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    The Most Important Thing in IPV Right Now : The Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and Brain Injury

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    The intersection of intimate partner violence (IPV) and brain injury (BI) has been almost entirely overlooked in research, practice, and policy, despite the known risks associated with the two conditions. Individually, IPV and BI are associated with elevated rates of unemployment, poverty, and homelessness, as well as increased mental health challenges. These social determinants of health, employment status, and income impact women’s wellbeing through access to safe accommodations, food security, and (dis)ability supports. These determinants are also related to an increased likelihood of experiencing addictions, mental health challenges, and physical danger, potentially leaving women vulnerable to ongoing violence. This qualitative study sought to explore the complex interconnections between work environments and the needs of women survivors of IPV-related BI (IPV-BI). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with twenty-four stakeholder participants from four groups: women survivors, executive director/program managers, direct service providers, and employer/union representatives. The overarching goal of this project was to provide in-depth information about the intersection between IPV and BI, and the implications for women’s employment. The research provided an opportunity for women survivors to share their lived experiences of employment within the context of their exposure to IPV and BI, amplifying their voices through a participatory model of qualitative research. The study was informed by Critical Disability Theory, Intersectionality, and the author’s own theoretical advancement of the Considered Inclusive Framework. The work concludes with a discussion of the findings, including the extraordinary complexity within the intersection of IPV-BI itself, the impact of a socially derived culture of shame and stigma that shapes the experience of IPV-BI, and the recognition/consideration of the complex layers of power that survivors are exposed to, both structural and individual. A significant and serious gap in awareness, knowledge, and understanding of IPV-BI, combined with an underfunded support system, is also discussed. Recommendations for practice and future research are presented, and the unique role of social work is considered in the context of moving toward an integrated response

    In the name of status:Adolescent harmful social behavior as strategic self-regulation

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    Adolescent harmful social behavior is behavior that benefits the person that exhibits it but could harm (the interest of) another. The traditional perspective on adolescent harmful social behavior is that it is what happens when something goes wrong in the developmental process, classifying such behaviors as a self-regulation failure. Yet, theories drawing from evolution theory underscore the adaptiveness of harmful social behavior and argue that such behavior is enacted as a means to gain important resources for survival and reproduction; gaining a position of power This dissertation aims to examine whether adolescent harmful social behavior can indeed be strategic self-regulation, and formulated two questions: Can adolescent harmful social behavior be seen as strategic attempts to obtain social status? And how can we incorporate this status-pursuit perspective more into current interventions that aim to reduce harmful social behavior? To answer these questions, I conducted a meta-review, a meta-analysis, two experimental studies, and an individual participant data meta-analysis (IPDMA). Meta-review findings of this dissertation underscore that when engaging in particular behavior leads to the acquisition of important peer-status-related goals, harmful social behavior may also develop from adequate self-regulation. Empirical findings indicate that the prospect of status affordances can motivate adolescents to engage in harmful social behavior and that descriptive and injunctive peer norms can convey such status prospects effectively. IPDMA findings illustrate that we can reach more adolescent cooperation and collectivism than we are currently promoting via interventions. In this dissertation, I argue we can do this in two ways. One, teach adolescents how they can achieve status by behaving prosocially. And two, change peer norms that reward harmful social behavior with popularity

    An exploration of primary-school teachers’ engagement with teachmeets

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    This study explores teachers’ perceptions of their reasons for attending teachmeets as a form of continuing professional development (CPD). Teachmeets are organised for teachers by teachers and are attended beyond school hours. The study situates the emergence of teachmeets within the history of changes to education from the 1997 New Labour government to 2021, seen as a time of gradual de-professionalisation. The methodological approach initially involved an interpretivist approach and later adopted a socio-material stance. The research design comprised semi-structured interviews with 12 primary-school teachers in the northwest of England. The interviews investigated teachers’ reasons for attending teachmeets, who or what influenced their engagement and what they gained from attending. Using an interpretivist approach, a thematic analysis was undertaken, resulting in five emergent themes: (i) control, (ii) surveillance and fear, (iii) data, (iv) a shared free space and (v) a cohesive inspirational community. Additionally, a case study focused on one participant and took a socio-material approach. This approach was chosen to fully capture the affective contours of the interviews. For example, I was struck by the way silences, corporeal gestures and shifts in tone of voice provided insights into the contrasting affective intensities of the school and teachmeet environments. Findings suggest that school based CPD was limited, contrived, and not tailored to teachers’ individual needs, often experienced as part of wider de-professionalising forms of surveillance and control underpinned by fear. In contrast, all participants found teachmeets to be accepting, liberating, and affirming places where teachers reignited their confidence and motivation to continue in the profession. Policy implications point to the gap between government rhetoric about the role of CPD and the realities of practice. This study highlights the care and concern teachers showed for each other outside of school and the lengths to which some teachers go to support each other professionally

    Measuring the Impact of China’s Digital Heritage: Developing Multidimensional Impact Indicators for Digital Museum Resources

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    This research investigates how to best assess the impact of China’s digital heritage and focuses on digital museum resources. It is motivated by the need for tools to help governing bodies and heritage organisations assess the impact of digital heritage resources. The research sits at the intersection of Chinese cultural heritage, digital heritage, and impact assessment (IA) studies, which forms the theoretical framework of the thesis. Informed by the Balanced Value Impact (BVI) Model, this thesis addresses the following questions: 1. How do Western heritage discourses and Chinese culture shape ‘cultural heritage’ and the museum digital ecosystem in modern China? 2. Which indicators demonstrate the multidimensional impacts of digital museum resources in China? How should the BVI Model be adapted to fit the Chinese cultural landscape? 3. How do different stakeholders perceive these impact indicators? What are the implications for impact indicator development and application? This research applies a mixed-method approach, combining desk research, survey, and interview with both public audiences and museum professionals. The research findings identify 18 impact indicators, covering economic, social, innovation and operational dimensions. Notably, the perceived usefulness and importance of different impact indicators vary among and between public participants and museum professionals. The study finds the BVI Model helpful in guiding the indicator development process, particularly in laying a solid foundation to inform decision-making. The Strategic Perspectives and Value Lenses provide a structure to organise various indicators and keep them focused on the impact objectives. However, the findings also suggest that the Value Lenses are merely signifiers; their signified meanings change with cultural contexts and should be examined when the Model is applied in a different cultural setting. This research addresses the absence of digital resource IA in China’s heritage sector. It contributes to the field of IA for digital heritage within and beyond the Chinese context by challenging the current target-setting culture in performance evaluation. Moreover, the research ratifies the utility of the BVI Model while modifying it to fit China’s unique cultural setting. This thesis as a whole demonstrates the value of using multidimensional impact indicators for evidence-based decision-making and better museum practices in the digital domain

    Conversations on Empathy

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    In the aftermath of a global pandemic, amidst new and ongoing wars, genocide, inequality, and staggering ecological collapse, some in the public and political arena have argued that we are in desperate need of greater empathy — be this with our neighbours, refugees, war victims, the vulnerable or disappearing animal and plant species. This interdisciplinary volume asks the crucial questions: How does a better understanding of empathy contribute, if at all, to our understanding of others? How is it implicated in the ways we perceive, understand and constitute others as subjects? Conversations on Empathy examines how empathy might be enacted and experienced either as a way to highlight forms of otherness or, instead, to overcome what might otherwise appear to be irreducible differences. It explores the ways in which empathy enables us to understand, imagine and create sameness and otherness in our everyday intersubjective encounters focusing on a varied range of "radical others" – others who are perceived as being dramatically different from oneself. With a focus on the importance of empathy to understand difference, the book contends that the role of empathy is critical, now more than ever, for thinking about local and global challenges of interconnectedness, care and justice

    Sociotechnical Imaginaries, the Future and the Third Offset Strategy

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    Transnational Education: Risking ‘recolonisation’

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