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Community consultation for quality of life in Wales
Full text linkCommunity Voices Cardiff was part of a UK-wide research project, Community Consultation for Quality of Life (CCQOL) funded by the Arts and Humanities and Research Council.
CCQOL was initiated by Professor Flora Samuel, based on the belief that creating maps of local assets - the places people value most in their communities - is a good way to involve local communities in co-creating local knowledge about their area.
Applying the Quality of Life Foundation’s Framework themes of Control, Health, Nature, Wonder, Movement and Belonging in a Commonplace online mapping platform, a map-based approach aimed to test how creating local knowledge through community consultation can help inform longer-term decisions about future development and improvements in our communities.
Taking a ‘hyper-local’ approach, Community Voices Cardiff
operated from the Grange Pavilion in Cardiff’s Grangetown.
This is one of Wales’ most ethnically and faith diverse
communities. The Community Voices Cardiff team had a co-investigator with ten years of partnership working experience in the area, a Community Partnership manager resident in the area with substantial experience in activism, and a Student Ambassador resident in the area with a leadership role of a local Youth Forum.
Their focus was on capacity-building and knowledge exchange between planning professionals and local residents. They did this through a Local Advisory Group. The team carried out various activities focusing on wellbeing, housing, greening, young voices, consultation language, and Place Plans.
The team’s approach aimed to bridge the gap between statutory consultation and meaningful engagement, while addressing the challenges of mistrust and negative impacts on mental wellbeing for both planning professionals
and residents when statutory requirements fall short. The research was characterised by capacity building, collaboration and ‘leaning into discomfort’
through engagement, with the need to be particularly alert to buzz words
Community Voices Cardiff Report May 2023: Community Consultation for Quality of Life (CCQoL)
Full text linkCommunity Voices Cardiff is part of a UK-wide research project, Community Consultation for Quality of Life (CCQoL). Funded by the Arts and Humanities and Research Council (AHRC) and led by Professor Flora Samuel at the University of Reading (the ‘Principal Investigator’), CCQoL is based on the belief that creating maps of local assets - the places people value most in their communities - is a good way to involve local communities in co-creating local knowledge about their area. This map-based approach aims to test how creating this local knowledge through community consultation can help inform longer-term decisions about future development and improvements in our communities. This end of project report describes the process behind setting up a physical and online urban room in Cardiff
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
Co-designing neighbourhoods for children and young people’s play: learning from experience in a UNICEF child-friendly city
No full textResearch highlights significant gaps in the active engagement of children in placemaking, planning, design and governance activities at the neighborhood scale. Our study critically addresses these gaps through neighborhood-scale engagement with children aged 8 to 17 in Cardiff, Wales, a recently designated UNICEF child-friendly city. Participants' activities included co-assessing neighborhoods and co-designing plans to enhance play, playful activities, and play spaces. Thematic analysis of qualitative data gathered through working with around 400 children in two Cardiff communities reveals the limitations of designated playgrounds and how participants embrace a broader definition of play, seeking social, adventurous, inclusive and accessible play opportunities across their neighborhoods. The findings also highlight unequal access to diverse play opportunities in different areas, calling for a place-based approach to understanding play experiences and action to address the unequal micro-geographies of play
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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