Niall Winters
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3750736 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Niall Winters |
| PRENOMES | Niall |
| SOBRENOME | Winters |
| ASSINATURA | WINTERS N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8597-2914 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Mitigating moral distress by enhancing healthcare workers’ understanding of challenges faced by carers of children with disabilities in low-resource settings in Kenya
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the psychological wellbeing and the potential moral distress faced by female carers of children with disabilities living in low-resource settings in East Africa. In such environments, caregiving often requires resilience and resourcefulness, yet can also increase the vulnerability of caregivers and their children. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to identify factors affecting female caregivers' psycholog…
Using the Repertory Grid for Nomothetic Mixed Methods Research
The repertory grid test has recently received attention as a convergent, mixed methods research design, but the analysis of grid data from multiple participants is challenging. In this article, we describe a method for organizing the data from multiple repertory grid tests, using a working theory derived from Silvan Tomkins’ Human Being Theory, to examine how medical students think and feel about digital learning. We show how theory can be used f…
Grit and learning
Principles to guide the effective use of technology to support capacity development in global health partnerships
The counterintuitive self-regulated learning behaviours of healthcare providers from low-income settings
Self-regulated learning (SRL) is useful for understanding self-directed learning practices. However, SRL behaviours - despite being deemed highly context-dependent - remain mostly unexplored for healthcare workers in low-income countries. This study details how SRL strategies vary and impact on healthcare providers' learning gains when using digital learning platforms. We apply Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) to questionnaire responses from a sampl…
Empowerment beyond skills
Constructionism and AI
Constructionism, long before it had a name, was intimately tied to the field of Artificial Intelligence. Soon after the birth of Logo at BBN, Seymour Papert set up the Logo Group as part of the MIT AI Lab. Logo was based upon Lisp, the first prominent AI programming language. Many early Logo activities involved natural language processing, robotics, artificial game players, and generating poetry, art, and music. In the 1970s researchers explored …
Prioritarian principles for digital health in low resource settings
This theoretical paper argues for prioritarianism as an ethical underpinning for digital health in contexts of extreme disadvantage. In support of this claim, the paper develops three prioritarian principles for making ethical decisions for digital health programme design, grounded in the normative position that the greater the need (of the marginalised), the stronger the moral claim. The principles are positioned as an alternative view to the pr…
Exploring perceptions, barriers, and enablers for delivery of primary ear and hearing care by community health workers
We are the people whose opinions don’t matter’. A photovoice study exploring challenges faced by community health workers in Uganda
Understanding the experiences of community health workers (CHWs) through the use of participatory visual methods (PVMs) has been relatively underexplored. One such PVM is photovoice, which involves the capture of photographic images related to issues of social importance. In this study, we explore challenges faced by eight CHWs in Mukono District, Uganda through the use of photovoice. Over a six-week period, CHWs captured 62 relevant photographs.…
Who Goes to College via Access Routes? A Comparative Study of Widening Participation Admission in Selective Universities in Ireland and England
This article explores changing national widening participation (WP) policy and responses from Higher Education institutions (HEIs) from a cross-national perspective. Specifically, the use of contextualised admissions and the provision of foundation year programmes in selective universities in Ireland and England are the key foci of interest. Using data gathered from WP students in two selective universities in Ireland and England, we explore how …
Academic identity, confidence and belonging
This article presents a cross‐national exploration of responses to widening participation ( WP ), with a specific focus on the provision of foundation year ( FY ) programmes and the use of contextualised admissions ( CA ) in selective Irish and UK institutions. There remains a dearth of research on these routes, with little understanding of the characteristics of students who utilise them, of why students use these routes and little knowledge of …
I feel like I have a disadvantage
This paper presents findings from an interpretative phenomenological analysis with 20 students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds who were accepted onto a Foundation Year in Oxford University. It explores the factors that impacted on their decision to apply to a prestigious university and student’s views on their transition to the prestigious university. The analysis highlighted four key factors:(1) The complex relationship student…
Can mobile health training meet the challenge of ‘measuring better’
Mobile learning has seen a large uptake in use in low- and middle-income countries. This is driven by rhetorics of easy scaling, reaching the hard-to-reach and the potential for generating analytics from the applications used by learners. Healthcare training has seen a proliferation of apps aimed at improving accountability through tracking and measuring workplace learning. A view of the mobile phone as an agent of change is thus linked with a te…
What do community health workers have to say about their work, and how can this inform improved programme design? A case study with CHWs within Kenya
BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) are used increasingly in the world to address shortages of health workers and the lack of a pervasive national health system. However, while their role is often described at a policy level, it is not clear how these ideals are instantiated in practice, how best to support this work, or how the work is interpreted by local actors. CHWs are often spoken about or spoken for, but there is little evidence of…
An Iterative, Multidisciplinary Approach to Studying Digital Play Motivation
The aim of this article is to present the methodological approach adopted for the development and iteration of the Model of Game Motivation (MGM), a conceptual model explaining digital play motivation. A multidisciplinary, mixed-methods research design was deployed for the empirical iteration of the model. This choice was reinforced by the critical review of related literature, which revealed that a combination of evidence from multiple disciplin…
Handbook of Design in Educational Technology
I feel like I have a disadvantage
This paper presents findings from an interpretative phenomenological analysis with 20 students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds who were accepted onto a Foundation Year in Oxford University. It explores the factors that impacted on their decision to apply to a prestigious university and student’s views on their transition to the prestigious university. The analysis highlighted four key factors:(1) The complex relationship student…
Academic identity, confidence and belonging
This article presents a cross‐national exploration of responses to widening participation ( WP ), with a specific focus on the provision of foundation year ( FY ) programmes and the use of contextualised admissions ( CA ) in selective Irish and UK institutions. There remains a dearth of research on these routes, with little understanding of the characteristics of students who utilise them, of why students use these routes and little knowledge of …
Who Goes to College via Access Routes? A Comparative Study of Widening Participation Admission in Selective Universities in Ireland and England
This article explores changing national widening participation (WP) policy and responses from Higher Education institutions (HEIs) from a cross-national perspective. Specifically, the use of contextualised admissions and the provision of foundation year programmes in selective universities in Ireland and England are the key foci of interest. Using data gathered from WP students in two selective universities in Ireland and England, we explore how …
Handbook of Design in Educational Technology
What do community health workers have to say about their work, and how can this inform improved programme design? A case study with CHWs within Kenya
BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) are used increasingly in the world to address shortages of health workers and the lack of a pervasive national health system. However, while their role is often described at a policy level, it is not clear how these ideals are instantiated in practice, how best to support this work, or how the work is interpreted by local actors. CHWs are often spoken about or spoken for, but there is little evidence of…
An Iterative, Multidisciplinary Approach to Studying Digital Play Motivation
The aim of this article is to present the methodological approach adopted for the development and iteration of the Model of Game Motivation (MGM), a conceptual model explaining digital play motivation. A multidisciplinary, mixed-methods research design was deployed for the empirical iteration of the model. This choice was reinforced by the critical review of related literature, which revealed that a combination of evidence from multiple disciplin…
Can mobile health training meet the challenge of ‘measuring better’
Mobile learning has seen a large uptake in use in low- and middle-income countries. This is driven by rhetorics of easy scaling, reaching the hard-to-reach and the potential for generating analytics from the applications used by learners. Healthcare training has seen a proliferation of apps aimed at improving accountability through tracking and measuring workplace learning. A view of the mobile phone as an agent of change is thus linked with a te…
We are the people whose opinions don’t matter’. A photovoice study exploring challenges faced by community health workers in Uganda
Understanding the experiences of community health workers (CHWs) through the use of participatory visual methods (PVMs) has been relatively underexplored. One such PVM is photovoice, which involves the capture of photographic images related to issues of social importance. In this study, we explore challenges faced by eight CHWs in Mukono District, Uganda through the use of photovoice. Over a six-week period, CHWs captured 62 relevant photographs.…
Who Goes to College via Access Routes? A Comparative Study of Widening Participation Admission in Selective Universities in Ireland and England
This article explores changing national widening participation (WP) policy and responses from Higher Education institutions (HEIs) from a cross-national perspective. Specifically, the use of contextualised admissions and the provision of foundation year programmes in selective universities in Ireland and England are the key foci of interest. Using data gathered from WP students in two selective universities in Ireland and England, we explore how …
Academic identity, confidence and belonging
This article presents a cross‐national exploration of responses to widening participation ( WP ), with a specific focus on the provision of foundation year ( FY ) programmes and the use of contextualised admissions ( CA ) in selective Irish and UK institutions. There remains a dearth of research on these routes, with little understanding of the characteristics of students who utilise them, of why students use these routes and little knowledge of …
I feel like I have a disadvantage
This paper presents findings from an interpretative phenomenological analysis with 20 students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds who were accepted onto a Foundation Year in Oxford University. It explores the factors that impacted on their decision to apply to a prestigious university and student’s views on their transition to the prestigious university. The analysis highlighted four key factors:(1) The complex relationship student…
Prioritarian principles for digital health in low resource settings
This theoretical paper argues for prioritarianism as an ethical underpinning for digital health in contexts of extreme disadvantage. In support of this claim, the paper develops three prioritarian principles for making ethical decisions for digital health programme design, grounded in the normative position that the greater the need (of the marginalised), the stronger the moral claim. The principles are positioned as an alternative view to the pr…
Exploring perceptions, barriers, and enablers for delivery of primary ear and hearing care by community health workers
The counterintuitive self-regulated learning behaviours of healthcare providers from low-income settings
Self-regulated learning (SRL) is useful for understanding self-directed learning practices. However, SRL behaviours - despite being deemed highly context-dependent - remain mostly unexplored for healthcare workers in low-income countries. This study details how SRL strategies vary and impact on healthcare providers' learning gains when using digital learning platforms. We apply Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) to questionnaire responses from a sampl…
Empowerment beyond skills
Constructionism and AI
Constructionism, long before it had a name, was intimately tied to the field of Artificial Intelligence. Soon after the birth of Logo at BBN, Seymour Papert set up the Logo Group as part of the MIT AI Lab. Logo was based upon Lisp, the first prominent AI programming language. Many early Logo activities involved natural language processing, robotics, artificial game players, and generating poetry, art, and music. In the 1970s researchers explored …
Principles to guide the effective use of technology to support capacity development in global health partnerships
Grit and learning
Mitigating moral distress by enhancing healthcare workers’ understanding of challenges faced by carers of children with disabilities in low-resource settings in Kenya
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the psychological wellbeing and the potential moral distress faced by female carers of children with disabilities living in low-resource settings in East Africa. In such environments, caregiving often requires resilience and resourcefulness, yet can also increase the vulnerability of caregivers and their children. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to identify factors affecting female caregivers' psycholog…
Using the Repertory Grid for Nomothetic Mixed Methods Research
The repertory grid test has recently received attention as a convergent, mixed methods research design, but the analysis of grid data from multiple participants is challenging. In this article, we describe a method for organizing the data from multiple repertory grid tests, using a working theory derived from Silvan Tomkins’ Human Being Theory, to examine how medical students think and feel about digital learning. We show how theory can be used f…
Psychology (10 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Medicine (7 obras) · Public relations (7 obras) · Engineering (5 obras) · Health care (5 obras) · Nursing (5 obras) · Pedagogy (5 obras)