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Exploring the Experiences of Non-Heterosexual Men’s Sexual Identity Construction Considering the Effects of Social Media
Get PDFPeople who self-identify as non-heterosexual have been amongst some of the most marginalised groups throughout millennia. Much scholarly literature aimed to understand the process and interactions that occurred for these marginalised individuals in forming sexual identities against cultural expectations of normative sexual behaviour, which preference different-sex attraction – however none consider the effects of social media on the construction of minority identities, a contemporary communication and source of (mis)information sharing. This study recruited six (n=6) non-heterosexual men through online recruitment and conducted semi-structured interviews analysed using interpretive phenomenological analysis to explore a contemporary approach to sexual identity construction considering the effects of social media engagement. Findings revealed a complex interaction of social, minority and intra-community stresses resulting in poor mental health outcomes. Superordinate themes of Awareness of Difference and Challenging Interactions with the World; Gaining Knowledge of Identity; The Performances; A Journey to Acceptance all interacting and creating varying degrees of Empowerment fuelling social change and positive mental health outcomes linked to non-heterosexual identity. Findings reveal social media does not create non-heterosexual identities but provides individuals with connections to other non-heterosexual people, education and support. A model of this process is presented for visualisation with conclusions, and future research identified
Exploring the Lived Experiences of Postgraduate Research Students: A Longitudinal Study
Get PDF0.1 ABSTRACTResearch on student mental health has historically focused on undergraduates with a relative dearth of research on Postgraduate Research (PGR) students (Vitae, 2018). The study sought to redress this imbalance and heeds the call of Advance HE’s PGR Experience Survey (PRES) to investigate engagement and well-being amongst PGR students, alongside indications that they experience higher stress levels (Advance HE, 2019; Williams, 2019). Based on these precepts, this PhD research sought to tap into the lived experiences of PGR students via a longitudinal interview-based Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) study. 19 full-time PGRs from University of Manchester (UoM) (n=9) and the University of Salford (UoS) (n=10) across their 1st to 4th (writing-up) year were interviewed in three separate phases over a three-year period. The sample included home, international, and EU students (now having Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) status). Four master themes were identified as common across the three phases. They were shared between the universities: Resources and coping strategies to manage the PhD, Challenges from COVID, Pivotal role of PhD supervisor and Poor mental health, Emotional/Overwhelmed and exhausted/ immense stress of the PhD. There is also a range of master themes that are more phase or university-specific.Recommendations arising from the lived experiences of the study’s PGR students include the perception that treating PGR students more like staff may bring benefits. There is also a perceived need to improve university support systems and mental health support training for students and to provide dedicated PGR social spaces, specialised PGR counselling services, increased social events, less frequent attendance monitoring for international students, standardised supervisor relationship training and improved university administration and systems.There are also implications for research and theory on occupational stress and wellbeing, how the PGR students' experience of stress in this study can be elucidated through an understanding of Conservation of Resources (Westman et al, 2004) or in the context of Transactional Models of Stress (Cox & Griffiths, 2010)
An Investigation into the Efficacy of the PsychoSocial Quicksand Model™ and Its Utility for Transforming Systems
Get PDFResearch findings point to widespread societal and structural impediments that currently hinder efforts to assist survivors of coercive control, hold perpetrators accountable, and enable system professionals to develop and implement essential policies and procedures for bringing about meaningful systemic change (Hill, 2020). To address some of these impediments, a professional and survivor of coercive control designed the PsychoSocial Quicksand Model™ (PSQM), which centers survivors’ experiences, overcomes professionals’ biases and assumptions, and contextualizes coercive control to improve detection and prevention outcomes. This mixed-methods study on the PSQM aimed to test the model’s reception amongst survivors and professionals, and its potential ability to efficiently and effectively facilitate the initiation of systemic transformation. For the purposes of this paper, “professionals” include anyone who works with survivors and/or perpetrators in a professional capacity, including law enforcement, mental health professionals, court professionals, and advocates.Study results showed a high appreciation for the PSQM’s ability to educate, validate, motivate, empower, and inspire participants. Thematic analysis revealed numerous opportunities for systemic change, which a training model (such as the PSQM) might address more successfully. Quantitative analysis suggests that survivors of more than one form of coercive control who are also professionals in the field have a particularly high appreciation for the model. This finding indicates that survivor professionals may be particularly appreciative of the complexity of coercive control to the benefit of clients. Study results also support the inclusion of survivors’ input during every stage of policy development and implementation to increase their liberty and autonomy, reduce re-traumatization, improve perpetrator accountability, and fill systemic gaps to reduce coercive control worldwide. The PSQM, as a form of psychoeducation, showed promise for survivor healing and empowerment and pointed to potential directions for future model development and implications for practice. While the PSQM showed potential to fill many gaps, the study also identified areas where further research and systemic implementation are needed to address unanswered questions regarding coercive controllers’ intentions and capacity for change
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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