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Overview

James C. Richards is primarily affiliated with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the United States. Their scholarly work predominantly spans social sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as sociology and political science, general health professions, clinical psychology, safety research, and gender studies.

Their research addresses several main topics, including employment and welfare studies, gender diversity and inequality, digital economy and work transformation, labor movements and unions, healthcare innovation and challenges, palliative care and end-of-life issues, and disability education and employment.

James C. Richards has published in a variety of academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Employee Relations
  • Blue Jay
  • The International Journal of Human Resource Management
  • Autism in Adulthood
  • Sociology

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Richards include:

  • Putting employees at the centre of sustainable HRM: a review, map and research agenda, 2020, Employee Relations
  • Job quality, fair work and gig work: the lived experience of gig workers, 2021, The International Journal of Human Resource Management
  • The Lived Experience of Autistic Adults in Employment: A Systematic Search and Synthesis, 2024, Autism in Adulthood
  • Working it out: Will the improved management of leaky bodies in the workplace create a dialogue between medical sociology and disability studies?, 2022, Sociology of Health & Illness
  • Exclusionary Logics: Constructing Disability and Disadvantaging Disabled Academics in the Neoliberal University, 2023, Sociology

Throughout their career, Richards has collaborated frequently with several co-authors. The most frequent co-authors include:

  • Kate Sang
  • Jennifer Remnant
  • Olugbenga Abraham Babajide
  • Jo Morrison
  • Vaughan Ellis

Best Publications

  • Phosphorylcholine on the lipopolysaccharide of Haemophilus influenzae contributes to persistence in the respiratory tract and sensitivity to serum killing mediated by C-reactive protein.

    Jeffrey N. Weiser;Nina Pan;Karin L. McGowan;Daniel Musher

  • Host-derived sialic acid is incorporated into Haemophilus influenzae lipopolysaccharide and is a major virulence factor in experimental otitis media.

    Valérie Bouchet;Derek W. Hood;Jianjun Li;Jean-Robert Brisson

  • Sialic acid in the lipopolysaccharide of Haemophilus influenzae: strain distribution, influence on serum resistance and structural characterization.

    Derek W. Hood;Katherine Makepeace;Mary E. Deadman;Richard F. Rest

  • Structural characteristics of the antigenic capsular polysaccharides and lipopolysaccharides involved in the serological classification of Actinobacillus (Haemophilus) pleuropneumoniae strains

    Malcolm B. Perry;Eleonora Altman;Jean-Robert Brisson;Linda M. Beynon

  • USE OF THE COMPLETE GENOME SEQUENCE INFORMATION OF HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE STRAIN RD TO INVESTIGATE LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE BIOSYNTHESIS

    Derek W. Hood;Mary E. Deadman;Tina Allen;Hussein Masoud

  • The position of phosphorylcholine on the lipopolysaccharide of Haemophilus influenzae affects binding and sensitivity to C-reactive protein-mediated killing.

    Elena Lysenko;James C. Richards;Andrew D. Cox;Andrea Stewart

  • Proportions of diether, macrocyclic diether, and tetraether lipids in Methanococcus jannaschii grown at different temperatures.

    G D Sprott;M Meloche;J C Richards

  • Structure of the type 5 capsular polysaccharide of Staphylococcus aureus.

    M Moreau;J C Richards;J M Fournier;R A Byrd

  • Identification of a lipopolysaccharide alpha-2,3-sialyltransferase from Haemophilus influenzae.

    Derek W. Hood;Andrew D. Cox;Michel Gilbert;Katherine Makepeace

  • Phosphorylation of the Lipid A Region of Meningococcal Lipopolysaccharide: Identification of a Family of Transferases That Add Phosphoethanolamine to Lipopolysaccharide

    Andrew D. Cox;J. Claire Wright;Jianjun Li;Derek W. Hood

  • Structural analysis of the lipopolysaccharide oligosaccharide epitopes expressed by a capsule‐deficient strain of Haemophilus influenzae Rd

    Anna Risberg;Hussein Masoud;Adèle Martin;James C. Richards

  • Conservation and accessibility of an inner core lipopolysaccharide epitope of Neisseria meningitidis

    Joyce S. Plested;Joyce S. Plested;Katherine Makepeace;Michael P. Jennings;Margaret Anne J. Gidney

  • Identification of a gene (lpt-3) required for the addition of phosphoethanolamine to the lipopolysaccharide inner core of Neisseria meningitidis and its role in mediating susceptibility to bactericidal killing and opsonophagocytosis.

    Fiona G. Mackinnon;Andrew D. Cox;Joyce S. Plested;Christoph M. Tang

  • Functional Relationships of the Genetic Locus Encoding the Glycosyltransferase Enzymes Involved in Expression of the Lacto-N-neotetraose Terminal Lipopolysaccharide Structure in Neisseria meningitidis

    W Wakarchuk;A Martin;M P Jennings;E R Moxon

  • Structure of the specific capsular polysaccharide of Streptococcus pneumoniae type 23F (American type 23).

    James C. Richards;Malcolm B. Perry

  • Expression of two structurally distinct D-galactan O antigens in the lipopolysaccharide of Klebsiella pneumoniae serotype O1.

    C Whitfield;J C Richards;M B Perry;B R Clarke

  • Expression and structural diversity of the lipopolysaccharide of Haemophilus influenzae: Implication in virulence

    Elke K H Schweda;James C Richards;Derek W Hood;E Richard Moxon

  • CHARACTERIZATION OF A RECOMBINANT NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS ALPHA -2,3-SIALYLTRANSFERASE AND ITS ACCEPTOR SPECIFICITY

    Michel Gilbert;Anna‐Maria Cunningham;David C. Watson;Adèle Martin

  • Neisserial lipooligosaccharide is a target for complement component C4b: Inner core phosphoethanolamine residues define C4b linkage specificity

    Sanjay Ram;Andrew D. Cox;J. Claire Wright;Ulrich Vogel

  • Structural elucidation of the lipopolysaccharide core regions of the wild-type strain PAO1 and O-chain-deficient mutant strains AK1401 and AK1012 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa serotype O5.

    Irina Sadovskaya;Jean-Robert Brisson;Joseph S. Lam;James C. Richards

Frequent Co-Authors

E. Richard Moxon
E. Richard Moxon University of Oxford
Malcolm B. Perry
Malcolm B. Perry National Research Council Canada
Jianjun Li
Jianjun Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jean-Robert Brisson
Jean-Robert Brisson National Research Council Canada
Warren W. Wakarchuk
Warren W. Wakarchuk University of Alberta
Michel Gilbert
Michel Gilbert National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Michael P. Jennings
Michael P. Jennings Griffith University
Pierre Thibault
Pierre Thibault University of Montreal
Joseph S. Lam
Joseph S. Lam University of Guelph
Jeffrey N. Weiser
Jeffrey N. Weiser New York University

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