Guest Editorial: Reinvigorating Project Management Research and Practice: Perspectives from the Non-Profit Sector

The genesis of this Special Issue was a conference on “Delivering Social Good: Managing Projects in the Non-Profit Sector” held at the University of Limerick in October 2014. The diversity that exists within the broad non-profit sector became apparent at this event, as did its increasing projectification and the variety of organizational forms and models resulting from this trend. Tools, techniques, processes and practices inherited from the business world were described, as were methodologies adopted, adapted and specifically designed for work in areas like international development, humanitarian work and community settings. Insights into the lived experiences of project managers in the non-profit sector were also shared, as were a number of diverse conceptualisations of temporary organisations.

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Adopting Results Based Management in the Non-Profit Sector: Trócaire’s Experience

Project Management Research and Practice ◽

10.5130/pmrp.v3i0.5122 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 5122 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Eoghan McKernan ◽

Karen Kennedy ◽

Allison Aldred

Keyword(s):

International Development ◽

Aid Effectiveness ◽

Impact Measurement ◽

High Quality ◽

New Approach ◽

Non Profit ◽

Lessons Learnt ◽

Humanitarian Work

The increasing emphasis on aid effectiveness, accountability and impact measurement in international development and humanitarian work has generated a requirement for high quality internal systems for the management of programmes. To help to address this requirement, Trócaire adopted Results Based Management in the 20 countries in which it works. This paper provides an overview of Trócaire’s RBM journey, including the process of embedding the new approach in the organisation, lessons learnt from this process, the subsequent benefits that are emerging at field programme level and the challenges going forward.

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Guest Editorial

International Journal of Serious Games ◽

10.17083/ijsg.v4i2.187 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge

Keyword(s):

Serious Games ◽

Guest Editorial ◽

Special Issue ◽

International Conference ◽

Entertainment Computing ◽

The University

This special issue presents five papers bringing new insights into the field of accessibility and serious games. This is a special issue from the workshops and the doctorial consortium from the 15th International Conference on Entertainment Computing 2016 hosted by professor Helmut Hlavacs at the University in Vienna, Austria (https://icec2016.cs.univie.ac.at/index.php?item=home).

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Introduction to the Special Issue

Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association ◽

10.26503/todigra.v4i2.87 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Martin Gibbs

Keyword(s):

International Association ◽

Research Association ◽

Special Issue ◽

High Quality ◽

High Quality Research ◽

Quality Research ◽

Non Profit ◽

International Conference ◽

University Of Technology ◽

The University

The 2017 Digital Games Research Association International Conference (DiGRA 2017) was held in Melbourne, 3-6 July 2017. Swinburne University of Technology, RMIT University and The University of Melbourne joined together to host the conference.The DiGRA International Conference series offers a venue for research from all disciplines to present and discuss games-related research. Founded in 2003, DiGRA is the premiere non-profit international association for academics and professionals who research both digital and analogue games and associated phenomena. Since its beginnings, it has encouraged high-quality research on games, and promotes collaboration and dissemination of work by its members.

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Guest editorial: games for learning and dialogue on humanitarian work

Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management ◽

10.1108/jhlscm-01-2015-0005 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 61-72 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Casper Harteveld ◽

Pablo Suarez

Keyword(s):

Guest Editorial ◽

Special Issue ◽

Content Type ◽

Body Of Knowledge ◽

Current State ◽

Online Tools ◽

Games For Learning ◽

The Impact ◽

Humanitarian Work ◽

Insight Into

Purpose – The purpose of this guest editorial is to provide the introduction and context of the Special Issue on Games for Learning and Dialogue on Humanitarian Work. The Special Issue aims to promote the development, deployment, and analysis of games for the humanitarian sector: it investigates how games can meaningfully engage people and organizations in experiencing, understanding and improving complex systems. Design/methodology/approach – The editorial describes the need and motivation for building a body of knowledge on the use of games in the humanitarian sector. It further gives an overview of the three papers included in this Special Issue and how they contribute to building such a body of knowledge. Findings – Games enable participants to experience the complexity of humanitarian systems, linking decisions with consequences. Even though game-like approaches have been used for decades in disaster management, there is little written about it. The papers included in this Special Issue provide insights and frameworks to learn from, ranging from online tools that reveal inefficiencies in supply chains, to simulated emergency response exercises, to applied improvisation. In addition, the current papers highlight the need for more empirical study of the impact of games. Research implications/limitations – The Special Issue describes three unique cases, which by no means cover the entire practice of games in the humanitarian sector. However, they do provide insight into the diversity of game-like approaches and signal the current state of practice and research of games for learning and dialogue on humanitarian work. Practical implications – This editorial gives an overview of how games could be used in practice and why they are relevant for humanitarian work. It further highlights how the contributions in the Special Issue may help in improving humanitarian work. Originality/value – Although review papers and Special Issues have appeared on particular topics such as climate change, to our knowledge no significant academic attention has been given to humanitarian work with regards to games.

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Health and Medical Informatics Education

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1635023 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 33 (03) ◽

pp. 246-249 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

R. Haux ◽

F. J. Leven ◽

J. R. Moehr ◽

D. J. Protti

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Health Information ◽

Medical Informatics ◽

Health Informatics ◽

Information Science ◽

Management Program ◽

Science Program ◽

Special Issue ◽

Academic Degree ◽

The University

Abstract:Health and medical informatics education has meanwhile gained considerable importance for medicine and for health care. Specialized programs in health/medical informatics have therefore been established within the last decades.This special issue of Methods of Information in Medicine contains papers on health and medical informatics education. It is mainly based on selected papers from the 5th Working Conference on Health/Medical Informatics Education of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), which was held in September 1992 at the University of Heidelberg/Technical School Heilbronn, Germany, as part of the 20 years’ celebration of medical informatics education at Heidelberg/Heilbronn. Some papers were presented on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the health information science program of the School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Within this issue, programs in health/medical informatics are presented and analyzed: the medical informatics program at the University of Utah, the medical informatics program of the University of Heidelberg/School of Technology Heilbronn, the health information science program at the University of Victoria, the health informatics program at the University of Minnesota, the health informatics management program at the University of Manchester, and the health information management program at the University of Alabama. They all have in common that they are dedicated curricula in health/medical informatics which are university-based, leading to an academic degree in this field. In addition, views and recommendations for health/medical informatics education are presented. Finally, the question is discussed, whether health and medical informatics can be regarded as a separate discipline with the necessity for specialized curricula in this field.In accordance with the aims of IMIA, the intention of this special issue is to promote the further development of health and medical informatics education in order to contribute to high quality health care and medical research.

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Guest Editorial Special Issue on Big Data Applications and Techniques in Cyber Threat Intelligence

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing ◽

10.31209/2020.100000198 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. -1--1

Author(s):

Zheng Xu ◽

Qingyuan Zhou

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

Guest Editorial ◽

Special Issue ◽

Big Data Applications ◽

Threat Intelligence ◽

Editorial Special Issue ◽

Cyber Threat ◽

Cyber Threat Intelligence

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Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Big Data

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing ◽

10.31209/2020.100000194 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. -1--1

Author(s):

Arun Sangaiah ◽

Ford Gao ◽

Krishn Mishra

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

Guest Editorial ◽

Special Issue ◽

Editorial Special Issue

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Introduction: Transdiasporic Rencontres in Việt Kiều Literature

PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies ◽

10.5130/portal.v15i1-2.6174 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (1-2) ◽

pp. 1-5

Author(s):

Alexandra Kurmann ◽

Tess Do

Keyword(s):

New Caledonia ◽

Literary Texts ◽

Special Issue ◽

Contemporary Writing ◽

The University ◽

First Time ◽

Vietnamese Diaspora

This special issue follows a conference entitled ‘Rencontres: A Gathering of Voices of the Vietnamese Diaspora’ that was held at the University of Melbourne, December 1-2 in 2016 and which sought to enable, for the first time, the titular transdiasporic rencontres or encounters between international authors of the Vietnamese diaspora. The present amalgam of previously unpublished texts written by celebrated Francophone and Anglophone authors of Vietnamese descent writing in France, New Caledonia and Australia today is the result of the intercultural exchanges that took place during that event. Literary texts by Linda Lê, Anna Moï and Thanh-Van Tran-Nhut are followed by writerly reflections on the theme of transdiasporic encounters from Hoai Huong Nguyen, Jean Vanmai and Hoa Pham. Framing and enriching these texts, scholarly contributions by established experts in the field consider the literary, cultural and linguistic transfers that characterize contemporary writing by authors of Vietnamese origin across the Francophone world. Ce volume spécial réunit les Actes du colloque ‘Rencontres : A Gathering of Voices of the Vietnamese Diaspora’ qui s’est tenue à l’Université de Melbourne les 1er et 2 décembre 2016 et qui visait à faciliter, pour la première fois, les rencontres entre les auteurs, chercheurs et universitaires internationaux de la diaspora vietnamienne. Les fruits de leurs échanges interculturels y sont réunis dans ce présent recueil sous deux formes complémentaires : d’un côté, les articles d’experts en littérature francophone comparée ; de l’autre, les contributions créatives de célèbres auteurs francophones et anglophones d’origine vietnamienne basés aujourd’hui en France, en Nouvelle Calédonie et en Australie. Les textes littéraires de Linda Lê, Anna Moï et Thanh-Van Tran-Nhut, suivis de réflexions d’auteurs par Hoai Huong Nguyen, Hoa Pham et Jean Vanmai sur le thème des rencontres transdiasporiques, se retrouvent enrichis par les études savantes menées sur les transferts littéraires, culturelles et linguistiques qui caractérisent l’écriture contemporaine des écrivains d’origine vietnamienne dans le monde francophone.

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