57 research outputs found
James Liddy: The Poet\u27s Soul Purified
No full textThe author discusses the life and works of writer James Liddy. He notes that Liddy did more in poetry, catholicism and sexuality in Ireland and taught friends and students to embrace time and place, knowledge of history and religion as well as memory and awareness. The author also states that he was a poet who believed in real mortality, filled with truth and honesty
Towards local food resilience: Key considerations for building local food resilience and contingency plans: A focus on the Cairns region.
No full textThis report has explored the question, ‘How can vulnerable communities improve their resilience to future disasters through access to locally-produced food?’. The profile of continuing food disadvantage in the Cairns region includes citizens experiencing homelessness, aging, youth, disabilities, Indigeneity and Islander identity, and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. The line between the ‘most vulnerable’ who experience every-day chronic conditions of food insecurity, and those who, previous to COVID-19, only experienced transitory food insecurity, is becoming more blurred. With increasing casualisation of the workforce, reliance on food aid is becoming more commonplace. The Cairns regions shares these experiences with the Australian nationFull Tex
The Academic and the Advocate: A foot in both camps
No full textA personal reflection on the challenges and rewards of working as an advocate and an academic, Dr Susan Liddy looks back over her career to date and how she has endeavoured to advance the position of women, including older women, in the Irish screen industry. She discusses the resistance to change she met in the early days of her research and the failure of agencies to take an active approach to advancing women’s careers. She outlines the impact her findings have had in this area through media engagement and her realisation that she needed to publish in public-facing outlets and to speak out at public events alongside maintaining a traditional academic profile (with articles in referred journals, as author of industry reports and editor of international collections). She notes the importance of international movements to advocate for gender balance and EDI, and the impact of the #WakingTheFeminists movement locally. Finally, she acknowledges the influence she has been able to wield through her increasing engagement with WFT (Women in Film and Television Ireland) and the importance of knowledge-sharing as a public intellectual and advocate
Author Signs
No full textPhotograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(Watergate) G. Gordon Liddy, right, autographs a copy of his autobiography for David Foerester.
Working through Disaster Risk Management to Support Regional Food Resilience: A Case Study in North-Eastern Australia
No full textAs a consequence of disasters such as pandemics and severe weather events, Australian communities often face ‘food shortages’ resulting from the reduced availability of food and reduced access to available food. These food shortages can be acutely felt by vulnerable populations, comprising people in communities who are already dealing with social or economic disadvantages. Despite growing calls to ensure food access for everyone during and following disasters, efforts are still largely ad hoc, champion based and highly variable in their reliability and quality of supply. There is also a disconnect between disaster-related food relief and improving business continuity towards local economic resilience. This study sought to tackle these challenges by exploring how ‘local food access’ could be integrated within disaster management mechanisms, to support the most vulnerable and also contribute to local economic resilience. This paper discusses the findings of a study undertaken in Cairns, a north-eastern Australian regional authority, and involves a review of disaster management planning and policy artifacts, an online survey, and semi-structured interviews with stakeholders providing care and advocacy for vulnerable populations. Synthesizing the findings, we present a disaster-management-focused ‘Local Food Access Model’ that connects shorter food supply chains to improved disaster response, resilience and contingency-planning agendas. Applying this model to Cairns, we conclude the multiple benefits and immediate stakeholder readiness for a virtual (online) food resilience and contingency hub, to enable the connection of local food availability and access information within existing disaster management processes. The research method used, the model, and the case-specific findings provide government decision makers with a useful process, a local food-access schematic and a case study example to support immediate improvements in disaster resilience for vulnerable populations
Gender Equality in British Film-making: Research, Targets, Change
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Palgrave Macmillan via the DOI in this recordArts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC
Customary water tenures of Australia’s tropical savannas and their Indigenous fishing cultures
No full textOver the course of its settler colonial history, Australia has seen significant change in the ways in which rights to water and responsibilities for its management have been conceived and applied. At common law, water has long been considered a ‘resource’ belonging to no-one but also accessible to those in possession of riparian land. More recently under neoliberal governance regimes, private or individualised property relations have been privileged to enable market exchanges of water. The separation of land and water titles further divides and isolates as well as abstracts water from place, people, and other animals.Full Tex
Hoping and coping: a descriptive study of the use of spirituality as a coping mechanism among African-American women who experience depression, 2002
No full textThis study describes the use of spirituality among African-American women who experience depression. A survey was used to obtain the data for this convenience study. The data were analyzed using SPSS and the findings are displayed using frequency tables. This researcher found that a large majority of African-American women experienced depression but did not seek professional counseling. The study also revealed that church attendance was reported among more than 90% of the participants. These findings suggest that a relationship with other unconventional venues is needed to reach this population
Building Quality Assurance into Metadata Creation: an Analysis based on the Learning Objects and e-Prints Communities of Practice
No full textThis paper challenges some of the assumptions underlying the metadata creation process in the context of two communities of practice, based around learning object repositories and open e-Print archives. The importance of quality assurance for metadata creation is discussed and evidence from the literature, from the practical experiences of repositories and archives, and from related research and practices within other communities is presented. Issues for debate and further investigation are identified, formulated as a series of key research questions. Although there is much work to be done in the area of quality assurance for metadata creation, this paper represents an important first step towards a fuller understanding of the subject.
Approximate Personal Name-Matching Through Finite-State Graphs
No full textThis article shows how finite-state methods can be employed in a new and different task: the conflation of personal name variants in standard forms. In bibliographic databases and citation index systems, variant forms create problems of inaccuracy that affect information retrieval, the quality of information from databases, and the citation statistics used for the evaluation of scientists' work. A number of approximate string matching techniques have been developed to validate variant forms, based on similarity and equivalence relations. We classify the personal name variants as nonvalid and valid forms. In establishing an equivalence relation between valid variants and the standard form of its equivalence class, we defend the application of finite-state transducers. The process of variant identification requires the elaboration of: (a) binary matrices and (b) finite-state graphs. This procedure was tested on samples of author names from bibliographic records, selected from the Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) databases. The evaluation involved calculating the measures of precision and recall, based on completeness and accuracy. The results demonstrate the usefulness of this approach, although it should be complemented with methods based on similarity relations for the recognition of spelling variants and misspellings
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