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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. A/HRC/58/62
Full text linkIn the present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 55/19, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mai Sato, examines developments in the human rights situation in the country, emphasizing the gender-specific dimensions and impact of human rights violations
Psiquiatría y transformación social en Josep Solanes
Full text linkSpanish: El artículo explora la concepción de la psiquiatría del exiliado catalán republicano Josep Solanes (1909-1991) a lo largo de seis décadas de actividad profesional. En diálogo continuado con la filosofía, la antropología y la literatura, Solanes teorizará y llevará a su práctica clínica una psiquiatría que ambiciona curar las patologías mentales como parte de la transformación social. Se recorre su compromiso activo en los años veinte y treinta con las vanguardias artísticas, políticas y médicas que apuestan por una Catalunya y una España post-burguesas; su visión revolucionaria de una nueva psiquiatría para un hombre y una sociedad nuevas durante la guerra civil; su trabajo pionero en los años cuarenta, ya en el exilio en Francia y en una Europa inundada de refugiados políticos, sobre el exilio como patología mental; en Venezuela a partir de los años cincuenta, el desarrollo de una psiquiatría emancipadora a través de la concepción de la terapia ocupacional como oportunidad para la sanación de la institución psiquiátrica misma. El artículo concluye con referencias a la última etapa de su carrera, desde los años sesenta, centrada en el cuestionamiento de la razón tecnológica. Frente a ella, el exilio aparece como un espacio de enunciación privilegiado. Tal como argumenta en su obra póstuma Los nombres del exilio (1993) es el exiliado, como sujeto liberado de sus ligaduras nacionales, quien puede aspirar a la desalienación. English: The article explores the concept of psychiatry as a discipline that underpinned the work of Catalan republican exile Josep Solanes (1909-1991) over six decades of professional activity. In constant dialogue with philosophy, anthropology and literature, Solanes theorized and put into clinical practice a psychiatry that aspired to cure mental pathologies and, in doing that, transform society. The article traces his active commitment in the 1920s and 1930s to the artistic, political and medical avant-gardes that advocated a post-bourgeois Catalonia and Spain; his revolutionary vision of a new psychiatry for a new man and society during the Spanish civil war; his pioneering work in the 1940s, already in exile in France amidst a Europe flooded with political refugees, on exile as a mental pathology; in Venezuela from the 1950s onwards, the development of an emancipatory psychiatry through the conception of occupational therapy as an opportunity for the healing of the psychiatric institution itself. The article closes with references to the last stage of Solanes’ career, from the 1960s onwards, focused on the critique of technological rationality. To counter it, exile emerges as a privileged space of enunciation. As he argues in his posthumous work Los nombres del exilio (1993), it is the exile, as a subject freed from their national bonds, who can aspire to become disalienated
Bestiary of questionable research practices in psychology
Full text linkQuestionable research practices (QRPs) pose a significant threat to the quality of scientific research. However, historically, they remain ill-defined and a comprehensive list of QRPs is lacking. The article addresses this concern by defining, collecting, and categorizing QRPs using a community consensus method. Collaborators of the study agreed on the following definition: “Questionable research practices (QRPs) are ways of producing, maintaining, sharing, analyzing, or interpreting data that are likely to produce misleading conclusions, typically in the interest of the researcher. QRPs are not normally considered to include research practices that are prohibited or proscribed in the researcher’s field (e.g., fraud, research misconduct). Neither do they include random researcher error (e.g., accidental data loss)”. Drawing from both iterative discussions and existing literature, we collected, defined, and categorized 40 QRPs for quantitative research. We also considered attributes such as potential harms, detectability, clues, and preventive measures for each QRP. The results suggest that QRPs are pervasive and versatile, and have the potential to undermine all stages of the scientific enterprise. This work contributes to the maintenance of research integrity, transparency, and reliability by raising awareness for and improving the understanding of QRPs in quantitative psychological research
Exploring trade unions as a support for whistleblowers
No full textAbstract Trade unions play a very important role in the employment relations systems. Whistleblowing occurs in this same sphere suggesting that trade unions will be involved. However, what is known about trade unions in this space is either theoretical or empirically limited. This chapter seeks to explore these dynamics by exploring the limited literature to shed light on what we know about trade unions in practice. It will draw on the recent UK Post Office Horizon IT scandal. It will show how the theoretical discussions in the literature using Individual, Collective and Public Union voice maps to an extent what we have seen in practice. It draws out the difficulties trade unions face in supporting individual whistleblowers while having a collective mindset. The chapter uses examples from trade union engagement in other spheres of the employment relationship at the three levels to highlight the potential trade unions to take up and support whistleblowing
Against conferencing-as-usual in times of genocide: criminology, complicity, and sexual violence in Palestine
Full text linkThis reflection stems from a roundtable convened at the European Society of Criminology Conference (EUROCRIM) in September 2025. Originally proposed as a discussion on expertise and sexual violence research, the session was reconfigured in response to a call by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) to boycott the conference. In place of the planned roundtable, we delivered a collective statement addressing sexual violence within the context of settler colonialism in Palestine, situating our interventions through reflections on our
own positionalities and the broader complicities of Criminology as a discipline and the European Society of Criminology as a disciplinary body. The statement brings together individual reflections grounded in a shared commitment to feminist, anticolonial, and abolitionist praxis
Profit, cost, price, learned societies; further thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
Full text linkSince I last wrote, I have had a few more thoughts on Samuel Moore’s book. Again, these are not necessarily things that he does not discuss or things that he should have discussed. They are merely thoughts that occurred to me in response to reading his work
Does mandatory saving reduce voluntary saving? Evidence from a pension reform
Full text linkRecently, mandatory pension contributions in Iceland were increased substantially in the private sector while
remaining unchanged in the public sector. Taking this as a large natural experiment, this paper studies the
effects of this change on households’ voluntary saving, using comprehensive third-party reported information
on income, assets, and debt for all taxpayers. Using difference-in-differences, ee find that households do not
reduce voluntary saving when faced with a rise in mandatory saving. Our results are supported by an event
study of workers switching from the private sector to the public sector. Survey evidence suggests widespread
ignorance about the pension system
Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Morals and Policy Amy Elkington (London & NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2025), pp. 224, £34.99 (ppk). ISBN 978-1032527826.
Full text linkEvaluate what is claimed to be confirmed: initial version of a Falsification Assessment Form (FAF)
Full text linkScientific claims, and the way they are tested, must be unambiguous and flexibility must be disclosed. Grounded in Popper’s principle of falsification, we suggest the Falsification Assessment Form (FAF). The form aims to identify ambiguity and undisclosed flexibility in the entire research process with 11 items covering hypothesis formulation, data processing, analysis, and alternative explanations. It also collects information on transparency measures, such as preregistration. The form was developed through consensus among the authors and refined via a collaborative feedback assessment of 19 experts. It is intended for original, quantitative research, it highlights potential issues and requires authors to provide detailed responses. FAF is meant to be a structured qualitative audit framework. It can be used to identify concerns in published research, improve the quality of papers during peer review, or guide rigorous study planning from the outset. We open up further refinement and testing of FAF to the scientific community
Benefits of patient education in surgery
Full text linkBackground: Research has found that 48 % of patients are anxious before surgery but patient education which involves preparing them about what to expect is associated with higher satisfaction after surgery. Patient satisfaction is important because previous research found that patients who had surgery in hospitals with the highest quartile of satisfaction had lower relative risk reductions of 11-13 % in 30-day postoperative mortality, minor complications, and failure to rescue. In using patient satisfaction as a metric in surgery, it is not yet known whether exceptions should be made for emergencies and coronavirus patients because of restricted opportunities for patient education. Methods: This study analysed the survey responses of 38,689 patients who had surgery or clinical procedures from UK NHS hospitals. Regression analysis found that patient education (captured in patients' interactions with surgeons, physicians, and other staff e.g., preparing them about what to expect from surgery or clinical procedures) significantly increased patient satisfaction. It explained 34.9 %-49.7 % of adjusted variance in patient satisfaction. Multivariate analysis of variance found that patient satisfaction was lower after emergencies and among patients in coronavirus wards, likely because of restricted time or opportunities for patient education. Conclusions: This study shows the benefits of patient education in surgery which prepares patients about what to expect. However, patient satisfaction should not be used as an isolated metric after emergency surgery and that involving coronavirus patients because of restricted time or opportunity for patient education
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