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Belonging: a meta-theme analysis of women’s community-making in group antenatal and postnatal care

Frontiers in Public Health
Health care systems are social institutions simulating microcosms of wider societies where unequal distribution of power and resources translate into inequities in health outcomes, experiences and access to services.
Anna Horn, Marsha Orgill, Deborah L. Billings, Deborah L. Billings, Wiedaad Slemming, Astrid Van Damme, Mathilde Crone, Malibongwe Gwele, Nathalie Leister, Ashna D. Hindori-Mohangoo, Katrien Beeckman, Susan Bradley, Manodj P. Hindori, Jedidia Abanga, Julia Ryan, Hana Bucinca, Christine McCourt   +16 more
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How phagocytic cells kill bacteria: Lessons from a professional killer

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
How phagocytic cells ingest and kill bacteria has been studied for more than a century, but many questions remain unanswered. The study of the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum brings new answers, and new questions. Professional phagocytic cells such as neutrophils and macrophages, as well as free‐living soil amoebae like Dictyostelium discoideum, employ
Otmane Lamrabet, Pierre Cosson
wiley   +1 more source

Immigration, nation state and belonging [PDF]

, 2010
[Extract] As with many Western nations with high numbers of immigrant intake, the Australian public debates have placed doubt on: • The levels and success of integration of newly arrived migrants and refugees • The success or failure of ...
Babacan, Hurriyet
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“¡Hoy tenemos Patria!” La pertenencia nacional entre los jóvenes de un barrio en la Caracas post-Chávez

Cahiers des Amériques Latines
This article raises the problem of belonging "to the homeland" in Venezuela, a nation subsumed in a long standing political and economic crisis. Based on a visual ethnography guided by a photo-elicitation with young males, I analyze how they experience ...
Henry Moncrieff Zabaleta
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Pathways and pitfalls: a qualitative study of student experiences in biomedical science education

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Biomedical science students from underrepresented backgrounds face barriers including financial strain, disrupted laboratory access and cultural exclusion. Peer networks provide vital support when institutional systems are difficult to navigate. To create inclusive learning environments and achieve academic success, educators should blend active, hands‐
Olivia J. Russell, Cassy Ross, Panagiota S. Filippou, Bruno Silvester Lopes, Dominic Gilchrist, Paul Dean, Kamar Ameen‐Ali, Tora K. Smulders‐Srinivasan, Ahmad A. Khundakar   +8 more
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Belonging as Capacity: Strengthening Bonds in the Era of Neoliberal Governmentality [PDF]

, 2019
This article theorizes belonging within the context of neoliberalism in North America. Drawing on a sociology of emotions resting on an Indigenous epistemology, this article theorizes how the feeling of belonging capacitates.
Desgagné, Gabrielle
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Looking back to move forward: Tracing students’ experiences of transitioning to university

JPHE
A growing body of research conceptualises students’ transitions into higher education as non-linear and multi-faceted, extending beyond the first months of university.
Angela Gayton, Piotr Wegorowski
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Artificial Intelligence and Mental Well‐Being in Adult Education: Implications for Practice and Professional Responsibility

New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mental well‐being is central to adult learner success, yet many adult education institutions lack capacity to provide timely and accessible support. This article examines how artificial intelligence (AI) can strengthen mental health–adjacent supports in adult and continuing higher education, with attention to professional practice and ...
Adam L. McClain, Thomas Wade
wiley   +1 more source

Belonging

What does it mean to belong? Belonging is a term that often has positive connotations. Belonging, however, is contested, always political, and bound up with colonizing, racist, and capitalist processes.
Sarah Wright (21139823)
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Belonging to the university or being in the world: From belonging to relational being

, 2022
In a world characterised by supercomplexity, in which higher education (HE) is in the grip of neoliberal market forces (Barnett, 2000), it is incumbent upon participants in this sector to ask; what does it mean to belong, and to what?
Graham, Cameron, Moir, Zack
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