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Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods
Facility•Cardiff, United Kingdom•
About: Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods is a facility organization based out in Cardiff, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Civil society & Human rights. The organization has 41 authors who have published 87 publications receiving 2791 citations.
Topics: Civil society, Human rights, Dementia, Politics, Rural area
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TL;DR: In this article, a case study of Huantai county in Shandong province in China is presented, where the authors examine the "increasing vs. decreasing balance" land-use policy, which seeks to balance increases in urban construction land with a reduction in rural construction land.
660 citations
TL;DR: In relational thinking as discussed by the authors, relational thinking challenges human geography by insisting on an open-ended, mobile, and mobile, space relationally, which is defined as a "thinking space" relationally.
Abstract: Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning of work on `thinking space relationally'. According to its advocates, relational thinking challenges human geography by insisting on an open-ended, mobile, ...
516 citations
TL;DR: The pattern of numerous predominantly small associations with QoL suggests a need to reconsider approaches to understanding and assessing living well with dementia, and there was a considerable between-study heterogeneity.
Abstract: Current policy emphasises the importance of ‘living well’ with dementia, but there has been no comprehensive synthesis of the factors related to quality of life (QoL), subjective well-being or life satisfaction in people with dementia. We examined the available evidence in a systematic review and meta-analysis. We searched electronic databases until 7 January 2016 for observational studies investigating factors associated with QoL, well-being and life satisfaction in people with dementia. Articles had to provide quantitative data and include ⩾75% people with dementia of any type or severity. We included 198 QoL studies taken from 272 articles in the meta-analysis. The analysis focused on 43 factors with sufficient data, relating to 37639 people with dementia. Generally, these factors were significantly associated with QoL, but effect sizes were often small (0.1–0.29) or negligible (<0.09). Factors reflecting relationships, social engagement and functional ability were associated with better QoL. Factors indicative of poorer physical and mental health (including depression and other neuropsychiatric symptoms) and poorer carer well-being were associated with poorer QoL. Longitudinal evidence about predictors of QoL was limited. There was a considerable between-study heterogeneity. The pattern of numerous predominantly small associations with QoL suggests a need to reconsider approaches to understanding and assessing living well with dementia.
169 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider how shifts within the social sciences towards conceptualising spatiality in relational terms have unfolded in rural studies in particular ways over the past decade or so, and identify the notion of countertopography as a promising conceptual and methodological addition to the rural scholar's toolkit.
147 citations
TL;DR: Methodological enhancements to increase the sophistication of the 2SFCA methodology by incorporating both public and private transport modes using dedicated network datasets are proposed.
121 citations
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Taylor | 42 | 234 | 5796 |
| Gary Higgs | 34 | 108 | 3310 |
| Martin Jones | 33 | 83 | 5192 |
| Ian Rees Jones | 32 | 112 | 3017 |
| Michael Woods | 31 | 114 | 4495 |
| Sally Power | 27 | 122 | 3259 |
| Stephen Drinkwater | 24 | 85 | 2970 |
| Ralph Fevre | 24 | 68 | 1513 |
| David Blackaby | 23 | 84 | 1767 |
| Daniel Wincott | 23 | 68 | 2306 |
| Huw Beynon | 20 | 48 | 1808 |
| Nigel C. O'Leary | 19 | 60 | 1533 |
| Scott Orford | 18 | 54 | 1277 |
| Mitchel Langford | 18 | 34 | 1718 |
| Paul Chaney | 16 | 104 | 971 |