ETHICS_ Communication Breakdown - It\u27s Always the Same (But it\u27s Avoidable)

Meeting proceedings of a seminar by the same name, held February 22, 2022

Data management support pack

This pack is designed to help you produce high quality, reusable and open data from your research activities. It consists of documents, templates and videos covering the different aspects of data management and ranging from the overarching concepts and strategies through to the day-to-day activities. For each of the videos in the pack we have included a transcript of the narrative. The Data Management Support Pack was created to support the implementation of the CCAFS Data Management strategy

SharePoint Design and Implementation - An Enterprise Architecture Solution

Having a solid enterprise architecture foundation is critical to the success and growth of a business. Considering the volatility of many industries, businesses must consistently grow, innovate, and advance their technology to ensure high availability of their products and systems. Seeing that projects fail more than they succeed, it stresses the importance of having a strong enterprise architecture (Schneider, 2020). With this said, it is imperative that a business creates a proper collaborative environment to ensure that all future implementations and developments within their environments are successful. Without these foundations, an enterprise will fail to grow. This project provides an in-depth analysis of a Microsoft SharePoint implementation in a hospital. The intention was to create a collaborative environment that will support a project to replace their electronic healthcare system, referred to as an EHR system. In this scenario, the enterprise solution has already been implemented and maintained over the course of four months and is used daily. It was my responsibility to plan, implement, and maintain the system to ensure high availability of services. Information regarding the enterprise has been withheld to preserve their privacy. The objectives of this project are to provide an overview of the organization, the importance of the EHR system in a hospital, possible enterprise solutions, and the overall implementation of the solution. It is important to understand where the hospital was prior to deployment and how the solution has impacted their environment and EHR implementation. After fulfilling these objects, it will show how SharePoint can be a powerful tool in improving the enterprise architecture within an enterprise level environment. Furthermore, improving communication and collaboration for staff in the hospital

Improving refrigeration operations and maintenance manuals

This report assesses the financial and technical feasibility of developing a new mobile application to be used in maintenance for industrial refrigeration and other mechanical services. It was carried out on behalf of RefTech Ltd. as part of the Master of Engineering in Management (MEM) Programme at the University of Canterbury. By assessing the feasibility of this application recommendations were made with a corresponding implementation plan to assist RefTech Ltd. in making an investment decision

Synchronous and asynchronous collaborative writing

Collaborative writing has been greatly stimulated by digital technologies, particularly by word processors that have made it easy for co-authors to exchange and edit texts and also led to the development of many experimental tools for collaborative, synchronous writing. When the world wide web was established, the arrival of wikis was hailed with great enthusiasm as an opportunity for joint knowledge creation and publishing. Later, cloud-based computer systems provided another powerful access to collaborative text production. The breakthrough for synchronous collaborative writing was the release of Google Docs in 2006, a browser-based word processor offering full rights to up to a hundred users for synchronous access to a virtual writing space. Next to its easy accessibility, it was the free offer of Google Docs that opened this new chapter of writing technology to a broader audience. When Microsoft and Apple followed with their own online versions, collaborative writing became an established standard of text production. In this chapter, we trace back what collaboration through writing means and then look at the new opportunities and affordances of collaborative writing software. Finally, we briefly recount the impact of early technologies before we settle on the current generation of collaborative writing tools

Care in my own home: Elders' accounts of receiving domiciliary care for the first time

Background: In England, over 700,000 people are supported to remain living in their own homes by receiving domiciliary care. The existing UK research focuses primarily on the quality and cost-effectiveness of care. Receiving care for the first time can be a significant change to daily life, yet there is a lack of research exploring elders’ experiences of first receiving domiciliary care. Aim: To explore elders’ accounts of receiving domiciliary care for the first time. Methodology: A critical realist approach was adopted. Individual semi-structured interviews took place with ten elders (aged 76-95) receiving domiciliary care in Southeast England. Interview transcripts were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Analysis: Two overarching themes were generated. The first overarching theme, ‘A new, important relationship’, comprises the themes: ‘Carers are like friends’ and ‘Support to continue with life’. The second overarching theme, ‘Who am I now? Changing view of oneself’, contains the themes: ‘Struggling to accept the need for help’ and ‘Lost parts of the self’. Conclusions: The findings suggest that receiving domiciliary care for the first time is a significant life event, which prompts realisation of one’s advancing age and a changing view of the self. A friendship-like relationship with carers promotes elders’ psychological well-being and supports elders to accept care into their lives. The findings highlight the considerable psychosocial value of domiciliary care. Potential implications include contributing to training for carers and health professionals supporting elders during the transition into receiving care

Relational Trust in Group Coaching with First-Grade Teachers: A Single Case Study

Coaching has become a prominent professional development tool for helping early childhood teachers implement curriculum and research-based practices in their classrooms. One of the coaching strategies found to create positive changes in teacher practice and child outcomes is building trust between the coach and teacher(s). Despite what is known in terms of the benefits of these positive relationships, there is limited understanding of the nature of trust-building between coach and teachers, in general, and particularly in group coaching configurations. There is also scant literature exploring the nature of trust between teachers participating in group coaching sessions. Researchers call these two kinds of trust, out-group trust (between an outside coach and the teachers) and in-group trust (between the teachers who already have a relationship). The purpose of this case study was to explore the nature of relational out-group trust between the coach and teachers, and the in-group trust between the two teachers in a group coaching context over a 10-week intervention. The first finding was that high in-group trust between the teachers created a baseline for the development of out-group trust between the teachers and coach. The second finding were the moves the coach used to build and deepen out-group trust with the teachers, including showing individual care and attention to their students. The third finding was that the coach was eventually able to transform out-group trust into in-group trust, so that by the end of the 10 weeks the teachers saw her as a member of the school staff. The potential of group coaching is also discussed. Implications for future coaching practice and research in addition to limitations are also presented. Advisor: Rachel E. Schachte

Development of CPATT Database and Quality Control Checks for Concrete Pavement Field Data

Abstract The Centre for Pavement and Transportation Technology (CPATT) located at the University of Waterloo, Canada, has robust research capabilities. This is largely related to a team of researchers who have conducted a number of research(s) related to transportation and pavement engineering in collaboration with various public and private sector partners. Numerous research has involved collection, acquisition and development of new data and information involving design, construction, maintenance, economic, rehabilitation, safety and impact of climatic changes on the pavement. The CPATT researchers collected data has a magnitude of multi-gigabytes. This required that an appropriate repository is provided and maintained for future students, researchers, and research partners. The repository qualifications and its maintenance process are detailed in this study. At the start of this research, there was a detached data repository and a framework for collecting, storing and maintaining the database. This research has provided solutions to form the basis of a robust, meaningful and useful database, by researching and developing a repository, creation of numerous standard formats for datasets, inter-relationship models and quality control checks. The research has evolved so that concrete pavement field data can be stored safely and accessed by students, and researchers for analysis and its utilization in the future. In developing a database framework, the literature indicates that an appropriate consultation with experts and rigorous evaluation of database framework (before its implementation) is to be carried out to meet the objectives and goals of the program. This objective was achieved by consulting CPATT management, IT experts (both internal and external to the University of Waterloo) and end-users, such as current and past CPATT students, research associates, and UW staff through a well-articulated “CPATT Database Survey”. Data quality control and datasets format consistency of existing CPATT data were of a major concern, addressed by this research. This concern is addressed by providing numerous standard datasets formats and quality control checks; for dataset utilization to be more feasible and valuable for future researchers

Addressing Whiteness and Racism in Clinical Psychology: White Clinical Psychologists’ Experiences within Leadership

The profession of Clinical Psychology, both in its past and present, has been greatly impacted by whiteness. Due to this, it is important to consider how whiteness affects Clinical Psychologist’s leadership within teams as, among many things, it will impact the staff they manage. As white Clinical Psychologists are the main benefactors of whiteness within the profession and are overrepresented in leadership positions, the study aimed to explore their experiences of addressing whiteness within their leadership roles. Thirteen self-identified white Clinical Psychologists were interviewed on their experiences of addressing whiteness and racism in leadership and their experiences of barriers to and facilitators of examining whiteness and anti-racist leadership. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis identified three superordinate themes, each with its own sub-themes: ‘Life Being Ignorant is Less Painful’ (‘Whiteness Isn’t at the Forefront of My Mind’, ‘Too Uncomfortable to Confront Whiteness’); Careful, Shameful Conversations – ‘Treading on Eggshells’ (‘More Careful’, ‘More Shame and Guilt’); Don’t Know How to be Anti-Racist – ‘I Don’t Know What To Do’ (Burden on Racialised Staff as ‘Trainers’, ‘Not Doing Enough’, Rationalisations for a Lack of Change – ‘I’m Making Excuses Now’, Attempts to Encourage Change – ‘Working on Being Actively Anti-racist’). Barriers to and facilitators of addressing whiteness were discussed, and recommendations for the profession were made. It is hoped that the study’s findings may influence white Clinical Psychologists in leadership positions to examine whiteness within their roles and consider how whiteness affects colleagues. Through the examination of whiteness alongside recognising and harnessing their power and responsibility to address it, they can challenge the harmful status quo

Leveraging Law Office Technology

Meeting proceedings of a seminar by the same name, held April 7, 2021