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35
Citations
11084
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6586
National Ranking
1054

Overview

Alan Williams was affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom.

Their research spanned several interdisciplinary fields, with significant contributions to Sociology and Political Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Clinical Psychology, Education, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Key topics in their work included Sustainability in Higher Education, Environmental Education and Sustainability, Educational Games and Gamification, Digital Games and Media, Impact of Technology on Adolescents, COVID-19 and Mental Health, and Optimism, Hope, and Well-being.

Frequent collaborators in their research included Rebecca Rawson, Uchechukwu V. Okere, Yasuhiro Kotera, Pauline Green, and James Chircop.

Williams published in various academic venues, frequently appearing in the International Journal of Higher Education and Sustainability and the European Conference on Games Based Learning, alongside contributions to arXiv (Cornell University), The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, and Scientific Reports.

Their recent papers featured the following:

  • How will Education 4.0 influence learning in higher education? (2020, Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education)
  • Dealing With Isolation Using Online Morning Huddles for University Lecturers During Physical Distancing by COVID-19: Field Notes (2020, The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning)
  • Teaching Healthcare Professional Students in Online Learning during COVID-19: Reflection of University Lecturers (2020, Journal of Concurrent Disorders)
  • Teaching sustainability to online healthcare students: a viewpoint (2022, International Journal of Higher Education and Sustainability)
  • A conditional latent autoregressive recurrent model for generation and forecasting of beam dynamics in particle accelerators (2024, Scientific Reports)

Best Publications

  • Variations in population health status: results from a United Kingdom national questionnaire survey.

    Paul Kind;Paul Dolan;Claire Gudex;Alan Williams

  • Intergenerational equity: an exploration of the 'fair innings' argument

    Alan Williams

  • Economics of coronary artery bypass grafting.

    Alan Williams

  • The principles of practical cost-benefit analysis

    Robert Sugden;Alan H. Williams

  • The time trade-off method: results from a general population study.

    Paul Dolan;Claire Gudex;Paul Kind;Alan Williams

  • A social tariff for EuroQol: results from a UK general population survey

    Paul Dolan;Claire Gudex;Paul Kind;Alan Williams

  • QALY maximisation and people's preferences: a methodological review of the literature.

    Paul Dolan;Rebecca Shaw;Aki Tsuchiya;Alan Williams

  • Valuing health states: a comparison of methods.

    Paul Dolan;Claire Gudex;Paul Kind;Alan Williams

  • Equity in health

    Alan Williams;Richard Cookson

  • Health state valuations from the general public using the visual analogue scale

    Claire Gudex;Paul Dolan;Paul Kind;Alan Williams

  • Calculating the global burden of disease: time for a strategic reappraisal?

    Alan Williams

  • Cost-effectiveness analysis: is it ethical?

    A Williams

  • The Optimal Provision of Public Goods in a System of Local Government

    Alan Williams

  • Priority setting in public and private health care: a guide through the ideological jungle

    Alan Williams

  • The rationing debate. Rationing health care by age.

    A Williams;J G Evans

  • The cost-benefit approach.

    Alan Williams

  • Science or marketing at WHO? A commentary on 'World Health 2000'.

    Alan Williams

  • Logical inconsistencies in survey respondents' health state valuations -- a methodological challenge for estimating social tariffs.

    Nancy J Devlin;Paul Hansen;Paul Kind;Alan Williams

  • QALYs and ethics : A health economist's perspective

    Alan Williams

  • Cost-benefit analysis: Bastard science? and/or insidious poison in the body politick?

    Alan Williams

  • Chapter 35 Equity in health

    Alan Williams;Richard Cookson

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Kind
Paul Kind University of Leeds
Alan Maynard
Alan Maynard University of York
Richard Cookson
Richard Cookson University of York
Arto Ohinmaa
Arto Ohinmaa University of Alberta
Stephen Birch
Stephen Birch University of Queensland
Erik Nord
Erik Nord Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Wolfgang Greiner
Wolfgang Greiner Bielefeld University

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