Thomas Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 6717608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowling Green State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8753-7139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Love Dogs, Love Nature
Dog walking is one of the most common ways people engage with nature in the UK, yet its ecological and social dynamics remain underexamined. With over 13 million dogs in British households, dog walking significantly shapes encounters with rural and peri-urban landscapes. Drawing on 40 hours of field observation and a deliberative workshop with land managers, farmers, and conservation practitioners in the Surrey Hills National Landscape, this pape…
Online vs Offline; Near vs Far
This paper explores how parents construct and manage risks in their children’s post-digital lives, including how they respond to news media, public discourse, and everyday concerns about online safety and well-being. Drawing on a longitudinal qualitative study conducted with 30 parents in England, we analyse how risk is framed through spatial, symbolic, and relational logics that reflect broader socio-cultural anxieties. While digital risks are t…
Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Perceptions of Integrated STEM After Participating in an Integrated STEAM Course
(1) Background: Although integrated STEM education is an important policy focus, teacher preparation to implement high-quality integrated STEM and STEAM learning experiences in an equitable manner is not widespread. Teacher beliefs significantly impact how they teach; therefore, this study explores preservice teachers’ self-reported perceptions of teaching integrated STEM after participating in an integrated STEAM course. (2) Methods: We employed…
How to evaluate England's weather-health alerting system
Adverse weather is becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change. Such events have health and economic impacts on the global population. Early warning systems exist worldwide to assess weather forecasts and alert of adverse weather. This paper presents results of a scoping evaluation and recommendations for a full evaluation of England’s Weather Health Alerting system, which was completed in 2024. The work included an analysis of regist…
What does local news use have to do with raising children? Four dimensions of the roles of local news from a study on English parents’ news use
Communication and journalism studies have historically engaged with local news, often through investigations of local journalism and its audiences. Against this backdrop, in this paper, we pay attention to the role of local news – defined as news about one’s locality and neighbourhood, although not solely gathered from local journalism alone – in the specific situational context of raising children. Locating our work at the intersections of news …
Environmental and climate news in the eyes of parents as audiences
This study examines how parents in England interpret and respond to environmental and climate news, and how these engagements shape emotional experiences and everyday parenting practices. Using a longitudinal qualitative design utilising semi-structured interviews and WhatsApp diaries, the paper explores how parents negotiate environmental news within broader emotional climates marked by anxiety, uncertainty, and constrained agency. While partici…
Childhood violence across distinct, overlapping, and concurrent contexts
Introduction: This study examines casefiles of children in England who were fatally stabbed between 2019 and 2024, focusing on their prior experiences of violence and adversity, aiming to identify missed opportunities for earlier intervention. Methods: We conducted a quantitative analysis using descriptive statistics and qualitative casefile analysis of 58 casefiles from the National Childhood Mortality Database, encompassing child fatalities by …
High-Impact Tutoring to Accelerate Learning for Intermediate Students
High-impact tutoring is a promising way to address reading and mathematics achievement declines following years of pandemic-interrupted schooling. This pilot study seeks to determine the impact of small-group tutoring, provided by preservice teachers, on students in grades 2–5. Using beginning-, middle-, and end-of year benchmark assessments, descriptive statistics were calculated for tutored and non-tutored groups and compared against the normin…
The transition to an impact-based weather-health alerting system in England
STEM Rocks Research Collective
Here, we outline the stories of a collective of innovation-focused STEM education professionals engaged in a STEM collective across thirteen institutions of higher education. Using focus group interviews, faculty share how collaboration began and sustains, the affordances and challenges of collaboration across universities and professional fields, support systems through professional organizations and scholarship, and contributions made to the na…
Model-Eliciting Activities
This study examines how experiencing model-eliciting activities (MEAs) influenced elementary pre-service teachers’ (PSTs) perceptions of an engineering-based approach to integrated STEM. The participants included 17 elementary PSTs from large public universities located in the southeastern and western regions of the United States. The participants engaged in MEA engineering-based integrated STEM learning experiences. The data included open-ended …
Living with the Stasi
This paper discusses how East German citizens felt about the East German Secret Police (Stasi). It focuses on German sentiment and everyday life during East German rule, rather than how Germans retrospectively reacted once the Berlin Wall fell and the true extent of Stasi surveillance had been discovered. It also attempts to disaggregate different demographics of East German society – artists, doctors, the clergy, etc. – and posits that there was…
Medicare Advantage Financing and Quality in Puerto Rico vs the 50 US States and Washington, DC
This cohort study found that after implementation of the ACA, federal benchmark payment amounts decreased in Puerto Rico compared with the US mainland. Responses by MA plans in Puerto Rico, including increased quality bonus payments and risk scores, offset this payment reduction, although actual plan payments in Puerto Rico were lower than those in the US mainland
Stakeholder perspectives on extreme hot and cold weather alerts in England and the proposed move towards an impact-based approach
Extreme weather alerting systems are one of the central tools utilised in adapting to changing weather patterns resulting from climate change. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the current alerting systems for hot and cold weather used in England to notify the health and social care sector of upcoming extreme weather events. We consider the views of stakeholders on the current system and explore their perspectives on the proposal to move …
Improving resilience to hot weather in the UK
At present, there is little guidance on how to communicate the dangers relating to hot weather events and on how to better prepare for them. Social responses to hot weather risks need to be a priority as populations around the world become more exposed to these under a changing climate. In this commentary, we argue that policy interventions focused on improving resilience to hot weather need to be more closely aligned with broader sustainability …
Responsive predicates are question-embedding
The proper semantic treatment of the complements of Responsive Predicates (ResPs),those predicates which may embed either declarative or interrogative clauses, is a longstandingpuzzle, given standard assumptions about complement selection. In order to avoidpositing systematic polysemy for ResPs, typical treatments of ResP complements treat theirarguments either as uniformly declarative-like (propositional) or interrogative-like (question).I shed …
Fashion, Sustainability, and the Anthropocene
The unbridled consumption of clothing threatens the environment. A discussion is developing around the adoption of new materials and economic models to reduce the impacts of clothing production and use. We discuss these emergent technologies in the wider historical setting of the Anthropocene. The history of human-environmental interactions is interwoven with the development of international garment economies. This article provides an account of …
Thinking technology for the Anthropocene
The notion that the Earth has entered a new epoch characterized by the ubiquity of anthropogenic change presents the social sciences with something of a paradox, namely, that the point at which we recognize our species to be a geologic force is also the moment where our assumed metaphysical privilege becomes untenable. Cultural geography continues to navigate this paradox in conceptually innovative ways through its engagements with materialist ph…
Human-Tiger Conflict in Context
Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010
Disability-adjusted life years (Dalys) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010
A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010
Jurassic Rocks of the Neighbourhood of Cambridge
The Jurassic Rocks of the Neighbourhood of Cambridge
Cambridgeshire is rich in Jurassic fossils, with ichthyosaurs having been found at Mepal and Barrington since 2000, and ammonites and belemnites occurring near Grafham Water. In the later nineteenth century, Thomas Roberts, an assistant to the Professor of Geology at Cambridge, was involved in close study of the Jurassic rocks of the district. Despite the complexity arising from troublesome local geologic discontinuities, Roberts correlated the p…
Thinking technology for the Anthropocene
The notion that the Earth has entered a new epoch characterized by the ubiquity of anthropogenic change presents the social sciences with something of a paradox, namely, that the point at which we recognize our species to be a geologic force is also the moment where our assumed metaphysical privilege becomes untenable. Cultural geography continues to navigate this paradox in conceptually innovative ways through its engagements with materialist ph…
Human-Tiger Conflict in Context
Stakeholder perspectives on extreme hot and cold weather alerts in England and the proposed move towards an impact-based approach
Extreme weather alerting systems are one of the central tools utilised in adapting to changing weather patterns resulting from climate change. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the current alerting systems for hot and cold weather used in England to notify the health and social care sector of upcoming extreme weather events. We consider the views of stakeholders on the current system and explore their perspectives on the proposal to move …
Improving resilience to hot weather in the UK
At present, there is little guidance on how to communicate the dangers relating to hot weather events and on how to better prepare for them. Social responses to hot weather risks need to be a priority as populations around the world become more exposed to these under a changing climate. In this commentary, we argue that policy interventions focused on improving resilience to hot weather need to be more closely aligned with broader sustainability …
Fashion, Sustainability, and the Anthropocene
The unbridled consumption of clothing threatens the environment. A discussion is developing around the adoption of new materials and economic models to reduce the impacts of clothing production and use. We discuss these emergent technologies in the wider historical setting of the Anthropocene. The history of human-environmental interactions is interwoven with the development of international garment economies. This article provides an account of …
Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter, Vol. 2: 1660–1696
The Jurassic Rocks of the Neighbourhood of Cambridge
Cambridgeshire is rich in Jurassic fossils, with ichthyosaurs having been found at Mepal and Barrington since 2000, and ammonites and belemnites occurring near Grafham Water. In the later nineteenth century, Thomas Roberts, an assistant to the Professor of Geology at Cambridge, was involved in close study of the Jurassic rocks of the district. Despite the complexity arising from troublesome local geologic discontinuities, Roberts correlated the p…
Shellfishing, Eider Ducks, and Nature Conservation on the Wash
This article examines the state of current approaches to the governance of common pool resources (CPRs), the impacts of the recent emergence of the partnership paradigm, and the consequences for the management of CPRs. These issues are explored through a case study of the Wash European Marine Site partnership, where a Public Inquiry recently upheld the refusal of the conservation agency to grant mussel cultivators permission to scare eider ducks …
Jurassic Rocks of the Neighbourhood of Cambridge
Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010
Disability-adjusted life years (Dalys) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010
A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010
Human-Tiger Conflict in Context
Fashion, Sustainability, and the Anthropocene
The unbridled consumption of clothing threatens the environment. A discussion is developing around the adoption of new materials and economic models to reduce the impacts of clothing production and use. We discuss these emergent technologies in the wider historical setting of the Anthropocene. The history of human-environmental interactions is interwoven with the development of international garment economies. This article provides an account of …
Thinking technology for the Anthropocene
The notion that the Earth has entered a new epoch characterized by the ubiquity of anthropogenic change presents the social sciences with something of a paradox, namely, that the point at which we recognize our species to be a geologic force is also the moment where our assumed metaphysical privilege becomes untenable. Cultural geography continues to navigate this paradox in conceptually innovative ways through its engagements with materialist ph…
Responsive predicates are question-embedding
The proper semantic treatment of the complements of Responsive Predicates (ResPs),those predicates which may embed either declarative or interrogative clauses, is a longstandingpuzzle, given standard assumptions about complement selection. In order to avoidpositing systematic polysemy for ResPs, typical treatments of ResP complements treat theirarguments either as uniformly declarative-like (propositional) or interrogative-like (question).I shed …
Improving resilience to hot weather in the UK
At present, there is little guidance on how to communicate the dangers relating to hot weather events and on how to better prepare for them. Social responses to hot weather risks need to be a priority as populations around the world become more exposed to these under a changing climate. In this commentary, we argue that policy interventions focused on improving resilience to hot weather need to be more closely aligned with broader sustainability …
Medicare Advantage Financing and Quality in Puerto Rico vs the 50 US States and Washington, DC
This cohort study found that after implementation of the ACA, federal benchmark payment amounts decreased in Puerto Rico compared with the US mainland. Responses by MA plans in Puerto Rico, including increased quality bonus payments and risk scores, offset this payment reduction, although actual plan payments in Puerto Rico were lower than those in the US mainland
Stakeholder perspectives on extreme hot and cold weather alerts in England and the proposed move towards an impact-based approach
Extreme weather alerting systems are one of the central tools utilised in adapting to changing weather patterns resulting from climate change. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the current alerting systems for hot and cold weather used in England to notify the health and social care sector of upcoming extreme weather events. We consider the views of stakeholders on the current system and explore their perspectives on the proposal to move …
Model-Eliciting Activities
This study examines how experiencing model-eliciting activities (MEAs) influenced elementary pre-service teachers’ (PSTs) perceptions of an engineering-based approach to integrated STEM. The participants included 17 elementary PSTs from large public universities located in the southeastern and western regions of the United States. The participants engaged in MEA engineering-based integrated STEM learning experiences. The data included open-ended …
Living with the Stasi
This paper discusses how East German citizens felt about the East German Secret Police (Stasi). It focuses on German sentiment and everyday life during East German rule, rather than how Germans retrospectively reacted once the Berlin Wall fell and the true extent of Stasi surveillance had been discovered. It also attempts to disaggregate different demographics of East German society – artists, doctors, the clergy, etc. – and posits that there was…
STEM Rocks Research Collective
Here, we outline the stories of a collective of innovation-focused STEM education professionals engaged in a STEM collective across thirteen institutions of higher education. Using focus group interviews, faculty share how collaboration began and sustains, the affordances and challenges of collaboration across universities and professional fields, support systems through professional organizations and scholarship, and contributions made to the na…
High-Impact Tutoring to Accelerate Learning for Intermediate Students
High-impact tutoring is a promising way to address reading and mathematics achievement declines following years of pandemic-interrupted schooling. This pilot study seeks to determine the impact of small-group tutoring, provided by preservice teachers, on students in grades 2–5. Using beginning-, middle-, and end-of year benchmark assessments, descriptive statistics were calculated for tutored and non-tutored groups and compared against the normin…
The transition to an impact-based weather-health alerting system in England
Love Dogs, Love Nature
Dog walking is one of the most common ways people engage with nature in the UK, yet its ecological and social dynamics remain underexamined. With over 13 million dogs in British households, dog walking significantly shapes encounters with rural and peri-urban landscapes. Drawing on 40 hours of field observation and a deliberative workshop with land managers, farmers, and conservation practitioners in the Surrey Hills National Landscape, this pape…
Online vs Offline; Near vs Far
This paper explores how parents construct and manage risks in their children’s post-digital lives, including how they respond to news media, public discourse, and everyday concerns about online safety and well-being. Drawing on a longitudinal qualitative study conducted with 30 parents in England, we analyse how risk is framed through spatial, symbolic, and relational logics that reflect broader socio-cultural anxieties. While digital risks are t…
Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Perceptions of Integrated STEM After Participating in an Integrated STEAM Course
(1) Background: Although integrated STEM education is an important policy focus, teacher preparation to implement high-quality integrated STEM and STEAM learning experiences in an equitable manner is not widespread. Teacher beliefs significantly impact how they teach; therefore, this study explores preservice teachers’ self-reported perceptions of teaching integrated STEM after participating in an integrated STEAM course. (2) Methods: We employed…
How to evaluate England's weather-health alerting system
Adverse weather is becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change. Such events have health and economic impacts on the global population. Early warning systems exist worldwide to assess weather forecasts and alert of adverse weather. This paper presents results of a scoping evaluation and recommendations for a full evaluation of England’s Weather Health Alerting system, which was completed in 2024. The work included an analysis of regist…
What does local news use have to do with raising children? Four dimensions of the roles of local news from a study on English parents’ news use
Communication and journalism studies have historically engaged with local news, often through investigations of local journalism and its audiences. Against this backdrop, in this paper, we pay attention to the role of local news – defined as news about one’s locality and neighbourhood, although not solely gathered from local journalism alone – in the specific situational context of raising children. Locating our work at the intersections of news …
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (4 works)