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    The socialisation of football fans – a grounded theory study

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    Sport fans have been studied extensively. However, the field of sports fan socialisation, specifically socialisation into a team, is under researched. This study therefore addresses the question ‘how do people become football fans?’, focusing on the socialisation of three groups of fans: expansion club, female and long-distance. This thesis adopts constructivist grounded theory, gathering rich empirical data through interviews (n=33) and netnographic data. The study focuses on eight football clubs; Liverpool FC, Everton FC, Manchester City FC, Manchester United FC, New York City FC, New York Red Bulls, LA Galaxy, and Los Angeles FC. In keeping with grounded theory principles (Glaser, 1967; Charmaz 2014), data were analysed upon collection. This thesis makes three key contributions. The first is identifying the socialisation agents that impact expansion club, female, and long-distance fans, surfacing a broader range of agents than previously identified. The second explores the role played by each agent, going beyond detecting their relevance. Both contributions answer calls from previous work. Finally, in synthesising the socialisation agents identified, this thesis develops the Person-Centric Socialisation Agent Framework, which categorises the agents according to the extent to which they are Person-Person or Club-Person in focus. This allows socialisation agents to be operationalised by clubs in a bid to increase the fan base

    ADVANCING THE QUADRUPLE AIM IN MEDI-CAL MANAGED CARE: PROVIDER AND HEALTH PLAN LEADER PERSPECTIVES REGARDING THE INCLUSION OF PARAPROFESSIONALS ON CARE TEAMS FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SCREENING AND CARE COORDINATION

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    Problem Approximately 25% of Medi-Cal enrollees receive a developmental screening in the first three years of life, a rate below the 33% national benchmark (DHCS 2020). Medi-Cal providers cite limited time as a barrier to completing developmental screenings (First 5 LA 2017). Literature supports inclusion of unlicensed paraprofessionals on teams to increase developmental screening and service referral rates (Minkovitz 2003, Warmels 2017). An understanding of facilitators and barriers to adding paraprofessionals such as community health workers (CHWs) and care coordinators to teams can inform pediatric transformation initiatives. Research regarding workforce transformation strategies is pivotal as California advances a CHW Medi-Cal benefit in 2022 and prepares for a physician shortage (Chapman 2017, LAO 2021, Spetz 2017). Pediatric paraprofessionals could advance the “quadruple aim”- improving population health, enhancing patient experience, reducing per capita cost of health care, and improving clinician work life (Bodenheimer 2014). As the majority of Medi-Cal enrollees face health disparities, ensuring pediatric members with developmental concerns are routed to services could address the “quintuple aim,” which includes improving health equity (Nundy 2022).Methodology This mixed methods study analyzed 10 Medi-Cal providers’ and 10 Medi-Cal plan clinical leaders’ perceptions of facilitators and barriers impacting timely developmental screening and coordination to services and supports. The study then identified facilitators and barriers to shifting developmental screening and care coordination tasks to paraprofessionals. Results Medi-Cal provider and health plan informants were receptive to incorporating paraprofessionals on teams to perform select developmental screening and care coordination tasks. Facilitators included leaders committed to early identification and intervention (EII), a training and supervisory infrastructure, and software optimized for screenings and referrals. The major barrier was a perception of inadequate reimbursement. Few respondents perceived health plans as drivers of successful EII, suggesting an opportunity for California regulators to enforce screening and coordination requirements, fund pediatric workforce transformation, and route families to care coordination resources.Recommendations The research suggests major reimbursement needs to adequately support of developmental screening and care coordination tasks. Study findings can inform leaders pursuing pediatric workforce transformation initiatives in Medi-Cal. Additional qualitative research with paraprofessionals and families is warranted to refine workforce transformation approaches.Doctor of Public Healt

    New Research and Trends in Higher Education

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    This book aims to discuss new research and trends on all dimensions of Higher Education, as there is a growing interest in the field of Higher Education, regarding new methodologies, contexts, and technologies. It includes investigations of diverse issues that affect the learning processes in Higher Education: innovations in learning, new pedagogical methods, and new learning contexts.In this sense, original research contributions of research papers, case studies and demonstrations that present original scientific results, methodological aspects, concepts and educational technologies, on the following topics:a) Technological Developments in Higher Education: mobile technology, virtual environments, augmented reality, automation and robotics, and other tools for universal learning, focusing on issues that are not addressed by existing research;b) Digital Higher Education: mobile learning, eLearning, Game-based Learning, social media in education, new learning models and technologies and wearable technologies for education;c) Case Studies in Higher Education: empirical studies in higher education regarding digital technologies, new methodologies, new evaluation techniques and tools, perceptions of learning processes efficiency and digital learning best practice

    Quality education

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    This book investigates the intersections between education, social justice, gendered violence and human rights in South African schools and universities. The rich and multifarious tapestry of scholarship and literature emanating from South African classrooms provides a fascinating lens through which we can understand the complex consequences of the economies of education, social justice imperatives, gendered violence on the lives of women and children, and marginalised communities. The scholarship in the book challenges readers to imagine alternative futures predicated on the transformational capacity of a democratic South Africa. Contributors to this volume examine the many ways in which social justice and gendered violence mirrors, expresses, projects and articulates the larger phenomenon of human rights violations in Africa and how, in turn, the discourse of human rights informs the ways in which we articulate, interrogate, conceptualise, enact and interpret quality education. The book also wrestles with the linguistic contradictions and ambiguities in the articulation of quality education in public and private spaces. This book is essential reading for scholars seeking solid grounding in exploring quality education, the instances of epistemic disobedience, the political implications of place and power, and human rights in theory and practice

    Good Issues and bad tidying: what GitHub can tell us about agency in project-based group modelling work for higher education

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    Collaborative project work in technology-enabled environments at university is essential for learners to become ready for an increasingly global, complex, and virtualised workplace. Research on effective pedagogical and technical design for computer supported collaborative learning in higher education (CSCL) has often taken place in synchronous contexts, using specialised technology platforms. However, large-scale changes to work and education resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic necessitate the development of pedagogical and research approaches that support students working asynchronously, in distributed teams, using collaboration platforms that extend beyond institutional infrastructure. Within the field of CSCL, knowledge building research has shown collaboration to be a complex systems phenomenon, involving the intersection of individual and collective efforts to actively advance the group’s shared knowledge, but studies analysing interaction data have been resource-intensive to conduct. Contemporary workplace platforms such as professional knowledge environments have multiple design affordances consistent with knowledge building principles, as well as the capacity to generate rich data about user activity. However, we have little understanding to date as to how these environments can support knowledge building pedagogies and facilitate associated research. This study uses a case study approach and thematic analysis to investigate the activity of three university groups engaged in a collaborative modelling task over time. It investigates how agency emerges during project work in professional knowledge environments, and how the system interaction data can extend our understanding of effective collaboration processes. The results show that the GitHub platform can support knowledge building pedagogical designs in facilitating individual and collective agency in higher education group work, and provide insights into epistemic, regulative and relational aspects of learner behaviour at individual and group levels. These findings extend our understanding of effective learning design to novel environments of a type likely to be used by our students in the workplace, and make design and methodological contributions to research on computer-supported collaborative learning

    Graduate Council Minutes - February 17, 2022

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    Investigating and mitigating the role of neutralisation techniques on information security policies violation in healthcare organisations

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    Healthcare organisations today rely heavily on Electronic Medical Records systems (EMRs), which have become highly crucial IT assets that require significant security efforts to safeguard patients’ information. Individuals who have legitimate access to an organisation’s assets to perform their day-to-day duties but intentionally or unintentionally violate information security policies can jeopardise their organisation’s information security efforts and cause significant legal and financial losses. In the information security (InfoSec) literature, several studies emphasised the necessity to understand why employees behave in ways that contradict information security requirements but have offered widely different solutions. In an effort to respond to this situation, this thesis addressed the gap in the information security academic research by providing a deep understanding of the problem of medical practitioners’ behavioural justifications to violate information security policies and then determining proper solutions to reduce this undesirable behaviour. Neutralisation theory was used as the theoretical basis for the research. This thesis adopted a mixed-method research approach that comprises four consecutive phases, and each phase represents a research study that was conducted in light of the results from the preceding phase. The first phase of the thesis started by investigating the relationship between medical practitioners’ neutralisation techniques and their intention to violate information security policies that protect a patient’s privacy. A quantitative study was conducted to extend the work of Siponen and Vance [1] through a study of the Saudi Arabia healthcare industry. The data was collected via an online questionnaire from 66 Medical Interns (MIs) working in four academic hospitals. The study found that six neutralisation techniques—(1) appeal to higher loyalties, (2) defence of necessity, (3) the metaphor of ledger, (4) denial of responsibility, (5) denial of injury, and (6) condemnation of condemners—significantly contribute to the justifications of the MIs in hypothetically violating information security policies. The second phase of this research used a series of semi-structured interviews with IT security professionals in one of the largest academic hospitals in Saudi Arabia to explore the environmental factors that motivated the medical practitioners to evoke various neutralisation techniques. The results revealed that social, organisational, and emotional factors all stimulated the behavioural justifications to breach information security policies. During these interviews, it became clear that the IT department needed to ensure that security policies fit the daily tasks of the medical practitioners by providing alternative solutions to ensure the effectiveness of those policies. Based on these interviews, the objective of the following two phases was to improve the effectiveness of InfoSec policies against the use of behavioural justification by engaging the end users in the modification of existing policies via a collaborative writing process. Those two phases were conducted in the UK and Saudi Arabia to determine whether the collaborative writing process could produce a more effective security policy that balanced the security requirements with daily business needs, thus leading to a reduction in the use of neutralisation techniques to violate security policies. The overall result confirmed that the involvement of the end users via a collaborative writing process positively improved the effectiveness of the security policy to mitigate the individual behavioural justifications, showing that the process is a promising one to enhance security compliance
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