1,720,971 research outputs found
“My Stomach Churns”: Belonging and Strategies for Belonging for BME Students in a White University
Full text linkStudent engagement and more recently belonging are concepts that have been used to explain awarding gaps for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) students. However, Trowler (2010) asserts that much of the student engagement literature is essentialist in nature and treats minority groups as homogeneous. Additionally, much of the research into the experiences of BME students has taken place in more diverse UK universities. This research uses narrative inquiry to address that gap to explore the individualised experiences of belonging for BME students at a predominantly White university.
Firstly, I developed a new analytical framework of student belonging, based on existing literature, to support the analysis of student interviews and to provide new insights into student belonging at university.
Narrative inquiry may be considered a ‘field in the making’ (Chase 2005:651). As a result, I present new ideas on narrative analysis and reporting using a combination of approaches including Labov and Waletzky’ (1967) structural analysis, socio-cultural analysis (Grbich 2015) and creative non-fiction.
The title of this thesis is a quote from Janice about how she feels coming into university. It summarises the feelings of many BME students who find that the institutional racial climate of university challenging. I describe the different strategies that BME students adopt to deal with predominately White universities based on their interactions with the institutional culture, staff and peers. These strategies predominately focus only on the academic aspect of university and getting emotional support from outside university in the form of family and wider friends. Barriers to engagement, such as having to work and commute, further distance BME students from wider university engagement. A ‘one size fits all’ approach to student belonging will not work for the students highlighted in this research and universities need to take a more nuanced approach to helping students develop a sense of belonging
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
The importance of academic advisors in supporting a sense of belonging for Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) students.
No full textThis presentation draws on my doctoral research into the experiences of belonging for British Asian and Black students at a predominately white university in the UK. One of the key findings was that for students who felt a strong sense of belonging at university the role of their academic advisor was crucial (e.g. Kandiko and Mewer 2013). Students who had weaker relationships with their academic advisor also struggled with their sense of belonging. For many GEM students, factors such as work, family and commuting can make it challenging to engage in more traditional activities designed to create belonging such as extra-curricula activities. Also a hostile (or indifferent) peer racial climate can also alienate GEM students (Museus and Jayakumar 2012). Therefore, the academic advisor can play an even for crucial role in supporting belonging for these students compared to their white peers.
Students were very clear about what they wanted from their academic advisor:
• Initiate and maintain contact.
• Listen with compassion and empathy.
• Help them navigate university.
The presentation will discuss a new proposed conceptual model of belonging that highlights the relational, contact element (e.g. Fiske 2004) and how academic advising can support a sense of belonging.
In the first half of the presentation, I will outline these key findings and the model. In the second half, I will facilitate a discussion around the findings and the value of the proposed model for academic advising.
The aim of the presentation will be to give delegates an understanding of how academic advisors can support belonging for GEM students
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
The importance of interpersonal relationships in creating a sense of student belonging and an inclusive student experience
No full textStudent engagement (e.g. Kuh et al. 2005) and more recently belonging (e.g. Thomas et al. 2017) are recognised as important concepts in building an inclusive student experience. Based on institutional research into the experiences of British Asian and Black students at a predominately white institution (PWI), this talk discusses the importance of staff - student relationships and student – student academic relationships (i.e. through group work) in creating a sense of student belonging to build an inclusive student experience.
The talk will firstly discuss different conceptualisations of belonging in higher education. Drawing on this research and from literature on student engagement and belonging I will present a practical model of belonging using sense of fit and interpersonal relationships (contact). This model is designed to help university colleagues to think about how they can support students’ sense of belonging to create inclusive learning environments.
Often in higher education, creating a sense of belonging is associated with student – student social relationships and extra- and co-curricular activity. However, this research identified that staff - student relationships and group work were the crucial ingredients for creating a sense of belonging. For many British Asian and Black students, what happens in the classroom and with academic staff is key. I will discuss this finding and in the facilitated discussion participants can explore the model and practical actions that can be taken to create a sense of belonging and build an inclusive student experience
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
- …
