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Emotional intelligence in preregistration nurse education
No full textEmotional intelligence (EI) is considered essential to nursing practice, but it is unclear how best to support nursing students to develop EI skills. This article details a literature review that was undertaken to explore EI in preregistration nurse education and to identify effective methods for developing nursing students’ EI skills. A total of 12 articles were included in the review, from which data were extracted, compared and categorised. Three main areas were identified regarding EI in preregistration nurse education: EI constructs, EI components and EI teaching methods.The review found that a range of EI constructs and components may be included in nurse education curricula, meaning that there is often inconsistency in the approaches used. Classroom teaching methods were primarily used, alongside online methods and experiential methods such as simulation-based learning. The findings of the review suggest there is a need for greater consistency in the EI constructs and components used in preregistration nurse education, as well as further research to determine which EI teaching methods are most effective
The Ghanaian perspective: an interim report illustrating the value of social enterprise to young people
No full textReport commissioned by the British Council
ASPIRE to be different: enhancing skills with students: Briefing Note
No full textThis work forms the basis of a QAA funded project (Reference Number: 30427/001/2022). Drawing upon a heutagogical philosophy of learning, this briefing note proposes a learning model that enables students to develop social entrepreneurial skills and academic colleagues to develop pedagogic skills appropriate to their context and community. This model, A.SP.I.RE, provides an opportunity to develop a holistic perspective to enhancing entrepreneurial skills with students
Developing social entrepreneurial skills in students: an interim progress report
No full textReport commissioned by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Educatio
The nexus between e-marketing, e-service quality, e-satisfaction and e-loyalty: a cross-sectional study within the context of online SMEs in Ghana
No full textThe spread of the Internet, the proliferation of mobile devices, and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic have given impetus to online shopping in Ghana and the subregion. This situation has also created opportunities for SMEs to take advantage of online marketing technologies.However, there is a dearth of studies on the link between e-marketing and e-loyalty in terms of online shopping, thereby creating a policy gap on the prospects for business success for online SMEs in Ghana. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between the main independent variable, e-marketing and the main dependent variable, e-loyalty, as well as the mediating roles of e-service quality and e-satisfaction in the link between e-marketing and e-loyalty. The study adopted a positivist stance with a quantitative method.The study was cross-sectional in nature with the adoption of a descriptive correlational design.A Structural Equation Modelling approach was employed to examine the nature of the associations between the independent, mediating and dependent variables. A sensitivity analysis was also conducted to control for the potential confounding effects of the demographic factors. A sample size of 1,293 residents in Accra, Ghana, who had previously shopped online, responded to structured questionnaire in an online survey via Google Docs.The IBM SPSS Amos 24 software was used to analyse the data collected. Positive associations were found between the key constructs in the study: e-marketing, e-service quality, e-satisfaction and e-Loyalty. The findings from the study gave further backing to the diffusion innovation theory, resource-based view theory, and technology acceptance model.In addition, e-service quality and e-satisfaction individually and jointly mediated the relationship between e-marketing and e-loyalty. However, these mediations were partial, instead of an originally anticipated full mediation. In terms of value and contribution, this is the first study in a developing economy context to undertake a holistic examination of the key marketing performance variables within an online shopping context. The study uniquely tested the mediation roles of both e-service quality and e-satisfaction in the link between e-marketing and e-loyalty. The findings of the study are novel in the e-marketing literature as they unearthed the key antecedents of e-loyalty for online SMEs in a developing economy context.The study suggested areas for further related studies and also highlighted the limitations
The application of games to engage citizens in climate change policy development
No full textThis paper introduces the Games Realising Effective and Affective Transformation (GREAT) research and Innovation project. The project will examine the emerging ways Applied Games could be used to facilitate the social engagement of European citizens in determining future policy priorities and policy interventions to the existential challenge of climate change. This full paper is a provides detail of the work in progress but moreover provides a a conceptual analysis of the methodologies applied to this emerging domain of study. The project is funded by the EU Horizon programme with UK Associate partners funded through UKRI and coordinated by the DIPF, Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Frankfurt and involves seven partners located across Europe, Serious Games Interactive (SGI) Denmark, Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) Austria, International University of Rioja (UNIR) Spain, Frederick University, Cyprus, Playmob and The University of Bolton (UoB) as UK associate partners. The project incorporates collaborative design and citizen science methods and brings together researchers with expertise in the areas of games, data analytics, and policy development. This integrated investigation will be articulated by case studies of the use of games in facilitating dialogue between citizens and policy stakeholders including policy makers, policy implementers, political parties, campaigning organisations and affected citizens. This will be achieved by leveraging the central role of games in contemporary culture by combining academic studies with practical experimentation of novel applications of games. The context for the research is the global challenge of climate emergency, and each case study incorporates a research cycle addressing a policy issue and research questions, using multiple pilots to generate both quantitative and qualitative and data to further inform research activity
A scientometric analysis of deep learning approaches for detecting Fake News
No full textThe unregulated proliferation of counterfeit news creation and dissemination that has been seen in recent years poses a constant threat to democracy. Fake news articles have the power to persuade individuals, leaving them perplexed. This scientometric study examined 569 documents from the Scopus database between 2012 and mid-2022 to look for general research trends, publication and citation structures, authorship and collaboration patterns, bibliographic coupling, and productivity patterns in order to identify fake news using deep learning. For this study, Biblioshiny and VOSviewer were used. The findings of this study clearly demonstrate a trend toward an increase in publications since 2016, and this dissemination of fake news is still an issue from a global perspective.Thematic analysis of papers reveals that research topics related to social media for surveillance and monitoring of public attitudes and perceptions, as well as fake news, are crucial but underdeveloped, while studies on deep fake detection, digital contents, digital forensics, and computer vision constitute niche areas. Furthermore, the results show that China and the USA have the strongest international collaboration, despite India writing more articles. This paper also examines the current state of the art in deep learning techniques for fake news detection, with the goal of providing a potential roadmap for researchers interested in undertaking research in this fiel
Understanding advance care planning for children and young people: a survey of health professionals
No full textBackground:A range of polices, documentation, and practices are associated with advance care planning. However, there is a shortage of research to understand advance care planning from a professional viewpoint.Aims:To explore the views and experiences of health professionals of the advance care planning process with children and young people.Methods:An online questionnaire was used to collect data, which were analysed thematically.Findings:Key findings related to barriers and facilitators to initiating and documenting advance care planning: understanding the process and the condition of the patient; how advance care planning works in practice; and access to relevant, affordable training options.Conclusion:Additional training and standardised documentation can help support the initiation and use of advance care planning, reduce misperceptions, and generate greater confidence in participating in the process. A larger multidisciplinary team, with better communication, will support improved relationships between professionals which will filter down to the families
Strength and deformation characteristics of carbon fibre reinforced composite wrapped aluminium foam beams
No full textSandwich structures fabricated from an aluminium skinned foam enclosed within a carbon fibre reinforced composite structure have the potential application for high-performance on- and off-road automotive vehicles. The deformations and failure of these types of structures are presented, and results indicate that the application of aluminium face sheets with aluminium foam (AF) aids to prevent the delamination of the outer layers of carbon fibre reinforced polymers (CFRP). The load carrying capacity has been increased by utilising a manufacturing method to maintain the adhesion between the core and the skins until the failure stage is reached. The core shear and de-bonded issue associated with this type of sandwich structure can be addressed by this manufacture method. The peak average flexure load capacity of an aluminium foam sandwich structure (AFSS) with a completely wrapped around CFRP skin was 2800 N with a mass of 191 g. This compares favourably with previously used AFSS without the skins, which had a peak average load of 600 N and a mass of 125 g. An initial finite element model for comparison purposes has been developed to represent the structure’s behaviour and predict the associated failure loads. It is proposed that CFRP wrapped around AFSS enhances the structural performance without significant weight gain