Lived experience influencing law reform: insights from a collaborative research project

2020 ◽  
pp. 146879412092565
Author(s):  
Eilionóir Flynn ◽  
Clíona de Bhailís ◽  
María Laura Serra
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Legal Capacity ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Recruitment And Selection ◽  
Selection Of

This article will explore the methodologies employed in a collaborative research project on lived experience of exercise or denial of legal capacity, known as the Voices of Individuals: Collectively Exploring Self-determination (VOICES) project. In so doing, the project’s research team will reflect on key decisions about the project’s background, design, implementation (including the recruitment and selection of participants, workshops and editing contributions) and considerations for further research.

Aiding the Transition of Students From School Into Technical University

2019 ◽  
pp. 154-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Tsibizova
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Professional Orientation ◽  
Resource Center ◽  
Training And Research ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Recruitment And Selection ◽  
Selection Of

This chapter is about different aspects of creating university-based professionally orienting environment. Issues of students' professional self-determination in transition from secondary education to high school are considered. The author suggests to arrange resource center as a training and research innovative complex for solution of youth's problems with early professional orientation, their motivation, for recruitment and selection of the most prepared for further study. As a result of the center's usability there is a developing trend towards form and direction diversity in scientific, educational, and industrial integration, growing university penetration into secondary school, and high school scientific research's impact into industry.

scholarly journals Organizational building versus teachers’ personal and relational needs for school improvement

2020 ◽  
pp. 136548022097287
Author(s):  
Mette Liljenberg ◽  
Ulf Blossing
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
School Improvement ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Team ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
School Organization ◽  
School Leader ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Critical Aspects

Organizational building is essential if school leaders are to promote school improvement, but it can be difficult to combine with school leaders’ requirements to satisfy teachers’ personal and relational needs. The the aim of this study is to explore critical aspects when combining organizational building with requirements to satisfy teachers’ personal and relational needs in efforts to strengthen improvement capacity. The paper draws on a 3-year collaborative research project between a research team at a Swedish university and a municipality. It is based on data acquired in 137 interviews with 535 respondents in 28 public school and preschool units. The results highlight the importance of combining organizational building with efforts to improve teachers’ understanding of, motivation to promote, and adaptation to, the goals of the school organization. The significance of the study lies in clearly distinguishing the need to link organizational building and requirements to meet teachers’ personal and relational needs. Continually telling the story of the school and thus enabling teachers to personally connect to the improvement history is suggested as an innovative school leader strategy.

The right to legal agency: domination, disability and the protections of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Arstein-Kerslake ◽  
Eilionóir Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Cognitive Disability ◽  
Legal Capacity ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Level ◽  
Republican Theory

AbstractArticle 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has created a revolution in legal-capacity law reform. It protects the right to exercise legal agency for people with disabilities with more clarity than any prior human rights instrument. This paper explores what constitutes an exercise of legal agency and what exactly Article 12 protects. It proposes a definition of legal agency and applies it to the lived experience of cognitive disability. It also uses a republican theory of domination to argue that people with cognitive disabilities who are experiencing domination are forced to assert legal agency in even daily decision-making because of the high level of external regulation of their lives and the ever-present threat of others substituting their decision-making. It identifies Article 12 as a tool for protecting such exertions of legal agency and curtailing relationships of domination.

scholarly journals Are We Done Yet? Reflections on the Sustainability of Knowledge Products

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692110609
Author(s):  
Karen Gallant ◽  
Susan Hutchinson ◽  
Catherine White ◽  
Fenton Litwiller ◽  
Barbara Hamilton-Hinch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Knowledge To Action

While collaborative research approaches help ensure that knowledge products resulting from research will be relevant to stakeholders and increase the likelihood that they will be integrated into practice, there has been limited attention given to the supports essential to maintaining knowledge products. Focussing on one research project whose knowledge products are heavily used, in this paper, we discuss the challenges associated with maintaining the integrity of these knowledge products, particularly tensions associated with: (1) lack of alignment of our needs, timelines and resources as researchers with those of community partners; (2) the ongoing need to support the evolution of knowledge products despite the conclusion of funding and project infrastructure and (3) lack of clarity about decision-making responsibility related to the ongoing evolution of these knowledge products. Out of these challenges, we offer recommendations for negotiating the evolution of knowledge products and sustaining the Knowledge to Action (KTA) cycle. These recommendations focus on documenting responsibilities for knowledge product maintenance and communication, assigning expiry dates to knowledge products, identifying secure, long-term repositories for knowledge products and planning for engagement of research partners with lived experience in the maintenance of research products.

Graduate Student Professional Development in Applied Sociology Courses through Group Research Projects

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter F. Korsching ◽  
Gregory Peter
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Applied Sociology ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Group Research ◽  
Professional Meeting

Designing stimulating and scholarly course projects for graduate students in an applied sociology course is a challenge. We discuss the development and continued refinement a type of course project that involves all students in the course in a collaborative research project and helps them understand the process of conducting and reporting applied research. Objectives of the project for the students are: (1) professionalization and socialization into the discipline; (2) experience in defining, developing, executing, and delivering a real-world research project; (3) experience in working on a research team and working with other disciplines; (4) development of critical thinking and the sociological imagination in conceptualizing the project; and (5) output of a scholarly product for the students' vita. The students define the research problem, identify subjects, develop research instruments, collect data, analyze the data, and write a paper potentially resulting in a professional meeting presentation and publication in an academic journal.

Collaboration, Power, Participation and Control on a Large Scale Research Team: Multiple Perspectives from the Oxford House Research Project

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley Olson ◽  
Leonard Jason ◽  
Joseph R. Ferrari ◽  
Leon Venable ◽  
Bertel F. Williams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Oxford House ◽  
And Control

Methodological Proposal Focused on the Intangible Resources Diagnosis of Intellectual Capital for Tourism Destination

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 739-748
Author(s):  
Quadrini Fabiana Andrea ◽  
◽  
Abraham Cynthia Anahi
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Innovative Activity ◽  
Positive Relation ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Intangible Resources

The purpose of this paper is to develop and deepen one of the research lines that since 2010 the research team has been working on. It is related to one of the objectives set forth in the schedule of the research project “Management of the intellectual capital and innovation for tourism destination: a way to boost sector competitiveness”, which is being developed. The aim is to design and present a method that let make a diagnosis of intangible resources of intellectual capital for tourism destination and show its positive relation with innovative activity.

The Research Project «Names of Modern Professions» in Extracurricular Work with 6-th Grade Russian Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (6) ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
M. I. Vasileva
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Selection Of

The aim of the study was to investigate approaches to the formation of general educational skills. A survey examining the design and research process was carried out by 6th-grade Russian students over the course of an extracurricular project entitled «Names of Modern Professions». In the paper, the selection of the «Lexicology» section for such activities carried out by school pupils is substantiated and stages of work on the project are described. The applied methodology involves theoretical analysis of scientific literature, formative experimentation, analysis of products of educational activities, observation and description. It is concluded that the design of extracurricular research activities in the Russian language contributes to the formation of general educational competencies in conducting surveys and searching for information on the basis of subject skills.

scholarly journals Giving a Voice to Students with Disabilities to Design Library Experiences: An Ethnographic Study

Societies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Monica Cerdan Chiscano
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Research Project

Although librarians generally display an inclusive management style, barriers to students with disabilities remain widespread. Against this backdrop, a collaborative research project called Inclusive Library was launched in 2019 in Catalonia, Spain. This study empirically tests how involving students with disabilities in the experience design process can lead to new improvements in users’ library experience. A mix of qualitative techniques, namely focus groups, ethnographic techniques and post-experience surveys, were used to gain insights from the 20 libraries and 20 students with disabilities collaborating in the project. Based on the participants’ voices and follow-up experiences, the study makes several suggestions on how libraries can improve their accessibility. Results indicate that ensuring proper resource allocation for accessibility improves students with disabilities’ library experience. Recommendations for library managers are also provided.

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