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Interdisciplinary methodological innovations for enhancing co-production with professionals and children in secure settings
No full textIt is imperative that those who are involved in Youth Justice are given a voice. This includes stakeholders involved in the youth justice system and child services and the young people themselves. Not only is there a moral responsibility to include the voice of the child, but the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child provides for children to have their views heard and taken into account during decision-making. To reach underrepresented and vulnerable groups, such as those within the youth justice system, and stakeholders invested in their care, it is necessary to engage in interdisciplinary research, adopting novel methodologies which are bespoke to those at the heart of the research. Impact in these areas cannot be achieved without flexibility in methodological approach and continuous reflexivity.
The authors of this chapter are founders of the Children’s Residential Care Research Network (CRCRN), who conduct interdisciplinary research into Secure Children’s Homes (SCHs). Our research has focused on several aspects of SCHs, including design and build, workforce issues, health and well-being, education and stepdown provisions for transitions back to the community. Adopting the Methodology for Interdisciplinary Research (MIR) framework, we explore the roles and opinions of different stakeholders associated with SCHs. The multi-disciplinary research team have adopted methods from a variety of fields to collect and analyse data in this regard. This has been done through stakeholder events, involving those working in SCHs, policy-makers, third-sector organisations, education, youth justice, social care and academics.
The aim of the chapter is to illustrate the importance and practice of using innovative methodological approaches to engage with adult stakeholders of secure care which can then be adapted to enable co-creation with children. This chapter prompts consideration about what co-production means in youth justice and child welfare settings, which includes involving and empowering professionals in the research process to improve collaboration with children through a range of creative methodologies. The chapter demonstrates why the methods adopted were ideal for the research and how they successfully fostered the co-production of data
“I would want to see young people working in here, that’s what I want to see…” How peer support opportunities in youth justice services can support a Child First, trauma-informed, and reparative model of practice for Youth Justice.
No full textThis chapter explores how peer support opportunities can contribute to a combined Child First, trauma-informed and restorative approach for youth justice. While other scholars have identified clashes between these approaches, particularly between Child First and restorative justice, a focus on engagement with peers has been under-explored as a more child-centred model for reparation-focused work. We draw on qualitative data gathered with young people and parents/caregivers in a London youth justice service (YJS) to evaluate the effectiveness of its model of practice. Within this, peer support emerged as a key theme. Our participants expressed the desire to see young people working and volunteering in the YJS and felt this would help make it a safe and non-threatening space. Those who had completed their time with the YJS saw themselves as relatable roles models with the insight and skills to support others and, in some cases, expressed a strong desire to develop long-term careers in supporting young people. Our research challenges the notion that young people who have been involved in crime struggle to empathise, providing rich examples of their empathic understanding for peers. Peer support opportunities could offer a form of reparative practice that is Child First and trauma-informed. This would benefit both the young people being supported and those offering support, building a co-produced approach that is directly informed by the expressed needs and desires of the young people
Supporting practice in Scotland : lessons from the Children and Young People's Centre for Justice
No full textReflecting on the experiences, achievements and challenges experienced by the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice, this chapter seeks to highlight key features of the centre’s novel approach to improving care and support to children and young people in conflict with the law. After outlining the functions of the centre, the authors highlight examples of policy and practice changing as a consequence of their work, noting the importance of access to decision makers, relationships with stakeholders, competency of the staff and the amplification of the voice of lived experience. The chapter concludes by considering whether such an approach is replicable elsewhere, and what organisational and systemic conditions would be necessary in order to do so
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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