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No full textPreventing and contrasting gender-based violence and sexual harassment. The role of universities and their equal opportunities bodies
Full text linkThis work deals with the topic of gender-based violence (GBV) and sexual harassment in the academic context, a phenomenon that is sadly widespread but poorly reported, which has increasingly emerged as a result of the international ‘Me Too’ movement, leading to an increase in the number of cases of allegations. Considering Italy’s backwardness in terms of gender equality, it was decided to focus the analysis on the Italian academic context. This work is specifically aimed at examining what the role of universities and their Equality
Opportunity Bodies can be in preventing and combating GBV and sexual harassment. To achieve this objective, a mix-method methodology is used. Firstly, the annual COUNIPAR survey has been involved, allowing us on the one hand to collect descriptive statistics on the functioning of the ‘Comitato Unico di Garanzia’ (CUG, i.e., Equal Opportunity Body) and on the general gender-sensitivity of universities, and on the other hand, through the inclusion of specific questions on policies to prevent and combat GBV and sexual harassment, to have an overview of the policies already implemented by Italian universities. In this phase 36
universities, heterogeneous in terms of geographical area and size, are analysed. In order to further explore the potential of universities in prevention and law enforcement actions, it has been decided to examine the policies planned by Italian universities, as a further step in addition to existing policies. Hence, Italian universities Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) are taken under consideration, as the main tools for planning policies from a gender perspective. A sample of 47 Italian universities, heterogeneous both in terms of geographical area and size, is selected and 295 preventive and counteracting actions are detected by means of the Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) method. Additional features, such as the allocation of human and financial resources for the planned actions, intersectionality, the involvement of the CUG and the existing network with local institutions, are also took into account in the analysis. As a result, it can be found that the most planned actions by GEPs of Italian universities concern the preventive aspects rather than the countering policies, as awareness-raising policies and training policies accounted together almost the 40% of the total
detected actions. Looking at specific counteracting policies, policies for handling cases of harassment and violence, the adoption of a code of conduct, the figure of the Confidential Counsellor and psychological support services result to be the most planned actions by Italian universities in this regard. There is still considerable ground for development for specific policies such as the Anti-Violence Desk and collaboration with the network of local institutions, as well as with local Anti-Violence Centres, in a perspective of participative
processes, able to act as a bridge between the university and the skills and experiences carried out at local level by all actors involved in gender equality policies
L'impatto di metodologie didattiche collaborative sulle dimensioni dell'apprendimento in un corso di Laurea Magistrale Blended
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Research, knowledge transfer, and innovation: The effect of Italian universities’ efficiency on local economic development 2006−2012
No full textWe test whether there is a link between the performance of universities, measured through a concept of efficiency, and the economic development of the regions in which they operate. Indicators of teaching, research, and third mission are considered as outputs. To handle endogeneity problems between the efficiency of universities and economic development, a system generalized method of moments and then an instrumental variable approach are used. Our findings reveal that the presence of efficient universities fosters local economic development. Knowledge spillovers occur to areas that are in close geographical proximity to efficient universities. Results are robust to different estimation strategies
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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