos essenciais da escrita historiográfica. Pretende-se aqui explorar de que forma a análise do conceito de modernidade, em conexão com uma ideia específica de universalismo, pode nos ajudar a comp…
Study protocol for Early Tracking of Childhood Health determinants (ETCHED): A longitudinal observational life course study
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03481829. Updated July 19, 2024, https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03481829?cond=ETCHED&rank=1
Adapting ripple effects mapping for evaluating public health initiatives in complex systems: Reflections and recommendations from seven case studies
Ripple effects mapping is a qualitative and participatory method, developed to capture the dynamic nature and interacting elements of an initiative, and its impacts. We present our experiences of using ripple effects mapping to evaluate complex public health initiatives across seven case studies in Bradford, UK. Seven researchers engaged in qualitative reflective practice to capture their individual experiences of using ripple effects mapping wit…
Geology and Archaeology of Hampshire: For people who aren’t geologists or archaeologists
Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance by Carol E. Harrison and Thomas J. Brown (review)
The transformation-mainstreaming conundrum: Making sense of tensions in adaptation practice
As the scale of climate change impacts become apparent, organisations globally are seeking to adapt. They face dual imperatives of transformation—going beyond business-as-usual to embrace disruptive changes to their decision-making processes—and mainstreaming—enacting adaptation initiatives with minimal change to existing capabilities and structures. In practice, these important imperatives can conflict, leading to the emergence of multiple tensi…
Jabari M. Evans, Hip-Hop Civics: Connected Learning in the Rap Classroom
Medicine (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Public health (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)