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Surviving care: care work and migrant women of colour in the UK
No full textThis chapter examines the intersecting inequalities and marginalisation experienced by women of colour working in private care homes. Despite a growing body of literature on care work in gender and feminist scholarship, the experiences of migrant women of colour in private residential care homes remain underexplored. Using an intersectionality framework, this study investigates how the intersections of gender, race, and migration status create systems of oppression affecting the work and lives of racialised care workers. Drawing on interviews with 40 care workers, this chapter highlights the impact of racism on working and life conditions. The findings of this study contribute to a deeper understanding of the ways in which intersectional inequalities shape care work and have implications for policy and practice aimed at promoting greater equality and racial justice for care workers
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
Flexible work arrangements and sustainable careers: a study of Swedish women managers in a male-dominated environment.
Get PDFWomen’s career advancement rate to senior management positions continues to lag
behind men’s. One frequently cited obstacle within the work-family and career literature
is women’s compromised career decisions in trying to balance career, self and others as
they still, unfairly, bear the brunt of caregiving and home responsibilities. Organizational
flexible work arrangements (FWAs) have been advocated as one potential avenue to
facilitate women’s career advancement. These are intended, for both women and men, to
alleviate conflicting demands arising from their career and home roles. In practice,
however, FWAs are a predominantly female phenomenon due to the gendered division
of labour. Despite the explosion of research on FWAs, the results have been far from
unequivocal. Various types of FWAs, organizational culture and supervisor attitudes have
been found to impact on utilization and work-family interface and career consequences
differentially. This study draws on the lived career experiences of 43 women managers
with FWAs, across all levels of a Swedish organization. Examining how the women
engaged with FWAs retrospectively and over time revealed that, by using tailored FWAs
and having schedule control, the women were better able to cope with the demands from
their work-family interface as those changed with career and family stage. However, the
key determinant of women’s career sustainability was Sweden’s policy of long and shared
parental leave between the women and their husbands, which shaped gender egalitarian
home roles, and family-supportive supervisor attitudes. Furthermore, utilization of FWAs
disadvantaged the women by triggering work intensification. In exchange for having
flexibility and autonomy to manage their career and home demands, the women worked
additional hours at night and on weekends, which was particularly pronounced in the
experience of those at senior levels. Supervisor sponsorship and partnership with
husbands were additional factors contributing to the career advancement of the women
who reached senior levels and the fact that they never worked part-time. This study makes
three key contributions. It is the first study to provide empirical evidence on the role of
FWAs in women managers’ career experiences across all levels of an organization,
facilitating comparisons of different points of career and family stage. Secondly, the study
extends Tomlinson et al.’s (2018) flexible and sustainable career determinants’ model by
demonstrating the salience of the parental context as an additional determinant. Sharing
parental leave sets up routines for life whereby each parent can flex their career to help
one another. Thirdly, this study furthers understanding of how work intensification is
perceived and experienced. While the women described having “balance” in their lives,
they also talked about working additional hours at home to reciprocate for using FWAs.
The paradox of work intensification and “balance” poses a threat to well-being and career
sustainability and contests the positive portrayal of “balance” in the sustainable careers’
literature. This study has a number of implications for policy and practice. Improving
women’s career sustainability and advancement requires a synergy between society,
organization and family. Public policies directed towards working mothers and fathers
have the potential to accelerate change towards gender equality at work and home.
Organizations, by offering FWAs and safeguarding against work intensification, may
contribute to employee career sustainability and well-being.PhD in Leadership and Managemen
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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