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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs
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Stakeholders' perspectives on adolescent obesity prevention amid the nutrition transition in Lebanon
Get PDFAdolescent obesity has become a major public health concern globally, particularly in low- and middle-income countries undergoing rapid Nutrition Transitions. Lebanon, a middle-income country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, has experienced substantial shifts in dietary patterns and physical activity levels in recent decades, contributing to an alarming rise in obesity among youth. This qualitative study aimed to explore the perceptions and experiences of key stakeholders in Lebanon regarding the multilevel determinants of adolescent obesity, as well as the challenges and opportunities for effective prevention strategies in this context. The study explored stakeholders' views on the drivers of adolescent obesity in Lebanon at the individual, interpersonal, community, organizational, and policy levels. The findings underscore the critical need for comprehensive, multilevel, multistakeholder approaches to address the root causes of adolescent obesity in Lebanon. This study provides timely and contextually relevant insights that can inform the development of effective and sustainable strategies to prevent and control adolescent obesity in Lebanon. It also contributes to the growing literature on the challenges and opportunities for tackling the global burden of obesity in the context of rapid Nutrition Transitions in low- and middle-income countries.Unfunde
Finding faithfulness: how might telling stories of faithfulness generate practices of faithfulness?
No full textThis thesis is a response to recognition of implicit ethnic values in my multiethnic context, and the challenges they make for flourishing communal relations, especially across our ethnic divides. I develop and test a facilitation model to encourage communication that honours the other/Other in their difference in a church congregation. Finding faithfulness describes this journey towards relational community. It is a practical theology research project in an urban multiethnic congregation in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. It connects scripturally themed questions, an appreciative stance and world café’s hospitality-based facilitative form to create WisdomCafé. Its contribution to the field of practical theology is a methodological framework where substantial engagement with scripture is woven through qualitative empirical research in a unique way. WisdomCafé facilitates discipleship and spiritual growth in multiethnic communities through storytelling and reflection. This search for faithfulness engaged with the judgment parables (Mt. 24:36-25:46),1 stories where all are called to give account to Christ on his return as Judge, found faithful or unfaithful, and invited into or excluded from more responsibility and relationship. From my hermeneutic of relational faithfulness, I identify themes of relational and ethical accountability, which I develop into the questions, stories and reflections for WisdomCafé conversations. These in turn connect with the quest for relational flourishing within and beyond the borders of congregations in multiethnic communities. Results from this small yet rich database saw laypeople taking surprising initiatives to engage in their communities from the ground up. In its mix of scripture, structure, story and reflection, WisdomCafé offers a practical response to questions of relationality, power, creativity, identity and voice. Through its indirect communication style, it bypasses defences to share power and validate voice, renewing personal, communal and cultural dynamics as it encourages recognition of the sacred in one another and in daily practices of life. The original communication model that this thesis describes is of interest to those working to strengthen relationships across boundaries, particularly ethnic and generational, in conversation with experience and scripture. Its framework is applicable to other passages of scripture and methods of interpretation. It offers insight from the margins of cultures into the challenge of welcoming minority voices to speak and provoking the majority/colonial culture to listen
Beyond text: Learning through arts-based research
No full textThis edited book is not available on ChesterRepThis original new book represents a variety of art forms across different professional contexts. Its focus is on the ways that educational practitioners and leaders from a range of cultures, disciplines, professions and organizations practice arts-based research, and it explores how these can enable innovative means of learning and enhance professional and organizational development. This vibrant project allowed for long term systematic conversations between a large and unusually diverse group of twenty-nine people from eight organisations in six countries. It was unusually diverse in many senses: for some the word 'data' meant little, for others it was central to their daily work; for some artistic practice was core, while for others the arts were a means to an end; while some were social entrepreneurs running their own companies others were researching in universities and a number were doing both; some were working within the STEM disciplines of business, management, engineering, science, technology, sustainability and the built environment, others were in the social sciences of social and health care, education and youth work while others were engaged in rapid or long term social and cultural action as a means of resisting state violence and military occupation; some worked in one of the safest countries on the planet, others in one of the most tear-gassed refugee camps in the world. Within these professional groups there were also ranges of experience, for example senior researchers, early career researchers, PhD students, seasoned professional artists and newcomers to arts forms. Whilst the main communication of this group was English, six other major languages were spoken, Estonian, Finish, Catalan, Spanish, Arabic and key stakeholders bought Swedish and Japanese into the space. This meant that while the conversations in and about arts-based practice were transnational, interdisciplinary and systematic, they had all the messy, troubled-ness that the intercultural on all of the above levels brings with it. This unique and exciting collection discusses how creative arts practices can have a significant impact on research across a range of international contexts, drawing on their own field of research and educational experience. For instance, drama, music, dance and visual arts can be used to understand how learners internalise concepts, reflect on how decisions are made in the midst of action in leadership education, or investigate the use of the intuitive alongside the rational and analytical in their educational experience. Non-textual arts-based forms of research can also provide modes of investigation into pedagogical and professional practices when applied to fields that normally lie outside of the arts. Its greatest strengths are its focus on arts-based research as a way of learning in a variety of contexts, and often in collaboration. Its consistent theoretical, artistic and professional engagements make it a very readable and engaging read. The representation of a variety of art forms across different professional contexts means that this book will have appeal to several readerships in higher education, including the following groups. Academics and practitioners using arts-based methods in organisation and business settings. Researchers in the arts and researchers generically in the social sciences, humanities and arts. University students of the arts, education and professional studies, especially those interested in the wider international and intercultural diversity of research methodologies. Those working in international research teams using any form of qualitative research will also find this collection very interesting. It also has potential interest for groups outside higher education with an interest in arts-based research - for example community groups looking to explore collaborative projects.Unfunde
Developing an Equality Impact Assessment Framework for the HE sector: Summary report
No full textThis research project applies an evidence-based approach to understanding obstacles to effective use of Equality Impact Assessments (EqIAs) across the higher education (HE) sector. It explores the benefits of co-production with staff and students to inform the development of an impact assessment framework underpinned by the staff/student voice.
The project's principal aim was to review existing higher education institution practice and collate stakeholder perceived obstacles in relation to EqIAs to support the development of an evidence-based, holistic, context-driven framework for EqIAs. This aim is underpinned by principles of co-production across the HE sector. The current UK legislative framework is considered a floor not a ceiling, therefore there is the potential for the framework to be used around the world.
This project, by the University of Chester alongside the University of Hertfordshire, was funded by the 2024-25 round of the Advance HE Collaborative Development Fund.Developing a Framework for Meaningful Equality Impact Assessments Underpinned by Co-Production Principles for Holistic Use Across the HE Sector | Funder: Advance H
The ways of the world? Cross-sample replicability of personality trait-life outcome associations
Get PDF© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc.Research in (mostly) Western samples has indicated that personality domains’ associations with life outcomes are replicable but often driven by their facets or nuances. Using three diverse samples (English-speaking, N=1,232; Russian-Speaking, N=1,604; Mandarin-speaking, N=1,216), we compared personality trait-outcome associations at domain, facet, and nuance levels, both within and among samples. Trait-outcome associations were at least moderately consistent among samples for all trait-hierarchy levels (average intraclass correlations = 0.64 to 0.74). Nuances provided the strongest predictive accuracy, both within and among samples. Trait-outcome associations were higher among English-speakers than Mandarin and Russian-speakers. Our observations suggested moderate generalizability among diverse samples, with nuances providing unique and replicable information. This offers potential to improve understanding of trait-outcome patterns.Estonian Research Council: PRG2190, PSG656, and PSG759. The Key Research Base Project of Humanities and Social Sciences of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission: Grant 23SKJD046
Covers Story: Hold the Front Page
No full textDr Matt Davies, senior lecturer in English Language at the University of Chester, looks through the Cheshire Life archive to see how the front page has changed in the decades since it first rolled off the presses in the 1930s (May 2024, pp.25-32).
www.cheshirelifemagazine.co.ukCheshire Life Digitisation Project | Funder: Cheshire Lif
Erratum to “Combined heat and power from the intermediate pyrolysis of biomass materials: Performance, economics and environmental impact” [Appl. Energy 191 (2017) 639–652]
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Is justice served by reliance on ICD and DSM classifications of mental disorder in medico-legal reporting?
Get PDF© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Royal College of Psychiatrists.The histories of the DSM and ICD classifications are set out so as to identify weaknesses and limitations that can affect their application in medico-legal reporting. These are illustrated by reference to published judgments and three detailed case studies. The analysis and case studies identify how expert witnesses’ reliance on the DSM and ICD can be challenged in order to seek to undermine their evidence.Unfunde
DSM and ICD classifications in medico-legal reporting: Misperceptions, misunderstandings and misuse
Get PDF© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Royal College of Psychiatrists.Analysis of court and tribunal judgments in cases where expert psychiatric evidence has been admitted reveals widespread misunderstandings and misuse of the diagnostic and statistical manuals published by the American Psychiatric Association and the similar publications of the World Health Organization. Examples are given here of cases in which their use has caused difficulties in the delivery of justice. For them to be a help and not a hindrance, it is suggested that when used there should be appropriate explanation as to their status, nature, purposes and limitations and that expert witnesses should handle them with the care that they require.Unfunde
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