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Experiences of intense work for individuals working in the information technology (IT) sector and its impact on their lives
No full textThis dissertation, embedded in the Workforce Ageing in the New Economy (WANE) project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, explores intense work for individuals working in the Australian information technology (IT) sector. It builds on the existing literature using a qualitative lens to yield an alternative perspective to the phenomenon of work intensity. Using a life course perspective to understand the complexity and tensions that individuals experience in combining work with their personal lives, this study explores the various manifestations and the impact of intense work for individuals. Further, the relationship between ageing and intense work for individuals is examined. The study, which is based on constructivist inquiry, presents the findings from the perspective of the individual using seven case studies. Individuals were employed in two organisations based in a major city of Australia, and one male and female were selected for study in each of three different age groups. The seventh case was a male aged over sixty. Although each individual's experience of intense work is unique, a number of commonalities are evident. These constitute the main findings of this dissertation and pertain to the IT labour market, the workplace and the individual's work/life interaction. This dissertation develops a conceptualisation of the intense work experience. Comprised of two levels, the meta-level consists of the life course guiding principles that underpin the individual's life events and transitions. The base-level of the conceptualisation has three main components: the intense work structure, the non-work structure and the interaction between the structures. All three components are in states of flux enabling each of them to change as the context changes. An individual's experience of intense work can fluctuate and activities within an individual's non-work life or domain vary from time to time. As a consequence, the impact of intense work on individual's lives, and vice-versa, will change. This conceptualisation recognises diverse intense work experiences between individuals but also for individuals, as their experiences change over time. When brought together, the meta-level provides a lens for viewing how the life course of individuals underpins the experience of intense work in the context of the work/life interaction (the base-level). Findings from the study have implications at a number of levels and recommendations pertain to organisational policy and a practice-based level, as well as at the level of the individual
Measuring alignment and intentionality of sport policy on the sustainable development goals.
No full textSport for Development and Peace (SDP) has become an area of increased focus across the Commonwealth, and it has been recognised that overarching policy and strategy are required to maximise the impact of sport to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although there is a substantial, and growing, body of work that evaluates and discusses SDP programs and their outcomes, only limited attention has been paid to the policy level, both in considering the collective impact of governments and other large non-government organisations or agencies in this space and how these actors quantify the contribution of sport to sustainable development. The Commonwealth Secretariat report ‘Enhancing the Contribution of Sport to the Sustainable Development Goals’ (Commonwealth, 2017) identified a framework for sport and development policy options, and called for improved measurement of progress via data, monitoring and accountability. This report identified four key approaches to collective implementation of SFD for contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals: government-led implementation, structured implementation partnerships, complementary implementation and, autonomous implementation. Further, it identified three levels of evidence that may be considered in assisting policy makers assess the contributions of sport to sustainable development: national and international level data, regional- and local-level data; evidence drawn from the monitoring and evaluation of discrete initiatives and evidence from academic research
Swinburne Women's Academic Network: Celebrating 10 Years
No full textCelebrating 10 years of SWAN with 10 unique stories. Each story offers a glimpse into SWAN’s programs, impact, and lived experiences, told through the voices of those who have participated in, championed, or advocated for our work. This personal lens reflects the essence of SWAN: a community-driven, grassroots network built on the generous sharing of time, knowledge, and support. We hope these stories bring you closer to understanding what SWAN stands for and inspires you with the spirit at its heart.</p
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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