167 research outputs found
Evening the odds: Employment support, mental health and BME communities
No full textThe Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health has recently published a briefing paper on employment support for people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities who have mental health problems. The author of the paper, Patience Seebohm, summarises some key issues from the paper here.</jats:p
The progress and outcomes of black and minority ethnic (BME) nurses through the Nursing and Midwifery Council's "Fitness to Practise" process: Final report
No full textBACKGROUND
This is the first investigation of the relationship between ethnicity and regulation of the nursing profession conducted internationally. The study was commissioned by the Nursing and Midwifery Council which is the regulator of the professions in the UK.
AIMS OF THE STUDY
“To establish whether the progress and outcomes of Black and minority ethnic (BME) nurses in relation to fitness to practice, from the point of referral to the point of case closure, is different from that of White nurses and midwives (N&M); and whether we can from the data account for any differences identified” (Call for research, NMC 2015). The study was designed to investigate whether BME N&M nurses are more likely to be referred and whether they were more likely to progress through the stages of the Fitness to Practise (FtP) process (screening, investigation or adjudication) and whether they were more likely to receive a severe penalty at the end of the process.
DATA
The NMC made available a copy of the register which had socio-demographic information on 681,258 nurses and midwives between April 2012 and December 2014 as well as data on referrals from April 2012 to December 2014 which totalled 5,851. Over that period the total number of cases that went to adjudication was 946.
VARIABLES
The main independent variable is ethnicity which we divided into Black, Asian, White, Other and Unknown. The latter category accounted for 40% of all referrals. The outcomes studied were rates of referral, the imposition of interim orders (where the referred individual is not allowed to work, progression through screening, investigation, adjudication and final outcome, which was dichotomised into “can work” or “cannot work”. The regression models also controlled for: age, gender, source of referral (9 categories), region of qualification (Africa, Asia, Europe, Other, UK), country of referral (4 counties of the UK) and whether or not the individual referred had a representative, such as a Union.
METHODS OF ANALYSIS
Descriptive statistics, cross-tabulation analysis, logistic regression and ordinal logistic regression
FINDINGS
Descriptive statistics showed that BME nurses are more likely to be referred than white nurses and to progress through the FtP process. Having trained in Africa is also a risk factor for referral. Older N&M and males are more likely to be referred. Most referrals come from employers but members of the public are also an important source of referral. Inferential statistics show that relative to Whites, being Asian, Black or of Unknown ethnicity is associated with progressing through FtP process. However, when “source of referral” is entered into the regression model only the “Unknown ethnicity” category remains significantly more likely to progress than White N&M. Males are more likely to progress through the FtP process but age, though positive, is not significant. There were few significant differences among the countries of the UK. The imposition of interim orders did not vary by ethnicity. The presence of a representative seems to reflect the stage of the FtP process rather than being a factor that contributes to the outcome. Finally, at adjudication, being Asian or Black is associated with a less severe penalty than White. Only those of Unknown ethnicity are more likely than Whites to get a severe penalty. These results are not altered by controlling for the source of referral.
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE STUDY
The strengths include: the fact that this is the first study of its kind, the datasets analysed are large and the statistics are appropriate. Weakness include the fact that in 40% cases the ethnicity of the referred individual is not known. Some of the registered N&M may not be working which means that their risk of being referred to the NMC is low which could be a threat to the comparison of different ethnic groups. The administrative data which we analysed did not provide information about the specialty (e.g. mental health, maternity), job setting (care home, acute hospital) or level of seniority (staff nurse or Director of Nursing of the individuals referred were not amenable to analysis.
RECOMMENDATIONS
The analysis reported here could be enhanced in the future if the information on ethnicity, the setting in which the referred individual is working and their grade is made available. Some jobs may simply carry a higher risk of referral to the NMC and BME nurses may disproportionately occupy those positions. The main finding, which is that the relationship between ethnicity and FtP is mediated by referral by the employer, directs our attention to the need for further research to understand how the working environment leads to an over-representation of BME nurses in the FtP process. Within the NMC, further research needs to be conducted to understand why White nurses are more likely to be given a severe penalty at adjudication even though they are underrepresented in referrals and less likely to progress through the process. With the introduction of the NMC code and revalidation, the collection of data by the NMC and the FtP process will undoubtedly change. At the same time, the NHS has introduced policies to directly affect the working environment of BME nurses and midwives. This means that this study should be repeated to take account of these changes in the wider environment
Key authors in business and management education (BME) with a bibliometric analysis of economic education scholarship by gender
No full textThis study examines productivity in Business and Management Education (BME) scholarship, identifying the “top 96” BME authors of the last decade, extending the author productivity conversation initiated by Arbaugh et al. (2017), and exploring the degree to which women feature in the list. The rankings proved very dynamic: approximately 55% of the top-ranked authors are new to the list, with 38% of those authors being female. The BME field continues to offer opportunities for establishing a profile as a highly productive author, since barriers for entry into the list remain relatively low: five articles continue to be the threshold for inclusion. Accounting expanded its dominance over other disciplines, with the number of accounting education scholars ranked increasing from 28 to 34. The number of highly productive authors affiliated with institutions outside of the United States has increased significantly when compared to the 2005–2014 study, suggesting that the call for wider international participation in BME scholarship is beginning to produce movement. We document differences in the content of the scholarship produced by leading male and female authors in economic education, noting that those differences tend to blend when they work together
It quite literally pays to do a doctorate if you are a ‘BME’ graduate…But what does it mean if you’re Black?
No full textGuest author Dr Iwi Ugiagbe-Green, Associate Professor and Head of Year, Leeds University Business School, sheds some light on current employment data about BME PGRs
Hand, foot and mouth disease: spatiotemporal transmission and climate
No full textBACKGROUND: The Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease (HFMD) is the most common infectious disease in China, its total incidence being around 500,000~1,000,000 cases per year. The composite space-time disease variation is the result of underlining attribute mechanisms that could provide clues about the physiologic and demographic determinants of disease transmission and also guide the appropriate allocation of medical resources to control the disease.METHODS AND FINDINGS: HFMD cases were aggregated into 1456 counties and during a period of 11 months. Suspected climate attributes to HFMD were recorded monthly at 674 stations throughout the country and subsequently interpolated within 1456 × 11 cells across space-time (same as the number of HFMD cases) using the Bayesian Maximum Entropy (BME) method while taking into consideration the relevant uncertainty sources. The dimensionalities of the two datasets together with the integrated dataset combining the two previous ones are very high when the topologies of the space-time relationships between cells are taken into account. Using a self-organizing map (SOM) algorithm the dataset dimensionality was effectively reduced into 2 dimensions, while the spatiotemporal attribute structure was maintained. 16 types of spatiotemporal HFMD transmission were identified, and 3-4 high spatial incidence clusters of the HFMD types were found throughout China, which are basically within the scope of the monthly climate (precipitation) types.CONCLUSIONS: HFMD propagates in a composite space-time domain rather than showing a purely spatial and purely temporal variation. There is a clear relationship between HFMD occurrence and climate. HFMD cases are geographically clustered and closely linked to the monthly precipitation types of the region. The occurrence of the former depends on the later.<br/
What causes a Business and Management Education article to be cited: Article, author, or journal?
No full textDiscipline-specific research has a rich history in assessing journal article impact and factors that affect article citation patterns. In contrast, Business and Management Education (BME) research lacks such a history due to its relative youth as an independent discipline, its still fragmented literature, and significant variations in the types of articles it publishes. If BME scholarship is to advance as a unified and impactful domain, its scholars need to uncover factors that affect citations of its articles, as has been done in traditional business disciplines. This paper offers guidance to BME authors about factors that can potentially affect the citations of their research. It also offers advice to BME editors on ways to improve the stature of their journals. Inspired by Judge, Cable, Colbert, & Rynes\u27 (2007) work on citation predictors in management research, we developed a model to predict citations of BME articles. Our findings showed that an author\u27s h-index, a journal\u27s recent h-index, and the number of references in an article are significant predictors of BME article citations. Article type, such as literature reviews and conceptual pieces did not predict BME article citation, in part because so few of them have been done for this field
Differing Demands of ‘High’ and ‘Low’ Narratives from the Heian Period for the Translator
No full textThis essay addresses the different demands of translating texts of high art and works of a lower literary register from Japan’s mid-Heian period (10th to 11th century). The author has shifted from translating highly literary texts such as the ‘Kagero nikki’ (‘The Kagero Diary’) and ‘Sarashina nikki’ (‘The Sarashina Diary’) to translating the ‘Ochikubo monogatari’ (‘Tale of the Lady of the Low Chamber’), which may be considered representative of Heian popular fiction and is itself a parody of a Cinderella type romance. A comparison of passages from the diaries and the ‘Ochikubo monogatari’ shows how stylistic differences between the two types of narrative have required the author to adjust and often reverse previous translation principles and strategies.This essay addresses the different demands of translating texts of high art and works of a lower literary register from Japan’s mid-Heian period (10th to 11th century). The author has shifted from translating highly literary texts such as the ‘Kager? nikki’ (‘The Kager? Diary’) and ‘Sarashina nikki’ (‘The Sarashina Diary’) to translating the ‘Ochikubo monogatari’ (‘Tale of the Lady of the Low Chamber’), which may be considered representative of Heian popular fiction and is itself a parody of a Cinderella type romance. A comparison of passages from the diaries and the ‘Ochikubo monogatari’ shows how stylistic differences between the two types of narrative have required the author to adjust and often reverse previous translation principles and strategies
Ich-Erzählen im Medium des Frühdrucks. Narrative und diskursive Strukturen in gedruckten deutschsprachigen Reimerzählungen um 1500 (Hans Folz, Sebastian Brant, Hans Sachs)
No full textMy paper presents three German poems from the late 15th/early 16th century that formally stand in the tradition of couple rhymed allegorical first-person narratives and thematically deal with the political conditions of their time. The three different authors represent two variants of a certain type of author belonging to the artisan class (Hans Folz, Hans Sachs in Nuremberg) or to the academically educated, bilingual (Latin/German) upper class (Sebastian Brant in Strasbourg) of the urban bourgeois culture. In both cases, they opened up early to the new medium of book printing. Consequently, the para-texts with which all three texts produced directly for print are equipped take on important functions within the new printing medium and the new practise of distance communication that develops from it, aiming above all at the staging of the respective authorship. The three selected case studies highlight the different literary and communicative strategies developed by each author under these auspices. What all three texts have in common, however, is a more or less sophisticated play with the two different discourse levels of the (fictional) narrator ego and the (real) author ego. Such a game is at the same time anchored in essential aspects within the socio-cultural environment of the authors and the respective specific literary culture. Thus, in the case of Hans Folz, as in the case of his successor Hans Sachs, the effort to adapt the handed-down medieval traditions and rhetoric models to the new conditions of vernacular communication visibly predominates. Differently, the concept of authorship claimed by Sebastian Brant is characterised by the effort to harmonise the function of the poet as orator and prophet, derived from the humanist tradition, with the instructional tasks fundamental to vernacular poetry.My paper presents three German poems from the late 15th/early 16th century that formally stand in the tradition of couple rhymed allegorical first-person narratives and thematically deal with the political conditions of their time. The three different authors represent two variants of a certain type of author belonging to the artisan class (Hans Folz, Hans Sachs in Nuremberg) or to the academically educated, bilingual (Latin/German) upper class (Sebastian Brant in Strasbourg) of the urban bourgeois culture. In both cases, they opened up early to the new medium of book printing. Consequently, the para-texts with which all three texts produced directly for print are equipped take on important functions within the new printing medium and the new practise of distance communication that develops from it, aiming above all at the staging of the respective authorship. The three selected case studies highlight the different literary and communicative strategies developed by each author under these auspices. What all three texts have in common, however, is a more or less sophisticated play with the two different discourse levels of the (fictional) narrator ego and the (real) author ego. Such a game is at the same time anchored in essential aspects within the socio-cultural environment of the authors and the respective specific literary culture. Thus, in the case of Hans Folz, as in the case of his successor Hans Sachs, the effort to adapt the handed-down medieval traditions and rhetoric models to the new conditions of vernacular communication visibly predominates. Differently, the concept of authorship claimed by Sebastian Brant is characterised by the effort to harmonise the function of the poet as orator and prophet, derived from the humanist tradition, with the instructional tasks fundamental to vernacular poetry
Rosenplüt as the author of the Nuremberg Wine Greetings: Philological and computer-philological analyses
No full textDie sogenannten »Weingrüße« sind im Nürnberger Raum ab Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts vergleichsweise breit überliefert. Seit dem 19. Jahrhundert wurden sie immer wieder Hans Rosenplüt zugeschrieben, wobei die Autorfrage bislang ungeklärt bleiben musste. Im Zuge der neuen Hybridedition der Weingrüße diskutiert der Beitrag die Autorfrage, wobei der philologische Vergleich der Weingrüße mit der Kleinepik Rosenplüts um eine digitale Studie ergänzt wird. Da sich die Ergebnisse der digitalen Studie und die Analysen zu stilistischen Parallelen und zur Überlieferungssituation gegenseitig bestätigen, erscheint eine Autorschaft Rosenplüts als ausgesprochen plausibel.The so-called ›Weingrüße‹ (wine greetings) have been handed down comparatively widely in the Nuremberg area since the middle of the 15th century. Since the 19th century, they have been repeatedly attributed to Hans Rosenplüt, although the question of authorship has so far remained unresolved. In the course of the new hybrid edition of the Weingrüße, the article discusses the question of authorship, whereby the philological comparison of the Weingrüße with Rosenplüt\u27s minor epic is supplemented by a digital study. As the results of the digital study and the analyses of stylistic parallels and the transmission situation confirm each other, Rosenplüt\u27s authorship seems highly plausible
L’auteur, le narrateur et les quatres dames. Une construction singulière, une posture particulière
No full textUnlike Guillaume de Machaut or Jean Froissart before him, Christine de Pizan who was his contemporary, or François Villon after him, Chartier signs little to nothing of his texts, whether French or Latin. Yet the public has often identified Chartier as an author with his narrators. But what\u27s striking is that, speaking as a lover, the acteur (the narrator) refuses a certain auctorial status. And if there is a signature in both ‹Belle dame sans merci› and ‹Livre des quatre dames›, it’s one that appears to be set back. In the second work, moreover, the narrator sends the debate to be settled with an epistle to the one he loves. This message is also the messenger of the fearful lover. Indeed, two of the manuscripts of the text give a small body to this character placed in the narrator’s track. In the London volume, he brings the book to the lady-judge, and if we analyze the image as that of an auctorial dedication, then the image reinforces our reading of the texts: iconographically, too, the author is downplayed in relation to the actor.Unlike Guillaume de Machaut or Jean Froissart before him, Christine de Pizan who was his contemporary, or François Villon after him, Chartier signs little to nothing of his texts, whether French or Latin. Yet the public has often identified Chartier as an author with his narrators. But what\u27s striking is that, speaking as a lover, the acteur (the narrator) refuses a certain auctorial status. And if there is a signature in both ‹Belle dame sans merci› and ‹Livre des quatre dames›, it’s one that appears to be set back. In the second work, moreover, the narrator sends the debate to be settled with an epistle to the one he loves. This message is also the messenger of the fearful lover. Indeed, two of the manuscripts of the text give a small body to this character placed in the narrator’s track. In the London volume, he brings the book to the lady-judge, and if we analyze the image as that of an auctorial dedication, then the image reinforces our reading of the texts: iconographically, too, the author is downplayed in relation to the actor
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