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Co-designing citizen science: principles and guidance
Get PDFThis report sets out principles for including aspects
of, or, where appropriate, full co-design in citizen
science projects. It draws on research carried out
during CaSTCo, including case studies (Soil
SmARt and River Guardians), interviews with
scientists, stakeholders and citizen scientists, and a
review of existing literature. Together, these
sources inform 12 key principles for guiding co-design
Staying with the Trouble of Rural Revitalisation: Material Agencies, More-than-Human Care, and Planetary Rural Futures
No full textThis response engages Chen et al.’s (2025) intervention into our planetary rural geographies (PRG) framework, which rethinks rural–urban relations through material and more-than-human agencies. We welcome their emphasis on infrastructure’s role, particularly in China’s rural construction movement. Extending this, we highlight how materials—chemicals, soils, atmospheric elements—shape uneven planetary transformations. Drawing from metabolic politics and critical agrarian studies, we trace how earthly substances entangle rural assemblages in toxicity, dispossession, and ecological crisis. While rural revitalisation proliferates globally, we caution against anthropocentric models that reproduce harm. Instead, we call for ethics of care rooted in human–nonhuman reciprocity, land stewardship, and intergenerational solidarity—advancing the PRG agenda through attention to more-than-human entanglements and shared planetary responsibilitie
Seeing the bigger picture: an investigation into the impact of process mapping on the management of change in a university library
No full textThis paper examines the impact of process mapping on the management of change in an academic library in a UK higher education institution. Book ordering has been highlighted by a group of subject librarians as being time-consuming and inefficient, detracting from their ability to respond to new challenges and opportunities. An action research approach is used to bring the subject librarians together to draw book ordering process maps, identify on the maps where perceived problem areas lie and discuss potential solutions. Analysis of the empirical data suggests that process maps used in an action learning setting are impactful in terms of demonstrating readiness for change, showing where change is needed and creating a vision for change. The value of investigating the impact of process mapping through the lenses of different change models is discussed and the applicability of this approach to other professional services settings in higher education is explored
The ‘Worlds of Cinema’ and the ‘Cinema of Worlds’: A Heideggerian Phenomenology
Get PDFWithin a range of academic disciplines like film studies, philosophy of film, and narratology, scholars talk about ‘worlds.’ In this essay, I present various ‘ontic’ and ‘ontological’ descriptions of ‘world’ according to a Heideggerian phenomenology. My aim is to distinguish between what I call the ‘worlds of cinema,’ which bring about a particular subject-object relationship experienced as absorption, immersion, distraction, or distancing, and the ‘cinema of worlds,’ where film as art unsettles us as an ontological event, disrupting the subject-object dynamic in which we understand the depthlessness of our Being. Where the once familiar webs of meaning that made up our lives to which movies normally appeal, are now made strange to us through an onto-cinematic event. Here the actuality of my world is only known via its possibilities to which the film, as art, now draws my attention
The visibility of ethics within early childhood research; revised standards for our international community of practice
Get PDFEECERA ethical code for early childhood researchers
Get PDFThe EECERA Ethical Code for Early Childhood Researchers outlines underpinning ethical principles as well as practice guidance to ensure that research undertaken globally within the field of early childhood is done so ethically. This revised ethical code has been expanded to ensure that current global issues such as sustainability and the advancement of technology are evident. It also considers a rising prevalence of desk-based research as we recognise that all research warrants sufficient ethical consideration. International early childhood researchers, under the direction of the EECERA board of trustees, have drawn upon their research experience in this collaborative document which has been reconsidered in light of specific challenges to our field. It is hoped that this revised EECERA Ethical Code will encourage all researchers to acknowledge the layers of ethical complexity that invariably occur when working within the field of early childhood research
Cyber Insurance Adoption and Digitalisation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Get PDFDigitalisation has significantly increased cybersecurity risks in organisations, notably for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in which IT departments often have
relatively small teams and limited resources. Cyber insurance enables SMEs to navigate cybersecurity risks more economically, providing an essential risk transfer alternative to costly reduction strategies. This article examines the antecedents, emergence, and application of
cyber insurance as a solution to cybersecurity concerns against the backdrop of increasing digitalisation. The research adopts a quantitative deductive approach, with an analysis of relevant literature providing the basis for the development of 12 hypotheses, which are then tested via a survey of 168 SMEs in Turkey. Using the Technology–Organisation–Environment–Individual (TOE-I) model as a top-line conceptual framework, the article
finds that cyber insurance policy adoption has facilitated a more rapid and secure digitalisation process and that the mitigation of financial risk associated with cyberattacks has allowed companies to invest more widely in information technologies and systems. The article clearly has its limitations, in that it is based on primary research in one European country, but the authors believe that it nevertheless provides some new insights into the potential benefits of cyber insurance, and the key issues SMEs must consider when considering adopting a cyber insurance policy. The findings will be of practical relevance to SMEs
and other organisations reviewing their cybersecurity strategy and are also of relevance to the wider debate around the costs and benefits of digitalisation
Exploring Innovation in multi-agency settings for supporting children and families affected by domestic abuse: police notification schemes
Get PDFThe CAFADA project (Developing the Evidence Base for Innovation in Social Care for Children and Families Impacted by Domestic Abuse) examines innovations in multi-agency responses to domestic abuse, focusing on police notification schemes designed to support children and families.
Recognising the limited evidence on effective interventions for children exposed to domestic abuse, the study uses an implementation science approach to investigate how innovative practices are conceptualised, developed, and implemented in the intersection of social care, education, and criminal justice.
This report centres on two school notification schemes: Operation Encompass (OE) and an enhanced model referred to as Operation Encompass Plus (OE+). OE aims to notify schools promptly after domestic abuse incidents, enabling early intervention and support. OE+ expands on this model, incorporating multi-agency collaboration to provide holistic and sustained support for children and families.
The research reveals significant challenges in scaling and sustaining these innovations, such as inconsistent implementation, limited engagement with families, and the tension between top-down standardisation and bottom-up adaptability. OE’s simplicity facilitates scalability but often lacks depth, while OE+ offers comprehensive support yet struggles with resource demands and institutional buy-in.
The study highlights the need for more participatory and integrated approaches that centre the voices of children and families, balance flexibility with standardisation, and foster long-term cultural and structural support for innovation. These findings contribute to broader understandings of innovation in public sector interventions, particularly within resource-constrained and risk-averse environments.
CAFADA’s research emphasises the importance of iterative, inclusive processes in creating effective and sustainable responses to domestic abuse, with implications for multi-agency collaboration and policy design
Exploring the Path to Job Satisfaction Among Women in the Middle East: A Contextual Perspective
Get PDFPurpose: This study explores the factors that influence job satisfaction among women in Jordan and contribute to the growing interest in women's workplace happiness in the context of the Middle East.
Design/methodology/approach: We employed an explanatory sequential mixed-method approach. During the first phase, 250 female respondents were surveyed from the private sector in Jordan. We analysed the impact of various employment-related attributes and other variables, including educational level, position, work experience, daily work hours, income level, relationships with colleagues and supervisors, and internal career opportunities on job satisfaction. During the second stage, we interviewed 23 supervisor female respondents and conducted a thematic analysis to explore in more depth the determinants of job satisfaction of females working in the private sector in Jordan.
Findings: The quantitative findings of this study indicate that job satisfaction is positively influenced by education level and income, while notably, it was negatively impacted by work experience and daily work hours. Relationships with colleagues and supervisors, as well as internal career opportunities, positively affect job satisfaction. The qualitative findings of the study indicate that positive corporate culture, developing subordinates, financial independence, self-worthiness, work-life balance, internal career opportunities, and factors that spillover from the personal life domain contributed highly to job satisfaction.
Originality: This study offers valuable insights into the cultural dynamics at play and sheds light on the psychology of the Arab female workforce. Given the limited research on job satisfaction among women in the Middle East and the Arab world, this study holds significant importance for practitioners
‘Weak’ physical education teacher education practice: co-constructing features of meaningful physical education with pre-service teachers
No full textWhile the meaningful physical education approach serves as a unifying and focused framework for both physical education teachers and teacher educators, it is focused on teaching physical education and not how teacher educators can teach pre-service teachers (PSTs) how to teach using meaningful physical education. Consequently, Learning about Meaningful Physical Education (LAMPE) has emerged as a comprehensive pedagogical approach designed to support teacher educators in their decision making to educate PSTs about meaningful physical education. However more work is needed to exemplify PETE practices when enacting the LAMPE pedagogical principles and explain their effectiveness in preparing PSTs to learn about meaningful physical education. This research aims to address the knowledge gap in answering: What are the realities of enacting principle four of the LAMPE principles (i.e. Teacher educators should frame learning activities using features of meaningful participation) in PETE? Rather than providing the already agreed critical features of meaningful physical education (i.e. social interaction, challenge, motor competence, fun, and personally relevant learning), and reproducing what is already known, Dylan engaged in a self-study of teacher education practices (S-STEP) methodology to inductively co-construct a shared language with his PSTs. Data was collected through different sources: (i) Four community of learners meetings; (ii) 11 reflective journal entries; (iii) Critical friends interrogation on such reflections; and (iv) the teaching artefacts. Through data analysis, three categories were constructed: (1) Inductive disruption encouraging co-construction of meaningful physical education features; (2) Tensions in developing a shared language through identification, exploration, experience, and reflection; (3) An uncomfortable space of ‘knowing’ and ‘not knowing’. The inductive analysis led us to make connections to Biesta, G.’s [2014. The Beautiful Risk of Education. Paradigm Publishers] notion of ‘weak education’. Informed by this, this research advocates for ‘weak practice’, the development of a pedagogy of teacher education, and a principle zero
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