Maggie Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 6873465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maggie Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maggie |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6121-2910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Appraising the completeness of Road-to-Health booklets at ECD centres in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa
Growth monitoring is essential for promoting optimal child development and preventing growth faltering, which can have long-term health implications. The Road-to-Health Booklet (RtHB) is a parent-held, personal child health record used by health professionals and parents to monitor a child's health and development. Accordingly, it serves as a scalable intervention to track child growth, immunisation, and key child health services, and its effecti…
Academic Altruism or Kindness-Informed Allyship? Strategizing Care for Bipoc and Minority Scholars and Communities
In this essay, we discuss the challenges of self-directed care work in academia, particularly for marginalized individuals such as academics of color, early-career scholars, and those with minority identities. We highlight the burdens of academic altruism and the emotional toll it takes on these groups. Using the Hindu mythological figure of Maa Durga as a metaphor, our essay critiques the prevalent narrative of silent sacrifice among women in ac…
An online alternative
Our findings suggest that a virtual platform can be a convenient and effective way to deliver values clarification workshops on abortion, and this technology could be leveraged to expand access to this training in areas without trained facilitators
The quality of life of HIV-infected South African university students
HIV and AIDS has serious repercussions on psychological, social and physical well-being, and the assessment of Quality of Life (QoL) of people living with HIV and AIDS is essential to gauge how these challenges are met. The WHOQoL-HIV Bref forms part of a suite of instruments developed by the World Health Organisation. The purpose of this paper is to describe the quality of life of a sample of HIV-infected students at a South African university, …
Interview with Terry Herbert, metal detectorist, Hammerwich parish, Staffordshire
Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World
From majestic Celtic crosses to elaborate knotwork designs, visual symbols of Irish identity at its most medieval abound in contemporary culture. Consdering both scholarly and popular perspectives thi
Current Challenges in Social Work Distance Education
One of the first tasks of the Social Work Distance Education Network at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary was to review the literature and address three research questions to inform policy making and planning relating to distance social work education programming. This paper is intended to disseminate responses to these questions from a small group of dedicated and experienced distance educators who have adopted the moniker …
Does Loving an Avatar Threaten Real Life Marriage
The purpose of this study was to examine the nature of relationship satisfaction and its predictors for those who simultaneously maintain committed relationships, in both real life (RL) and in an immersive virtual world, with either the same or a different partner. All 236 self-selected study participants were recruited on the virtual, multiplayer, online game and social platform of Second Life (SL), screened to insure that they had a committed r…
Mapping the availability and accessibility of healthy food in rural and urban New Zealand – Te Wai o Rona
Objective Uptake of advice for lifestyle change for obesity and diabetes prevention requires access to affordable ‘healthy’ foods (high in fibre/low in sugar and fat). The present study aimed to examine the availability and accessibility of ‘healthy’ foods in rural and urban New Zealand. Design We identified and visited (‘mapped’) 1230 food outlets (473 urban, 757 rural) across the Waikato/Lakes areas (162 census areas within twelve regions) in N…
Child Welfare and Stigma
This article draws on an empirical study of stigma and child welfare in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Spain; it shows how stigma continues to be a part of the experience of using and delivering child welfare services, despite the positive determination of policies in all three countries that this should not be so. More optimistically, however, it is also evident that the experience of stigma and exclusion can be reduced, and the article…
Current Challenges in Social Work Distance Education
One of the first tasks of the Social Work Distance Education Network at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary was to review the literature and address three research questions to inform policy making and planning relating to distance social work education programming. This paper is intended to disseminate responses to these questions from a small group of dedicated and experienced distance educators who have adopted the moniker …
Child Welfare and Stigma
This article draws on an empirical study of stigma and child welfare in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Spain; it shows how stigma continues to be a part of the experience of using and delivering child welfare services, despite the positive determination of policies in all three countries that this should not be so. More optimistically, however, it is also evident that the experience of stigma and exclusion can be reduced, and the article…
Mapping the availability and accessibility of healthy food in rural and urban New Zealand – Te Wai o Rona
Objective Uptake of advice for lifestyle change for obesity and diabetes prevention requires access to affordable ‘healthy’ foods (high in fibre/low in sugar and fat). The present study aimed to examine the availability and accessibility of ‘healthy’ foods in rural and urban New Zealand. Design We identified and visited (‘mapped’) 1230 food outlets (473 urban, 757 rural) across the Waikato/Lakes areas (162 census areas within twelve regions) in N…
Does Loving an Avatar Threaten Real Life Marriage
The purpose of this study was to examine the nature of relationship satisfaction and its predictors for those who simultaneously maintain committed relationships, in both real life (RL) and in an immersive virtual world, with either the same or a different partner. All 236 self-selected study participants were recruited on the virtual, multiplayer, online game and social platform of Second Life (SL), screened to insure that they had a committed r…
Current Challenges in Social Work Distance Education
One of the first tasks of the Social Work Distance Education Network at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary was to review the literature and address three research questions to inform policy making and planning relating to distance social work education programming. This paper is intended to disseminate responses to these questions from a small group of dedicated and experienced distance educators who have adopted the moniker …
Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World
From majestic Celtic crosses to elaborate knotwork designs, visual symbols of Irish identity at its most medieval abound in contemporary culture. Consdering both scholarly and popular perspectives thi
Interview with Terry Herbert, metal detectorist, Hammerwich parish, Staffordshire
The quality of life of HIV-infected South African university students
HIV and AIDS has serious repercussions on psychological, social and physical well-being, and the assessment of Quality of Life (QoL) of people living with HIV and AIDS is essential to gauge how these challenges are met. The WHOQoL-HIV Bref forms part of a suite of instruments developed by the World Health Organisation. The purpose of this paper is to describe the quality of life of a sample of HIV-infected students at a South African university, …
An online alternative
Our findings suggest that a virtual platform can be a convenient and effective way to deliver values clarification workshops on abortion, and this technology could be leveraged to expand access to this training in areas without trained facilitators
Academic Altruism or Kindness-Informed Allyship? Strategizing Care for Bipoc and Minority Scholars and Communities
In this essay, we discuss the challenges of self-directed care work in academia, particularly for marginalized individuals such as academics of color, early-career scholars, and those with minority identities. We highlight the burdens of academic altruism and the emotional toll it takes on these groups. Using the Hindu mythological figure of Maa Durga as a metaphor, our essay critiques the prevalent narrative of silent sacrifice among women in ac…
Appraising the completeness of Road-to-Health booklets at ECD centres in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa
Growth monitoring is essential for promoting optimal child development and preventing growth faltering, which can have long-term health implications. The Road-to-Health Booklet (RtHB) is a parent-held, personal child health record used by health professionals and parents to monitor a child's health and development. Accordingly, it serves as a scalable intervention to track child growth, immunisation, and key child health services, and its effecti…
Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · History (2 works) · Irish and British Studies (2 works)