Ian Thomas
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5660775 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ian Thomas |
| PRENOMES | Ian |
| SOBRENOME | Thomas |
| ASSINATURA | THOMAS I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9808-0202 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 134 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Spondylolysis
Background: Spondylolysis is a stress fracture of the pars interarticularis, most common in adolescents and athletes involved in sports requiring repetitive spinal loading, extension, and rotation. The condition is often underdiagnosed due to delays in presentation and diagnosis, particularly among non-orthopedic providers. Aims: This review aims to summarize the current understanding of spondylolysis, focusing on its etiology, diagnosis, managem…
Water-based coupling of amino acids for sustainable solid-phase peptide synthesis
A typology of multiple exclusion homelessness
Quantitative exploration of sub-groups of people experiencing homelessness facing similar challenges, or multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH), is limited in Great Britain—as is discussion of what these groupings mean for policy and practice. Through secondary analysis of survey data from a study of single people experiencing homelessness in England, Scotland, and Wales, this paper aims to advance understanding of MEH. Using Latent Class Analysis…
Assessing the coverage and timeliness of coronavirus vaccination among people experiencing homelessness in Wales, UK
Despite being prioritised for vaccination, people experiencing homelessness in Wales appear to have been under-engaged, leading to lower vaccination coverage and greater time unvaccinated, potentially increasing their risk of COVID-19 complications and mortality
Municipal officials’ perspectives on policymaking for addressing obesity and health equity
Understanding factors affecting the uptake of EBPs can inform local-level interventions that encourage EBP adoption
Competencies or capabilities in the Australian higher education landscape and its implications for the development and delivery of sustainability education
The question of how to embed transformative change through the implementation of sustainability principles in our education systems has become increasingly important as complex situations, like pandemics and climate change, challenge societies. Education underpinned by a sustainability paradigm requires students to develop the ability to think critically about the nature of knowledge and about the ways in which knowledge is produced and validated…
Climate-driven early agricultural origins and development in the Nile Delta, Egypt
Graduate ability to show workplace sustainability leadership
Custody and fostering teenagers
This paper offers a brief consideration of the internal and external factors impacting children and young people who have become in conflict with the law
The use of the theory of planned behaviour to assess graduate attributes for sustainability
Higher Education plays an influential role in societal transformation towards sustainability. An understanding of the application of sustainability learning from degree programs in a graduate’s professional practice can serve as an important feedback loop for developing and advancing sustainability in higher education. A knowledge gap exists between graduate learning outcomes and employability skills, with little exploration of the methods to col…
Post-sustainability and environmental education
Post-sustainability and environmental education: remaking the future for education has arisen from a 2015 conference session that addressed a concern that environmental education related concepts h
Long-term environmental change in eastern Tasmania
Tasmania’s dry, inland east is ideally positioned to inform models of late Quaternary environmental change in southern Australasia. Despite this, it remains poorly represented in the palaeoecological record. Here, we seek to address this with a >13,000-year vegetation and fire history from Stoney Lagoon, a site at the eastern margin of Tasmania’s inland Midlands plains. Pollen and charcoal analysis indicates that here, a relatively moist early de…
The learning sticks’
Use of role-plays to develop deep student-learning has many advocates. Role-play is a powerful approach for learning that develops relevant skills in a range of disciplines and situations. In Higher Education, sustainability programmes role-play pedagogy appears to have great relevance for developing the competencies that these graduates will need. The ability of role-play pedagogy to develop these competencies was assessed through a case study o…
Vignette question design for the assessment of graduate sustainability learning outcomes
The development of university wide graduate attributes has become an important mechanism for setting generic learning outcomes across higher education institutions. Many universities around the world have developed sets of graduate attributes that they aim to develop through degree programs. Sustainability related attributes have been included in numerous university attribute statements, however, little research exists on methods that can be used…
Middle Holocene coastal environment and the rise of the Liangzhu City complex on the Yangtze delta, China
The large prehistoric city of Liangzhu and its associated earthen dike emerged on the Yangtze delta-coast after two millennia of occupation in this area by scattered communities. Details of its development have been widely discussed in the literature. Our results reveal that the city was selectively built at the head of an embayment backed by hills, with close access to food, freshwater and timber, and with protection from coastal hazards. Radioc…
A sustainability education academic development framework (Sead)
Academic development is one means of reorientating education within higher education (HE) to include sustainability principles. This paper identifies the requirements of academic development programmes that will provide educators with the skills to engage students in the ideas of sustainability and sustainable development. In order to determine what an ideal academic development programme for sustainability education might look like, a theoretica…
The Impact of a Signalized Crosswalk on Traffic Speed and Street-Crossing Behaviors of Residents in an Underserved Neighborhood
The Housing Pathways of Young People in the UK
The authors examine the housing pathways of young people in the UK in the years 1999 to 2008, and consider the changing nature of these pathways in the run up to 2020. They employ a highly innovative methodology, which begins with the identification and description of key drivers likely to affect young people's housing circumstances in the future. The empirical identification and analysis of housing pathways is then achieved using multiple-sequen…
Synthesising case-study research – ready for the next step
Within the emerging field of research on education for sustainability (EfS), case studies are an important if not the predominant research approach, although often criticised for its lack of internal and external validity and a tendency to draw conclusions with insufficient rigour. While, basic concerns have been expressed and discussed in an early issue of this journal, main assumption still hold true after more than 10 years of research in the …
Insights into the value of a ‘stand‐alone’ course for sustainability education
Education for sustainability (EfS) is emerging as an urgent imperative and challenge for higher education. But what exactly does it mean to put sustainability into higher education? How do we bring sustainability themes into university curriculum, across the enormous diversity of academic disciplines? This paper describes the experience of teaching a large ‘stand‐alone’ EfS subject which sits within the professional contexts of the large first‐ye…
A Holocene record of sea level, vegetation, people and fire from western Tasmania, Australia
The analysis of a 10 000 calendar year (cal. ka) pollen record on the west coast of Tasmania has revealed a suite of changes that can be related to sea level, fire and people. Fire-promoted moorland has occupied the site for the entire period and challenges the long-held assumption that rainforest dominated the landscape of western Tasmania through the early to mid Holocene. Changes in wetland taxa and the occurrence of benthic marine diatoms ind…
Student Preparation for the International Environmental Profession
Many universities have strategies for exposing students to international experiences, but little is reported on their implementation. One example of an implemented activity is the multidisciplinary research project for undergraduate environment students, at RMIT University, that both prepares students to work in the environment profession and exposes them to working in an international context. Feedback from project participants demonstrates that…
Critical Thinking, Transformative Learning, Sustainable Education, and Problem-Based Learning in Universities
In universities, the need for education associated with sustainability is widely accepted and it is increasingly being introduced. However, the associated concepts and terms are contested—education for sustainable development and education for sustainability represent increasing levels of change required in curricula, while achieving sustainable education will require even greater change. A transformative pedagogy underlies and contributes to the…
Pre-European Fire Regimes in Australian Ecosystems
We use multiple lines of evidence, including palaeo-environmental, ecological, historical, anthropological and archaeological, to investigate pre-European fire regimes in Australia, with particular focus on the extent to which the use of fire by Aboriginal peoples since their colonisation of the continent at least 45,000 years ago has impacted on the Australian biota. The relative roles of people and climate (including past climate change) as age…
Careers in the environment in Australia
Internationally, commentators have identified a growing demand for environmental expertise. Matching this has been an expansion in the range of environmental careers available to workers: from environment protection and bio-physical areas, to local government operations, environmental auditing, assessment, and management. However, in Australia there is no overall picture of the types of jobs graduates in this sector have undertaken, which has lim…
The Housing Pathways of Young People in the UK
The authors examine the housing pathways of young people in the UK in the years 1999 to 2008, and consider the changing nature of these pathways in the run up to 2020. They employ a highly innovative methodology, which begins with the identification and description of key drivers likely to affect young people's housing circumstances in the future. The empirical identification and analysis of housing pathways is then achieved using multiple-sequen…
Fraser Island Archaeological Project (Fiap)
Coastal southeast Queensland is one of the most intensively studied archaeological regions of Australia. While the Fraser Island World Heritage Area is the most famous landscape in this coastal region, no archaeological excavations have been undertaken and its ancient Aboriginal past remains poorly understood. The Fraser Island Archaeological Project (FIAP) redresses this situation. Excavations at Waddy Point 1 Rockshelter (WP1) in July/August 20…
A Holocene record of sea level, vegetation, people and fire from western Tasmania, Australia
The analysis of a 10 000 calendar year (cal. ka) pollen record on the west coast of Tasmania has revealed a suite of changes that can be related to sea level, fire and people. Fire-promoted moorland has occupied the site for the entire period and challenges the long-held assumption that rainforest dominated the landscape of western Tasmania through the early to mid Holocene. Changes in wetland taxa and the occurrence of benthic marine diatoms ind…
Excavations at Sos Höyük, 1995
Archaeological investigations this year at Sos Höyük, carried out by the University of Melbourne and Erzurum Museum, took place in the summer, between 2 June and 3 August. The aims for the 1995 season included activities both on the mound and off-site. Among the former objectives, was the need to expose further the Medieval settlement on the summit of the mound, and the burnt building of the Hellenistic period in trenches L14 and L13. Excavation …
Late Pleistocene Environments And Aboriginal Settlement Patierns In Tasmania
A recent trend in Tasmanian Aboriginal studies has been the development of ecologically based archaeological models. Many of these have addressed the role played by forest distributions in regard to Aboriginal settlement patterns. The majority's opinion is that forests of all kinds acted as barriers to settlement and communication. However, a close reading of the available ethnohistoric literature and an analysis of inland site distributions reve…
In situ Agrobiodiversity Conservation for Regional Development in Nepal
The relationship between local authorities and TECs in metropolitan areas
Credit unions and local government
Sustainability Education and Australian Universities
Since the early 1990s, there has been discussion about the need for the curriculum of universities to provide students with understanding about the environment. Over the decade this discussion has evolved from thinking about how to green the university curriculum, through to proposals for our students to be environmentally literate and to receive education for sustainability (or sustainability education). Internationally, there have been many ins…
Vignette question design for the assessment of graduate sustainability learning outcomes
The development of university wide graduate attributes has become an important mechanism for setting generic learning outcomes across higher education institutions. Many universities around the world have developed sets of graduate attributes that they aim to develop through degree programs. Sustainability related attributes have been included in numerous university attribute statements, however, little research exists on methods that can be used…
Insights into the value of a ‘stand‐alone’ course for sustainability education
Education for sustainability (EfS) is emerging as an urgent imperative and challenge for higher education. But what exactly does it mean to put sustainability into higher education? How do we bring sustainability themes into university curriculum, across the enormous diversity of academic disciplines? This paper describes the experience of teaching a large ‘stand‐alone’ EfS subject which sits within the professional contexts of the large first‐ye…
Pre-European Fire Regimes in Australian Ecosystems
We use multiple lines of evidence, including palaeo-environmental, ecological, historical, anthropological and archaeological, to investigate pre-European fire regimes in Australia, with particular focus on the extent to which the use of fire by Aboriginal peoples since their colonisation of the continent at least 45,000 years ago has impacted on the Australian biota. The relative roles of people and climate (including past climate change) as age…
A 5600-yr history of changing vegetation, sea levels and human impacts from the Black Sea coast of Georgia
Mid-late Holocene pollen evidence from the Ispani-II Sphagnum bog in lowland Western Georgia shows that 4500 years ago Castanea (chestnut)-dominated woods rapidly declined to be replaced by alder swamps and, later, during the first millennium bc, by open, marshy landscapes in which fire played a prominent part. Around 1900 years ago, Sphagnum blanket bog encroached on the marshes and dense Fagus-Carpinus (beech-hornbeam) forest enveloped the surr…
In Situ Agrobiodiversity Conservation in the Swiss Inner Alpine Zone
The Holocene history of mediterraneantype plant communities, Little Desert National Park, Victoria, Australia
This paper begins to identify the relative roles of climiiate change, people and fire as factors in the late-Pleistocene and Holocene evolution of one of the most diverse terrestrial ecosystems in southern Australia. Our research illustrates that pollen from mediterranean-type heathlands can be recognized from sediments taken from small basins in semi-arid ecosystems. The use of pollen and carbonized particle analyses from sedimenitcores, in conj…
Municipal officials’ perspectives on policymaking for addressing obesity and health equity
Understanding factors affecting the uptake of EBPs can inform local-level interventions that encourage EBP adoption
The learning sticks’
Use of role-plays to develop deep student-learning has many advocates. Role-play is a powerful approach for learning that develops relevant skills in a range of disciplines and situations. In Higher Education, sustainability programmes role-play pedagogy appears to have great relevance for developing the competencies that these graduates will need. The ability of role-play pedagogy to develop these competencies was assessed through a case study o…
Synthesising case-study research – ready for the next step
Within the emerging field of research on education for sustainability (EfS), case studies are an important if not the predominant research approach, although often criticised for its lack of internal and external validity and a tendency to draw conclusions with insufficient rigour. While, basic concerns have been expressed and discussed in an early issue of this journal, main assumption still hold true after more than 10 years of research in the …
Student Preparation for the International Environmental Profession
Many universities have strategies for exposing students to international experiences, but little is reported on their implementation. One example of an implemented activity is the multidisciplinary research project for undergraduate environment students, at RMIT University, that both prepares students to work in the environment profession and exposes them to working in an international context. Feedback from project participants demonstrates that…
Teamwork
Numerous reports over recent years emphasise the importance of teamwork training in undergraduate programs in environment education at tertiary level. This paper describes a project undertaken by a team of final year undergraduate environment students from four faculties at RMIT University in Australia working on a multi‐disciplinary environment project in Vietnam. The students clearly gained confidence in teamwork and working as professionals. I…
The Impact of Factory Development on 'Growth Town' Employment in Mid-Wales
Water-based coupling of amino acids for sustainable solid-phase peptide synthesis
Climate-driven early agricultural origins and development in the Nile Delta, Egypt
The use of the theory of planned behaviour to assess graduate attributes for sustainability
Higher Education plays an influential role in societal transformation towards sustainability. An understanding of the application of sustainability learning from degree programs in a graduate’s professional practice can serve as an important feedback loop for developing and advancing sustainability in higher education. A knowledge gap exists between graduate learning outcomes and employability skills, with little exploration of the methods to col…
Long-term environmental change in eastern Tasmania
Tasmania’s dry, inland east is ideally positioned to inform models of late Quaternary environmental change in southern Australasia. Despite this, it remains poorly represented in the palaeoecological record. Here, we seek to address this with a >13,000-year vegetation and fire history from Stoney Lagoon, a site at the eastern margin of Tasmania’s inland Midlands plains. Pollen and charcoal analysis indicates that here, a relatively moist early de…
The Rural Development Challenge to the Universities
Theuniversities often may seem remote from rural communities, but they continue to draw a proportion of their students from the villages and small towns and, increasingly, a concern for the welfare of the rural inhabitants informs and directs the teaching, applied research, and theoretical debates of many members of staff
The Impact of Factory Development on 'Growth Town' Employment in Mid-Wales
Growth Town Employment in Mid-Wales Re-Visited
Government assisted factories in Mid‐Wales
Small Firms in Mid-wales
Development in Mid-Wales
Credit unions and local government
Late Pleistocene Environments And Aboriginal Settlement Patierns In Tasmania
A recent trend in Tasmanian Aboriginal studies has been the development of ecologically based archaeological models. Many of these have addressed the role played by forest distributions in regard to Aboriginal settlement patterns. The majority's opinion is that forests of all kinds acted as barriers to settlement and communication. However, a close reading of the available ethnohistoric literature and an analysis of inland site distributions reve…
The relationship between local authorities and TECs in metropolitan areas
Models and prima-donnas in southwest Tasmania
The following is a brief reply to Cosgrove et al. (1994). I have confined myself to addressing the few substantive considerations raised by those authors in regard to my previously published paper (Thomas 1993a). The issues are discussed in order as they appear in Cosgrove et al. (1994). Â
Excavations at Sos Höyük, 1995
Archaeological investigations this year at Sos Höyük, carried out by the University of Melbourne and Erzurum Museum, took place in the summer, between 2 June and 3 August. The aims for the 1995 season included activities both on the mound and off-site. Among the former objectives, was the need to expose further the Medieval settlement on the summit of the mound, and the burnt building of the Hellenistic period in trenches L14 and L13. Excavation …
Environmental Education across the Tertiary Curriculum
There are many examples of environmental courses in tertiary institutions, but the integration of environmental education across the range of courses has generally not occurred. The article describes a project to introduce waste minimisation education into four disciplinary‐based courses. Since waste minimisation was introduced in the context of ecological sustainability, the project provides a model for the introduction of the broader concepts o…
The Holocene history of mediterraneantype plant communities, Little Desert National Park, Victoria, Australia
This paper begins to identify the relative roles of climiiate change, people and fire as factors in the late-Pleistocene and Holocene evolution of one of the most diverse terrestrial ecosystems in southern Australia. Our research illustrates that pollen from mediterranean-type heathlands can be recognized from sediments taken from small basins in semi-arid ecosystems. The use of pollen and carbonized particle analyses from sedimenitcores, in conj…
Sustainability Education and Australian Universities
Since the early 1990s, there has been discussion about the need for the curriculum of universities to provide students with understanding about the environment. Over the decade this discussion has evolved from thinking about how to green the university curriculum, through to proposals for our students to be environmentally literate and to receive education for sustainability (or sustainability education). Internationally, there have been many ins…
Fraser Island Archaeological Project (Fiap)
Coastal southeast Queensland is one of the most intensively studied archaeological regions of Australia. While the Fraser Island World Heritage Area is the most famous landscape in this coastal region, no archaeological excavations have been undertaken and its ancient Aboriginal past remains poorly understood. The Fraser Island Archaeological Project (FIAP) redresses this situation. Excavations at Waddy Point 1 Rockshelter (WP1) in July/August 20…
In Situ Agrobiodiversity Conservation in the Swiss Inner Alpine Zone
In situ Agrobiodiversity Conservation for Regional Development in Nepal
Teamwork
Numerous reports over recent years emphasise the importance of teamwork training in undergraduate programs in environment education at tertiary level. This paper describes a project undertaken by a team of final year undergraduate environment students from four faculties at RMIT University in Australia working on a multi‐disciplinary environment project in Vietnam. The students clearly gained confidence in teamwork and working as professionals. I…
Careers in the environment in Australia
Internationally, commentators have identified a growing demand for environmental expertise. Matching this has been an expansion in the range of environmental careers available to workers: from environment protection and bio-physical areas, to local government operations, environmental auditing, assessment, and management. However, in Australia there is no overall picture of the types of jobs graduates in this sector have undertaken, which has lim…
A 5600-yr history of changing vegetation, sea levels and human impacts from the Black Sea coast of Georgia
Mid-late Holocene pollen evidence from the Ispani-II Sphagnum bog in lowland Western Georgia shows that 4500 years ago Castanea (chestnut)-dominated woods rapidly declined to be replaced by alder swamps and, later, during the first millennium bc, by open, marshy landscapes in which fire played a prominent part. Around 1900 years ago, Sphagnum blanket bog encroached on the marshes and dense Fagus-Carpinus (beech-hornbeam) forest enveloped the surr…
Pre-European Fire Regimes in Australian Ecosystems
We use multiple lines of evidence, including palaeo-environmental, ecological, historical, anthropological and archaeological, to investigate pre-European fire regimes in Australia, with particular focus on the extent to which the use of fire by Aboriginal peoples since their colonisation of the continent at least 45,000 years ago has impacted on the Australian biota. The relative roles of people and climate (including past climate change) as age…
Critical Thinking, Transformative Learning, Sustainable Education, and Problem-Based Learning in Universities
In universities, the need for education associated with sustainability is widely accepted and it is increasingly being introduced. However, the associated concepts and terms are contested—education for sustainable development and education for sustainability represent increasing levels of change required in curricula, while achieving sustainable education will require even greater change. A transformative pedagogy underlies and contributes to the…
A Holocene record of sea level, vegetation, people and fire from western Tasmania, Australia
The analysis of a 10 000 calendar year (cal. ka) pollen record on the west coast of Tasmania has revealed a suite of changes that can be related to sea level, fire and people. Fire-promoted moorland has occupied the site for the entire period and challenges the long-held assumption that rainforest dominated the landscape of western Tasmania through the early to mid Holocene. Changes in wetland taxa and the occurrence of benthic marine diatoms ind…
Student Preparation for the International Environmental Profession
Many universities have strategies for exposing students to international experiences, but little is reported on their implementation. One example of an implemented activity is the multidisciplinary research project for undergraduate environment students, at RMIT University, that both prepares students to work in the environment profession and exposes them to working in an international context. Feedback from project participants demonstrates that…
Insights into the value of a ‘stand‐alone’ course for sustainability education
Education for sustainability (EfS) is emerging as an urgent imperative and challenge for higher education. But what exactly does it mean to put sustainability into higher education? How do we bring sustainability themes into university curriculum, across the enormous diversity of academic disciplines? This paper describes the experience of teaching a large ‘stand‐alone’ EfS subject which sits within the professional contexts of the large first‐ye…
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