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Expectations and experiences of volunteers at sport-for-development projects: the case of Sri Lanka
No full textThe importance of volunteers is acknowledged around the world, and most research has investigated volunteer contributions in sport and events settings. The area of sport for development is a context that has recently received increasing recognition, and sport for development organisations depend on the voluntary contribution of committed individuals. Although it is realised the volunteers have a significant impact on the running and the existence of such organisations and their projects, little previous research has focused on the people going overseas to contribute as volunteers in sport for development. Therefore, the aim of this research is to investigate the expectations and experiences of those who are going abroad to do volunteering.
A single case study approach was utilised; the Asian German Sport Exchange Programme (A.G.S.E.P.) in Sri Lanka was used as the focus of this study. This research involved 12 interviews and two focus groups with volunteers of this organisation. Five of the volunteers were yet to have started their participation and were regarded as future volunteers. Four students were already at the location doing their volunteer work as current volunteers, while 3 interviews were conducted with people who had previously participated in the organisation; hence they were classified as previous volunteers.
Findings suggested that the volunteers showed high levels of interest in sport; however the importance of the organisation being a sport organisation was only highlighted by those students from the fields of sport science, education or management. Non-sport related students highlighted the development aspect of the organisation as a significant factor for their engagement. This research suggests that sport for development volunteers expect instrumental outcomes from their participation, such as gaining new skills and knowledge, socialising, improving their CV, personal development, professional development, and cultural engagement. Previous volunteers also confirmed these expectations to a large degree.
This research has a number of important implications for A.G.S.E.P., and their volunteer management in particular, and for other sport for development organisations in similar settings more generally. Furthermore, future sport for development volunteers can benefit from this study as they can find out in detail about the expectations and potential outcomes, benefits and challenges of being involved in overseas projects in disadvantaged community settings. Future longitudinal research could build on this case study and investigate volunteer expectations, experiences, relationships and challenges on a larger scale
Expectations and Experiences of Volunteers at Sport-For-Development Projects: The Case of Sri Lanka
No full textThe importance of volunteers is acknowledged around the world, and most research has investigated volunteer contributions in sport and events settings. The area of sport for development is a context that has recently received increasing recognition, and sport for development organisations depend on the voluntary contribution of committed individuals. Although it is realised the volunteers have a significant impact on the running and the existence of such organisations and their projects, little previous research has focused on the people going overseas to contribute as volunteers in sport for development. Therefore, the aim of this research is to investigate the expectations and experiences of those who are going abroad to do volunteering.
A single case study approach was utilised; the Asian German Sport Exchange Programme (A.G.S.E.P.) in Sri Lanka was used as the focus of this study. This research involved 12 interviews and two focus groups with volunteers of this organisation. Five of the volunteers were yet to have started their participation and were regarded as future volunteers. Four students were already at the location doing their volunteer work as current volunteers, while 3 interviews were conducted with people who had previously participated in the organisation; hence they were classified as previous volunteers.
Findings suggested that the volunteers showed high levels of interest in sport; however the importance of the organisation being a sport organisation was only highlighted by those students from the fields of sport science, education or management. Non-sport related students highlighted the development aspect of the organisation as a significant factor for their engagement. This research suggests that sport for development volunteers expect instrumental outcomes from their participation, such as gaining new skills and knowledge, socialising, improving their CV, personal development, professional development, and cultural engagement. Previous volunteers also confirmed these expectations to a large degree.
This research has a number of important implications for A.G.S.E.P., and their volunteer management in particular, and for other sport for development organisations in similar settings more generally. Furthermore, future sport for development volunteers can benefit from this study as they can find out in detail about the expectations and potential outcomes, benefits and challenges of being involved in overseas projects in disadvantaged community settings. Future longitudinal research could build on this case study and investigate volunteer expectations, experiences, relationships and challenges on a larger scale
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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