A Call for a National Digitization Strategy in the United Kingdom

2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Bültmann
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Current State ◽  
Future Potential ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Uk

This article calls for the creation of a national digitization strategy in the United Kingdom. It summarizes the author's research into the current state of digitization in the UK with reference to present strategy, direction and funding. The application of a defined strategy is contentious and the author considers arguments on both sides of the debate. The author argues however that digitization has ‘come of age’ and that it is essential that integration and harmonization of methods are considered by UK stakeholders in order to maximize future potential. The author proceeds to suggest what future steps are necessary to achieve this goal.

scholarly journals 1970-2020: A fifty year history the personal social services and social work in England and across the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-44
Author(s):  
Ray Jones
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Uk

2020 is the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of a unified profession of social work across the United Kingdom and of the creation of integrated personal social services in each of the four UK countries. This paper reflects on the genesis of these changes, tracks developments over the past fifty years, and comments on the current state of social work and the personal social services in England and throughout the UK.

1970-2020: A fifty year history the personal social services and social work in England and across the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Jones
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Uk

2020 is the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of a unified profession of social work across the United Kingdom and of the creation of integrated personal social services in each of the four UK countries. This paper reflects on the genesis of these changes, tracks developments over the past fifty years, and comments on the current state of social work and the personal social services in England and throughout the UK.

scholarly journals A history of the development of the mathematics and statistics support community in the United Kingdom. Part 1: From alpha to sigma

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Duncan Lawson
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Centre Of Excellence ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Formal Feature

In terms of the history of mathematics higher education, mathematics and statistics support (MSS) is a very recent development, existing as a formal feature for less than 50 years.  However, in this short time, MSS has displayed its own characteristics.  A particularly notable feature of MSS in the United Kingdom (and in other countries) has been the way in which practitioners have collaborated with each other, almost from the outset.  This collaboration has led to the creation of a community (the sigma network) with a written constitution and formal membership.  This two-part article traces the history of the development of the MSS community in the UK from its earliest incarnations to the present day.  The first part of the article reviews the period from the early 1990s to 2005 during which time the key events were the rise and demise of the Mathematics Support Association and the creation of sigma, Centre of Excellence in University-wide Mathematics and Statistics Support. 

7. The structure of the United Kingdom and devolution

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Parpworth
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Constitutional History ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
The Uk

This chapter discusses the structure and devolution of the UK. It first sketches the constitutional history of the UK, presenting a brief outline of events that led to the creation of the UK, i.e. the union of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. The chapter then examines the issue of devolution, which has been particularly important to the people of Scotland and Wales. The key provisions of the devolution legislation enacted in 1998 and more recent legislative developments are reviewed. The chapter concludes by considering the ‘English Question’ and the agreements between the UK Government and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

7. The structure of the United Kingdom and devolution

2020 ◽  
pp. 142-172
Author(s):  
Neil Parpworth
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Constitutional History ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Uk

This chapter discusses the structure and devolution of the UK. It first sketches the constitutional history of the UK, presenting a brief outline of events that led to the creation of the UK, ie the union of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. The chapter then examines the issue of devolution, which has been particularly important to the people of Scotland and Wales. The key provisions of the devolution legislation enacted in 1998 and more recent legislative developments are reviewed. The chapter concludes by considering the ‘English Question’, and the agreements between the UK Government and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and the devolution provisions in the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.

Re-inventing the Union: Dicey, Devolution, and the Union

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Significant Contributor ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Parliamentary Sovereignty ◽  
Territorial Politics ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Uk

This chapter addresses the fictions and reshaping of the United Kingdom constitution over the twentieth century. It also examines the territorial nature of the UK, making use of the most significant contributor to the creation of fictions concerned with territorial politics. Albert Venn Dicey contributed to the creation of one fiction — that of parliamentary sovereignty. He also contributed largely through popularising the notion. The chapter starts by describing the territorial nature of the UK. The caricatures, polemics and principles of Dicey are reported. His work, thinking and interpretations have been influential in two related respects, though these two are often conflated. First, Dicey has been influential in informing how the constitution operated and operates, and secondly how it ought to operate: he has been both descriptively and prescriptively influential. The three watchwords by Dicey comprise a pluralist fiction which has informed constitutional debate. These watchwords remain important but the balance has altered fundamentally.

scholarly journals Organisation and provision of head and neck cancer surgical services in the United Kingdom: United Kingdom National Multidisciplinary Guidelines

2016 ◽  
Vol 130 (S2) ◽  
pp. S5-S8 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Stafford ◽  
K Ah-See ◽  
M Fardy ◽  
K Fell
Keyword(s):  
Head And Neck Cancer ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Head And Neck ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Neck Cancer ◽  
Surgical Specialty ◽  
Surgical Services ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThis is the official guideline endorsed by the surgical specialty associations involved in the care of head and neck cancer patients in the UK. This paper summarises the current state of play in the organisation and provision of head and neck cancer surgical services in the UK.

scholarly journals Dissecting Disbelief: Possible Reasons for the Denial of the Existence of Ritual Abuse in the United Kingdom

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-93
Author(s):  
Kate Richardson
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
False Memory ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Ritual Abuse ◽  
Psychological Literature ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Late Modern

When allegations of ritual abuse first came to light in the UK, they were met primarily with a ‘discourse of disbelief’ that left little room for the possibility accounts could be based in genuine experience. Despite convictions, recent criminological, sociological and psychological literature appears fixed on debunking ritual abuse’s existence through highly debated concepts such as ‘false memory’. This paper proposes three broad ‘reasons’ for the creation and maintenance of disbelief around ritual abuse, highlighting the importance of key cases in shaping press coverage of the issue during the 1980s and 1990s, and the role survivor advocates have played in distancing ritual abuse from established knowledge within both psychology and child protection. I argue that the tangibility of death and abject horror within survivor accounts, as well as the perceived religious motivations of perpetrators, make ritual abuse both experientially and conceptually alien to most members of late-modern societies. 

scholarly journals Archiving Archaeological Data in the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian D. Richards
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Fragmented Landscape ◽  
Data Service ◽  
Digital Archiving ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Uk

Owing to its early lead in the world of digital preservation, fostered by the creation of the Archaeology Data Service in 1996, the UK is often considered to be in an advanced position for digital archiving of archaeological data. In some ways it is, but the situation is also complex, due to a highly fragmented landscape, spread across four nations, and multiple sectors. This overview article describes the organisation and structure of archaeology across the UK, and the provision for digital preservation and access. Digital archiving is still far from standard, but the situation is improving, and rests on firm foundations.

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