Special Session on Industry 4.0

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AN ASSESSMENT OF THE NEED OF POLICE OFFICIALS FOR TRAUMA INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES – A QUALITATIVE APPROACH

lOfficials in the South African Police Service (SAPS) are exposed to multiple traumatic incidents. The effect of such exposure is aggravated by various contributing factors that may cause intense trauma for the individual, family members and the police service. The risk factors include post-traumatic stress, acute stress, depression, alcohol abuse, suicide and impaired productivity. It is therefore important that officials have direct access to support. The efficacy of the present trauma intervention programmes in the SAPS is questioned, because despite their implementation police officials still present high levels of acute and behavioural problem

Special Session on Industry 4.0

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RSM Outlook Summer 2010

#### Investing in new knowledge production (Catherine Walker) The meteoric rise of the Erasmus Research Institute of Management, or ERIM, would make many a company envious. In a mere ten years it has tripled in size. It has risen from relative obscurity to become one of the top three players in Europe, and among the top 25 in the world. #### Harnessing the creative power of diversity (Justine Whittern) Whilst research indicates that diversity in the workplace can contribute to competitive advantage in business and boost innovation, diverse teams remain difficult for organisations to manage. Finding out why is a major challenge for researchers, says Prof. Daan van Knippenberg, co-founder and head of ERIM’s Centre for Leadership Studies. #### A viral approach to marketing (Lesa Sawahata) The Marketing programme at ERIM has long examined the decision-making function that drives consumer behaviour. The future of the field, says Professor Stijn van Osselaer, Chair of the Department of Marketing Management, is in looking at customer-to-customer marketing: how does marketing go viral, and how can we use language to target consumers in a multicultural setting? #### The logistics of operations Innovation is high within the field of logistics, says René de Koster, Professor of Logistics and Operations Management, as he outlines here the challenges that lie ahead for researchers and business managers alike. #### Innovating the innovators (Lesa Sawahata) Strategic renewal, the process of creating and implementing new products, processes and capabilities, is the focus of ERIM’s Strategy programme. Whilst technological innovations remain important, Prof. Henk Volberda believes that the future lies in Social Innovation. Here he explains what it is and the impact it can have on businesses. #### A matter of incentive? (Catherine Walker) Few topics in the accounting world have divided opinion as squarely as executive compensation and incentives – especially in the banking sector. But how should pay be structured in the future, and what systems will work best? Frank Hartmann, Professor of Management Accounting and Management Control, outlines how researchers can help provide the answers

Collaborations, Connections & Participation: An ethnographic study of dementia research in the UK

This thesis examines the question: How is biomedical research in the field of dementia enacted? I address this question using ethnographic fieldwork, interviews and document analysis conducted between September 2010 and March 2014, which examine the relations involved in the emergence of a national dementia research agenda in the UK. Over the last decade in the UK ‘dementia’ has become characterised as the public health crisis of our time. The sense of crisis around the conditions covered by this umbrella term is exacerbated by a global trend toward increased longevity and acute awareness of the limitations of existing treatments. In 2011 the UK Department of Health, in collaboration with national research organisations, announced the launch of an integrated dementia research strategy. Taking a historical and emergent perspective on research into aging, neurodegenerative diseases and the concept of ‘dementia’, this examination demonstrates how the evolving research initiative marks a shift in the process of co-production which exists between science, policy and publics in the UK. Using a detailed examination of linguistic and visual material from the perspective of science policy and practice, the thesis demonstrates how shifts in biotechnology make conditions described under the umbrella of ‘dementias’ differently visible. The scientific narratives which accompany this changing visibility, present dementias as a challenging target for social and scientific intervention. In response to this complexity, the research agenda focuses on the relationships and interactions between the multiple stakeholders involved. A rhetoric-based analysis demonstrates how researchers use such collaborations to try and remake the connections between aging, dementia, science and social responsibility. I argue that this process of breaking and remaking such connections is part of persuasive attempt to embed patients, participants and publics in the conduct of clinical research. This ethnographic description demonstrates how this process of embedded engagement is not without challenge. Researchers feel increasingly exposed to public expectations and frustrations which exist beyond the control of the ‘citadel’ of science (Martin 1998). Thus through cyclical re-workings of narratives of success and failure, hope and possibility, researchers involved in the development of new interventions for dementia diagnosis and treatment attempt to balance the tension between the rhetoric of future potential products and their day-to-day experience of the scientific process. Thus the thesis demonstrates how the development of new interventions is a continual negotiation of uncertainties and anxieties for both researchers and their participants. The thesis contributes to a growing literature on the complexity of biomedical research and knowledge making