Adam Fletcher
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3927009 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Adam Fletcher |
| PRENOMES | Adam |
| SOBRENOME | Fletcher |
| ASSINATURA | FLETCHER A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6705-7659 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 126 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Government surveillance and facial recognition in Australia
Surveillance technologies – particularly digital surveillance technologies – have proliferated and become increasingly powerful in recent years. This article discusses recent and emerging legal and policy developments in Australia with respect to facial recognition and related technologies in particular. It analyses these developments from the perspective of international human rights law, focussing on privacy and related rights. The article cont…
Is patient activation a mediator of the effect of a health promoting intervention in adults at high risk of type 2 diabetes? A longitudinal path model analysis within a randomised trial
We found no mediating effects of patient activation as a single variable of the intervention "Live your life without diabetes" on weight, waist circumference and systolic blood pressure at 12 months follow-up in adults at high risk of type 2 diabetes. Our study demonstrates an analytic approach for estimating mediating effects in complex interventions that comply with the criteria on temporal ordered data. Future studies should include possible i…
Testing the “Zero‐Sum Game” Hypothesis
BACKGROUND: Health and education are intrinsically linked, while both are significantly patterned by socioeconomic status throughout the life course. Nevertheless, the impact of promoting health via schools on education is seen by some as a "zero-sum game"; ie, focusing resources on health improvement activity distracts schools from their core business of educating pupils, potentially compromising educational attainment. There is emerging evidenc…
Effects of the Learning Together intervention on bullying and aggression in English secondary schools (INCLUSIVE)
BACKGROUND: Bullying, aggression, and violence among children and young people are some of the most consequential public mental health problems. We tested the Learning Together intervention, which involved students in efforts to modify their school environment using restorative practice and by developing social and emotional skills. METHODS: We did a cluster randomised trial, with economic and process evaluations, of the Learning Together interve…
Development of a framework for the co-production and prototyping of public health interventions
ISRCTN14415936 , registered retrospectively on 05 November 2014
School composition, school culture and socioeconomic inequalities in young people's health
Health inequalities emerge during childhood and youth, before widening in adulthood. Theorising, testing and interrupting the mechanisms through which inequalities are perpetuated and sustained is vital. Schools are viewed as settings through which inequality in young people's health may be addressed, but few studies examine the social processes via which institutional structures reproduce or mitigate health inequalities. Informed by Markham and …
Variations in schools’ commitment to health and implementation of health improvement activities
There is no evidence of an 'inverse care law' in school health, with some evidence of more comprehensive, multi-level health improvement activity in more deprived schools. This large-scale, quantitative analysis supports previous smaller scale, qualitative studies/process evaluations that suggest that senior management team commitment to delivering health improvement, and formulating and reviewing progress against written action plans, are import…
Predictors of physical activity and sedentary behaviours among 11-16 year olds
Shorter lunch breaks were associated with increased sedentary time. Therefore, while further research is needed to better understand the causal nature of this association, extending lunch breaks could have a positive impact on sedentary behaviour through the provision of more time for physical activity. The findings also suggest that active travel could offer a mechanism for increasing physical activity levels particularly amongst girls. Particul…
A new measure of unhealthy school environments and its implications for critical assessments of health promotion in schools
The theory of human functioning and school organisation informed by Basil Bernstein’s sociology of education suggests that to gain the commitment and promote the health of students, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, schools require radical transformations eroding various ‘boundaries’: between and among staff and students; between students’ academic learning and broader social development and welfare; and between schools and their…
Positive youth development programmes to reduce substance use in young people
Systematic review and meta-analysis of effects of community-delivered positive youth development interventions on violence outcomes
Realist complex intervention science
The integration of realist evaluation principles within randomised controlled trials ('realist RCTs') enables evaluations of complex interventions to answer questions about what works, for whom and under what circumstances . This allows evaluators to better develop and refine mid-level programme theories. However, this is only one phase in the process of developing and evaluating complex interventions. We describe and exemplify how social scienti…
Where next with theory and research on how the school environment influences young people's substance use
In memoriam
Dr Farah Jamal's death at the age of 30 is a tragic loss for public health research. Despite her youth, she made significant scientific contributions in understanding how to improve young people's health and well-being, and through developing new methods that will help other researchers in the future. All her research was united by a concern for using sociological ideas to inform public health research, as well as a commitment to involving young …
We've Got Some Underground Business Selling Junk Food
Drawing on two qualitative studies, we report evidence of pervasive black markets in confectionery, 'junk' food and energy drinks in English secondary schools. Data were collected at six schools through focus groups and interviews with students ( n = 149) and staff ( n = 36), and direct observations. Supermarkets, new technologies and teachers' narrow focus on attainment have enabled these 'underground businesses' to emerge following increased st…
The effects of the school environment on student health
Methods don't make assumptions, researchers do
Distribution and determinants of risk of teenage motherhood in three British longitudinal studies
PURPOSE: In order to consider the potential contribution of universal versus targeted prevention interventions, the authors examined what is the distribution of established risk variables for teenage motherhood? from where in these distributions do births arise? and how does this distribution/determination of risk vary between studies? METHODS: Secondary data analysis of three British longitudinal studies. RESULTS: For all cohorts and variables, …
Social network influences on smoking, drinking and drug use in secondary school
We explore how school experiences and social networks structure young people's substance use in different institutional contexts. The concepts of 'selection' and 'influence' are situated within the context of bounded agency, counter-school cultures and Bourdieusian notions of capital. We employed individual and group interviews, network-mapping, and observations at two contrasting English secondary schools. Both schools were characterised by exte…
What works in reducing inequalities in child health, by Helen Roberts
What works in reducing inequalities in child health, by Helen Roberts, Bristol, The Policy Press, 2012, 170 pp., (paperback) ISBN 978-1-84742-996-4 Drawing on the most recent evidence from the UK a
Australia and the Opcat
The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture ('OPCAT') is a unique, action‐based treaty which is designed to protect people everywhere who have been deprived of their liberty. Detention puts individuals in a very vulnerable position, as they are at the mercy of the State and rely on the authorities for even their most basic needs. This raises a very real risk of human rights abuses - a risk which can only be mitigated by strong oversig…
How market-oriented education policies might influence young people's health
BACKGROUND: School systems are increasingly typified by diversity of provision, parental choice and publication of performance data. Schools shape their students' lifestyles and health, but the effects of 'marketisation' are under-researched. The authors use qualitative data to develop a logic model regarding such effects. METHODS: Case studies in seven English secondary schools, interviews with 103 students and 39 staff. RESULTS: 'Parental choic…
Realist randomised controlled trials
Injustice
Injustice: why social inequality persists, by Daniel Dorling, Bristol, The Policy Press, 2010, 387 pp., hardcover, ISBN 978 1 84742 426 6 In this book, Daniel Dorling provides a detailed account of
You are what your friends eat
Realist randomised controlled trials
Realist complex intervention science
The integration of realist evaluation principles within randomised controlled trials ('realist RCTs') enables evaluations of complex interventions to answer questions about what works, for whom and under what circumstances . This allows evaluators to better develop and refine mid-level programme theories. However, this is only one phase in the process of developing and evaluating complex interventions. We describe and exemplify how social scienti…
New counter‐school cultures
We draw on case‐study research at a high‐achieving secondary school in London to illustrate how school experiences may influence drug use and reproduce inequalities in reconstructed ways in late modernity. Qualitative data were collected through semi‐structured interviews with students and teachers, and observations. We focus in particular on the accounts of three female students expressing a shared counter‐school identity and style to explore ho…
We've Got Some Underground Business Selling Junk Food
Drawing on two qualitative studies, we report evidence of pervasive black markets in confectionery, 'junk' food and energy drinks in English secondary schools. Data were collected at six schools through focus groups and interviews with students ( n = 149) and staff ( n = 36), and direct observations. Supermarkets, new technologies and teachers' narrow focus on attainment have enabled these 'underground businesses' to emerge following increased st…
School composition, school culture and socioeconomic inequalities in young people's health
Health inequalities emerge during childhood and youth, before widening in adulthood. Theorising, testing and interrupting the mechanisms through which inequalities are perpetuated and sustained is vital. Schools are viewed as settings through which inequality in young people's health may be addressed, but few studies examine the social processes via which institutional structures reproduce or mitigate health inequalities. Informed by Markham and …
Social network influences on smoking, drinking and drug use in secondary school
We explore how school experiences and social networks structure young people's substance use in different institutional contexts. The concepts of 'selection' and 'influence' are situated within the context of bounded agency, counter-school cultures and Bourdieusian notions of capital. We employed individual and group interviews, network-mapping, and observations at two contrasting English secondary schools. Both schools were characterised by exte…
How market-oriented education policies might influence young people's health
BACKGROUND: School systems are increasingly typified by diversity of provision, parental choice and publication of performance data. Schools shape their students' lifestyles and health, but the effects of 'marketisation' are under-researched. The authors use qualitative data to develop a logic model regarding such effects. METHODS: Case studies in seven English secondary schools, interviews with 103 students and 39 staff. RESULTS: 'Parental choic…
Design, objectives, and lessons from a pilot 25 year follow up re-survey of survivors in the Whitehall study of London Civil Servants
DESIGN: To assess the feasibility of conducting a re-survey of men who are resident in the United Kingdom 25 years after enrollment in the Whitehall study of London Civil Servants. METHODS: A random sample of 401 study survivors resident in three health authority areas was selected for this pilot study. They were mailed a request to complete a self administered questionnaire, and then asked to attend their general practice to have their blood pre…
Distribution and determinants of risk of teenage motherhood in three British longitudinal studies
PURPOSE: In order to consider the potential contribution of universal versus targeted prevention interventions, the authors examined what is the distribution of established risk variables for teenage motherhood? from where in these distributions do births arise? and how does this distribution/determination of risk vary between studies? METHODS: Secondary data analysis of three British longitudinal studies. RESULTS: For all cohorts and variables, …
Design, objectives, and lessons from a pilot 25 year follow up re-survey of survivors in the Whitehall study of London Civil Servants
DESIGN: To assess the feasibility of conducting a re-survey of men who are resident in the United Kingdom 25 years after enrollment in the Whitehall study of London Civil Servants. METHODS: A random sample of 401 study survivors resident in three health authority areas was selected for this pilot study. They were mailed a request to complete a self administered questionnaire, and then asked to attend their general practice to have their blood pre…
Systematic review exploring time trends in the association between educational attainment and risk of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa
Cannabis use and ‘safe’ identities in an inner-city school risk environment
New counter‐school cultures
We draw on case‐study research at a high‐achieving secondary school in London to illustrate how school experiences may influence drug use and reproduce inequalities in reconstructed ways in late modernity. Qualitative data were collected through semi‐structured interviews with students and teachers, and observations. We focus in particular on the accounts of three female students expressing a shared counter‐school identity and style to explore ho…
We don’t have no drugs education”
Injustice
Injustice: why social inequality persists, by Daniel Dorling, Bristol, The Policy Press, 2010, 387 pp., hardcover, ISBN 978 1 84742 426 6 In this book, Daniel Dorling provides a detailed account of
You are what your friends eat
What works in reducing inequalities in child health, by Helen Roberts
What works in reducing inequalities in child health, by Helen Roberts, Bristol, The Policy Press, 2012, 170 pp., (paperback) ISBN 978-1-84742-996-4 Drawing on the most recent evidence from the UK a
Australia and the Opcat
The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture ('OPCAT') is a unique, action‐based treaty which is designed to protect people everywhere who have been deprived of their liberty. Detention puts individuals in a very vulnerable position, as they are at the mercy of the State and rely on the authorities for even their most basic needs. This raises a very real risk of human rights abuses - a risk which can only be mitigated by strong oversig…
How market-oriented education policies might influence young people's health
BACKGROUND: School systems are increasingly typified by diversity of provision, parental choice and publication of performance data. Schools shape their students' lifestyles and health, but the effects of 'marketisation' are under-researched. The authors use qualitative data to develop a logic model regarding such effects. METHODS: Case studies in seven English secondary schools, interviews with 103 students and 39 staff. RESULTS: 'Parental choic…
Realist randomised controlled trials
The effects of the school environment on student health
Methods don't make assumptions, researchers do
Distribution and determinants of risk of teenage motherhood in three British longitudinal studies
PURPOSE: In order to consider the potential contribution of universal versus targeted prevention interventions, the authors examined what is the distribution of established risk variables for teenage motherhood? from where in these distributions do births arise? and how does this distribution/determination of risk vary between studies? METHODS: Secondary data analysis of three British longitudinal studies. RESULTS: For all cohorts and variables, …
Social network influences on smoking, drinking and drug use in secondary school
We explore how school experiences and social networks structure young people's substance use in different institutional contexts. The concepts of 'selection' and 'influence' are situated within the context of bounded agency, counter-school cultures and Bourdieusian notions of capital. We employed individual and group interviews, network-mapping, and observations at two contrasting English secondary schools. Both schools were characterised by exte…
We've Got Some Underground Business Selling Junk Food
Drawing on two qualitative studies, we report evidence of pervasive black markets in confectionery, 'junk' food and energy drinks in English secondary schools. Data were collected at six schools through focus groups and interviews with students ( n = 149) and staff ( n = 36), and direct observations. Supermarkets, new technologies and teachers' narrow focus on attainment have enabled these 'underground businesses' to emerge following increased st…
Variations in schools’ commitment to health and implementation of health improvement activities
There is no evidence of an 'inverse care law' in school health, with some evidence of more comprehensive, multi-level health improvement activity in more deprived schools. This large-scale, quantitative analysis supports previous smaller scale, qualitative studies/process evaluations that suggest that senior management team commitment to delivering health improvement, and formulating and reviewing progress against written action plans, are import…
Predictors of physical activity and sedentary behaviours among 11-16 year olds
Shorter lunch breaks were associated with increased sedentary time. Therefore, while further research is needed to better understand the causal nature of this association, extending lunch breaks could have a positive impact on sedentary behaviour through the provision of more time for physical activity. The findings also suggest that active travel could offer a mechanism for increasing physical activity levels particularly amongst girls. Particul…
A new measure of unhealthy school environments and its implications for critical assessments of health promotion in schools
The theory of human functioning and school organisation informed by Basil Bernstein’s sociology of education suggests that to gain the commitment and promote the health of students, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, schools require radical transformations eroding various ‘boundaries’: between and among staff and students; between students’ academic learning and broader social development and welfare; and between schools and their…
Positive youth development programmes to reduce substance use in young people
Systematic review and meta-analysis of effects of community-delivered positive youth development interventions on violence outcomes
Realist complex intervention science
The integration of realist evaluation principles within randomised controlled trials ('realist RCTs') enables evaluations of complex interventions to answer questions about what works, for whom and under what circumstances . This allows evaluators to better develop and refine mid-level programme theories. However, this is only one phase in the process of developing and evaluating complex interventions. We describe and exemplify how social scienti…
Where next with theory and research on how the school environment influences young people's substance use
In memoriam
Dr Farah Jamal's death at the age of 30 is a tragic loss for public health research. Despite her youth, she made significant scientific contributions in understanding how to improve young people's health and well-being, and through developing new methods that will help other researchers in the future. All her research was united by a concern for using sociological ideas to inform public health research, as well as a commitment to involving young …
Development of a framework for the co-production and prototyping of public health interventions
ISRCTN14415936 , registered retrospectively on 05 November 2014
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