Mark Scott Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 4443177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Scott Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barry University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3038-4733 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Rhetoric of Lived Experience in the Scottish Government’s Policymaking
The relationship between evidence and policy is never straightforward. Notwithstanding, we should reasonably expect that policy formulation should draw on well-established bodies of knowledge from a range of sources, suitably analysed. In recent years, the Scottish Government appears to have given up on what was previously axiomatic by elevating knowledge from one source, that of ‘lived experience’, above all others. This has occurred with insuff…
What might Alasdair M ac intyre have made of the state of our universities
Scottish universities have, in recent decades, been buffeted by a range of new demands, most immediately financial, but also demographic, cultural and technological. Understandably, perhaps, faced with this multiplicity of quotidian pressures, universities have lost sight of any wider sense of purpose. This article seeks to place a conceptual frame around the condition of higher education, prompting engagement with the question of what the purpos…
Being, knowing and doing
This article takes as its starting point reflections from social work academics at a Scottish university around persistent tensions between the nature of social work practice and the ways in which social work students and social workers talk about it.Practice (perhaps by definition) is practical, whereas how it is spoken and written about often betrays instrumental, narrow or dated clinical orientations.Picking up on the International Federation …
Cultural factors, Alzheimer’s, and family caregiving in the Black community in the US
This (integrative) review focuses on the relationship between cultural factors and the identity of carers of family members with Alzheimer’s in the Black community living in the US. The aims were to assess, first, the impact of cultural background on reasons for becoming a carer and, second, how the experience of caregiving impacts the carers’ sense of identity. This review comprises 38 articles meeting inclusion criteria and relevance to the two…
The Weight of Caregiving, The Wait For Formal Support
Retaining Family Identity
Aimed at exploring the lived experiences of family caregivers of care recipients in the Black community, this study uses Heideggerian phenomenology to elucidate the meaning of caregiving as defined from the lived experiences of the caregivers themselves. Using a nonprobability purposive design, 12 caregivers from the Black community were interviewed to examine their cultural and lived experiences of caring for family members with Alzheimer’s Dise…
Trauma
A recent special issue of this journal focussed on the emergence of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) movement as a key driver of Scottish social policy. In this article, we extend the critiques advanced therein by locating ACEs within a wider cultural turn towards psychological trauma which, over the past decade, has become reified as a master theory across social welfare. Yet, the concept is insubstantial and ill-defined, and the claims …
Technology in University Physical Activity Courses
As younger generations become increasingly reliant on technology, higher educational institutions must continually attempt to stay with or ahead of the curve to foster 21st century teaching and learning. College and university physical activity courses (PACs) are encouraged to incorporate technology for effective pedagogical practices. No qualitative research has specifically examined the culture of PACs instructors’ attitudes and experiences wit…
War to the knife’? The Anglican Clergy and Education at the End of the First World War
In 1918 Charles Gore, the bishop of Oxford, issued queries preparatory to an episcopal visitation, including a series of questions about the future of church schools and religious education more generally. Coming some sixteen years after the restructuring of the dual system of state- and church-supported education by the Balfour Education Act of 1902, this material yields valuable insights into the views of approximately six hundred clergy regard…
Geoarchaeology, Forensics, and the Prosecution of Saddam Hussein
During the Iraq War (2003–2011), the U.S. government dispatched teams of forensic archaeologists and anthropologists to examine a series of mass graves, a site of genocide allegedly perpetrated by Saddam Hussein in the late 20th century. Remote sensing and limited field‐testing disclosed a crime scene featuring extensive landscape disturbances from haphazard placements of shallow, presumed grave trenches and associated spoil heaps. Geoarchaeologi…
Teachers Are Making a Difference
Using the theoretical framework of occupational socialization, the purpose of this study was to examine preservice physical education teachers’ beliefs and values of teachers and teaching through analysis and interpretation of favorite teacher narratives. One hundred and eighty six preservice physical education teachers’ narratives were collected and analyzed using open and axial coding (Corbin & Strauss, 2008). The qualities and characteristics …
Integrating Policies, Plans and Programmes in Local Government
Local government bodies are increasingly attempting to integrate different functions and departments in the production of policies, plans and programmes. Despite this interest, a general lack of conceptualisation around integration currently exists, presenting difficulties for local government practitioners to pursue such integration. This article reports findings of an ESRC PhD case study into integration in local government, and presents a conc…
Osiris and the Deceased in Ancient Egypt
The four lectures in this series took place between 17 May and 27 May 2013. Their subject was how the ancient Egyptians conceived of the relationship between the god Osiris and those who died. The lectures did not provide a continuous or comprehensive account of Egyptian beliefs about this relationship, but rather focused upon four distinct periods of their development, spread over four millennia. The periods selected for attention were ones in w…
The Impact of Perceived Discrimination and Social Support on the School Performance of Multiethnic Sexual Minority Youth
Sexual minority youth are known to face increased risk of poor school performance; however, little research has focused on the educational experiences of multiethnic sexual minority youth (MSMY) in particular. Using venue-based sampling approaches, this study surveyed 255 MSMY at 15 urban high schools. The majority of participants identified as female (65%), Latina (58%), and bisexual (41%), with a mean age of 16. The use of structural equation m…
Moral panics and social work
In this paper we apply the lens of moral panic to analyse child protection social work in the UK. We suggest that many of the anxieties that beset social work are best understood as moral panics and discuss processes in which ‘claims-makers’ have introduced and amplified concerns into panics. We discuss two examples of anxieties over child endangerment: the first is concerned with the foundation of the NSPCC and its campaign for the Children’s Ch…
Social regulation of the gender pay gap in the EU
There has been more than 30 years of equal pay legislation in the European Union yet the gap between male and female earnings has remained remarkably resilient and is present across all Member States, regardless of national institutional arrangements. The European regulatory landscape has changed to one relying heavily on soft law approaches and with more limited ambitions in the field of gender equality than at the creation of the European Emplo…
Time to be Heard
This article problematises the Scottish Government's response to historical abuse in residential child care.This is a sensitive subject, eliciting powerful emotional and moralising impulses that act to inhibit expressions of dissent.In this article we do introduce dissenting perspectives.We provide a brief background to the emergence of historical abuse as a public issue and outline the Scottish Government's response to this, through its commissi…
The Pastor Chief and other Stories
[The Pastor spoke.] The whole audience listened to this brief but emphatic address as if spell-bound. Curiosity had moved them to listen; amazement at the supernatural calmness of the speaker held them attentive; and as he uttered the last words and turned his eyes from the human throng beneath him, to the clear, blue vault of heaven, his countenance became so radiant with hope and joy, so indicative of a soul already severed from the things of t…
Construction of Student Groups Using Belbin
Belbin team role self and observer perceptions were applied to a large cohort (145) of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences undergraduates in a module assessed through two separate group projects. Students self-selected groups for the first project; for the second, groups were more ‘balanced.’ Results show slight improvement in group performance compared with that of previous years, with a significant increase in first-class grades. No evi…
Promoting Self-Efficacy and Self-Esteem for Multiethnic Sexual Minority Youth
Sexual minority youth face multiple challenges, yet research regarding evidence-informed practice strategies for this population is limited. This study describes the pilot efforts of Strengths First, the first strengths-based intervention created specifically to promote self-esteem and self-efficacy among multiethnic sexual minority youth. A pretest–posttest design was used to gather preliminary data from program participants (n = 162) about the …
Pintando por números. Modelos matemáticos del sistema urbano
The objective of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the phenomenon of mathematical modelling in urban studies and to stimulate a deeper debate about the use of models in planning. This is done by means of an identification of key assumptions made in the process of the interpretation of reality as a set of algebraic relations; assumptions which, it is argued, underlie virtually the whole of mathematical modelling but which appear …
Evaluación de caminos rurales
Este trabajo presente algunos resultados de un estudio piloto realizado para el IFRTD (Foro Internacional para el Transporte Rural y el Desarrollo, Londres) sobre los temas de movilización y vialidad en la comuna de Canela, IV Región de Chile. El planteamiento es que una política coherente de vialidad rural debe tener como fundamento un entendimiento de las necesidades percibidas por las comunidades rurales y de las prioridades que expresan. Este…
The Mountain and the Flower
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century a new wind could be felt rustling in the branches of the Church of England. The transforming effect of the Oxford Movement on the High Church tradition is the most prominent example of this phenomenon but also well established in the literature are the transformations in contemporary Anglican Evangelicalism. David Bebbington in particular has stressed the impact of Romanticism as a cultural mood wit…
The Courage to Challenge
Even with society's increasing acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) persons, negative stereotypes persist. Despite these depictions, most LGBT people manage to cope with adversity, thrive, and develop increased self-efficacy along with personal resilience. This paper describes the process of developing and validating a rapid assessment instrument aimed at identifying personal hardiness, a central component of resilience …
Towards a European Union Gender Equality Index
In order to monitor progress with respect to gender equality in European Union member states, indices are extremely useful. Existing indices are, however, not appropriate because they do not focus exclusively on gender (in)equality and have not been created to be used at the European level. Therefore a European Union Gender Equality Index is presented in this article. Based on the universal caregiver model as outlined by Fraser (1997), the index …
Towards a European Union Gender Equality Index
In order to monitor progress with respect to gender equality in European Union member states, indices are extremely useful. Existing indices are, however, not appropriate because they do not focus exclusively on gender (in)equality and have not been created to be used at the European level. Therefore a European Union Gender Equality Index is presented in this article. Based on the universal caregiver model as outlined by Fraser (1997), the index …
Dual earning in Europe
The Courage to Challenge
Even with society's increasing acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) persons, negative stereotypes persist. Despite these depictions, most LGBT people manage to cope with adversity, thrive, and develop increased self-efficacy along with personal resilience. This paper describes the process of developing and validating a rapid assessment instrument aimed at identifying personal hardiness, a central component of resilience …
The Impact of Perceived Discrimination and Social Support on the School Performance of Multiethnic Sexual Minority Youth
Sexual minority youth are known to face increased risk of poor school performance; however, little research has focused on the educational experiences of multiethnic sexual minority youth (MSMY) in particular. Using venue-based sampling approaches, this study surveyed 255 MSMY at 15 urban high schools. The majority of participants identified as female (65%), Latina (58%), and bisexual (41%), with a mean age of 16. The use of structural equation m…
Promoting Self-Efficacy and Self-Esteem for Multiethnic Sexual Minority Youth
Sexual minority youth face multiple challenges, yet research regarding evidence-informed practice strategies for this population is limited. This study describes the pilot efforts of Strengths First, the first strengths-based intervention created specifically to promote self-esteem and self-efficacy among multiethnic sexual minority youth. A pretest–posttest design was used to gather preliminary data from program participants (n = 162) about the …
Moral panics and social work
In this paper we apply the lens of moral panic to analyse child protection social work in the UK. We suggest that many of the anxieties that beset social work are best understood as moral panics and discuss processes in which ‘claims-makers’ have introduced and amplified concerns into panics. We discuss two examples of anxieties over child endangerment: the first is concerned with the foundation of the NSPCC and its campaign for the Children’s Ch…
Time to be Heard
This article problematises the Scottish Government's response to historical abuse in residential child care.This is a sensitive subject, eliciting powerful emotional and moralising impulses that act to inhibit expressions of dissent.In this article we do introduce dissenting perspectives.We provide a brief background to the emergence of historical abuse as a public issue and outline the Scottish Government's response to this, through its commissi…
Integrating Policies, Plans and Programmes in Local Government
Local government bodies are increasingly attempting to integrate different functions and departments in the production of policies, plans and programmes. Despite this interest, a general lack of conceptualisation around integration currently exists, presenting difficulties for local government practitioners to pursue such integration. This article reports findings of an ESRC PhD case study into integration in local government, and presents a conc…
Geoarchaeology, Forensics, and the Prosecution of Saddam Hussein
During the Iraq War (2003–2011), the U.S. government dispatched teams of forensic archaeologists and anthropologists to examine a series of mass graves, a site of genocide allegedly perpetrated by Saddam Hussein in the late 20th century. Remote sensing and limited field‐testing disclosed a crime scene featuring extensive landscape disturbances from haphazard placements of shallow, presumed grave trenches and associated spoil heaps. Geoarchaeologi…
Historical abuse in residential child care
In recent decades residential child care practice across the English-speaking world has been shaped by an assumption of widespread historical abuse. The author questions this dominant account, arguing that the emotion surrounding institutional abuse can preclude appropriately critical examination. Investigations into historical abuse reflect the witch-hunt metaphor employed in relation to previous child abuse panics in family and community settin…
Trauma
A recent special issue of this journal focussed on the emergence of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) movement as a key driver of Scottish social policy. In this article, we extend the critiques advanced therein by locating ACEs within a wider cultural turn towards psychological trauma which, over the past decade, has become reified as a master theory across social welfare. Yet, the concept is insubstantial and ill-defined, and the claims …
Construction of Student Groups Using Belbin
Belbin team role self and observer perceptions were applied to a large cohort (145) of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences undergraduates in a module assessed through two separate group projects. Students self-selected groups for the first project; for the second, groups were more ‘balanced.’ Results show slight improvement in group performance compared with that of previous years, with a significant increase in first-class grades. No evi…
The Mountain and the Flower
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century a new wind could be felt rustling in the branches of the Church of England. The transforming effect of the Oxford Movement on the High Church tradition is the most prominent example of this phenomenon but also well established in the literature are the transformations in contemporary Anglican Evangelicalism. David Bebbington in particular has stressed the impact of Romanticism as a cultural mood wit…
Improving the quality of the police interview
Previous research on the Cognitive Interview (CI) has suggested that it is an effective procedure to use when interviewing witnesses. Much of the research however, has used college students as interviewers and provided little information about the quality of training. The aim of this research was to pilot a CI training procedure using thirty‐eight British police officers with varying levels of field experience. An armed robbery was staged and int…
The Archive of Hor
Papyri from Tebtunis in Egyptian and Greek
The Carlsberg Papyri, I
Improving the quality of the police interview
Previous research on the Cognitive Interview (CI) has suggested that it is an effective procedure to use when interviewing witnesses. Much of the research however, has used college students as interviewers and provided little information about the quality of training. The aim of this research was to pilot a CI training procedure using thirty‐eight British police officers with varying levels of field experience. An armed robbery was staged and int…
Export credit guarantees
Egyptian Invective
Testing the theory of emissions trading
Dual earning in Europe
Hieratic Texts from the Collection
Historical abuse in residential child care
In recent decades residential child care practice across the English-speaking world has been shaped by an assumption of widespread historical abuse. The author questions this dominant account, arguing that the emotion surrounding institutional abuse can preclude appropriately critical examination. Investigations into historical abuse reflect the witch-hunt metaphor employed in relation to previous child abuse panics in family and community settin…
The Roots of Resurgence
Historical analyses of twentieth-century evangelicalism have rarely focused on the experience of the parish. In many respects this is unsurprising. The renaissance in the historiography of evangelicalism since the 1970s has concentrated primarily on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, leaving the twentieth – and especially the period after the Second World War – relatively unexplored. Where work has been done, it has tended to focus on eccle…
The Courage to Challenge
Even with society's increasing acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) persons, negative stereotypes persist. Despite these depictions, most LGBT people manage to cope with adversity, thrive, and develop increased self-efficacy along with personal resilience. This paper describes the process of developing and validating a rapid assessment instrument aimed at identifying personal hardiness, a central component of resilience …
Towards a European Union Gender Equality Index
In order to monitor progress with respect to gender equality in European Union member states, indices are extremely useful. Existing indices are, however, not appropriate because they do not focus exclusively on gender (in)equality and have not been created to be used at the European level. Therefore a European Union Gender Equality Index is presented in this article. Based on the universal caregiver model as outlined by Fraser (1997), the index …
The Mountain and the Flower
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century a new wind could be felt rustling in the branches of the Church of England. The transforming effect of the Oxford Movement on the High Church tradition is the most prominent example of this phenomenon but also well established in the literature are the transformations in contemporary Anglican Evangelicalism. David Bebbington in particular has stressed the impact of Romanticism as a cultural mood wit…
Pintando por números. Modelos matemáticos del sistema urbano
The objective of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the phenomenon of mathematical modelling in urban studies and to stimulate a deeper debate about the use of models in planning. This is done by means of an identification of key assumptions made in the process of the interpretation of reality as a set of algebraic relations; assumptions which, it is argued, underlie virtually the whole of mathematical modelling but which appear …
Evaluación de caminos rurales
Este trabajo presente algunos resultados de un estudio piloto realizado para el IFRTD (Foro Internacional para el Transporte Rural y el Desarrollo, Londres) sobre los temas de movilización y vialidad en la comuna de Canela, IV Región de Chile. El planteamiento es que una política coherente de vialidad rural debe tener como fundamento un entendimiento de las necesidades percibidas por las comunidades rurales y de las prioridades que expresan. Este…
Social regulation of the gender pay gap in the EU
There has been more than 30 years of equal pay legislation in the European Union yet the gap between male and female earnings has remained remarkably resilient and is present across all Member States, regardless of national institutional arrangements. The European regulatory landscape has changed to one relying heavily on soft law approaches and with more limited ambitions in the field of gender equality than at the creation of the European Emplo…
Time to be Heard
This article problematises the Scottish Government's response to historical abuse in residential child care.This is a sensitive subject, eliciting powerful emotional and moralising impulses that act to inhibit expressions of dissent.In this article we do introduce dissenting perspectives.We provide a brief background to the emergence of historical abuse as a public issue and outline the Scottish Government's response to this, through its commissi…
The Pastor Chief and other Stories
[The Pastor spoke.] The whole audience listened to this brief but emphatic address as if spell-bound. Curiosity had moved them to listen; amazement at the supernatural calmness of the speaker held them attentive; and as he uttered the last words and turned his eyes from the human throng beneath him, to the clear, blue vault of heaven, his countenance became so radiant with hope and joy, so indicative of a soul already severed from the things of t…
Construction of Student Groups Using Belbin
Belbin team role self and observer perceptions were applied to a large cohort (145) of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences undergraduates in a module assessed through two separate group projects. Students self-selected groups for the first project; for the second, groups were more ‘balanced.’ Results show slight improvement in group performance compared with that of previous years, with a significant increase in first-class grades. No evi…
Promoting Self-Efficacy and Self-Esteem for Multiethnic Sexual Minority Youth
Sexual minority youth face multiple challenges, yet research regarding evidence-informed practice strategies for this population is limited. This study describes the pilot efforts of Strengths First, the first strengths-based intervention created specifically to promote self-esteem and self-efficacy among multiethnic sexual minority youth. A pretest–posttest design was used to gather preliminary data from program participants (n = 162) about the …
Moral panics and social work
In this paper we apply the lens of moral panic to analyse child protection social work in the UK. We suggest that many of the anxieties that beset social work are best understood as moral panics and discuss processes in which ‘claims-makers’ have introduced and amplified concerns into panics. We discuss two examples of anxieties over child endangerment: the first is concerned with the foundation of the NSPCC and its campaign for the Children’s Ch…
Integrating Policies, Plans and Programmes in Local Government
Local government bodies are increasingly attempting to integrate different functions and departments in the production of policies, plans and programmes. Despite this interest, a general lack of conceptualisation around integration currently exists, presenting difficulties for local government practitioners to pursue such integration. This article reports findings of an ESRC PhD case study into integration in local government, and presents a conc…
Osiris and the Deceased in Ancient Egypt
The four lectures in this series took place between 17 May and 27 May 2013. Their subject was how the ancient Egyptians conceived of the relationship between the god Osiris and those who died. The lectures did not provide a continuous or comprehensive account of Egyptian beliefs about this relationship, but rather focused upon four distinct periods of their development, spread over four millennia. The periods selected for attention were ones in w…
The Impact of Perceived Discrimination and Social Support on the School Performance of Multiethnic Sexual Minority Youth
Sexual minority youth are known to face increased risk of poor school performance; however, little research has focused on the educational experiences of multiethnic sexual minority youth (MSMY) in particular. Using venue-based sampling approaches, this study surveyed 255 MSMY at 15 urban high schools. The majority of participants identified as female (65%), Latina (58%), and bisexual (41%), with a mean age of 16. The use of structural equation m…
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