Robert French
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 200210 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert French |
| PRENOMES | Robert |
| SOBRENOME | French |
| ASSINATURA | FRENCH R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the West of England |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9064-9721 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1966 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Mapping Educational Inequalities in Wales
Understanding spatial variations in educational outcomes is important for addressing educational inequalities. This study examines how socio‐economic factors and household characteristics influence age 16 standardised attainment across Wales using linked administrative and census data. In terms of methodology, we employed logistic regression modelling at the individual level, while at the Lower Layer Super Output Area level, we used both Ordinary…
What individual, family, and school factors influence the identification of special educational needs in Wales
BACKGROUND: Previous national and international research has investigated potential patterns of SEN identification, in which there may be overrepresentation of males, individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds, and pupils attending schools in economically disadvantaged areas. AIMS: The aim of the current study is to link administrative education data for the academic year 2011/12 to data from the UK 2011 Census to explore which individual,…
For When I Am Weak the Christian Church Reimagined through the Life of a Disabled Child
A father of a child with a genetic disorder shares a series of experiences raising a child with a disability, and then presents theological reflections on the way these lived moments might inform the Christian church’s posture within culture. Embracing a life of “disability” forces one to recognize strengths which are needed in, but not valued by, surrounding society. This realignment in perspective offers a new vision of life and values. Supplan…
Paint Me a Picture
Purpose: Despite the increasing prevalence of Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (LICs), there is a paucity of published LIC models which directly integrate radiology into longitudinal clinical experiences, instead favoring protected time for radiology didactics or a more traditional block rotation (BR). 1–3 Such models miss the opportunity to better capture longitudinal clinical and professional relationships and the integration of system-based …
Inequalities in Health and Care Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People Aged 50 and Older in the United Kingdom
Inequalities in older LGBT people's health and care needs in the United Kingdom
The hostile environment that older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people faced at younger ages in the United Kingdom (UK) may have a lasting negative impact on their health. This systematic scoping review adds to the current knowledge base through comprehensively synthesising evidence on what is known about the extent and nature of health and care inequalities, as well as highlighting gaps in the evidence which point the way toward…
Community-Engaged Modeling of Geographic and Demographic Patterns of Multiple Public Health Risk Factors
Many health risk factors are intervention targets within communities, but information regarding high-risk subpopulations is rarely available at a geographic resolution that is relevant for community-scale interventions. Researchers and community partners in New Bedford, Massachusetts (USA) collaboratively identified high-priority behaviors and health outcomes of interest available in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). We deve…
Evidence for the breakdown of an Angkorian hydraulic system, and its historical implications for understanding the Khmer Empire
This paper examines the construction and design of a 7-km long embankment, probably built for King Jayavarman IV between 928 and 941 CE, as part of a new capital. We calculate that the capacities of the outlets were too small, and conclude that the embankment failed, probably within a decade of construction, so that the benefits of the reservoir stored by the embankment and the access road on top of it were lessened substantially. We explain how …
From One to Multiple Accents on a Test of L2 Listening Comprehension
Concerns about the need for assessing multidialectal listening skills for global contexts are becoming increasingly prevalent. However, the inclusion of multiple accents on listening assessments may threaten test fairness because it is not practical to include every accent that may be encountered in the language use domain on these tests. Given this dilemma, this study aimed to determine the extent to which accent strength and familiarity affect …
Engaging Communities in Research on Cumulative Risk and Social Stress-Environment Interactions
Studies have documented cumulative health effects of chemical and nonchemical exposures, particularly chronic environmental and social stressors. Environmental justice groups have advocated for community participation in research that assesses how these interactions contribute to health disparities experienced by low-income and communities of color. In 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a request for research applications (RFA)…
Journeying and the experiential gaze in research
In this paper, we consider the implications of the ideas of journeying and the experiential gaze for research practice. We do so by drawing first upon Plato's allegory of the Cave as a representation of the journey of the philosopher to see reality, invisible and unknown, but constituting the underlying truth of what we experience through our senses. We use this as a metaphor for research as a journey of discovery. Recognizing that, for some, anc…
Attention, Cooperation, Purpose
Fromtheoriato theory
This article explores the transition of the theological and philosophical concept of theoria-contemplation-to the modern notion of theory. Theory derives linguistically from theoria and retains a connection with knowledge. However, it has lost and, moreover, typically excludes theoria's focus upon the direct experiential knowledge of the divine. In keeping with the thrust of this special issue, we focus on how the secularization of the theologica…
The ‘work group’
The intention of this article is to explore and develop Wilfred Bion’s theory of groups, and to contribute to its wider application across the social sciences. Bion suggested that groups operate simultaneously in two strictly contrasting ways, based on distinctive mental states, which he called ‘basic-assumption mentality’ and ‘work-group mentality’. He believed that these mentalities determine a group’s capacity to achieve its purposes. However,…
Friendship and organization
This article describes and explores some key concepts from the classical, Western friendship tradition in order to see whether anything may be learned from them about the processes of organizing today. First, it looks at the difference between the modern notion of friendship, which emphasizes intimacy as the basis for an interpersonal relationship, and the classical tradition, which held a much more differentiated view, extending from the interpe…
Downplaying Leadership
This article identifies the notion of downplaying leadership. While some attempt is made to explore the meaning of this practice, our primary intention is to describe a method and framework for analysing the transcripts of leadership interviews. This method has been developed to help identify how leaders may sometimes use language in research interviews to play down the importance of their own leadership and of leadership in general
Negative Capability and the Capacity to Think in the Present Moment
Two themes that are prevalent in the literature on leadership practice are planning for the future and learning from the past. In this ‘Leading Questions’ piece, we raise the question of whether, in addition, attention needs to be given to a third element that is not well represented in the literature: the leader's capacity to think in the present. We suggest that such thinking requires the capacity to see what is actually going on, in contrast w…
Leadership and negative capability
A B S T R AC T Our aim in this article is to explore and explain the concept of ‘negative capability’, in the context of the current resurgence of interest in organizational leadership. We suggest that negative capa-bility can create an intermediate space that enables one to continue to think in difficult situations. Where positive capability supports ‘decisive action’, negative capability supports ‘reflective inaction’, that is, the ability to r…
Mechanisms of Categorization in Infancy
This article presents a connectionist model of correlation‐based categorization by 10‐month‐old infants (Younger, 1985). Simple autoencoder networks were exposed to the same stimuli used to test 10‐month‐olds. The familiarization regime was kept as close as possible to that used with the infants. The performance of the model matched that of the infants. Both infants and networks used covariation information (when available) to segregate items int…
A connectionist account of asymmetric category learning in early infancy
Young infants show unexplained asymmetries in the exclusivity of categories formed on the basis of visually presented stimuli. A connectionist model is described that shows similar exclusivity asymmetries when categorizing the same stimuli presented to infants. The asymmetries can be explained in terms of an associative learning mechanism, distributed internal representations, and the statistics of the feature distributions in the stimuli. The mo…
Do Babies Resemble Their Fathers More Than Their Mothers? A Failure to Replicate Christenfeld and Hill (1995)
Maturity and education, citizenship and enlightenment
In a series of radio broadcasts, one of which is translated for the first time in this issue (pp. 21-34), Adorno and Becker claimed that modern education is profoundly inadequate. Their views on education draw heavily on Kant’s notion of Enlightenment as a process for the development of personal and social maturity and responsibility. As such, education cannot just be a training but must itself be a developmental process which takes into account …
Maturity and education, citizenship and enlightenment
In a series of radio broadcasts, one of which is translated for the first time in this issue (pp. 21-34), Adorno and Becker claimed that modern education is profoundly inadequate. Their views on education draw heavily on Kant’s notion of Enlightenment as a process for the development of personal and social maturity and responsibility. As such, education cannot just be a training but must itself be a developmental process which takes into account …
The Importance of Capacities in Psychoanalysis and the Language of Human Development
The author explores the human capacity to contain or hold experience--for self and other--by analysing the word capacity itself. Underlying the discussion is the proposition that hidden in the word capacity is a particular perspective on mental mechanisms fundamental to object-relations theory and that specific consideration of the word may, therefore, add to an understanding of these mechanisms. The author suggests that the term may have entered…
Gödel, Escher, Bach
International audience
Leadership and negative capability
A B S T R AC T Our aim in this article is to explore and explain the concept of ‘negative capability’, in the context of the current resurgence of interest in organizational leadership. We suggest that negative capa-bility can create an intermediate space that enables one to continue to think in difficult situations. Where positive capability supports ‘decisive action’, negative capability supports ‘reflective inaction’, that is, the ability to r…
The ‘work group’
The intention of this article is to explore and develop Wilfred Bion’s theory of groups, and to contribute to its wider application across the social sciences. Bion suggested that groups operate simultaneously in two strictly contrasting ways, based on distinctive mental states, which he called ‘basic-assumption mentality’ and ‘work-group mentality’. He believed that these mentalities determine a group’s capacity to achieve its purposes. However,…
Negative Capability and the Capacity to Think in the Present Moment
Two themes that are prevalent in the literature on leadership practice are planning for the future and learning from the past. In this ‘Leading Questions’ piece, we raise the question of whether, in addition, attention needs to be given to a third element that is not well represented in the literature: the leader's capacity to think in the present. We suggest that such thinking requires the capacity to see what is actually going on, in contrast w…
Fromtheoriato theory
This article explores the transition of the theological and philosophical concept of theoria-contemplation-to the modern notion of theory. Theory derives linguistically from theoria and retains a connection with knowledge. However, it has lost and, moreover, typically excludes theoria's focus upon the direct experiential knowledge of the divine. In keeping with the thrust of this special issue, we focus on how the secularization of the theologica…
Maturity and education, citizenship and enlightenment
In a series of radio broadcasts, one of which is translated for the first time in this issue (pp. 21-34), Adorno and Becker claimed that modern education is profoundly inadequate. Their views on education draw heavily on Kant’s notion of Enlightenment as a process for the development of personal and social maturity and responsibility. As such, education cannot just be a training but must itself be a developmental process which takes into account …
Downplaying Leadership
This article identifies the notion of downplaying leadership. While some attempt is made to explore the meaning of this practice, our primary intention is to describe a method and framework for analysing the transcripts of leadership interviews. This method has been developed to help identify how leaders may sometimes use language in research interviews to play down the importance of their own leadership and of leadership in general
Art and artifice in Belizean Creole
Verbal art and performance are highly valued in the Belizean Creole speech community. In this paper we define and describe a number of types of verbal artistic performances that occur in ongoing conversations and show the importance of indirection in Belizean speech. These performances serve functions in addition to the poetic and are similar in both their form and function to verbal performances in other African-American speech communities. [Cre…
Friendship and organization
This article describes and explores some key concepts from the classical, Western friendship tradition in order to see whether anything may be learned from them about the processes of organizing today. First, it looks at the difference between the modern notion of friendship, which emphasizes intimacy as the basis for an interpersonal relationship, and the classical tradition, which held a much more differentiated view, extending from the interpe…
Evidence for the breakdown of an Angkorian hydraulic system, and its historical implications for understanding the Khmer Empire
This paper examines the construction and design of a 7-km long embankment, probably built for King Jayavarman IV between 928 and 941 CE, as part of a new capital. We calculate that the capacities of the outlets were too small, and conclude that the embankment failed, probably within a decade of construction, so that the benefits of the reservoir stored by the embankment and the access road on top of it were lessened substantially. We explain how …
The Importance of Capacities in Psychoanalysis and the Language of Human Development
The author explores the human capacity to contain or hold experience--for self and other--by analysing the word capacity itself. Underlying the discussion is the proposition that hidden in the word capacity is a particular perspective on mental mechanisms fundamental to object-relations theory and that specific consideration of the word may, therefore, add to an understanding of these mechanisms. The author suggests that the term may have entered…
To the Great Ocean
Art and artifice in Belizean Creole
Verbal art and performance are highly valued in the Belizean Creole speech community. In this paper we define and describe a number of types of verbal artistic performances that occur in ongoing conversations and show the importance of indirection in Belizean speech. These performances serve functions in addition to the poetic and are similar in both their form and function to verbal performances in other African-American speech communities. [Cre…
La traduction en français des jeux linguistiques de Gödel, Escher, Bach
An analogy between western legal traditions and approaches to artificial intelligence
Active symbols and internal models
The Geometry of Vision and the Mind Body Problem
Contents: A refutation of naive realism, analyses of the topology and metric structure of visual space, including phenomenal visual depth perception, and extension of that analysis to the other senses, the mind body problem. How book differs - The variable curvature theory of visual space is novel and integrates other seemingly incompatible approaches. The theory of spatial isomorphism between phenomenal space and projection centers of the brain …
Do Babies Resemble Their Fathers More Than Their Mothers? A Failure to Replicate Christenfeld and Hill (1995)
Maturity and education, citizenship and enlightenment
In a series of radio broadcasts, one of which is translated for the first time in this issue (pp. 21-34), Adorno and Becker claimed that modern education is profoundly inadequate. Their views on education draw heavily on Kant’s notion of Enlightenment as a process for the development of personal and social maturity and responsibility. As such, education cannot just be a training but must itself be a developmental process which takes into account …
Maturity and education, citizenship and enlightenment
In a series of radio broadcasts, one of which is translated for the first time in this issue (pp. 21-34), Adorno and Becker claimed that modern education is profoundly inadequate. Their views on education draw heavily on Kant’s notion of Enlightenment as a process for the development of personal and social maturity and responsibility. As such, education cannot just be a training but must itself be a developmental process which takes into account …
The Importance of Capacities in Psychoanalysis and the Language of Human Development
The author explores the human capacity to contain or hold experience--for self and other--by analysing the word capacity itself. Underlying the discussion is the proposition that hidden in the word capacity is a particular perspective on mental mechanisms fundamental to object-relations theory and that specific consideration of the word may, therefore, add to an understanding of these mechanisms. The author suggests that the term may have entered…
Mechanisms of Categorization in Infancy
This article presents a connectionist model of correlation‐based categorization by 10‐month‐old infants (Younger, 1985). Simple autoencoder networks were exposed to the same stimuli used to test 10‐month‐olds. The familiarization regime was kept as close as possible to that used with the infants. The performance of the model matched that of the infants. Both infants and networks used covariation information (when available) to segregate items int…
A connectionist account of asymmetric category learning in early infancy
Young infants show unexplained asymmetries in the exclusivity of categories formed on the basis of visually presented stimuli. A connectionist model is described that shows similar exclusivity asymmetries when categorizing the same stimuli presented to infants. The asymmetries can be explained in terms of an associative learning mechanism, distributed internal representations, and the statistics of the feature distributions in the stimuli. The mo…
Leadership and negative capability
A B S T R AC T Our aim in this article is to explore and explain the concept of ‘negative capability’, in the context of the current resurgence of interest in organizational leadership. We suggest that negative capa-bility can create an intermediate space that enables one to continue to think in difficult situations. Where positive capability supports ‘decisive action’, negative capability supports ‘reflective inaction’, that is, the ability to r…
Downplaying Leadership
This article identifies the notion of downplaying leadership. While some attempt is made to explore the meaning of this practice, our primary intention is to describe a method and framework for analysing the transcripts of leadership interviews. This method has been developed to help identify how leaders may sometimes use language in research interviews to play down the importance of their own leadership and of leadership in general
Negative Capability and the Capacity to Think in the Present Moment
Two themes that are prevalent in the literature on leadership practice are planning for the future and learning from the past. In this ‘Leading Questions’ piece, we raise the question of whether, in addition, attention needs to be given to a third element that is not well represented in the literature: the leader's capacity to think in the present. We suggest that such thinking requires the capacity to see what is actually going on, in contrast w…
Friendship and organization
This article describes and explores some key concepts from the classical, Western friendship tradition in order to see whether anything may be learned from them about the processes of organizing today. First, it looks at the difference between the modern notion of friendship, which emphasizes intimacy as the basis for an interpersonal relationship, and the classical tradition, which held a much more differentiated view, extending from the interpe…
The ‘work group’
The intention of this article is to explore and develop Wilfred Bion’s theory of groups, and to contribute to its wider application across the social sciences. Bion suggested that groups operate simultaneously in two strictly contrasting ways, based on distinctive mental states, which he called ‘basic-assumption mentality’ and ‘work-group mentality’. He believed that these mentalities determine a group’s capacity to achieve its purposes. However,…
Fromtheoriato theory
This article explores the transition of the theological and philosophical concept of theoria-contemplation-to the modern notion of theory. Theory derives linguistically from theoria and retains a connection with knowledge. However, it has lost and, moreover, typically excludes theoria's focus upon the direct experiential knowledge of the divine. In keeping with the thrust of this special issue, we focus on how the secularization of the theologica…
Journeying and the experiential gaze in research
In this paper, we consider the implications of the ideas of journeying and the experiential gaze for research practice. We do so by drawing first upon Plato's allegory of the Cave as a representation of the journey of the philosopher to see reality, invisible and unknown, but constituting the underlying truth of what we experience through our senses. We use this as a metaphor for research as a journey of discovery. Recognizing that, for some, anc…
Attention, Cooperation, Purpose
Engaging Communities in Research on Cumulative Risk and Social Stress-Environment Interactions
Studies have documented cumulative health effects of chemical and nonchemical exposures, particularly chronic environmental and social stressors. Environmental justice groups have advocated for community participation in research that assesses how these interactions contribute to health disparities experienced by low-income and communities of color. In 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a request for research applications (RFA)…
From One to Multiple Accents on a Test of L2 Listening Comprehension
Concerns about the need for assessing multidialectal listening skills for global contexts are becoming increasingly prevalent. However, the inclusion of multiple accents on listening assessments may threaten test fairness because it is not practical to include every accent that may be encountered in the language use domain on these tests. Given this dilemma, this study aimed to determine the extent to which accent strength and familiarity affect …
Community-Engaged Modeling of Geographic and Demographic Patterns of Multiple Public Health Risk Factors
Many health risk factors are intervention targets within communities, but information regarding high-risk subpopulations is rarely available at a geographic resolution that is relevant for community-scale interventions. Researchers and community partners in New Bedford, Massachusetts (USA) collaboratively identified high-priority behaviors and health outcomes of interest available in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). We deve…
Evidence for the breakdown of an Angkorian hydraulic system, and its historical implications for understanding the Khmer Empire
This paper examines the construction and design of a 7-km long embankment, probably built for King Jayavarman IV between 928 and 941 CE, as part of a new capital. We calculate that the capacities of the outlets were too small, and conclude that the embankment failed, probably within a decade of construction, so that the benefits of the reservoir stored by the embankment and the access road on top of it were lessened substantially. We explain how …
Inequalities in older LGBT people's health and care needs in the United Kingdom
The hostile environment that older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people faced at younger ages in the United Kingdom (UK) may have a lasting negative impact on their health. This systematic scoping review adds to the current knowledge base through comprehensively synthesising evidence on what is known about the extent and nature of health and care inequalities, as well as highlighting gaps in the evidence which point the way toward…
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