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Glasgow City Suicide Prevention Partnership support for people bereaved by suicide and for those supporting someone at risk of suicide: scoping study by Rocket Science UK Ltd
No full textRocket Science was commissioned in February 2021 to conduct a scoping exercise to understand bereavement support for people affected by suicide and the needs of people supporting others at risk of suicide in Glasgow City. This report synthesises evidence from the existing literature and supplements it with specific experience and contextual information about the need and service landscape in Glasgow City. It provides insight and recommendations for implementation within the city
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde: evaluation of healthy organisations
No full textNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde contracted Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector (GCVS) to provide an organisational development support service to voluntary sector health improvement organisations operating in the Glasgow area. The service, which was branded Healthy Organisations, provided free support to around 50 organisations in areas such as employment issues, financial management, governance development, IT support, legal support, mentoring, monitoring and evaluation, strategic and financial planning, team building and training needs analysis. Rocket Science was commissioned to evaluate Healthy Organisations in order to understand the impact of the service on the organisations it supports and to identify lessons to be learned
Glasgow City health and social care partnership: employability services review, final report
No full textRocket Science were commissioned to review the quality and reach of employment services funded by GSHSCP and make recommendations for their future. The area of policy where health and employability overlap is becoming increasingly important. There is a recognition that many of those facing sustained unemployment have health and social care issues and this requires support which combines health, social care, and employability interventions. In addition, there is now overwhelming evidence that, for many, gaining employment is related to improving the recovery journey for many, improving physical and mental health, and improving social care outcomes
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
An evaluation of occupational therapy in primary care in the UK. Final report for Royal College of Occupational Therapists by Rocket Science
No full textAll four of the UK country governments have set strategies to develop the multidisciplinary workforce within primary care. This is seen as a necessity borne from the increasing complexity of patients' needs, growth in the older adult population, and the resource challenges the system faces. Despite these strategies, the number of occupational therapists in the workforce remains low. Rocket Science was commissioned by the Royal College of Occupational Therapists to evaluate the scale and impact of occupational therapy for patients aged 65 years and over in three primary care sites in England, Scotland and Wales between October 2022 and February 2023.
Methods
The evaluation took a mixed methodological approach combining semi-structured interviews, data from the EQ-5D-5L patient outcome tool, appointment data and an electronic survey distributed to occupational therapists working in primary care.
Findings
Occupational therapy creates capacity, enables quicker access to care and alleviates pressure within the primary care system. In addition there were high levels of satisfaction in the care patients received from occupational therapists, with place-based care particularly valued.
Conclusions
Whilst there are a number of benefits of increasing the occupational therapy workforce in primary care there remain a number of structural challenges to both the recruitment of occupational therapists and evidencing the impact of their care
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