349 research outputs found
Making a difference? - evaluating an innovative approach to improving project delivery capability in a UK government department
No full textThe UK Government has introduced measures in recent years aimed at improving project delivery capability in government departments, including the establishment of departmental Centres of Excellence (CoE) of Project and Programme Management (PPM) – ‘super programme offices’ charged with ‘embedding best practice’.This paper presents a case study of an innovative approach to the introduction of a CoE for IT-enabled change projects that includes a central team of highly skilled, experienced managers to intervene directly as required in problematic projects. The positive impact of this approach is compared with that of a previous conventional CoE focused mainly on ‘best practice’ process implementation, where no direct impact could be seen.Taken together with research literature from a number of disciplines, the case study supports the view that the conventional CoE approach of embedding ‘best practice’ control processes may have little success in improving project delivery. It highlights the importance of direct intervention using experience-based, context-sensitive skills in improving project performance, and points to the essential role of organisational power, politics and rhetoric in ‘making a difference’.<br/
Visualising roaming within eduroam
No full textThe eduroam federated access service is a valuable tool for supporting collaboration and resource sharing worldwide, with its primary purpose being to facilitate seamless wireless roaming between users at participating institutions. There are over 100 participating sites in the UK that have joined the UK instance of eduroam known as the JANET Roaming Service (JRS). However, while the JRS is gaining traction in deployment, there is a lack of visualisation tools for users, site administrators or JANET managers to understand and see the general roaming patterns. This paper will describe the implementation of and demonstrate a number of three-dimensional, interactive visual representations of eduroam log data from the JRS. These visualisations give a comprehensive overview of JRS roaming in the UK that, for example, communicate the ‘value’ of the service in a single image [Figure 1], give overviews at the institutional level [Figure 2] and provide diagnostic information to the service operators [Figure 3]. The software is open source and is being developed with a view to it being offered for adoption by other NRENS and the international core eduroam infrastructur
Managing business change projects: a social practice perspective
No full textThis research responds to calls from several fields (including project management and organisational change) questioning the engineering paradigm of objective rationality, systems control and universally-applicable structured methods underpinning conventional ‘best practice’ approaches to managing business change projects. The call is for better understanding of the reality of business change projects as experienced by the people working on them, and for improved theory based on that. This research seeks to explore whether more effective approaches to delivering benefits from business change in organisations could be developed by taking a social practice perspective - focusing on the dynamic and complex processes of social interaction, power relations, and social construction of day-to-day reality.To address these questions, an 18-month ethnographic, participant/observer study has been carried out within a large UK public sector organisation, observing events and behaviours on a day-to-day basis from a practitioner’s perspective, using narrative to capture the complexity of the social reality of project life with all its uncertainty, politics, and emotion. This fieldwork, combining both objectively-observed and subjectively-interpreted findings,identifies some generic intersubjective ‘key aspects’ of business change projects. These ‘key aspects’ have then been interpreted using theoretical concepts from five leading theoretical frameworks (Giddens’ structuration theory, Bourdieu’s theory of practice, Actor-network theory (ANT), Weick’s sensemaking, and Strauss’s symbolic interactionist theory of action).A multi-level theoretical model rooted in the epistemological characteristics of social reality is developed from the relationships emerging from the empirical findings and by employing some of the most relevant theoretical constructs. The model is found to be consistent with practice-based research findings from research into project success in general, and with some approaches to managing uncertainty in projects. The implications of the model for practice are explored, directing attention away from control procedures and detailed planning to a range of more productive management interventions
Does the Disinfection of Public Water Supplies Increase Antibiotic Resistance Levels?
No full textFaculty advisor: Tim LaParaThis research was supported by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).O'Leary, Emma; LaPara, Timothy. (2018). Does the Disinfection of Public Water Supplies Increase Antibiotic Resistance Levels?. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/196284
What we do and the impact it has on the historically marginalized
No full textJoe O'Leary (Director), Nakeia Daniels (Deputy Director), Dr. Andre Lockett (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategic Manager).Title from PDF cover (viewed on January 27, 2022).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (page 24).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Negotiating the labyrinth: Disability and the Queensland justice system by Dan Toombs (book review)
No full textO'Leary, J ORCiD: 0000-0002-8062-8062Dan Toombs, the author of the book Disability and the Queensland Justice System, explains his journey as a lawyer new to the field as trying to find his ‘way through the labyrinth of disability and criminal law.’1 His useful book provides a complete guide for practitioners and researchers alike as to how to navigate the complicated Queensland system that purports to protect accused persons who suffer disabilities, particularly focusing on the Mental Health Act 2000 (Qld)
Enhanced long term potentiation and decreased AMPA receptor desensitization in the acute period following a single kainate induced early life seizure
No full textNeonatal seizures are associated with long term disabilities including epilepsy and cognitive deficits. Using a neonatal seizure rat model that does not develop epilepsy, but develops a phenotype consistent with other models of intellectual disability (ID) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD), we sought to isolate the acute effects of a single episode of early life seizure on hippocampal CA1 synaptic development and plasticity. We have previously shown chronic changes in glutamatergic synapses, loss of long term potentiation (LTP) and enhanced long term depression (LTD), in the adult male rat ~ 50 days following kainic acid (KA) induced early life seizure (KA-ELS) in post-natal (P) 7 day old male Sprague–Dawley rats. In the present work, we examined the electrophysiological properties and expression levels of glutamate receptors in the acute period, 2 and 7 days, post KA-ELS. Our results show for the first time enhanced LTP 7 days after KA-ELS, but no change 2 days post KA-ELS. Additionally, we report that ionotropic α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-isoxazole-propionic acid type glutamate receptor (AMPAR) desensitization is decreased in the same time frame, with no changes in AMPAR expression, phosphorylation, or membrane insertion. Inappropriate enhancement of the synaptic connections in the acute period after the seizure could alter the normal patterning of synaptic development in the hippocampus during this critical period and contribute to learning deficits. Thus, this study demonstrates a novel mechanism by which KA-ELS alters early network properties that potentially lead to adverse outcomes
Budget Perspectives 2011
No full textContents Foreword - Frances Ruane Chapter 1: Monetary Policy and Financial Stability, David Miles Chapter 2: The Stability and Growth Pact: A Fiscal Framework Whose Time Has Come?, Jim O'Leary Chapter 3: Fiscal Policy: Some Lessons from Crises of the Past, Joe Durkan Chapter 4: Restructuring Taxes, Levies and Social Insurance: What Role for Universal Social Charge?, Tim Callan, Brian Nolan, Claire Keane, John R. Walsh and Marguerita Lane Chapter 5: The Sustainability of Irish Health Expenditure, Aoife Brick and Anne NolanPolicy/growth/fiscal policy/taxes
St. Inigoes Villa - The Mansion Main Entrance
No full textRepository: Woodstock Theological Library. For more information about this item please email [email protected] entrance from S.E. with Fr. Tim O'Leary standing next to bel
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