Thesis Title: Careers and Labour Market Flexibility in Global Industries: The Case of Seafarers
The flexibilisation of labour in the global labour market has been a bone of contention among scholars from different disciplines over the past four decades. On the one hand, such employment is seen as a detrimental practice to employees, who might lose their occupational identity as well as constantly experience job insecurity and uncertainty. On the other hand, flexible employment is perceived as the pillar of freedom, enabling individuals to fulfil their potential through increasing labour market opportunities. In an attempt to assess these competing views within the context of a global industry where flexible employment is commonplace, the shipping industry has been chosen as the basis of an investigation to answer the following research questions:
1. To what extent are flexible employment arrangements perceived as beneficial to employers?
2. What are the perceived implications of flexible employment arrangements for employees?
3. What is the relationship between the flexibility of employment and the occupational identities of seafarers?
To answer these research questions, qualitative research methods were used to speak to over 70 participants. The methods included mostly semi-structured in-depth interviews and informal conversations conducted aboard a cargo ship.
The findings of the thesis can be largely divided into three main aspects. First, the thesis sheds light on the complexities of flexible employment in the shipping industry (i.e. the perceived negative and positive implications of such employment) for employers and employees. Secondly, using the shipping industry as an example, the thesis challenges current widespread views about the benefits of flexible employment to employers. Thirdly, the thesis presents the idea of a ‘double occupational identity’ to describe the often-complex occupational identity of seafarers related to differences in perceived labour market power.
Several strengths, limitations, and recommendations for policy and also for major stakeholders in the shipping industry are raised at the end of the thesis.
Key words: Career; Employment; Flexible Labour; Global Labour Market; In-Depth Interviews; Job; Occupational Identity; Precarious Work; Qualitative Research Methods; Seafarers; Seafaring Career; Shipping; Work.

Myriads of scholarly sources have studied various aspects of being a bodhisattva; yet few of them look into the practicability of the bodhisattva path in the modern era.  The present research discusses the notion of what a bodhisattva is, and investigates the Buddhist understanding of this concept and its praxis in a contemporary social context.  This study has adopted primary data sources which were produced by means of a mixed method, including a canonical analysis of the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra, and qualitative fieldwork data, together with other first-hand data sources.  Canonical analysis has provided the theoretical discourse from the Mahāyāna perspective, focusing on the idea of prajñā; while the qualitative data, which were derived from interviews, validate the applicability of the theoretical discourse, namely, bodhisattva-mārga (the bodhisattva path).  The 46 interview sessions with individuals and focus groups involved Buddhist volunteers, helping service practitioners, beneficiaries, and Buddhist masters (totally 38 participants), who were recruited by cold calls, snowball effect, acquaintances, and electronic mailing.  The interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed for analysis through the paradigm of interpretative phenomenological analysis, in order to explore the informants’ lived experiences. In addition, this study was also supported by multiple sources, including visual art.  Ensuring the research rigour, different forms of triangulation were employed, covering member checking and peer analysis at an inter-rater reliability of 92%.  With the aid of ATLAS.ti 7, a computer-assisted software for qualitative data analysis which was used for both the canonical and the interview analyses, eight themes were grouped together, including bodhisattva, bodhicitta, catvāri apramānāni, roles, praxis, qualities, intensions, and causes of sickness, from which self-benefiting altruism (altruistic activities and other forms of help performed towards other people which result in benefit to oneself), representing what is referred to here as the bodhisattva spirit.  This research further differentiates between self-benefiting altruism and reciprocal altruism, reflecting the philosophical disparities in diverse cultures.  Therefore, it offers potential insight into Buddhist helping behaviour that contributes to the well-being of sentient individuals and the society.

E por isso que, no campo «tradicional», as instituições que tomam conta da doença, que estão encarregues de curar, são simultaneamente políticas, 8 Relativamente a Africa, muito tem sido escrito sobre o lugar do «tradicional» nas actuais discussões epistemológicas. Como referências sugere-se: . Noutros contextos políticos, o debate entre o «moderno» e o «tradicional» tanto é visto como um espaço conflitual que pode resultar no germinar de novas realidades (caso da índia -Vlsvanathan, 2000), como é visto como constituindo o elemento que forma espaços de diferença e de contraste , Xaba, 2000.

"1 Introduction
PRINCIPLES AND PLANNING FOR RESEARCH
2 Theoretical Perspectives and Research Methodologies
3  Selecting and Planning Research Proposals and Projects
4 Research Ethics
5 Searching, critically reviewing and using the literature
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
6 Research design: quantitative methods
7 Research design: qualitative methods
8 Research design: using mixed methods
9 Sampling strategies
10 Designing Descriptive and analytical surveys
11 Designing Case Studies
12 Designing Evaluations
13 Action Research and Change
DATA COLLECTION METHODS
14 Collecting Primary Data: Questionnaires
15 Collecting Primary Data: Interviewing
16 Collecting Primary Data: Non-participant Observation
17 Collecting Primary Data: Ethnography and participant observation
18 Collecting Primary Data: Focus groups
19 Collecting Primary Data: Unobtrusive Measures
ANALYSIS AND REPORT WRITING
20 Secondary analysis
21 Getting started using SPSS
22 Analysing and Presenting Quantitative Data
23 Analysing and Presenting Qualitative Data
24Writing up the Research
25 Planning presentations and vivas
References
Glossary
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Abstract
Background
Handovers between hospital and primary healthcare possess a risk for patient care. It has been suggested that the
exchange of a comprehensive medical record containing both medical and patient-centered aspects of information can
support high quality handovers.
Objective
The objective of this study was to explore patient handovers between primary and secondary care by assessing the
levels of patient-centeredness of medical records used for communication between care settings and by assessing
continuity of patient care.
Methods
Quantitative content analysis was used to analyze the 76 medical records of 22 Swedish patients with chronic diseases
and/or polypharmacy.
Results
The levels of patient-centeredness documented in handover records were assessed as poor, especially in regards to
informing patients and achieving a shared understanding/agreement about their treatment plans. The follow up of
patients’ medical and care needs were remotely related to the discharge information sent from the hospital to the
primary care providers, or to the hospital provider's request for patient follow-up in primary healthcare.
Conclusion
The lack of patient-centered documentation either indicates poor patient-centeredness in the encounters or low priority
given by the providers on documenting such information. Based on this small study, discharge information sent to
primary healthcare cannot be considered as a means of securing continuity of patient care. Healthcare providers need
to be aware that neither their discharge notes nor their referrals will guarantee continuity of patient care.

This thesis (288 pages) represents an qualitative and historic inquiry into the meaning of abortion in present day Norway. The thesis includes new material (interviews with women and men), focused analysis of the relation and dynamics between religion, gender and present ideology of equality, as well as thorough discussions on theory (theories of Culture, Myth, History, Gender), and the development of a feminist foundation for a feminist theory of Myth.

Issue addressed
parkrun is a free, weekly, timed, international mass community 5‐km walk/run event. Unlike other paid events, parkrun attracts populations harder to engage in physical activity (PA) (eg, women, those with overweight/obesity or illness/injury/disability). This exploratory qualitative study investigated the individual, social and environmental factors associated with parkrun's broad appeal in Australia.

Methods
Tasmanian parkrunners who completed a quantitative survey (2016) were purposively recruited for a 2017 interview study. Semistructured interviews focused on reasons for parkrun participation. Data saturation was achieved by the tenth interview. Data were analysed thematically.

Results
Four themes emerged: (a) participation facilitators and barriers; (b) PA gain and broader community benefit; (c) social connections/networks; and (d) organisational issues. Appealing characteristics of parkrun included strong social support, performance gain opportunities, socialising, inclusivity (eg, all ages/abilities), sense of community, positive atmosphere and accessibility (eg, no cost and convenience). Some participants reported that parkrun had stimulated gains in their total PA (not always limited to walking/running) and that parkrun may also result in other community benefits (eg, supporting local businesses, fee‐based running club/event participation and “parkrun tourism”). Most participants first attended parkrun because of encouragement from their social networks, and participants subsequently encouraged others to attend. Participants found parkrun events well organised, but identified some potential threats (eg, local politics).

Conclusions
Social factors appeared critical in driving initial and ongoing parkrun participation. parkrun may lead to wider community benefits beyond that gained through increased individual PA. These findings highlight the “success factors” driving parkrun participation and provide insights for other community‐based PA promotion activities.

Keynote delivered for "Holocaust Remembrance and Representation," a conference to aid planning for the first Holocaust museum in Sweden.  This is a concise and, I think, quite accessible summary of a way of engaging Holocaust survivors and their accounts that differs from the conventional "testimony" model.  Based on nearly fifty years of work with survivors, the approach described here is grounded in multiple interviews (sometimes over years), deepening conversation, sustained exploration rather than simply declaration ("this I witnessed"), and collaborative intepretation and reflection.  Real relationships matter in what, how, and whether survivors retell ("learning together" as one survivor put it).  That approach also impacts whether survivors and their recounting live on in _other_ conversations which, the talk argues, is the only earthly way any of us live on.

On March 16, 1996, the author interviewed her mother, Beth Tillmann, about Beth's parents' divorce and her life as a foster child. From detailed notes taken during this phone conversation and from family stories told to the author throughout her life, the author constructed a narrative titled "A Home of Her Own." Its structure and tone mimic the way her mother speaks about the dissolution of her family of origin and her attachments to and separations from those who tried to help her rebuild a sense of home. After the story is a discussion of what narrative representations of loss offer the writer, the subject, and the reader.

본 연구는 내용중심적인 측면이나 매체중심적인 논의에서 벗어나, 공동체미디어 실천의 존재론적인 조건인 구체적인/물리적인 삶의 공간 속에 공동체미디어 실천을 포지셔닝 하고, 장기간의 참여관찰과 심층인터뷰를 중심으로 한 현장연구를 통해 공동체미디어 실천을 공동체의 형성이라는 관점에서 다각적으로 고찰해 보고자 시도하였다. 연구 결과, 참여자들은 공동체미디어 실천을 계기로 또는 공동체미디어 실천 과정을 경유하면서 공동체적 감수성을 환기하게 되는 정서적 변화를 경험하고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 연구과정에서 공동체미디어 실천의 범주를 확장시켜 다각도에서 살펴볼 필요가 있음을 파악하게 되었고, 공동체적 삶을 엮어내는 플랫폼으로서 공동체미디어의 가능성/잠재성도 발견할 수 있었다.
공동체미디어 실천은 추상적인 인식 차원으로서의 공동체가 아니라 구체적인 삶의 공간으로서 의 공동체와 맞닿아 있다. 즉 공동체미디어의 정체성은 공동체와 공동체미디어의 관계 속에서 참여자들이 만들어내는 생성적 커뮤니케이션 과정의 잠정적 산물이다. 본 논문은 공동체미디어 ‘창신동라디오 <덤>’의 사례를 통해, 공동체미디어 실천 현장의 다이나믹을 포착하여 공동체미디어가 가진 다양한 정체성과 다채로운 스펙트럼을 조망하려는 시도를 한 연구로 의미를 부여할 수 있을 것이다.

This study attempts to locate the media practices of community  members within the concrete milieu of local community Chngshin-dong, and then to make sense of what the community media practices mean for them in their everyday lives. Drawing upon the thick data collected from a year-and-a half-long participant observation and in-depth interviews in the field, researchers came up with such key findings as follows. First, community residents -who participate in community media production and consumption as well as other community activities and social events- went through changes in terms of emotions/feelings/affect and experience a new sense of community and belonging. Second, the identity of community media seemed to depend on the outcome of formative communication processes between the community and the community media. This study is an attempt to look into the interwoven dynamics in the field of community media production/consumption and articulate them with other communal activities. It maps out the complex contours and spectrum of community
media within the specific context of quotidian lives of the community residents.

Over 5.5 million Syrian refugees were forcibly displaced worldwide according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR, 2017), fleeing an inhumane war in their country. Many of them are now facing a different kind of war: they are being accused of being terrorists, parasites and rapists, through a powerful and almost unstoppable hate speech propaganda on social media. Throughout this study I posit that host society youth are key players in the integration and the inclusion of these refugees. However, programs in educational settings are ill-designed to equip youth and empower them to face racism and to withstand the online flux of disinformation, let alone to play a leadership role in counterbalancing social media propaganda and manipulation.
The objective of my study was twofold: First I wanted to understand how this youth viewed their role in the integration and the inclusion of refugees in their societies, in a context where the image of refugees was deeply influenced by social media, especially after terror attacks. Second, I wanted to discover the knowledge and the skills they developed through the process of learning about themselves, more specifically through identifying the construct systems they used when facing digital propaganda targeting sensitive and controversial issues such as the Syrian refugee crisis. To meet this objective, I conducted 66 in-depth interviews with 22 youth between 18 and 24 years old from Canada. The instruments I used stemmed from Personal Construct Psychology because this theory considers experiences to be at the core of how construals about concepts are formed. During the first meetings, the participants were convinced that despite the fact that they were able to withstand the digital propaganda against the refugees, they were helpless when it came to helping others recognize the signs of manipulation. Through the in-depth discussions, however, the participants had an “aha” moment. They suddenly realized that not only they could control how social media influenced them, but also that they could and should shape the online image that was shared online of the refugee presence in Canada. Their bystander stance was by itself an act against the resettlement of refugees, and this act had to stop.  They started questioning their own answers, reflecting on their own behaviours online, trying to make sense of their decisions and of what made them think that they were different than other Canadians.  Their empathy towards refugees increased and another developed towards the groups who rejected refugees. They identified factors that could lead to islamophobia, racism and fear and developed strategies to counterbalance them and to help host societies make informed choices.  The results of this study provide a concrete model, tools and strategies to be adopted by educators, civic educators, social workers, curriculum developers, policy makers and parents to help youth learn about themselves, as a first step to cease being manipulated by the media, and to become ready to confront hate speech, to act as influential agents of change, and to voice their concerns and ideas in the matters that affect their lives.

Recruitment is a managerial function to enroll manpower to augment, replenish, and reinvigorate an organization's human resource base. As the entrepreneurial efficiency and the organizational efficacy depend on the human resources, it is imperative that the recruitment be done on scientific lines in a professional mode. Sadly, though for most part, the recruitment models in most Indian organizations, especially those in the public sector, lack the needed understanding and required sensitivity to further the cause. Barring honourable exceptions, the exercise of recruitment is perceived by those involved in it as an opportunity to further their own careers by heeding to 'referrals to favour' of the powers that be. In the absence of trained professionals, well-versed in the art of interviewing and the science of evaluation, the tendency is to induct more and more 'heads' into the selection panels. Given that, it is no wonder that such exercises invariably turn out to be more of interrogations rather than interviews. To start with, in most cases, the scheduled time for the selection process is woefully short for any meaningful appraisal of the number of invitees for an interview. Besides, the exigencies of official work of various members of the committee necessitate the scheduling of interviews for various vacancies in a panoramic setting. Capping it all is the lack of punctuality in commencing the 'show' at the appointed hour, which, in turn, results in either rushing through the rigmarole or prolonging it beyond the scheduled hours. Needless to say, all this, put together, stymies the course for the candidates to showcase their case-either they do not get a fair chance equitable assessment or by the time their turn comes, they become mentally sick to be in the proper frame of mind. After a seemingly eternal waiting, the candidate receives 'the call' and what follows in the haloed chambers is only matched by what had preceded in the waiting hall-a state of anxiety. That's not all, in an exhibition of the panel's indifference towards the prospective recruits; its members don't deem it fit to reveal their identities to the candidates. It is another matter though, on that fateful occasion, it would not have made any difference to the candidate for it is humanly impossible for any to place the positions of so many biggies. Overwhelmed by the imposing setting and overawed by the overbearing attitude of the prospective employers, the candidate can be hardly at ease in their overweening company. Thus, the stage would be set for the grand inquiry for the tone and tenor of the proceedings is more akin to a cross-examination than an interactive exercise. After the preliminary enquiries regarding the candidate's family background and academic qualifications, the accent shifts to some questioning on the specifics of the subject of his study and ends up with stray attempts to elicit his awareness of the current events. Whatever, the exercise is nowhere near a plan to ascertain the attributes or a strategy to elicit the aptitudes of the candidate but is merely done on an ad hoc basis, influenced as such by the factors of time, and the initial impression of the August members develop about him. The nature of questioning and the lack of continuity in the interview make even the candidate wonder whether the session did indeed bring his best to the fore; and then it is only left for him to cross his fingers and await the verdict. Be that as it may, an interview, on the other hand, is defined as the meeting of persons face to face, especially for the purpose of conference, and for that to have any meaningful outcome, it should be dialogue oriented. Whereas the question-answer session can be a pointer to the candidate's acquaintance with a given subject, only a dialogue could reveal his degree of awareness of it. Considerable skill and tact, however, are required on the part of the interviewers, first to initiate and then to guide the dialogue in such a manner as to fathom the candidate's personality traits and his perceptive abilities. As such specialist skills are not expected to be mastered by assorted departmental heads that are inducted into the selection panel, the

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to extensively report the implications of the global trend of declining fertility rates and an increasingly ageing population. The experiences of childless men are mostly absent from gerontological, psychological, reproduction, and sociological, research. These disciplines have mainly focussed on family formation and practices, whilst the fertility intentions, history, and experience of men have been overlooked. Not fulfilling the dominant social status of parenthood provides a significant challenge to both individual and cultural identity. Distress levels in both infertile men and women have been recorded as high as those with grave medical conditions. Design/methodology/approach The aim of this paper is to provide some insight into the affect involuntarily childless has on the lives of older men. This auto/biographical qualitative study used a pluralistic framework drawn from the biographical, feminist, gerontological, and life course approaches. Data were gathered from in-depth semi-structured biographical interviews with 14 self-defined involuntary men aged between 49 and 82 years from across the UK. A broad thematic analysis highlighted the complex intersections between involuntary childlessness and agency, biology, relationships, and socio-cultural structures. Findings Diverse elements affected the men’s involuntary childlessness: upbringing, economics, timing of events, interpersonal skills, sexual orientation, partner selection, relationship formation and dissolution, bereavement, and the assumption of fertility. The importance of relationship quality was highlighted for all the men: with and without partners. Quality of life was affected by health, relationships, and social networks. Awareness of “outsiderness” and a fear of being viewed a paedophile were widely reported. Research limitations/implications This is a study based on a small self-selecting “fortuitous” sample. Consequently care should be taken in applying the findings to the wider population. Originality/value Health and social care policy, practice and research have tended to focus on family and women. The ageing childless are absent and excluded from policy, practice, and research. Recognition of those ageing without children or family is urgent given that it is predicted that there will be over two million childless people aged 65 and over by 2030 (approximately 25 per cent of the 65 and over population). The consequences for health and social care of individuals and organisations are catastrophic if this does not happen.

This paper explores Israeli backpackers’ travel narratives, in which a profound self-change is recounted. These tourists are construed as narrators, whose identity stories, in which the powerful experience of self-change is constructed and communicated, are founded on, and rhetorically validated by the unique experiences of authenticity and adventure. The relation between the travel narrative, attesting to an external voyage toward an “authentic” destination, and the self-change narrative, attesting to an internal one, is examined in light of two major discourses in tourism: the semi-religious and the Romanticist. The paper addresses the sociocultural context, that of contemporary Israeli culture, against which the self-change narratives construct a collective notion of identity, and wherein they can be viewed as effective performances.

In September 2011, I sent an interview request to William Melvin Kelley, a long forgotten African American writer many had judged too progressive—or not radical enough. He was delighted that a French PhD candidate was dedicating his dissertation to his works. When I explained that my work was focusing on the existential and phenomenological stance in his writing, he, in turn, clarified the fact that he did not have these kinds of thoughts when he wrote, but that he had been writing out of the urgency of his blackness in the USA and so as to, since most of his books were published in the 1960s, obtain civil rights.
In November 2018, his first novel, A Different Drummer, was reissued by
Riverrun in Great Britain and it has since been published in several countries and in different languages. This happened after Kathryn Schulz published her article “The Lost Giant of American Literature” in the January 29, 2018 issue of The New Yorker. Interest in this “lost” novelist was reaffirmed and the world has since then been rediscovering his mastery of forms and the power of his prose.
The following interview is an eight-hour conversation that I had with Kelley in his home in Harlem, in February 2012, five years before he passed away at the age of 79. He highlights the link that exists between his stories and his life; a thin thread that is important to understand the contexts in which he wrote, and his state of mind on the black experience in the USA. Here, he also tackles subjects such as the American society as a whole, race relations, some of his unpublished texts, as well as his writing methods.

P ublic parks are designed to provide aesthetically pleasing green spaces where communities can gather for recreation, rest and leisure. Given that communities are not homogenous, user conflict between groups might seem inevitable. The growing concern with homelessness in parks serves as a strong and timely example of these conflicts. Park managers are tasked not only with mitigating social conflicts between traditionally housed park users and those facing homelessness, but also a variety of safety, health, experiential and environmental concerns related to homelessness in parks.

Often, in spite of having the right set of qualifications, technical skills and experiences, certain candidates fails to impress the interviewers during job-interviews. There is no denying of the fact that when it comes to finally secure a job; almost everything depends upon the candidate’s performance during the interview process. Therefore, besides recognizing the importance of interviews; it is also widely believed that with proper understanding, preparation and practice, a person’s interview skills and employability can be greatly enhanced. With this objective, this article brings forth a valuable compilation of 25 important interview questions and suggestions for their effective answering. Most of the questions selected here are basically collected and shortlisted through a process of focus group discussion. The questions are general and contemporary in nature and are mostly suitable for junior to middle-level management positions, across various private sector organizations in India.

In this unique approach to the field of body studies, author, scholar, and educator Victoria Kannen explores what it means to exist in a body that is constantly on display and subjected to public scrutiny. Kannen examines the interplay of many ways our bodies express identity, such as gender, race, body size, sexuality, disability, body modification, and age, and how public scrutiny of those expressions can impact our public and private selves.

Intertwining personal narratives of self-identified “odd and awed” women with theoretical chapters that help to elucidate the role of social power, this volume tackles the stares, comments, and questions that are directed towards bodies in public space through original research, personal narratives, and artistic expression. As readers encounter the narratives and images throughout the book, they will be supported by scholarly chapters on embodiment, identity, resistance, and power to help analyze, reflect on, and critically engage with the content.

Through stories, theory, and art, this timely new resource will engage students and scholars of women’s and gender studies, sociology, critical disability studies, and body studies.

This article illustrates how to create an interview protocol and process that leverages Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems model. In addition to providing the template, the authors also discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with the Ecological Systems Interview Tool.

This study explores the socio-cognitive processes involved in the production of Pakistani music videos with political narratives. The time period of the research is for ten years starting from 2007 to 2017. This study suggests that music video is a newest and powerful tool to construct political narratives through integrative and disintegrative themes in Pakistan, and these narratives are used to stimulate the audience. The study rests upon qualitative analysis through in-depth interviews of the producers of music videos, lyricists and singers. Five respondents are selected for the interviews using purposive sampling technique. Then the themes are extracted from the answers of the respondents. The theoretical perspective integrated to interpret the results, is Rick Altman’s approach to film Genre (1987). The findings suggest an extension in Altman’s ideological approach. Findings also show that the positive themes are mostly portrayed in Pakistani sociopolitical music videos with the sponsorship of state institutions.

Planning for a Baby:  https://youtu.be/2iwLh6XCnq8

Pregnancy with IBD: https://youtu.be/br0kciD8xJk

Motherhood with IBD: https://youtu.be/TQjt8pnMv4I


Our aim is to provide an understanding of the experience of women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who have made the transition to motherhood. A total of 22 mothers with IBD were recruited from around the United Kingdom. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed using thematic analysis. The central concept—Blurred Lines—offers a novel frame for understanding the transition to motherhood with IBD through identifying parallels between having IBD and becoming, and being, a mother. Parallels clustered into three main themes: Need for Readiness, Lifestyle Changes, and Monitoring Personal and Physical Development. Hence, women with IBD are in some ways well prepared for the challenges of motherhood even though, as a group, they tend to restrict their reproductive choices. We recommend health professionals initiate conversations about reproduction early and provide a multidisciplinary approach to pregnancy and IBD in which women have confidence that their ongoing treatment will be integrated successfully with their maternity care.

יש לי בעיה בעניין זה עם ציורי הדיוקן. עקב עיוותו אני מעדיף תמיד לצייר אנשים הקרובים אליי, המכירים אותי, המוכנים "לבלוע צפרדעים", והמודעים לכוונותיי הטובות. הלוך-הרוח שלי בזמן העבודה הנו של לומד את האדם, של מי שיוצא מתוך הצורה כמתוך נקודת-זינוק ומנסה ללמוד דבר-מה אודות האדם כנציג האנושות; מנסה ללמוד מה הוא הפן המייחד אותו בקונטקסט הכללי. פירושו של דבר שאיני מתייחס לאינדיבידואום הממוקם בהווה נתון אלא לנציג האדם בקונטקסט היותר כללי היסטורי וקיומי.

This study proposes that if regular interview-based investigation into the English language learning strategies is conducted, research into the interviewing process employed to gather that information itself is required.  This ’research into research’, or “revisiting” of the interviewing technique (Duranti 1997), has in the case of this study conducted in a Thai college setting entailed the use of a micro-analytic discourse approach in combination with localised assessment criteria of  interview data.  This assessment framework is referred to as “layers of insight”, drawing upon a combination of information from the interview content - learning strategies - and from the discourse of the interviews themselves.  The findings from the use of this new interpretative methodology have shown that better insights into regular learner strategies research can be gained if the interviewer becomes aware of recurring patterns of speech used from interview to interview and is able to interpret them with localised assessment criteria rather than anglo-centric norms.

Making Solo Performance’ offers rare ‘insider’ access to the thinking of six UK based, expert solo theatre makers, about how they make their work. It includes emerging and experienced people: Bryony Kimmings, Tim Etchells, Bobby Baker, Wendy Houstoun, Nigel Charnock and Mike Pearson. They work across the performance genres of stand-up comedy, dance - theatre, Live and performance art, site-specific performance, music, video and film. They all riff off the same questions, asked by academic and solo maker, Misri Dey, which allows both their connections and differences to become apparent. Topics include defining ‘solo’, why they choose to work in this challenging way, strategies for making and composing, who they collaborate with and their favourite solo performance moments from other peoples’ work. This last question widens the context of solo artists mentioned, offering further research possibilities. The book also includes discussion of these practitioners rarer one-off, or less-known pieces of solo work, as well as more established touring pieces. It starts with an introductory chapter by Misri Dey, which gives background information on British solo performance practices – some histories, definitions and applications across the arts. Each subsequent chapter includes one extended practitioner interview, again with an introduction by Dey, offering both practitioner-specific disciplinary and artistic information and also highlighting potential discussion points to look out for in each subsequent interview.

The book has been reviewed as ‘accessible, engaging and informative’.
‘The book reads like a performance work itself’.
‘Discussion of  ‘21st century individualism in a post-Brexit Britain is particularly interesting and distinctive’.

Cracking the Coding Interview is the result of my first-hand experience interviewing at top companies. It is the result of hundreds of conversations with candidates. It is the result of the thousands of candidate- and interviewer- contributed questions. And it’s the result of seeing so many interview questions from so many firms. Enclosed in this book are 150 of the best interview questions, selected from thousands of potential problems.

Kirsten Martinus & Dave Hedgcock.  Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to highlight the difficulties faced during the interview process in a cross-national qualitative comparative case study between Japan and Australia. It discusses the challenges in producing insightful data and preserving the integrity of findings when methodologies are influenced by different cultural and professional environments.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper explores literature on cross-national qualitative research in the context of policy research as well as the philosophical and professional differences between Japan and Western countries (like Australia). It reflects on practical examples and strategies used by the researcher during the ethics and interview processes when adapting widely accepted qualitative case study methodology to suit the Japanese cultural and professional environment.

Findings
– The paper finds that linguistic, cultural, professional and philosophical differences between the countries challenged initial researcher assumptions that comparability between the case study regions would be maintained through the application of accepted methodologies and an “insider” status. It observes that the quest to generate rich and insightful data places the character and capability of the researcher as central in the research process.

Originality/value
– This paper provides practical examples and strategies for social science researchers using interview methods in Japan and Australian. It points to a need for further research on the ambiguous and elusive nature of the “insider” paradigm as well as the “comparability” of cross-national qualitative case studies when methodological “flexibility” is used to enrich and preserve the integrity of research findings.

This user-friendly book provides a step-by-step guide to using the five major approaches to research design: quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, arts-based, and communitybased participatory research. Chapters on each approach follow a unique format—they present a template for a research proposal and explain in detail how to conceptualize and fill in every section. Terminology commonly used within each approach is identified, and key moments of ethical decision making are flagged. Interdisciplinary research examples draw on current events and social justice topics. Unique coverage includes hot topics: replication studies and data sharing, tailoring proposals to different audiences, and more. The book also includes a general introduction to social research; an in-depth, practical discussion of ethics; and a chapter on how to begin a research study, from planning a topic to developing a research question via a literature review.

Includes Pedagogical Features 

This paper aims to research and identify any preconceived notions of ageing in dance. Ageing is inevitable and a phenomenon unique to each individual. The following examines previous literature on this subject, analyzes data collected from several bay area dancers, and explains what these findings mean. Literature around the topic of ageing in dance has focused on body formation, embodiment of the art form, pain and injury and perception. The purpose of the study is to interpret the individual stories and experiences of eight dancers over the age of 35, five of which were female and three of who were male. Research is collected through the combination of the phenomenological and narrative approach. Personal interviews were conducted with each participant and focused on their life story. Results from the study increase understanding of the personal priorities of ageing dancers, their perspective on gains and losses, their opinion on retirement and their goals for dancing in the future.

This paper seeks three principal things: to reveal something of the enigma that was Henri Lefebvre, to problematise some of the popular claims regarding the utility of his work for empirical research and to provide insights into his research philosophy and methodology. While light is shed on some of the enigmas, others remain mysterious and that is considered appropriate. The importance of Lefebvre's metaphorical and actual journey from the rural to the urban is emphasised. A crucial aspect of the paper is the engagement with Lefebvre's attempts to make sense of this journey by elaborating his approach to theoretical and empirical issues. The paper explores how key concept of transduction is related intimately to the production of space, right to the city, planetary urbanisation and the urban society. In closing the paper highlights the challenge of the possible-impossible in the midst of capitalist neoliberal abstract space.

Millennials sind die Zukunft der digitalen Transformation, denn ihr Medien­nutzungsverhalten birgt großes wirtschaftliches Potenzial. Trotzdem weiß die Medienindustrie noch immer wenig über die 1981 bis 2000 Geborenen. Erst wenigen klassischen Medien ist es gelungen, den „Millennial Code“ zu knacken. Nicht nur in den USA, auch hierzulande buhlt inzwischen eine Reihe von Redaktionen mit innovativem Storytelling und digitalen Vertriebskanälen um die Gunst junger Menschen.

Leif Kramp und Stephan Weichert geben mit Interviews und Unternehmensporträts erstmals einen konkreten Einblick in die redaktionelle Arbeitswelt von Medienangeboten, die sich gezielt an Jugendliche und junge Erwach­sene richten. In den Interviews offenbaren 19 redaktionell Verantwortliche und Produktmanager aus Deutschland, Europa und den USA ihre Strategien, mit deren Hilfe sie die pragmatische Generation der Millennials an ihre An­gebote binden wollen. Dabei geht es um Chancen wie die Entdeckung neuer Geschäftsmodelle, aber auch um Herausforderungen wie die ständige Ad­aption neuer Technologien bis hin zur Deformation journalistischer Ideale.

Mit Interviews und Porträts zu folgenden Medienangeboten: Bento, Buzzfeed, Funk, Giphy, Hardbound, Headline24, heute+, Huffington Post, Jetzt, Mic, Noizz, NowThis, Orange by Handelsblatt, Refinery29, Vice, Vox.com, Watson, YouNow und Ze.tt.

„Junge Leute sind die Zukunft der Medien. Der Millennial Code ist eine faszinierende und informative Untersuchung von 19 Medienunternehmen, die aufgebaut wurden, um die nächste Generation zu bedienen. Die Autoren interviewen Innovatoren in Deutschland und den USA, um zu lernen, was funktioniert und was nicht und welchen Weg die Medien als nächstes einschlagen.“
Jeff Jarvis, CUNY Journalism Professor, Autor von "Was würde Google tun?", "Mehr Transparenz wagen" und "Ausgedruckt!"

„Wer sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, junge Menschen mit Medien zu erreichen, muss auch mit bewährten Regeln brechen. Der Millenial Code ist die zurzeit umfassendste Anleitung zum Regelbruch in der Medienbranche.“
Christian Meier, DIE WELT

THIS PAPER RECEIVED THE 2020 ARTICLE AWARD FROM THE ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION. Engaging Holocaust survivors primarily as "witnesses" who provide "testimony"--which has long been the prevailing paradigm of practice with survivors--radically oversimplifies both survivors' lives and their accounts of their lives. Similarly, the conventional "testimony" model limits the extent to which we are likely to become engaged in, and implicated by, survivors' retelling. I have been making those arguments for over forty years. Here, the focus is primarily on teaching "beyond testimony": especially through immersion in survivors' recounting as a deliberate, situated, multiply contingent process in which students themselves become, in a survivor's phrase, "participants in a conversation ." In my classroom, collaborative exploration-that is, participation in conversation-replaces "receiving a testimony" as the guiding paradigm. Students' responses to such conversations are featured. One student wrote about a survivor who visited the class: "She was not 'just' a survivor, if I can say it that way. And that made her being a survivor much more significant. The 'not-survivor' part of her-the experiences and traits that are just like us or people we know-is what made the 'survivor part' real. Not a symbol of the Holocaust. But one of us." Engaging individual survivors as "one of us" rather than "symbols of the Holocaust" can transform how we teach about genocide, and the few who live after, even when only memoirs, recordings, and transcripts remain.