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Everyday Decisions Project Report: Supporting Legal Capacity through Care, Support and Empowerment
Get PDFThis report details the findings from the Everyday Decisions research project. This research was funded by the British Academy and the University of Birmingham, and carried out by Professor Rosie Harding ([email protected]) and Dr Ezgi Tascioglu. The project explored disabled people's experiences of supported decision-making, and care professionals approaches to and experience of supporting decision-making
BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures, Conference Proceedings
Get PDFOfficial Conference Proceedings for the international conference BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures (6-10 July 2017, Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, UK) Organised by the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham, and the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
The individual as the key-stakeholder of Next Generation Infrastructure: Defining the social value of transport infrastructure in the United Kingdom
Get PDFThe idea of social value has arisen from the psychological approach, and more specifically it is based on the principle of “independence of irrelevant alternatives” from the game theory introduced by Luce and Raiffa1. According to this, each alternative situation has an utility/value for the individual, which is a function of the features of the alternative situation and of the features of the individual who makes the choice. Beyond that, it assumed that the individual, who makes the choice, has a clear and measurable knowledge of the value, which each choice provides. Although even after the evaluation of each choice, it is a tentative situation regarding the choice of the individual. In other words, there is an element of possibility. Under the same principle of Luce and Raiffa, the possibility of a choice is in direct ratio to its value. The above mentioned assumptions constitute the “strict utility choice mode”. The exponential form of the value function is achieved by simple transformations of the “strict utility choice mode”,where X and S have a linear correlation. The exponential functions of the total value have a sigmoid form relative to the linear function of the value of the possible choice. This means that the exponential function may have a sigmoid form relative to the X-axis or Y-axis, based on the defined axes and values. The key challenge addressed is a quantitative sense of value, when the perceptions of value are qualitative. To measure social value quantitatively is challenging, since it is observed that pricing systems are “not based primarily on the users’ identity or activity”, but on the ability and willingness of the final user to pay. The social value gained by the individual is difficult to calculate, since it is defined by human behaviour and human needs. According to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, these needs belong to specific groups with specific hierarchy.
Maslow developed value (utility) curves of each category of need relative to the age of the individual. The
sum of the curves gives an almost sigmoid curve. Winters et al. created a Transportation Hierarchy of
Needs and they found the following transport hierarchy of needs: [1] safety and security, [2] time, [3]
societal acceptance, [4] cost and [5] comfort and convenience. This research studied value as something
holistically affected by all the above factors (time, cost, comfort and convenience, safety and security),
without considering their ranking, by asking individuals representative of the UK’s demography to
evaluate the social value of eight transport modes (walking, cycling, rail, bus, car, taxi, water and air) and
each factor for each mode with a questionnaire survey. The hypothesis tested is that the value to the
individual, collectively, from the aforementioned factors should have an almost sigmoid curve, which was
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A Study of Litigants in Person in Birmingham Civil Justice Centre
No full textThis paper presents the findings of research, intially commissioned by Birmingham Law Society and conducted in, and with the support of, Birmingham Civil Justice Centre, into the challenges facing litigants in person in gaining access to justice
Livelihood In/Securities, Vulnerability and Resilience to Global Change in the Caribbean Agriculture Sector
No full textIn this working paper I draw attention to the varying ways underlying forces of economic globalization and global environmental change have been threatening the livelihood security of farmers throughout the Caribbean. The paper also sheds light on some of the local-scale implications of these wider changes, and highlights the fact that the impacts are likely to produce uneven vulnerability outcomes mediated largely around differences in the social and economic landscapes in which individual farmers operate. While the paper draws strongly on the growing body of regional analyses of vulnerability and resilience, I also seek to move the discourse beyond the usual binary and mutually exclusive representations of these two concepts. Instead, I argue that farmers in the Caribbean are neither fully vulnerable nor fully resilient to these global forces. And in fact, their resilience may at times create the very conditions that engender new forms of vulnerability. The paper therefore calls for a critical rethinking (and even decentering) of these two dominant frameworks, if we are to arrive at a better understanding of the root causes and overarching forces shaping regional farmers’ insecurities to global change
Case Studies of Young People’s Health-Related Uses of Social Media - "Fake"
No full textThese case studies demonstrate the varying ways young people use social media and the impacts of this behaviour on their health and wellbeing. The case studies are based on evidence generated with 1296 young people who worked with us to communicate their experiences of social media. This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust [201601/Z/16/Z]
The case studies are relevant to adults who have a responsibility for young people’s health and wellbeing. If you would like to use these videos in your professional organisation or would like more information about the project please contact Dr Victoria Goodyear ([email protected]).
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This case demonstrates the influences of specific social media accounts on young people’s health-related understandings and behaviour
Endoscopic imaging of quantum gases through a fiber bundle
No full textAbstract: We use a coherent fiber bundle to demonstrate the endoscopic absorption imaging of
quantum gases.We show that the fiber bundle introduces spurious noise in the picture mainly due
to the strong core-to-core coupling. By direct comparison with free-space pictures, we observe
that there is a maximum column density that can be reliably measured using our fiber bundle,
and we derive a simple criterion to estimate it. We demonstrate that taking care of not exceeding
such maximum, we can retrieve exact quantitative information about the atomic system, making
this technique appealing for systems requiring isolation form the environment
Papers from the Education Doctoral Research Conference Saturday 26 November 2016. School of Education
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