Alice Owens
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3780475 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alice Owens |
| NOMBRES | Alice |
| APELLIDO | Owens |
| FIRMA | OWENS A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1240-9319 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Social Isolation, Social Support and Loneliness and Their Relationship With Physical Activity and Physical Function Among Older People
Background: Older adults are at risk of poor social health which may lead to reduced physical activity and physical function. The aim of this study was to determine whether social isolation, social support, and loneliness are independently associated with and/or predictive of physical activity and physical function in older adults. Methods: Secondary analysis of 9066 participants from the ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE) trial a…
Social Activities and Risk of Dementia in Community-Dwelling Older People
This study provides evidence of social activities influencing dementia risk. Further investigations are required to uncover the mechanisms driving these observed relationships
Untold Climate Stories
In this chapter, we explore what is learned when our reflections on the systemic injustices that underpin climate change are woven together through feminist political ecology, with its emphasis on situated knowledges, lived experience and the everyday. Drawing on our research and activism in Kenya, Indonesia and the United Kingdom, we exchange reflections relating to extractivism and its logic of endless growth, corporate enclosure of land and wa…
Socioeconomic, Behavioural, and Social Health Correlates of Optimism and Pessimism in Older Men and Women
Factors associated with higher optimism and lower pessimism were also those demonstrated to support healthy ageing. Health-promotion action at the individual level (e.g., smoking cessation or regular physical activity), health professional level (e.g., social prescribing or improving access and quality of care for all older adults), and community level (e.g., opportunities for volunteer work or low-cost social activities for older adults) may imp…
Equity in Economic Evaluations of Early Childhood Development Interventions in Low-and Middle-Income Countries
Consideration of equity in evaluations of early childhood interventions provides a more complete picture of cost-effectiveness, and can improve equity. Greater focus on promoting equity consideration, multi-sectoral interventions, and researchers in LMICs would support evidence-based interventions and policies to achieve equity in child development
Socio-ecological influences of leisure-time physical activity among Nepalese adults
Critical issues that need to be addressed to increase leisure-time physical activity among Nepalese adults include traditional gender roles, family and social support, and social norms. Modifications of the built environment, such as public exercise facilities, offer further opportunities and will require coordination beyond the health sector
Impact of economic factors, social health and stressful life events on physical health-related quality of life trajectories in older Australians
Domestic retrofit
To deliver effective domestic retrofit at scale, it is essential to understand the current and required capabilities of building practitioners working in the repair, maintenance and improvement (RMI) of existing buildings. Capability research in the construction sector has previously focused on large projects, but small, and particularly, micro-firms that undertake RMI and form 77% of workers in construction, are under-researched. This gap is add…
What motivates building repair-maintenance practitioners to include or avoid energy efficiency measures? Evidence from three studies in the United Kingdom
Representing ‘Place’
Against the backdrop of increasingly fragmented and poly-centric urban climate governance, this article examines the establishment of city climate ‘commissions’ as an experimental means of addressing the challenge of climate change at the city-scale. In doing so it addresses the question: What constitutes diversity in voices and perspectives when trying to represent the city as a place for climate action? To answer this question, the article pres…
Making the case for simulation
This paper makes the case for agent-based modelling as a route to unlocking the potential of existing buildings to reduce energy demand and contribute to achieving carbon reduction targets. The construction of a model to simulate this system requires significant innovation in data collection and handling. The need to focus on ‘middle actors’ in construction – specifically the tradesmen who carry out repair, maintenance and renovation – in order t…
Preparing ‘middle actors’ to deliver zero-carbon building transitions
The urgent transition to a zero-carbon economy requires building professionals to be supportive of, and prepared for, delivering zero-carbon buildings. Building professionals are important ‘middle actors’ who can either enable or inhibit such societal transitions. This paper explores building professionals’ perspectives on delivering zero-carbon buildings, leading to a practical synthesis of knowledge and skill requirements and training pathways.…
The role of regime-level processes in closing the gap between sustainable city visions and action
Productivity burden of smoking in Australia
This study highlights the potential health and productivity gains that may be achieved from further tobacco control measures in Australia via application of PALYs, which are a novel, and readily estimable, measure of the impact of health and health risk factors on work productivity
Recasting Urban Governance through Leeds City Lab
This article reports on a research project, Leeds City Lab, that brought together partner organizations to explore the meanings and practices of co-production in the context of urban change. Our intention is to offer a response to the crisis in urban governance by combining the growing academic and practitioner debates on co-production and urban laboratories in order to explore radically different institutional personae that can respond to defici…
Craft micro-enterprises contributions to sustainability
This paper uses two case studies of small UK-based yarn businesses to explore whether craft enterprises might make a distinctive contribution to sustainable development. The ways in which positive social, environmental and economic impacts are supported by these businesses are identified and their potential as niche sites contributing to a broader sustainability transition is considered. These businesses themselves believe there are strong links …
Not Just Any Old Place
The rate of adoption and the impact of green technologies in the home vary considerably from location to location. The degree of change required in domestic resource use suggests that area-based approaches are needed to achieve the required level of technology and behaviour change. Using these observations as a starting point and drawing on theory from innovation diffusion, environmental psychology and social policy, a conceptual model of technol…
Energy in low carbon cities and social learning
Recasting Urban Governance through Leeds City Lab
This article reports on a research project, Leeds City Lab, that brought together partner organizations to explore the meanings and practices of co-production in the context of urban change. Our intention is to offer a response to the crisis in urban governance by combining the growing academic and practitioner debates on co-production and urban laboratories in order to explore radically different institutional personae that can respond to defici…
The role of regime-level processes in closing the gap between sustainable city visions and action
What motivates building repair-maintenance practitioners to include or avoid energy efficiency measures? Evidence from three studies in the United Kingdom
Preparing ‘middle actors’ to deliver zero-carbon building transitions
The urgent transition to a zero-carbon economy requires building professionals to be supportive of, and prepared for, delivering zero-carbon buildings. Building professionals are important ‘middle actors’ who can either enable or inhibit such societal transitions. This paper explores building professionals’ perspectives on delivering zero-carbon buildings, leading to a practical synthesis of knowledge and skill requirements and training pathways.…
Social Activities and Risk of Dementia in Community-Dwelling Older People
This study provides evidence of social activities influencing dementia risk. Further investigations are required to uncover the mechanisms driving these observed relationships
Representing ‘Place’
Against the backdrop of increasingly fragmented and poly-centric urban climate governance, this article examines the establishment of city climate ‘commissions’ as an experimental means of addressing the challenge of climate change at the city-scale. In doing so it addresses the question: What constitutes diversity in voices and perspectives when trying to represent the city as a place for climate action? To answer this question, the article pres…
Energy in low carbon cities and social learning
Not Just Any Old Place
The rate of adoption and the impact of green technologies in the home vary considerably from location to location. The degree of change required in domestic resource use suggests that area-based approaches are needed to achieve the required level of technology and behaviour change. Using these observations as a starting point and drawing on theory from innovation diffusion, environmental psychology and social policy, a conceptual model of technol…
Craft micro-enterprises contributions to sustainability
This paper uses two case studies of small UK-based yarn businesses to explore whether craft enterprises might make a distinctive contribution to sustainable development. The ways in which positive social, environmental and economic impacts are supported by these businesses are identified and their potential as niche sites contributing to a broader sustainability transition is considered. These businesses themselves believe there are strong links …
Productivity burden of smoking in Australia
This study highlights the potential health and productivity gains that may be achieved from further tobacco control measures in Australia via application of PALYs, which are a novel, and readily estimable, measure of the impact of health and health risk factors on work productivity
Recasting Urban Governance through Leeds City Lab
This article reports on a research project, Leeds City Lab, that brought together partner organizations to explore the meanings and practices of co-production in the context of urban change. Our intention is to offer a response to the crisis in urban governance by combining the growing academic and practitioner debates on co-production and urban laboratories in order to explore radically different institutional personae that can respond to defici…
The role of regime-level processes in closing the gap between sustainable city visions and action
Making the case for simulation
This paper makes the case for agent-based modelling as a route to unlocking the potential of existing buildings to reduce energy demand and contribute to achieving carbon reduction targets. The construction of a model to simulate this system requires significant innovation in data collection and handling. The need to focus on ‘middle actors’ in construction – specifically the tradesmen who carry out repair, maintenance and renovation – in order t…
Preparing ‘middle actors’ to deliver zero-carbon building transitions
The urgent transition to a zero-carbon economy requires building professionals to be supportive of, and prepared for, delivering zero-carbon buildings. Building professionals are important ‘middle actors’ who can either enable or inhibit such societal transitions. This paper explores building professionals’ perspectives on delivering zero-carbon buildings, leading to a practical synthesis of knowledge and skill requirements and training pathways.…
Socio-ecological influences of leisure-time physical activity among Nepalese adults
Critical issues that need to be addressed to increase leisure-time physical activity among Nepalese adults include traditional gender roles, family and social support, and social norms. Modifications of the built environment, such as public exercise facilities, offer further opportunities and will require coordination beyond the health sector
Impact of economic factors, social health and stressful life events on physical health-related quality of life trajectories in older Australians
Domestic retrofit
To deliver effective domestic retrofit at scale, it is essential to understand the current and required capabilities of building practitioners working in the repair, maintenance and improvement (RMI) of existing buildings. Capability research in the construction sector has previously focused on large projects, but small, and particularly, micro-firms that undertake RMI and form 77% of workers in construction, are under-researched. This gap is add…
What motivates building repair-maintenance practitioners to include or avoid energy efficiency measures? Evidence from three studies in the United Kingdom
Representing ‘Place’
Against the backdrop of increasingly fragmented and poly-centric urban climate governance, this article examines the establishment of city climate ‘commissions’ as an experimental means of addressing the challenge of climate change at the city-scale. In doing so it addresses the question: What constitutes diversity in voices and perspectives when trying to represent the city as a place for climate action? To answer this question, the article pres…
Untold Climate Stories
In this chapter, we explore what is learned when our reflections on the systemic injustices that underpin climate change are woven together through feminist political ecology, with its emphasis on situated knowledges, lived experience and the everyday. Drawing on our research and activism in Kenya, Indonesia and the United Kingdom, we exchange reflections relating to extractivism and its logic of endless growth, corporate enclosure of land and wa…
Socioeconomic, Behavioural, and Social Health Correlates of Optimism and Pessimism in Older Men and Women
Factors associated with higher optimism and lower pessimism were also those demonstrated to support healthy ageing. Health-promotion action at the individual level (e.g., smoking cessation or regular physical activity), health professional level (e.g., social prescribing or improving access and quality of care for all older adults), and community level (e.g., opportunities for volunteer work or low-cost social activities for older adults) may imp…
Equity in Economic Evaluations of Early Childhood Development Interventions in Low-and Middle-Income Countries
Consideration of equity in evaluations of early childhood interventions provides a more complete picture of cost-effectiveness, and can improve equity. Greater focus on promoting equity consideration, multi-sectoral interventions, and researchers in LMICs would support evidence-based interventions and policies to achieve equity in child development
Social Activities and Risk of Dementia in Community-Dwelling Older People
This study provides evidence of social activities influencing dementia risk. Further investigations are required to uncover the mechanisms driving these observed relationships
Social Isolation, Social Support and Loneliness and Their Relationship With Physical Activity and Physical Function Among Older People
Background: Older adults are at risk of poor social health which may lead to reduced physical activity and physical function. The aim of this study was to determine whether social isolation, social support, and loneliness are independently associated with and/or predictive of physical activity and physical function in older adults. Methods: Secondary analysis of 9066 participants from the ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE) trial a…
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