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Exploring the Experience of Parenting when using Social Media: a Grounded Theory Study
(2022-03-09)
Becoming a parent is a period of great transition in which a person’s relationship to their evolving identity can impact upon their wellbeing. Both group membership (Seymour-Smith et al, 2017) and social comparison (Gilbert, ...
Stress Factors and Coping Mechanisms in Health Social Workers' Workplaces: an Exploratory Study in Saudi Arabian Western Provence Hospitals
(2022-03-04)
There is a growing body of literature that recognises the increasingly complex challenges faced by health social workers (HSWs) in their workplaces, due to the nature of the social work profession. To date, however, there ...
The Paradox of freedom in Everyday Leadership Practice - an Inquiry into the Identity Work of Developing Leadership in the Public Sector in Denmark
(2022-03-03)
This thesis is an autoethnographic inquiry into the identity work of leaders working in the public sector in Denmark. The research is about how degrees of freedom can be experienced when it is acknowledged that leaders are ...
Access to Land, the Household, and Food Security: Exploring gendered links in Rural South India
(2022-02-17)
Despite sufficient food production on the national level, an estimated 37% to 60% of households in India are food insecure. Food security is defined as when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to ...
Workforce Race Equality in UK Higher Education: an Exploration of the Differential Outcomes for Black Staff
(2022-02-10)
For more than a decade consistent attention has been drawn to the under-representation of ethnic minority staff in UK higher education. This attention has focused on the failure of institutions to represent their increasingly ...
The Resilience and Sustainability of Suranga Irrigation in the Western Ghats of India
(2022-02-03)
This study focused on a little known traditional water management system, known as suranga, historically used by marginalised agricultural communities in the remote foothills of the Western Ghats in India to evaluate the ...
A Qualitative Exploration of Facilitators' Experiences of Using the Tree of Life Methodology within Global Community Contexts
(2022-01-21)
The Tree of Life methodology (ToL) is a Collective Narrative Practice developed to support communities to respond to collective hardships and trauma from a place of strength. In seeking more culturally-appropriate, localised, ...
Knowledge Transfer for and through the Replication of Organisational Routines in Franchise Systems
(2022-01-07)
Routines are dispositions to behave according to established sets of rules that are also repositories of the organisational memory about “how things get done”. Franchise systems are organisational forms which expand through ...