Andrew Watkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3893692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Watkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Watkins |
| SIGNATURE | WATKINS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | South Eastern Sydney Local Health District |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3452-8682 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Improving mental health during crisis: Outcomes from the Emerald online lifestyle medicine and coaching program
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted growing demand on mental health services and the need for scalable early interventions. Lifestyle medicine is a first-line treatment for common mental health disorders. Combining health coaching with lifestyle medicine and online delivery may improve accessibility and effectiveness. This study evaluated the EMERALD program, an 8-week online lifestyle medicine and health coaching intervention delivered as a clinic…
Supporting Staff To Address the Physical Health of Consumers in Mental Healthcare Settings: A Modified Nominal Group Technique
Mental health consumers experience challenges in accessing regular physical healthcare. Staff working in mental health settings are well-positioned to address the issue; however, they often face significant barriers in delivering physical healthcare. The primary aim of this study was to identify important factors that support mental health staff to address the physical health of consumers; the secondary aim was to evaluate the utility of using a …
Physical Health and Health Behaviours of Australians with Psychosis
People living with psychosis live up to 20 years less compared to the general population. Cardiometabolic ill-health and barriers to health-related behaviour are significant contributors. This is a cross-sectional descriptive study of cardiometabolic health and health behaviours of consumers attending a public community mental health service in an Australian city. One hundred and fourteen consumers currently living with psychosis participated. St…
The Relationship Between Early Term Birth and the Risk of Later Childhood Mental Disorders Within a Pregnancy Cohort
Changing Approaches to Local History: Warwickshire History and Its Historians
Global (Best) Together With (Or Against) Local Networks and Practices? Liquid Engineering and the Uses Programme
There is potentially tension between world class research and global standards on the one hand and local contexts of engineering and development practice on the other. One aims at scientific status and entirely new knowledge, suggesting just one standard of quality. The other at building products and processes that might bring socio‐economic development, often prizing pragmatism and bricolage. The UK‐funded programme ‘Understanding Sustainable En…
Y-Quit: Smoking Prevalence, Engagement, and Effectiveness of an Individualized Smoking Cessation Intervention in Youth With Severe Mental Illness
Introduction: Young people with psychosis are six times more likely to be tobacco smokers than their gender- and age-matched peers. Smoking is a major contributor to the 15-year reduced life expectancy among people experiencing severe mental illness (SMI). There is a lack of evidence-supported interventions for smoking cessation among young people with SMI. Material and Methods: The study comprised two phases and aimed to assess (i) the prevalenc…
Is Obesity in Young People With Psychosis a Foregone Conclusion? Markedly Excessive Energy Intake Is Evident Soon After Antipsychotic Initiation
Introduction: Antipsychotic medication (APM) initiation is associated with rapid and substantial weight-gain and high rates of obesity. Obesity leads to premature onset of cardiometabolic diseases and contributes to the 15-20 year shortfall in life expectancy in those experiencing severe mental illness. Dietary energy intake excess is critical to weight management but is yet to be quantified in youth with first episode psychosis (FEP) receiving A…
Development engineering meets development studies
The importance of science in development has been increasingly recognised in development discourses and policy since 2000. Engineering is less visible though engineering and engineers are important for the building and maintenance of transport, water, energy, industrial, informatics, urban and health systems. This article aims to investigate why engineering has not received more emphasis, including why development engineering has not been institu…
To Lobby or to Partner? Investigating the Shifting Political Strategies of Biopharmaceutical Industry Associations in Innovation Systems of South Africa and India
The spatial distribution of economic activity in Melbourne, 1971–2006
This paper reports an empirical analysis of the distribution of employment by industry in Melbourne and how this changes over time. Depending on the nature of the industry being considered, two main patterns of spatial behavior are found, population-related dispersion and centralization. A methodology for estimating the benefits of centralization is developed and applied. Centralization benefits are highest for business services and other high-le…
Individual Dietetic Consultations in First Episode Psychosis: A Novel Intervention to Reduce Cardiometabolic Risk
A seventeenth-century Warwickshire Estate Map
Hall sites are a common feature in the Tame-Cole-Blythe-Bourne valleys in the northern part of the ‘Forest’ of Arden (Warwickshire). Often they are first recorded in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth centuries and lie either very close to or immediately adjacent to parish boundaries. A map of Holt Hall farm, Over Whitacre, from 1688, along with surviving documentary evidence, allows for a detailed exploration of how such a site might have e…
The Venture Capital Perspective on Collaboration with Large Corporations/MNEs in London and the South East: Pursuing Extra-Regional Knowledge and the Shaping of Regional Venture Capital Networks
A seeming paradox of globalization is that while innovation and the industries and institutions that support it transcend local and national boundaries, high-tech innovative activity continues to agglomerate in a select number of high-capacity regions. Research, however, suggests that innovative regions must-through collaborative activity and related networks-both economize regional capacities while remaining open to global knowledge and finance.…
The Dynamics of Urban Economies: Melbourne 1971 to 2006
The spatial economy of metropolitan Melbourne can be grouped into three distinct areas which developed in different ways between 1971 and 2006. The outer parts of Melbourne became more urbanised, while the economies of the inner part of the metropolis maintained a strong presence in the finance, banking and high-level service industries. The middle parts of Melbourne showed much more diverse behaviour and were the destination of much of the manuf…
The spatial distribution of economic activity in Melbourne, 1971–2006
This paper reports an empirical analysis of the distribution of employment by industry in Melbourne and how this changes over time. Depending on the nature of the industry being considered, two main patterns of spatial behavior are found, population-related dispersion and centralization. A methodology for estimating the benefits of centralization is developed and applied. Centralization benefits are highest for business services and other high-le…
To Lobby or to Partner? Investigating the Shifting Political Strategies of Biopharmaceutical Industry Associations in Innovation Systems of South Africa and India
The Venture Capital Perspective on Collaboration with Large Corporations/MNEs in London and the South East: Pursuing Extra-Regional Knowledge and the Shaping of Regional Venture Capital Networks
A seeming paradox of globalization is that while innovation and the industries and institutions that support it transcend local and national boundaries, high-tech innovative activity continues to agglomerate in a select number of high-capacity regions. Research, however, suggests that innovative regions must-through collaborative activity and related networks-both economize regional capacities while remaining open to global knowledge and finance.…
The Dynamics of Urban Economies: Melbourne 1971 to 2006
The spatial economy of metropolitan Melbourne can be grouped into three distinct areas which developed in different ways between 1971 and 2006. The outer parts of Melbourne became more urbanised, while the economies of the inner part of the metropolis maintained a strong presence in the finance, banking and high-level service industries. The middle parts of Melbourne showed much more diverse behaviour and were the destination of much of the manuf…
The Venture Capital Perspective on Collaboration with Large Corporations/MNEs in London and the South East: Pursuing Extra-Regional Knowledge and the Shaping of Regional Venture Capital Networks
A seeming paradox of globalization is that while innovation and the industries and institutions that support it transcend local and national boundaries, high-tech innovative activity continues to agglomerate in a select number of high-capacity regions. Research, however, suggests that innovative regions must-through collaborative activity and related networks-both economize regional capacities while remaining open to global knowledge and finance.…
A seventeenth-century Warwickshire Estate Map
Hall sites are a common feature in the Tame-Cole-Blythe-Bourne valleys in the northern part of the ‘Forest’ of Arden (Warwickshire). Often they are first recorded in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth centuries and lie either very close to or immediately adjacent to parish boundaries. A map of Holt Hall farm, Over Whitacre, from 1688, along with surviving documentary evidence, allows for a detailed exploration of how such a site might have e…
The spatial distribution of economic activity in Melbourne, 1971–2006
This paper reports an empirical analysis of the distribution of employment by industry in Melbourne and how this changes over time. Depending on the nature of the industry being considered, two main patterns of spatial behavior are found, population-related dispersion and centralization. A methodology for estimating the benefits of centralization is developed and applied. Centralization benefits are highest for business services and other high-le…
Individual Dietetic Consultations in First Episode Psychosis: A Novel Intervention to Reduce Cardiometabolic Risk
To Lobby or to Partner? Investigating the Shifting Political Strategies of Biopharmaceutical Industry Associations in Innovation Systems of South Africa and India
Development engineering meets development studies
The importance of science in development has been increasingly recognised in development discourses and policy since 2000. Engineering is less visible though engineering and engineers are important for the building and maintenance of transport, water, energy, industrial, informatics, urban and health systems. This article aims to investigate why engineering has not received more emphasis, including why development engineering has not been institu…
Y-Quit: Smoking Prevalence, Engagement, and Effectiveness of an Individualized Smoking Cessation Intervention in Youth With Severe Mental Illness
Introduction: Young people with psychosis are six times more likely to be tobacco smokers than their gender- and age-matched peers. Smoking is a major contributor to the 15-year reduced life expectancy among people experiencing severe mental illness (SMI). There is a lack of evidence-supported interventions for smoking cessation among young people with SMI. Material and Methods: The study comprised two phases and aimed to assess (i) the prevalenc…
Is Obesity in Young People With Psychosis a Foregone Conclusion? Markedly Excessive Energy Intake Is Evident Soon After Antipsychotic Initiation
Introduction: Antipsychotic medication (APM) initiation is associated with rapid and substantial weight-gain and high rates of obesity. Obesity leads to premature onset of cardiometabolic diseases and contributes to the 15-20 year shortfall in life expectancy in those experiencing severe mental illness. Dietary energy intake excess is critical to weight management but is yet to be quantified in youth with first episode psychosis (FEP) receiving A…
Global (Best) Together With (Or Against) Local Networks and Practices? Liquid Engineering and the Uses Programme
There is potentially tension between world class research and global standards on the one hand and local contexts of engineering and development practice on the other. One aims at scientific status and entirely new knowledge, suggesting just one standard of quality. The other at building products and processes that might bring socio‐economic development, often prizing pragmatism and bricolage. The UK‐funded programme ‘Understanding Sustainable En…
Changing Approaches to Local History: Warwickshire History and Its Historians
The Relationship Between Early Term Birth and the Risk of Later Childhood Mental Disorders Within a Pregnancy Cohort
Physical Health and Health Behaviours of Australians with Psychosis
People living with psychosis live up to 20 years less compared to the general population. Cardiometabolic ill-health and barriers to health-related behaviour are significant contributors. This is a cross-sectional descriptive study of cardiometabolic health and health behaviours of consumers attending a public community mental health service in an Australian city. One hundred and fourteen consumers currently living with psychosis participated. St…
Improving mental health during crisis: Outcomes from the Emerald online lifestyle medicine and coaching program
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted growing demand on mental health services and the need for scalable early interventions. Lifestyle medicine is a first-line treatment for common mental health disorders. Combining health coaching with lifestyle medicine and online delivery may improve accessibility and effectiveness. This study evaluated the EMERALD program, an 8-week online lifestyle medicine and health coaching intervention delivered as a clinic…
Supporting Staff To Address the Physical Health of Consumers in Mental Healthcare Settings: A Modified Nominal Group Technique
Mental health consumers experience challenges in accessing regular physical healthcare. Staff working in mental health settings are well-positioned to address the issue; however, they often face significant barriers in delivering physical healthcare. The primary aim of this study was to identify important factors that support mental health staff to address the physical health of consumers; the secondary aim was to evaluate the utility of using a …
Economics (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Mental health (4 works) · Diet and metabolism studies (3 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)