Darren Umney
Biographic Data
| ID | 91989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darren Umney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darren |
| FAMILY NAME | Umney |
| SIGNATURE | UMNEY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6852-4458 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Place-based household vouchers for locally supplied fruit and vegetables
This was the first pilot RCT of a place-based, household voucher approach. The newly developed system for securely printing and redeeming the vouchers worked well and is potentially scalable. Future trials should consider alternative methods of assessing the impact on households and explore more efficient ways to deliver the intervention e.g. through collaborative working with local resources such as community centres
Code + Clay … Data + Dirt – Five Thousand Years of Urban Media by Shannon Mattern
In his 1955 introduction to The Making of the English Landscape W. G. Hoskins wrote that ‘there is not one book which deals with the historical evolution of the landscape as we know it’ (1955, p. 1
Valuing Breastfeeding
Alongside a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of offering a cash transfer scheme (shopping vouchers) to mothers in areas with low breastfeeding rates, qualitative interviews were conducted with health care professionals delivering the scheme to explore their experiences. Health care professionals ( n = 34; mainly midwives and health visitors) were interviewed in depth. Transcripts from recorded interviews were analyzed using a…
Every House on Langland Road - the production of archival, architectural and artistic spaces
This article describes an Arts Council England project, undertaken by the author and a photographer, to examine spatial and temporal relations between an art project, its subject and its audience. The project explored and documented the architecture of a modernist 1970s housing estate, Netherfield, designed by a group of four architects for the new city of Milton Keynes. The estate has not aged well and the visual remnants of what had been an amb…
On brutal culture
International audience
On brutal culture
International audience
On brutal culture
International audience
Valuing Breastfeeding
Alongside a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of offering a cash transfer scheme (shopping vouchers) to mothers in areas with low breastfeeding rates, qualitative interviews were conducted with health care professionals delivering the scheme to explore their experiences. Health care professionals ( n = 34; mainly midwives and health visitors) were interviewed in depth. Transcripts from recorded interviews were analyzed using a…
Every House on Langland Road - the production of archival, architectural and artistic spaces
This article describes an Arts Council England project, undertaken by the author and a photographer, to examine spatial and temporal relations between an art project, its subject and its audience. The project explored and documented the architecture of a modernist 1970s housing estate, Netherfield, designed by a group of four architects for the new city of Milton Keynes. The estate has not aged well and the visual remnants of what had been an amb…
Code + Clay … Data + Dirt – Five Thousand Years of Urban Media by Shannon Mattern
In his 1955 introduction to The Making of the English Landscape W. G. Hoskins wrote that ‘there is not one book which deals with the historical evolution of the landscape as we know it’ (1955, p. 1
Place-based household vouchers for locally supplied fruit and vegetables
This was the first pilot RCT of a place-based, household voucher approach. The newly developed system for securely printing and redeeming the vouchers worked well and is potentially scalable. Future trials should consider alternative methods of assessing the impact on households and explore more efficient ways to deliver the intervention e.g. through collaborative working with local resources such as community centres
Economics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)