Peter Thomson
Biographic Data
| ID | 608840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Thomson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMSON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0697-1866 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ethics Review of AI research
The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), and data science more broadly, have led to a proliferation of new methods and tools, such as machine learning (ML), that are used in all kinds of scientific research, from biomedical research through to environmental and education research. Research ethics review bodies are increasingly required to review AI research protocols that cover these different fields of enquiry. Questions have bee…
Addressing Failing Water Systems
It is increasingly acknowledged that high income countries do not enjoy universal drinking water coverage, with pockets of water insecurity persisting close to areas that have had high-quality, centralized water provision for half a century or more. The reasons behind this are complex, and effective ways to improve water security in these areas defy simple prescriptions. Nuanced measures that disaggregate the different facets of water insecurity …
Ethical challenges of managed retreat from centralized water systems
Artificial intelligence-based prediction for cancer-related outcomes in Africa
Globally, cancer ranks among the most common causes of death, especially among people under 70 years of age [1]. With this burden rapidly increasing globally, utilizing prediction tools to assist decision-making and encourage individualized treatment planning is gradually becoming paramount in cancer diagnosis and management. Notably, many tools constructed on the backend of artificial intelligence [...]
Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure
Eight Weeks in the Bristol Channel, 1947
The following account of the fortunes of the Braunton trading ketch Agnes in the brutal winter of 1947 complements the overview, published in The Mariner’s Mirror, of how the Bristol Channel coastw
Occupational socioeconomic risk associations for head and neck cancer in Europe and South America
BACKGROUND: The association between socioeconomic disadvantage (low education and/or income) and head and neck cancer is well established, with smoking and alcohol consumption explaining up to three-quarters of the risk. We aimed to investigate the nature of and explanations for head and neck cancer risk associated with occupational socioeconomic prestige (a perceptual measure of psychosocial status), occupational socioeconomic position and manua…
Ocean science, data, and services for the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
Relating the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14 for Ocean and Life Below Water to the 16 remaining SDGs in the UN 2030 sustainable development agenda. A holistic approach that embraces sustainable Ocean stewardship informed by best available science, data and services to support society and the economy is required to create the ‘Future We Want’. The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development is an essential foundation to achieve th…
Essays on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage
Institutional pluralism and water user behavior in rural Africa
The Sustainable Development Goal of providing everyone with safe and reliable drinking water services combines a moral imperative with an entrepreneurial opportunity. We examine water user behavior in the face of institutional change brought about by a professional service provider maintaining rural water infrastructure in Kenya. We ask (1) which factors are associated with households and waterpoint user groups contracting a service provider that…
Conquering Digital Overload
A cultural theory of drinking water risks, values and institutional change
Global progress towards the goal of universal, safely managed drinking water services will be shaped by the dynamic relationship between water risks, values and institutions. We apply Mary Douglas’ cultural theory to rural waterpoint management and discuss its operationalisation in pluralist arrangements through networking different management cultures at scale. The theory is tested in coastal Kenya, an area that typifies the challenges faced acr…
Nineteenth Century British Theatre
Reducing Risks to Rural Water Security in Africa
‘He's for a jig or a tale of bawdry—’
This article has its origin in the author's work on the staging of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century jigs. It offers comments on the nature of jigs, summarises their theatrical history and its afterlife and reflects on the problem of reviving them in the twenty-first century
Sacred Sea
Absoliutno blagopoluchnoe ozero Baikal! the Russian scientist looking out over the great lake says. "Lake Baikal is Perfect!" And humans can never harm it. For a man cut loose from his life in the U.S., Lake Baikal-Siberia's sacred inland sea-becomes a place of pilgrimage, the focal point of a 25,000-mile journey by land and sea in search of connection, permanence, restoration and hope. Following a difficult divorce, veteran environmental journal…
Celebrity and Rivalry
The theatre has always been a happy hunting-ground for scandalmongers, but the story that surfaced quietly in the spring of 1772 was an uncommonly juicy one. The Daily Advertiser of 30 April carried the following enigmatic notice at the foot of its second page: Whereas on Tuesday Night last, between the Hours of Eight and Ten, a Gentleman left with a Centinel belonging to Whitehall Guard, a Guinea and a Half, and a Metal Watch with two Seals, the…
The Cambridge History of British Theatre, Volume 1
Identifying and assessing the objectives of basic education in Southeast Asia
Brecht
Bertolt Brecht in America
Harold Pinter
Games and Plays
A cultural theory of drinking water risks, values and institutional change
Global progress towards the goal of universal, safely managed drinking water services will be shaped by the dynamic relationship between water risks, values and institutions. We apply Mary Douglas’ cultural theory to rural waterpoint management and discuss its operationalisation in pluralist arrangements through networking different management cultures at scale. The theory is tested in coastal Kenya, an area that typifies the challenges faced acr…
Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure
Institutional pluralism and water user behavior in rural Africa
The Sustainable Development Goal of providing everyone with safe and reliable drinking water services combines a moral imperative with an entrepreneurial opportunity. We examine water user behavior in the face of institutional change brought about by a professional service provider maintaining rural water infrastructure in Kenya. We ask (1) which factors are associated with households and waterpoint user groups contracting a service provider that…
Games and Plays
Games and Plays
Harold Pinter
Brecht
Bertolt Brecht in America
Identifying and assessing the objectives of basic education in Southeast Asia
The Cambridge History of British Theatre, Volume 1
Celebrity and Rivalry
The theatre has always been a happy hunting-ground for scandalmongers, but the story that surfaced quietly in the spring of 1772 was an uncommonly juicy one. The Daily Advertiser of 30 April carried the following enigmatic notice at the foot of its second page: Whereas on Tuesday Night last, between the Hours of Eight and Ten, a Gentleman left with a Centinel belonging to Whitehall Guard, a Guinea and a Half, and a Metal Watch with two Seals, the…
Sacred Sea
Absoliutno blagopoluchnoe ozero Baikal! the Russian scientist looking out over the great lake says. "Lake Baikal is Perfect!" And humans can never harm it. For a man cut loose from his life in the U.S., Lake Baikal-Siberia's sacred inland sea-becomes a place of pilgrimage, the focal point of a 25,000-mile journey by land and sea in search of connection, permanence, restoration and hope. Following a difficult divorce, veteran environmental journal…
‘He's for a jig or a tale of bawdry—’
This article has its origin in the author's work on the staging of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century jigs. It offers comments on the nature of jigs, summarises their theatrical history and its afterlife and reflects on the problem of reviving them in the twenty-first century
Reducing Risks to Rural Water Security in Africa
Nineteenth Century British Theatre
Conquering Digital Overload
A cultural theory of drinking water risks, values and institutional change
Global progress towards the goal of universal, safely managed drinking water services will be shaped by the dynamic relationship between water risks, values and institutions. We apply Mary Douglas’ cultural theory to rural waterpoint management and discuss its operationalisation in pluralist arrangements through networking different management cultures at scale. The theory is tested in coastal Kenya, an area that typifies the challenges faced acr…
Ocean science, data, and services for the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
Relating the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14 for Ocean and Life Below Water to the 16 remaining SDGs in the UN 2030 sustainable development agenda. A holistic approach that embraces sustainable Ocean stewardship informed by best available science, data and services to support society and the economy is required to create the ‘Future We Want’. The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development is an essential foundation to achieve th…
Essays on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage
Institutional pluralism and water user behavior in rural Africa
The Sustainable Development Goal of providing everyone with safe and reliable drinking water services combines a moral imperative with an entrepreneurial opportunity. We examine water user behavior in the face of institutional change brought about by a professional service provider maintaining rural water infrastructure in Kenya. We ask (1) which factors are associated with households and waterpoint user groups contracting a service provider that…
Eight Weeks in the Bristol Channel, 1947
The following account of the fortunes of the Braunton trading ketch Agnes in the brutal winter of 1947 complements the overview, published in The Mariner’s Mirror, of how the Bristol Channel coastw
Occupational socioeconomic risk associations for head and neck cancer in Europe and South America
BACKGROUND: The association between socioeconomic disadvantage (low education and/or income) and head and neck cancer is well established, with smoking and alcohol consumption explaining up to three-quarters of the risk. We aimed to investigate the nature of and explanations for head and neck cancer risk associated with occupational socioeconomic prestige (a perceptual measure of psychosocial status), occupational socioeconomic position and manua…
Artificial intelligence-based prediction for cancer-related outcomes in Africa
Globally, cancer ranks among the most common causes of death, especially among people under 70 years of age [1]. With this burden rapidly increasing globally, utilizing prediction tools to assist decision-making and encourage individualized treatment planning is gradually becoming paramount in cancer diagnosis and management. Notably, many tools constructed on the backend of artificial intelligence [...]
Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure
Ethical challenges of managed retreat from centralized water systems
Ethics Review of AI research
The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), and data science more broadly, have led to a proliferation of new methods and tools, such as machine learning (ML), that are used in all kinds of scientific research, from biomedical research through to environmental and education research. Research ethics review bodies are increasingly required to review AI research protocols that cover these different fields of enquiry. Questions have bee…
Addressing Failing Water Systems
It is increasingly acknowledged that high income countries do not enjoy universal drinking water coverage, with pockets of water insecurity persisting close to areas that have had high-quality, centralized water provision for half a century or more. The reasons behind this are complex, and effective ways to improve water security in these areas defy simple prescriptions. Nuanced measures that disaggregate the different facets of water insecurity …
Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Theater, Performance, and Music History (5 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works)