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Process evaluation of a parenting intervention for pre-schoolers with intellectual disabilities who display behaviours that challenge in the UK
Get PDFBackground: Stepping Stones Triple P (SSTP) is a complex parent-mediated intervention aimed to reduce behaviours that challenge in children with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities, aged 30-59 months.
Methods: To formulate a comprehensive understanding of SSTP implementation in the UK, we conducted a process evaluation collecting stakeholder views and considering intervention fidelity, dose, reach, delivery adaptations, and acceptability.
Results: Fidelity and quality of delivery ratings were high. Parents perceived SSTP as valuable, reporting increased parental confidence and understanding of the child’s behaviours. However, only 30% of families received an adequate dose of the intervention. Parents who only received treatment as usual described feeling abandoned by current services. Service managers emphasised the importance of availability of resources and therapist training for successful intervention delivery.
Conclusions: SSTP supports effective management of early-onset behaviours that challenge. Further work is needed to ensure equitable access to the intervention across health and social care services
Open Access: A Benefit Not a Burden That is Worth the Cost
Get PDFAn argument in favour of the REF OA mandat
Precise tactile localisation on the human fingernail
Get PDFFingernails are specialised features of the primate hand which are believed to contribute to manual dexterity. The sensorimotor functions of fingernails, however, remain poorly understood. This study investigated the ability of humans to precisely localise touches applied to the fingernail plate. Nine different locations on the fingernail were touched and participants judged the location by clicking a mouse cursor on a photograph of their finger. Performance in this condition was compared to stimuli applied to the skin of the fingertip. The results showed that participants are able to localise touch on the fingernails at substantial higher than chance levels. Moreover, the precision of this ability is not appreciably lower than that on the fingertips. These results show that the fingernail is a highly sensitive sensory organ which is capable to providing rich spatial information about tactile stimuli
Does remaining in Russia affect analysts’ sentiment?
Get PDFDesign/methodology/approach: Leveraging data on Analysts' Revision Scores (ARS) from Eikon, Refinitiv, our analysis underscores the importance of analysts during periods of uncertainty (Kacperczyk and Seru, 2007; Loh and Stulz, 2018). Using static and dynamic panel analysis, we examine the impact of Russia exposure on ARS while controlling for key variables.
Purpose: Since February 2022, the conflict between Ukraine and Russia has significantly influenced global financial markets, altering investor behavior and increasing market volatility. Western countries’ sanctions on Russia have influenced market uncertainty. Academic literature has deeply investigated the market’s reaction to the conflict and demonstrated a diverse range of impacts. Our study delves into how corporate decisions to remain in or exit Russia during the conflict influence analyst sentiment.
Findings: Companies that retain a presence in Russia tends to enhance the overall ARS score, contributing to increased optimism among analysts regarding forecasts for the firms in question. Controlling for endogeneity and underlying dynamics in ARS does not alter the main findings. All in all, the results confirm the absence of an impact on the companies ‘returns post announcement to continue or leave Russia after the start of the conflict (Balyuk and Fedyk, 2023).
Originality/value: This research sheds light on the complex relationship between geopolitical events, corporate decisions, and investor sentiment, offering valuable insights for stakeholders, policy makers and regulators
The uses of rupture in medieval Northern Eurasian history
Get PDFWill Russia’s invasion of Ukraine change bring about a rupture in how we write about and teach the history of medieval Northern Eurasia? Dominant accounts of the region’s medieval history invoke ruptures, such as the Mongol invasion, in the service of state-centred narratives. Such narratives obscure the diversity of the region’s past and its present. This essay explores the uses of rupture in the historiography of medieval Northern Eurasia. It shows how modern readings of chronicles produced within
the monasteries of medieval northern Eurasia have used the device of rupture in the service of a variety of different imperial, national, liberal and conservative historical narratives. This tendency has been remarkably resilient, across modern ruptures such as 1917 and 1991. The essay also addresses the problematic legacy of “Eurasianist” ideas, while pointing to a counter-tradition of Northern Eurasian historiography, which could provide rich resources for a less ethnocentric and statist approach to the
region today. The essay concludes by considering the opportunities for such an approach, in the light of current academic disciplinary boundaries, and media- and policy-facing commentary on the regio
Everyday constructions of class-based inequality: field effects in UK museum work
Get PDFThis paper contributes to our understanding of how occupational contexts shape everyday constructions of class-based inequality. Using Bourdieu’s concept of field, and UK museum work as a case, we analyse interview, focus group and secondary data. We show how those with a stake in museum work construct three versions of class-based inequality a) between individuals b) between positions and c) between institution and worker. The museum field provides a familiar space which can aid ‘recognition’ of inequality between individuals. Conversely the field generates a logic - here, keeping collections special - which can legitimate structural inequality between positions. It also facilitates a game-playing dynamic which leads to a ‘pragmatic acceptance’ and reinforcement of inequality between institution and worker. Visibility of class-based inequality is shaped by misdirection rather than misrecognition, as well as one’s position in the hierarchy
The limits of the law: work in the light of Capitalist reproduction
Get PDFThe article explores alternatives to capitalist work from the point of view of reproduction of capitalist relations. The latter occurs in a cyclical manner as capitalist structures—the economic, juridico-political and ideological levels—co-constitute and reproduce one another. Given the difficulty inherent in breaking the cycle of reproduction, a reflection on alternatives to capitalist work requires that work is reconceptualised, to the extent possible, beyond current structures: as transformations at any one individual level cannot produce radical change, alternatives to capitalist work require a holistic reimagining of the social totality, transcending, for example, mere legal or mere political reform. The force that can disrupt the cycle of capitalist reproduction and open space for such holistic reimagination is class struggle. The latter becomes embedded in the process of redefining work in so far as it is the force that can precipitate structural and unforeseeable change. It also acts a reminder that the substantive redefinition of work is a collective process, and cannot be the task of any single individual situated externally to that struggle
Doing Academic Careers Differently: Portraits of Academic Life. Sarah Robinson, Alexandra Bristow, and Olivier Ratle
Get PDFResearch has identified a legacy of hierarchy within higher education. Although critical studies have been critiquing dominant traditions, addressing institutional limitations, and advocating for diverse scholarship, there has been little focus on the restrictive expectations of academic professionals. Doing Academic Careers Differently reimagines academic trajectories through metaphorical ‘galleries’, challenging traditional academic norms. It argues for recognising diverse career paths and addressing the detrimental impact of conventional expectations on individuals' well-being and authenticity
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