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Introduction
No full textThis chapter frames the book Digital Public Employment Services in Action, starting with the overarching ambitions and purpose of public employment services (PES), which is once again at stake in the generational shift to digital-first, software-defined welfare. Animating and guiding existing digital transformations is the technological aspirations of policy makers; and so the volume sets out to bring research from practice, and the longue durée of research on PES to explore the functional challenges. Before introducing the book structure, this chapter makes the case for focusing on the lived experiences of front-line workers and the unemployed who use and rely on PES, so that we can bridge the gap between policy theory and the realities of digital transformatio
Conclusion
No full textThis chapter reflects on the complexities of digitalising public employment services (PES), reflecting the entire book, which, across 14 chapters, surfaces the issues around the digital transition of PES, revealing a fragmented and contested process influenced by policy, technology and politics. Despite digital advancements, services remain piecemeal, often driven by crisis responses rather than cohesive strategies. The chapter highlights how digitalisation alters traditional welfare dynamics, sometimes reinforcing inequalities and raising ethical concerns. It emphasises the need for inclusive, personalised and user-friendly digital PES that involve stakeholders – job seekers, caseworkers and policy makers – in development. The discussion calls for a balanced approach, acknowledging both the potential benefits and the risks of digitalisation, and suggests a collaborative pathway to create more responsive and equitable digital public services.This chapter reflects on the complexities of digitalising public employment services (PES), reflecting the entire book, which, across 14 chapters, surfaces the issues around the digital transition of PES, revealing a fragmented and contested process influenced by policy, technology and politics. Despite digital advancements, services remain piecemeal, often driven by crisis responses rather than cohesive strategies. The chapter highlights how digitalisation alters traditional welfare dynamics, sometimes reinforcing inequalities and raising ethical concerns. It emphasises the need for inclusive, personalised and user-friendly digital PES that involve stakeholders – job seekers, caseworkers and policy makers – in development. The discussion calls for a balanced approach, acknowledging both the potential benefits and the risks of digitalisation, and suggests a collaborative pathway to create more responsive and equitable digital public services
Co-designing digital services with service users, caseworkers and senior policy makers:the affordance and limitations of expert panels
Get PDFPolicy makers, researchers and research funding bodies increasingly aspire to use co-design methods to ‘involve’ stakeholders – users, intermediaries and the public. The aspiration is to bring together varieties of experiences, learn and negotiate with each other to improve the quality, efficiency and trust of public policy and services. Co-design has been particularly promoted as a method to meaningfully engage with hard-to-reach groups. This chapter relays the experience and reflection of bringing unemployed people, caseworkers and senior policy makers and actors into the process using a vignette scenario methodology in the development of a disruptive technology for use in public employment services (PES). The exercise surfaces the complex views and trade-offs that emerge when key stakeholders and users engage with concrete dilemmas around trust in data, job quality and discrimination in the use of digital technologies in PES. These expert panels, some 15 in total, were carried out in Ireland, Denmark, Slovenia and France, and the reported findings are a collaborative effort between those involved with such data collection. We make two forms of findings. This experience of co-design allows us to reflect on the affordance and limitations of expert panels in co- designing, assistive to anyone seeking to use expert panels to co-design.Policy makers, researchers and research funding bodies increasingly aspire to use co-design methods to ‘involve’ stakeholders – users, intermediaries and the public. The aspiration is to bring together varieties of experiences, learn and negotiate with each other to improve the quality, efficiency and trust of public policy and services. Co-design has been particularly promoted as a method to meaningfully engage with hard-to-reach groups. This chapter relays the experience and reflection of bringing unemployed people, caseworkers and senior policy makers and actors into the process using a vignette scenario methodology in the development of a disruptive technology for use in public employment services (PES). The exercise surfaces the complex views and trade-offs that emerge when key stakeholders and users engage with concrete dilemmas around trust in data, job quality and discrimination in the use of digital technologies in PES. These expert panels, some 15 in total, were carried out in Ireland, Denmark, Slovenia and France, and the reported findings are a collaborative effort between those involved with such data collection. We make two forms of findings. This experience of co-design allows us to reflect on the affordance and limitations of expert panels in co- designing, assistive to anyone seeking to use expert panels to co-design
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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