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‘The Silence’: Examining the missing voices of disabled people in police custody
Full text linkAbstract: The role of the Appropriate Adult was established to protect the rights of suspects considered ‘vulnerable’ due to a number of miscarriages of justice during the 1970s. Appropriate Adult services are now a legal requirement in England and Wales for detained adults with mental health issues, learning disabilities or difficulties who have been detained in police custody. The aim of this project was to evaluate the extent and involvement of disabled adults who are or have been in police custody. The study concludes by suggesting the application of a social model approach within police custody, to meet the needs of service users and to avoid any miscarriages of justice
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
Participation
No full textThis chapter explores the notion of ‘participation’ within historical, social and political contexts. It examines concepts associated with participatory practice including ‘power’ and ‘empowerment’,enquiring how participation involves developing opportunities for young people. The chapter draws on research into ways in which Local Authorities in the North East of England have aimed at delivering the Government’s ‘youth participation’ agenda. The research set out to examine Local Authority mechanisms designed for young people to participate in policy decisions and service delivery. Though not reflecting the wealth or variety of practice within the North East of England, the research did offer reflections from Local Authority officers to capture some of the current debates
Little Girls Should be Seen and Not Heard: “It's because you always ask WHY!”
No full textAs a working class female that identified as a ‘punk’ during the 1980s, I never imagined that my destiny would involve completing a PHD and lead me to become a Senior Lecturer in academia. Despite no longer having shaved, black crimped hair and a multitude of piercings, I still identify with punk ideologies that relate to challenging society, equality, free-thought, non-conformity and ideals associated with socialism. This presentation considers the ways in which my identity has informed my approach to teaching and how this can impact upon student learning.
This will consider, my experiences as a lecturer in a University social sciences faculty, and three key aspects; 1) challenging students, 2) discomfort and ‘dis-ease’; and 3) confronting perceptions of a lecturer. In HE environments, there is a growing unease about directly challenging students about their views and perceptions of the world. Increasingly, asking students critical questions or challenging their views, is misconstrued by students as ‘being picked on’ and results in fear of giving the lecturer ‘wrong’ answer. Directly challenging students creates moments of discomfort and dis-ease within the learning environment, which in my view is essential if we are to effectively engage in meaningful dialogues and challenge the world around us.
Over ten years, students have often commented that I am ‘scary’, with one student commenting ‘I’m petrified of you Wendy’. Reflecting upon this, I became increasingly concerned that I was not doing my job properly and that I was unapproachable. I decided to talk to my students and find out why they were scared of me – they informed me, ‘it’s because you always ask WHY’. After some time, I realised that my openness, challenging and critical teaching style did not always conform to students’ perception of a stereotypical lecturer, particularly in the eyes of female students. After considering my own history and identity, I concluded that I am actually scary for all the right reasons and so now embraced my ‘scary’ in my everyday teaching practice
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
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