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Gender based violence on UK campus' : intervention, prevention and policy responses
No full textSexual violence in UK universities has been the focus of significant media attention in the last year with 1 in 4 women students reporting unwanted sexual behaviour during their studies and one in five experiencing sexual harassment during their first week of term (NUS, 2013). These papers consider five different approaches to tackling gender-based violence on campus across Scotland and England and across sectors. Dr Melanie McCarry and Anni Donaldson present data from their research implementing ‘Equally Safe’ in a Higher Education setting which reflects the Scottish Government (SG) strategy for Prevention and Early Intervention. The paper discusses our multi-methodology research framework which will generate the first UK dataset on a whole university student and staff population, capture prevalence and incidence data via an online survey, and use interviews and focus groups to capture experiential and attitudinal data
First person – Melanie Ridgway
No full textFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Melanie Ridgway is first author on ‘ Analysis of sex-specific lipid metabolism in Plasmodium falciparum points to importance of sphingomyelin for gametocytogenesis’, published in JCS. Melanie conducted the research described in this article while a PhD candidate in Alexander Maier's lab at Biomedical Science and Biochemistry, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Australia. She is now a postdoc in the lab of David Horn at Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research, Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK, investigating the cell biology of unicellular parasites
Rapid Review II - Scottish Higher Education Institution Responses to Gender-based Violence on Campus
No full textA desk-based Rapid Review of existing gender-based violence (GBV) policy and practice, prevention and interventions in Scotland's 19 HEIs was undertaken in 2017 (McCullough, McCarry and Donaldson, 2017). The Review concluded that, overall, positive action in the form of response, intervention and prevention was evident and that while activity in this area was fast-paced it did not appear to be widespread across the sector. This Rapid Review II follow-up report firstly outlines developments in the current policy context for GBV prevention in the Scottish Higher Education context; secondly it presents the findings from data obtained from interviews with key stakeholders across the Scottish HE sector undertaken during the period October 2017 to January 2018
Challenges and Strategies for Family Foundations With Geographically Dispersed Board Members
No full text· This article, based on interviews with leaders of 10 family foundations, investigates the impact of geographic dispersion on governance, administration, decision making, and grantmaking activities.
· The greatest challenges for family foundations with dispersed boards involve assembling an appropriate staff, ensuring strong communication between staff and board members, and focusing the organization’s mission. Maintaining family board member interest in the foundation’s geographic area and bridging and strengthening ties between generations were also concerns.
· In order to maintain family legacies, all case-study foundations found unique ways to overcome challenges and were deliberate in ensuring that board members stayed actively engaged in the work of the foundation.
· Common strategies for keeping board members involved include providing flexible but clear direction to nonfamily staff, developing stepping stone board positions for successive generations, and balancing the mission with the desire to build family ties
Inclusive research: Research methods
No full textFirst published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What is Inclusive Research?, this title is now also available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series. This book describes and defines inclusive research, outlining how to recognize it, understand it, do it, and know when it is done well. In doing so it addresses the areas of overlap and distinctiveness in relation to participatory, emancipatory, user-led and partnership research as well as exploring the various practices encompassed within each of these inclusive approaches. The author, Melanie Nind, focuses on how and why more inclusive approaches to research have evolved. She positions inclusive research within the key debates and shifts in policy, defines key ideas and terms, discusses the contested nature of inclusive research and illustrates a range of approaches using exemplars. The aim is to discuss the range of challenges involved and to examine the degree to which these challenges have so far been met.</p
Interview with Melanie Rae Thon
No full textnative of Montana, Melanie Rae Thon is an award-winning short story and novel author who lives in Salt Lake City and teaches at the University of Utah
When Do Children Dislike Ingroup Members? Resource Allocation from Individual and Group Perspectives
No full textDo children like ingroup members who challenge group norms about resource allocation? Further, do children evaluate from their own individual perspective? Participants (N = 381), aged 9.5 and 13.5 years, evaluated members of their own group who deviated from group norms about resource allocation by either: (1) advocating for equal allocation in contrast to the group norm of inequality; or (2) advocating for inequality when the group norm was to divide equally. With age, participants differentiated their own individual favorability from the group's favorability of deviant members of the ingroup. Further, when deciding between group loyalty and equal allocation, children and adolescents gave priority to equality, rejecting group decisions to dislike ingroup members who advocated for equality
Becoming a "Proper Man": Young People's Attitudes about Interpersonal Violence and Perceptions of Gender
No full textWhilst public awareness campaigns, interventions and legal reforms have done much to challenge gendered interpersonal violence, the incidence and prevalence of this violence is not decreasing. Furthermore, research with young people reveals significant acceptance and tolerance of interpersonal violence if perpetrated by men within the parameters of an intimate heterosexual relationship. Empirical data from a study with young people in Glasgow will be used in this article to explore young people's attitudes about gendered interpersonal abuse and violence and young people's perceptions of gender roles and specifically "masculinity". It is argued that in order to understand the continued tolerance of male abuse/violence, it is necessary to appreciate how young people conceptualise the role of women and men within intimate heterosexual relationships. (Contains 2 notes.
How might a culture of appreciation be cultivated at JIBC?
No full textAn appreciative workplace culture has been demonstrated to increase the health of its employees which in turn increases the health of the organization by reducing absenteeism caused by sick leave, stress leave, and turnover (Chapman & White, 2011). Although limited, all previous literature demonstrated positive impacts for organizations that develop and sustain a culture of appreciation. By exploring appreciation within JIBC through employee dialogue, the opportunity existed to enhance the health and functioning of the organization.Not peer reviewedThis poster is related to Melanie Chernoff's Royal Roads University Masters Thesisstress; sick leave; appreciation; employee motivation; absenteeis
Who benefits? A critical reflection of children and young people’s participation in sensitive research
No full textThis article aims to contribute to debates about the current orthodoxy in relation to involving young people as participants in social research. This article will reflect on the increasing trend of including young people to greater degrees in social science research and questions whether ‘user involvement’ necessarily benefits the users or produces ‘better’ research. The dilemmas encountered in establishing and working with a Young People’s Advisory Group for a research project on young people’s experiences of violence in their intimate relationships are discussed in a way that illustrates the complexity of achieving benefits both for the young people and for the research
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