79 research outputs found
Ditte : towards the stars /
No full textSequel to: Ditte, daughter of man."A brief biography of the author": 2 p. at end.Mode of access: Internet
The economic style of reasoning is not value-neutral! An interview with Elizabeth Popp Berman
No full textAs part of Acta Sociologica’s special issue on ‘Social investment in Action’ we bring an interview with Professor Elizabeth Popp Berman (EPB), author of the widely acclaimed Thinking like an Economist – How Efficiency Replaced Equality in US Public Policy (Princeton University Press, 2022) . Interviewer, Ditte Andersen (DA), probes Berman’s argument on how the economic style of reasoning is linked to specific values, especially the value of efficiency, in ways that crowd out other values (e.g. democratic participation, universal rights) and constrain social policy thinking in contemporary Western societies. Social investment policies epitomize the economic style of reasoning by orientating towards returns of public spending. In policy domains such as education, ‘social investment in action’ forefronts the value of returns (in the future) rather than, for example, the value of equality and universalism (in the present). The interview also turns attention to the role of sociologists in denaturalizing the taken for granted and aid the imagination of alternative futures
Item 4: Workshop on Open digital collections
No full textA workshop on data science and digital collections was held in December 2019, aimed primarily at staff from research libraries, who provide services and support to researchers, students and other library users. The purpose of the workshop was to provide information and create an understanding of how to access and use the digital collections. Specifically, how to use APIs for searching and extraction of data in order to foster these competencies. Workshop programme, presentations and instructions are included.
File 4.1 [in Danish]: Program workshop om åbne digitale kulturarvsdata og digital literacy
File description: This file contains the workshop programme, including small abstracts and learning objectives.
Authors: Stig Svenningsen, Ditte Laursen
File 4.2 [In Danish]: Præsentation Merete Sanderhoff ”Derfor den åbne digitale kulturarv”
File description: This file contains a presentation of the potential of open cultural heritage data, based on experiences from the National Gallery of Denmark
Author: Merete Sanderhoff
File 4.3 [In Danish]: ”Derfor API som baggrund for formidler af kulturarvsdata”
File description: This file contains a presentation of the potential of museums’ digital resources, in particular in the form of digital data through API’s, based on experiences from the National Museum of Denmark.
Author: Jacob Wang
File 4.4 [In Danish]: ”Undervisnings- og forskningsperspektiver på åbne digitale samlinger”
File description: This file contains a presentation about bias in archives and implications for education and research.
Author: Helle Strandgaard Jensen
File 4.5 [In Danish]:”Etiske og metodiske udfordringer ved brugen af digitale samlinger”
File description: This file contains a presentation on the ethical and methodological challenges of the use of open cultural heritage data.
Author: Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer
File 4.6 [In Danish]: ”Et overblik over nuværende digitale samlinger”
File description: This file contains a presentation of the principles of acquisition and digitization over time and the challenges and continued development of open cultural heritage data from the perspective of the Royal Danish Library.
Author: Ditte Laursen
File 4.7 [In Danish]: Hands-on find data fra Det Kongelige Bibliotek’s samlinger
File description: This file contains a presentation introducing search possibilities in digital cultural heritage portals and discusses the relationship between digital objects and physical works.
Author: Mette Colding Dahl
File 4.8 [In Danish]: ”Hent data via en API” og data repositorie”
File description: This file contains a presentation that is a hands-on introduction to data extraction from an API. The presentation includes a cookbook and an example to illustrate the steps of the cookbook.
Author: Stig Svenningse
Selvstændig i stedet for at spørge om hjælp:digitale ambitioner og kompetencer blandt unge med kognitive handicap
No full textArtiklen af Weber og Kanstrup sætter fokus på unge med kognitive handikap og deres digitale kompetencer og ambitioner med henblik på at udvikle strategier til at understøtte de unge. Weber og Kanstrup peger bl.a. på, at digitale formater kan have kommunikative fordele for unge med kognitive handikap, fordi flere foretrækker at kommunikere visuelt frem for verbalt. For de unge med kognitive handikap peger artiklen på at digitale teknologier rummer potentialer for anerkendelse, fællesskab og selvstændighed. Artiklen understreger de unges digitale selvstændighed, og at de unge ikke skal beskyttes imod det digitale. Snarere peger artiklen på et behov for at understøtte de unge i deres digitale færden, så de bliver inkluderet frem for ekskluderet
ADHD en social konstruktion - en diskursanalys om hur ADHD beskrivs och talas om i skolans facktidningar
No full textAuthor: Ditte Edström Title: ADHD a social construction - A discourse analysis on how ADHD is described and communicated in professional school journals [translated title] Supervisor: Anders Lundberg Five percent of all students in Swedish schools have got an ADHD diagnosis (The National Board of Health and Welfare 2014), which is about two children in each class. In ten years, the diagnosed cases among children and adolescents have increased by 700 percent. The purpose of this study was to highlight how ADHD is described, and thereby socially constructed, in Swedish schools using a discourse analytic approach with a social constructivist perspective. The aim was also to investigate what social impacts these constructions could provide. The empirical data consisted of articles from Lärarnas Nyheter – a website where collected journals from unions representing school-professions are published. The analyzed journals are: Pedagogiska Magasinet, Specialpedagogik, Förskolan and Lärarnas Tidning. The analytical tools that the discourse analysis was primarily inspired by were the discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe. The results showed a medical discourse as being the dominant one when the professionals in the journals were communicating about students with ADHD. The study also showed that both the medical and pedagogical expertise are critical to how schools are organized, they argue that school requirements in general are too high in relation to the students’ abilities. They also argue that schools do not take into account individual differences in maturity witch in some cases may be the cause of students´ difficulties and attention problems. Key words: ADHD, school, social constructionism, discourse analysi
The digital communities of young individuals living with cognitive disabilities:Mapping the use and meaning of digital technology with capable youth
No full textDisability research within the domain of health information technology tends to focus on individuals living with cognitive disabilities as passive users of digital technology in need of protection from the digital sphere and support from assistive technologies due to the adaptive, communication and interaction challenges they experience. Moreover, the concentration is mainly on the digital challenges rather than managing and coping with these digital challenges. In addition, concentration on aims for digital participation is limited.The PhD study aimed to investigate how young individuals living with cognitive disabilities use digital technology to maintain and develop relationships and communities. The PhD thesis maps and explains the complex digital communities, abilities, coping strategies and aims of the study population. Specifically, the PhD thesis maps and explains what characterises the digital relationships and communities of the study population, the technologies and strategies used to participate in and manage digital relationships and communities, and their learning possibilities in formulating aims for digital participation. Methodological, the contribution of the PhD thesis was to develop visual and tangible artefacts to include the study population in research about their digital activities and communities.<br/
Design for Disassembly - a way to minimize building waste: A design for a transformation of an office building into dwellings taking into account circularity, demonstrating how circularity offers freedom for (non-traditional) households
No full textThis graduation is part of a double degree for the master Architecture and the master Construction, Management and Engineering. Research has been conducted into the field of circularity and specifically on design for disassembly as a way to minimize building waste and on improving implementation of circularity by studying the building process and the actors that are involved or should be involved. By relying on case study research including interviews, conclusions were made that circularity is befitted by separability of layers, homogeneity of materials, standardization of dimensions, and fit to different life times. In general, circularity should be aimed at reducing, reusing and recycling building components and materials at both the start and end of a building’s life time. Regarding the improvement of circularity in practice, the following was concluded. Implementation of circularity is benefitted by early on involvement of the following circular-related actors: transformation agent, circularity expert, reclamation expert, dismantler, and legal officer. In order to increase their influence on decision-making these actors should become part of the project team, or at least be taken seriously and offered room to influence decision-making. Especially, if traditional actors lack knowledge and resources for implementing circularity. Moreover, contribution of their resources regarding circularity is facilitated, if these actors are involved early on. Thus, involvement of circular-related actors and traditional actors with circular-related resources early on and subsequent ability to influence and contribute to decision-making, facilitates implementation of circularity in the building process. This is especially of concern nowadays, since circularity has not yet become part of common knowledge of (all) involved actors. Based on findings from these theses a design has been made which concerns a transformation of an existing office building in Buitenveldert, Amsterdam into dwellings. The design demonstrates how circularity principles – such as demountable connections, standardization, prefab, separability of layers, etc. – could provide freedom to generate multiple types of apartments in which residents has the freedom to adjust or personalize the apartment by introducing freedom to change certain layers of the building
Talking circularity - the influence of actors on the building process: A study into actor networks and influence on decision-making regarding the implementation of circularity into the building process.
No full textThe purpose of this master thesis is to gather information from current practices and make recommendations to facilitate implementation of circularity in the building process. The past years, circularity has become a popular term in the built environment. This approach prefers a more circular way of perceiving the building process. Literature indicates that implementation of circularity in the building process, probably, will require different actors to be involved and different decisions to be made.The following research question is proposed: “Which actors should be involved (in the beginning of the building process) to ensure circularity (implementation of circular building) throughout all phases in the building process and which actors should influence decision-making?”The following research method is adopted: a literature study, and case study research including interviews. From this literature study, assessment criteria for the case study research can be conducted. The case study research evaluates the actor network and decision-making processes based on three building projects. These projects are:Townhall in Brummen by RAU built in 2013; The Green House in Utrecht by cepezed built in 2018; and EDGE Olympic in Amsterdam by Architekten Cie. built in 2018.This thesis concludes that circular-related actors and traditional actors with circular-related resources should be involved and be influential in decision-making in the building process of circular building projects. This study particularly demonstrates the benefit of early on involvement of the following circular-related actors: transformation agent, circularity expert, reclamation expert, dismantler, and legal officer. In order to increase their influence on decision-making these actors should become part of the projectteam, or at least be taken seriously and offered room to influence decision-making. Especially, if traditional actors lack knowledge and resources for implementing circularity. Moreover, contribution of their resources to implement circularity is facilitated, if these actors are involved early on. Early on decision-making on circularity, particularly for long-lived layers (in comparison to short-lived layers), is beneficial for its implementation in practice. Later on in the building process, after the initiation and preparation (and design) phase, implementation is difficult.Civil Engineering | Construction Management and Engineerin
National Trial Overview:Towards Accessible and Patient-Centered Healthcare
No full textThis protocol paper explores the initiative to build and implement a National Trial Overview to make clinical trials more accessible to patients and health professionals in Denmark. The paper address how a user-centered evaluation of the platform will be conducted and how the National Trial Overview can contribute to enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion of patients and health professionals, and make access to clinical trials more patient-centered.</p
Decentralized Clinical Trials:Potentials for Equity in Digital Health
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly increased the possibilities for conducting Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCT). This paper addresses the potential for conducting DCT in Denmark and discusses how this potential can improve equity in digital healthcare. From stakeholder interviews, we learned that DCT has the potential to be implemented, as DCT guidelines are in place in Denmark. DCT can potentially improve equal access and inclusion of diverse populations, home administration of medication, retention and compliance, and monitoring of patients and side effects. While DCT has potential in a Danish context, the challenges regarding DCT need to be considered carefully, particularly concerning equity in digital health.The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly increased the possibilities for conducting Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCT). This paper addresses the potential for conducting DCT in Denmark and discusses how this potential can improve equity in digital healthcare. From stakeholder interviews, we learned that DCT has the potential to be implemented, as DCT guidelines are in place in Denmark. DCT can potentially improve equal access and inclusion of diverse populations, home administration of medication, retention and compliance, and monitoring of patients and side effects. While DCT has potential in a Danish context, the challenges regarding DCT need to be considered carefully, particularly concerning equity in digital health.</p
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