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João Manuel Pacheco de Figueiredo. Academic earmarks and the returns to lobbying. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2002.
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Lorraine, Dearden, and London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economics of Education., eds. The returns to academic and vocational qualifications in Britain. London: Centre for the Economics of Education, 2000.
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Andini, Corrado. Full-time schooling, part-time schooling, and wages: Returns and risks in Portugal. Bonn, Germany: IZA, 2007.
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O'Leary, Nigel C. Rates of return to degrees across British regions. Bonn, Germany: IZA, 2006.
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Maurin, Eric. Vive la révolution! long term returns of 1968 to the angry students. Bonn, Germany: IZA, 2005.
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Harmon, Colm. Selective schooling, school quality and labour market returns. Dublin: University College Dublin, Department of Economics, 1997.
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Kane, Thomas J. Estimating returns to schooling when schooling is misreported. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1999.
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Krop, Richard A. The social returns to increased investment in education: Measuring the effect of education on the cost of social programs. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1998.
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McWilliams, Bill. A return to glory: The untold story of honor, dishonor, and triumph at the United States Military Academy, 1950-53. Lynchburg, Va: Warwick House Publishers, 2000.
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Guarnieri, Patrizia. Intellettuali in fuga dall’Italia fascista. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-648-3.
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Intellectuals Displaced from Fascist Italy is a bilingual (IT/ EN), free access and in progress website that draws attention to the migration of intellectuals during Fascism. Italy is usually considered a land of poor and uneducated migrants. But during the twenty years of Fascism, especially after the anti-Jewish laws but even before, professionals, students and scholars, including foreigners, expatriated alone or with families for political and racial reasons to the Americas, England, Mandatory Palestine, Switzerland. It is a limited but important phenomenon of brain drain, which in the case of Italy has yet to be investigated. Who were the people who decided to leave in search of freedom, work, and then salvation, and what did they do? Their names and stories were cancelled. This work attempts to reconstruct their lives thanks to foreign archives, letters, scattered memories and hundreds of photos. What difficulties did they face in their host countries? How many of them returned? The stories speak of devastating losses to the detriment of the country, of responsibilities and injustices, but also of resources and talents of Italian culture, of commitment and determination. This 2nd edition contains some new features, improves consultation with research functions and, as regards content, it enhances family mobility from a generational and gender perspective. The project was promoted by the University of Florence and has been supported by the Regione Toscana and by various institutes, with the sponsorship of the New York Public Library; Council for At-Risk Academics, London; J. Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY; The Central Archives for the History of Jewish People, Jerusalem, UCEI and others.
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Guarnieri, Patrizia. Intellectuals Displaced from Fascist Italy. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0032-5.
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Intellectuals Displaced from Fascist Italy is a bilingual (IT/ EN), free access and in progress website that draws attention to the migration of intellectuals during Fascism. Italy is usually considered a land of poor and uneducated migrants. But during the twenty years of Fascism, especially after the anti-Jewish laws but even before, professionals, students and scholars, including foreigners, expatriated alone or with families for political and racial reasons to the Americas, England, Mandatory Palestine, Switzerland. It is a limited but important phenomenon of brain drain, which in the case of Italy has yet to be investigated. Who were the people who decided to leave in search of freedom, work, and then salvation, and what did they do? Their names and stories were cancelled. This work attempts to reconstruct their lives thanks to foreign archives, letters, scattered memories and hundreds of photos. What difficulties did they face in their host countries? How many of them returned? The stories speak of devastating losses to the detriment of the country, of responsibilities and injustices, but also of resources and talents of Italian culture, of commitment and determination. This 2nd edition contains some new features, improves consultation with research functions and, as regards content, it enhances family mobility from a generational and gender perspective. The project was promoted by the University of Florence and has been supported by the Regione Toscana and by various institutes, with the sponsorship of the New York Public Library; Council for At-Risk Academics, London; J. Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY; The Central Archives for the History of Jewish People, Jerusalem, UCEI and others.
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Does Overseas Experience Matter?: The Academic Career Development of Returnee Faculty in Chinese Research Universities. Routledge, 2023.
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Does Overseas Experience Matter?: The Academic Career Development of Returnee Faculty in Chinese Research Universities. Routledge, 2023.
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Chen, Qiongqiong. Globalization and Transnational Academic Mobility: The Experiences of Chinese Academic Returnees. Springer London, Limited, 2016.
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Chen, Qiongqiong. Globalization and Transnational Academic Mobility: The Experiences Of Chinese Academic Returnees. Springer, 2018.
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Chen, Qiongqiong. Globalization and Transnational Academic Mobility: The Experiences of Chinese Academic Returnees. Springer, 2016.
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Alvesson, Mats, Yiannis Gabriel, and Roland Paulsen. Return to Meaning. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198787099.001.0001.
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This book argues that we are currently witnessing not merely a decline in the quality of social science research, but a proliferation of meaningless research of no value to society and modest value to its authors—apart from securing employment and promotion. The explosion of published outputs, at least in social science, creates a noisy, cluttered environment which makes meaningful research difficult, as different voices compete to capture the limelight even briefly. Older, but more impressive contributions are easily neglected as the premium is to write and publish, not read and learn. The result is a widespread cynicism among academics on the value of academic research, sometimes including their own. Publishing comes to be seen as a game of hits and misses, devoid of intrinsic meaning and value and of no wider social uses whatsoever. This is what the book views as the rise of nonsense in academic research, which represents a serious social problem. It undermines the very point of social science. This problem is far from ‘academic’. It affects many areas of social and political life entailing extensive waste of resources and inflated student fees as well as costs to taxpayers. The book’s second part offers a range of proposals aimed at restoring meaning at the heart of social science research, and drawing social science back, address the major problems and issues that face our societies.
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Luis, Roniger. The Transformational Role of Culture and Education. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190693961.003.0007.
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This chapter provides a comprehensive analysis of the experiences and impact of returnees, expats, sojourners, and migrants on the public life, culture, and institutions of their respective societies. It argues that their role has been crucial in shaping major political, social, and cultural transformations. Particularly, the chapter analyzes the varied institutional imprint of many of these individuals, and how they impacted culture and public discourse. The core issues addressed are the role of cultural expressions and academic contributions to the reconstruction and democratization of culture; the contribution of exiled and returning intellectuals and academics to postdictatorial cultural and academic spheres; and the returnees’ contributions in reshaping institutions, particularly higher education. Underpinning these issues is the politics of memory and oblivion, addressed throughout this study, and the impact of human displacement on the reconstitution of ideas, values, and representation and, in turn, their social, political, and institutional consequences.
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Chinese Origin of Halliday's Academic Thoughts and Its Return. Springer, 2023.
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Toma, Sorana, and Maria Villares-Varela. Internationalization and Diversification of Academic Careers. Edited by Mathias Czaika. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815273.003.0012.
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This chapter examines the major patterns and drivers of interlinked geographical and career mobilities of Indian-born researchers and scientists. Based on a global survey and in-depth interviews, this study shows that the mobility of Indian researchers is mainly driven by an intrinsic motivation to internationalize their scientific careers, but has also to do with the characteristics of the research environment in India. Moving abroad enables researchers to acquire expertise in a field of research that is not sufficiently developed back home, and provides exposure to research facilities and personnel deemed better and more qualified than those back home. In this respect, international study and work experience are often perceived as providing professional merits that are instrumental in career progression on return to India.
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Britto, Marwin, and Kirsten Kinsley. Academic Libraries and the Academy: Strategies and Approaches to Demonstrate Your Value, Impact, and Return on Investment. Association of College & Research Libraries, 2018.
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Britto, Marwin, and Kirsten Kinsley. Academic Libraries and the Academy: Strategies and Approaches to Demonstrate Your Value, Impact, and Return on Investment. Association of College & Research Libraries, 2018.
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Beyond Traditional Academic Degrees: The Labor Market Returns to Occupational Credentials. RAND Corporation, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7249/wr1299.
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Smith, Jeffrey S., Kenneth Small, and Phillip Njoroge. Benchmarking and Bias in Hedge Funds. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190607371.003.0027.
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This chapter discusses investment benchmarking and measurement bias in hedge fund performance. A good benchmark should be unambiguous, investible, measurable, appropriate, reflective of current investment opinions, specified in advance, and accountable. Additionally, a good benchmark should be simple, easily replicable, comparable, and representative of the market that the benchmark is trying to capture. Several biases, such as database selection bias, survivorship bias, style classification bias, backfill bias, self-reporting bias, and return-smoothing bias exist that impede the process of creating a benchmark. These biases increase the difficulty of studying hedge fund returns and managerial skill. However, most of the academic research on hedge fund returns report positive alphas for hedge funds.
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Mitchell, Olivia S., Robert Clark, and Raimond Maurer, eds. How Persistent Low Returns Will Shape Saving and Retirement. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827443.001.0001.
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Funded pension systems around the world have long relied on relatively high and predictable long-term capital market returns. Yet these retirement systems confront a key challenge today, namely, how to deal with what appears to be persistently low returns on bonds and equities. For this reason, it will be prudent, and probably necessary, for insurers, plan sponsors, workers, retirees, and policymakers to take concrete steps to prepare for these lower long-term expected rates of return to retirement wealth. In fact, as we show in this volume, a persistent low-interest-rate economy will compel many to revisit how much they save, how they invest, and how long they can afford to live in retirement. Academics, policymakers, and industry leaders debate alternative strategies to cope with these challenges globally, as economic growth remains slow and low returns become the ‘new normal.’
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Beyond Traditional Academic Degrees: The Labor Market Returns to Occupational Credentials in the United States. RAND Corporation, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7249/wr1299-1.
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Roniger, Luis, Leonardo Senkman, Saúl Sosnowski, and Mario Sznajder. Exile, Diaspora, and Return. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190693961.001.0001.
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This book explores how Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay have been affected by postexilic relocations, transnational migrant displacements, and diasporas. It provides a systematic analysis of the formation of exile communities and diaspora politics, the politics of return, and the agenda of democratization in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, focusing on the impact of intellectuals, academics, activists, and public figures who had experienced exile on the reconstitution and transformation of their societies following democratization. Readers are offered a kaleidoscope of intellectual itineraries, debates, and contributions held in the public domain by individuals who confronted and fought authoritarian rule. The book covers their contributions to the restructuring and transformation of scientific disciplines and of the humanities and the arts, as well as their collective institutional impact on higher education, science and technology, and public institutions. Bringing together sociopolitical, cultural, and policy analysis with the testimonies of dozens of intellectuals, academics, political activists, and policymakers, the book addresses the impact of exile on people’s lives and on their fractured experiences, the debates and prospects of return, the challenges of dis-exile and postexilic trends, and, finally, the ways in which those who experienced exile impacted democratized institutions, public culture, and discourse. It also follows some crucial shifts in the frontiers of citizenship, moving analysis to transnational connections and permanent diasporas, including the diasporas of knowledge that increasingly changed the very meaning of being national and transnational, while connecting those countries to the global arena.
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Desch, Michael. Cult of the Irrelevant. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691181219.001.0001.
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To mobilize America's intellectual resources to meet the security challenges of the post-9/11 world, US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates observed that “we must again embrace eggheads and ideas.” But the gap between national security policymakers and international relations scholars has become a chasm. This book traces the history of the relationship between the Beltway and the Ivory Tower from World War I to the present day. Recounting key Golden Age academic strategists such as Thomas Schelling and Walt Rostow, the book shows that social science research became most oriented toward practical problem-solving during times of war and that scholars returned to less relevant work during peacetime. Social science disciplines like political science rewarded work that was methodologically sophisticated over scholarship that engaged with the messy realities of national security policy, and academic culture increasingly turned away from the job of solving real-world problems. In the name of scientific objectivity, academics today frequently engage only in basic research that they hope will somehow trickle down to policymakers. Drawing on the lessons of this history as well as a unique survey of current and former national security policymakers, the book offers concrete recommendations for scholars who want to shape government work. The result is a rich intellectual history and an essential wake-up call to a field that has lost its way.
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Yaari, Nurit. Experimentations. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198746676.003.0004.
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This chapter focuses on the theatrical work of three directors of the first post-independence generation—Arieh Sachs, Yossi Yizraely, and Edna Shavit—Israeli-born directors who chose to study directing in well-known academies in England and universities in America. They returned to Israel after their studies with plans to assimilate the traditions they learned abroad on the professional stages in Israel. All three chose to divide their professional work between teaching in academia and experimenting with dramaturgy techniques and directing methods on the professional stage. The analysis of their experiments with plays such as The Bacchae and Medea by Euripides, and Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles, demonstrates the challenges that they faced while grappling with the theatrical practice inherent in performing classical Greek drama: the actor’s work, the use of space, the forging of a stage image, and the expressivity of the chorus.
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Smith, Howard L. Taking Back the Tower. Praeger Publishers, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216022169.
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Academia is in trouble. Taxpayers are fed up with the enormous expenses associated with public universities, as well as administrators whose strategies and goals are fuzzy at best and destructive at worst. Parents worry about how they will find the wherewithal to send their offspring to college. Employers question the ability of new graduates and degree holders to write or reason lucidly. And everyone (except entrenched faculty members) questions the practice of tenure, which generally creates an incentive for mediocrity. Meanwhile, academic authorities responsible for managing our august institutions of higher education pontificate about the problems without delivering meaningful solutions. But meaningful solutions do exist, and this book explains them in depth. Taking Back the Tower, a compendium of no-nonsense, management-oriented lessons and prescriptions for the academy, will go a long way toward restoring the respect our colleges and universities deserve. Taking Back the Tower focuses squarely on bringing common sense to higher education by urging creative thinking, especially out-of-the-box approaches, in promoting change. It offers numerous solutions, many of which will be seen as quite controversial by the establishment. Smith outlines how to overcome resistance to change, lead more effectively, demand accountability for performance, manage resources for the highest return, remain firm with tuition payers and donors when warranted, manage costs to help keep the price of an education contained, and much more. The secret is in managing the few key variables that will have the biggest impact on overall results. The ideas are wholly practical and much less philosophical than those in most books on the subject. Following them will help schools improve results across the board. Smith's decades of experience as both a teacher and administrator in academia, as well as a consultant for many public and private-sector organizations, make him the perfect author for this book. Moreover, his insights, coupled with the many enlightening and entertaining examples (all true) will capture the attention of readers and help them understand why change must come—and why it must be radical.
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Academic Libraries and the Academy: Strategies and Approaches to Demonstrate Your Value, Impact, and Return on Investment. Association of College & Research Libraries, 2018.
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Pope, Elizabeth M., Catarina Brandão, and Cedric C. Sanders. Scientific Congresses: What is Our Future? Ludomedia, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36367/ntqr.11.2022.editorial.
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As we write these words, the COVID-19 pandemic has become part of our lives in a much more controlled way. For instance, some of our habits have changed and we are able to resume our activities in the way of a “new normal,” returning to social contact with family, friends, and colleagues. In returning to a life without the constraint of the virus at such a high level, the academy tries to resume its rituals, including scholarly events. Email boxes and physical boards at universities are once again filling up with calls for submission of abstracts for congresses, seminars, and workshops. As these events are happening again, academia seems to be reflecting on the pros and cons of onsite scientific events. While acknowledging the importance of such scientific events and their potential for strengthening scholarly communities and collaborations, many academics have begun questioning the real impact of being physically present. This questioning seems to be based on several factors. On the one hand, it is clear that universities have been increasingly devaluing academics’ presence in congresses (unless by invitation). They allocate less funding for these activities, especially for those academics who wish to attend an event without presentation. With no presentation, institutions devalue attendance in performance appraisal processes. Increasingly, academic institutions value publications (indexed, despite some positive movement seeking to counter the tyranny of the “publish or perish” motto), and an academics ability to raise funding. Yet, not all congresses are associated with publication processes in indexed journals or proceedings. Books of abstracts (once edited by any congress) are almost extinct, namely because of their devaluation by institutes of higher learning (and funding entities). On the other hand, the massive and necessary use of online scientific events in 2020 and 2021 allowed us to realize that it is possible, efficient, and effective to hold these events in a format different from the traditional one. The internet offers versatility and more and more congresses are now offered online or in hybrid formats. These formats allow academics to overcome financial and physical complications caused by in-person scholarly events. Academics can request less funding and, at the same time, mitigate concerns of acceptance without presentations, covering classes while away, or having to supplement university sponsorship with personal funds. At some universities, funding comes after attendance regardless of availability of those funds and academics are asked to pay registration fee, plane tickets, and lodging with the expectation of being reimbursed upon return. This is particularly challenging given the present economic situation around the globe. At the same time, while physically at the event and away from families, work continues to accumulate for academics. They then must wade through this excess upon returning home, adding to an already excessive workload. This makes maintaining a work-life balance challenging. We at New Trends in Qualitative Research (NTQR) believe it is particularly relevant to discuss this topic within the context of the release of NTQR Volume 11. NTQR is an indexed journal associated with international scientific events in the field of qualitative research - Congreso Ibero-Americano en Investigación Cualitativa (CIAIQ) and the World Conference on Qualitative Research (WCQR). Specifically, the volume that we edit here aggregates works that, having been originally presented at WCQR2022 (held in an online format), went through a double-blind review process. This volume, annually edited (as WCQR is an annual event), allows us, as editors, to condense a diverse set of qualitative research work, focusing on different topics, and with different methodological designs. And, our concern as editors has always been to assure the quality of the published works, namely through a careful review and editing process. We do not know if we are ready to give up our physical presence at scientific events. But, with opportunities such as online presentations and online publishing venues, we may now be much more judicious in this presence. We may now take time to ponder the relevance of investing in attending a scientific event, and selecting (hand-drawn) two or three events per year, at most. WCQR has a strong emphasis in the building of a scientific community (in this case, bonded by the interest in qualitative research), reconciling physical and online presence, and is associated with quality journals. These aspects help academics to select it as one of the events where it is important to be present. Sincerely, The Editors
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Joshi, Mahesh K., and J. R. Klein. Inclusive Capitalism and the Return of Social Purpose. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827481.003.0003.
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Inclusive capitalism is a hot topic and for the right reasons. It has been the focus of discussions both in academic and development circles around the world. “The role that business plays in society, and the expectations about the role it should play, has shifted dramatically in recent years. Called to a higher purpose, or sensing that externalities can only be ignored at their peril, many businesses are increasingly open to the notion that they have a responsibility for creating more inclusive economic systems” (Tufano et al. 2016). This statement is an indicator of rigorous research being carried out on the capital and social impact of global business. This chapter highlights the work of the best thinkers and primary players in the world of global business and economics.
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Paul, Anju Mary. Postdoctoral Destination Decisions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815273.003.0013.
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Postdoctoral training is now essential for an academic career in the life sciences. As Asian research universities invest in improving their infrastructure and funding, Asian-born aspiring bioscientists now have a destination choice to make between the West and Asia for their postdoctoral training. This chapter highlights the role played by Asia-based scientists (many of whom are returned migrants from the West) in mediating their students’ understanding of the relative merits of these different destination options. Interviews with eighty-two Asian-born, Western-trained bioscientists who have since returned to Asia to work in Singapore, India, China, or Taiwan, reveal that these scientists still recommend postdoctoral training in the West, though they increasingly recommend doctoral training in Asia, leading to hybrid training pathways. These findings demonstrate the ongoing (though narrowing) gap between Western and Asian scientific research structures, particularly in terms of status, networking opportunities, and research cultures.
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Rangvid, Jesper. From Main Street to Wall Street. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198866404.001.0001.
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From Main Street to Wall Street examines the relation between the economy and the stock market. It discusses the academic theories and empirical facts, and guides readers through the fascinating interaction between economic activity and financial markets. Itexamines what causes long-run economic growth and shorter-term business-cycle fluctuations and analyses their impact on stock markets. From Main Street to Wall Street also discusses how investors can use knowledge of economic activity and financial markets to formulate expectations to future stock returns. The book relies on data, and figures and tables illustrate arguments and theories in intuitive ways.In the end, From Main Street to Wall Street helps academic scholars and practitioners navigate financial markets by understanding the economy.
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Waters, Mike. Hunting and the Seventeenth-Century English Gentleman. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789017.003.0012.
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This chapter discusses Christopher Wase’s edition of Grattius with the first ever English translation (1654). It traces the turbulent life of Wase and shows how his personal, academic, and professional circumstances converged to make Grattius an ideal subject of study and dissemination: it provides an apolitical scholarly project to secure a return to academic life; its difficulty to read and translate into rhymed verse showcases Wase’s literary talent; the theme of hunting is aimed at pleasing Wase’s noble employer, whose family had a long tradition of hunting and breeding dogs; and it does no harm that the poem is relatively positive towards Britain, whose dogs receive praise.
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David, Deirdre. Writing With Every Nerve. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198729617.003.0004.
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In the late 1940s, Pamela became an astute reader and critic of Snow’s work in progress. She learned of his working-class background in Leicester, his grammar school education and his academic success at Cambridge. As she became close emotionally to Snow, she felt increasingly estranged from Neil and began to spend less time with her husband and more time with Snow and his London literary friends, all of whom shared her belief that sterile Modernism was destroying the traditions of the English novel: social and psychological realism. Neil returned from the war unsettled and resentful of the intrusive presence of Pamela’s mother in their marriage. Despite domestic unhappiness, Pamela continued to write short stories, novels, and a well-received play, Corinth House.
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Investing In Renewable Energy And Cleantech A Finance Perspective An Academic View On The Returns Of Renewable Energy And Cleantech In Portfolio Management. VDM Verlag, 2009.
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Kefale, Asnake, and Fana Gebresenbet, eds. Youth on the Move. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197631942.001.0001.
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At a time when policies are increasingly against it, international migration has become the subject of great public and academic attention. This book departs from the dominant approach of studying international migration at macro level, and from the perspective of destination countries. The contributors here seek to do more than ‘scratch the surface’ of the migration process, by foregrounding the voices and views of Ethiopian youth–potential migrants and returnees–and of their sending communities. The volume focuses on the perspective and agency of these young people, both potential migrants and returnees, to better understand migration decision-making, experiences and outcomes. It brings together rarely documented cases of young men and women from several communities across Ethiopia, migrating to the Gulf and South Africa. Explaining the agency of local actors–prospective migrants, brokers and sending families–Youth on the Move illuminates the pervasive, persistent failure of state attempts to regulate migration. Moreover, it examines the financing of migration and the sharing of remittances, within a culturally situated moral economy. While accounts centered on economics and political violence are important, the contributors demonstrate compellingly that these factors alone cannot provide a full understanding of migration’s complexity, nor of its social realities.
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Galliott, Jai, Duncan MacIntosh, and Jens David Ohlin, eds. Lethal Autonomous Weapons. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197546048.001.0001.
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The question of whether new rules or regulations are required to govern, restrict, or even prohibit the use of autonomous weapons systems has been the subject of debate for the better part of a decade. Despite the claims of advocacy groups, the way ahead remains unclear since the international community has yet to agree on a specific definition of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, and the great powers have largely refused to support an effective ban. In this vacuum, the public has been presented with a heavily one-sided view of “Killer Robots.” This volume presents a more nuanced approach to autonomous weapon systems that recognizes the need to progress beyond a discourse framed by the Terminator and HAL 9000. Reshaping the discussion around this emerging military innovation requires a new line of thought and a willingness to challenge the orthodoxy. Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Re-Examining the Law and Ethics of Robotic Warfare therefore focuses on exploring the moral and legal issues associated with the design, development, and deployment of lethal autonomous weapons. In this volume, we bring together some of the most prominent academics and academic-practitioners in the lethal autonomous weapons space and seek to return some balance to the debate. As part of this effort, we recognize that society needs to invest in hard conversations that tackle the ethics, morality, and law of these new digital technologies and understand the human role in their creation and operation.
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Corran, Emily. Theoretical Problems and Authoritative Voices. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828884.003.0006.
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After Peter the Chanter and Robert of Courson, there was relatively little practical moral discussions in the theology faculty until the rise of the institution known as quodlibets in the 1250s, where it was permitted to pose any question to a theology master. This chapter shows how theology masters returned to the pastoral interests of their predecessors. They revived problems on lying and oath-breaking and thereby included practical problems in the same forum as systematic theology and theoretical ecclesiology. On occasion theologians also brought greater academic and speculative depth to familiar dilemmas taken from the Decretum and pastoral manuals. More significantly, they treated problems that had previously been the preserve of law and pastoral writing as problems that should be addressed by a theology master. These new qualities played an important role in the formation of casuistry as a discipline.
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Clark, Gordon L., and Ashby H. B. Monk. Institutional Investors in Global Markets. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793212.001.0001.
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This book is about what institutional investors do, how they do it, and when and where they do it: it is about the production of investment returns in the global economy. It also tackles some of the key issues found in the academic literature on the theory of the firm. It looks at ways other treatments of the modern corporation share an abiding interest in the management and organization of the production process. In this case, the focus is on the global financial services industry, where the building blocks underpinning the study of industrial corporations are less relevant. One of the publication’s goals is to explain how and why the production of investment returns differs from that of manufactured goods. Another is to provide an analytical framework that situates financial institutions within the complex web of the intermediaries that dominate developed financial markets. As such, the book is more than an analysis of the organization and management of institutional investors; it is also an analysis of the global financial services industry.
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Comper, Paul, and Mike Hutchison. Concussion and the College Athlete. Edited by Ruben Echemendia and Grant L. Iverson. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199896585.013.18.
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Concussion is a common and serious injury among college/university level athletes. Similar to professional athletes, a central theme for most college level athletes is to be able to quickly but safely return to play following concussion. However, unlike professional athletes who earn their living playing sports, most college level athletes will move into other careers or professions once their playing career ends. College athletes therefore have a dual role, with academics and “returning to learn” being a component equally important as return to play in the concussion recovery process. This article describes some of the issues in developing and implementing a university concussion program, as well as issues and common difficulties facing college level athletes as they encounter the acute physical, neuropsychological, and psychosocial challenges related to concussive injuries.
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Prasad, Mohit. Indigenous Pacific Fiction in English. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199679775.003.0036.
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This chapter examines the ‘niu wave’ of Indigenous Pacific novels written in English. The ‘new wave’ of South Pacific fiction was marked by the appearance of Albert Wendt's second anthology, Nuanua (1995), by new theorizing such as Epeli Hauʻofa's essay ‘Our Sea of Islands’ in A New Oceania (1993), and by the academic recognition of Pacific writing in collections of critical commentary such as Paul Sharrad's Reading Pacific Literature (1993). Two works by Regis Stella, Imagining the Other: The Representation of the Papua New Guinean Subject (2006) and Unfolding Petals: Readings in Modern PNG Literature (2012), have returned writing from the western Pacific to a more visible place in the region's culture. The chapter considers examples of the ‘niu wave’ and an expanded pan-Pacific awareness, including Rexford T. Orotaloa's Two Times Resurrection (1985), Sam Lidimani Alasia's Fata'abu: the voice of God (2003), Russell Soaba's Maiba (1985), and Celestine Hitiura Vaite's Breadfruit and Frangipani (2004).
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Moody, Alys. Starving Across the Color Line. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828891.003.0005.
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Chapter 4 examines the writing of J. M. Coetzee in the context of late apartheid South Africa, where the call to political responsibility returns with a new urgency. Coetzee breaks with this consensus, maintaining a commitment to aesthetic autonomy through his investment in a European modernist tradition that incorporates the art of hunger. In a context where hunger itself was highly politicized, Coetzee’s 1983 novel Life & Times of Michael K produces an anti-politics of hunger, whose autonomy rests in the disjuncture between its white author and its Coloured protagonist. Pursuing this argument through a genetic reading of the novel’s drafts, this chapter shows how this novel was written out of and against both the debates about art and politics in apartheid-era South Africa, and the emerging theoretical positions that governed Coetzee’s international anglophone academic context at this moment.
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Fulcher, Jane F., ed. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195341867.001.0001.
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The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music cultivates a return to the fundamental premises of cultural history in the work of musicologists concerned with cultural history and historians who deal with music. In this volume, noted academics from both of these disciplines illustrate the continuing endeavor of cultural history to grasp the realms of human experience, understanding, and communication as they are manifest or expressed symbolically through various layers of culture and in many forms of art. This book demonstrates how music is becoming a unique mode of access into specific cites of cultural representation, exchange, contestation, and the construction of experience.
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Hurt, R. Douglas. Documents of the Dust Bowl. ABC-CLIO, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400641893.
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This book provides a unique, thorough, and indispensable resource for anyone investigating the causes and consequences of the Dust Bowl. During the 1930s, drought and the cultivation of submarginal lands created a severe wind-erosion problem in the southern Great Plains, a region that became known as the Dust Bowl. During the worst dust storms, the blowing soil often turned day into night. Some people died when caught outside during a black blizzard, others developed "dust pneumonia," and some residents moved to California. Most people, however, remained. Those who stayed and endured the storms had an abiding faith that federal resources and the return of normal rainfall would end the dust storms and return life to normal, free from the desperation and fear caused by the blowing soil. Documents of the Dust Bowl offers a fascinating documentary history of one of the worst ecological disasters in American history. It will enable high school students and academics alike to study the manner in which Dust Bowl residents confronted and endured the dust storms in the southern Great Plains during the 1930s.
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Harris, Ellen T. The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190271664.003.0008.
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The performance history of Dido and Aeneas in the nineteenth century is marked by two, seemingly conflicting, trends: attempts to create a more authentic score and the increased use of added orchestration. Many of the most important contributions to the reception history of the opera in this era, including new editions and major revivals, can be attributed to the faculties at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music. The founding of the Purcell Society by William Cummings, his biography of the composer, and his edition of the opera mark a watershed in the modern history of the opera. Within the so-called “English Musical Renaissance” of musical composition, Dido and Aeneas became a stylistic touchstone to which composers through the mid-twentieth century returned.
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Morel, Nathalie, and Joakim Palme. A Normative Foundation for the Social Investment Approach? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198790488.003.0013.
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The SIA has been criticized for its productivist view of social policy and one-sided emphasis on economic returns. Indeed, it is fair to say that the social dimension of social investment has been paid lip service both in terms of policy developments and in academic research. In fact, it may be that one of the weaknesses of the SIA is its lack of clear normative underpinning or theory of social justice against which to develop a well-founded evaluative framework for assessing the quality of social policies and social arrangements both for society as a whole and from the life perspective of individuals. This contribution discusses the possible relevance of the capabilities approach developed by Amartya Sen, both in developing a normative framework for social investment, but also in developing indicators for assessing social outcomes, and for analysing how different institutional arrangements support or hinder agency and capabilities.
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Parr, Connal. Stewart Parker, the UWC Strike of May 1974, and Prisons. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791591.003.0005.
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This chapter explores the UWC strike of May 1974 through the prism of playwright Stewart Parker. A native of East Belfast, Parker experimented with the dramatic form at the same time as structuring his work around the politics, divisions, and contradictions of his own community. The strike led to the destruction of the Sunningdale power-sharing Executive, though this was as much an expression of working-class Protestant power as an assault on the concept of nationalists (and Catholics) in power. This connectedly takes in Loyalist prisoners who began swelling the jails, a familiar academic concentration but seldom addressed through a cultural prism. Martin Lynch’s Chronicles of Long Kesh (2009) tackles the experience via a contested portrayal of Loyalist prisoners. The chapter ends with a return to Stewart Parker’s capacious and self-critical take on Ulster Protestant identity.