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Conducting Sensitive Research In The Present And Past Tense: Recounting The Stories Of Current And Former Child Domestic Workers, Natascha Klocker Jul 2013

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

Natascha Klocker

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 …


The Smart Way To Manage Research Data, Craig Napier, Despina Clancy, Tim Davies, Katie Elcombe Jun 2013

The Smart Way To Manage Research Data, Craig Napier, Despina Clancy, Tim Davies, Katie Elcombe

Craig Napier

The University of Wollongongs' $62 million SMART (Simulation, Modelling, Analysis, Research, Teaching) Infrastructure Facility will become a research and development powerhouse with an unprecedented level of impact within the broader infrastructure sector nationally and overseas [1]. With a vision to be a world class intellectual leader and educator in 'integrated' infrastructure planning and management and the capacity to host 200 PhD students, comprising 30 integrated research laboratories, data demands and volume are increasing exponetially.


Characterizing Scientific Production And Consumption In Physics, Qian Zhang, Nicola Perra, Bruno Gonçalves, Fabio Ciulla, Alessandro Vespignani Mar 2013

Characterizing Scientific Production And Consumption In Physics, Qian Zhang, Nicola Perra, Bruno Gonçalves, Fabio Ciulla, Alessandro Vespignani

Alessandro Vespignani

We analyze the entire publication database of the American Physical Society generating longitudinal (50 years) citation networks geolocalized at the level of single urban areas. We define the knowledge diffusion proxy, and scientific production ranking algorithms to capture the spatiotemporal dynamics of Physics knowledge worldwide. By using the knowledge diffusion proxy we identify the key cities in the production and consumption of knowledge in Physics as a function of time. The results from the scientific production ranking algorithm allow us to characterize the top cities for scholarly research in Physics. Although we focus on a single dataset concerning a specific …