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Research as Diaconia: Commitment, Action and Participation

open access: yesDiaconia, 2018
Conventionally, diaconal research is conceived as research on diaconal practice. This article traces two separate yet parallel traditions that have shaped diaconal practice and influenced related research, in order to argue that research should rather be seen as diaconal practice in its own right.
Stålsett, Sturla Johan   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Social Network Enhancement: Bridging and Bonding the Social Networks of Child Welfare Involved Youth

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 634-644, November 2025.
ABSTRACT A supportive social network is crucial for the well‐being of child welfare involved youth; however, their social networks are often small and/or unable to provide necessary support. Child welfare workers can play an important role in strengthening and expanding the social networks of youth.
Idun Okland, Inger Oterholm, Eavan Brady
wiley   +1 more source

The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 522-544, November 2025.
Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
wiley   +1 more source

Do Challenges in the Accessibility of Welfare Services Explain the Need for Food Aid?

open access: yesSocial Inclusion
The accessibility of welfare services is important for vulnerable groups. Reliance on charitable food aid has increased markedly across Europe in recent years, largely due to austerity policies and gaps in the welfare state.
Joakim Zitting   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Existential’ in Scandinavian Healthcare Journals: An Analysis of the Concept and Implications for Future Research

open access: yesReligions, 2022
The concept of ‘existential’, used frequently in Scandinavian healthcare journals, is associated with various, often unclear, meanings, highlighting the need for a more accurate understanding of the concept.
Marianne Rodriguez Nygaard   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Which Data Am I?”. The Making of Migrants' Scattered Subjectivities and the Impossibility of Giving an Account of Oneself

open access: yesInternational Migration, Volume 63, Issue 4, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates the making of digital subjectivities that stem from the multiple data extractions that migrants experience. It argues that the digitalisation of the border regime does not produce data doubles as discrete and intelligible objects of knowledge; rather, it generates scattered digital subjectivities. Relatedly, it contends
Martina Tazzioli
wiley   +1 more source

Patients' Experiences of Healthcare Professionals' Competence in Digital Counselling in Healthcare Settings—A Qualitative Systematic Review

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 81, Issue 8, Page 4388-4410, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim To critically appraise and synthesise qualitative evidence about patients' experiences of healthcare professionals' competence in digital counselling in healthcare settings. Design A qualitative systematic review. Methods The review followed the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for systematic reviews of qualitative evidence.
Juulia Kaihlaniemi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cultures Shaped by Elements of Ideological Totalism – Experiences of Misuse of Power in Some Pentecostal Christian Fellowships

open access: yesDiaconia, 2022
This article presents a qualitative study about perceived demanding and hurtful experiences communicated by 16 informants from some Pentecostal fellowships in Norway. The inclusion criterion was that they had experienced what they thought could relate to
Hans Eskil Vigdel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is Mercy a Category of the Modern Health Care Sector?

open access: yesDiaconia, 2010
Mercy is among the basic virtues, one might say "values", of the Christian diaconia. However the rather naïve emphasis on mercy used by diaconal enterprises in reaction to the current economization of the social sector is problematic.
Ulrich H.J. Körtner
doaj   +1 more source

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