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Data underpinning University of Southampton Doctoral Thesis by J Shipp, 'Mixed heritage young adults’ perceptions of their grandparents as influences for intergenerational transmission and cultural reproduction: a mixed methods approach'
No full textThis dataset contains selected extracts from my ethnographic research underpinning my PhD thesis, 'Mixed heritage young adults’ perceptions of their grandparents as influences for intergenerational transmission and cultural reproduction: a mixed methods approach'.
Access to this data is 'on request' only to bone fide researchers with ethical clearance. Please complete the attached request form and return to [email protected]</span
Mixed heritage young adults’ perceptions of their grandparents as influences for intergenerational transmission and cultural reproduction: a mixed methods approach
No full textThe ‘Mixed’ ethnic group classification in the UK Census is regarded as the fastest growing category. Research suggests that up to 30% of the English population may possess a form of mixedness from either their parents or grandparents. My thesis explores how mixed heritage (race, ethnicity and/or nationality) young adults in the UK perceive their grandparents to be influential in shaping their everyday practices, identities, and feelings of belonging. Previous research on grandparents in contemporary British families suggests they have increased their involvement with their grandchildren related to living longer healthier lives and also through supporting families when the mother is in paid employment. When considering mixed families more specifically studies indicates that parents see and use grandparents as a resource when they want their children to feel attachment or understanding to the grandparent(s) cultural background. But limited research focusses on how young adults may find their grandparents influential to a sense of who they are and where they are from. My research explores this by analysing data from Understanding Society Wave 1 alongside a 15-month ethnography in Portsmouth, UK. I present a typology of grandparents from their grandchildren’s perspectives including support-based; activity-based; grandparents-as-hub; and rejection. These orientations I argue contribute to the grandchildren’s sense of self and belonging through forms such as reinforcement of normative place-bound identities; empathy through migration stories; and disidentification with grandparents. My research indicates that grandparents can be considered influential by their grandchildren and contributes suggestions as to why a large proportion of those with mixed heritages in England may not identify within the ‘Mixed’ grouping. Access to this thesis is 'on request' only to bone fide researchers with ethical clearance. Please complete the attached request form and return to [email protected]
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
Place-based politics and nested deprivation in the UK: beyond Cities-Towns, ‘Two Englands’, and the ‘Left behind’
Full text link‘Place-based explanations’ of politics in the UK draw on survey data to tell sweeping narratives about ‘Two Englands’, or of sizeable regions of the country that have been ‘Left Behind’, reinforcing popular accounts of a North-South or city-town divide. We introduce the concept of nested deprivation—deprivation that may occur in just one housing estate or even one row of flats within neighbourhoods that are otherwise affluent. We report on intensive fieldwork in 8 neighbourhoods across Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight that varied in terms of both their relative affluence and their density of population (including urban, suburban/satellite, market town or rural village). We highlight the three key themes and consequences that emerge for those living in nested deprivation in relatively affluent and geographically dispersed contexts: a) either disconnection from or entrapment within the local economy; b) social isolation and atomization; and c) powerlessness to affect politics. As such, we conclude that ‘place –based’ explanations of rapid and radical changes to political participation in Britain need to take fine-grained geographical distinctions much more seriously. Our study provides evidence that the rising tides in affluent areas are drowning some residents rather than lifting all boats. Where deprivation is dispersed and then nested within mostly affluent constituencies it does not allow for the political mobilisation among communities of interest that is a necessary condition for pluralist representative democracies
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
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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