Publications and Press
Publications
Mulholland, J., Anionwu, E.N., Atkins, R.J., Tappern, M., and Franks, P.J. (2008). Diversity, attrition and transition into nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 64(1), 49-59.
Roderick, P.J., Atkins, R.J., Smeeth, L., Nitsch, D.M., Hubbard, R.B., Fletcher, A.E., and Bulpitt, C. (2007). Detecting chronic kidney disease in older people: what are the implications? Age and Ageing, 37, 179-186.
Atkins, R.J. (2007) Please feed the spiders [Letter]. The Psychologist, 20(4), 204.
Nitsch, D., Roderick, P.J., Atkins, R., Smeeth, L., Hubbard, R., Bulpitt, C., and Feltcher, A. (2007). Prevalence and cross-sectional associations of a reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate in the over-75 year olds [Conference Presentation]. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 22, 85.
Atkins, R.J. (2007) The Impending Demise of Open Access. The HEA Psychology Network Newsletter, Issue 41, March 2007.
Atkins, R.J., Mulholland, J., Anionwu, E.N., and Franks, P. (2006, September 27) Presentation at the one-day conference Diversity, Attrition and Transition into Nursing. Invited talk at the Promoting and Tracking Diversity of Students within Nursing and Midwifery Education - A National Model? Thames Valley University, Slough.
Atkins, R.J. (2006) DIGITS: Stata module to examine digit preferences in numeric variables, Statistical Software Components S456709, Boston College Department of Economics.
Taylor, A., Atkins, R., Kumar, R., Adams, D., & Glover, V. (2005). A new mother-to-infant bonding scale: Links with early maternal mood. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 8(1), 45-51.
Anionwu, E.N., Mulholland, J., Atkins, R.J., Tappern, M., and Franks, P. (2005) Diversity, Attrition and Transition into Nursing: The Dating Project Final Report. Report on a two-year research project funded under NHS Employers Positively Diverse programme. The executive summary is available here and NHS Employers have a page about the project here.
Atkins, R.J. (2005). Book review: Hinton, P. R. (2004). Statistics Explained (2nd Edition). PsyPAG Quarterly, 55, 42-44.
Atkins, R.J. (2003, March 13). Word length in personal advertisements: Controlling a common confound. Presented as a poster at the British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Bournemouth.
Atkins, R.J. (2003). A Review of the UCL/IAN 3rd Annual Conference on Attachment Research. PsyPAG Quarterly, 48, 22-24.
Borrill, J., Burnett, R., Atkins, R., Miller, S., Briggs, D., Weaver, T., and Maden, A. (2003). Patterns of deliberate self-harm and attempted suicide among white and black/mixed race female prisoners.Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 13(4), 229-240.
Tunnicliffe, W.S., Atkins, R.J., Ayres, J.G., Burge, P.S. (1993). Variations in gas volumes inspired over one hour; implications for exposure systems used in the study of the health effects of air pollutants. Thorax, 48, Supplement 2 P2 [Abstract].
News Coverage
At the 2003 BPS Annual Conference I presented a poster dealing with a slightly obscure statistical aspect of analysing personal advertisement data (a method of avoiding a confounding condition that had affected much of the past research in this area). To my astonishment, this was picked up by the press resulting in reasonably widespread media coverage of my research ... or rather of the issue of what men and women want in a partner: the substantive topic of the research I was looking at from a methodological standpoint. It's a shame they weren't actually interested in what I had been doing but my 15 minutes of fame was an interesting experience and my kids were thrilled!
Newspaper Articles
Derbyshire, D., and Hall, C. (March 14th, 2003). Lonely heart ladies WLTM rich gents - looks unimportant, Daily Telegraph, p. 11. [full text]. Reproduced in the Asian Express of Almaty [Kazakhstan] and the Sunday Times [South Africa], as Gent wanted, teeth not a must.
Sturke, J. (March 14th, 2003). What women really want from lonely hearts ads. Evening Standard, p. 8.
Sturke, J. (March 14th, 2003). Women go house hunting in the lonely hearts ads. Evening Standard, p. 17.
Sturke, J. (March 14th, 2003). Lonely hearts ache for money. This is London. [full text]
Bartman, C. (March 15th, 2003). Women take their pick of the boasters. Eastern Daily Press, p. 29.
The Times (March 14th, 2003). Darwin still appeals to the lonely hearts. The Times, p. 8.
The Star [Malasia] (March 16th, 2003). Study: Women prefer wealth, men go for looks. The Star.
Radio Interviews
BBC Radio Oxford (March 14th, 2003). A Sense of Place.
BBC Eastern Counties (March 19th, 2003). Steve Madden.
LBC London (March 19th, 2003). Dr. Pam.
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