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What's New Pussyhat? Men, Feminism, And Social Identity, Rachel Lee Crist

Dissertations and Theses

Current understandings of feminism do not seek to dissuade men from feminism as a movement; moreover, men's inclusion in the feminist movement is seen as paramount to achieving equality and dismantling all forms of hegemonic power. Past research has shown that identification with a social movement is a strong predictor for participation in social change, more so than belonging to a disadvantaged social category. Despite this, there is nascent literature on how men define, identify as, and practice feminism. This study draws from a thematic analysis of three focus groups of self-identified males to investigate their self-identification as feminist. Using …

Letter, From Dr. Saffy, Undated, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Rough draft of a form letter discussing the Jacksonville’s Women of Influence Project and asking for contributions.

Letter, From Dr. Saffy, Undated, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Approval of biographical information as written.

Letter, To Mayor Godbold From Edna Saffy, Undated, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Letter to Mayor Jake Godbold with commendations from the Jacksonville Women’s Network. Typewritten.

The Impact Of Executive Doctoral Programs On Management Practice, Morgan Bulger, Kalle Lyytinen, Paul Salipante

Engaged Management ReView

Although the prevalence of Executive Doctoral Programs (EDPs) is increasing, little is known about their influence on management practice. To support further research and debate into this important area, this essay presents a dynamic model of EDP impact and discusses how the model can help reorient current knowledge on practitioner–scholar behaviors and careers. The model identifies six dimensions of EDPs’ personal impact: 1) cognitive development, 2) academic contribution, 3) practical impact, 4) career mobility, 5) identity transformation, and 6) community belonging. In addition, it identifies eight activities that represent EDPs’ practical impact: 1) direct management application, 2) teaching or educational …

Engaged Participant Observation: An Integrative Approach To Qualitative Field Research For Practitioner-Scholars, Daniel Robey, Wallace T.F Taylor

Engaged Management ReView

Abstract

Participant observation is an appropriate research method for engaged practitioner-scholars seeking in-depth insights available from qualitative field research. Conventional approaches to participant observation include ethnography and action research. However, conventional approaches were originally developed with the assumption that the roles of practitioner and scholar are separate. We propose a new approach, engaged participant observation, which recognizes the integration of research and practice roles. We illustrate the application of engaged participant observation, and its special demands, through a completed executive doctoral dissertation conducted by second author and supervised by the first author. We address the specific tensions and demands …

The Two-Generation Classroom: Learning Together In The Gen Ed Core, Autumn Green

National Student Parent Success Symposium: Lifting Generations Together

This workshop presents a new approach to post-secondary pedagogy referred to as, The Two Generation Classroom. The Two-Generation Classroom offers curricula for the general education core that facilitate parent/child inter-generational learning. Using hybrid online/in-person strategies, and a learning-buddy approach to integrated arts teaching/learning activities, the Two-Generation Classroom approach aims to address and reduce inequity in college access and success for student parents, while ensuring academic excellence and rigor.

Dr. Autumn R. Green is Founding Director of the National Center for Student Parent Programs, and is currently transitioning from Endicott College to join Wellesley Centers for Women as a Visiting Scholar …

Will God Make Me Rich? An Investigation Into The Relationship Between Membership In Charismatic Churches, Wealth, And Women’S Empowerment In Ghana, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

In recent decades, there has been an explosion in the growth of Pentecostal churches in Ghana, many of which preach that belief in God will translate into material wealth for both men and women. While some have argued that women in these churches are likely to be more empowered due to female leadership and focus on the individual, others have argued that this may not translate to the typical congregant’s experience. After all, members of the Pentecostal church subscribe to the belief that wives should “submit to their husbands” (Biblia n.d.). In this study, I used the 2014 Demographic Health …

Measuring Women's Empowerment In Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploratory And Confirmatory Factor Analyses Of The Demographic And Health Surveys, Ibitola O. Asaolu, Halimatou Alaofè, Jayleen K. L. Gunn, Akosua K. Adu, Amanda J. Monroy, John E. Ehiri, Mary H. Hayden, Kacey C. Ernst

Epidemiology and Environmental Health Faculty Publications

Background: Women's status and empowerment influence health, nutrition, and socioeconomic status of women and their children. Despite its benefits, however, research on women's empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is limited in scope and geography. Empowerment is variably defined and data for comparison across regions is often limited. The objective of the current study was to identify domains of empowerment from a widely available data source, Demographic and Health Surveys, across multiple regions in SSA.

Methods: Demographic and Health Surveys from nineteen countries representing four African regions were used for the analysis. A total of 26 indicators across different dimensions (economic, …

Unh Research Finds Higher Urban Opioid Death Rates Overall But Dramatic Increases In Rural Counties, Erika Mantz

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Research Finds Higher Urban Opioid Death Rates Overall But Dramatic Increases In Rural Counties, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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Update In Attitudes Towards Wage Equality In Gendered Professions, Emily Dane-Staples

Sport Management Faculty/Staff Publications

Employment research has asked diverse questions about job satisfaction, gender appropriate work, wage and compensation satisfaction and parity, and advancement. Most existing research has explored gender discrimination in traditional professions such as engineering, law, education, and medicine; notably absent is the billion dollar industry of sport. This research sought to remedy that shortcoming by exploring attitudes towards wage equality across gender for eight different professions, including coaching positions and that of a professional athlete. Survey results found that most respondents were in favor of wage equality across all professions, but the sport professions showed the greatest amount of variation. Differences …

The Opioid Crisis In Rural And Small Town America, Shannon M. Monnat, Khary K. Rigg

Carsey Publications

In this brief, authors Shannon Monnat and Khary Rigg examine rural versus urban differences in opioid mortality and identify challenges for dealing with the opioid crisis in rural areas. They report that, in 2016, opioid mortality rates were higher in urban than in rural counties, particularly in the Midwest, but rates have increased more in rural than in urban counties over the past two decades. Since 2010, the share of drug overdose deaths involving prescription opioids has declined, but the share of deaths involving heroin and synthetic opioids has spiked in both rural and urban areas. The most dramatic increases …

“I Want To Be Who I Am”: Stories Of Rejecting Binary Gender, Ana Balius

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Historically, in academic literature—sociological and otherwise—surrounding the daily lives of LGBT+ people, people who reject binary gender are very marginally represented. In this study, I specifically seek to understand the way my participants articulate their sense of their gender identities through the stories they tell of their experiences. This study attempts to answer the following questions: What are the stories of gender identity construction for people who reject binary gender? How do they understand the ways they are held accountable to binary gender in the day-to-day? How do they perceive and make meaning of gender in their lives? Through ten …

An Analytical Study On Ministerial Organizations Status In The Historiography Of Ravandi, Reza Bitarafan, Fereydoon Allahyari, Ali Akbar Kajbaf

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The ministry organization as a symbol of Iranian sreaming is the important element in Iranian historiography. Reproduction of many of Iranshahri thoughts teachings in Seljuk's period provided background for note historians to ministry organization. With the domination of Turks on Iran was established ministry s status until free rulers of the art of government benefit of ministry's knowledge. Ravandi was one of the important historians in Seljuk's period. However, he extracted his historical narratives from Saljuknameh, but with the completion of them with other sources and analyzing of dates. His book was changed to an important source with a different …

Case Studies Of Female Director Appointment Announcements In The Dax 30: A Comparison Of Press Releases And News Articles In English And German, Elizabeth Tatara

Undergraduate Project Award

Elizabeth’s project was the outgrowth of a European Union study tour when Germany had recently passed legislation related to female representation on corporate boards. Intrigued to discover if there had been any subsequent impact on corporate financial performance, she embarked on an independent study project to analyze possible gender biases in the reporting and company press releases announcing newly appointed female board members in Germany. Her research engaged the existing literature, used local and international academic libraries, and included examining texts in both English and German. Dr. Valentina Zamora, her faculty member, commented that “she exhibited the self-efficacy, persistence, and …

Repatriation And Reparations: Land-Based Indigenous And Black Futurity, Olivia Klutse

Undergraduate Project Award

Olivia’s project was sparked by scholars from philosophy and indigenous studies and the realization that “there is a deficit of literature which examines the conjoined economic and social liberation of Black and Indigenous people” that might lead to possibilities of collaboration and transformative justice. This literature review set the stage for her subsequent Sociology honors thesis project. Olivia reflected on her growth as a researcher describing her success with creating a structure for her research process, the satisfaction of serendipitous and intentional research (including reaching out to scholars in the field) and discovering new services in the library. Dr. Rachel …

Co-Creation With Vulnerable Consumers – An Action Research Case Study Of Designing A Pictorial Language For Logistics, S. Schmitt-Rüth, M. Simon, A. Demuth, A. Kornacher, M. Isakovic, M. Krupp, M. Stoll

ServDes Conference Series

Within the context of Universal Design and User Centered Design, vulnerable consumers, especially immigrants, still represent a fringe group when it comes to co-creation processes. Therefore, the aim of our study was to find ways to integrate immigrants into a co-creation process, namely the development and testing phase of a pictorial language for warehouse jobs. Within an action research case study consisting of a four-part storyline settled in a warehouse context, we identified and specified four key success factors that contribute to a successful co-creation project with vulnerable consumers: (1) integration at the very beginning of the co-creation project, (2) …

Engagement Strategies Within Co-Making Environments Bridging Spatial And Organisational Design, Ricardo Saint-Clair

ServDes Conference Series

Makerspaces and Fablabs are open access workshops that challenge traditional top-down approaches to innovation and workplace design dedicated to creative and innovative practices. Their built environments are the main stage where a complex ecology of stakeholders intertwine. To what extent does the interior design of a space make people more collaborative and innovative? What are the settings and platforms that may affect the way people feel, behave and interact? This paper presents the methodological journey of a PhD study conducted within 18 prominent Makerspaces located in five cities of Europe. The empirical study navigates the blurry boundaries of spatial design …

Service+Spatial Design: Introducing The Fundamentals Of A Transdisciplinary Approach, Davide Fassi, Laura Galluzzo, Annalinda De Rosa

ServDes Conference Series

The paper is a position paper attempting to frame the foundations of an emerging topic in design research, education and practice: a transdisciplinary approach defined here as Service+Spatial design. Starting from the insights acquired by the authors through basic research and educational activities exploring the mutual influences between Spatial design and Service design, the challenge is to disclose the fundamentals of Service+Spatial design in order to set up a qualitative comparison and discussion around their relationships. The paper explores the cultural dimension of design, trying to identify and highlight common ground and differentiation to frame, support and expand the comparison …

The Designer As Agent Of Community, Thomas Østergaard

ServDes Conference Series

A “changing paradigm” with a focus on design for social innovation (SI) has emerged over the last decade. (DESIS, 2012) The title of this article refers to a perception of design schools and design students as potential “agents of sustainable change” adding new design-domains to the existing traditional design domains. (Chick, 2012, Emilson, 2010, Manzini, 2008, 2012, 2014). The study finds it is hard for the design-students to establish their “roles” as designers and have a natural “authority” working in complex and time-limited process’. The paper produces recommendations for other educators in terms of preparing, planning and doing a SD …

User Perceptions Of Design Games As Settings For Organizational Learning: Case Topaasia, Otso Hannula, J. Tuomas Harviainen

ServDes Conference Series

Design games are a co-design tool used in diverse environments including service design, improving organizational processes and creating strategies. In this paper, we expand the role of design games to include organizational learning and outline a theoretical framework for analysing how design games provide a creative space which supports processes of expansive learning (Engeström, 2001) within organizations. We illustrate the framework by presenting preliminary results about the use of Topaasia, a design game for supporting co-development of organizational practices. Based on the user perception of Topaasia, we argue that design games can support organizational learning even in the absence of …

Designing Spaces And Services. An Experimental Project For Student Dormitories: Collective Experiences, Connected Lives And Linked Places, Luisa Collina, Peter Di Sabatino, Laura Galluzzo, Claudia Mastrantoni

ServDes Conference Series

This paper describes an experimental teaching project for a student dormitory building in Milan, Italy; and through this applied project the paper presents possible relationships between spatial (environment and experience design) and service design. A human-centered design process was used, exploring the potential of creativity and design thinking while co-creating with the actual people involved in the project – the dormitory students, staff, and the local community members. The process and the methodology used were very important, especially the co-design activities: the dorm, in fact, was designed by the PSSD students in the studio for the students and with the …

Traces As Service Evidence, Spyros Bofylatos

ServDes Conference Series

In this paper, the idea of leveraging traces in service design for sustainability is presented. Physical evidence is an essential aspect of services as the service experience exists as a choreography of people, things and processes. These designed, tangible aspects of services play an important role in the overall service experience and at the same time act as affordances, leading the user through a desired service journey without interpersonal interactions. Viewing services in the context of actor network theory, as networks of humans and non-humans suggests that this service evidence act as a carrier of explicit knowledge relegated to it …

From User-Centred To Stakeholder Oriented Service Design: Implications For The Role Of Service Designers And Their Education Based On An Example From The Public Sector, Lorenz Herfurth

ServDes Conference Series

This working paper reflects on an inquiry into a current service design practice, by sharing insights into the changing role of service designers and by outlining implications for service design education. It is based on ethnographic research with a public-sector service design agency. Observations suggest that service designers become increasingly concerned with and integrated into the organizational context that they try to change. This paper then firstly gives a real-world example of the deep integration of service designers in a client organization, a council, it continues by describing the interactions and relationships that service designers have with this organization and …

Put On Your Oxygen Mask Before Helping Others: Mental Well-Being In Service Design, Anne Dhir

ServDes Conference Series

This paper describes the lessons learned from Service Design projects which have tackled sensitive subjects: from young people in care, mental health, unemployment, homelessness, overcrowding, crisis and domestic violence to name but a few. It highlights the importance of adapting normal project practice to protect the mental health and well-being of all those involved in a project. It argues that project rituals must be developed to look after the participants, which requires a shift in company’ cultures to truly value mental health and well-being and to reduce staff stress and trauma.

Building Trust In Relational Services: The Analysis Of A Sharing Service Between Neighbours, Mariana Ferreira De Freitas, Carla Cipolla

ServDes Conference Series

This article presents a study about a crucial interpersonal quality in relational services: trust. We analyse the trust-building process that enables a sharing service between neighbours called “Tem Açúcar?”. Based on literature review on service design for social innovation and sociological aspects related to trust, we describe the service process three-level segmentation: trust in the enabling platform (product-service system), trust in the neighbour (peer-to-peer) and trust in the local network (neighbourhood). It is concluded that trust-building occurs both top-down and bottom-up among participants and how it turns into confidence throughout the process. This study contributes to investigations not only about …

The Act Of Giving – Sur. A Service For Sharing And Co-Producing Gifts, Giulia Bencini, Kuno Prey, Alvise Mattozzi

ServDes Conference Series

Sur is the prototype of a relational service for gift production. Sur is aimed at articulating, nourishing and strengthening relationships between the giver and the receiver of the gift. The co-production of personalised gifts is supervised and guided by a designer and supported by a network of crafts(wo)men-makers. Sur provides the opportunity not only to reflect upon the issue “sharing and collaborating”, but also, more in general, upon the role of gifts within services and especially within relational services.

Understanding Generalisability From Network-Conscious Service Design Projects, Tim Overkamp, Martina Caic, Stefan Holmlid, Dominik Mahr, Gaby Odekerken-Schröder

ServDes Conference Series

The influence of technology on value co-creation practices of service actors has been studied from a service encounter perspective, during or after technology introduction. We contribute to this existing research by introducing a multi-actor perspective to study such changes prior to technology deployment. We provide two illustrative cases that show how this can be done. In addition, we study the generalisability of findings from such research projects, through an exploratory qualitative comparison of the projects. We make a second contribution by providing five contextual aspects for other researchers to use when assessing 1) generalisability of our findings and 2) to …

Service Design For Behavioural Change - Current State Of The Discipline And Practice In India, Ravi Mahamuni, Pramod Khambete, Ravi Mokashi-Punekar

ServDes Conference Series

We investigated the current picture of appreciation, state of relevant knowledge and skills, and practice among the Indian design professionals regarding service design and design for behaviour change. Inter alia, the current scenario regarding the embeddedness and maturity path of service design in academic institutes and industry were studied. Indian society and businesses are facing challenges that are wicked, deep and complex due to the diversity of social, cultural, and economic conditions. They could benefit from a synthesis of service design and design for behavioural change. This study is exploratory in nature. However, it is a significant initial step to …