The role of networking and social media tools during job search: an information behaviour perspective
Journal Article
Mowbray, J., Hall, H., Raeside, R., & Robertson, P. (2017)
The role of networking and social media tools during job search: an information behaviour perspective. Information Research, 22(1),
Introduction. The paper presents a critical analysis of the extant literature pertaining to the networking behaviour of young jobseekers in both offline and online environment...
Employability, Poverty and the Spheres of Sociability - Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
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Canduela, J., Raeside, R., Lindsay, C., & Graham, H. (2015)
Employability, Poverty and the Spheres of Sociability - Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey. Social Policy and Administration, 49(5), 571-592. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12101
Policymakers in the UK and beyond have sought to promote interventions to encourage social capital-building among disadvantaged groups. One specific concern is that those with...
Communicative actions, women's degree of social connectedness and child mortality in rural Bangladesh
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Gayen, K., & Raeside, R. (2010)
Communicative actions, women's degree of social connectedness and child mortality in rural Bangladesh. Child: Care, Health and Development, 36(6), 827-834. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2214.2010.01099.x
Background Child deaths are decreasing throughout South East Asia, yet the rate remains high and is a cause of considerable anguish. In Bangladesh, there is also a great deal...
Social networks and contraception practice of women in rural Bangladesh
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Gayen, K., & Raeside, R. (2010)
Social networks and contraception practice of women in rural Bangladesh. Social Science and Medicine, 71(9), 1584-1592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.08.002
This paper analyzed the association of social networks with contraceptive use using both structural and attitudinal properties of social networks. Data were collected from sev...
Modelling the effect of social affinity between nations on their development
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Raeside, R. (2009)
Modelling the effect of social affinity between nations on their development. International journal of pure and applied mathematics : IJPAM, 50, 251-258
Nations have developed at different rates and this differential development is manifested on the wellbeing of their populations. The reasons for different rates of development...
Social network analysis to study social capital and development
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Raeside, R., & Gayen, K. (2009)
Social network analysis to study social capital and development. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review, 3, 75-88
It is widely recognised that individuals with high social capital are important in either promoting or acting as inhibitors to the diffusion of knowledge and information. It i...
Factors affecting the most recent fertility rates in urban-rural Bangladesh
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Khan, H., & Raeside, R. (1997)
Factors affecting the most recent fertility rates in urban-rural Bangladesh. Social science & medicine, 44(3), 279-289. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0277-9536%2896%2900076-7
This paper reports on a study which has been undertaken using data from the 1989 Bangladesh Fertility Survey (BFS) to determine the significance of influences on the probabili...