Measuring the organizational impact of training: The need for greater methodological rigor
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Garavan, T., McCarthy, A., Sheehan, M., Lai, Y., Saunders, M. N. K., Clarke, N., …Shanahan, V. (2019)
Measuring the organizational impact of training: The need for greater methodological rigor. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 30(3), 291-309. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21345
We review the methodological rigor of empirical quantitative studies that have investigated the training and organisational performance relationship. Through a content analys...
Using social media to engage nurses in health policy development
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O'Connor, S. (2017)
Using social media to engage nurses in health policy development. Journal of Nursing Management, 25(8), 632-639. https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.12501
Aims: To explore nurses' views on future priorities for the profession and to examine social media as an engagement tool to aid policy discussion and development.
Background: ...
Contra Bentham: ethical information policy in the PanopticEon
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Duff, A. S., & Bentham, C. (2017)
Contra Bentham: ethical information policy in the PanopticEon. Journal of Information Ethics, 26(1), 93-111
The article addresses the problem of surveillance within the framework of ethical information policy. Jeremy Bentham’s plan for a panoptic penitentiary is subjected to forensi...
Ethical ePunditry? The role of expertise in online opinion-making
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Forrest, E., & Duff, A. S. (2017)
Ethical ePunditry? The role of expertise in online opinion-making. Journal of Information Ethics, 26(1),
The use of blogs to communicate ideas, opinions and knowledge has grown over the past two decades. Social media platforms have facilitated the rise of hybridised forms of writ...
The role of networking and social media tools during job search: an information behaviour perspective
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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...
Securing Disunion: young people’s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland
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Botterill, K., Hopkins, P., Sanghera, G., & Arshad, R. (2016)
Securing Disunion: young people’s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland. Political Geography, 55, 124-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.09.002
This paper explores ethnic and religious minority youth perspectives of security and nationalism in Scotland during the independence campaign in 2014. We discuss how young pe...
Gender, authentic leadership, and identity: an analysis of women leaders' autobiographies.
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Sang, K. J., Kapasi, I., Sang, K., & Sitko, R. (2016)
Gender, authentic leadership, and identity: an analysis of women leaders' autobiographies. Gender in Management: An International Journal, 31(5/6), 339-358. https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-06-2015-0058
Purpose: Leadership theories have moved from viewing leadership as a personality trait, towards models that recognise leadership as a social construction. Alongside this theor...
Parents' perspectives of a universal early attachment programme in Scotland
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Stone, K., & Burgess, C. (2016)
Parents' perspectives of a universal early attachment programme in Scotland. Health Promotion International, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daw026
The ‘A Good Start’ programme is a universal early attachment programme for parents and babies aged 8 weeks and over, run by a charitable organization in one Scottish local aut...
"We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research
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Botterill, K. (2015)
"We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research. Forum: Qualitative Social Research / Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 16(2),
This article offers a reflexive account of conducting research on Polish migration to Scotland from the perspective of the "outsider." The contribution argues for a revision t...
Extending the semiotics of embodied interaction to blended spaces.
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O'Neill, S., & Benyon, D. (2015)
Extending the semiotics of embodied interaction to blended spaces. Human technology an interdisciplinary journal on humans in ICT environments, 11, 30-56. https://doi.org/10.17011/ht/urn.201505061739
In this paper, we develop a new way of understanding interactions in blended spaces. We do this by developing ideas about embodied semiotics and then apply these ideas to the ...