Rebecca Morris
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3861484 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rebecca Morris |
| PRENOMES | Rebecca |
| SOBRENOME | Morris |
| ASSINATURA | MORRIS R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1699-4172 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1968 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Using the Novel Indigo Method to Explore What a Brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention Should Comprise
A structured review of the potential role of school leaders in making teaching more attractive
Some attempts to address the worldwide shortage of teachers focus on raising the prestige of teaching, and making the occupation more appealing. Teacher job satisfaction and well-being have been identified as important factors linked to the status of teachers, with school leadership reportedly playing a key role. This paper is part of a larger review of 96 studies about teacher retention. Here we present the findings from 28 studies on effective …
‘Trying Out Teaching’
Inhabiting uncertain terrain’
Narratives of widening participation, inclusion, and equal opportunities have been increasingly prevalent throughout UK Higher Education (HE) in recent years. Simultaneously, a drive for institutions to collect data around protected characteristics and equalities metrics has supported these principles. This paper reports extended analysis of equalities data collected as part of the British Educational Research Association (BERA) State of the Disc…
Conducting research in real world settings—lessons learned from an implementation and process evaluation of Headsprout Early Reading® in special schools
Background Evaluating the success of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) requires an understanding of the processes and experiences of those involved in implementation as much as an analysis of outcomes, particularly when conducted in real world settings. This implementation and process evaluation (IPE) explores the experiences of pupils and staff from special schools in England participating in an RCT examining whether Headsprout Early Reading® …
Policy and Research Engagement in UK Higher Education. Policymaker and Expert Perspectives and Priorities
Policy and research engagement is a timely topic for researchers, decision‐makers, and higher education institutions that aim to promote engagement and impact. Examination of the complex research‐policy relationship in the higher education sector has been largely overlooked. This paper addresses this issue by presenting findings from in‐depth interviews with 11 UK higher education policymakers and experts on how higher education researchers can e…
What are the key predictors of international teacher shortages
Recurrent teacher shortages have been a long-standing problem for many countries. Popular strategies to attract and retain teachers, used over several decades across the world, include bursaries, scholarships, performance-related pay, professional development and reducing workload. Governments in England have invested heavily in such policy responses, but none have been shown to be particularly effective. Such policies have tended to be based on …
Then and now
There have been debates about the quality and usefulness of education research for a long time, with opinion often dividing along methodological lines. Those on different sides of an apparent methodological schism often bemoan the lack of recognition and resources afforded to their chosen approach. Whatever one's position on the existence, or persistence, of education research's own version of the ‘paradigm wars’, it is nevertheless the case that…
Effectiveness of Headsprout Early Reading® in Special Educational Needs Schools
Children with intellectual disabilities often find acquiring age‐appropriate reading skills difficult. We evaluated the impact of a structured online reading intervention on the reading skills of children aged 5–11 years in special educational needs (SEN) schools in England. A two‐armed cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT) compared Headsprout Early Reading® (HER®) with education as usual (EAU). Children completed the Dynamic Indicators of B…
Can a code-based approach to marking and feedback reduce teachers’ workload? An evaluation of the FLASH marking intervention
Teacher workload is an important policy concern in many education systems around the world, often considered a contributory factor in teacher attrition. One aspect of workload that could be addressed is reducing the amount of written marking and feedback that teachers do. This article reports on the results of an evaluation of FLASH Marking, an intervention aimed at reducing teachers’ marking workload. FLASH Marking is a code-based feedback appro…
A roadmap to coastal and marine ecological restoration in Australia
There is an urgent need for landscape-scale ecological restoration to reverse habitat loss and recover ecosystem functions and services. Given the unique nature of coastal and marine ecosystems a roadmap to overcome current barriers and guide transformative change is needed to achieve large-scale restoration. We conducted a national scale program of engagement with restoration practitioners, decision makers, industry, researchers, community group…
Neoliberalism, neoconservatism and private sector influence on curriculum policy
This paper re-examines the assertion that neoliberal and neoconservative discourses are necessarily aligned in framing education policy in the context of the school curriculum. We approach our task using evidence of private sector influence on the school curriculum. The financial sector has become emblematic of neoliberal influence on political and social relations, and we use the case of financial education to examine this further. Our evidence …
Involving patients and carers in patient safety in primary care
BACKGROUND: Involving patients is a key premise of national and international policies on patient safety, which requires understanding how patients or carers want to be involved and developing resources to support this. This paper examines patients' and carers' views of being involved in patient safety in primary care and their views of potentially using a co-designed patient safety guide for primary care (PSG-PC) to foster both involvement and t…
Homelessness, Politics, and Policy
When COVID-19 began to spread in the United States, the first public health orders were to hunker down at home. But for the vulnerable people experiencing homelessness, especially those sleeping outdoors, retreating to a private dwelling was not possible. This suggests that places with greater homelessness would also have elevated COVID-19 infections. This paper examines how spatial variation in unsheltered homelessness was related to the cumulat…
How to Get More People into Teaching? Comparing Undergraduates’ and Teacher Trainees’ Motivation and Perceptions of a Teaching Career
Understanding people’s perceptions of teaching as an occupation, and their motivation or otherwise to teach, can help identify which initiatives/policies are most promising in improving teacher recruitment. Previous studies have often sought only the views of teachers/teacher trainees to understand why people choose teaching as a career. Recruitment strategies based on evidence from such research are therefore only appealing to those who are alre…
Stakeholder identified research priorities for early intervention in psychosis
BACKGROUND: Public resources to answer pertinent research questions about the impact of illness and treatment on people with mental health problems are limited. To target funds effectively and efficiently and maximize the health benefits to populations, prioritizing research areas is needed. Research agendas are generally driven by researcher and funder priorities, however, there is growing recognition of the need to include user-defined research…
Defining and Assessing the Value of Canonical Mixed Methods Research Designs in Public Policy and Public Administration
Mixed methods research (MMR) designs are well suited for answering policy‐relevant questions, yet they remain underutilized in public policy and public administration scholarship. To provide a deeper understanding of the effective use of such designs, this article examines the prevalence of MMR in public policy and public administration journals, drawing a key distinction between “canonical” and “non‐canonical” MMR. Canonical mixed methods studie…
Combining timelining and storyboarding to create a novel method for INtervention DesIGn with stakehOlders
Design is a key part of the healthcare intervention development process, yet it is often viewed as unclear, unstructured, and challenging. INDIGO ('INtervention DesIGn with stakehOlders') is a new mixed method that brings structure and creativity to the healthcare intervention design process and facilitates a holistic perspective of complex interventions. INDIGO combines and adapts timelining and storyboarding and enables users to create a visual…
Spending the pupil premium
Introduced in England in 2011, the pupil premium policy was an ambitious reform aimed at tackling the persistent attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their more affluent peers. The policy provides school leaders with the professional autonomy to determine how pupil premium funding should be used. This article examines the decision-making processes and influences involved in the use of these additional resources. We conducted interviews…
Developing a patient safety guide for primary care
BACKGROUND: Patients and carers should be actively involved in patient safety and empowered to use person-centred approaches where they are asked to both identify safety concerns and partner in preventing them. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to co-design a patient safety guide for primary care (PSG-PC) to support patients and carers to address key patient safety questions and identify key points where they can make their care safer. The ob…
Teacher Recruitment and Retention
Background: A raft of initiatives and reforms have been introduced in many countries to attract and recruit school teachers, many of which do not have a clear evidence base, so their effectiveness remains unclear. Prior research has been largely correlational in design. This paper describes a rigorous and comprehensive review of international evidence, synthesising the findings of some of the strongest empirical work so far. Methods: The review s…
What works in attracting and retaining teachers in challenging schools and areas
This paper describes a systematic review of international research evidence identifying the most promising approaches to attracting and retaining teachers in hard-to-staff areas. Only empirical studies that employed a causal or suitable comparative design and had robust measurements of recruitment and retention outcomes were considered. Studies were assessed for strength of evidence taking into account threats to trustworthiness which may bias th…
'Wow, it's at the University'! Experiences of people with mental illness of an educational arts programme
This study gathered the experiences and perceptions of participants of a university-based programme of free arts education for people who use mental health services, known as Converge. A total of 70 per cent of the authors have lived experience of mental health difficulties and attend Converge courses. A Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach was taken, using Photo Elicitation to facilitate interviews with relatively new Converge participan…
Education policy
Education policy: evidence of equity and effectiveness." Journal of Education Policy, 35(4), pp. 583–584
Exploring temporality in socio-ecological resilience through experiences of the 2015–16 El Niño across the Tropics
In a context of both long-term climatic changes and short-term climatic shocks, temporal dynamics profoundly influence ecosystems and societies. In low income contexts in the Tropics, where both exposure and vulnerability to climatic fluctuations is high, the frequency, duration, and trends in these fluctuations are important determinants of socio-ecological resilience. In this paper, the dynamics of six diverse socio-ecological systems (SES) acr…
It’s more than just what it is’
Defining and Assessing the Value of Canonical Mixed Methods Research Designs in Public Policy and Public Administration
Mixed methods research (MMR) designs are well suited for answering policy‐relevant questions, yet they remain underutilized in public policy and public administration scholarship. To provide a deeper understanding of the effective use of such designs, this article examines the prevalence of MMR in public policy and public administration journals, drawing a key distinction between “canonical” and “non‐canonical” MMR. Canonical mixed methods studie…
Multiple Correlation and Ordinally Scaled Data
Four alternative measures of multiple correlation for ordinally scaled data are discussed: Goodman and Kruskal's gamma, Somers' dyx, Kendall's tau-c, and a new measure, gamma-k. They differ in their assumptions about the circumstances in which predictions should be evaluated, and also in their properties. Gamma and dyx may both decrease in value, implying a reduction in predictability, with the introduction of an additional predictor. By contrast…
Free Schools and disadvantaged intakes
The Free Schools policy in England has led to the opening of a number of new autonomous state‐funded schools. This article uses data from the Annual Schools Census to present the proportions of socioeconomically disadvantaged children attending the first three waves of these schools. It updates and builds on previous work that focused on the student composition of the first wave of Free Schools that opened in 2011. The analysis compares the Free …
Participation in voluntary and community organisations in the United Kingdom and the influences on the self-management of long-term conditions
Voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) have health benefits for those who attend and are viewed as having the potential to support long-term condition management. However, existing community-level understandings of participation do not explain the involvement with VCOs at an individual level, or the nature of support, which may elicit health benefits. Framing active participation as 'doing and experiencing', the aim of this qualitative stud…
What are the key predictors of international teacher shortages
Recurrent teacher shortages have been a long-standing problem for many countries. Popular strategies to attract and retain teachers, used over several decades across the world, include bursaries, scholarships, performance-related pay, professional development and reducing workload. Governments in England have invested heavily in such policy responses, but none have been shown to be particularly effective. Such policies have tended to be based on …
A roadmap to coastal and marine ecological restoration in Australia
There is an urgent need for landscape-scale ecological restoration to reverse habitat loss and recover ecosystem functions and services. Given the unique nature of coastal and marine ecosystems a roadmap to overcome current barriers and guide transformative change is needed to achieve large-scale restoration. We conducted a national scale program of engagement with restoration practitioners, decision makers, industry, researchers, community group…
Combining timelining and storyboarding to create a novel method for INtervention DesIGn with stakehOlders
Design is a key part of the healthcare intervention development process, yet it is often viewed as unclear, unstructured, and challenging. INDIGO ('INtervention DesIGn with stakehOlders') is a new mixed method that brings structure and creativity to the healthcare intervention design process and facilitates a holistic perspective of complex interventions. INDIGO combines and adapts timelining and storyboarding and enables users to create a visual…
Exploring temporality in socio-ecological resilience through experiences of the 2015–16 El Niño across the Tropics
In a context of both long-term climatic changes and short-term climatic shocks, temporal dynamics profoundly influence ecosystems and societies. In low income contexts in the Tropics, where both exposure and vulnerability to climatic fluctuations is high, the frequency, duration, and trends in these fluctuations are important determinants of socio-ecological resilience. In this paper, the dynamics of six diverse socio-ecological systems (SES) acr…
"Some Observations on Measurement and Statistics"
Journal Article “Some Observations on Measurement and Statistics”: Further Comment Get access Raymond N. Morris Raymond N. Morris American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 46, Issue 4, June 1968, Pages 541–542, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/46.4.541-a Published: 01 June 1968
The Sixth Form and College Entrance
The Sixth Form and College Entrance
Drawing on the great wealth of knowledge and experience of educational practitioners and theorists, these volumes explore the very important relationship between education and society. Including classic work by David Hargreaves, these books became standard texts for actual and intending teachers. Drawing upon comparative material from Israel, France and Germany, titles in this set also discuss the key questions of girls' and special needs educati…
Multiple Correlation and Ordinally Scaled Data
Four alternative measures of multiple correlation for ordinally scaled data are discussed: Goodman and Kruskal's gamma, Somers' dyx, Kendall's tau-c, and a new measure, gamma-k. They differ in their assumptions about the circumstances in which predictions should be evaluated, and also in their properties. Gamma and dyx may both decrease in value, implying a reduction in predictability, with the introduction of an additional predictor. By contrast…
It’s more than just what it is’
Universal Design and Adaptive Equipment
Rebecca Morris*Universal Design and Adaptive Equipment: Ideas and Solutions for Music SchoolsReceived December 2008[1] Universal design and adaptive equipment are important concepts for all public facilities, including music schools. In what follows, I will explain what those terms mean and explore some applications in academic environment we share as students of music and as musical scholars.Universal Design[2] Universal design is a term referri…
Linking people with long‐term health conditions to healthy community activities
OBJECTIVE: To combine insights from service users with long-term conditions (LTCs) to assist the development of a community referral intervention designed to promote engagement and improve access to health-relevant resources. BACKGROUND: Social deprivation and reduced access to resources have been causally linked with social isolation and the ability to manage LTCs. Participation in meaningful activity has been associated with positive health ben…
Participation in voluntary and community organisations in the United Kingdom and the influences on the self-management of long-term conditions
Voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) have health benefits for those who attend and are viewed as having the potential to support long-term condition management. However, existing community-level understandings of participation do not explain the involvement with VCOs at an individual level, or the nature of support, which may elicit health benefits. Framing active participation as 'doing and experiencing', the aim of this qualitative stud…
A scoping review to understand the effectiveness of linking schemes from healthcare providers to community resources to improve the health and well-being of people with long-term conditions
The prevalence of people living with long-term conditions is increasing, accompanied by an increased expectation that patients will become more involved in self-management. Long-term conditions are associated with increased social isolation and poor physical and mental health. But there remains a gap in health provision between providing medical treatment and effectively addressing psychosocial well-being. One potential way of addressing this gap…
Free Schools and disadvantaged intakes
The Free Schools policy in England has led to the opening of a number of new autonomous state‐funded schools. This article uses data from the Annual Schools Census to present the proportions of socioeconomically disadvantaged children attending the first three waves of these schools. It updates and builds on previous work that focused on the student composition of the first wave of Free Schools that opened in 2011. The analysis compares the Free …
'Wow, it's at the University'! Experiences of people with mental illness of an educational arts programme
This study gathered the experiences and perceptions of participants of a university-based programme of free arts education for people who use mental health services, known as Converge. A total of 70 per cent of the authors have lived experience of mental health difficulties and attend Converge courses. A Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach was taken, using Photo Elicitation to facilitate interviews with relatively new Converge participan…
Education policy
Education policy: evidence of equity and effectiveness." Journal of Education Policy, 35(4), pp. 583–584
Exploring temporality in socio-ecological resilience through experiences of the 2015–16 El Niño across the Tropics
In a context of both long-term climatic changes and short-term climatic shocks, temporal dynamics profoundly influence ecosystems and societies. In low income contexts in the Tropics, where both exposure and vulnerability to climatic fluctuations is high, the frequency, duration, and trends in these fluctuations are important determinants of socio-ecological resilience. In this paper, the dynamics of six diverse socio-ecological systems (SES) acr…
Teacher Recruitment and Retention
Background: A raft of initiatives and reforms have been introduced in many countries to attract and recruit school teachers, many of which do not have a clear evidence base, so their effectiveness remains unclear. Prior research has been largely correlational in design. This paper describes a rigorous and comprehensive review of international evidence, synthesising the findings of some of the strongest empirical work so far. Methods: The review s…
What works in attracting and retaining teachers in challenging schools and areas
This paper describes a systematic review of international research evidence identifying the most promising approaches to attracting and retaining teachers in hard-to-staff areas. Only empirical studies that employed a causal or suitable comparative design and had robust measurements of recruitment and retention outcomes were considered. Studies were assessed for strength of evidence taking into account threats to trustworthiness which may bias th…
Spending the pupil premium
Introduced in England in 2011, the pupil premium policy was an ambitious reform aimed at tackling the persistent attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their more affluent peers. The policy provides school leaders with the professional autonomy to determine how pupil premium funding should be used. This article examines the decision-making processes and influences involved in the use of these additional resources. We conducted interviews…
Developing a patient safety guide for primary care
BACKGROUND: Patients and carers should be actively involved in patient safety and empowered to use person-centred approaches where they are asked to both identify safety concerns and partner in preventing them. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to co-design a patient safety guide for primary care (PSG-PC) to support patients and carers to address key patient safety questions and identify key points where they can make their care safer. The ob…
How to Get More People into Teaching? Comparing Undergraduates’ and Teacher Trainees’ Motivation and Perceptions of a Teaching Career
Understanding people’s perceptions of teaching as an occupation, and their motivation or otherwise to teach, can help identify which initiatives/policies are most promising in improving teacher recruitment. Previous studies have often sought only the views of teachers/teacher trainees to understand why people choose teaching as a career. Recruitment strategies based on evidence from such research are therefore only appealing to those who are alre…
Stakeholder identified research priorities for early intervention in psychosis
BACKGROUND: Public resources to answer pertinent research questions about the impact of illness and treatment on people with mental health problems are limited. To target funds effectively and efficiently and maximize the health benefits to populations, prioritizing research areas is needed. Research agendas are generally driven by researcher and funder priorities, however, there is growing recognition of the need to include user-defined research…
Defining and Assessing the Value of Canonical Mixed Methods Research Designs in Public Policy and Public Administration
Mixed methods research (MMR) designs are well suited for answering policy‐relevant questions, yet they remain underutilized in public policy and public administration scholarship. To provide a deeper understanding of the effective use of such designs, this article examines the prevalence of MMR in public policy and public administration journals, drawing a key distinction between “canonical” and “non‐canonical” MMR. Canonical mixed methods studie…
Combining timelining and storyboarding to create a novel method for INtervention DesIGn with stakehOlders
Design is a key part of the healthcare intervention development process, yet it is often viewed as unclear, unstructured, and challenging. INDIGO ('INtervention DesIGn with stakehOlders') is a new mixed method that brings structure and creativity to the healthcare intervention design process and facilitates a holistic perspective of complex interventions. INDIGO combines and adapts timelining and storyboarding and enables users to create a visual…
Involving patients and carers in patient safety in primary care
BACKGROUND: Involving patients is a key premise of national and international policies on patient safety, which requires understanding how patients or carers want to be involved and developing resources to support this. This paper examines patients' and carers' views of being involved in patient safety in primary care and their views of potentially using a co-designed patient safety guide for primary care (PSG-PC) to foster both involvement and t…
Homelessness, Politics, and Policy
When COVID-19 began to spread in the United States, the first public health orders were to hunker down at home. But for the vulnerable people experiencing homelessness, especially those sleeping outdoors, retreating to a private dwelling was not possible. This suggests that places with greater homelessness would also have elevated COVID-19 infections. This paper examines how spatial variation in unsheltered homelessness was related to the cumulat…
Can a code-based approach to marking and feedback reduce teachers’ workload? An evaluation of the FLASH marking intervention
Teacher workload is an important policy concern in many education systems around the world, often considered a contributory factor in teacher attrition. One aspect of workload that could be addressed is reducing the amount of written marking and feedback that teachers do. This article reports on the results of an evaluation of FLASH Marking, an intervention aimed at reducing teachers’ marking workload. FLASH Marking is a code-based feedback appro…
A roadmap to coastal and marine ecological restoration in Australia
There is an urgent need for landscape-scale ecological restoration to reverse habitat loss and recover ecosystem functions and services. Given the unique nature of coastal and marine ecosystems a roadmap to overcome current barriers and guide transformative change is needed to achieve large-scale restoration. We conducted a national scale program of engagement with restoration practitioners, decision makers, industry, researchers, community group…
Psychology (20 obras) · Political science (19 obras) · Medicine (14 obras) · Public relations (11 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · Pedagogy (9 obras) · Economics (8 obras) · Mathematics education (7 obras) · Nursing (7 obras)