Frank Smyth
Biographic Data
| ID | 965236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Smyth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank |
| FAMILY NAME | Smyth |
| SIGNATURE | SMYTH F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0529-2415 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Victorian Palace of Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Building of the Houses of Parliament, by Edward J. Gillin
‘What constituted scientific knowledge was not just a question of what was “true” and who was “right”, but rather, what was credible and who could be trusted’ (p. 2). The core premise of Edward Gillin’s detailed study of the building of the Houses of Parliament demonstrates the centrality of science to both its design and construction, and unravels the manner in which the emergent findings of different scientific disciplines came to inform those …
Pathways to inclusion in European higher education systems
This paper presents biographical data from the European Science Foundation-project Quali-TYDES, a collaborative research study underway since 2010 at universities from Ireland, Austria, Spain and the Czech Republic. The project analysed accounts of the experiences of persons with disabilities, most aged between 20 and 30. It is a generation educated in a time of radical policy shifts in the educational sector in all involved countries. This paper…
Paving the way through mainstream education: The interplay of families, schools and disabled students
There has been much debate around the role of parents in supporting their disabled children in mainstream schools. Several authors have pointed to parents’ advocacy and their engagement with professionals. Parents often perceived mainstream settings as fostering better social and academic learning for their offspring. However, while parents’ perspectives on ‘inclusive education’ have been subject to considerable research, relatively little is kno…
Students as Tour Guides: Innovation in Fieldwork Assessment
This paper introduces and details an innovative mode of fieldcourse assessment in which students take on the role of tour guides to offer their lecturer and peers a themed, theoretically informed journey through the urban landscape of Havana, Cuba. Informed by notions of student-centred learning and mobile methods, the tour offers an enjoyable, challenging, rigorous yet flexible form of assessment that can be effectively transferred to a wide ran…
Medical geography: Understanding health inequalities
Medical geography: Therapeutic places, spaces and networks
Over the course ofthe last 10 years, the prac-tice of medical geography has undergone a significant transformation as many have taken on board Kearns ' (1993) appeal for a reformed
Burning Issues: An introduction to selected papers from the 10th International Symposium in Medical Geography, Manchester 2003
In Brief
U.S. Colombia Policy: A Willful Myopia
Cultural constraints on the delivery of HIV/Aids prevention in Ireland
Africa's New Bloc
Sub-Saharan Africa is undergoing its most profound changes since the early years of independence. Forces that have long held sway over the region are now either waning or gone. For decades the United States, the Soviet Union, and France propped up dictators who served their interests?men like Ethiopia's Mengistu Haile Mariam, Somalia's Mohamed Siad Barre, Rwanda's Juvenal Habyarimana, and the former Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko. The scaled-down prese…
Preventative action and the diffusion of HIV/Aids
The isolation of HIV (Barre-Sinoussi et al., 1983; Gallo et al., 1984) confirmed the urgent need for interventions to curtail its transmission and, therefore, the incidence of AIDS. In the absence of an effective vaccine (Gallo, 1987; Cease and Berzofsky, 1988), direct action to prevent HIV infection has either entailed implementing medical interventions linked to
Controlling HIV/Aids in Ireland: The Implications for Health Policy of Some Epidemic Forecasts
This paper is set within the context of growing opiate use, and in it we develop and apply a modelling framework that is designed to forecast HIV prevalences and AIDS incidences that are consistent with various control scenarios related to the medium-term behaviour of the epidemic in Ireland. This task involves, first, fitting a process-based HIV model to AIDS incidence series for both Ireland and the United Kingdom to estimate national variation…
Arming Genocide in Rwanda
Rwanda is only the latest example of what can happen when small arms and light weapons are sold to a country plagued by ethnic, religious, or nationalist strife. In today's wars such weapons are responsible for most ofthe killings of civilians and combatants. They are used more often than major weapons systems in human rights abuses and other violations of international law. Light conventional arms sustain and expand conflict in a world increasin…
Es posible la paz en El Salvador: Un informe sobre las perspectivas para las negociaciones y la política de Estados Unidos
Este informe fue escrito en San Salvador a comienzos de 1990. Está basado en cientos de entrevistas hechas en los dos últimos años. Las más importantes tuvieron lugar después de la ofensiva de noviembre de 1989 del FMLN. Entre los entrevistados se encuentran funcionarios del gobierno salvadoreño, oficiales de alto y mediano rango del ejército salvadoreño, varios funcionarios del Departamento de Estado y del Departamento de Defensa de Estados Unid…
Consensus or Crisis? Without Duarte in El Salvador
A Lesson of the Reagan years is that a workable consensus between Congress and the presidency is essential to the execution of an effective and sustainable foreign policy. In a democracy, no consensus ever will be absolute; but if there is not at least general agreement on both the goals and the means to be employed, almost any policy is likely to fail. For instance, divisiveness undermined Reagan administration designs on Nicaragua. For a policy…
Medical geography: Therapeutic places, spaces and networks
Over the course ofthe last 10 years, the prac-tice of medical geography has undergone a significant transformation as many have taken on board Kearns ' (1993) appeal for a reformed
Students as Tour Guides: Innovation in Fieldwork Assessment
This paper introduces and details an innovative mode of fieldcourse assessment in which students take on the role of tour guides to offer their lecturer and peers a themed, theoretically informed journey through the urban landscape of Havana, Cuba. Informed by notions of student-centred learning and mobile methods, the tour offers an enjoyable, challenging, rigorous yet flexible form of assessment that can be effectively transferred to a wide ran…
Medical geography: Understanding health inequalities
Cultural constraints on the delivery of HIV/Aids prevention in Ireland
Preventative action and the diffusion of HIV/Aids
The isolation of HIV (Barre-Sinoussi et al., 1983; Gallo et al., 1984) confirmed the urgent need for interventions to curtail its transmission and, therefore, the incidence of AIDS. In the absence of an effective vaccine (Gallo, 1987; Cease and Berzofsky, 1988), direct action to prevent HIV infection has either entailed implementing medical interventions linked to
Africa's New Bloc
Sub-Saharan Africa is undergoing its most profound changes since the early years of independence. Forces that have long held sway over the region are now either waning or gone. For decades the United States, the Soviet Union, and France propped up dictators who served their interests?men like Ethiopia's Mengistu Haile Mariam, Somalia's Mohamed Siad Barre, Rwanda's Juvenal Habyarimana, and the former Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko. The scaled-down prese…
Controlling HIV/Aids in Ireland: The Implications for Health Policy of Some Epidemic Forecasts
This paper is set within the context of growing opiate use, and in it we develop and apply a modelling framework that is designed to forecast HIV prevalences and AIDS incidences that are consistent with various control scenarios related to the medium-term behaviour of the epidemic in Ireland. This task involves, first, fitting a process-based HIV model to AIDS incidence series for both Ireland and the United Kingdom to estimate national variation…
Arming Genocide in Rwanda
Rwanda is only the latest example of what can happen when small arms and light weapons are sold to a country plagued by ethnic, religious, or nationalist strife. In today's wars such weapons are responsible for most ofthe killings of civilians and combatants. They are used more often than major weapons systems in human rights abuses and other violations of international law. Light conventional arms sustain and expand conflict in a world increasin…
Paving the way through mainstream education: The interplay of families, schools and disabled students
There has been much debate around the role of parents in supporting their disabled children in mainstream schools. Several authors have pointed to parents’ advocacy and their engagement with professionals. Parents often perceived mainstream settings as fostering better social and academic learning for their offspring. However, while parents’ perspectives on ‘inclusive education’ have been subject to considerable research, relatively little is kno…
Burning Issues: An introduction to selected papers from the 10th International Symposium in Medical Geography, Manchester 2003
Consensus or Crisis? Without Duarte in El Salvador
A Lesson of the Reagan years is that a workable consensus between Congress and the presidency is essential to the execution of an effective and sustainable foreign policy. In a democracy, no consensus ever will be absolute; but if there is not at least general agreement on both the goals and the means to be employed, almost any policy is likely to fail. For instance, divisiveness undermined Reagan administration designs on Nicaragua. For a policy…
Es posible la paz en El Salvador: Un informe sobre las perspectivas para las negociaciones y la política de Estados Unidos
Este informe fue escrito en San Salvador a comienzos de 1990. Está basado en cientos de entrevistas hechas en los dos últimos años. Las más importantes tuvieron lugar después de la ofensiva de noviembre de 1989 del FMLN. Entre los entrevistados se encuentran funcionarios del gobierno salvadoreño, oficiales de alto y mediano rango del ejército salvadoreño, varios funcionarios del Departamento de Estado y del Departamento de Defensa de Estados Unid…
Arming Genocide in Rwanda
Rwanda is only the latest example of what can happen when small arms and light weapons are sold to a country plagued by ethnic, religious, or nationalist strife. In today's wars such weapons are responsible for most ofthe killings of civilians and combatants. They are used more often than major weapons systems in human rights abuses and other violations of international law. Light conventional arms sustain and expand conflict in a world increasin…
Preventative action and the diffusion of HIV/Aids
The isolation of HIV (Barre-Sinoussi et al., 1983; Gallo et al., 1984) confirmed the urgent need for interventions to curtail its transmission and, therefore, the incidence of AIDS. In the absence of an effective vaccine (Gallo, 1987; Cease and Berzofsky, 1988), direct action to prevent HIV infection has either entailed implementing medical interventions linked to
Controlling HIV/Aids in Ireland: The Implications for Health Policy of Some Epidemic Forecasts
This paper is set within the context of growing opiate use, and in it we develop and apply a modelling framework that is designed to forecast HIV prevalences and AIDS incidences that are consistent with various control scenarios related to the medium-term behaviour of the epidemic in Ireland. This task involves, first, fitting a process-based HIV model to AIDS incidence series for both Ireland and the United Kingdom to estimate national variation…
Cultural constraints on the delivery of HIV/Aids prevention in Ireland
Africa's New Bloc
Sub-Saharan Africa is undergoing its most profound changes since the early years of independence. Forces that have long held sway over the region are now either waning or gone. For decades the United States, the Soviet Union, and France propped up dictators who served their interests?men like Ethiopia's Mengistu Haile Mariam, Somalia's Mohamed Siad Barre, Rwanda's Juvenal Habyarimana, and the former Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko. The scaled-down prese…
U.S. Colombia Policy: A Willful Myopia
In Brief
Medical geography: Therapeutic places, spaces and networks
Over the course ofthe last 10 years, the prac-tice of medical geography has undergone a significant transformation as many have taken on board Kearns ' (1993) appeal for a reformed
Burning Issues: An introduction to selected papers from the 10th International Symposium in Medical Geography, Manchester 2003
Medical geography: Understanding health inequalities
Students as Tour Guides: Innovation in Fieldwork Assessment
This paper introduces and details an innovative mode of fieldcourse assessment in which students take on the role of tour guides to offer their lecturer and peers a themed, theoretically informed journey through the urban landscape of Havana, Cuba. Informed by notions of student-centred learning and mobile methods, the tour offers an enjoyable, challenging, rigorous yet flexible form of assessment that can be effectively transferred to a wide ran…
Pathways to inclusion in European higher education systems
This paper presents biographical data from the European Science Foundation-project Quali-TYDES, a collaborative research study underway since 2010 at universities from Ireland, Austria, Spain and the Czech Republic. The project analysed accounts of the experiences of persons with disabilities, most aged between 20 and 30. It is a generation educated in a time of radical policy shifts in the educational sector in all involved countries. This paper…
Paving the way through mainstream education: The interplay of families, schools and disabled students
There has been much debate around the role of parents in supporting their disabled children in mainstream schools. Several authors have pointed to parents’ advocacy and their engagement with professionals. Parents often perceived mainstream settings as fostering better social and academic learning for their offspring. However, while parents’ perspectives on ‘inclusive education’ have been subject to considerable research, relatively little is kno…
The Victorian Palace of Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Building of the Houses of Parliament, by Edward J. Gillin
‘What constituted scientific knowledge was not just a question of what was “true” and who was “right”, but rather, what was credible and who could be trusted’ (p. 2). The core premise of Edward Gillin’s detailed study of the building of the Houses of Parliament demonstrates the centrality of science to both its design and construction, and unravels the manner in which the emergent findings of different scientific disciplines came to inform those …
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