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Addressing gender-based violence through policy implementation: Key stakeholders and survivors’ perceptions in a selected university in South Africa
Full text linkUniversities have been stricken by gender-based violence (GBV). The high prevalence of GBV within universities is clear evidence of attacks on educational settings. To address GBV, universities have adopted policies that focus on deterring its occurrence. Shockingly, GBV incidents continue to manifest within universities despite these policies. This study aims to explore stakeholders\u27 and survivors’ perceptions of the effectiveness of the adopted university policy in managing GBV at the University of Fort Hare. The rational choice theory (RCT) underpins this study, informing how university policies should be implemented to effectively manage GBV. A qualitative approach, supported by an exploratory design, was employed to gain nuanced insights from participants’ perspectives. In gathering data, ten purposefully sampled participants (two survivors of GBV, staff members from the GBV unit, counselling unit, HIV unit, and South African Police Service (SAPS) members) were interviewed one-on-one through semi-structured interviews. Data was analysed thematically. Findings based on participants’ perceptions revealed that the UFH harassment, sexual harassment, and GBV policy fails to effectively manage and avert GBV at the UFH, there is poor policy implementation regarding the reporting of GBV cases, a failure to execute justice in GBV cases, and inadequate support for survivors of GBV. Based on the research findings, we recommend strengthening university policies, establishing confidential and accessible reporting channels, conducting ongoing policy evaluations, and adopting multi-sectoral approaches to better manage GBV within university campuses. Such measures would help create a more supportive and accountable environment free from GBV
Justice for the Survivors: Examining the Effectiveness of the Adopted University Policy in Serving Justice on Gender-Based Violence Cases at a Selected South African University
No full textIncidences of gender-based violence (GBV) on university campuses have become endemic. Although some universities developed policies to manage the scourge of GBV on their campuses, the effectiveness of such policies in serving justice to the victims of GBV remains controverted. This study examined the perceived effectiveness of an adopted policy and its implementation in serving justice for the victims of GBV at a selected South African university. A radical feminist perspective underpinned this research. A qualitative research methodology with semi-structured self-administered interviews was used to collect data from 10 purposefully sampled participants: two victims of GBV, two staff members from the GBV unit, the counselling unit and the HIV unit, and two members of the South African Police Service (SAPS). Using a thematic analysis, the study found that the implementation of the adopted policy at the selected university failed to ensure effective reporting of GBV incidents. It also did not serve the appropriate justice for the victims of GBV by punishing the perpetrators of GBV or by rendering adequate support to the survivors of GBV. The research recommends enacting multi-sectoral approaches, ensuring increased training on the processes to be followed, and evaluating the relevant policy management and implementation of the GBV policy at the university regularly. The university should change the sociocultural environment on campus to one of zero tolerance towards GBV and any other form of violence. Better implementation of the policy, collaboration with the SAPS and transparent dealings with perpetrators will lead to enhanced justice for victims
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
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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