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Learning from asylum seekers during the social deprivation context of the Covid-19 pandemic: A comparative study
No full textThis chapter looks at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on asylum seekers
living in North Greece and South Italy, based on 30 interviews conducted with
them between December 200 to March 2021. It focuses on their perspective of
the context they found themselves in, inclusive of views on the role of their social
workers. The asylum seekers interviewed in this study were given the right for
temporary stay in each country until the completion of their asylum approval
process, while some were in the process of moving to the country of their choice.
They lived either in reception centres (in Italy) or in flats owned by municipalities
funded by UNCHR via the Ministry of Asylum and Migration (in Greece).
During the pandemic lockdown periods entry to camps in Greece was forbidden
to either social workers or researchers. Only those working in accommodation
structures for minors or adults kept their contacts with the asylum seekers either
digitally or face-to-face. The Italian reception centres were located in the countryside,
away from populated areas. Social workers were allowed in, but had to
manage their work alongside the need to protect themselves and their families
from infection
New Perspectives on Domestic Violence: From Research to Intervention
No full textThis eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contac
New Perspectives on Domestic Violence: From Research to Intervention
No full textThis eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contac
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
Northern Ireland: educating for peace in a post-conflict society
No full textThis chapter critically examines the role of education and its contribution, not only to peace-building, but also in helping social work students to appreciate and understand difficult pedagogy. The chapter will focus on Northern Ireland as a case study, where 2023 marked 25 years since the signing of the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Peace Agreement, ending “The Troubles”, the anodyne moniker referring to this country’s 30-year long period of violent political conflict. The reader will firstly be presented with how the Northern Ireland education system attempted, albeit in a very limited way with just over 7% of children from differing religious backgrounds educated together, to educate young people on issues related to “The Troubles” before young people later as social work students are introduced to very direct and immersive teaching on the impact of “The Troubles” as a necessary aspect of their social work education experience. This chapter will argue that in order for such micro-level measures in the social work curriculum to have positive impact, where contested issues are directly brought to the fore and confronted, the macro-approach to education in divided and conflict riven societies, such as Northern Ireland, also has to imaginatively and positively reflect such an inclusive approach. This chapter is written by a father and son. Joe Duffy is a Professor of Social Work at Queen’s University, Belfast, who leads on specialist teaching on “The Troubles” on the Bachelor of Social Work degree programme where citizens with direct and lived experience of bereavement, injury and trauma share these personal narratives with students as a way of deepening their knowledge, competence and insights. The latter pedagogic work will feature in this chapter as a way of highlighting an inclusive approach to social work education whereby newly qualified social workers are more positively enabled to confront difficult and contested issues in a post-conflict society. Joe Coulter is an independent researcher and Fulbright Scholar who was educated in Northern Ireland’s integrated education system. This chapter will have resonance to other societies affected by war and political conflict as it will stimulate important reflections on the role of education and its contribution to peace-building.</p
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