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Making Positive Family Memories Together and Improving Quality-of-Life Through Thick Sociality and Bonding at Local Community Festivals and Events
(2019-12-01)Our study contributes to the current research on tourism and quality-of-life (QOL) by investigating Memorable Event Experiences (MEE), as a primary resource for familial bonding and memory creation. A mixed methods approach ... -
Making progress in psychosocial research in dementia
(2008)This article describes the advent of greater research funding for the study of organizations and practice in dementia care in the UK, and the development of research infrastructures. It sets out a series of challenges that ... -
Making sense of a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease : partners' experiences
(University of Hertfordshire, 2004)Objectives This study aimed to explore the personal experiences and meanings that people develop in response to their partner being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and how these inform the ways in which they cope ... -
Making Sense of Biological Naturalism
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-04-29)Searle’s theory of Biological Naturalism has been largely ignored in the philosophical literature and Searle’s commentators are confused by his seemingly contradictory views. In this dissertation I attempt to make sense ... -
Making sense of change in primary health care : a complex responsive processes perspective
(University of Hertfordshire, 2006)This research arose from my curiosity about change, and my dissatisfaction with models and tools which do not explain my real life, messy, and sometimes disappointing, experiences of trying to instigate change. My aim, ... -
Making Sense of e-HRM: Technological Frames, Value Creation and Competitive Advantage
(2010-05-21)A wide range of Human Resources (HR) processes and information can now be managed and devolved to line managers and employees using e-HRM (‘electronic Human Resource Management’). E-HRM has been defined as “An umbrella ... -
Making Sense of Information- A New Role for the Marketing Researcher
(2000)The value of today's business is measured increasingly in terms of what it knows, rather than what it owns. Even so, whilst knowledge exists in most organisations it is regularly difficult to access. This paper addresses ... -
Making sense of information: a new role for the marketing researcher?
(2001)Addresses the question of whether the information needs of those engaged in marketing management are being delivered satisfactorily by information providers. It is plainly evident that the use of the Internet and the ... -
Making sense of IS Failures
(Idea Publishing, 2009)Researchers with a keen interest in information systems failures are faced with a double challenge. Not only is it difficult to obtain intimate information about the circumstances surrounding such failures, but there is ... -
Making Sense of IS Project Stories
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Making Sense of Leadership Development: Reflections on my Role as a Leader of Leadership Development Interventions
(University of Hertfordshire, 2011-12-09)This thesis examines my experience of leading leadership development. During the last three years I have been researching my role as Head of Leadership and Organisational Development at the University of Hertfordshire (UH), ... -
Making sense of one’s role : the professional learning of early career academics in a University School of Education
(2012-04-03)The experience of early career academics is receiving increasing attention and this presentation focuses on the professional learning of academics who are developing as ‘dual professionals’ in a university School of ... -
Making sense of the sensory data - coordinate systems by hierarchical decomposition
(2006)Having the right sensory channels is an important ingredient for building an autonomous agent, but we still have the problem of making sense of the sensory data for the agent. This is the basic problem of artificial ... -
Making sense of tourists' photographs using canonical variate analysis.
(2017-08-01)Tourists’ photographs can be a rich database for researchers wishing to study tourists’ perceptions and attitudes towards destinations. Such data can also be useful in examining how tourists behave, where, when, with whom ... -
Making Space for Food in Hatfield
(University of Hertfordshire Press, 2016)The research report co-written with Ben McCabe explores the aims, methods and results from an in-depth primary research process into retrofitting food centred space in the New Town of Hatfield in the United Kingdom. The ... -
Making space for the imagination : some observations for tutors engaged in self-study
(2008)This article explores how supervisors of teachers preparing dissertations can create a space for the imagination in the tutorial setting. The imagination is seen as “opening up to possibility,” where the student is taking ... -
Making the act of music visible : theatrical considerations in music composition
(University of Hertfordshire, 2006)This research investigates the music-theatre phenomenon for the purpose of: clarifying how that differs from more traditional forms of musical theatre, i.e., Opera and Broadway musical; discussing its aesthetic ...