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How Can Community Music Enhance Place‐Based Efforts to Create Greater Social Equity? Insights From an Australian Cultural Mapping Exercise

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social inequity is increasing in Australia, often manifesting in entrenched locational disadvantage that requires place‐based responses grounded in local strengths, knowledge and participation. While community music programmes have demonstrated a range of positive social outcomes, their potential contribution to place‐based efforts addressing ...
Brydie‐Leigh Bartleet, Emma Heard, Matt Hsu, Mathew Klotz, Chi Lui Flora Wong, Joel Alexander Spence, Pearly Black   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Volunteering, Crime and Secondary School Attendance: Evidence From Queensland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Student absenteeism is a critical issue in Australia and worldwide, with alarming declines in attendance rates further exacerbated by the COVID‐19 pandemic. While research has long highlighted the relevance of school and family factors, less is known about how the broader community context shapes attendance.
Matthias Kubler, Brooklyn Corbett, Annemaree Carroll, Martin Mills, Deborah Lynch, Wojtek Tomaszewski   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Where Imprisonment, Housing Instability and Wellbeing Intersect: Evidence From Over Two Decades of Data

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study draws on life event data on housed former prisoners from the nationwide indefinite life panel, Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, spanning more than two decades. This study investigates, using panel data methods, if social connectedness mediates the association between incarceration and unstable ...
Christopher L. Ambrey, Renee Zahnow
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthening Responses to Older Adult Abuse: A Review of Contextual Prevention Strategies in Australian Policy

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Older adult abuse is a significant social issue that has attracted necessary attention in Australian policy. Yet, the scope of abuse prevention strategies proposed within these policies has not been systematically reviewed, nor has their alignment with evidence‐informed frameworks been assessed.
Madeline Lee, Emily Moir, Nadine McKillop   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policy Level Factors Influencing Australian Social and Health Care Place‐Based Initiatives: A Scoping Review

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Place‐based initiatives (PBIs) aim to address complex and intersecting forms of disadvantage shaped by health, social care, employment and geographical inequities. While PBIs offer integrated and community‐centred responses, limited evidence makes it difficult to understand the policy conditions that support their development and ...
Kanchan Marcus, Carmen Huckel Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

A comprehensive review of detection, optical character recognition, and structuring methods for herbarium label digitization

Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Global herbarium digitization has produced over 50 million specimen images, many of which contain handwritten or printed labels with rich metadata such as species names, collection dates, localities, and ecological notes. Manual transcription of this information is labor intensive, error prone, and not scalable, which has motivated the ...
Hiba Abbad, Hanane Ariouat, Nicolas Turenne, Eric Chenin, Abderrazak Sebaa, Edi Prifti, Jean‐Daniel Zucker, Youcef Sklab   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Turtle, Water, and Silicon: Storyworking Indigenous Digital Methodologies

Social Media + Society
The author of this article contends that current digital research methodologies tend to extract and commodify knowledge in ways that can replicate social, cultural, racial, economic, and global inequities.
Cindy Tekobbe
doaj   +1 more source

Indigenous Employment Australia

, 2016
Indigenous Employment Australia (http://atsijobs.com.au/)  provides resources that promote the creation of sustainable jobs in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Indigenous Employment Australia
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The Native American and Indigenous Studies 2008 Conference and the formation of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association [PDF]

, 2008
The 2008 Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference, was held in Athens, Georgia, USA from 10-12th July. The Conference was scholarly and interdisciplinary and was intended for Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars who work in American Indian ...
Fredericks, Bronwyn L.
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Revisiting paravertebral muscles in European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and European brown hares (Lepus europaeus) (Leporidae; Lagomorpha)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Domesticated European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) have long been chosen as laboratory model organisms. Despite this, there has been no definitive study of the vertebral musculature of wild rabbits. Relevant descriptions of well‐studied veterinary model mammals (such as dogs) are generally applicable, but not appropriate for a species ...
Nuttakorn Taewcharoen, Emma Sherratt, Philip Stott, Rachel Norris   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source