The Geoweb for community-based organizations: Tool development, implementation, and sustainability in an era of Google Maps

Recent advances in web-based geospatial tools (the Geoweb) show promise as low-cost and easy-to-use methods to support citizen participation. This research presents two case studies of Geoweb implementation set in community-based organizations in rural Quebec, Canada. When comparing the development and sustainability of each Geoweb tool, the implementation time frame plays a key role. Two implementation time frames are defined; a discrete, or ‘one-off’ time frame associated with lower resource requirements, and a continuous, or ongoing time frame, that has a higher total resource cost, but can fulfill a different set of goals than a discrete implementation

An Ethnographic Exploration of Relationships in Residential Child Care

The significance of relationships in residential child care in Scotland has grown in policy, practice and academic writing. Introduction of The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 and current narratives around ‘love’ in residential settings have demonstrated a shift in mainstream ways of viewing daily life in care settings. Examining relationships in residential care is not a new endeavour: academics have written extensively about the need for residential practice to be relational. These relationships have been contextualised by sociologists as enacted practices and felt connections, rather than biological ties of traditional kinship. This thesis explores the processes through which relationships are enacted and understood in residential care. Data was obtained through an ethnographic study conducted across three residential houses in Scotland. The fieldwork lasted a total of 10 months from May 2016 to February 2017 and involved 49 staff members and 17 young people. The majority of data was derived from participant observation, totalling 104 days of fieldnotes. These were supplemented with semi-structured interviews in all three houses, involving 22 staff members and 5 young people. Two main themes were identified in the data. Firstly, the setting of each residential house as both a workplace and a homeplace, governed by systemic processes which could interrupt people’s enactment of relationships or facilitate bonding opportunities, permeated everyday residential life. Secondly, both staff members and young people behaved with some ambivalence towards relationships. People’s closeness with others could be met with suspicion, resulting in a dichotomous process where participants would both attempt to bond with and distance themselves from others. This thesis concludes that relationships for staff members and young people are enacted in small, every day moments and are a significant factor in residential care

The BG News October 1, 1980

The BGSU campus student newspaper October 1, 1980.https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4775/thumbnail.jp

(Dis)enchantments and perambulations: 'walking-with' intangible cultural heritage, coerced walking and reluctant heritage

This submission presents findings and makings drawn from an emergent hybrid participatory walking and multi-media arts practice, contextualised within and around specific heritage narratives. The thesis features two walking arts case studies: "Honouring Esther" (2015-17), a project based on walking the route of a Nazi Death March, and "Sweet Waters" (2017), a cycle of walks exploring the legacies of slaveownership in Bath. In both case studies, registers of walking are juxtaposed in a creative exploration motivated by a social justice desire to realise agency in heritage as process. Honouring Esther represents an early iteration of walking-with exploring dissonant interventions to stimulate empathic dialogues. "Sweet Waters" develops a further iteration of the approach as a critical creative unsettling of an authorised heritage narrative. In the Humanities, an interest in affect, sensation and the corporeal, described broadly as the ‘affective’ turn, has unfolded a space valuing contributions from artistic practice. This Creative Practice as Research undertaken in that intradisciplinary space contributes to the ‘creative’ turn thus afforded; this is a walking arts engagement with the practices of heritage. The submission brings together activist concerns underpinned by a focus on the walking itself. Through developing an understanding of the somatic, embracing an alertness to the more-than-representational, a co-creative walking and multi-media approach has emerged. Attending to matter and the power of things, drawing on embodied experience and curated content, a critically questioning and retelling of heritage narratives begins. Grounded in the body and bodies in motion, walking and questioning, new knowledge and understandings are produced as part of an intangible cultural heritage process. Walkers become critical story carriers. The submission presents iterations of 'walking-with' as an emergent walking arts practice exploring particular heritage contexts. In these contexts 'walking-with' generates empathic dialogues and builds solidarity in attending to difficult, reluctant, heritages. In addition to indicating new directions for this creative practice and observations of possible interest to research in related fields, I propose 'walking-with' as a non-confrontational approach of potential value for working creatively with other dissonant and complex heritage narratives

November 7, 1996

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia

Smart mobile sensing for measuring quality of experience (QoE) in urban public transports

Tese de mestrado integrado. Engenharia Informática e Computação. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 201

College Success: An Exploratory Study of How Underrepresented Minority Students Enter and Persist in STEM Programs

Without the proper academic preparation and cultural capital, underrepresented minority students may not find their path to pursuing science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) degrees. To gain a better understanding of how underrepresented minority students experienced college success, this study examined how they entered a STEM program of study and persisted in the program beyond their first year at the university. Three important contexts presented the greatest barriers to persistence: low socioeconomic status, first generation status, and under-preparation in math. Participants within these contexts were enabled to find a path to attend college and persist with targeted support and advice from cultural capital agents\u27 in secondary education and college. These cultural capital agents advocated for students, advised them towards STEM academic enrichment opportunities, and developed the students\u27 cultural capital. The support of the cultural capital agents coupled with student engagement in high impact socio-academic activities (for example: college transition programs, research assistantships, membership in student academic organizations) helped students to persist in STEM. By providing focused educational efforts designed to support underrepresented minority students to enter STEM fields of study and to persist towards timely degree completion, we can create a more diverse STEM workforce.\u2

Purely Scientific Terms

Purely Scientific Terms is a collection of personal and memoir essays that explore themes of identity, place, and important relationships