Kim Walker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4245342 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kim Walker |
| PRENOMES | Kim |
| SOBRENOME | Walker |
| ASSINATURA | WALKER K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2617-4768 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Legal Use of Potentially Poisonous Plants
The power of animation
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated already high rates of poor psychological wellbeing in doctors. Many doctors perceive a stigma associated with acknowledging psychological wellbeing concerns, resulting in a reluctance to seek support for those concerns. The aim of this study was to develop a theoretically-informed and evidence-based composite narrative animation (CNA) to encourage doctors to access support for psychological wellbeing, and to …
Context matters in curriculum reform
Scratching beneath the surface
Heard, valued, supported? Doctors' wellbeing during transitions triggered by Covid‐19
Dysphania schraderiana (Schult.) Mosyakin & Clemants – An overlooked medicinal and ritual plant used in Poland
D. schraderiana is a rare case of a non-native plant traditionally used within an area of Europe but previously nearly overlooked in European ethnobotanical literature. Historical uses of Dysphania spp. in other areas of Poland and former Poland (now western Ukraine) suggest that the genus was used more widely in regions beyond the one studied. However, a very compact distribution of use suggests that D. schraderiana may have been brought to SE P…
How can inhabited institutionalism inform the analysis of medical education
Is alcohol a tropical medicine? Scientific understandings of climate, stimulants and bodies in Victorian and Edwardian tropical travel
This paper offers a new perspective on historical understandings of the relationship between alcohol, climate and the body, by studying the way that British explorers of tropical Africa drank alcohol and wrote about drink between c. 1850 and c. 1910. We demonstrate that alcohol was simultaneously classified as a medicinal, a preventative and a pleasurable drink, shaped by competing medical theories, but that distinctions between these different r…
Purposive sampling
BACKGROUND: Purposive sampling has a long developmental history and there are as many views that it is simple and straightforward as there are about its complexity. The reason for purposive sampling is the better matching of the sample to the aims and objectives of the research, thus improving the rigour of the study and trustworthiness of the data and results. Four aspects to this concept have previously been described: credibility, transferabil…
Today's doctors
Towards an ‘optics of power’
Midwives in New Zealand achieved professional autonomy in 1990 with an amendment to the Nurses Act 1977. Predicated on a natural approach to childbirth it was envisaged that midwifery would counter the trend of increasing medicalisation of childbirth. Some 20 years later, we continue to be concerned by increasing rates of intervention in childbirth including caesarean section operations. Midwifery practice is no longer supervised in a hierarchica…
The corporeal, the social and space/place
This article explores the interrelations between the corporeal, the social and the spatial as they operate to shape the discursive and material realities of childbirth in the obstetric hospital setting. It draws on interviews conducted with midwives throughout New Zealand and embodies key insights derived from the work of Michel Foucault and Elizabeth Grosz. The obstetric hospital is theorised as a product of particular socio-political relations …
Doing research in environmental education
Who are your public? A survey comparing the views of a population-based sample with those of a community-based public forum in Scotland
differences in demographic profiles and opinions about different feedback mechanisms (patient representative, telephone helpline and NHS feedback website) and their likely effectiveness in three different scenarios. 46% of community forum members consented to take part compared to 24% of the population sample. Younger people and residents in more deprived areas were under-represented in both groups. Community forum members were older (only one un…
Case studies, make‐your‐case studies, and case stories
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKim E. Walker ** Corresponding author: Kim E. Walker, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK * Corresponding author: Kim E. Walker, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
Factors Influencing Young People's Conceptions of Environment
Environmental education in schools is an important strategy in achieving environmental protection and improvement. However, it needs to be based on children's understandings of environment rather than on assumptions of what children know and believe. In a previous article (Loughland et al ., 2002), we reported on a research project where school children's responses to an open-ended statement 'I think the term/word environment means' were analysed…
The Socio-cultural Influences on Environmental Understandings of Australian School Students
The study reported in this paper emerged from a concern that despite 20 years of theorizing about the practice of environmental education in Australian schools it continues to be marginalized in the school curriculum. The educational problem we set out to address was how to improve teaching and learning in relation to environmental issues in schools and the broader community in Australia. In this paper we position our study in relation to Rickins…
Evaluating The Credibility Of Current State Policy In Governing The Management Of Stormwater Pond Sediment
Florida state policy—not promulgated regulation—governs stormwater pond sediment disposal, considers sediment a solid waste, and restricts disposal to specific facility types. The policy’s restrictions and lack of regulatory criteria provide no disposal management options for local government. The unnecessarily restrictive state policy prompted the city of Tallahassee to conduct a stormwater pond sediment study to determine whether existing sedim…
Developing consumer‐led maternity services
Objective This paper describes a prospective study of women’s views and experiences of maternity services. The aim was to examine the way women make choices and decisions about maternity care and the factors which influence decision making, with a view to developing services which best meet the needs of the population. Patient choice issues reviewed included: choice of place of birth, choice of lead professional and choices in labour management. …
Challenging Critical Theory in Environmental Education
This paper asks why educational researchers have failed to improve the teaching and learning of environmental education in schools. It argues that much of this research has been grounded in socially critical theory and, while the theory is an effective mechanism to critique practice, it does not provide the strategies to solve educational problems. The paper develops the argument that socially critical theory falls short of the transformative pro…
An Aboriginal View of Australian History
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Case studies, make‐your‐case studies, and case stories
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKim E. Walker ** Corresponding author: Kim E. Walker, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK * Corresponding author: Kim E. Walker, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
The corporeal, the social and space/place
This article explores the interrelations between the corporeal, the social and the spatial as they operate to shape the discursive and material realities of childbirth in the obstetric hospital setting. It draws on interviews conducted with midwives throughout New Zealand and embodies key insights derived from the work of Michel Foucault and Elizabeth Grosz. The obstetric hospital is theorised as a product of particular socio-political relations …
Challenging Critical Theory in Environmental Education
This paper asks why educational researchers have failed to improve the teaching and learning of environmental education in schools. It argues that much of this research has been grounded in socially critical theory and, while the theory is an effective mechanism to critique practice, it does not provide the strategies to solve educational problems. The paper develops the argument that socially critical theory falls short of the transformative pro…
Towards an ‘optics of power’
Midwives in New Zealand achieved professional autonomy in 1990 with an amendment to the Nurses Act 1977. Predicated on a natural approach to childbirth it was envisaged that midwifery would counter the trend of increasing medicalisation of childbirth. Some 20 years later, we continue to be concerned by increasing rates of intervention in childbirth including caesarean section operations. Midwifery practice is no longer supervised in a hierarchica…
Who are your public? A survey comparing the views of a population-based sample with those of a community-based public forum in Scotland
differences in demographic profiles and opinions about different feedback mechanisms (patient representative, telephone helpline and NHS feedback website) and their likely effectiveness in three different scenarios. 46% of community forum members consented to take part compared to 24% of the population sample. Younger people and residents in more deprived areas were under-represented in both groups. Community forum members were older (only one un…
Factors Influencing Young People's Conceptions of Environment
Environmental education in schools is an important strategy in achieving environmental protection and improvement. However, it needs to be based on children's understandings of environment rather than on assumptions of what children know and believe. In a previous article (Loughland et al ., 2002), we reported on a research project where school children's responses to an open-ended statement 'I think the term/word environment means' were analysed…
An Aboriginal View of Australian History
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
An Aboriginal View of Australian History
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Challenging Critical Theory in Environmental Education
This paper asks why educational researchers have failed to improve the teaching and learning of environmental education in schools. It argues that much of this research has been grounded in socially critical theory and, while the theory is an effective mechanism to critique practice, it does not provide the strategies to solve educational problems. The paper develops the argument that socially critical theory falls short of the transformative pro…
Developing consumer‐led maternity services
Objective This paper describes a prospective study of women’s views and experiences of maternity services. The aim was to examine the way women make choices and decisions about maternity care and the factors which influence decision making, with a view to developing services which best meet the needs of the population. Patient choice issues reviewed included: choice of place of birth, choice of lead professional and choices in labour management. …
Factors Influencing Young People's Conceptions of Environment
Environmental education in schools is an important strategy in achieving environmental protection and improvement. However, it needs to be based on children's understandings of environment rather than on assumptions of what children know and believe. In a previous article (Loughland et al ., 2002), we reported on a research project where school children's responses to an open-ended statement 'I think the term/word environment means' were analysed…
The Socio-cultural Influences on Environmental Understandings of Australian School Students
The study reported in this paper emerged from a concern that despite 20 years of theorizing about the practice of environmental education in Australian schools it continues to be marginalized in the school curriculum. The educational problem we set out to address was how to improve teaching and learning in relation to environmental issues in schools and the broader community in Australia. In this paper we position our study in relation to Rickins…
Evaluating The Credibility Of Current State Policy In Governing The Management Of Stormwater Pond Sediment
Florida state policy—not promulgated regulation—governs stormwater pond sediment disposal, considers sediment a solid waste, and restricts disposal to specific facility types. The policy’s restrictions and lack of regulatory criteria provide no disposal management options for local government. The unnecessarily restrictive state policy prompted the city of Tallahassee to conduct a stormwater pond sediment study to determine whether existing sedim…
Case studies, make‐your‐case studies, and case stories
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKim E. Walker ** Corresponding author: Kim E. Walker, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK * Corresponding author: Kim E. Walker, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
Who are your public? A survey comparing the views of a population-based sample with those of a community-based public forum in Scotland
differences in demographic profiles and opinions about different feedback mechanisms (patient representative, telephone helpline and NHS feedback website) and their likely effectiveness in three different scenarios. 46% of community forum members consented to take part compared to 24% of the population sample. Younger people and residents in more deprived areas were under-represented in both groups. Community forum members were older (only one un…
Doing research in environmental education
The corporeal, the social and space/place
This article explores the interrelations between the corporeal, the social and the spatial as they operate to shape the discursive and material realities of childbirth in the obstetric hospital setting. It draws on interviews conducted with midwives throughout New Zealand and embodies key insights derived from the work of Michel Foucault and Elizabeth Grosz. The obstetric hospital is theorised as a product of particular socio-political relations …
Towards an ‘optics of power’
Midwives in New Zealand achieved professional autonomy in 1990 with an amendment to the Nurses Act 1977. Predicated on a natural approach to childbirth it was envisaged that midwifery would counter the trend of increasing medicalisation of childbirth. Some 20 years later, we continue to be concerned by increasing rates of intervention in childbirth including caesarean section operations. Midwifery practice is no longer supervised in a hierarchica…
Purposive sampling
BACKGROUND: Purposive sampling has a long developmental history and there are as many views that it is simple and straightforward as there are about its complexity. The reason for purposive sampling is the better matching of the sample to the aims and objectives of the research, thus improving the rigour of the study and trustworthiness of the data and results. Four aspects to this concept have previously been described: credibility, transferabil…
Today's doctors
How can inhabited institutionalism inform the analysis of medical education
Is alcohol a tropical medicine? Scientific understandings of climate, stimulants and bodies in Victorian and Edwardian tropical travel
This paper offers a new perspective on historical understandings of the relationship between alcohol, climate and the body, by studying the way that British explorers of tropical Africa drank alcohol and wrote about drink between c. 1850 and c. 1910. We demonstrate that alcohol was simultaneously classified as a medicinal, a preventative and a pleasurable drink, shaped by competing medical theories, but that distinctions between these different r…
Heard, valued, supported? Doctors' wellbeing during transitions triggered by Covid‐19
Dysphania schraderiana (Schult.) Mosyakin & Clemants – An overlooked medicinal and ritual plant used in Poland
D. schraderiana is a rare case of a non-native plant traditionally used within an area of Europe but previously nearly overlooked in European ethnobotanical literature. Historical uses of Dysphania spp. in other areas of Poland and former Poland (now western Ukraine) suggest that the genus was used more widely in regions beyond the one studied. However, a very compact distribution of use suggests that D. schraderiana may have been brought to SE P…
Context matters in curriculum reform
Scratching beneath the surface
The power of animation
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated already high rates of poor psychological wellbeing in doctors. Many doctors perceive a stigma associated with acknowledging psychological wellbeing concerns, resulting in a reluctance to seek support for those concerns. The aim of this study was to develop a theoretically-informed and evidence-based composite narrative animation (CNA) to encourage doctors to access support for psychological wellbeing, and to …
Legal Use of Potentially Poisonous Plants
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