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Marine Corps Organizational Culture Research (MCOCR) Project
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The MCOCR Project was conducted between 2017 and 2020 to gather Marine perspectives on various aspects of Marine Corps culture with a particular focus on gender bias, leadership, and cohesion. Data consist of 179 transcripts of semi-structured interviews and focus groups conducted at six locations in 2017. Also included are a project overview, an example of a recruiting poster, and examples of public domain applied research outcomes from the project, which may provide useful context for data users or serve as a type of data for those studying applied social science.</p
PrEP Optimization Intervention: qualitative interviews with healthcare providers
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The project consists of 24 field notes from qualitative interviews with healthcare providers about HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis panel management strategy. Researchers implemented the PrEP Optimization Intervention (PrEP-OI), combining a PrEP Coordinator with an online panel management tool to assist providers with PrEP uptake, persistence, and management in 12 San Francisco Department of Public Health Primary Care Clinics.
Data Abstract
From November 2019 to February 2020, individual semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with healthcare providers from the clinical sites. Participants were recruited purposively as researchers sought to ensure variability in the clinic(s) where individuals worked, their professional training (e.g., physician, nurse practitioner), role within clinic (e.g., any management duties in addition to serving as a provider), and engagement with the PrEP Coordinators. Scheduling of interviews with the providers, interviews, and analyses were conducted exclusively by study investigators and staff not engaged in delivery of PrEP coordination services.
The interviews took place on a HIPAA-compliant videoconferencing platform to allow for flexibility in scheduling and recording of the interviews. Interviews lasted 40–60 minutes and verbal informed consent was received as approved by the UCSF IRB. All interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and field notes were created from each interview. The data files shared here are the de-identified and abstracted field notes
Seed systems in West Africa
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To date, there has been little private investment in research and development for pearl millet and sorghum in West Africa, which means both that few improved varieties have been developed, and that seed production and distribution systems have not been widely improved. Those varieties that have been developed and released throughout the first two decades of the 21st century by the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and national agricultural research systems (NARS) partnerships have largely been the result of participatory plant breeding (PPB) efforts.
With the shift toward market-oriented agricultural development, governments and donors have since the early 2000s increasingly supported the creation of private enterprises for seed production and distribution. Many of these enterprises focus on seed production and contract out the seed distribution and sales to agro-dealers, who are also often supported by internationally-funded development projects. In places where private enterprises do not yet have market activities, international funding for seed system development has also focused on creating and supporting seed producer organizations and farmer unions.
This research project focuses on the impacts of changing seed systems in West Africa, with a particular focus on how investments by international development and research organizations play out on the ground for individual farmers. In each site for this research project, there is a farmer organization or union that anchors ICRISAT’s PPB work, and that is a key partner in the development of seed markets. The organizations are run much like cooperatives and have varying degrees of institutional capacity and geographic reach. All farmer organizations have a network of local farmer-technicians who receive training from the farmer organization in improved techniques and technologies associated with farmer organization activities. Farmer organizations were originally created through a variety of interactions, including support from national governments, international NGOs and ICRISAT funding, and are at various levels of self-sustaining. All of the organizations employ local farmers as technicians to spread new information and now new seeds. The seed systems projects provide marketing and commercialization training to these organizations in an effort to build a local foundation for seed markets. The goal is to build capacity in local and national supply chains, which challenges the classic development critique that capitalism privileges economies of scale (and profit accruing to extra-local actors) over local economic development.
This dissertation project built on my master’s thesis research, which was also conducted with ICRISAT-West Africa. I was interested in the ongoing PPB projects and the social implications of them. That initial contact led to the development of a research project that focused on farmers’ and research technicians’ experiences of participation and different types of outcomes that might emerge from the PPB process.
The seed system project funded by the McKnight Foundation is jointly coordinated by ICRISAT, the NARS in all three countries, and the farmer organization in each project site. The two objectives of the project are: 1) to increase men and women farmers’ access to seed of new sorghum and pearl millet varieties; and 2) to monitor and improve variety adoption process, and to assess the effectiveness of different activities to improve knowledge and availability of new varieties. Project tasks include conducting initial studies to characterize existing seed systems and to measure changes in the seed systems with project activities.
This research project was conducted from 2010 to 2013 in the Sahelian West African countries of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. Given the context within which this research project takes place, as well as my specific theoretical approach and interests, I use a mixed-methods approach to ask the following research questions:
1) How do the natural setting and social context influence seed systems in Sahelian West Africa?
2) How and why are farmers incorporating improved variety seeds and seed sales into existing seed systems?
3) Do seed access decisions differ by gender?
4) Do seed access decisions differ by crop?
Data Overview
I gathered quantitative and qualitative data from the same sampling unit (individual farmer) to provide consistency and the ability to both triangulate and test hypotheses with the data.
I used a concurrent mixed-data collection design in order to maximize the limited time in the field and to minimize demands placed on research participants. I conducted semi-structured interviews with farmers who have bought improved varieties of seeds as well as those who received improved variety seeds from others. These interviews asked questions of how farmers perceive their seed networks and markets. In addition, I asked specific questions of changes they have seen in information and seed sources. I also gathered answers to standardized questions to analyze using statistical techniques. In addition to semi-structured interviews, I conducted group meetings to gather qualitative and spatial data about seed networks, agricultural information, and inputs. I used participatory mapping techniques during these group meetings. Finally, I used a GPS unit to record the coordinates of every village I visited, to create maps that depict different aspects of the seed system as well as changes over time.
In addition to primary data collection, I used a range of secondary data sources to supplement the quantitative and spatial data. I used the lists of seed buyers kept by farmer unions and seed sellers to provide a description of the context of seed sales. I also used ICRISAT project documents to identify spatial characteristics of the social context, including the distribution of field trials in each area. Finally, I used a database of geographic coordinates for every village in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger that was collected and provided to me by colleagues at ICRISAT.
Data Organization
Tabular Data: This spreadsheet contains the full set of quantitative variables describing individual farmers' demographic characteristics and decision making about seeds.
Focus Groups: These are transcripts from each individual village’s focus group, sorted by country, village, and year groups were conducted.
Focus Group Seed Maps: These are photos of the seed maps drawn by participants in each individual village focus group.
Individual Interviews: These are transcripts of the individual interviews with each farmer, sorted by country and year interview was conducted.<p/
British Cold War Documents
No full textThis data collection - The Trachtenberg Papers - broadly concerns Cold War policy from the end of WWII to 1964. The data was accumulated in order to write several books and articles relating to Cold War relations during this pivotal period, most notably A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, February 1999).
This particular data project encompasses Cold War documents from the United Kingdom. Data between 1945 and 1959 are organized in three folders, each folder including data for a five year period. Data for the years 1960, 1961, 1962, and 1963, are organized in four folders, one for each year.</p
Data for: Appreciative Inquiry Study of Asynchronous Teleconsultations
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Non-physician clinicians (NPCs) in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) often have little physical proximity to the resources - equipment, supplies or skills - needed to deliver effective care, forcing them to refer patients to distant sites. Unlike equipment or supplies, which require dedicated supply chains, physician/specialist skills needed to support NPCs can be sourced and delivered through telecommunication technologies. In LMICs however, these skills are scarce and sparsely distributed, making it difficult to implement commonly used real-time (synchronous), hub-and-spoke telemedicine paradigms. An asynchronous teleconsultations service was implemented in Turkana County, Kenya, connecting NPCs with a volunteer network of remote physicians and specialists. In 2017-18, the service supported over 100 teleconsultations and referrals across 20 primary healthcare clinics and two hospitals. This qualitative study aimed to explore the impact of the telemedicine intervention on health system stakeholders, and perceived health-related benefits to patients. Data were collected using Appreciative Inquiry, a strengths-based, positive approach to assessing interventions and informing systems change. We highlight the impact of provider-to-provider asynchronous teleconsultations on multiple stakeholders and healthcare processes. Provider benefits include improved communication and team work, increased confidence and capacity to deliver services in remote sites, and professional satisfaction for both NPCs and remote physicians. Health system benefits include efficiency improvements through improved care coordination and avoiding unnecessary referrals, and increased equity and access to physician/specialist care by reducing geographical, financial and social barriers. Providers and health system managers recognised several non-health benefits to patients including increased trust and care seeking from NPCs, and social benefits of avoiding unnecessary referrals (reduced social disruption, displacement and costs). The findings reveal the wider impact that modern teleconsultation services enabled by mobile technologies and algorithms can have on LMIC communities and health systems. The study highlights the importance of viewing provider-to-provider teleconsultations as complex health service delivery interventions with multiple pathways and processes that can ultimately improve health outcomes.
Data Overview
The data are from an Appreciative Inquiry study of a telemedicine service implementation in Turkana County, Kenya. The data were collected from key informant interviews and focus group discussions with:
Non-physician clinicians (nurses, clinical officers) who requested teleconsultations
Remote physicians and specialists who provided teleconsultations
Physicians in the Lodwar County Referral Hospital
Turkana County health system stakeholders
Data collected included audio recordings and transcripts of the interviews/focus group discussions and participant drawings.
Transcripts and drawings are not shared due to conditions of consent. Files shared include interview/discussion guides, consent forms and analysis codes.</p
Translational Research Group: Ebola 100 Project
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This project was developed to contribute military voices to the larger Ebola 100 Project, which was run by a consortium of individuals and institutions and had the goal of creating a public archive of interviews with individuals involved in the West Africa Ebola outbreak of 2014-2015. Data consist of 8 transcripts of semi-structured interviews with military personnel conducted between 2015 and 2017. Also included are a project overview and an explanation of data sharing with the Ebola 100 archive
Data for: Support or control? Qualitative interviews with Zambian women on male partner involvement in HIV care during and after pregnancy
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The goal of this qualitative study was to generate a better understanding of relationship processes with male partners that affect women’s prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT)-related health behaviours through a critical examination of gender and power. This study was part of a larger concurrent mixed-methods parent study on the relationship between gender power dynamics within heterosexual couples and women’s PMTCT adherence. From March to August 2014, a cross-sectional survey was administered to 320 postpartum women living with HIV attending well-child paediatric healthcare visits at a large public health centre within a densely populated, low socio-economic neighbourhood of Lusaka. A convenience sub-sample of 32 participants in the parent study was invited to also participate in a semi-structured qualitative interview. The goal of the interviews was to expand on and explain the quantitative survey findings regarding the relationship between gender power dynamics and PMTCT-related health behaviours.
Data Overview
Participants were recruited during routine paediatric healthcare visits (e.g., child immunisations, height and weight measurements). Women were eligible for participation if they were married or cohabiting with a male partner, HIV-positive, over 18 years of age (legal age to provide consent for research in Zambia), and had a biological child between 3 to 9 months of age. Infant age criteria were meant to capture the essential PMTCT protocols, match the paediatric immunisation schedule, and limit recall bias. Because a major focus of the parent study was on intimate partner violence (IPV), as a safety measure, we excluded any women who were at the clinic with their male partners; only one woman was excluded for this reason. Nurses at the clinic determined eligibility for the parent study using the child’s “Under-Five Card” (i.e., a mother’s copy of her child’s health record that she is required to bring to all healthcare visits) or other available medical records. Eligible women were consented by research staff and received a small travel reimbursement.
All survey participants were invited to stay and participate in a semi-structured interview immediately after the survey on the same day in the same location. Interviews were conducted by experienced, trained local Zambian research assistants in the most commonly spoken languages (English, Nyanja, Bemba, Tonga) using a semi-structured interview guide. The interview guide included broad, open-ended questions regarding PMTCT experiences and gender power dynamics. All research assistants had qualitative public health experience and participated in a three-day training. Data analysis and recruitment occurred concurrently and continued until the research team agreed we had achieved theoretical saturation of themes informing how gender power dynamics affect women’s PMTCT-related health behaviours. Throughout data collection, memos were kept in order to create a rich description of the data and to identify any needed changes to the interview guide, as well as establish theoretical saturation. Interviews were audio-recorded, translated and transcribed verbatim into Microsoft Word, and imported into Atlas.ti for analysis.
The codebook was developed and applied to the transcripts by the primary investigator (Dr. Hampanda) using a combination of a priori codes from the interview guide and emergent codes. The author began with initial, line-by-line coding of transcripts to identify meanings and assumptions within the data, as well as comparisons between the codes and participants. In the final stages of analysis, focused coding by two of the investigators (Dr. Hampanda and Dr. Mweemba) explored the underlying meanings of the participant narratives and how they add to, form, transform, or reflect gendered social structures and processes in relation to women’s HIV care during and after pregnancy. We applied Fairclough’s method of critical discourse analysis, which emphasises how participant narratives are linked to societal and cultural processes and structures. Our critical discourse analysis interrogated the transcripts by paying attention to issues of explicit and implicit gender power dynamics and how participants navigated these in the context of PMTCT care.
A table of excerpts is included with one short excerpt from the interview transcripts for every code used in the qualitative coding. Full transcripts are not shared to conform to assurances made to participants during informed consent. Publicly sharing the full transcripts would violate the agreement to which the participants consented
Data for: Carbon captured: How business and labor control climate politics
No full textThis data project has been published in parallel to Mildenberger, M. 2020. Carbon Captured: How Business and Labor Control Climate Politics (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press). In this book, I advance a new theory to explain cross-national differences in the timing and content of climate reforms across advanced industrial economies.
This book seeks to make the sources of its inferences as transparent as possible. In doing so it draws from best practices outlined by the American Political Science Association in its 2012 Council Statement on Openness in Political Science and in a 2013 Guideline for Data Access and Research Transparency for Qualitative Research in Political Science. This data project and its associated Transparency Appendix (TRAX) are key components of this effort. Where permitted by copyright, the data project provides digital copies of grey literatures, policy documents, and media reports referenced in the book or in the book's Transparency Appendix. Where copyright issues are involved (e.g. with respect to news clippings) I instead provide permanent web archives for each of these media clippings using the perma.cc service.</p
Marine Corps Resilience Project
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The Resilience Project was a long-term research and implementation project focused on improving the Marine Corps' approach to stress and resilience and challenging bio-deterministic assumptions that underpinned many military stress and resilience programs. The portion of the project data deposited here includes transcripts of 39 semi-structured interviews conducted with active duty Marines, Marine recruits, and Marine officer candidates at Marine Corps Base Quantico (Virginia) and Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island (South Carolina) between 5 June and 2 October 2012. Also included are an annotated bibliography of related source material, a project overview, and examples of public domain applied research outcomes from the project, which may provide useful context for data users or serve as a type of data for those studying applied social science
United States Cold War Documents
No full textThis data collection - The Trachtenberg Papers - broadly concerns Cold War policy from the end of WWII to 1964. The data was accumulated in order to write several books and articles relating to Cold War relations during this pivotal period, most notably A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, February 1999).
This particular data project encompasses Cold War documents from the United States. Each folder encompasses data for one year, except for data from the period prior to 1950 as well as the period after 1963, which are encompassed in two separate folders.
103 files are prepared for declassification analysis. These are documents for which different versions, at various stages of declassification, are available. Versions are distinguished by a suffix to the filename (e.g., _Sanitized; _Full) and the description includes the dates of declassification, when available.</p