scholarly journals Disrupting the Systems: Opportunities to Enhance Methodological Approaches to Address Socio-Structural Determinants of HIV and End the Epidemic Through Effective Community Engagement

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos E. Rodriguez-Diaz ◽  
Wendy Davis ◽  
Marcia V. Ellis ◽  
Martha Sichone Cameron ◽  
Yeycy Donastorg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Measurement Development ◽  
Structural Determinants ◽  
Collaborative Models ◽  
Implementation And Dissemination ◽  
Dissemination Of Research ◽  
Effective Community ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
The Impact

AbstractA world without HIV is only possible by addressing the socio-structural determinants of health. Our understanding of socio-structural determinants is constantly changing, and parallel changes must occur with the methodologies used to explain the drivers of the HIV epidemic. We argue for the need to engage communities in the planning, implementation, and dissemination of research on the socio-structural determinants of HIV. Community engagement should cross-cut various types of research including rigorous measurement development of socio-structural determinants and novel analytic techniques to model their role in the trajectory of the epidemic and the impact of interventions. Considering the role of place, we recommend collaboration between scientists and communities in the interpretation of results from studies that map HIV-related behaviors and movement. As we collectively delve into historically oppressive systems with colonial antecedents, we must be ready to challenge these systems and replace them with collaborative models. The success of research-driven HIV policy and programming will best be evaluated with methodologies derived from the insights of the very individuals that these policies and programs aim to serve.

scholarly journals KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT IN AGRIBUSINESS

2019 ◽  
Vol XXI (3) ◽  
pp. 494-501
Author(s):  
Andrzej Piotr Wiatrak
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Management ◽  
The State ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Implementation And Dissemination ◽  
Dissemination Of Research ◽  
The One ◽  
New Research ◽  
Science Policies

The article is aimed at presenting the essence and determinants of knowledge and innovation management in agribusiness. The results of analysis indicate a need for a systemic approach to research into and actors involved in knowledge and innovation management and transfer as well as for cooperation of these actors. A specific role is played here by agricultural and science policies implemented by the state and various institutions operating in the agribusiness environment. The involvement of the state results from the unquestionable role of knowledge and innovation for the development of the economy and society but also from the specifics of agribusiness. In Poland, research on agribusiness is conducted by institutes and universities, most of which are public, hence their activities are financed from the state budget. Therefore, it is necessary to make the best use of research potential to achieve the set objectives of socio-economic and science policies and to finance new research and innovation consistent with these policies. Possible tools for knowledge and innovation creation in agribusiness include central, regional and local government programmes and projects focused on the implementation of specific goals and tasks (e.g. an agricultural innovation network), financial instruments as incentives to explore a particular research topic or undertake a particular innovation, and institutional instruments. For the efficient functioning of the entire system of generation, implementation and dissemination of research results, it is important, on the one hand, that information is acquired about the current needs of practice and, on the other hand, that the results of hitherto research are transmitted.

Enhancing social values, identity and wellbeing: the impact of participatory working with housing association tenants

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-348
Author(s):  
Thomas Lambourne ◽  
Suzanne Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Housing Association ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
Housing Associations ◽  
Effective Community ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Community engagement is now embedded in the work of housing associations and local authorities in the UK, as a way of enhancing community development and involvement. This research takes as its focus a housing association based in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales; a town that has experienced deindustrialization, peripheralization, and as a result, some of the UK’s highest levels of socio-economic deprivation. The importance of participatory working outside of a regulatory agenda and boundary is explored, to evaluate the role of tenant participation in building more effective community development practices. The data is gathered through an ethnographic methodology, working with tenants on facilitated projects to explore the impact of TP on tenants. It draws on two distinctive tenant initiatives: a cooking group and a tenant ‘youth forum’. The research finds that through these methods of engagement, a number of positive outcomes can be identified across the tenant body, namely (i) the forging and embedding of social values, (ii) empowering tenant groups and sustaining community identity and (iii) enhancing tenant wellbeing.

The Role of the Librarian in the Research Life Cycle

2020 ◽  
pp. 335-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josiline Phiri Chigwada
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Dissemination Of Research ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Impact

This chapter documents the role that is played by the librarians in the research life cycle and how they collaborate with researchers. Initially, librarians were regarded as service people who provide research support services during the research process. A literature review was done to unpack how this role was affected by the digital technologies and examine the partnering role that is now being displayed by librarians. It was noted that although there are some challenges that are encountered, researchers are collaborating with librarians from idea generation to the dissemination of research findings and evaluating the impact of the research. It was recommended that librarians should move along with these changes and should continuously develop themselves so that they are aware of the services that they are supposed to provide during the research process.

scholarly journals Effective Community Response to Disaster: Exploring the Role of Community Emergency Response Teams

EDIS ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Community Response ◽  
Response Team ◽  
Effective Community ◽  
The Impact

FCS9255, a 3-page fact sheet by M.A. Brennan, is part of a series of discussions on the impact of community action in response to natural and other disasters. This paper describes a relatively new approach to local involvement in disaster response that is emerging across counties and communities in the United States, the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program. Includes references, suggested reading, and links to useful Web sites. Published by the UF Department of Family Youth and Community Sciences, July 2006.

Escalation of Commitment in United States Collegiate Athletic Departments: An Investigation of Social and Structural Determinants of Commitment

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hutchinson ◽  
Calvin Nite ◽  
Adrien Bouchet
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Escalation Of Commitment ◽  
Structural Determinants ◽  
Organizational Status ◽  
Commitment Escalation ◽  
The Impact

Amid evidence of limited financial benefit, universities in the United States continue increasing their commitment to the NCAA’s highest level of competition. Consequently, it is believed that such behavior is the result of more intangible motivations by university decision makers. Using escalation of commitment theory as a framework, the authors explored social and structural determinants of increasing commitment, specifically examining the role of organizational status, former performance, and side-bets in commitment escalation. Applying a collective case study approach, the authors examined institutions (N= 10) having increased their commitment to Division I athletics within the last 10 years. Serving as the primary data source, participants (n= 35) included decision makers involved in the implementation of escalation initiatives. QSR International’s NVivo 10 software was employed for data analysis in the application of a three-step coding process. Findings revealed unique theoretical advancement in the emergence and role of organizational status in commitment escalation. Further, decision makers identified the impact of former organizational performance in the decision to increase athletic commitment. Finally, findings revealed the increased significance of organizational side-bets serving as the sole means for sustaining course of action commitment.

Intergroup Threat and Outgroup Attitudes

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 311-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Brambilla ◽  
David A. Butz
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
Intergroup Attitudes ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Intergroup Threat ◽  
Economic Threat ◽  
The Impact ◽  
General Climate

Two studies examined the impact of macrolevel symbolic threat on intergroup attitudes. In Study 1 (N = 71), participants exposed to a macrosymbolic threat (vs. nonsymbolic threat and neutral topic) reported less support toward social policies concerning gay men, an outgroup whose stereotypes implies a threat to values, but not toward welfare recipients, a social group whose stereotypes do not imply a threat to values. Study 2 (N = 78) showed that, whereas macrolevel symbolic threat led to less favorable attitudes toward gay men, macroeconomic threat led to less favorable attitudes toward Asians, an outgroup whose stereotypes imply an economic threat. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for understanding the role of a general climate of threat in shaping intergroup attitudes.

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