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Location and Unlocation: Examining Gender and Telephony through Autoethnographic Textual and Visual Methods

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2013
Studies on gender and telephony tend to be quantitative and depict the purposes for which women and men use mobile telephones and landlines. Qualitative studies on the topic predominantly rely on face-to-face interviews to examine how telephone use ...
Lia Bryant BSW, PhD in Sociology   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Harnessing Technology for Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Diary Study Protocol

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2021
Project Title: Psychosocial Reactions to a Global Pandemic: A Diary Study During COVID-19. Design: The study uses a mixed methods design that includes both a cross-sectional quantitative survey and qualitative diary entries submitted online eight times ...
L. Y. Saltzman   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Engagement intervention versus treatment as usual for young adults with serious mental illness: a randomized pilot trial

open access: yesPilot and Feasibility Studies, 2020
Background Young adults have elevated rates of mental health disorders, yet they often do not receive consistent care. The challenge of continuing to engage young adults has been pervasive worldwide.
Michelle R. Munson   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Learning democracy in social work [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In this contribution, we discuss the role of social work in processes of democracy. A key question in this discussion concerns the meaning of ‘the social’ in social work.
B Jordan   +31 more
core   +2 more sources

Trends in Deep Poverty from 1968 to 2011: The Influence of Family Structure, Employment Patterns, and the Safety Net

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2015
This paper examines the changing face of deep poverty in the United States over the past fifty years and the role of family structure, employment patterns, and governmental taxes and transfers in explaining these trends.
Liana Fox   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of immersive learning framework (ILF) in achieving the goals of higher education: measuring the impact using a pre–post design

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Emerging technological tools like Artificial Intelligence-based Chatbots, digital educational alternatives and market-driven educational systems pose a challenge to the fundamental aim of the higher education system; comprehensive education for well ...
Saju Madavanakadu Devassy   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The burdens and management of casual street gangsterism from the police experience in Ethiopia

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2022
There is no consensus and common ground among scholars toward defining the concept of gangsterism. The type and nature of the so-called gang groups are also stated differently in the existing literature.
Wubshet Hailu Fufa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The self in social work [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Social work has a long and significant history in the use of the 'self'. The first part of this paper is a contextualising discussion around recent reforms to social work.
Barnard, A
core   +1 more source

A Revisit to COVID-19 Challenges and Responses: A Case Study of Kerala

open access: yesSpace and Culture, India, 2020
Kerala, a state with high development indices distinguished with its Kerala Model of Development (UN, 1975), is also affected by recent Pandemic COVID'19 as other states and nations worldwide.
Norvy Paul   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Technology for social work education [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
The intention of this paper is to examine aspects of the role of information technology in social work education in relation to existing developments within an international context, conceptual issues concerning the application of CAL to the teaching of ...
Colombi, David, Hopkins, Tom
core   +3 more sources

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