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Time to consider social care nursing as the fifth field of practice
Get PDFThis document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in [British Journal of Nursing], copyright © MA Education, after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see [https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/abs/10.12968/bjon.2024.0184].The social care workforce is struggling, with an estimated 44% turnover rate across the UK and numbers entering into social care are continually dwindling. According to The State of the Adult Social Care Sector and Workforce in England report (Skills for Care, 2023) there are currently 152 000 unfilled workforce posts in social care.n/
Communication in organizations: An overview and provocations
Get PDF© 2024 The Author(s). International Journal of Management Reviews published by British Academy of Management and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.The role that communication plays in social organization and processes of organizing has received considerable scholarly attention from multiple disciplines over several decades. This paper provides a review of the diverse literature that has sought to contribute to the understanding of communication and its implication for management and organization studies. An analysis of the SCOPUS database for the period 1980-2022 enabled us to cluster reference material and identify five perspectives which emerge from a review of the literature: communication as transfer, discourse, conversation (analysis), narrative, and Communicative Constitution of Organizations. These categories are not intended to be exhaustive, but they do provide a useful critical heuristic for navigating a field of study that might otherwise appear overwhelming. To map the terrain’s theoretical underpinnings, our study also adopted a problematizing approach to the review which revealed various conspicuous conceptual and empirical absences at a ‘field level’ which merit further attention. The paper offers provocations and suggestions that we expect will inform future studies of organizational communication. Possibilities for developing the field include paying attention to: (a) paralinguistic dimensions of communication; (b) communication in relation to actual work practices; (c) monologic communication; and (d) organizational communication in non-Western contexts.University of Cheste
The Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts
No full textThis chapter discusses Anne Brontë’s own drawings alongside an analysis of the role of the artist in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. A Künstlerroman, the novel depicts the artist-heroine, Helen, maturing as an artist as she gains knowledge of the world. It includes several examples of ekphrasis and the detailed descriptions of paintings and drawings are analysed in relation to Anne Brontë’s own interest in the technical challenges of representing the natural world. Most of Anne’s surviving artworks display her fascination with landscape and nature, subjects that preoccupy her artist-heroine. In the novel, Helen labours to produce commercial paintings of landscapes and seascapes that accord with her artistic vision, an indication of the author’s interest in the opportunities available to women to gain financial independence by means of creative labour. This theme makes The Tenant of Wildfell Hall an unusual novel for its time.Unfunde
Fathers on Film: Paternity and Masculinity in 1990s Hollywood
No full textThis book is not available on ChesterRepInterpreting such films through the lens of feminist and queer theory, along with masculinity studies and psychoanalysis, Katie Barnett offers an insightful and interdisciplinary discussion of cinematic fathers.Unfunde
An Anatomy of Chester: A Collection of Short-Short Stories
Get PDFAn original collection of fifty-five short-short stories that form a portrait of a city at the start of the twenty-first century.Unfunde
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Societies: Understanding Attitude Formation Towards AI
Get PDFThis is an Author Accepted Manuscript version of the following chapter: Schepman, A. & Rodway, P., The measurement of attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence: An overview and recommendations, published in The Impact of AI on societies: Understanding attitude formation towards AI, edited by Montag, C. & Ali, R. (Eds.) 2025, Springer, reproduced with permission of Springer. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70355-3_2The growth in use of Artificial Intelligence is having a major impact on society, with further impacts anticipated in the coming years and decades. There are individual differences in attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence and it is important for scientists and others to be able to measure these. Individual differences in attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence may be associated with other major psychological or circumstantial factors, and understanding these associations is beneficial. In addition, it is important to be able to track attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence over time. For this purpose, scientists have developed psychometric measurement tools to measure attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence. This Chapter provides an overview and evaluation of these tools, with a focus on tools that measure general attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence, and that are quantitative measurements, which can be analysed statistically. Semantic, methodological, and psychometric factors that the user should consider when choosing a suitable tool are discussed. The choice of measurement tool may depend on many researcher-driven considerations, including time, cost, and practical factors, but the quality and validity of the measurement tool should be a major factor in this choice. A scale’s ability to capture important dimensions in the data should also be a key consideration. We recommend that observed ambivalence about AI is best captured with a bi-dimensional AI attitudes scale.Unfunde
Being different: what it means to be a person with albinism in Nigeria
Get PDFPersons with albinism experience visual impairments and have unusually white hair and skin colour. In Nigeria, they face social disadvantages due to misconceptions about albinism, which create barriers to equal participation in education, employment, and society. This study explored the life stories of persons with albinism in Nigeria to understand the meanings they ascribe to their experiences. Using a Constructivist Grounded Theory methodology, forty-two interviews were conducted with eleven persons with albinism. ‘Being Different’ emerged as the main theme representing the life experiences of persons with albinism in Nigeria from childhood to adulthood. Participants expressed ‘Being Different’ through subthemes such as ‘being in a tug of war’, ‘disadvantaging schooling system’, and ‘suffering double tragedy’. The study concludes that strongly enforcing anti-discrimination laws, promoting inclusive education, and regularly educating the public about albinism can significantly reduce the negative effects of ‘Being Different’ in Nigeria.N/
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion, Gender and Sexuality
Get PDFThis chapter charts the intersections between addiction recovery, which is increasingly expressed as an identity, , and relgiion, gender and sexuality, categories that are rarely examined together. It demonstrates, first. that recovery spiritulaities are normative in relation to gender and sexuality, and such narratives and language can disempower, obscure and oppress already stigmatized and marginalised actors. It argues that the labour of recovery lies heavy on gendered and sexual miniorities, but also that for many participants, recovery communities and spiritualities are sites of empowerment and autonomy.unfunde
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