Alternative forestillinger om demokratiseringen av arbeidslivet: En kvantitativ analyse av forholdet mellom jobbautonomi og arbeidsledelse i det nordiske og europeiske arbeidslivet

The democratization of working life is a much debated topic in contemporary sociological research. The focus in this thesis is explicitly on the relationship between work autonomy and hierarchy, in both the Nordic and European working life. This report is based upon OLS and Logistic regression analysis to explore this relationship, based on data from the European Social Survey 2008. Two alternative theoretical frames and scenarios are adjudicated; The democratic and the critical. The former sees a new structure of job organization in line with a general democratisation of working life. While the latter argue that power and control still are present, yet in another form. Neither of these views typically takes differences between countries into consideration. To address this deficiency, this thesis relies on regime theory. Both Duncan Gallie (2003, 2007) and Gøsta Esping-Andersen (1990) have shown that the Nordic countries are distinct from the rest of Europe, with regards to differences in quality of working life. The results suggest a resemblance between the different Nordic countries with respect to Gallies’ and Esping- Andersens’ arguments about difference in quality of working life. However, the resemblance between the Nordic countries is weaker when one looks at the relationship between work autonomy and hierarchy. Rather than a Nordic model of work organization, it seems to be country specific differences. The three main explanatory factors found are country, size of firm and social class

Involving older adults in technology research and development discussions through dialogue cafés

Abstract Background: Citizen involvement is important for ensuring the relevance and quality of many research and innovation efforts. Literature shows that inadequate citizen involvement poses an obstacle during the research, development, and implementation of assistive technology. Previous studies have addressed the advantages and disadvantages of citizen engagement in health research and technology development, and there is concern about how to ensure valuable engagement to avoid situations where they don’t have influence. Frail older adults are often excluded from being active partners in research projects. The overall objective of this commentary is to describe a case where dialogue cafés was used as a method for involving assisted living residents in technology discussions, elaborating on the following research question: In what ways are dialogue cafés useful for directing research and development and for engaging residents in assisted living facilities in assistive technology discussions? Method: Six dialogue cafés with assisted living residents as participants were carried out over a period of 3 years (2016–19). Reports that were written after each café by the group leaders and rapporteurs provide the material for the analyses in this paper. Results: This study demonstrates an example of facilitating user involvement where the participants felt useful by contributing to research and discussions on assistive technology and where this contribution in fact directed the research and development in the overall Assisted Living Project. Conclusion: This study demonstrated that dialogue cafés enable older residents at an assisted living facility to contribute with opinions about their needs and perspectives on assistive technologies. This negates the view of older adults as too frail to participate and demonstrates the importance of including and collaborating with older adults in research

Involving older adults in technology research and development discussions through dialogue cafés

Citizen involvement is important for ensuring the relevance and quality of many research and innovation efforts. Literature shows that inadequate citizen involvement poses an obstacle during the research, development, and implementation of assistive technology. Previous studies have addressed the advantages and disadvantages of citizen engagement in health research and technology development, and there is concern about how to ensure valuable engagement to avoid situations where they don’t have influence. Frail older adults are often excluded from being active partners in research projects. The overall objective of this commentary is to describe a case where dialogue cafés was used as a method for involving assisted living residents in technology discussions, elaborating on the following research question: In what ways are dialogue cafés useful for directing research and development and for engaging residents in assisted living facilities in assistive technology discussions? Method: Six dialogue cafés with assisted living residents as participants were carried out over a period of 3 years (2016–19). Reports that were written after each café by the group leaders and rapporteurs provide the material for the analyses in this paper. Results: This study demonstrates an example of facilitating user involvement where the participants felt useful by contributing to research and discussions on assistive technology and where this contribution in fact directed the research and development in the overall Assisted Living Project. Conclusion: This study demonstrated that dialogue cafés enable older residents at an assisted living facility to contribute with opinions about their needs and perspectives on assistive technologies. This negates the view of older adults as too frail to participate and demonstrates the importance of including and collaborating with older adults in research

The Assisted Living Project

OsloMet Skriftserie 2020 nr 3: The Assisted Living Project Authors: Erik Thorstensen, Flàvia Dias Casagrande. Liv Halvorsrud, Torhild Holthe, Adele Flakke Johannessen, Dag Karterud, Hilde Lovett, Anne Lund, Sindre Kjeang Bjørland Mørk, Evi Zouganeli, Julia Hahn, Miltos Ladikas, Ruud ter Meulen, Richard Owen, Mario Pansera, Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Reidun Norvoll ISSN 2535-6992 (online)/ISBN 978-82-8364-237-7 (online

Assisted Living-prosjektet

OsloMet Skriftserie 2020 nr 4 Forfattere: Erik Thorstensen, Flàvia Dias Casagrande, Adele Flakke Johannesen, Liv Halvorsrud, Torhild Holthe, Dag Karterud, Hilde Lovett, Anne Lund, Sindre Kjeang Mørk, Evi Zouganeli, Julia Hahn, Miltos Ladikas, Ruud ter Meulen, Richard Owen, Mario Pansera, Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Reidun Norvoll ISSN 2535-6992 (online)/ISBN 978-82-8364-238-4 (online

Proceedings of the 4th World Conference on Research Integrity

CITATION: O’Brien, S. P., et al. 2016. Proceedings of the 4th World Conference on Research Integrity. Research Integrity and Peer Review, 1:9, doi:10.1186/s41073-016-0012-9.The original publication is available at https://researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.comThese Proceedings contain the abstracts of the presentations given at the 4th World Conference in concurrent sessions, partner symposia, and poster sessions. Also included are summaries of the discussions in three focus tracks, which allowed delegates to consider and work on questions about the roles of funders, institutions, and countries in improving research systems and strengthening research integrity. Videos of the plenary presentations are available at the conference website (www.wcri2015.org).https://researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41073-016-0012-