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Nurse, G. T. "MALAWIAN MUSIC: A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS, Gerhard Kubik, assisted by Moya Aliya Malamusi, Lidiya Malamusi and Donald Kachamba, Centre for Social Research and Department for Fine and Performing Arts, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Zomba, 1987." African Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music 7, no. 3 (1996): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.21504/amj.v7i3.1969.
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Chiwaya, Matthias. "Chancellor College Law Library in Malawi." International Journal of Legal Information 32, no. 2 (2004): 375–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0731126500004194.
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The Center, now known as the Mcnight Legal Resource Centre, was established at the University of Malawi and designed to provide information support for the efficient and effective performance of the law faculty and staff, students and researchers and institutions and organizations associated with the University, including related government departments and research centers.
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Cheetham, Juliet. "The Social Work Research Centre at the University of Stirling: A Profile." Research on Social Work Practice 4, no. 1 (January 1994): 89–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104973159400400107.
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Gu, Yongqi. "National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University." Language Teaching 45, no. 2 (February 24, 2012): 263–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261444811000589.
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The National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education (NRCFLE) attached to Beijing Foreign Studies University (www.sinotefl.ac.cn/) is a key research institute in the humanities and social sciences in universities approved by the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the People's Republic of China. It was formally set up and approved in September 2000. After a decade of dedicated hard work, the centre has become an applied linguistics hub of research and training unrivalled in China, and co-hosted AILA2011, the 16th World Congress in Applied Linguistics in August 2011. The current director of the centre, WEN Qiufang, currently presides over the China English Language Education Association, another co-host of AILA2011. The centre publishes two journals, one of them, Foreign Language Teaching and Research, being pre-eminent in the field in every key journal index in China, as well as being the only journal in applied linguistics and foreign language education to feature in the MOE's 2010 Distinguished Journals in Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Craig, S. Bartholomew, Clara E. Hess, Jennifer Lindberg McGinnis, and Denis O. Gray. "Leadership in University-Based Cooperative Research Centres." Industry and Higher Education 23, no. 5 (October 2009): 367–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/000000009789711864.
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In spite of the importance often attached to the role played by leadership in university-based cooperative research centres, we know very little about what ‘leadership’ means in this specific context. The research reported here used a qualitative approach to identify fifteen dimensions of leadership performance for directors of university-based cooperative research centres, which might serve as the basis of a future quantitative leadership performance measure. Nineteen university faculty members working in research centres were interviewed, and their responses were content-analysed to identify both facilitators and inhibitors of centre directors' performance. Facilitative performance dimensions included: technical expertise, ambition/work ethic, broad thinking, embracing ambiguity, balancing competing stakeholders, leveraging social capital, obtaining resources, navigating bureaucracy, granting autonomy, interpersonal skill, team building and task adaptability. Inhibiting performance dimensions included: abrasiveness, disorganization and conflict avoidance. The results are discussed in terms of the commonalities and particularities they reveal about cooperative centre leadership relative to leadership performance in other settings.
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Gould, Nick. "University of Stirling Social Work Research Centre, Is Social Work Effective?University of Stirling, Stirling, 1993, 79 pp., £5.00 paper." Journal of Social Policy 23, no. 4 (October 1994): 622. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279400023552.
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Onyx, Jenny. "University-Community Engagement: What does it mean?" Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement 1 (September 29, 2008): 90–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ijcre.v1i0.512.
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This article reflects on the nature of Community-University engagement from a research focus. This entails several steps. In this I start with ‘engagement’ and what that might mean in the context of a University-based research centre. I then reflect on the nature of ‘community’ and the significance of the third sector globally and in Australia. The Centre for Australian Community Organisations and Management (CACOM) was the first research centre in Australia, and one of the first in the world designed explicitly to study the Community Sector and its impact. The article outlines one significant research program that emerged from the work of CACOM, namely the story of social capital research. This research was initiated by a request from community partners, and was carried out in collaboration with them. The research program led to several significant research projects which have had a major impact on theory and public policy. It challenges the nature of the University as ‘expert’ and illustrates the co-production of knowledge. The article concludes by discussing the various roles that the University can play within the co-production of research knowledge with the community, as collaborator in the research process itself, as mediator in the development of linking social capital between community and more powerful players, and as the potential site for independent and critical analysis.
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Goñi-Moreno, Angel, Anil Wipat, and Natalio Krasnogor. "CSBB: synthetic biology research at Newcastle University." Biochemical Society Transactions 45, no. 3 (June 15, 2017): 781–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bst20160437.
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The Centre for Synthetic Biology and the Bioeconomy (CSBB) brings together a far-reaching multidisciplinary community across all Newcastle University's faculties — Medical Sciences, Science, Agriculture and Engineering, and Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. The CSBB focuses on many different areas of Synthetic Biology, including bioprocessing, computational design and in vivo computation, as well as improving understanding of basic molecular machinery. Such breadth is supported by major national and international research funding, a range of industrial partners in the North East of England and beyond, as well as a large number of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. The CSBB trains the next generation of scientists through a 1-year MSc in Synthetic Biology.
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Gama, Limbani Chrispin, George T. Chipeta, Austine Phiri, and Winner D. Chawinga. "Information behaviour of prison inmates in Malawi." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 52, no. 4 (March 10, 2020): 1224–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961000620908655.
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The study examined the information behaviour of Mzimba prison inmates focusing on the research themes which are information needs, sources of information, and the barriers to seeking and using information of Mzimba prison inmates. A qualitative approach was used coupled with a case study design. Data were collected through focus group discussions and interviews from 12 inmates and two prison teaching staff respectively. The study found that health information, education information and spiritual information are the major information needs of Mzimba prison inmates. The study also found that the majority of respondents agreed that the six popular sources of information are their friends, teachers, radio, television, books and newspapers. However, the study concludes that Mzimba prison (library) fails to fulfil its role as a source of information and in meeting the information needs of inmates due to challenges of lack of information resources, limited time available for inmates to search for information, poor services and lack of funding for the school and library. The study recommends that the Malawi Prison Service should engage some stakeholders such as the Malawi National Library Services, National Initiative for Civic Education and Mzuzu University Library and Learning Resources Centre to support prison libraries with the provision of information resources to meet the information needs of inmates. The study further recommends that the Malawi Prison Service Command should lobby for financial support in order to hire qualified and capable librarians and teachers to manage prison libraries and schools.
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Iwaniec, Dorota, and Patrick McCrystal. "The Centre for Child Care Research at the Queen's University of Belfast." Research on Social Work Practice 9, no. 2 (March 1999): 248–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104973159900900213.
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Peel, V. J. "Management-Focused Health Informatics Research and Education at the University of Manchester." Methods of Information in Medicine 33, no. 03 (1994): 273–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1635027.
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Abstract:The Health Services Management Unit was established in 1956 and the Centre for Health Informatics in 1988 as one of eight new centres of research and professional practice. New programmes of informatics education have been created to integrate many of the areas of social and management sciences with clinical work. The model, of a multi-disciplinary higher education department based at a University with very substantial departments of Bio-Medicine and Computation, enables the Centre to reflect an alternative paradigm of health informatics. Informatics practitioners from many disciplines are taught a combination of knowledge and skills through a range of educational methods. A classification scheme for educational work is offered.
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Creese, Angela, and Adrian Blackledge. "Conceptualizing multilingualism under globalization: Membership claims, social categories and emblems of authenticity." Language Teaching 48, no. 1 (January 2015): 146–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261444814000317.
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Swarthout, Todd D., Ana Ibarz-Pavon, Gift Kawalazira, George Sinjani, James Chirombo, Andrea Gori, Peter Chalusa, et al. "A pragmatic health centre-based evaluation comparing the effectiveness of a PCV13 schedule change from 3+0 to 2+1 in a high pneumococcal carriage and disease burden setting in Malawi: a study protocol." BMJ Open 11, no. 6 (June 2021): e050312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050312.
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IntroductionStreptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) is commonly carried as a commensal bacterium in the nasopharynx but can cause life-threatening disease. Transmission occurs by human respiratory droplets and interruption of this process provides herd immunity. A 2017 WHO Consultation on Optimisation of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) Impact highlighted a substantial research gap in investigating why the impact of PCV vaccines in low-income countries has been lower than expected. Malawi introduced the 13-valent PCV (PCV13) into the national Expanded Programme of Immunisations in 2011, using a 3+0 (3 primary +0 booster doses) schedule. With evidence of greater impact of a 2+1 (2 primary +1 booster dose) schedule in other settings, including South Africa, Malawi’s National Immunisations Technical Advisory Group is seeking evidence of adequate superiority of a 2+1 schedule to inform vaccine policy.MethodsA pragmatic health centre-based evaluation comparing impact of a PCV13 schedule change from 3+0 to 2+1 in Blantyre district, Malawi. Twenty government health centres will be randomly selected, with ten implementing a 2+1 and 10 to continue with the 3+0 schedule. Health centres implementing 3+0 will serve as the direct comparator in evaluating 2+1 providing superior direct and indirect protection against pneumococcal carriage. Pneumococcal carriage surveys will evaluate carriage prevalence among children 15–24 months, randomised at household level, and schoolgoers 5–10 years of age, randomly selected from school registers. Carriage surveys will be conducted 18 and 33 months following 2+1 implementation.AnalysisThe primary endpoint is powered to detect an effect size of 50% reduction in vaccine serotype (VT) carriage among vaccinated children 15–24 months old, expecting a 14% and 7% VT carriage prevalence in the 3+0 and 2+1 arms, respectively.Ethics and disseminationThe study has been approved by the Malawi College of Medicine Research Ethics Committee (COMREC; Ref: P05.19.2680), the University College London Research Ethics Committee (Ref: 8603.002) and the University of Liverpool Research Ethics Committee (Ref: 5439). The results from this study will be actively disseminated through manuscript publications and conference presentations.Trial registration numberNCT04078997.
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Krishnaraj, Maithreyi. "The First Women’s Studies Research Centre: A History of Women’s Studies and Its Progenitors." Indian Journal of Gender Studies 25, no. 2 (May 20, 2018): 212–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0971521518763472.
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The beginning of Women’s Studies has a special history in India. It owes its origin not only to some stalwarts but also to the historical times in which its birth took place. Its location in the SNDT Women’s University in Mumbai was at the initiative of Dr Neera Desai, a Professor of Sociology at that university. Her own work on women’s issues in her Master’s thesis and her involvement in the women’s movement gave her the background for envisaging that a women’s university should engage with analysis of women’s condition and not just teach women other academic disciplines. It was with this motive, that the Research Centre for Women’s Studies was set up in 1974, a year before the publication of the report Towards Equality of the Government of India. The university - originally begun at the initiative of the educationist Shri Dhondo Kheshav Karve received a handsome grant from the industrialist Shri Damodar Thackersey and got named after his mother Shrimathi Nathibai Damodar Thackersey hereafter SNDT Women’s University. The Centre with the involvement of able and farsighted administrators at this university spearheaded the development of this Centre, which became the torch bearer for raising women’s issues.
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Storbjörk, Jessica, Jonas Landberg, and Robin Room. "The new suit of the Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD): A well-tailored costume for tackling research and challenges ahead." Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 37, no. 6 (August 13, 2020): 592–608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1455072520947244.
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This overview reviews the establishment and evolution of the Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD). It outlines its current organisation and updated research direction, and discusses SoRAD’s future challenges and opportunities. SoRAD was established at Stockholm University to strengthen and support Swedish social science research on alcohol and drugs. It became active in 1999, and quickly grew in research efforts and reputation, while experiencing setbacks around 2006 and 2017. In 2018 SoRAD merged with the Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), to form a new Department of Public Health Sciences. In its new suit, SoRAD acts as a research centre within the teaching department. The research activities on alcohol and other drugs and gambling behaviour and problems may be categorised into four main areas: social epidemiology; subcultures and social worlds of use and heavy use; policy formation, implementation and societal responses; and societal and other collective definitions of problems and solutions. The new arrangements, with an increased staff pool and close interplay with higher education, provide a more stable and long-term platform for achieving the main mission of promoting and developing social science research on addictive substances and behaviours and related problems.
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Stenius, Kerstin, Mats Ramstedt, and Börje Olsson. "Addiction research centres and the nurturing of creativity: Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD), Stockholm University, Sweden." Addiction 105, no. 3 (March 2010): 402–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2009.02838.x.
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Kingston, Paul. "THE APPLICATION OF MASS OBSERVATION DATA IN SOCIAL RESEARCH." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S756—S757. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2777.
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Abstract Responding to the opportunities and challenges of an ageing world the University of Chester established the Centre for Ageing, Mental Health and Veterans’ Studies in 2013 to provide research, consultancy and education, with the aim of promoting innovation in health and social care services for older people. This symposium brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines and career stages, to explore the utility of Mass observation data in social research in the field of gerontology. The Mass Observation Project, established in 1937, documents the lives of ordinary people living in the UK, and explores a wide range of social issues. The symposium comprises four separate papers. The Methodological Relevance of Mass Observation Data: This preliminary overview will outline the mass observation archive, highlighting challenges and issues encountered utilising the data produced in social research. Personal Narratives of Ageing: This paper presents personal narratives reflecting on the ageing process, and growing older in the UK. The Health Impact of Scams: This presentation will offer new and alternate insights into ‘scams’ and the health effects of fraud on older people, using data from the mass observation directive commissioned by the centre. Perceptions of Dementia: This paper presents a perspective on the public knowledge and understanding about dementia not previously considered, where respondents have written openly about their own experiences, and reflected on their perception of the wider public’s knowledge and understanding about dementia.
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Parkinson, Joy, Philip C. Mkandawire, Timo Dietrich, Abi Badejo, Mohammad Kadir, and Violet Tembo. "Developing the UNICEF Malawi School Handwashing Program." Social Marketing Quarterly 24, no. 2 (April 22, 2018): 74–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524500418766355.
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Diarrhea is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality among children and immune-compromised individuals in Malawi. Handwashing with soap (HWWS) is one of the most cost-effective health interventions to prevent diarrhea. United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Malawi has adopted a social marketing approach to achieve large-scale behavioral change for HWWS. The study, commissioned by UNICEF Malawi, was developed by PSI Malawi and Griffith University and conducted by PSI Malawi. Formative research insights using two research studies are presented including observations at 30 primary schools in terms of HWWS behavior. Second, key informant interviews with school administrators and staff members were conducted to understand HWWS motivation, opportunity, and ability factors. This study found less than half of the assessed schools had handwashing facilities. Structural barriers that prevent school children from practicing HWWS were identified including a lack of financial resources to construct permanent handwashing facilities in schools. Many schools also experience a lack of support from the community as citizens are not aware of the benefits of HWWS. Changes to school and community infrastructure are required to facilitate the adoption of the behavior. Supporting activities to encourage school children to practice HWWS and reinforcement strategies to sustain the behavior over time should also be implemented. School children can then become change agents for HWWS by reinforcing the behavior at home thereby contributing to the achievement of the national objectives to reduce diarrhea and leading to improved health and well-being for communities in Malawi.
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Murray-Harvey, Rosalind, and Phillip T. Slee. "EDITORIAL." Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling 23, no. 2 (September 20, 2013): iii—v. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jgc.2013.25.
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Welcome to the special edition on wellbeing and the prevention of violence in young people. This edition is special in two ways. It is the first edition since the name change of the Australian Guidance and Counselling Association (AGCA) to the new name of Australian Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools (APAC). Second, this edition has been supported by the Flinders Centre for Student Wellbeing & the Prevention of Violence (SWAPv; http://www.flinders.edu.au/ehl/swapv/), which draws together a number of major streams of research being undertaken within Flinders University, situated in Adelaide, South Australia. The Centre also calls upon the expertise of staff members in other parts of the faculty and across the university, in collaboration with national and international researchers and colleagues. The work of the Centre focuses on research that spans the fields of mental health and wellbeing, and violence prevention, primarily in education settings. The Centre is dedicated to making a difference to the wellbeing of young people's lives, focusing on promoting mental health and preventing violence in educational settings. The Centre represents the multiple research, consultancy, professional learning and higher degree research supervision interests of its members, and is broadly inclusive of a rich and varied mix of approaches to undertaking research in the particular fields that provide the foci of the Centre.
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Singh, Supriya. "The Social Dimensions of the Security of Internet Banking." Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research 1, no. 2 (August 1, 2006): 72–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jtaer1020014.
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This paper examines the users’ perspective on the security of Internet banking in Australia within the social context. This user-centered design approach supplements the technological and industrial approaches to security. The user-centered research on banking was conducted at the Royal Melbourne University of Technology University and Griffith University, both of which are part of the Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre. We conclude that the most effective way to increase the perception of Internet banking security is to increase ease of use, convenience, personalisation and trust. Without the perception of security, there will be little trust in banking and transactions on the Internet. This will impede the use of Internet banking and e-commerce which are increasingly important aspects of the nation’s critical infrastructure.
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Aytug, Rana, and Lee Daly. "CONFERENCE REPORT: Politics, Policies and Diplomacy of Diaspora Governance: New Directions in Theory and Research." Migration Letters 16, no. 2 (April 5, 2019): 341–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/ml.v16i2.672.
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On December 6, 2018, academics from across Europe and beyond gathered at London’s Freud Museum for a conference on the politics, policies and diplomacy of diaspora governance. This conference was organized by Senior Research Fellow Dr Bahar Baser from the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR), Coventry University, UK and Dr Henio Hoyo, Research Professor from the Department of Social Sciences/School of Law and Social Sciences, Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) Monterrey, Mexico.
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Stroud, Christopher. "The Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa." Multilingual Margins: A journal of multilingualism from the periphery 1, no. 1 (November 6, 2018): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.14426/mm.v1i1.25.
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There is an urgency in theorising howdiversity is negotiated, communicated,and disputed as a matter of everydayordinariness that is compounded by theclear linkages between diversity, transformation,voice, agency, poverty andhealth. The way in which difference iscategorised, semiotised and reconfiguredin multiple languages across quotidianencounters and in public and media forumsis a central dynamic in how povertyand disadvantage are distributed and reproducedacross social and racial categorisations.In the South African context,finding ways of productively harnessingdiversity in the building of a better societymust be a priority.
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Aleksandrowa, Anna, and Ekaterina Aigina. "Lomonosov Moscow State University: the major centre for Russian research and education into tourism and recreation." Turyzm/Tourism 22, no. 2 (April 25, 2013): 7–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10106-012-0006-z.
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The author discusses the tourism geography research which has been undertaken at Lomonosov State University in Moscow over many years. This academic institution is one of the most famous research centres dealing with spatial recreation systems. At first (from the 1960’s), research was mainly on geographical and technical issues, but the research area was gradually enlarged for example to include social and humanistic elements. The best known research has been done on ‘spatial recreation systems’, ‘polarized landscapes’, the ‘recreational economy spatial complex’, and the ‘environmental model of a spatial system’.
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Wolf, Klaus. "Promoting the Positive Development of Foster Children: Establishing Research in Germany." Adoption & Fostering 36, no. 1 (April 2012): 40–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030857591203600106.
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Research into foster care is less developed in Germany than in the UK or US and there are few national practice standards. In 2006, a research centre was established at the University of Siegen to improve the situation. Klaus Wolf describes the work undertaken so far and discusses the aims and philosophy underpinning the programme. He explains how research relevant to practice is combined with studies that have theoretical value in their own right, and how a combination of these informs current debates about foster care in Germany and elsewhere.
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Dutta, Dipmala, and Polly Vauquline. "Institutionalisation of Women’s Studies Research Centre, Gauhati University: A Struggle for Space and Identity." Space and Culture, India 6, no. 1 (June 28, 2018): 16–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.20896/saci.v6i1.321.
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Institutionalisation of Women’s Studies (WS) in India although started in the 1970s, it took a decade further to cross the threshold of Northeastern States. The isolation which the Northeast of India has always faced in the social, economic and political spheres was also reflected in the case of establishment of the Women’s Studies Centres as the then Vice Chancellor Dr. Deba Prasad Barooah had to struggle against the University Grants Commission for establishing it in Gauhati University. Again, the narrative of WSRC, GU do not find mention in the book Narratives from Women's Studies Family: Recreating Knowledge where experiences of 17 centres from across the country are illustrated. This paper investigates all such structural difficulties, negligence and struggle faced by one of the first Women’s Studies Centre of Northeast India, established in Gauhati University (GU), since its conceptualisation to inception in 1989 till the present. It attempts in revealing the experiences of the Directors, yielding the efforts behind the setting up of the centre, the role played by different individuals both internal and external of the University towards the establishment of the Centre, the catalysts that prevented the premature decay of the Centre and most importantly the struggle for space, identity and recognition the constraints faced to obtain them. To achieve these goals oral history method was applied to explore the experiences of the previous directors and the author (2nd author) herself. The narratives illustrate the history of struggles, challenges and the subsequent development over a span of more than twenty five years. The paper documents the support the University provided despite being a patriarchal institution for fostering of the WSRC, which in gradual years took steps to produce the Department of Women’s Studies. It will also look into the progressive role Women’s Studies played not only in the varsity internally but also at the external front through research and advocacy by inducing new panoramic view towards and discussion of women’s issues in a multidimensional framework.
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Adorean, Cristian Emanuel, Jordi Nofre, Oana-Ramona Ilovan, and Viorel Gligor. "Exploring nightlife in the university city of Cluj-Napoca (Romania): a mixed methods research study." Fennia - International Journal of Geography 198, no. 1-2 (December 4, 2020): 180–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.11143/fennia.90011.
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The university city of Cluj-Napoca in Romania is one of the clearest examples where ‘the night’ (including restaurants, bars, discotheques, clubs, and also museums, exhibitions, and theatres) has been essential for the vitality of the city. Despite the importance of ‘the night’ for the everyday life of the city, the role of the night-time leisure economy in the social and urban change of European post-socialist cities remains underexplored. Based on mixed research methods, this paper aims to examine the recent development of the night-time leisure economy of Cluj-Napoca. After a theoretical approach in which we highlight the long underexplored path that still exists in relation to the study on the political, social, cultural and economic factors of ’the night’ in post-socialist cities from South-Eastern Europe, the paper shows a quantitative approach about a range of variables that define the different (and unequal) forms of consuming the night in the city centre of Cluj-Napoca. The second part of the paper shows the results derived from the quantitative study about the different perceptions and visions that employees, residents, venue owners, and municipals have about nightlife in Cluj-Napoca. The paper concludes by suggesting that a greater institutional attention should be provided to the development of the night-time leisure economy in the city centre of Cluj-Napoca in order to avoid the reproduction of 'segmented nightscapes' that highly feature the night in Central and Western Europe.
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Singhatham, Papatsorn, and Krittee Eidhed. "Research Performance Reporting of Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon." Applied Mechanics and Materials 848 (July 2016): 236–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.848.236.
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The objective of this research was to survey research data of Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon that was 1) published, 2) cited, and 3) published with regard to the collaboration of its researchers with those of other universities in both national and international journals during the years 2008-2013. Such related data was collected from journals that appeared in 1) the database of Thailand Journal Citation Index Centre (TCI), 2) Web of Science database (WoS) and 3) RMUTP Research Journal. Analyses applied included social statistics particularly descriptive statistics which were frequency, percentage and weighted score from six indicators. From the survey, it was found that there were 586 lecturers and researchers in the university 118 out of 586 had research work published. The most important findings are as follows. First, during six years (2008-2013), the university had 141 published research articles. 91 percent were published nationally and 9 percent internationally. The weighted score is 61.33. Second, there was only 12 article that was cited in a national journal, representing 8 percent. But could not find article that was cited in international journals. Finally, there were 40 articles, or 28 percent, that were produced under the collaboration with researchers from other universities.
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Deleeck, Herman. "The Adequacy of the Social Security System in Belgium, 1976–1985." Journal of Social Policy 18, no. 1 (January 1989): 91–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279400017220.
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ABSTRACTFor over 15 years the Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp has been involved in research on social security. More specifically, it has tried to develop research methodologies which would make it possible to quantify the adequacy of the social security system in Belgium, and to assess its impact on the income of households. The first part of this article provides a broad outline of the social security system in Belgium. The second and major part presents the main results of the research. The same methodology and the same standardised presentation of results is currently being used in a comparative study financed by the Commission of the European Community and undertaken by research groups in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Ireland, Spain and Greece.
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Nábrádi, András, László Kárpáti, and János Lazányi. "MBA education at Debrecen University Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development." Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce 1, no. 1 (December 31, 2007): 79–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.19041/apstract/2007/1/14.
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Debrecen is the capital of the Great Hungarian Plain, the centre of many institutions, organizations and business companies just in the heart of Europe. It has provided an ideal setting for higher education since 1538. With this past of more than 450 years, the University of Debrecen is the oldest higher educational institution in continuous operation in Hungary based in the same city. Higher education in agriculture began in 1868, when the National Higher School of Agriculture was formed in Debrecen. The University of Debrecen has more than 26 000 students, and more than 1700 instructors teach at the University, which has 13 faculties, 2 independent institutions, 20 doctoral schools and offers the widest choice of higher education. This outstanding intellectual centre, with a vast research and development capacity, has a growing importance in the economic and social development, cultural progress of the region. It devotes special attention to serving the needs of a knowledge based society more efficiently, and it strives to become the knowledge centre of the region, which also preserves traditions and values.
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Karkach, Andrii. "Digital resocialisation of the elderly people in the territorial centre of social services." Scientific bulletin of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky 2020, no. 3 (132) (September 24, 2020): 173–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.24195/2617-6688-2020-3-20.
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The relevance of the study is stipulated by the fact that modern digital technologies are radically changing the economy and lifestyle in general. The information society determines the transformation of social structure, revision of patterns of social activities and stereotypes of behaviour, strategies and tactics of adaptation. Today's information technology and software encourages our society to accelerate in order to learn more and keep up with the scientific and technological progress. Under such conditions, the people of the "third" age appear to be the most vulnerable ones. Without social services and educational services, they are not able to independently master the array of innovative knowledge, including e-technology. Nowadays, a good command of the basics of the personal computer, E-technologies is becoming a necessary condition for orientation in the information flow and successful resocialisation and adaptation of the elderly people in the modern society, for overcoming digital inequality, immersion into the global information flows. The purpose of the study is to determine the features of the mechanisms enabling digital resocialisation of the elderly people within the educational environment of the University of the Third Age. The method of questionnaire survey was used to collect data, as this form of survey has an advantage – it allows respondents to carefully consider their answers without limiting their time. The article characterises and identifies the features of the impact of digital resocialisation mechanisms on the elderly within the educational environment of the University of the Third Age functioning on the platform of the territorial centre of social services (the one which provides social services). Different approaches to the mechanisms of digitalisation are presented, the importance of the University of the Third Age as an institution of digital resocialisation of elderly students is substantiated. The adaptability of the educational environment of the University of the Third Age as a resocialisation space, motivational components of the elderly have been determined, which allows the latter to realise the essential properties of the human personality at a respectable age. A social role of the digital resocialisation is transmitted through its contribution to the improvement of the quality of human life. The use of e-technologies can be considered one of the topical problems of social work with the elderly. There is still no consensus on the extent or impact of digital stratification on the process of resocialisation at an old age, which may be considered the prospect of our further research.
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Zięba, Andrzej A. "Inauguracja prac Ośrodka Badań nad Kulturą Ormiańską w Polsce przy Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie." Lehahayer 6 (December 31, 2019): 355–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/lh.06.2019.06.12.
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Inauguration of the Research Centre for Armenian Culture in Poland as a part of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Krakow
The inauguration of the Research Centre for Armenian Culture took place on January 21, 2019 at the Collegium Maius of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.The Centre was founded on the basis of old and contemporary achievements of Kraków armenologists and armenists. They were accompanied by the constant interest of Polish Armenians – from Kraków, Warsaw, Gdańsk, Lower and Upper Silesia. Such support was invaluable in the efforts to create the Centre, because it demonstrated not only the scientific but also the social need for research in this field. In this atmosphere, in recent years, important initiatives for Polish armenology were born – the magazine Lehahayer, devoted to the history of Polish Armenians, financially supported by the Lanckoroński Foundation, the Jagiellonian University and the Gumiński Foundation (this year, the 6th edition will be released), and a series of archival sources, Historical Monuments of Polish Armenians, implemented under the care of the Foundation for Culture and Heritage of Polish Armenians thanks to a grant from the National Humanities Development Program. In organizational terms, however, these activities were semi-private or, so to speak, partisan. They were institutionalized when the Centre was founded.
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Magaji, B. A., F. M. Moy, C. W. Law, and A. C. Roslani. "Patient-Reported Outcomes of Colorectal Cancer Patients in University Malaya Medical Centre." Journal of Global Oncology 4, Supplement 2 (October 1, 2018): 102s. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jgo.18.30100.
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Background: In Malaysia, colorectal cancer is ranked the second most frequent cancer among men and women. Despite that, research on patient-reported outcomes in colorectal cancer is scarce. Aim: This study aimed to determine the pattern and factors affecting health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among colorectal cancer patients treated at the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), Malaysia. Methods: This study is a cross sectional assessment of health-related quality of life of colorectal cancer patients attending UMMC using locally validated Bahasa Malaysia (BM) and Malaysian Chinese versions of the EORTC QLQ-C30 core and colorectal cancer specific EORTC-QLQ-CR29 tools. Data were drawn from patients' records, national registration department and interviews (physical and telephone). Statistical analyses included descriptive, psychometric evaluations and stepwise multiple linear regression models. Results: The reliability and validity of the BM and Malaysian Chinese tools were examined among 189 patients. The questionnaires were acceptable to the patients, with adequate Cronbach's alpha in all but the cognitive function scale, test-retest coefficient were adequate, and all items fulfilled the criteria for convergent and discriminant validity except question number 5 in QLQ-C30 in both the tools. Three hundred and twenty patients not involved in the validation study were surveyed and these patients rated their global health status/quality of life (GHS/QOL) and functional well-being higher than the EORTC reference values and reported fewer symptoms. Ethnicity was associated with the GHS/QOL at univariate level only. Role, social/family functioning scales were the two independent predictors of GHS/QOL and both are modifiable. Conclusion: Proactive engagement of patients to share their experiences with colorectal cancer and its treatment is recommended. Emphasis should be role, social and family functions, which were found to be proxies for the overall GHS/QOL.
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Hashim, Rugayah, Saiful Bahari Mohd Yusoff, Zaidi Mohd Aminuddin, and Aida Maria Ismail. "Applying Translational Research in University-Industry Collaboration through Crab Farming for Socio-Economic Alleviation of Disadvantage Communities." Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal 5, no. 14 (June 21, 2020): 21–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v5i14.2098.
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Innovations can be translated into social entrepreneurship to benefit disadvantage communities. This paper narrates the social entrepreneurship project between Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) and Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Selangor (UCS). UNIMAS’s crab cage innovation was implemented at the Pulau Salak community in Santubong, Sarawak. The social entrepreneurship expertise was provided by UCS. The translational research cum collaborative project has improved the living standards by exploiting on the built environment which is perfect for crab farming. Aquaculture as a cash crop will ensure food security and significant economic growth. Translational research projects should be the new normal after the pandemic lockdowns. Keywords: Translational research; Social entrepreneurship; Socio-economy; Aquaculture. eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI:https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v5i14.2098
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Németh, Szabolcs. "The presence of the undertaken social and economic role in the university's strategy-making." Acta Agraria Debreceniensis, no. 47 (July 18, 2012): 93–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.34101/actaagrar/47/2433.
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It is vital to examine the strategic plans and leadership insights of the university, the faculties, the departments and the institutions in the research of the „third mission” of the universities. Because of the undertaken social-economic role in the region it is indispensable to know the turbulently changing environment (hazards – opportunities), to map the competencies available in the university (strengths – weaknesses) and to recognize the relations between the external and internal environment. It is an important factor to define the strategic directions of the departments, examining them in direction dimension (pro-active – adaptive) and in role dimension (top-down – bottom-up). The main objective of this research is to recognize the formal and informal strategic visions of the institutes and departments in the Centre for Agricultural and Applied Economic Sciences of the University of Debrecen, and to examine how these visions are related to the university's role in the regional innovation system.
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Hashim, Rugayah Gy, Mohd Shazali Md Sharif, Rosmaliza Muhammad, and Zaidi Mohd Aminuddin. "Sustainable Campus Income Generation Initiative and Social Entrepreneurship at a Public University." Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal 5, no. 13 (March 24, 2020): 293. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v5i13.1948.
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Campuses with substantial acreage have the advantage of biodiversity, populace, and facilities that would allow the initiation of multi projects for income generation and sustainability. For Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Selangor (UCS), the fish pekasam project originated from the natural resources available on campus, which are the twelve lakes inhabited with tilapias and other fishes. Elements of social entrepreneurship from the sale of the pekasam (fermented) fish allowed for income generation to the campus. Aside from that, direct training was given to the students and staff who participated in the project. The initiative helped increase the campus's happiness index.Keywords: sustainable campus; narrative research; social entrepreneurship; fish pekasameISSN: 2398-4287 © 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v5i13.1948
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Raz, Noam. "A neglected and ambitious topic central to practice, education and research." Architectural Research Quarterly 7, no. 3-4 (September 2003): 203–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135503002185.
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One of the most neglected and urgent issues facing architecture – the substantial fracture between thinking about architecture and engaging in professional practice – was addressed at a two day conference in Cambridge this March (2004). Organized by RIBA East/University of Cambridge CPD for Architects, in association with the University's Department of Architecture and Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, it attracted a sizeable audience of practising architects, senior academics and students. This mix reflected the organizers' ambition to bring together professional and academic perspectives in this interdisciplinary area. The proceedings will be published by Spon during 2005.
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Doe, Norman. "The First Ten Years of the Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University." Ecclesiastical Law Journal 10, no. 2 (April 16, 2008): 222–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956618x08001245.
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On 8–9 July 2007 at Brecon Cathedral, members of the Centre for Law and Religion held an inaugural annual away day to review its work and plan long-term strategy ahead of the tenth anniversary of the Centre in 2008. The success of the LLM in Canon Law, the first degree of its type at a British university since the Reformation (set up in 1991 with the support of the Ecclesiastical Law Society), led those involved in that course and others at Cardiff Law School to recognise the need for a community of scholars dedicated to the study of law and religion. The Centre was established in the summer of 1998 to promote research and its dissemination in this field. It was established with the approval of the university and the encouragement of the Department of Religious and Theological Studies. Its activities are carried out in relation to the theory and practice of substantive law concerning religion, the focus being principally upon religious law (especially canon law) and national and international law affecting religion, with regard to their historical, theological, social, ecumenical and comparative contexts.
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Vanderburg, W. H. "STS in Engineering: The Teaching and Research Activities of the Centre for Technology and Social Development at the University of Toronto." Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 18, no. 1 (April 1998): 54–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/027046769801800108.
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Firbank, Oscar E. "Ellen M. Gee and Gloria M. Gutman (eds.). Rethinking Retirement. Vancouver: Gerontology Research Centre, Simon Fraser University, 1995." Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement 16, no. 3 (1997): 584–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0714980800008795.
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RÉSUMÉCet ouvrage offre une vision d'ensemble des nouvelles conditions entourant le passage de l'activité à la retraite au Canada et des enjeux que ceci entraîne pour les travailleurs âges, les entreprises et les politiques publiques de sécurité du revenu. La force de l'ouvrage réside dans le fait d'offrir une synthèse à jour des travaux sur la question ainsi que de suggérer des pistes d'analyse pouvant servir à l'élaboration de politiques de rechange. Outre la démystification des retraités en tant que groupe privilégié, l'ouvrage insiste sur la nécessité de raffiner l'analyse en fonction de la réalité des différentes cohortes et des conditions particulières entourant leur arrivée à la retraite. La situation des travailleurs âgés est discutée en tenant compte du lien de plus en plus ténu qu'ils ont par rapport à l'emploi et des transformations macro-économiques et organisationnelles affectant le fonctionnement des entreprises. La situation des femmes face à la retraite, souvent négligée par la recherche, est un thème examiné par plusieurs auteurs.
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Yashchuk, Sergiy. "Educational Management in the Regional Institute of Social Work Aquitaine." Comparative Professional Pedagogy 9, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 61–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rpp-2019-0030.
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Abstract The article analyzes the organization of the educational process in the Regional Institute of Social Work Aquitaine. It is found that the following departments of the Institute are responsible for organizing the educational process: the department of initial professional training in social work; the department of constant social formations; the department of management training; the research department; the centre for social action learning; the department of internal educational operations; the department of the educational process and symposia; the department of international activities; the centre for evaluation of skills in social professions; the centre for validation of acquired experience in social work. It is revealed that the Regional Institute of Social Work Aquitaine will be merged into the University of Bordeaux between 2019 and 2020 and become part of the National Union of Training and Research in the field of social intervention, which integrates all types of training in social work. The Regional Institute of Social Work Aquitaine is also under the direction of the Regional Association of Social Work. It must be noted that the Regional Institute of Social Work Aquitaine provides the protocol for certification and testing of the Level 3 Modules (ASS / ES / EJE / ETS / CESF). After all, the general conditions of this protocol ensure the support of candidates for such certification and testing. These conditions include the location of certification and testing; instructions and criteria: an invitation to certification and testing, the organization of certification and testing, the organization of module certification, the information about certification and testing committee, the submission of results from certification and testing (results of certification and testing, absence of candidates during certification and testing, module testing, violations and protection means).
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Roberts, Maud. "Fashion literature collection development at Stockholm University Library." Art Libraries Journal 42, no. 3 (June 2, 2017): 169–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/alj.2017.24.
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The Centre for Fashion Studies was established at Stockholm University in Sweden, in July 2006 through a generous donation from the Erling Persson Family Foundation, connected to clothing manufacturer H&M.Fashion Studies at Stockholm University is an independent, theoretical discipline with an interdisciplinary approach looking at the past, present and future, and it includes different areas of critical discourse within the humanities and social sciences. Stockholm University Library plays a key role in research and education conducted at the university, and the library works in close collaboration with all disciplines to provide adequate support to researchers and students in a rapidly changing information society. In this article I will focus on and describe the process of acquiring fashion literature at Stockholm University Library from 2006–2013.
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Fioramonti, Lorenzo. "Round table report: Advancing regional social integration, social protection, and the free movement of people in Southern Africa." Regions and Cohesion 3, no. 3 (December 1, 2013): 141–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/reco.2013.030308.
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The round table on “Advancing regional social integration, social protection, and free movement of people in Southern Africa” was organized as part of the conference “Regional governance of migration and social policy: Comparing European and African regional integration policies and practices” held at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) on 18–20 April 2012, at which the articles in this special issue were first presented. The discussion was moderated by Prince Mashele of the South African Centre for Politics and Research and the participants included: Yitna Getachew, IOM Regional Representative for Southern Africa, Migration Dialogue for Southern Africa (MIDSA); Jonathan Crush, University of Cape Town and Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada, representing the Southern Africa Migration Program (SAMP); Vic van Vuuren, Director of Southern African ILO; Vivienne Taylor, South Africa Planning Commission; Sergio Calle Norena, Deputy Regional Representative of UNHCR; Laurent De Boeck, Director, ACP Observatory on Migration, Brussels; Wiseman Magasela, Deputy Director General Social Policy, South African Department of Social Development; and Sanusha Naidu, Open Society Foundation for South Africa.
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Chilvers, Simon, and Margaret Walton-Roberts. "Introduction: Deconstructing the (Re)construction of South Asian Identities in Canada." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 17, no. 2 (June 2014): 121–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.17.2.121.
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In May 2011 the International Migration Research Centre at Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada) hosted a conference on South Asian migration. It was organized as an interdisciplinary gathering with support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Margaret Walton-Roberts and Simon Chilvers were the principal organizers. While most research papers (a total of 60) were contributed by scholars based in North America and Western Europe, 14 came from the South Asian region itself.
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Neary, Mike, and Joss Winn. "There is an alternative: A report on an action research project to develop a framework for co-operative higher education." Learning and Teaching 10, no. 1 (March 1, 2017): 87–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2017.100106.
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This report provides an interim account of a participatory action research project undertaken during 2015–16. The research brought together scholars, students and expert members of the co-operative movement to design a theoretically informed and practically grounded framework for co-operative higher education that activists, educators and the co-operative movement could take forward into implementation. Our dual roles in the research were as founding members of the Social Science Centre, Lincoln, an autonomous co-operative for higher education constituted in 2011 (Social Science Centre 2013), and as professional researchers working at the University of Lincoln. The immediate context for the research was, and remains, the ‘assault’ on universities in the U.K. (Bailey and Freedman 2011), the ‘gamble’ being taken with the future of higher education (McGettigan 2013), and the ‘pedagogy of debt’ (Williams 2006) that has been imposed through the removal of public funding of teaching and the concurrent tripling of tuition fees (Sutton Trust 2016).
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Van de Sande, Adje, Tara McWhinney, Katherine Occhiuto, Jennifer Colpitts, Ismail Hagi-Aden, Ahmed Hussein, and Zoey Feder. "Identifying Barriers faced by Ottawa Somali Youth in Accessing Post-secondary and Vocational Opportunities: An Example of Community-Based Participatory Research." Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning 5, no. 1 (February 19, 2019): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.15402/esj.v5i1.67846.
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In 2016, with funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s Seed Grant program, the Somali Centre for Family Services of Ottawa (SCFS) invited the Centre for Studies on Poverty and Social Citizenship (CSPSC) at Carleton University to carry out a needs assessment focusing on the barriers faced by Somali youth in accessing post-secondary education and employment training opportunities. The main objective of the needs assessment was to address social and economic exclusion locally by inviting Somali youth (ages 19-30) from the Ottawa area to participate in focus groups to discuss the barriers they have faced in accessing post-secondary education and employment training programs, and to invite their views on the supports needed to address these barriers. The CSPSC and the SCFS agreed that the research would involve a participatory action research approach where members of the Somali and Muslim Community would participate on an advisory committee, and where youth from the Somali Community would be directly involved in all phases of the research. Five themes were identified during the analysis: Barriers to accessing post-secondary education; Barriers to accessing job placements and training programs; Barriers to securing employment; A need for a Somali-focused employment resource centre; A need for Somali youth mentors.
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Remesar, Antoni. "Twenty Years Working with Neighbours. Citizen Participation, Is It Possible? What We Have Learned in 20 Years." Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Philosophica. Ethica-Aesthetica-Practica, no. 33 (June 30, 2019): 11–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/0208-6107.33.02.
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In 1999, the Governing Council of the Universitat de Barcelona approved the creation of the POLIS Research Center. Later, in 2016, the Center was ratified after passing an assessment of the Catalan Accreditation Agency (AGAUR). The Centre has an interdisciplinary vocation and brings together researchers from different research groups at the University of Barcelona and cooperates with nine European and Ibero-American universities in the fields of Arts, Architecture and Human and Social Sciences. Academically, the Centre has promoted the doctoral program Public Space and Urban Regeneration (1998–2017) and the Master’s Degree in Urban Design: Art, City, Society (since 2007) and the publication of the journal On the w@terfront. The research object of the Centre is the city and its public space and, more specifically, the role of citizens in the production of Public Art and Urban Design. For this reason, the work of the Centre covers the topics related to Urban Regeneration, Sustainability, Urban Governance, Civic Remembrance, Heritage. Throughout its twenty-year history, the Centre has developed a series of projects for citizen participation in various areas of the periphery of Barcelona: River Besòs (municipality of Sant Adrià de Besòs) La Mina neighbourhood (municipality of Sant Adrià de Besòs) and the Barcelona’s neighbourhoods of Baró de Viver and Bon Pastor. A characteristic of the work of the centre has been, and is, the endorsement of citizen participation, through an innovative approach based on enabling the creative empowerment of the neighbours within the framework of Participatory Action Research. This approach is based on a project methodology, as it is understood in various project disciplines from Art to Architecture, from Design to Engineering. This article, associated with the itinerant exhibition “20 years working with neighbours,” reviews the founding project carried out by the Centre, “Social Uses of the River Besòs” (1997–1999), analysing the lessons learned, with the aim of clarifying the research criteria that the Centre follows for the development of citizen participation projects.
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Maldin, Siska Amelia. "SUGGESTION ACTS PERFORMED BY ENGLISH INSTRUCTORS OF CONVERSATION CLASS IN LANGUAGE CENTRE OF ANDALAS UNIVERSITY." Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa 12, no. 2 (January 6, 2019): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.24036/ld.v12i2.101482.
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This study aimed to analyze analyzes suggestion acts that were spoken by English instructors in conversation classes at the Andalas University Language Center. The purposes purposes of this study are are to identify and explain explain the types of speech acts, taxonomies, modifications, and reasons of the instructor expressing the speech. This study is descriptive study which data are taken from two conversation class instructors in language centre of Andalas University This study is descriptive study which data are taken from two conversation class instructors in language centre of Andalas University. The data are in the form of transcriptions, research notes, and interviews. The data are in the form of transcription, research notes, and interviews. The data are in the form of The data are in the form of transcription, research notes,, and interviews. The instruments used are observation sheets, audio recordings,, and interview guidelines. The findings indicate indicate that the two instructors expressed different suggestions at each meeting. The highest intensity of appearance of suggestion acts is is seen in the first meeting of the first instructor and the third meeting of the second instructor. Furthermore, the two instructors also express express the same type of taxonomy/suggestion acts as conventionalized forms. Then, a similar fact is is found from the modified aspect, namely subjectivizer. The reasons reason why the instructor expresses suggestions are are influenced by social distance, power,, and imposition. Based on these findings, it is is implied that the suggestion actions action taken by the instructors instructors are are influenced by the culture of the community and the class context.
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Mapulanga, Patrick, Jaya Raju, and Thomas Matingwina. "Health researchers and policy makers involvement in knowledge translation activities in Malawi." Journal of Health Organization and Management 33, no. 4 (June 28, 2019): 380–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhom-01-2019-0008.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore health researchers’ involvement of policy or decision makers in knowledge translation activities in Malawi. Design/methodology/approach The case study collected quantitative through questionnaire from health researchers from the University of Malawi. The study used inferential statistics for the analysis of the quantitative data. Pearson χ2 test was used to establish the relationship between categorical data and determine whether any observed difference between the data sets arose by chance. The Kruskal–Wallis H test was used to determine if there were statistically significant differences between independent variable and dependent variables. Data has been presented in a form of tables showing means, standard deviation and p-values. Findings Health researchers sometimes involve policy or decision makers in government-sponsored meetings (M=2.5, SD=1.17). They rarely involve policy or decision makers in expert committee or group meetings (M=2.4, SD=1.20). Researchers rarely involve policy or decision makers in conferences and workshops (M=2.4, SD=1.31). Rarely do researchers involve policy or decision makers in formal private or public networks (M=2.4, SD=1.17). In events organised by the colleges researchers rarely involve policy or decision makers (M=2.3, SD=1.11); and rarely share weblinks with policy or decision makers (M=2.0, SD=1,17). On average, health researchers occasionally conduct deliberate dialogues with key health policy makers and other stakeholders (M=2.5, SD=1.12). The researchers rarely established and maintained long-term partnerships policy or decision makers (M=2.2, SD=1.20). They rarely involve policy or decision makers in the overall direction of the health research conducted by themselves or the Colleges (M=2.1, SD=1.24). Research limitations/implications The study recommends that there should be deliberate efforts by health researchers and policy makers to formally engage each other. Individuals need technical skills, knowledge of the processes and structures for engaging with health research evidence to inform policy and decision making. At the institutional level, the use of research evidence should be embedded within support research engagement structures and linked persons. Practical implications Formal interactions in a form of expert meetings and technical working groups between researchers and policy makers can facilitate the use of health research evidence in policy formulation. Social implications In terms of framework there is need to put in place formal interaction frameworks between health researchers and policy makers within the knowledge translation and exchange. Originality/value There is dearth of literature on the levels of involvement and interaction between health researchers and health policy or decision makers in health policy, systems and services research in Malawi. This study seeks to bridge the gap with empirical evidence.
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Alston, Margaret M., and Jenny Kent. "Educational Access for Australia's Rural Young People: A Case of Social Exclusion." Australian Journal of Education 47, no. 1 (April 2003): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000494410304700102.
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The social and economic effects of globalisation in rural communities is well documented. Ageing populations, loss of services and employment opportunities are typical of rural areas in many western industrialised countries. Focusing on declining access to tertiary education, this paper argues that a lack of adequate policy is creating socially excluded young people in country towns. In particular, drawing on research conducted in the Centre for Rural Social Research at Charles Sturt University, it argues that the financial cost of education is creating a huge barrier for many rural families. If rural areas are to benefit from globalisation, a skilled workforce is critical. Declining rural access to tertiary education exacerbates power differentials resulting from globalisation and therefore restrains access to the opportunities of globalisation and hinders rural revitalisation.
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Corby, Tom, Gavin Baily, and Stefano de Sabbata. "CODEX: Mapping Co-Created Data for Speculative Geographies." Leonardo 50, no. 1 (February 2017): 70–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01347.
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This article discusses a series of artworks named CODEX, produced by the authors as part of a collaborative research project between the Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster and the Oxford Internet Institute. Taking the form of experimental maps, large-scale installations and prints, the series shows how big data can be employed to reflect upon social phenomena through the formulation of critical, aesthetic and speculative geographies.