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Fostering collaborative excellence: pharmacy students’ perceptions of an interprofessional numeracy workshop
No full textExploring student co-design of final year major project modules
No full textCurrent research shows optionality and co-design has the potential to enable increased engagement or interest, more inclusive assessments, improved student wellbeing, increased motivation, improved student satisfaction, deepened understanding, reduced stress and shared responsibility (Bovill et al., 2009; Firth et al., 2023; Lu et al., 2015). Optionality and co-design are already embedded within Final Year/Capstone/Dissertation projects (FYPs) at a number of institutions and this workshop seeks to gain insight into the perceived challenges and benefits involved. The authors are involved in research to explore student co-design of FYPs. The aim of their work is to provide important insight into the potential impact of embedding student co-design within the development of individual FYPs. Final Year/Capstone/Dissertation projects have a huge weighting on student outcomes and are vital to students developing both technical and non-technical skills, such as organisation, planning, collaboration, communication, interprofessional competence and problem solving (Picard et al., 2022)
Global research priority-setting exercise on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of young adolescents
No full textAdolescence is a pivotal stage for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Young adolescents (aged 10–14 years) undergo sexual and reproductive maturation, yet research on their SRHR lags behind that of older adolescents. To address this gap, WHO commissioned a research priority-setting exercise focused on the SRHR of young adolescents using an adapted mixed-methods Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative methodology. Over 300 stakeholders from more than 60 countries—including academics, policy makers, advocates, and youth advisors—participated in defining and evaluating research priorities against two evaluation criteria: answerability and impact. 30 research priorities were identified, with top-ranked priorities focusing on the role of social media in young adolescents' SRHR, mental health challenges, and disparities in SRHR needs among marginalised subpopulations. The findings highlight the importance of ethical engagement with young adolescents and implementation of tailored comprehensive sexuality education. The identified research priorities emphasise the need for scalable interventions and policies that align with young adolescents' developmental needs and the needs of their caregivers while addressing sociocultural barriers. The research priorities also reflect a clear ambition to develop and implement co-designed, age-appropriate, and scalable SRHR education and health interventions for young adolescents, laying the foundation for long-term wellbeing
“How do you know you know that you're doing ACT?” An experimental study of simulated therapy sessions to explore the measurement properties of the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Fidelity Measure (ACT-FM)
No full textThe Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-Fidelity Measure (ACT-FM) offers a user-friendly assessment of ACT delivery in clinical trials and clinical practice. However, the ACT-FM's measurement properties have not been adequately explored. This study tests whether it performs two key functions: 1) discriminates between therapy sessions delivered with different levels of fidelity to ACT principles; 2) enables reliable scoring. In total, 14 clinicians with experience in ACT were recruited to an online repeated measures experimental study. Using the ACT-FM, they rated three audio clips of simulated therapy sessions with differing levels of ACT fidelity (high, mixed, and low). Audio clips were otherwise identical in terms of clinician-patient dyad, problem (anxiety), and length (15 min). Analyses indicated that ACT-FM scores for Total ACT Consistency and Total ACT Inconsistency domains differed significantly between audio clips and in the expected directions. Intraclass correlation coefficients indicated moderate inter-rater reliability on both domains and there was 80 % agreement among raters at the item level. However, wide confidence intervals suggest imprecision in reliability estimates. These findings suggest that the ACT-FM effectively discriminates between ACT delivered with various levels of fidelity. Yet, further study of interrater reliability is required.</p
Exploring the effect of justice and buyer-supplier embeddedness on supply chain disruption response: buyer-supplier dyadic perspectives
No full textWhile buyer–supplier embeddedness (BSE) in supply chain relationships can foster collective action and serve as an effective mechanism for disruption response, most prior research has primarily focused on these dynamics under steady-state conditions; limited attention has been given to the efficacy of BSE when relationships are under distress. Additionally, despite its importance, the role of justice in developing BSE has rarely been explored. This study addresses these gaps by analysing matched-pair data from 239 U.S. manufacturers through group analysis. We specifically focus on the differing perspectives between dyads – an aspect often overlooked in favor of unilateral viewpoints. This study is among the first to provide empirical evidence on how justice dimensions contribute to the development of structural and relational embeddedness and their subsequent impact on disruption response performance. Additionally, our findings indicate that both social and relational embeddedness remain crucial for fostering buyer–supplier cooperation during crises and enhance response performance within the dyad. Moreover, by comparing perspectives between matched buyers and suppliers, we demonstrate that these parties hold different views on the justice embeddedness relationship and its influence on disruption response performance. These insights contribute to a deeper understanding of the dyadic nature of supply chains, highlighting the perspective differences in exchange relationships and their collective actions when under distress.<br/
Factors contributing to the job satisfaction of classroom assistants supporting autistic children in mainstream primary and post-primary education in Northern Ireland
No full textBridging the finance gap for women entrepreneurs: insights from academic and policy research
No full textThis report prepared by the OECD and the Global Women's Entrepreneurship Policy Network examines the barriers women entrepreneurs face in accessing financing for creating and growing businesses and explores the policy reforms governments can introduce to address them. The first part of the report provides international data and evidence on the rate and nature of entrepreneurship activities by women compared with men and the levels and types of finance accessed by women entrepreneurs. It further offers an international overview of the barriers to women entrepreneurship financing and the potential policy solutions. The second part of the report offers 29 country-specific policy insight notes from selected OECD and non-OECD countries prepared by academic experts. The notes cover countries such as Australia, Brazil, China, France, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Poland, Sweden, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. Each note is focused on a specific thematic issue and aligned with the issues in the international overview. The themes covered are influencing attitudes and culture towards women entrepreneurs, the potential of fintech innovations, the need to better-target interventions to different segments of women entrepreneurs, boosting financial literacy, leveraging angel investments, boosting microfinance, and financing growth-oriented starts
Criminalisation of intellectual thought: representations for consciousness about dissent, resistance and remembrance
No full textCritical engagement, with that hidden or obscured, requires countering discipline-sutured scholarship and ways of seeing. Taking cognisance of the gaps, omissions and distortions when institutions archive themselves – particularly dark histories of social and political oppression – this article calls on critical scholars to trace continuities across past and present regimes of control on intellectual lives and thought. In this extended photo-essay, imagery and scholarship reverberate across time and place as markers of visuality in the context of broader anti-colonial, anti-war and anti-apartheid movements. The first part centres three African contexts’ responses to the memorialisation of past intellectual resistance enacted during various struggles in the Cold War period: Ghana, Uganda and South Africa. The second part traces cross-cutting continuities with contexts historically associated with British colonialism - including India, Palestine, Sudan and the USA – to surface repressive tactics enacted in, and on, the digital and global university. These include technologies of surveillance and erasure; cultures of exclusion, sanction and censorship; and the reappropriation of discourses, frames and rights against freedom. Considering the role of neoliberalism in particular, this article contributes to understandings of the criminalization of dissent, both through the weaponisation of state law, and through the strategic and selective wielding of university policy, memory and culture
Inequity and food insecurity and effects on obesity and associated co-morbidities: meeting report and research priorities
No full textA Rank Forum was convened to discuss the evidence around food insecurity (FIS), its impact on health, and interventions which could make a difference both at individual and societal level, with a focus on the UK. This paper summarises the proceedings and recommendations. Speakers highlighted the growing issue of FIS due to current economic and social pressures. The health implications of FIS vary geographically since food insecure women in higher income regions tend to be living with overweight or obesity, in contrast to those living in low-to-middle-income countries. This paradox could be due to stress and/or metabolic or behavioural responses to an unpredictable food supply. The gut microbiota may play a role given the negative effects of low fibre diets on bacterial diversity. Solutions to FIS involve individual behavioural change, targeted services and societal/policy change. Obesity-related services are currently difficult to access. Whilst poverty is the root cause of FIS, it cannot be solved solely by making healthy food cheaper due to ingrained beliefs, attitudes and behaviours in target groups. Person-centred models, such as Capability-Opportunity-Motivation Behavioural Change Techniques and Elicit-Provide-Elicitcommunication techniques, are recommended. Societal change or improved resilience through psychological support may be more equitable ways to address FIS. They can combine with fiscal or food environment policies to shift purchasing towards healthier foods. Policy implementation can be slow to enact due to the need for strong evidence, consultation and political will. Eradicating FIS must involve co-creation of interventions and policies to ensure a consensus on solutions.</p