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“KILLING HOPE” REFUGEE MEN’S STRUGGLE TO INTEGRATE AND EXPERIENCE A SENSE OF BELONGING IN IRELAND
Get PDFThe aim of this study was to investigate the role that work plays in the integration of men who had come through the Direct Provision (DP) system in the Republic of Ireland. Five focus groups and ten one-to-one interviews were conducted over a five-month period in 2018 in Ireland. The Indicators of Integration Framework (IoI) was used to analyse the data.
The men came as outsiders but carried hope of beginning a new life. While they were in DP their outsider status remained. During the time of the fieldwork in 2018, the bulk of the cohort remained outsiders inhabiting the margins of Irish society.
DP had a lasting and detrimental effect on the men. This is evidenced by the constant referral back to DP throughout the interview sessions. Even when the conversation was steered towards work and the future, the men consistently returned to speaking about DP. It left the men with a sense of shame, regret and continuing frustration. They felt the DP system had tainted them and they considered that it impaired their ability to find full-time work and thereby settle and integrate into the community.
Even after receiving the right to live and work in Ireland, they perceived they were discriminated against and therefore remained outsiders. Because they were unable to find steady work, they constantly struggled to provide for themselves and their family. The lack of work undermined their self-reliance and sense of empowerment that doing manly work would have provided for their sense of masculinity.
Integration is a two-way process, and it has been shown that the refugees are keen to integrate; however, the men received little assistance as they attempted to transition to lives outside DP and to integrate into Irish society. Work is important to the men’s masculinity but in isolation from other domains of the IoI, work offers no more or no less chance to facilitate integration
The development and structural validity testing of the Person-centred Practice Inventory–Care (PCPI-C)
Get PDFFrom PLOS via Jisc Publications RouterHistory: received 2023-01-26, collection 2024-01-01, accepted 2024-04-20, epub 2024-05-10Acknowledgements: The authors of this paper acknowledge the significant contributions of all the service users who participated in this study.Publication status: PublishedFiona Gilmour - ORCID: 0000-0002-9106-3618
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9106-3618Background: Person-centred healthcare focuses on placing the beliefs and values of service users at the centre of decision-making and creating the context for practitioners to do this effectively. Measuring the outcomes arising from person-centred practices is complex and challenging and often adopts multiple perspectives and approaches. Few measurement frameworks are grounded in an explicit person-centred theoretical framework. Aims: In the study reported in this paper, the aim was to develop a valid and reliable instrument to measure the experience of person-centred care by service users (patients)–The Person-centred Practice Inventory-Care (PCPI-C). Methods: Based on the ‘person-centred processes’ construct of an established Person-centred Practice Framework (PCPF), a service user instrument was developed to complement existing instruments informed by the same theoretical framework–the PCPF. An exploratory sequential mixed methods design was used to construct and test the instrument, working with international partners and service users in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Australia and Austria. A three-phase approach was adopted to the development and testing of the PCPI-C: Phase 1 –Item Selection: following an iterative process a list of 20 items were agreed upon by the research team for use in phase 2 of the project; Phase 2 –Instrument Development and Refinement: Development of the PCPI-C was undertaken through two stages. Stage 1 involved three sequential rounds of data collection using focus groups in Scotland, Australia and Northern Ireland; Stage 2 involved distributing the instrument to members of a global community of practice for person-centred practice for review and feedback, as well as refinement and translation through one: one interviews in Austria. Phase 3: Testing Structural Validity of the PCPI-C: A sample of 452 participants participated in this phase of the study. Service users participating in existing cancer research in the UK, Malta, Poland and Portugal, as well as care homes research in Austria completed the draft PCPI-C. Data were collected over a 14month period (January 2021-March 2022). Descriptive and measures of dispersion statistics were generated for all items to help inform subsequent analysis. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted using maximum likelihood robust extraction testing of the 5-factor model of the PCPI-C. Results: The testing of the PCPI-C resulted in a final 18 item instrument. The results demonstrate that the PCPI-C is a psychometrically sound instrument, supporting a five-factor model that examines the service user’s perspective of what constitutes person-centred care. Conclusion and implications: This new instrument is generic in nature and so can be used to evaluate how person-centredness is perceived by service users in different healthcare contexts and at different levels of an organisation. Thus, it brings a service user perspective to an organisation-wide evaluation framework.pubpu
Cricket and Afghan Integration in Scotland: A Case Study
Get PDFThis briefing shares findings from a British Academy funded research project conducted in the North and North-East of Scotland. The research examined the way in which cricket has served as a vehicle for the integration of young people from Afghanistan in Scotland. We spoke with cricket club members, local authority representatives and third sector practitioners to build a picture of Afghan young people’s involvement in grassroots cricket. We sought to understand how sport can contribute to processes of integration that involve refugee people and other members of receiving communities
Visualizing Worldwide Prevalence of Age-Related Dual Sensory Loss
No full textChristine Johnson - ORCID: 0000-0001-8573-5396 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8573-5396Item is not available in this repository.Objectives: This study aims to create a first visualization of global prevalence of age-related dual sensory loss (DSL), significantly affecting older people’s quality of life. Methods: Data from World Health Organization (WHO) regions, particularly African, American, and European, were analyzed. The study focused on DSL onset and prevalence, using adjusted life expectancy for regional comparison. Results: There were notable regional variations in DSL onset and prevalence. The African region showed consistent data, thanks to standardized methods from the World Federation of the Deafblind. However, global patterns varied when adjusted for life expectancy, hinting at possible DSL prevalence stabilization at older ages. Discussion: The study identifies a lack of standardization in DSL prevalence research regarding definitions, methodologies, and reporting. It calls for more uniform and thorough research methods for accurate global DSL understanding. The research highlights the complexity and challenges in determining DSL prevalence worldwide.pubpu
Unlocking Imaginations: Lessons Learnt from Using Story Stem Completion with Young Children
Get PDFAM replace by VoR 25/11/2024.Clare Uytman - ORCID: 0000-0001-6425-7268
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6425-7268Although a substantial proportion of psychological research focuses on the topic of ableism in schools, there is an extremely limited use of qualitative methodology in this area, with no instances, thus far, employing the story stem completion method. Furthermore, there is a scarcity of academic literature discussing best practice in terms of research conducted (a) with children instead of adults, (b) within school settings, or (c) addressing ableism and disabilitybased prejudice. This paper seeks to fill this gap by sharing insights gained from our own research project. We collected qualitative data through story stem completion tasks to explore perceptions and discourse surrounding disability among N = 195 children aged 5 – 11 years in the UK. We explain and critically assess our research decisions, including the creation of story stems, remote and indirect engagement with pupils and school staff, and our data collection methods. In doing so, we highlight the array of choices available to researchers, emphasize the importance of further dialogue within the research community, and advocate for evidence-based best practices in this specific research area.22pubpub
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Children of Colour in Scotland: Methodological and Ethical Reflections
Get PDFCaralyn Blaisdell - ORCID 0000-0002-5491-7346
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5491-7346In this article, we offer methodological and ethical reflections from our research project, “The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Children of Colour in Scotland: Visions for Change”. The project was conducted from January to July 2021, largely under Covid lockdown conditions. Our reflections take the form of creative writing, spoken-word poetry, images and reflective writing. Particularly, we highlight the ongoing, enmeshed and entangled nature of researcher and researched and how this relates to extractive practices, ethical care and navigations of systemic racism in children’s rights research with children of colour. We do so by positioning ourselves and our personal narratives, at times, as axles within this piece of work using Unarchigal (உணர்ச்சிகள்)—Modalities of Resistance, which is an embodiment resistance approach created within postcolonial radical feminist autoethnography. We suggest that researchers might consider similar reflexivity around these issues in their own children’s rights research.5pubpub
I’M ACTUALLY AN ARTIST TOO… Artists who are arts managers
Get PDFThis research investigates how artists might resolve their dual professional identities and continue to be artists when also working in arts management in order to earn a more secure living than is usually possible from art alone. In doing so, it asks how arts organisations could benefit more greatly from the creative practice of the artists they employ as arts managers. The study questions the assumption that artists who work as arts managers must have ‘failed’ in their artistic ambitions and argues that a more nuanced approach is necessary. Rather than artists abandoning their creative practice, and necessitating their identity as an artist being kept ‘invisible’ in the workplace, this thesis argues for both their art and artistic identity to be a visible part of their practice as managers. If this were to happen, it is argued artists and arts management would both stand to gain.
The study adopted a qualitative methodology and involved a multi-method, three-phase approach. The first phase recorded data about the lived experiences of 30 participants working primarily as arts managers across a range of creative sectors. The second phase took the form of an intervention into their professional practice and asked a smaller group to make at least one artwork in the context of their work as arts managers. This included several individuals who work in a single arts organisation. The third phase investigated the data generated from an online group discussion attended by a smaller group of participants. As a former artist, arts manager and maker of contemporary jewellery, I took part in all three phases as a participant-researcher.
The thesis concludes by arguing that arts organisations, and the artist-managers who work in them, need to bring about change through incremental steps, and by consensus. This change is not only to enable artist-managers to retain their creative practices and identity, but in order for the arts organisations where they work to benefit from the particular skills and knowledge artist-managers can bring. It is argued that this is best achieved through dialogue, rather than by keeping the two different, but interdependent practices separate. In this way, through the recognition and visibility of creative practice in the arts workplace, both would be strengthened
ASSESSING LOWER LIMB SOMATOSENSORY FUNCTION OF CHILDREN WITH UPPER MOTOR NEURON LESIONS
Get PDFThrough the somatosensory system, we receive information about the external and internal state of our body as the foundation of our feedback-control system for all motor activities. Therefore, somatosensory function is essential for motor control, and motor learning. Lower limb somatosensory function is particularly important for balance, gait and mobility. Different modalities of the somatosensory system can be impaired in children with Upper Motor Neuron (UMN) lesions. Therefore, we require child-friendly outcome measures to assess somatosensory function of the lower limbs that can be included in a toolbox for clinicians and researchers.
Methods:
An overview of the current state of knowledge was compiled on the basis of a systematic review. The systematic review analysed the psychometric properties of the available measures for assessing lower limb somatosensory function. Subsequently, an expert panel participated in a Delphi study to identify the most important modalities of lower limb somatosensory function in relation to motor outcomes. We developed standardised protocols to assess various somatosensory modalities and investigated validity, reliability, and feasibility in children with UMN lesions. We investigated the relationships between tactile function, body awareness, and motor outcomes. Finally, we developed a sensor-based tool to assess lower limb proprioception and assessed its validity, reliability, and feasibility.
Results and conclusions:
The toolbox provides outcome measures to assess six modalities of lower limb exteroception, proprioception, and body awareness in children with UMN lesions. The feasibility and psychometric properties of the investigated outcome measures are confirmed as good. The correlations between the individual somatosensory and motor function assessments vary greatly. Structural body awareness and joint position sense showed the highest relationship to motor activity and are included into the core toolbox. Further studies should investigate the validity, reliability, and feasibility of a tactile localisation tasks of the whole lower limb to assess body awareness
Extractivism and climate justice in a context of political contestation in Zimbabwe
No full textItem is not available in this repository.https://www.campus.de/e-books/wissenschaft/soziologie/contested_climate_justice_challenged_democracy-18364.htmlpubpu
Periodontal Disease and Alzheimer’s: Insights from a Systematic Literature Network Analysis [Dataset]
No full textSupplementary data for: Villar, A., Paladini, S. and Cossatis, J. (2024) ‘Periodontal disease and Alzheimer’s: insights from a systematic literature network analysis’, The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease, 11(4), pp. 1148–1165. Available at: https://doi.org/10.14283/jpad.2024.79 is available at: https://github.com/alicevillar/SLNA_PD-AD
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