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The making of the UK Sports Institute (1999)
Journal Article
Theodoraki, E. (1999). The making of the UK Sports Institute. Managing Leisure, 4(4), 187-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/136067199375742

The paper explores decision-making related to the UK Sports Institute (UKSI) which was envisaged by ex-prime minister John Major as an agency that would co-ordinate elite sport development in the UK. Conceptual frameworks of organizational decision-m... Read More about The making of the UK Sports Institute.

Daniel Bell’s theory of the information society (1998)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (1998). Daniel Bell’s theory of the information society. Journal of Information Science, 24(6), 373-393. https://doi.org/10.1177/016555159802400601

Daniel Bell is recognised to be the foremost writer on the information society. The paper expounds his writings in detail, showing their development from the 1960s to the 1990s. It is argued that his position has always contained three distinguishabl... Read More about Daniel Bell’s theory of the information society.

Care in the community. (1998)
Book Chapter
Whittaker, A. (1998). Care in the community. In R. Robertson (Ed.), Management of Drug Users in the Community: A Handbook. CRC Press

A summary of the results of a survey of unemployed workers in the Auckland Eastern Suburbs TTWA1. (1998)
Journal Article
Stewart, J. M., McQuaid, R. W., Charlesworth-May, A. C., & Adams, J. (1998). A summary of the results of a survey of unemployed workers in the Auckland Eastern Suburbs TTWA1. Labour Market Bulletin, 1 & 2, 145-161

This article considers the attitudes of a small sample of unemployed people towards the characteristics of potential jobs, how they search for jobs, and which of their own attributes they perceive may be relevant to getting a job.

Women, alcohol and the menstrual cycle. (1997)
Journal Article
Gill, J. S. (1997). Women, alcohol and the menstrual cycle. Alcohol and alcoholism : international journal of the Medical Council on Alcoholism, 32, 435-441

This review presents evidence which implicates a role for menstrual cycle phase in the
response of pre-menopausal women to moderate alcohol intake. It is concluded that the majority of
published studies have suffered from poor methodological design... Read More about Women, alcohol and the menstrual cycle..

Some post-war models of the information chain (1997)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (1997). Some post-war models of the information chain. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 29(4), 179-187. https://doi.org/10.1177/096100069702900402

Reviews the literature of the information chain, analogous to ecology’s food chain, taking the Royal Society Scientific Information Conference, 1948, as the seminal point. Describes eight successive models of the information chain each incorporating... Read More about Some post-war models of the information chain.

Postnatal depression and maternal distress: the myth of the Madonna. (1997)
Book
Littlewood, J., & McHugh, N. (1997). Postnatal depression and maternal distress: the myth of the Madonna. Macmillan

Written by a social psychologist and a midwife, this book moves beyond the conventional 'medical' approach to emotional problems following childbirth. It examines the range of potential causes of maternal distress and postnatal depression and puts fo... Read More about Postnatal depression and maternal distress: the myth of the Madonna..

Clinical reasoning - a mental health perspective. (1996)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McKay, E. A. (1996, December). Clinical reasoning - a mental health perspective. Paper presented at College of Occupational Therapists Annual Conference

A note on the origins of the 'information society' (1996)
Journal Article
Duff, A., Criag, D., & McNeill, D. A. (1996). A note on the origins of the 'information society'. Journal of Information Science, 22(2), 117-122. https://doi.org/10.1177/016555159602200204

The origins of the 'information society' are not well under stood. This paper assembles and evaluates the available data with a view to providing clarification of the provenance of a now widely-used and influential concept. Two main accounts have app... Read More about A note on the origins of the 'information society'.

The 'information society' as paradigm: a bibliometric inquiry (1995)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (1995). The 'information society' as paradigm: a bibliometric inquiry. Journal of Information Science, 21(5), 390-395. https://doi.org/10.1177/016555159502100506

It has been claimed that the 'information society' constitutes a new paradigm. The paper describes the use of online bibliometrics to investigate this claim. The methodology involved systematic searching of the databases Information Science Abstracts... Read More about The 'information society' as paradigm: a bibliometric inquiry.