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Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl, Miri Yemini, Claire Maxwell, Yating Hu, Benjamin Adams, Sarah Bergen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supporting Aged Care Worker Wellbeing: A Qualitative Document Analysis of the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aged care work is physically and emotionally demanding. Workers can feel disempowered, vulnerable and at increased risk of experiencing work‐related stress. This in turn can result in sub‐optimal care and staff shortages. This study aimed to investigate what provisions exist within Australia's strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards to ...
Sharon Stoddart, Kate Churruca, Maree Saba, Janet C Long, Peter D. Hibbert, Amy Nguyen, Viviana Wuthrich, Bronwyn Newman, Leonard C. Gray, Hilda Bø Lyng, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Louise A Ellis   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of sexual harassment on advancement of women in academic medicine: A multi-institutional longitudinal study

EClinicalMedicine, 2020
Background: Sexual harassment of women in academic medicine may impede advancement and productivity. This study analyzes the longitudinal effects of sexual harassment on academic advancement and productivity among women.
Anita Raj, Karen M. Freund, Jennifer M. McDonald, Phyllis L. Carr   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Raising awareness on mental health in the heliophysics community

Frontiers in Physics, 2023
To foster greater diversity, equity, and inclusion within the field of space sciences, it is crucial that we recognize and proactively address the mental health challenges experienced by our community.
Romina Nikoukar, Leonardo Regoli, Alexa J. Halford, Matthew D. Zettergren, Konstantinos Dialynas, Rachael Filwett   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino, Ilan Wiesel, Ang Li, Rebecca Bentley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intensified Manufactured Non‐Belonging: Working Holiday Makers in Australia During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nations manufacture non‐belonging of temporary migrants through policy frameworks that produce exclusion. This precarity maximises the economic benefit of temporary migrant labour by minimising their political, social and legal rights. In this paper, we examine how non‐belonging targeting Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) is manufactured in ...
Donna James, Alanna Kamp
wiley   +1 more source

“Just Shut Up and Take It”: South African University Students on Sexual Harassment

African Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary Studies
Sexual harassment and gender-based violence have become pervasive and normal within South African society. This trend is of grave concern at colleges and universities. Drawing on the social construction of the gender theory approach, this study explored
Sahara Jagath, Vijay Hamlall
doaj   +5 more sources

Harassment and Bullying among Students in Higher Education Institutions: Manifestation of Single Cases of Harassment and Bullying in Aspects of Demographic Variables [PDF]

Amfiteatru Economic, 2019
The research goal - to analyse manifestations of single cases of harassment and bullying in students' inter-relationship and to compare them in aspects of socio-demographic variables.
Jolita Vveinhardt, Vilija Bite Fominiene, Regina Andriukaitiene , Dalia Streimikiene   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

Experimental study of factors influencing observers’ perceptions and reactions to sexual harassment in Chinese university students

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionSexual harassment, a pervasive form of gender-based violence, inflicts profound adverse effects on survivors. Observers’ perceptions and responses critically shape subsequent attitudes and behaviors.
Zien Huang, Jialuo Lai, Fei Xin
doaj   +1 more source