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Trial By Fire: Natural Hazards, Mixed-Methods And Cultural Research, Christine Eriksen, Nicholas J. Gill, Ross A. Bradstock Dec 2012

Trial By Fire: Natural Hazards, Mixed-Methods And Cultural Research, Christine Eriksen, Nicholas J. Gill, Ross A. Bradstock

Christine Eriksen

This paper considers the issues of research 'relevance' and 'use' to reflect upon a cultural geography research project on bushfire that did not begin with any specific aim of being useful to policy makers but which has garnered considerable and ongoing interest from a broad audience. It provides an example of how the integration of quantitative and qualitative research methods and data can enhance research into cultural aspects of natural hazards whilst simultaneously playing a key role in ensuring that the research results are of interest to a wide range of groups. Using a mixed-methods research approach was found to …


Trial By Fire: Natural Hazards, Mixed-Methods And Cultural Research, Christine Eriksen, Nicholas J. Gill, Ross A. Bradstock Sep 2012

Trial By Fire: Natural Hazards, Mixed-Methods And Cultural Research, Christine Eriksen, Nicholas J. Gill, Ross A. Bradstock

Nicholas J Gill

This paper considers the issues of research 'relevance' and 'use' to reflect upon a cultural geography research project on bushfire that did not begin with any specific aim of being useful to policy makers but which has garnered considerable and ongoing interest from a broad audience. It provides an example of how the integration of quantitative and qualitative research methods and data can enhance research into cultural aspects of natural hazards whilst simultaneously playing a key role in ensuring that the research results are of interest to a wide range of groups. Using a mixed-methods research approach was found to …


Decolonizing The Production Of Geographical Knowledges? Reflections On Research With Indigenous Musicians, Christopher Gibson Sep 2012

Decolonizing The Production Of Geographical Knowledges? Reflections On Research With Indigenous Musicians, Christopher Gibson

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.


The Cultural Research Network: Opportunities For A Rhizomic Future For Geography In Australia?, Christopher Gibson Sep 2012

The Cultural Research Network: Opportunities For A Rhizomic Future For Geography In Australia?, Christopher Gibson

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.


Counter-Geographies: The Campaign Against Rationalisation Of Agricultural Research Stations In New South Wales, Australia, Christopher Gibson, S Phillips, R. Dufty, Heather Smith Sep 2012

Counter-Geographies: The Campaign Against Rationalisation Of Agricultural Research Stations In New South Wales, Australia, Christopher Gibson, S Phillips, R. Dufty, Heather Smith

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.


Goodbye Pram City: Beyond Inner/Outer Zone Binaries In Creative City Research, Christopher Gibson, Christopher Brennan-Horley Sep 2012

Goodbye Pram City: Beyond Inner/Outer Zone Binaries In Creative City Research, Christopher Gibson, Christopher Brennan-Horley

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.


Socially Innovative Research Networks: A Roadmap For Sinet, Helen M. Hasan Aug 2012

Socially Innovative Research Networks: A Roadmap For Sinet, Helen M. Hasan

Helen Hasan

The Social Innovation Network (SInet) was established for cross-disciplinary research on social innovation to 'create better futures for people'. SInet is itself socially innovative since a network is a relatively unfamiliar configuration for a university-wide research unit. A network provides an identity to a research collective that is real, having status and support,but which is fundamentally different to an institute. In a network, connections and flows of knowledge tend to be horizontal not vertical. A network is flexible, reconfigurable, responsive to change and less formal, and has the potential for lower administrative overheads. As knowledge workers, university researchers perform best …


The Relationship Between Driving Anxiety And Driving Skill: A Review Of Human Factors And Anxiety-Performance Theories To Clarify Future Research Needs, Joanne Taylor, Frank P. Deane, John Podd Aug 2012

The Relationship Between Driving Anxiety And Driving Skill: A Review Of Human Factors And Anxiety-Performance Theories To Clarify Future Research Needs, Joanne Taylor, Frank P. Deane, John Podd

Frank Deane

This article examines theory and identifies gaps in research related to the role of driving skills in driving anxiety. Increasingly, investigators have examined the clinical features of driving anxiety and the more severe situation of driving fear and phobia, but the possible involvement of driving skills has been neglected. This is surprising given the potential implications for skills training and remediation in the assessment and treatment of some of those who experience driving anxiety, fear, and phobia. The largest body of relevant research comes from the driving and human factors literature on the relationship between anxiety and driving performance. The …


Increasing Research Familiarity Amongst Members Of A Clubhouse For People With Mental Illness, Sarah Louise Marshall, Frank Deane, Nicola Hancock Aug 2012

Increasing Research Familiarity Amongst Members Of A Clubhouse For People With Mental Illness, Sarah Louise Marshall, Frank Deane, Nicola Hancock

Frank Deane

No abstract provided.


Research In School Health Education: A Needs Assessment, Lloyd Kolbe, Donald Iverson Jun 2012

Research In School Health Education: A Needs Assessment, Lloyd Kolbe, Donald Iverson

Don C. Iverson

No abstract provided.


Federal Data Bases For Health Education Research, Ronald Wilson, Donald Iverson Jun 2012

Federal Data Bases For Health Education Research, Ronald Wilson, Donald Iverson

Don C. Iverson

Described are some of the national health related databases which are useful in conducting health education research. Among areas covered by the projects are hypertension, myocardial infarction, neighborhood health centers, alcoholism, and over the counter drugs.


How Representative Of Typical Practice Are Practice-Based Research Networks?, Larry Green, Rebecca Miller, Frank Reed, Donald Iverson, Gwyn Barley Jun 2012

How Representative Of Typical Practice Are Practice-Based Research Networks?, Larry Green, Rebecca Miller, Frank Reed, Donald Iverson, Gwyn Barley

Don C. Iverson

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the patients and practices of family physicians in a national practice-based research network to understand whether results from practice-based research networks are likely to be relevant to other practicing clinicians. STUDY DESIGN: Survey focused on family physicians that replicated the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). SETTING: The Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network Inc (ASPN), a practice-based research network, consisting of volunteer primary care practices that serve approximately 350,000 patients. OUTCOME MEASURES: Comparison of visits reported in ASPN with the visits reported in the 1990 NAMCS in terms of patient demographics, reasons for visit, diagnostic and therapeutic services, …


Qualitative Methods For Evaluative Research In Health Education Programs, Patricia Mullen, Donald Iverson Jun 2012

Qualitative Methods For Evaluative Research In Health Education Programs, Patricia Mullen, Donald Iverson

Don C. Iverson

Qualitative methods can play a significant role in both formative and summative evaluations. There are at least six functions of qualitative methods in evaluation. Tables and figures present information on characteristics of qualitative and quantitative methods, selected qualitative evaluation models, and a checklist of evaluation situations for which qualitative methods are appropriate.


The Development And Management Of A Primary Care Research Network, 1978-87, Donald Iverson, B Calonge, R Miller, L Niebauer, F Reed Jun 2012

The Development And Management Of A Primary Care Research Network, 1978-87, Donald Iverson, B Calonge, R Miller, L Niebauer, F Reed

Don C. Iverson

The Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network (ASPN) was created to increase the knowledge of primary care. Building on the experiences of other national and regional primary care research networks, ASPN has evolved as a North American network including practices in 25 U.S. states and four Canadian provinces in 1987. This paper summarizes ASPN's growth and development since 1978, the involvement of the ASPN practices, and the mechanisms used in developing and managing studies.


Defining Research Priorities For Pancreatic Cancer In Australia: Results Of A Consensus Development Process, Monica Robotin, Sandra Jones, Andrew Biankin, Louise Waters, Donald Iverson, Helen Gooden, Bruce Barraclough, Andrew Penman Jun 2012

Defining Research Priorities For Pancreatic Cancer In Australia: Results Of A Consensus Development Process, Monica Robotin, Sandra Jones, Andrew Biankin, Louise Waters, Donald Iverson, Helen Gooden, Bruce Barraclough, Andrew Penman

Don C. Iverson

Introduction: Pancreatic cancer (PC) is the sixth leading cause of cancer death in Australia and the fourth in the United States, yet research in PC is lagging behind that in other cancers associated with a high disease burden. In the absence of agreed processes to reliably identify research areas which can deliver significant advances in PC research, the Cancer Council NSW established a strategic partnership with the NSW Pancreatic Cancer Network to define critical research issues and opportunities that could accelerate progress in this field in Australia. Materials and methods: The process consisted of five distinct stages: a literature review …


Health Education Research: Accomplishment Or Exercise, Donald Iverson, M Hosakawa Jun 2012

Health Education Research: Accomplishment Or Exercise, Donald Iverson, M Hosakawa

Don C. Iverson

No abstract provided.


Issues Related To Designing And Conducting School Health Education Research, Donald Iverson Jun 2012

Issues Related To Designing And Conducting School Health Education Research, Donald Iverson

Don C. Iverson

Investigators interested in conducting school health research face many important challenges. First, an appropriate research course for school health must be charted so the most important research issues are addressed in a systematic way. Second, there is a continuing need to develop scientifically sound research methods that can be used in the school setting. Third, there is the immediate need to identify ways of overcoming the usual problems encountered in the conduct of school health research. This paper focuses on the third challenge, via an analysis of the research design and measurement issues that most frequently confront school health researchers. …


Conducting Sensitive Research In The Present And Past Tense: Recounting The Stories Of Current And Former Child Domestic Workers, Natascha Klocker Jan 2012

Conducting Sensitive Research In The Present And Past Tense: Recounting The Stories Of Current And Former Child Domestic Workers, Natascha Klocker

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

In recent years, scholarship on children's work has increasingly incorporated the perspectives of working children. Although laudable, this shift toward children's inclusion in research has concentrated on those employed at the time of data collection. Former child workers have largely been overlooked as a source of information. This paper reflects on research conducted with current and former child domestic workers in Tanzania. The child domestic working experiences reported by those two groups diverged markedly: those who had already ceased employment reported far higher rates of dissatisfaction with child domestic work, and far more experiences of exploitation and abuse, than those …


Doing Participatory Action Research And Doing A Phd: Words Of Encouragement For Prospective Students, Natascha Klocker Jan 2012

Doing Participatory Action Research And Doing A Phd: Words Of Encouragement For Prospective Students, Natascha Klocker

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

No abstract provided.


Strategic Discussions For Nebraska: Opportunities For Nebraska -- Food Scarcity, Mary Garbacz Jan 2012

Strategic Discussions For Nebraska: Opportunities For Nebraska -- Food Scarcity, Mary Garbacz

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

Strategic Discussions for Nebraska is a program in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources that produces an annual publication called Opportunities for Nebraska, focusing on a different topic each year. The publication is produced in hard copy and also is available online at www.sdn.unl.edu.

The content for each publication is produced by UNL students enrolled in a Magazine Writing course each spring semester, taught by the SDN coordinator. Students conduct interviews with UNL researchers and write stories for inclusion in the publication. The interviews are captured on video and are edited into video montages, …