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Apryshchenko, Victor Yu, and Maksim A. Mukhin. "Features of the Scottish Governance System in the Second Half of the 18th Century." IZVESTIYA VUZOV SEVERO-KAVKAZSKII REGION SOCIAL SCIENCE, no. 1 (209) (March 30, 2021): 35–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.18522/2687-0770-2021-1-35-41.
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The article analyses the contents and the significance of the Scottish governance system in the second half of the 18th century. The authors point out that English political elite had little interest in governing Scotland and draw attention to the role of the Scottish lobby in the Scottish governance as a tool of interaction between the centre and the periphery. The text reveals how the Scottish lobby distributed various amenities via the patronage in order to achieve political stability, as shown with the elections to the House of Commons. The article also demonstrates the role of Scottish managers as the representatives of Scottish interests in London. The authors conclude that the Scottish political system was different from the English one and note that there were no acute political crises in the second half of the 18th century, which indicates that in the midst of a rapid modernisation the Scottish governance system proved to be successful.
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Agababov, A. R., and R. A. Lyovochkin. "Non-Institutional Forms of Political Participation of Muslim Youth in Modern Scotland." Administrative Consulting, no. 8 (October 15, 2021): 117–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/1726-1139-2021-8-117-127.
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The article examines the main forms and socio-cultural features of the participation of Muslim youth in Scotland in non-institutional politics. As their research goal, the authors chose to identify the mechanisms through which political processes specific to the Scottish context (different from the general British or, for example, the English context) generate various forms of political participation of young adherents of Islam. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study was a significant layer of empirical data (mainly Scottish), comprehended through an interpretive paradigm, which allowed the authors to analyze the non-institutionalized political experience of young Muslims, finding patterns in how Muslim youth perceive and construct the social world around them. The result of the study was an understanding that the strengthening of the “Islamic factor” in the social and political life of Scotland is explained not only by the growth of the Muslim population, but also by the obvious support that the Scottish authorities provide to adherents of Islam. According to the authors, the issue of national and state independence, the specificity of Scottish nationalism, the attractiveness of the political platform of the Scottish National Party for ethno-confessional minorities became the most important primary factors that predetermined the active entry of Scottish Muslim youth into politics. The main conclusion in this article was the idea that the specific socio-political and sociocultural contexts of Scotland create appropriate forms of political participation of young Muslims. Despite the prevailing opinion that Scottish Muslim youth are interested mainly in international events, the authors show a clearly traceable institutional and non-institutional involvement of young Muslims in national and local political issues in Scotland. According to the authors, the non-institutional political participation of young Scottish followers of Islam is manifested in such forms as social movements, activism and charity, and volunteer work.
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Тюрин, Evgeniy Tyurin, Савинова, and Elena Savinova. "MODERN MANIFESTATIONS OF SCOTTISH "NATIONALISM" IN THE CONDITIONS OF POLITICAL STRUGGLE FOR STATE SOVEREIGNTY OF SCOTLAND." Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences 10, no. 6 (November 27, 2015): 152–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/16805.
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The article analyzes the contemporary manifestations of the political struggle for the acquisition of Scottish national independence. Attempting to reveal the specifics of the modern Scottish «nationalism», the authors conclude that the success of the political opposition to the British bourgeois neo-liberal etatism is largely dependent on the social and democratic and egalitarian orientation of the Scottish national idea.
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McPhee, Iain, and Barry Sheridan. "AUDIT Scotland 10 years on: explaining how funding decisions link to increased risk for drug related deaths among the poor." Drugs and Alcohol Today 20, no. 4 (September 24, 2020): 313–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dat-05-2020-0024.
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Purpose In response to Scottish Government assertions that an ageing cohort explained increases in drug-related death (DRD), the previous research by the authors established that socio-economic inequalities were additional risk factors explaining the significant increases in DRD in Scotland. This paper aims to subject the drug policy narratives provided by Scottish Government in relation to the governance of drug and alcohol services to critical scrutiny and reveal the social consequences of the funding formula used to direct funding to services via NHS Scotland Boards, and Alcohol and Drug Partnerships (ADP). Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a narrative review in the context of the AUDIT Scotland reports “Drug and Alcohol Services in Scotland” from 2009 and follow-up report published in 2019. The authors refer to the recommendations made in the 2009 report on effectiveness of drug and alcohol services and subject Scottish Government funding processes, and governance of drug and alcohol services to critical scrutiny. Findings This analysis provides robust evidence that Scottish Government funding processes and governance of drug and alcohol services increased risk to vulnerable drug users and document evidence that link these risk factors to increased DRD. Research limitations/implications The authors have focused on Scottish drug policy and drug services funding. Alcohol services funding is not subject to critical analysis due to limitations of time and resources. Practical implications This case study investigates AUDIT Scotland’s recommendations in 2009 to Scottish Government to provide researchers, government policy advisors and media with robust critical analysis that links drug policy decisions to increased DRD. Social implications Drug policy governance by the Scottish Government and NHS Scotland since 2009 have disproportionately affected communities of interest and communities of place already experiencing stark inequalities. These budget decisions have resulted in widening inequalities, and increased DRD within communities in Scotland. The authors conclude that in diverging politically and ideologically from Public Health England, and the Westminster Parliament, Scottish Government drug policy and financial governance of drugs services contributes to increased risk factors explaining DRD within deprived communities. Originality/value The 2009 AUDIT Scotland recommendations to Scottish Government subject their governance of drug services to critical scrutiny. This analysis provides a counterpoint to the explanations that rising DRD are unconnected to drug policy and drug services governance.
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Brand, Jack, James Mitchell, and Paula Surridge. "Social Constituency and Ideological Profile: Scottish Nationalism in the 1990s." Political Studies 42, no. 4 (December 1994): 616–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.1994.tb00301.x.
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Using data from the 1992 Scottish and British Election Surveys, the authors examine various models which might explain the changes in the level and type of Scottish National Party voting. In the analysis they are also concerned with voters for other parties who support the central SNP policy: independence, for Scotland. The protest, relative deprivation, identity, and new social movement models are stated and explored. The authors conclude that a major problem for the SNP is that the basic Scottish identity, to which the Nationalists want to appeal, is felt almost as strongly by Labour voters as by those who choose the SNP. The SNP has not been able to establish a reputation as a credible party of government which could take over the role of the spokesperson for the national community. At the same time, it is not likely to disappear as the major challenger in Scottish politics.
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Turin, E. A., E. N. Savinova, and A. R. Agababov. "The Identity of Scottish Muslims as a Socio-cultural Manifestation of Globalization in the Domestic Political Processes of Modern Scotland." Administrative Consulting, no. 6 (August 8, 2020): 50–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/1726-1139-2020-6-50-63.
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The article considers the identity of Scottish Muslims as a non-traditional for Scotland sociocultural manifestation of globalization of regional socio-political processes. The relevance of this topic is determined by the fact that the number of Muslims as a part of population of Scotland has been growing rapidly over the past decade. In this regard, the range of questions about the future national sovereignty of Scotland is significantly expanding, requiring the search for scientific, theoretical and practical answers. The research goal of the article is to analyze the influence of Islamic identity on domestic political processes in Scotland. To achieve this goal, the authors rely on general logic, institutional, stating factual and comparative methods used in political science. In addition, the article uses the data of socio-anthropological and psychological research conducted on the subject by foreign colleagues. As a result of the research, the authors identified the activation the Scottish authorities’ activities, who are forced (within the framework of internal policy) to develop comprehensive measures aimed at Scots who confess Islam. The article deals with the issues of political participation of Muslims, Islamic extremism and others, the practical solution of which, according to the authors, is connected with the problem of Muslims integration into the Scottish society (traditionally Christian). In this regard, the authors attach particular importance to the peculiarities of Islamic identity in the modern Scottish society. The authors come to the conclusion that this identity is a socio-cultural manifestation of global civilizational processes and it contains plenty of internal contradictions caused by a number of objective reasons, the main of which is the discrepancy between two civilizational codes: the traditional (native Scottish, Christian, European) and the non-traditional (brought from the outside, Muslim, Asian).
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Farrar, Jennifer, and Kelly Stone. "Silenced by the gaps? The status of critical literacy in Scotland’s curriculum for excellence." English Teaching: Practice & Critique 18, no. 3 (October 14, 2019): 335–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/etpc-03-2019-0041.
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Purpose Critical literacy foregrounds the relationship between language and power by focusing on how texts work and in whose interests (Luke, 2012, p. 5). It is highlighted as an “important skill” within Scotland’s national educational framework for 3-18 year olds, the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE), yet, as this paper aims to show, what the concept means is far from clear for policy users (Scottish Government, 2009e). Design/methodology/approach Using a lens that draws from critical discourse analysis, critical content analysis (Luke, 2001; Beach et al., 2009; Fairclough, 2010) and Ball’s method of policy analysis (2015), the authors find that the term “critical literacy” has been applied incoherently within key CfE documentation, including the frequent conflation of critical literacy with critical reading and critical thinking. Findings The authors argue that the CfE’s use of “critical literacy” is a misnomer, given that the version presented is an amalgamation of literacy-related competences drawing largely from psychological and not socio-political perspectives of literacy. Social implications This is a missed opportunity, given the Scottish Government’s stated commitment to social justice in policy terms (Scottish Executive, 2000; Scottish Government, 2016), not forgetting the powerful benefits that a critically literate stance could bring to Scotland’s learners at this time of communicative change and challenge. Originality/value While the authors offer a contextualized view of the ways in which the term “critical literacy” has been incorporated into Scottish educational policy, they propose that its implications go beyond national boundaries.
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Murray, Kath, Lucy Hunter Blackburn, and Lisa Mackenzie. "Statement from the authors of ‘Losing sight of women's rights’." Scottish Affairs 29, no. 1 (February 2020): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2020.0303.
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This statement notes the contribution made by Lisa Mackenzie to the 2019 article ‘Losing sight of women's rights: the unregulated introduction of gender self-identification as a case study of policy capture in Scotland’ in Scottish Affairs, 28 (3).
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Groot, Hester. "Developing a standard in lower-class Scottish writing: pauper petitions as a source for nineteenth-century lower-class Scottish language." Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 10, no. 1 (April 1, 2024): 127–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2023-0011.
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Abstract The anglicisation of Scottish writing, a development in which the features of the previously high-status Scots language variety became marginalised and proscribed in favour of prestige Standard English variants, is typically dated by scholars to the sixteenth through eighteenth century. The effect of anglicisation on upper- and middle-class Scottish authors’ written language has been attested in numerous studies; however, how the metalinguistic ideologies of the time affected the language of the Scottish lower classes has long remained underinvestigated. This study makes use of the recent publication of a corpus of lower-class Scottish writing from the nineteenth century – the Corpus of Scottish Pauper Petitions – to investigate the effect of prescriptivism on lower-class Scottish writing as documented in nineteenth-century pauper petitions. The materials are placed side-by-side with the writings of upper- and middle-class Scottish people during this period, taken from the Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing. This study, which investigates both overt and covert Scotticisms by drawing respectively on usage guides by contemporaneous prescriptivists and works by modern linguists, takes a ‘from below’ approach to Scotland’s linguistic history and represents a new step in our understanding of the development of historical Scottish writing.
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Thorne, Christian. "The Old Adam, After All." Historical Materialism 26, no. 3 (September 25, 2018): 243–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1569206x-00001625.
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AbstractHill and Montag’s The Other Adam Smith confirms many of the Left’s established positions on Adam Smith, but does so by framing the philosopher as a standard-bearer of the Scottish Enlightenment, and not just as an arch-capitalist and proto-Hayekian. The book makes a strong case, but also strong-arms its readers into choosing between the Scottish Enlighteners and the Spinozism that its authors prefer.
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Torrance, Iain R. "Editorial." Scottish Journal of Theology 68, no. 3 (July 7, 2015): 253–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930615000198.
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Jasper, David. "Re-imagining religion: Scottish writers and the breadth of religion." Theology in Scotland 29, no. 1 (May 6, 2022): 78–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.15664/tis.v29i1.2422.
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To tie in with this issue’s theme of theology and imagination, this review essay reflects on four relatively recent works by Scottish authors in order to explore the ubiquitous and often deeply unsettling experience of Scottish religion in literature and the arts.
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Meg Bateman, Robert Crawford and James McGonigal, eds., Scottish Religious Poetry: From the Sixth Century to the Present (Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 2000)
Edwin Morgan, A.D.: A Trilogy of Plays on the Life of Jesus (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2000)
James Robertson, News of the Dead (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2021)
David Brown, God and Grace of Body: Sacrament in Ordinary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
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Pavlovich, Kristina K. "V. Scott’s novel “Puritans” in the context of I.A. Goncharov’s novel “Oblomov”." Philological Sciences. Scientific Essays of Higher Education, no. 6 (November 2023): 94–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/phs.6-23.094.
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The article describes the study of typological connections between the novel Puritans by Walter Scott and Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov. For the first time, these literary texts are considered through the prism of depiction as an artistic and aesthetic category, based on the genre system of fine arts. The name of the “Scottish sorcerer” is found in every novel of Goncharov’s trilogy (Ordinary History (1847), Oblomov (1859), The Precipice (1869). Most often, numerous landscapes can be found both on the pages of Scott’s and Goncharov’s novels. These landscape paintings are brought together by the plasticity of the image, decorativeness, careful detailing, epic manner and coloristic features. When creating idyllic landscapes, the Russian writer is guided by Scott’s style, combining both “high” poetic and everyday life within the framework of one image. Important in this regard are the landscapes of the famous ninth chapter of Oblomov’s Dream and as well as the pictures of Scott’s nature scattered throughout the text. In addition to the interdisciplinary genre of landscape, the authors have similar portrait descriptions (Oblomov and Milnwood). A special place in these novels is occupied by everyday scenes that convey the color of everyday life, the poeticization of reality , which is an important aesthetic category for both Russian and Scottish writers. They are in the spirit of the Flemish tradition. In addition, both novels are related by the typological similarity of storylines and characters (main and secondary).
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Shcherbak, Nina F. "Contemporary Scottish and Irish Women’s Writing: Tradition and Innovation." Studia Litterarum 6, no. 4 (2021): 68–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2021-6-4-68-87.
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The work examines the development of contemporary Scottish and Irish women’s writing and explores what unites contemporary Scottish and Irish woman writing with other types of narrative and what makes it special. The theoretical basis and methodology for the study is the attention to the vector of women’s prose development, including postcolonial literature and contemporary feminist critical theories. Postmodernist and meta-modernist theories (including the rhizome concept and “oscillation” principle) are also considered. Contemporary Scottish women’s writing (the example of Carol Ann Duffy) provides insights into the development of the Scottish woman writer image; works by Jenny Fagan allow to trace controlling practices of contemporary society. Kate Clanchy’s writing reveals the interconnection between cultures incorporated into the social problem of migration. Contemporary Irish women’s prose is characterized by addressing the issue of religion and Catholicism as well as the concept of home, which is well revealed in the writings of most authors who are rebelling against the tradition and, at the same time, associate themselves with it.
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Tyurin, E. A., E. N. Savinova, and A. R. Agababov. "The Islamic Factor in the Development of Modern Scotland: Political and Socio-Cultural Aspects." Islam in the modern world 16, no. 2 (July 25, 2020): 159–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2020-16-2-159-180.
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The subject field of this article, devoted to the manifestation of the Islamic factor in the socio- political life of the Great Britain, is localized within the borders of Scotland. The authors emphasize the special (different from other regions of the UK) nature of the interaction of the Muslim ethno- confessional minority with the indigenous population of Scotland. Most attention is paid to the identity of Scottish Muslims. The article highlights that Scotland demonstrates its winning position for Muslims through the development of an inclusive identity. The authors make a prognostic conclusion that Scotland will maintain a policy of affirming common civic values that ensure the pluralism of various socio- cultural communities. According to the authors, the future of Scotland is a post-ethnic, transcultural socio- political state- organized space in which British-wide tensions between Muslims and non- Muslims will gradually decrease, and the Scottish tradition of equality and social justice will be strengthened.
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Maček, Dora. "Some Reflections on the Language of Contemporary Scottish Prose." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 2, no. 1-2 (June 22, 2005): 45–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.2.1-2.45-56.
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A northern variety of Old English developed in Scotland into what has become known as Scots. This language of the Scottish court and literature prior to the Acts of Union was abandoned by both king and poets after the Union with England. English replaced Scots in public institutions, to schools and literature. The most fatal development was the change of attitude of the Scottish themselves, who came to regard Scots as an inferior variety of English. There have been repeated attempts by Scottish writers, to revive Scots as a national language of Scotland. Since the 1970s a number of projects have been launched to study the present state of Scots with the aim of initiating a language policy which would reintroduce Scots into public life as one of the national languages of Scotland. A number of Scottish authors have used Scots in their works. This paper will examine the language of some contemporary prose texts seeking to establish the density of Scots elements and estimate their place on the scale between Standard Scottish English and Scots, which may be one of the means of establishing an acceptable standard variety.
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Ramdarshan Bold, Melanie. "The Sorry Tale of Contemporary Authorship: A Study of Scottish Authors." Publishing Research Quarterly 29, no. 1 (December 28, 2012): 73–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12109-012-9301-4.
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van Eyndhoven, Sarah. "‘An Eye for an Aye’: linguistic and political backlash and conformity in eighteenth-century Scots." Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 7, no. 2 (October 1, 2021): 243–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2020-0004.
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Abstract This study examines the effect of political change on the use of written Scots during the eighteenth century. In particular, it compares a cross-section of texts from literate Scottish society, with works from certain politically-active authors, who identified strongly as pro- or anti-Union following the creation of the British state in 1707. The proportion of Scots to English lexemes in their writing is explored using conditional inference trees and random forests, in a small, purpose-built corpus. Use of Scots is shown to differ between the two groups, with specific extralinguistic factors encouraging or suppressing the presence of written Scots. Frequency of Scots is also found to be influenced by the political ideology of the politicised authors. These results are linked to the Scottish political scene during the eighteenth century, as well as general processes of change over time.
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Osborne, Mike, and Richard Edward. "Inquiring into Lifelong Learning." Journal of Adult and Continuing Education 8, no. 2 (May 2003): 165–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/jace.8.2.4.
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The Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee of the Scottish Parliament has conducted an inquiry into lifelong learning and produced both an interim and final report (Scottish Parliament, 2002a, b). The inquiry had a number of strands to it, including a wide-ranging consultation on a number of questions. In this article, the findings of the inquiry itself are not discussed – rather the authors discuss the feasibility of, and constraints intrinsic to, inquiring into lifelong learning. The authors suggest that the evidence base for policy is relatively under-developed and that the research that does exist points to the multi-faceted complexity of lifelong learning as both a means and end of policy. Drawing policy conclusions from the current research evidence base may therefore be premature. This discussion is situated within some of the wider debates about evidence-informed policy and practice.
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POWER, MADELEINE, BOB DOHERTY, NEIL SMALL, SIMON TEASDALE, and KATE E. PICKETT. "All in it Together? Community Food Aid in a Multi-Ethnic Context – CORRIGENDUM." Journal of Social Policy 46, no. 3 (February 20, 2017): 473. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279417000083.
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The following acknowledgement was omitted from the original publication:The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the BBSRC (The Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council) for the funding of IKnowFood at York which is 4-year research programme being funded through the Global Food Security-Food System Resilience programme with contributions from BBSRC, ESRC, NERC, and the Scottish Government.The authors apologise for this oversight.
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Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria. "The ‘Glaring’ Place of Prepositions." Historiographia Linguistica 38, no. 3 (October 21, 2011): 255–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.38.3.01yan.
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Summary This paper offers new insights into the 18th-century normative tradition, with special reference to the stigmatisation of preposition stranding. It brings to light the role of Scottish codifiers in contrast to English codifiers: works written by Scots contain more critical comments on the use of end-placed prepositions both quantitatively (in terms of frequency) and qualitatively (more semantic nuances and more condemnatory epithets). The semantic analysis of the data rules out the hypothesis that Scottish authors might have been particularly sensible towards this construction because of its nature as ‘provincial English’ or as a ‘Scotticism’. Rather, the author suggests that it was the ‘New Rhetoric’ movement (1748–1793) in the context of the Scottish Enlightenment that played a vital role in its stigmatisation. The importance of rhetoric as a facet of 18th-century prescriptivism, complementary to grammar, is thus put under the spotlight.
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Lee, Rosemary, and Brian Ellis. "Developing and Sustaining Ultrasound Programmes for Nonmedical Practitioners in Scotland: Opportunities and Challenges." Ultrasound 15, no. 3 (August 1, 2007): 173–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174313407x208703.
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Medical ultrasound programme development and the initial period of study delivery can be fraught with challenges and pitfalls yet full of opportunities for educational teams in the United Kingdom. The authors report on the experiences from a Scottish university during this critical period.
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Haggarty, George, Derek Hall, and Richard Jones. "Sourcing Scottish medieval ceramics - the use and success of chemical analysis." Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 141 (November 30, 2012): 249–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/psas.141.249.267.
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The aim of this summary paper is to review the success of chemical sourcing in the study of the Scottish medieval Whiteware and Redware ceramic industries and outline the methods and protocols that the authors feel should be used to take the technique forward.
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PAUTZ, HARTWIG, SALLY A. WRIGHT, and CHIK COLLINS. "Decent Work in Scotland, an Agenda-Setting Analysis." Journal of Social Policy 50, no. 1 (November 13, 2019): 40–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279419000916.
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AbstractThis article uses John Kingdon’s multiple streams framework as an analytical tool to consider how the policy issue of ‘job quality’, in the guises of ‘decent work’ and ‘fair work’, developed a ‘career’ in Scotland between 2013 and 2017. The aim is to understand why, despite the efforts of a variety of policy entrepreneurs and the openness of the Scottish Government to this policy problem, job quality did not arrive on the Scottish Government’s decision agenda. The article finds that the crucial ‘policy window’ did not open due to the 2016 ‘Brexit’ decision dramatically changing the political landscape.The article demonstrates the applicability of Kingdon’s framework for agenda-setting analysis in a parliamentary environment and constitutes a rare application of the framework to a ‘live’ policy issue.The authors were involved in a research and advocacy project on ‘decent work’ that was undertaken in Scotland during 2015 and 2016 and therefore were amongst the policy entrepreneurs seeking to place job quality on the Scottish Government’s agenda.
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Hill, Lorna. "Bloody Women: How Female Authors Have Transformed the Scottish Contemporary Crime Fiction Genre." American, British and Canadian Studies Journal 28, no. 1 (June 27, 2017): 52–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/abcsj-2017-0004.
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Abstract This study will explore the role of female authors in contemporary Scottish crime fiction. Over the past thirty years, women writers have overhauled the traditionally male dominated genre of crime fiction by writing about strong female characters who drive the plot and solve the crimes. Authors including Val McDermid, Denise Mina and Lin Anderson are just a few of the women who have challenged the expectation of gender and genre. By setting their novels in contemporary society they reflect a range of social and political issues through the lens of a female protagonist. By closely examining the female characters, both journalists, in Val McDermid’s Lindsay Gordon series and Denise Mina’s Paddy Meehan series, I wish to explore the issue of gender through these writers’ perspectives. This essay documents the influence of these writers on my own practice-based research which involves writing a crime novel set in a post referendum Scotland. I examine a progressive and contemporary Scottish society, where women hold many senior positions in public life, and investigate whether this has an effect on the outcome of crimes. Through this narrative, my main character will focus on the current and largely hidden crimes of human trafficking and domestic abuse. By doing this I examine the ways in which the modern crime novel has evolved to cross genre boundaries. In addition to focusing on a crime, the victims and witnesses, today’s crime novels are tackling social issues to reflect society’s changing attitudes and values.
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Canty, Michael, and Edward Jerome St George. "Development of a surgical site infection surveillance programme in a Scottish neurosurgical unit." International Journal of Health Governance 23, no. 3 (September 3, 2018): 188–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhg-03-2018-0009.
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Purpose Surgical site infection (SSI) is a common complication in surgical practice. SSIs represent almost a fifth of healthcare-associated infections in Scotland, and have deleterious effects on mortality, morbidity, length of stay, and cost to the health service. SSIs in neurosurgery may be more consequential than in other specialities given the potentially devastating effects of central nervous system infection. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach In 2014, the authors became concerned about an anecdotal increase in infection rates in the authors’ unit. While national guidance on SSI surveillance existed in England and Scotland, the authors had no relevant procedures or policies in Glasgow, and began the process of establishing a surveillance programme. This was driven by clinicians but faced challenges due to a lack of involvement of the wider organisation in the early stages. Findings SSIs were initially reported via a form-filling system. This developed into an editable hospital intranet database, but still suffered from the problems of voluntary entries and under-reporting. Following the formal engagement of management structures and the funding of a surveillance nurse, the authors’ programme developed robustness, and resilience. With the advent of an SSI committee, the authors now have a well-established programme that ingrains SSI prevention in the collective learning and organisational memory of the authors’ unit. Originality/value Clinicians must lead on the development of these programmes, but long-term durability requires engagement and support from the wider organisation.
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Lapina, Evgeniia V. "“The Overlap of Myth and History”: Scottish Identity through Walter Scott to James Robertson in the Testament of Hideon Mack." World Literature in the Context of Culture, no. 14 (20) (2022): 36–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2304-909x-2022-14-36-42.
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The aim of this paper is to look at the works of Walter Scott and James Robertson through the lens of Scottish identity representation, and study Scott´s influence on The Testament of Gideon Mack by Robertson. The work takes a postcolonial approach to conceptualizing national identity. Scott´s influence on Robertson´s novel can be traced at different levels. Gérard Genette´s theory of transtextuality is used to discover all types of literary dialogue between the two authors. The analysis of The Testament of Gideon Mack is performed with the purpose of identifying the echoes and connections with Scott, on the one hand, and Robertson´s original techniques of portraying Scottish identity, on the other.
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Chown, Nick, Jennifer Layton Annable, Luke Beardon, and Nik Howard. "A response to the terms in Shah et al's ‘Neurodevelopmental disorders and neurodiversity: definition of terms from Scotland's National Autism Implementation Team’." British Journal of Psychiatry 222, no. 4 (March 20, 2023): 157–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2022.153.
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The Scottish National Autism Implementation Team's neurodiversity terms are a valiant, but flawed, attempt to reconcile different worldviews on neurodiversity. The aim of harmonising different perspectives is laudable; however, we disagree with the use of ‘societal norms’ in the authors’ framework of terms and challenge some of their proposed definitions.
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Cook, Brian, John Forrester, Louise Bracken, Christopher Spray, and Elizabeth Oughton. "Competing paradigms of flood management in the Scottish/English borderlands." Disaster Prevention and Management 25, no. 3 (June 6, 2016): 314–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dpm-01-2016-0010.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how flood management practitioners rationalise the emergence of sustainable flood management. Key to this analysis are differences rooted in assumptions over what flood management is and should do. Design/methodology/approach – The popularity of natural flood management offers a case with which to explore how a dominant framing persists and how individuals at the government-public interface negotiate different visions of future flood management. The authors draw on the perceptions of flood experts, elucidating a deep hold amongst a professional community “grounded” in science and economics, but also their desire to innovate and become more open to innovative practices. Findings – The authors show how the idea of “sustainable” and “natural” flood management are understood by those doing flood management, which is with reference to pre-existing technical practices. Research limitations/implications – This paper explores the views of expert decision making, which suffers from challenges associated with small sample size. As such, the findings must be tempered, but with recognition for the influence of a small group of individuals who determine the nature of flood management in Scotland. Practical implications – The authors conclude that, in the context of this study, a technical framing persists by predetermining the criteria by which innovative techniques are judged. Originality/value – Broadly, these findings contribute to debates over the evolution of flood management regimes. This recognises the importance of events while also emphasising the preparations that shape the context and norms of the flood management community between events.
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Kilgallen, Niamh M., Alan A. Myers, and David McGrath. "The genus Sophrosyne (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) in the North Atlantic, with a confirmation of the status of S. robertsoni." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 87, no. 5 (October 2007): 1243–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315407056445.
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Sophrosyne robertsoni was recorded from the west coast of Ireland. This is the first record of the species from outside Scottish waters. Previous authors have commented on the similarity of this species to Sophrosyne hispana and suggested that they may be conspecific. Here both species are re-described and their status determined.
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Wakefield, Juliet R. H., Nick Hopkins, Clare Cockburn, Ka Man Shek, Alison Muirhead, Stephen Reicher, and Wendy van Rijswijk. "The Impact of Adopting Ethnic or Civic Conceptions of National Belonging for Others’ Treatment." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 37, no. 12 (August 3, 2011): 1599–610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167211416131.
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National belonging is often defined in terms of “ethnic” ancestry and “civic” commitment (with the latter typically implying a more inclusive conception of belonging). The authors report three Scottish studies manipulating the prominence of these criteria. In Study 1 ( N = 80), a Chinese-heritage target was judged more Scottish (and his criticisms of Scotland better received) when Scotland was defined in civic terms. In Study 2 ( N = 40), a similar manipulation in a naturalistic setting showed a civic conception of belonging resulted in more help being given to a Chinese-heritage confederate. Study 3 ( N = 71) replicated Study 2 and showed the effect was mediated by judgments of the confederate’s Scottishness. These studies emphasize the importance of exploring how ingroup identity is defined.
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Stanley, Phiona, Daniel Wade Clarke, Fiona Murray, and Jonathan Wyatt. "The Fires We Made, the Fires that Made Us." Journal of Autoethnography 3, no. 3 (2022): 381–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.3.381.
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The authors of this essay ventured into the Scottish outdoors together for the weekend in September 2020. They made fires to gather ’round in the early autumn darkness. Here they return to these fires as they introduce the essays in this collection, writing their way into what stays with them, what changed (with) them, what continues to change (with) them, that weekend.
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Oliver, James, and Iain MacKinnon. "Our Plural Gàidhealtachd: An Editorial Rejoinder." Scottish Affairs 31, no. 1 (February 2022): 104–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2022.0400.
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In the preamble of the response articles to the recent special issue of Scottish Affairs on Scotland's Gàidhealtachd Futures the authors make some negative assertions about the editorial position. This short and positive essay revisits and reiterates the key themes of ‘plurality’ and ‘futures’ that are the focus of the special issue's contribution to important discussions and emerging priorities for Scotland's Gàidhealtachd Futures.
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Baxter, Graeme, Rita Marcella, and Mary O'Shea. "Members of the Scottish Parliament on Twitter: good constituency men (and women)?" Aslib Journal of Information Management 68, no. 4 (July 18, 2016): 428–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ajim-02-2016-0010.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of Twitter by Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) for the provision of constituency-related information, or in support of their constituency service work. Design/methodology/approach – Content analysis of 10,411 tweets sent by the 105 MSPs on Twitter during four weeks in early-2014. Findings – While there was some evidence of MSPs on Twitter acting as a promoter of local community interests and as a conduit for information on local policy issues and events, their tweets were dominated by the wider, national, political agenda and by the Scottish independence debate. Compared with their online behaviour as parliamentary candidates three years earlier, MSPs placed an even greater emphasis on the one-way broadcast of information to their followers. They were reluctant to respond to contentious local policy questions, or to enter into any visible, meaningful, political debate with their constituents. Research limitations/implications – Although the research was conducted seven months before the Scottish independence referendum on 18 September 2014, the independence debate still dominated proceedings on Twitter. It might, therefore, be appropriate to revisit MSPs’ use of Twitter at some point during a truer “peacetime” period. Originality/value – This is the first systematic content analysis of tweets sent by all MSPs on Twitter. It allows the authors to compare their actual Twitter use with that envisaged by the Scottish Parliament, as a way of MSPs communicating about their work and engaging with their constituents.
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Mackay, Kathryn, and Mary Notman. "Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007: reflections on developing practice and present day challenges." Journal of Adult Protection 19, no. 4 (August 14, 2017): 187–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jap-04-2017-0017.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the duties and powers of the Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act (ASPSA) 2007 and place them in the wider Scottish adult protection legislative framework. It considers the potential value of a standalone adult safeguarding statute. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw upon their research and practice expertise to consider the merits of the ASPSA 2007. They take a case study approach to explore its implementation in one particular Scottish local authority, drawing on the qualitative and quantitative data contained in its annual reports. Findings Skilled, knowledgeable and well-supported practitioners are key to effective screening, investigations and intervention. Protection orders are being used as intended for a very small number of cases. Research limitations/implications The lack of national statistical reports means that there is limited scope for comparison between the local and national data. Practical implications Adult support and protection requires ongoing investment of time and leadership in councils and other local agencies to instigate and maintain good practice. Aspects that require further attention are self-neglect; capacity and consent and residents in care homes who pose potential risks to other residents and staff. Social implications ASPSA 2007 has helped to raise awareness of adults at risk of harm within the local communities and as social issue more generally. Originality/value The authors provide a critical appraisal of the implementation of Scottish adult safeguarding legislation over the last six years. They consider similar developments in England and Wales and argue for comparative research to test these out. Finally, they signpost future directions for bridging separate policy streams.
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Scholtz, Martin, and Almarie Harmse. "Psychiatry in Shetland." BJPsych International 15, no. 2 (April 12, 2018): 33–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2018.2.
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The Shetland Isles are a place of breathtaking landscapes and pristine wildlife. As harsh as the weather can be, so warm and welcoming are the people and their proud half-Scottish, half-Scandinavian culture. Practising psychiatry in this northernmost outpost of the UK involves significant challenges. The authors were the only two psychiatrists based on this remote island group, which is home to 23 000 people.
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Villani, Stefano. "From Mary Queen of Scots to the Scottish Capuchins: Scotland as a symbol of Protestant persecution in seventeenth-century Italian literature." Innes Review 64, no. 2 (November 2013): 100–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/inr.2013.0055.
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Italian authors of the seventeenth century produced a myriad of historical texts, tragedies, oratorios and poems that dealt with the events of Mary Stuart's life. The tremendous outcry that her story caused all over Europe made Scotland one of the most powerful symbols of persecution of Catholics by Protestants. It was the image of Scotland as a land of martyrdom that possibly prompted the publication of two seventeenth-century Italian ‘biographies’, narrating the vicissitudes of the lives of two Scottish capuchins, and which ran to multiple editions down to the eighteenth century. This article explores the literary reception of Mary Queen of Scots in seventeenth-century Italian literature and, in so doing, opens up religious, cultural, and political implications, pointing to links between Scottish Catholic and European intellectuals, and the publishing networks of sympathetic Marian writing.
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Khavronich, Alina Alekseevna. "Archaisms in D. Lyndsay’s play of the Early Modern English period “A Satire of the Three Estates”: problem of identification and stylistic assessment." Litera, no. 9 (September 2020): 11–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2020.9.33435.
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The subject of this research is the method of identification and problem of statistical interpretation of archaic lexis in literary texts of the Early Modern English period, namely in D. Lyndsay’s play “A Satire of the Three Estates”. The article discusses the capacity of attracting the data from diachronic corpus and corpus-based dictionaries for determination of archaic elements in literary works of the XVI century. Leaning on the commentaries of reputable philologists of the Early Modern English period and modern research, the article explores the trends of relevant perception pertaining to introduction of archaisms into the literary text by the authors of that time. An algorithm is proposed for identification of outdated units in literary material, created on Scottish (considering the obsolescent character of this dialect), based on juxtaposition of the approximate frequency indexes of reproduction of the element in the Early Modern English and Scottish sections of Helsinki corpus, as well as data from the corpus-based dictionaries of Middle English and Scottish. For stylistic assessment of archaisms in the play of D. Lyndsay, the author applies the method of linguo-stylistic analysis, in which linguistic element is viewed from the contextual perspective. The scientific novelty is substantiated by the fact that for solution of the problem of analysis of archaisms in the texts of Early Modern English period, the author elaborates an algorithm that allows clarifying if a unit is obsolescent in a specific moment of development of the English language. It is established that the prevalent proportion of words in Lyndsay’s play was not archaic within the framework of Scottish dialect; and only few of the involved units were outdated at the moment of creation of text in the standard Early Modern English. The archaisms determined in the play allows stating the Lyndsay considered archaisms a part of elevated lexis. The practical values of this work is defined by the possibility to apply the proposed algorithm for detecting archaisms in any literary text of the Early Modern English period, as well as conduct stylistic assessment of archaisms from the perspective of the trends of their perception by the authors of the XVI century.
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Meaney, Eoghan D., Louise Reid, and Devjit Srivastava. "A survey on the use of intravenous lidocaine infusion for acute pain in Scottish Hospitals." British Journal of Pain 14, no. 2 (August 29, 2019): 98–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2049463719873021.
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Introduction: Intravenous (IV) lidocaine infusions are increasingly used in the management of acute pain. They are particularly used in patients undergoing colorectal surgery, where they are also found to decrease rates of postoperative ileus. IV lidocaine has significant toxicity in overdose. There are no current national guidelines or standards on the provision of IV lidocaine infusions. We aimed to get a snapshot of current usage and usage practices in Scottish NHS Hospitals, to identify common themes and variations in practice. Methods: A survey designed by the authors was emailed to 20 Scottish NHS Hospitals with an acute pain team. These were then followed up by telephone, if necessary. Results: Of the 20 hospitals, 16 (80%) responded; 12 out of 16 (75%) of the responding hospitals either used IV lidocaine infusions for acute pain or were planning to use them in the near future. There was variability in practices regarding delivery device, prescriber grade, bolus dosing, length of infusion, location of infusion and use with other local anaesthetic (LA) infusions. Conclusions: A majority of Scottish NHS Hospitals use IV lidocaine infusions in the management of acute pain. There are some variations in current practice; standardising practices may decrease the risk of LA toxicity. A national guideline is recommended.
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Jakusné Harnos, Éva, and Mátyás Gergi-Horgos. "Frames and political choice in Scottish election campaigns." Linguistics Beyond and Within (LingBaW) 8 (December 31, 2022): 86–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/lingbaw.14959.
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The paper presents interdisciplinary research using the framework of cognitive linguistics based metaphor theory and nationalism studies of political science. Frames of movement are placed under scrutiny during the discourse analysis of the 2016 and 2021 election manifestos of the Scottish National Party and social media posts. In relation to metaphors of movement, images describing the future of an independent Scotland are also detected. The authors attempt to analyse and interpret findings both from the perspective of cognitive linguistics and ethno-symbolism. Apart from the texts of the manifestos, the timeframe of the research involved social media posts two months preceding and two months following the elections in both cases. Methodology was issue-driven and computer assisted but supervised: key words linked to movement were extracted from the manifestos and clustered. Their occurrence and frequency in the social media posts was checked. In the qualitative analysis phase, messages of the manifestos and of the posts were contrasted in order to answer our research question what kind of persuasive political discourse was used when options for the citizens were outlined.
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Wilson, S., and JM Eagles. "Changes in Undergraduate Clinical Psychiatry Teaching in Scotland since “Tomorrow's Doctors”." Scottish Medical Journal 53, no. 4 (November 2008): 22–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/rsmsmj.53.4.22.
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This paper reviews the factors which have driven changes in undergraduate education in psychiatry since the 1993 publication of “Tomorrow's Doctors”,1 after which it describes current undergraduate curricula in the four Scottish medical schools teaching clinical psychiatry. Reasons underlying the differences between curricula are discussed. The authors suggest that research in medical education, alongside communication and debate between medical schools and across specialties, would lead to more uniform and evidence-based curricula.
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Dobash, R. Emerson, and Russell P. Dobash. "Evaluating Criminal Justice Interventions for Domestic Violence." Crime & Delinquency 46, no. 2 (April 2000): 252–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128700046002007.
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In this article, the authors consider various approaches to the evaluation of criminal justice interventions in the area of domestic violence. Evaluations have been conducted on a range of interventions, but this article focuses particularly on evaluations of arrest and programs for violent abusers. The authors contrast randomized designs used in the primarily North American studies of arrest with the extant evaluations of abuser programs and argue for the use of more theoretically informed contextual evaluations of criminal justice interventions. Using their own 3-year evaluation study of two Scottish abuser programs, the authors demonstrate how the contextual approach is attuned to both outcome and process and results in more empirically informed assessments of how change is achieved in the behavior and orientations of violent men. The authors argue that evaluations of criminal justice-based interventions should be designed to fit the phenomena under consideration as well as the intervention itself.
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Cloonan, Martin, and Roy Canning. "Completion Rates of Scottish Vocational Qualification (SVQ) Courses: A Research Study." Scottish Educational Review 32, no. 1 (March 18, 2000): 55–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/27730840-03201006.
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This article examines notions of completion as applied to candidates taking Scottish Vocational Qualifications (SVQs). It is based on case-study research carried out by the authors in the winter of 1998/99. It is argued that a number of factors militate against the compilation of meaningful completion rates for SVQs, the most important of which are the type of candidate, the funding regime and the poor quality of data held by Awarding Bodies. The conclusions reached are of direct relevance to policy makers in post-16 education and training in Scotland.
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McGill, Martha. "The Evolution of Haunted Space in Scotland." Gothic Studies 24, no. 1 (March 2022): 18–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2022.0118.
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This article explores the popularisation of the concept of haunted space in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland. While earlier ghost stories were usually about the haunting of people, the rise of Gothic and Romantic literary aesthetics fuelled a new interest in both the Scottish landscape, and the dramatic potential of lurking spectres. Amid the upheaval of industrialisation and the Highland Clearances, and in a period when Scots were still wrestling with the implications of the 1707 Union, authors recorded stories of wandering ghosts as part of a broader movement to fashion a distinctive identity rooted in a specific cultural context. Against the frequently broad scope of academic literature on spectrality, this article draws attention to the crucial significance of contextual nuances and specific historical and social circumstances. In particular, it points to the fraught politics of loss and repossession in relation to the Highlands’ history of depopulation and modernisation, casting a fresh light on the historical events that have given shape to Scottish haunted space.
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Patel, Leena, Anna McTurk, and Marilisa Scognamiglio. "Exploring the effects of a multicultural literature intervention on children’s creative writing skills." Educational Psychology in Scotland 22, no. 1 (2022): 68–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsepis.2022.22.1.68.
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Multicultural literature can be used as a pedagogical tool to promote the voices of marginalised communities (Yokota, 2001). At present, most of the research on multicultural literature focuses on studies which are based in America. To address this research gap, this study aimed to explore the effects of one Scottish primary school’s bespoke multicultural literature intervention by analysing stakeholders ‘perspectives on pupils’ creative writing skills post-intervention. Four focus groups were conducted with: the senior management team, class teachers, P7 pupils, and the authors/illustrators who participated in the intervention. Through thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006), two overarching themes were identified: Developing Critical Awareness and Promoting Culturally Diverse Stories. The findings suggested that the intervention helped to: develop pupils ‘critical awareness skills; enrich pupils’ creative writing skills; and normalise multiculturalism. From a Scottish context, these findings illustrate how the multicultural literature intervention appeared to have a positive effect on P7 pupils.
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Kendall, Tim, Craig J. Whittington, Elizabeth Kuipers, Sonia Johnson, Max J. Birchwood, Max Marshall, and Anthony P. Morrison. "NICE v. SIGN on psychosis and schizophrenia: Same roots, similar guidelines, different interpretations." British Journal of Psychiatry 208, no. 4 (April 2016): 316–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.115.170324.
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SummaryA recent editorial claimed that the 2014 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline on psychosis and schizophrenia, unlike its equivalent 2013 Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) guideline, is biased towards psychosocial treatments and against drug treatments. In this paper we underline that the NICE and SIGN guidelines recommend similar interventions, but that the NICE guideline has more rigorous methodology. Our analysis suggests that the authors of the editorial appear to have succumbed to bias themselves.
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Grabevnik, Mikhail. "European identity of Scotland in the context of Brexit." Political Science (RU), no. 4 (2020): 157–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.31249/poln/2020.04.08.
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The withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union focused the issue of cleavage of British statehood by European criteria. According to the results of sociological surveys and polls, the distribution of preferences of Brexit is correlated with the national identification matrix. Most Scots and Irish of United Kingdom support remaining the membership in the European Union, while the most English defend soft or hard Brexit. However, the depth of such cleavage underlines the uncertainty in the preferences of citizens who identify as British in general. In the context of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union, the question of the European identity of Scots was also underlines by Scotland's regional political actors. This article is aimed to the analysis of the dynamics of the European identity of the Scottish community in 2016–2020 under Brexit conditions. The author concludes that the share of Scots with European identities increased after 2016, and Brexit was a key factor in the dynamics. At the same time, the actualization of European identity among the Scottish community is connected with the pragmatic strategy of the Scottish community and regional political actors to neutralize the negative economic and social effects of Brexit and plays an instrumental role in the national and European political arenas. The article starts with an excursion to the issues of national identity in the modern United Kingdom in the studies of Western and Russian authors. Then, based on an analysis of sociological data, the question of the European identity of Scots was raised, as well as the role of the national identity of United Kingdom citizens in the issue of membership in the European Union. At the end of the article, author proposes the description of the position and strategy of the Scottish community on the issue of Brexit.
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Fawcett, Richard, Richard Oram, and Julian Luxford. "Scottish Medieval Parish Churches: the Evidence from the Dioceses of Dunblane and Dunkeld." Antiquaries Journal 90 (February 24, 2010): 261–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581509990436.
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AbstractThe great majority of Scottish parish churches owe their present appearance to reconstructions carried out from the later eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. It was the view of the authors of this paper, however, that in many cases those reconstructions had been relatively superficial, and that medieval work might have survived under what could, in some cases, be little more than a modern veneer. To test this view, a survey was carried out of all medieval parish sites within the dioceses of Dunblane and Dunkeld. The findings from that survey are summarized in this paper.
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Blumenthal, Susanna L. "Metaphysics, Moral Sense, and the Pragmatism of the Law." Law and History Review 26, no. 1 (2008): 177–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248000003606.
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The authors of these insightful and stimulating commentaries all express skepticism about the role I assign to the Scottish Common Sense philosophy in my historical analysis, though their reasons for doing so are strikingly at odds with each other. Sarah Seo and John Witt concede the importance of the Common Sense philosophy at a theoretical level, even as they call attention to certain “competitor theories” of human nature, noting that these darker views of the self may have proved more influential in the framing of the American constitution. However, they go on to contend that all of this philosophizing about the human mind was actually of little consequence in the everyday adjudication of civil and criminal liability, as judges found more practical means of resolving “the otherwise intractable questions of moral responsibility” left unanswered by the Scottish philosophy. John Mikhail, by contrast, appears to be far more sanguine about the tractability of these questions, from a philosophical standpoint, going so far as to suggest that they were more or less resolved by British moralists before the Scottish Common Sense school even came into being. What truly set the Common Sense philosophers apart from their predecessors, and ought to determine their place in this history of ideas, Mikhail concludes, was the manner in which they contributed to the scientific process of tracing out the inner structure and innate capacities of “the moral mind”—a topic that is currently of intense interest in the cognitive and brain sciences.
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Baxter, Graeme, and Rita Marcella. "Online parliamentary election campaigns in Scotland: a decade of research." JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government 5, no. 2 (December 15, 2013): 107–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.29379/jedem.v5i2.210.
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Over the last ten years, the authors have conducted a series of investigations into the use of the Internet by political parties and individual candidates during parliamentary election campaigns in Scotland. These are the only such studies which have looked specifically at the Scottish political arena. This paper provides a longitudinal overview of the results of these studies, and reflects on how new technologies have been adopted by political actors in Scotland in an effort to disseminate information to, and engage with, potential voters.