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Interview with Brian Martin
No full textDon Dunstan Oral History Project interview transcripts. No conditions are imposed on the reuse of this transcript by the interviewee.Interview with Brian Martin by Alan Hutchings on 15th April, 2008. Brian Martin was formerly Managing Director of the Delfin Group. In this interview, Brian discusses urban development and town planning under the Dunstan government
Mr Brian Martin, 1980
No full textPhotograph originally appeared in the 'Swinburne Newsletter', 29th May 1980. Swinburne Graduation Ceremony 22nd May 1980.
Right Mr Brian Martin, President of Swinburne Council presents the FW Green Prize for the best engineering student, Left Harry Van der Bilik.
On completion of his course, Harry also won the prestigous Marshall Eady prize, awarded by the Institution of Production Engineers for the top Victorian Production Engineering Student
Brian Martin, The Shanghai Green Gang. Politics and Organized Crime, 1919-1937, Berkeley, The University of California Press, 1996
No full textHenriot Christian. Brian Martin, The Shanghai Green Gang. Politics and Organized Crime, 1919-1937, Berkeley, The University of California Press, 1996. In: Études chinoises, vol. 16, n°2, Automne 1997. pp. 194-198
Doing Good Things Better
No full textGood things in life, such as happiness and health, are often taken for granted. All the attention is on problems. Yet good things do not happen by themselves — they need to be fostered. How to do this is the theme of Doing Good Things Better. For years, Brian Martin has studied tactics against injustice. He has now turned his strategic focus to good things, looking for common patterns in what it takes to protect and promote them. Some of his topics are familiar, like writing and happiness. Others are less well known, such as citizen advocacy and chamber music. The same basic tactics are relevant to all of them. Doing Good Things Better provides ideas and inspiration for fostering the things you care most about. Brian Martin is professor of social sciences at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He runs writing programmes, teaches a class on happiness and plays the clarinet
Getting over post-election blues
No full textMany disappointed supporters of Mark Latham and John Kerry will be waiting for their next chance at the ballot box. But would the world be different if elections in 2004 had gone the other way? Maybe not, Brian Martin and Lyn Carson suggest, so here are their ideas for what to do about it, through grassroots action, participatory initiatives and new structures for participation
False hope for whistleblowers
No full textWhistleblower laws give only an illusion of protection for whistleblowers, argues Brian Martin in On Line Opinion
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WHISTLEBLOWERS are people – most commonly employees – who speak out in the public interest to expose corruption, abuse and dangers to the public. For their trouble, they are at high risk of being harassed, ostracised, reprimanded, demoted and dismissed. Society needs whistleblowers to expose abuse and dangers, so how can they be protected? The usual answer: laws to protect whistleblowers from reprisals. The trouble is, the laws hardly ever work…
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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
The Controversy Manual
No full textBACK COVER: Climate change, psychiatric drugs, genetically modified organisms, nuclear power, fluoridation, stem cell research - these are just a few of the hundreds of issues involving science and technology that are vigorously debated. If you care about an issue, how can you be more effective in arguing for your viewpoint and campaigning in support of it? The Controversy Manual offers practical advice for campaigners as well as plenty of information for people who want to better understand what's happening and to be able to discuss the issues with friends. The Controversy Manual provides information for understanding controversies, arguing against opponents, getting your message out, and defending against attack. Whether experts are on your side or mostly on the side of opponents, you'll find advice for being more effective. While not taking sides on individual controversies, the emphasis is on fostering fair and open debate and opposing those who use power and manipulation to get their way. The author Brian Martin is professor of social sciences at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has been involved in and studied scientific and technological controversies since the 1970s, and is the author of numerous publications addressing controversy dynamics.</p
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