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Social Survey of Households in Six Redevelopment Areas in Belfast, 1966
No full textAbstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This survey aimed to provide social information relevant to the reconstruction of six areas of Belfast (including Sandy Row, Donegall Pass, Cromac, Shankill and Albertbridge). Information was gathered on residents' housing conditions and experience, attitudes to housing, area and amenities provided.Users should note that detailed address and previous address variables have been removed from the data file to reduce disclosure risk.Main Topics: Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions:
Classification of dwelling, basic amenities of dwelling, whether there are garage facilities, type of tenure (including the amount paid out by household in the case of rented or mortgaged accommodation). Attitudes towards home improvement, moving house (including the type of preferred accommodation), the importance of privacy and of neighbours. Attitudes towards different sorts of dwellings and particularly towards high-rise flats. Opinions on local amenities needed and whether the respondent has any affinity to the district lived in.Background Variables:
Length of residence in the district and in the present house. Household composition, occupation, income group, religious denomination, organization affiliations, car ownership, extra-mural amenities used by household (i.e. play centres, parks, shops, cinemas etc.), whether the respondent has close relations living in the same district.</ul
Volunteer participation and learning through peace building in Northern Ireland.
Full text linkThe focus of this study is with the experiences of volunteers engaged in peace building activities in the contested society of Northern Ireland. It takes a qualitative approach utilising semi-structured in-depth interviews to consider their participation and learning. Fourteen volunteers were individually interviewed. As such, the approach adopted in this thesis is one in which the volunteer is placed at the centre of the analysis utilising grounded theory methods which stress discovery and emerging theory development (Glaser & Strauss, 1967; Strauss & Corbin, 1997). Narratives about volunteering arise largely from the accounts filed by researchers, practitioners and journalists. They depict a rosy tinted picture of volunteering. This study contends that a fuller account needs the voices of volunteers to be front of stage. Volunteer accounts provide a rich repository of knowledge, experience and understanding concerning areas such as peace building, volunteer participation and learning. These three areas are seen as emblematic to the study. In order to illustrate participation a framework is promoted to explore the complexities of contextual or relational influence and modes of participation. Collectively they point to different experiences and outcomes that stress belonging, radical learning and collectivity. Unlike formal learning about peace building which is framed systematically volunteering highlights a more informal and organic curriculum. A significant absence is due to the dominant discourse that volunteer learning is a by-product. Emerging themes, volunteer descriptions and current research are synthesised to define the importance of informal learning, a greater understanding of peace building and clearer modes of participation
Enterprise zones in the UK Views on potential - April 1981
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Transforming earth and fire: new narratives of identity and place in the Northern Ireland peace process
No full textThis thesis explores the cultural geographies of peacebuilding through a study of
Belfast, Northern Ireland. I investigate the connections between transformations of
contested landscapes, shifting meanings of place, and new narratives of identity and
belonging emerging through the Northern Ireland peace process. The aims of my
research serve two theoretical objectives: first, to examine how transformations of
contested cultural landscapes provoke new perceptions of place and geographic scale;
and second, to examine how these transformations shape the expression, creation and
negotiation of identity in societies emerging from violent conflict. For this project, I
have developed a collaborative, qualitative methodological approach that combines
semi-structured interviews and participant observation. I ground my research in case
studies of two contested landscapes, both of which bear symbolic and material weight
from Northern Ireland’s thirty-year civil war. The first case study explores republican
cultural identities in relation to Divis Mountain, the highest point in Belfast, as it
transitions from a British military base to a public recreational resource. The second
case study focuses on peacetime transformations of the contentious 11th Night bonfire
tradition and their implications for shifting expressions of loyalist cultural identity.
Crucially, I cross-cut these case studies with a third strand of inquiry that explores
transformations of contested landscapes in relation to identities and ideas of
belonging among Northern Ireland’s growing minority ethnic populations. I position
this project as a challenge to existing models of analysis for Northern Ireland. By
opening the dominant Protestant-Catholic binary to explore the less-studied
perspectives of ethnic minorities, I highlight the diversity of cultural identities
emerging in post-ceasefire Belfast. I argue that practice in and scholarship on
Northern Ireland must expand beyond traditional, binary conceptualizations of
sectarian conflict to acknowledge how diverse relationships, identities and
communities are vital to the process of building peace
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
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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