Meiko MakitaUniversity of Dundee · School of Health Sciences
Meiko Makita
BA, MSc, PhD
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Introduction
I am a qualitative social scientist interested in exploring lived-experiences of ageing and later life, and analysing digitally-mediated communication/discursive practices.
Additional affiliations
May 2022 - January 2023
Position
- Community Engagement and Involvement Research Fellow
Description
- NIHR GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH UNIT ON RESPIRATORY HEALTH (RESPIRE)
February 2020 - February 2022
July 2016 - January 2019
Position
- Reseach Associate
Description
- I'm collaborating on a mixed-methods comparative study of cities in the UK (Glasgow, Edinburgh and Manchester) and Brazil (Brasilia, Pelotas and Belo Horizonte) that explores the role of sense of place in promoting age-friendly urban spaces.
Education
October 2005 - July 2012
January 2003 - December 2004
August 1998 - August 1999
Publications
Publications (56)
Collaborative research causes problems for research assessments because of the difficulty in fairly crediting its authors. Whilst splitting the rewards for an article amongst its authors has the greatest surface-level fairness, many important evaluations assign full credit to each author, irrespective of team size. The underlying rationales for thi...
Purpose
Scholars often aim to conduct high quality research and their success is judged primarily by peer reviewers. Research quality is difficult for either group to identify, however and misunderstandings can reduce the efficiency of the scientific enterprise. In response, we use a novel term association strategy to seek quantitative evidence of...
Citation counts are widely used as indicators of research quality to support or replace human peer review and for lists of top cited papers, researchers, and institutions. Nevertheless, the extent to which citation counts reflect research quality is not well understood. We report the largest-scale evaluation of the relationship between research qua...
The Journal Impact Factor and other indicators that assess the average citation rate of articles in a journal are consulted by many academics and research evaluators, despite initiatives against overreliance on them. Despite this, there is limited evidence about the extent to which journal impact indicators in any field relates to human judgements...
International collaboration is sometimes encouraged in the belief that it generates higher quality research or is more capable of addressing societal problems. In support of this, there is evidence that the journal articles of international teams tend to be more cited than average. Reasons other than the benefits of international collaboration coul...
The search for and management of external funding now occupies much valuable researcher time. Whilst funding is essential for some types of research and beneficial for others, it may also constrain academic choice and creativity. Thus, it is important to assess whether it is ever detrimental or unnecessary. Here we investigate whether funded resear...
Purpose: Scholars often aim to conduct high quality research and their success is judged primarily by peer reviewers. Research quality is difficult for either group to identify, however, and misunderstandings can reduce the efficiency of the scientific enterprise. In response, we use a novel term association strategy to seek quantitative evidence o...
National research evaluation initiatives and incentive schemes have previously chosen between simplistic quantitative indicators and time-consuming peer review, sometimes supported by bibliometrics. Here we assess whether artificial intelligence (AI) could provide a third alternative, estimating article quality using more multiple bibliometric and...
Co-authored articles tend to be more cited in many academic fields, but is this because they tend to be higher quality or is it an audience effect: increased awareness through multiple author networks? We address this unknown with the largest investigation yet into whether author numbers associate with research quality, using expert peer quality ju...
Collaborative research causes problems for research assessments because of the difficulty in fairly crediting its authors. Whilst splitting the rewards for an article amongst its authors has the greatest surface-level fairness, many important evaluations assign full credit to each author, irrespective of team size. The underlying rationales for thi...
Altmetrics are web-based quantitative impact or attention indicators for academic articles that have been proposed to supplement citation counts. This article reports the first assessment of the extent to which mature altmetrics from Altmetric.com and Mendeley associate with journal article quality. It exploits expert norm-referenced peer review sc...
Leisure plays a key role in supporting psychological, social and emotional well-being in later life. This paper aims to explore the relationship between leisure, place and income from the perspectives of older adults in the UK and Brazil and how older adults’ participation in leisure supports the development of sense of place within their communiti...
Mobile applications to manage disaster risks have been gaining more and more acceptance internationally. Mexico City has not been the exception and in the last five years its production and use by the government has increased. However, the main function of these applications has been merely informative and the role of inhabitants basically passive....
El objetivo de este artículo es identificar características relacionadas con el contenido de los mensajes más retuiteados creados por editoriales de libros españolas y extranjeras en Twitter. Se ha realizado un análisis de contenido para identificar el tema de los tuits y si incluyen hashtag para el título del libro, imágenes e hipervínculos, y en...
LGBTQ+ labels and terminology in society embed ideological assumptions and affect who gains community support and protection. In academia, terminology is also needed to help define study objects, methods, and goals. Academics therefore need to choose their words to be both precise and appropriate, adjusting to changes in societal language. This art...
Purpose
Performers may generate loyalty partly through eliciting illusory personal connections with their audience, parasocial relationships (PSRs), and individual illusory exchanges, parasocial interactions (PSIs). On social media, semi-PSIs are real but imbalanced exchanges with audiences, including through comments on influencers’ videos, and st...
Problematic mobile phone use can be related to negative mental states. Some studies indicate that behavioural dependency is related to variables associated with the country of origin. The aim of our study was to investigate if country indicators moderated the relationship between phubbing and psychological distress. Our sample consisted of 7,315 in...
A global ageing population presents opportunities and challenges to designing urban environments that support ageing in place. The World Health Organization's Global Age-Friendly Cities movement has identified the need to develop communities that optimise health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age. Ensuring...
Purpose
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common behavioural condition. This article introduces a new data science method, word association thematic analysis, to investigate whether ADHD tweets can give insights into patient concerns and online communication needs.
Design/methodology/approach
Tweets matching “my ADHD” (n=58,893)...
Promoting health-related campaigns on Twitter has increasingly become a world-wide choice to raise awareness and disseminate health information. Data retrieved from Twitter are now being used to explore how users express their views, attitudes and personal experiences of health-related issues. We focused on Twitter discourse reproduced during Menta...
The ageing in place agenda emphasises the importance of supporting older adults to age in their communities surrounded by the personal resources to age well. In exploring the relationship between older people and their environment, the concept of place insideness is seen as central to constructing feelings of identity, belonging and attachment in o...
This article reports on findings from the quantitative phase of a two-year research project designed to explore end-of-life care experiences and needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. We draw on a subset of the sample (N = 180/237) to analyse the relationship between advance care planning, sexual orientation, living arrangements an...
This paper explores empirical accounts of perceived insecurities and accompanying issues that make urban place problematic and can impact older adults’ well-being and overall quality of life. Findings reported derive from the project ‘Place-Making with Older People: Towards Age-Friendly Communities’ which investigates both barriers and facilitators...
Primary data collected during a research study is often shared and may be reused for new studies. To assess the extent of data sharing in favourable circumstances and whether data sharing checks can be automated, this article investigates summary statistics from primary human genome-wide association studies (GWAS). This type of data is highly suita...
The age-friendly cities and communities movement has focused on how to better support older adults to age well within urban environments. Central to 'ageing well' and 'active ageing' agendas is ensuring that older adults can participate in meaningful forms of social participation. The benefits of social participation in old age have been well docum...
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The age-friendly cities and communities movement has focused on how to better support older adults to age well within urban environments. Central to ‘ageing well’ and ‘active ageing’ agendas is ensuring that older adults can participate in meaningful forms of social participation. The benefits of social participation in old age have been well docum...
The book first presents the policy and practice guidelines we think are of relevance nationally, structured according to the key issues that have emerged across our case studies. It then presents key findings and recommendations for each of the cities that participated in the research, structured according to the main themes identified in each city...
Whilst representations of old age and older people in traditional media have been well documented, examinations of such representations within social media discourse are still scarce. This is an unfortunate omission because of the importance of social media for communication in contemporary society. In this study, we combine content analysis and di...
Primary data collected during a research study is increasingly shared and may be re-used for new studies. To assess the extent of data sharing in favourable circumstances and whether such checks can be automated, this article investigates the summary statistics of primary human genome-wide association studies (GWAS). This type of data is highly sui...
Women's access to academic careers has been historically limited by discrimination and cultural constraints. Comprehensive information about gender inequality within disciplines is needed to understand the problem and target remedial action. India is the fifth largest research producer but has a low international index of gender inequality and so i...
Aunque parezca contradictorio, la realidad no podría existir sin la presencia de los mitos y las leyendas, ya que gracias a que éstos existen podemos fundamentarla y cuestionarla. Debido a esto, y sobre todo a la necesidad del hombre de jugar con la realidad, surge el realismo mágico en la literatura, el cual no es sino un mundo paralelo donde el m...
Participatory mapping is an interactive, asset-based approach, recognising residents as experts and Knowledge Cafes provide a method to support conversations and dialogue in a range of settings. In this paper, we consider findings from the second Work Package of an ongoing ESRC- Newton funded project (2016–19) Place-Making with Older People: Toward...
Urban environments present opportunities and barriers in respect of social in/exclusion in old age. In response, policies and practices that support active ageing are increasingly being sought, central to which are the provision of opportunities for social participation. This paper presents qualitative data (including 180 face-to-face interviews, 1...
Ageing populations have generated new challenges in how to best design urban environments that support and promote everyday social engagement and healthy urban living for older people. In 2007 the World Health Organization published Age-friendly Cities: A Guide, which led to the development of interventions and policies at the city and community le...
#MHAW findings presented at SM&S, Copenhagen, July 2018
Background: There is consistent evidence of the impact that neighbourhood environment has on the wellbeing and overall quality of life of older people. Specifically, there is evidence that the characteristics of the environment, such as aesthetics, walkability and population density, play a role in influencing health-related behaviours, particularl...
Presentation of survey results and qualitative findings of Place-Making with Older People
In this chapter, I explore the ways in which a group of women (age 60-89) experience physical aspects of ageing and old age. By exploring women's narratives of health, I focus on exploring embodied old age, particularly the women's tendency of equating "feeling good" with being healthy. These women experience their bodies as vulnerable to disease,...
Pathways of Aging: Old Women’s gendered narratives and cultural-historical location
Social gerontology has moved away from a focus on old age per se to the recognition of old age as part of the life-course, and more importantly, as the result of a lifetime’s experiences. In this paper I explore the themes that old Mexican women themselves identifi...
JingXu, Chinese Urban Poor Older People's Life: An Agentic Approach, Peter Lang Bern, 2012, 234 pp., pbk £46.00, ISBN 13: 978 3 0343 1117 5. - Volume 33 Issue 7 - MEIKO MAKITA
ClaudineAttias-Donfut, JoanneCook, JacoHoffman and LouiseWaite (eds), Citizenship, Belonging and Intergenerational Relations in African Migration, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, 2012, 224 pp., hbk £55.00, ISBN 13: 978 0 230 25274 5. - Volume 33 Issue 4 - MEIKO MAKITA
This article reviews the major underpinnings of the Japanese welfare state in the context of social care from a feminist perspective. In Japan, familycare responsibilities have traditionally been assigned to women; hence, care has long been a women’s issue. However, as the social contract of a male breadwinner and a “professional housewife” gradual...
El presente trabajo de investigación propone una visión exploratoria sobre los posibles escenarios futuros para la industria automotriz mexicana, en el horizonte del año 2015. De manera específica, se plantea la definición de los retos y oportunidades de desarrollo para la industria automotriz, en el marco de las relaciones entre México y Japón, y...
A partir de la discusión y debate sobre la relación entre el análisis politico y el pensamiento prospective, tomando en cuenta para ello la vinculación entre las grandes variables que interactúan en los procesos y acciones políticas, en este capitulo se analiza la problematica de la reforma educativa en Mexico; haciendo énfasis en la "estrategia de...
Projects
Projects (7)
Exploration of digitally-mediated communication about funerals-related issues amid the covid19 pandemic.
The project aims to explore the potential impact of creative workshop participation on the psychological well-being, social connectedness and subjective experience of [number] Mexican women. Whilst the evaluation of the mental health potential of arts participation is a growing area, particularly in Europe and North America, in Mexico this area of research remains rather underdeveloped. After participating in an online 4-week long creative workshop, [N= ?] women of different age cohorts and socio-cultural backgrounds, including the art facilitator, were interviewed via zoom about the creative process they developed throughout their involvement in the diverse workshop activities. Data were analysed within an interpretive phenomenological approach, which uncovered that participants use of curative writing and art-making as a means that encouraged awareness, self-love and re-connecting with the self which in turn helped promoting their well-being and social connectedness.
