The lesson of talk over tea and cakes? Local research matters

Aims and MethodTo identify the proportion of arrested drug misusers with prior contact with treatment services, police surgeons' records were examined over a 12-month period and compared with the records of the local drug misuse services. Both referrals and those who attended with face-to-face contact were noted.ResultsSixty-seven per cent of drug-related cases had been referred to services prior to arrest and 58% had attended with face-to-face contact on at least one occasion. Homeless and male drug users were more likely to have had no past contact. Police surgeons treated three-quarters of the cases for opiate dependence. Drug misusers were much more likely to have had past contact with services than arrested alcohol misusers, and were more likely to reoffend.Clinical ImplicationsThe evidence base for motivational enhancement in the transient coercive setting of police custody is not established, and arrest referral schemes might not be cost-effective in areas where most cases have had previous contact with services. Local research may contribute to more informed decisions about these treatment-related criminal justice initiatives.

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Empoderando vidas y naciones resilientes desde el giro biográfico-local.

Cercles Revista d Hist�ria Cultural ◽

10.1344/cercles2019.22.1001 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Joseba Agirreazkuenaga

Keyword(s):

Human Development ◽

Local Communities ◽

Historical Research ◽

The Political ◽

Global History ◽

Political Practice ◽

The Past ◽

Globalized World ◽

Global And Local ◽

Local Research

In order to establish and consolidate the themes and ways of writing history, historians must be attentive to the global and local public agenda. Empowered lives - Resilient nations is a program for human development promoted by the UN. As long as there are local powers and local communities it will be necessary to carry out biographical-local research, analyzing these powers and communities in the past and present, establishing resilience patterns. We transform the historical research of the local past into global history. The personal and the political cannot be dissociated because “The personal is political and the political is personal”. Even eating is a political practice in today’s globalized world.

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The policy worker and the professor: understanding how New Zealand policy workers utilise academic research

Policy Quarterly ◽

10.26686/pq.v11i3.4546 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Karl Lofgren ◽

Dona Cavagnoli

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Advisory Committee ◽

Academic Research ◽

Science Advisory ◽

Everyday Work ◽

The Uk ◽

Science Advisory Committee ◽

Local Research

How do policy workers actually use academic research and advice? While there are several recent studies regarding this question from other Westminster jurisdictions (e.g. Talbot and Talbot, 2014, for the UK; Head et al., 2014, for Australia; Amara, Ouimet and Landry, 2004 and Ouimet et al., 2010, Canada), similar academic studies have been rare in New Zealand. So far, most of the local research in this field has been conducted by the prime minister’s chief science advisor and the Office of the Prime Minister’s Science Advisory Committee, with the particular instrumental purpose of improving the government’s ministries and agencies’ ‘use of evidence in both the formation and evaluation of policy’. However, none of these studies have asked how, and to what extent, policy workers in government are utilising academic research in their everyday work.

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How functional measurement of the traditional foods can raise the knowingness of old recipes used in Romania and Diaspora

Annals of Spiru Haret University Economic Series ◽

10.26458/1441 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 9

Author(s):

Luigi Fillippo Fillippo DANTUONO ◽

Carmen Costea ◽

Larisa MIHOREANU ◽

Adrian VASILE

Keyword(s):

Black Sea ◽

The Black Sea ◽

Bioactive Components ◽

Traditional Foods ◽

Main Research ◽

Collaborative Program ◽

Doctoral Programmes ◽

Sea Area ◽

Initial Research ◽

Local Research

The present research continues a European project on “sustainable exploitation of bioactive components from the Black Sea Area traditional foods”. Known as Base Food, it was a collaborative program, funded by European Union under the 7th Framework Programme, few years ago. The initial research brought together scientists from countries situated around the Black Sea together with consultants from Italy, United Kingdom, Greece, Portugal and Serbia. Farther the medical, nutritional and technological approaches (Campos S., Doxey J., & Hammond D., 2011, pp. 1496-1506) in the initial project, the Romanian team initiated a unique and outstanding valuable contribution and extended the local research towards socio-economic tracks. Thus, specific aspects were analysed and detailed within certain doctoral programmes. The present paper is emphasizing farther elements, remained collateral, when the main research was considered.

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Speaking to experts and patients: Recommendations for improving antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence

Health SA Gesondheid ◽

10.4102/hsag.v14i1.410 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Janice Frank ◽

Norman Duncan

Keyword(s):

Antiretroviral Therapy ◽

Health Sector ◽

Art Adherence ◽

Patient Relationship ◽

Mediating Effects ◽

Thematic Content Analysis ◽

The Public ◽

Antiretroviral Medication ◽

Local Research ◽

Roll Out

This article reports on the findings of a study that aimed to explore experts’ and patients’ opinions and recommendations regarding adherence to antiretroviral medication. This study was prompted firstly by the lack of existing local research on adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and secondly by the importance of adherence, given the recent introduction of ART to the public health sector. Four experts and seven patients were interviewed. The experts had worked within the HIV/AIDS field for at least two years while the patients (chosen from public antiretroviral roll-out programmes) had been on ART for at least six months. These interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic content analysis. This article focuses specifically on the recommendations for improving adherence that emerged from the experts' and patients' interviews. While the experts and patients generated two fairly distinct sets of recommendations (clearly informed by their different experiences and knowledge), both groups emphasised the importance of the mediating effects of social support and the healthcare provider–patient relationship in adherence to ART medication.OpsommingGesprekke met kundiges en pasiënte: Aanbevelings ter verbetering van ART-nakoming. Hierdie artikel doen verslag oor die bevindinge van ’n studie wat kundiges en pasiënte se menings en aanbevelings ten opsigte van die nakoming van antiretrovirale medikasievoorskrifte ondersoek het. Die studie is in die eerste plek uitgevoer na aanleiding van die gebrek aan bestaande plaaslike navorsing oor die nakoming van antiretrovirale terapie (ART) en in die tweede plek na aanleiding van die belangrikheid van nakoming in die lig van die onlangse bekendstelling van ART in die openbaregesondheidsektor. Onderhoude is met vier kundiges en sewe pasiënte gevoer. Die kundiges het vir ten minste twee jaar binne die MIV/Vigs-omgewing gewerk en die pasiënte (wat uit die openbare antiretrovirale bekendstellingsprogramme gekies is) het ten minste ses maande van ART-terapie ondergaan. Die onderhoude is getranskribeer en met die gebruik van tematiese inhoudsanalise ontleed. Hierdie artikel fokus spesifiek op die aanbevelings vir die verbetering van nakoming wat uit die onderhoude met die kundiges en die pasiënte gespruit het. Terwyl die kundiges en die pasiënte twee redelik uiteenlopende stelle aanbevelings gemaak het (wat duidelik deur hulle onderskeie ondervinding en kennis beïnvloed is), het altwee groepe beklemtoon dat die bemiddelende effek van maatskaplike ondersteuning en die verhouding tussen die pasiënt en die voorsiener van gesondheidsorg ’n belangrike rol speel in die nakoming van ART-medikasievoorskrifte.

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香港青少年性犯罪者的心理特徵及矫治方法

The Hong Kong Journal of Social Work ◽

10.1142/s0219246297000107 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 31 (01n02) ◽

pp. 127-137

Author(s):

成富李

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Sexual Offenders ◽

Classification System ◽

Correctional Treatment ◽

Sexual Crimes ◽

Sexual Offenses ◽

Cognitive Behavioural ◽

Assessment And Treatment ◽

Classificatory System ◽

Local Research

性犯罪在香港整体罪案数字中只占一个很小的比率，而有关性犯罪的本地研究也十分稀少。现行的罪案分类方式明显地不能反映性犯罪的普遍性，也不适用于对罪犯的评估及矫治工作。本文从一个犯罪心理学的角度提出一套简便的分类系统，以犯罪者的动机和行为为基础对犯罪者作出评估，提供预后推测，并建议一套以认知行为治疗法为本的矫治程序，认为值得广泛推行。文内并有个案描述，以资佐证。 Sexual offenses make up only a small portion of the total number of offenses in Hong Kong, and local research related to sexual offenses is also scanty. The current offense classification system not only fails to reflect the prevalence of sexual crimes but is also found irrelevant to the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders. This article attempts to propose a concise classificatory system from the perspective of criminological psychology. The offenders' motives and behaviours are used as the bases of assessment and prognosis. A cognitive-behavioural approach to correctional treatment is outlined and advocated. Case materials are provided for illustration.

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