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Exploring friendships behind prison walls
No full textPositive connections between men in prison are rarely thought about or discussed in academic research. Yet as Crewe (2014),1 Laws and Lieber(2020),2 and Morey and Crewe (2018) highlight,3 considerable intimacy and camaraderie exists between imprisoned men. In this paper, we utilise academic collaborative writing — taking a knowledge equity approach — to examine friendships between imprisoned men. One author with first hand lived experience of prison (Marc)writes about their experiences freely in their own words, in the first person, and creates the wider narrative together with an academic (Donna). We suggest these conditions create a more relaxed and natural position for a person with lived experience sof prison to share them, arguably encouraging openness surrounding sensitive topics like friendships during incarceration, deepening insights. Through this process of co-production, we aim to bridge some of the distance from the conventional space of ‘research participant’towards a more equitable ‘participant author
Cultivating trust in criminological research: an applied knowledge equity approach
No full textParticipatory approaches across the social sciences emphasise the importance of building trust between ‘researchers’ and ‘participants’. Yet, despite a wealth of sensitive and insightful research, a proportion of participatory approaches perpetuate power asymmetries, not least when ‘lived experience voices’ are included to advance existing research agendas. Importantly, voices get included but the parameters for inclusion are not set by ‘participants’. We - an experts by experience (EbyE) sentenced to imprisonment together with an academic - employ a knowledge equity approach to examine the substantive topic of friendships in prison and make an academic contribution to the literature on masculinities and intimacy during incarceration. We argue that using a knowledge equity approach is a productive way to enhance trust through further disrupting power imbalances between EbyE of CJS and the researchers/ institutions they choose to work with. We build on the shift towards more joint creative participatory methods where power sharing is promoted and EbyE have a more central role in setting the agenda for how their voices are included. Taking a Freirean-inspired dialogic approach, from the decision to collaborate through all stages of initial research topic formulation, data generation, data analysis, writing, publishing and conference participation, our innovative method allows us to explore and enhance possibilities for empowerment for the EbyE author involved. We utilise academic collaborative writing to co-produce an academic article submitted to a CJS journal. In this collaboration we create a space where the EbyE author is afforded agency to write their experiences in their own words rather than have their words interpreted by a researcher. We suggest these conditions create a far more relaxed position for the author to share their experiences, which arguably encourages heightened openness surrounding their friendships during incarceration from which deeper insights flow. We suggest that this approach builds trust and respect by moving away from role of EbyE as ‘research participant’ to a more influential ‘participant author’ increasing capacity for unadulterated expression, especially poignant given that meaningful expression was diminished during incarceration. In doing so we are struck by the transformative potential of our method which could be well applied across CJS research and beyond
Moving beyond listening to lived experience voices to better understand friendships during incarceration: an applied knowledge equity approach
No full textSocial scientific research and policy debates increasingly reference the inclusion of ‘lived experience voices.’ However, this does not always serve to reduce power imbalances for the individuals those voices belong to, experts by experience (EbyE). In some cases, inclusion of EbyE becomes tokenistic and at worst their voices can be co-opted to fit existing agendas, reinforcing the very power asymmetries the researcher/organisation purports to challenge. Researchers will often seek to destabilise traditional hierarchical power dynamics, prioritise reflexivity, and act with sensitivity towards EbyE. Yet, arguably, some traditional social scientific participatory processes can inadvertently perpetuate knowledge production elitism as terms of participation get set within specific boundaries decided by others. This paper presents an applied knowledge equity approach, which works to further dismantle power hierarchies between EbyE and those holding traditional elite positions. One author, an EbyE of sentenced imprisonment together with an academic presents an interview-based narrative focusing on the topic of friendships in prison. We utilise academic collaborative writing to co-produce an article submitted to a CJS journal. Through this process of co-production we aim to bridge some of the distance from the conventional space of ‘research participant’ towards a more influential ‘participant author’ suggesting there is added value to research in doing so. As well as making an academic contribution to debates surrounding masculinities and intimacy during incarceration, we also suggest that the innovative method developed to co-produce the narrative would also work well in other contexts to productively challenge epistemic injustices across CJS knowledge and beyon
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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