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‘It's all very well having a diverse curriculum, but if there is no curriculum, it can be as diverse as you like’: Precarity and decolonising in the neoliberal UK higher education system

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing upon interview research across two academic departments as part of the early stages of a ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiative at a Southern UK university, this study highlights a growing gulf between policy and practice in efforts to address systemic racial inequalities in UK universities. A reliance upon precarious labour, a culture
Triona Fitton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging home, school and community to address educational inequality: Supporting educational trajectories through community bridge work

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the role of community stakeholders in supporting the educational trajectories of students experiencing socio‐economic disadvantage in the Irish context. Building on international and national policy debates, the study examines how community‐based organisations, statutory services and outreach initiatives work alongside ...
Aoife Joy Keogh, Deirdre McGillicuddy
wiley   +1 more source

Credit Where Credit is due: Recommendations for Inclusive and Ethical Authorship Practices in Ecology

open access: yesThe Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Abstract Although authorship is central to the career advancement of many ecologists, the processes used to assign authorship credit on papers are not always clear, ethical, or equitable. We developed the concept of authorship climate (perceptions of fairness related to procedures, communication practices, and outcomes of authorship decisions) and ...
Kevin C. Elliott   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Research Interviews in Historical Practice

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
A key difference between collecting life stories and doing research interviews is the role of the interviewer. While training in oral history may focus on using standard scripts to take a life story, research interviews are motivated by specific questions that arise from particular historical projects and are often not primarily focused on the ...
Lara Keuck, Soraya de Chadarevian
wiley   +1 more source

Aspekty sociální reality v období červencové monarchie ve Francii (sociohistorická analýza reprezentací společnosti v diskursech intelektuálních elit)

open access: yesAntropoWebzin, 2011
This research into the issue of the July Monarchy (1830-1848) discusses the discourse of the intellectual elites using an almost unknown method – sociohistory.
Pavel Sitek   +2 more
doaj  

Where Do We Fit? Reflections on Research Interview Practice, Project Design, and Interpretation**

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
What is special about historical research interviews in the history of science, technology, and medicine, and how do they compare to the tools of oral historians and social scientists? This essay reflects on three interview projects I have undertaken, each taking a distinct shape.
Dmitriy Myelnikov
wiley   +1 more source

Sull’utilità e il danno della conoscenza sociologica

open access: yesCulture e Studi del Sociale, 2019
The discipline of sociology observes the intertwining of social dynamics and social tendencies in relation to institutional power. How this observation becomes social knowledge concerns different areas: from empirical methodologies to philosophical ...
Ilaria Riccioni
doaj   +2 more sources

Historical Sociology of the City [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
About the book: This Handbook consists of 26 chapters on historical sociology. It is divided into three parts. Part One is devoted to Foundations and covers Marx, Weber, evolutionary and functionalist approaches, the Annales School, Elias, Nelson and Eisenstadt.
openaire   +1 more source

Shaping research in marine functional connectivity for integrated and effective marine science and management

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Effective knowledge of ecological connectivity at sea and at the land–sea interface is key to supporting global policy goals to conserve and restore ocean biodiversity and function. However, a persistent lack of commonality in terminology and understanding around the concept of connectivity in marine ecological studies hampers its integration ...
Audrey M. Darnaude   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impacts of biological invasions

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock   +42 more
wiley   +1 more source

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