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Overview

Michael Watts is affiliated with Brunel University London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a significant focus on education, sociology and political science, gender studies, information systems, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their main areas of research include:

  • Mobile Learning in Education
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Science Education and Pedagogy
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
  • Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
  • Educational Assessment and Pedagogy

Michael Watts has contributed to various peer-reviewed journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • International Journal of Science Education
  • Computer Assisted Language Learning
  • Journal of Mental Health
  • International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
  • Sustainability

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael Watts include:

  • Mental health service users experiences of medication discontinuation: a systematic review of qualitative studies (2021), Journal of Mental Health
  • Deciding to discontinue prescribed psychotropic medication: A qualitative study of service users' experiences (2021), International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
  • Exploration of university students' lived experiences of using smartphones for English language learning (2022), Computer Assisted Language Learning
  • The Initial Training of Science Teachers in African Countries: A Systematic Literature Review (2021), Sustainability
  • Friedrich Froebel: interpolation, extrapolation (2021), Early Child Development and Care

Michael Watts has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Saima Salehjee
  • Yujuan Luo
  • Yashwantrao Ramma
  • Ajeevsing Bholoa
  • Brian Keogh

Regarding book publications, Watts has contributed to academic books published by:

  • University of Glasgow - "Becoming Scientific: Developing Science across the Life-Course" (2020)
  • Bloomsbury Academic eBooks - "Learning to Succeed in Science" (2023)

Best Publications

  • The space of vulnerability: the causal structure of hunger and famine:

    Michael J. Watts;Hans G. Bohle

  • Climate change and social vulnerability: Toward a sociology and geography of food insecurity

    Hans G. Bohle;Thomas E. Downing;Michael J. Watts

  • Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements

    Philip W. Porter;Richard Peet;Michael Watts

  • Resource curse? governmentality, oil and power in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

    Michael Watts

  • Globalising food : agrarian questions and global restructuring

    David Goodman;Michael Watts

  • Living Under Contract : Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Peter D. Little;Michael Watts

  • Silent Violence: Food, Famine and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria.

    Michael Watts

  • Global Political Ecology

    Richard Peet;Paul Robbins;Michael Watts

  • Liberation ecologies : environment, development, social movements

    Richard Peet;Michael Watts

  • Reworking Modernity: Capitalisms and Symbolic Discontent

    Allan Richard Pred;Michael Watts

  • Locating the Political in Political Ecology: An Introduction

    Susan Paulson;Lisa L. Gezon;Michael Watts

  • On the poverty of theory: natural hazards research in context

    Michael Watts

  • Interviewing in Educational Research

    Janet Powney;Mike Watts

  • DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNMENTALITY

    Michael Watts

  • Reconfiguring the rural or fording the divide?: Capitalist restructuring and the global agro‐food system

    David Goodman;Michael Watts

  • More than the Sum of the Parts: research methods in group interviewing

    Mike Watts;Dave Ebbutt

  • Manufacturing Dissent: Work, Gender and the Politics of Meaning in a Peasant Society

    Judith A. Carney;Michael Watts

  • Life under contract: contract farming, agrarian restructuring, and flexible accumulation.

    M. J. Watts;P. D. Little

  • LIBERATING POLITICAL ECOLOGY

    Richard Peet;Michael Watts

  • LIBERATION ECOLOGY : Development, sustainability, and environment in an age of market triumphalism

    Richard Peet;Michael Watts

  • Silent Violence: Food, Famine and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria

    Paul E. Lovejoy;Michael Watts

  • The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity In Venezuela

    Michael Watts

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter D. Little
Peter D. Little Emory University
Peter J. Taylor
Peter J. Taylor Northumbria University
Paul Robbins
Paul Robbins University of Wisconsin–Madison
Keith S. Taber
Keith S. Taber University of Cambridge
Henry Bernstein
Henry Bernstein School of Oriental and African Studies
Thomas E. Downing
Thomas E. Downing Stockholm Environment Institute
Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman University of Arizona
Sarah Whatmore
Sarah Whatmore University of Oxford
Noel Castree
Noel Castree University of Technology Sydney
David M. Gilbert
David M. Gilbert Florida State University

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