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Informal Disaster Governance
2020
<p>Scholars and practitioners are increasingly questioning formal disaster governance (FDG) approaches as being too rigid, slow, and command-and-control driven. Too often, local realities and non-formal influences are sidelined or ignored to the extent that disaster governance can be harmed through the efforts to impose formal and/or political structures. A contrasting narrative emphasises so-called bottom-up, local, and/or participatory approaches which this article proposes to encapsulate as Informal Disaster Governance (IDG). This article theorises IDG and situates it within the long-standing albeit limited literature on the topic, paying particular attention to the literature’s fa…
News from the Underground: What were the most important scientific/clinical take-home messages for juniors?
2014
The ERS International Congress has traditionally been a splendid opportunity to present current updates in clinical respiratory medicine and new research findings. This year’s programme was packed, making it impossible to attend all sessions, but juniors interested in specific fields were there for you to highlight the most important take home messages from the 2014 ERS International Congress in Munich. Amongst the most important news for the clinicians was the publication of a Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) guidelines update [1]. In the updated guidelines, the heterogeneity of asthma is emphasised, suggesting the need of “4P” (Personalised, Predictive, Preventive and Participatory) tr…
The radium Era: radioactivity and advertising of miracle products in the dawn of the 20th century in Spain
2020
El descubrimiento de la radiactividad a finales del siglo XIX proporcionó el conocimiento de un nuevo fenómeno natural que fue utilizado como reclamo sin validación científica en un repertorio de productos, remedios y terapias que en el primer cuarto del siglo XX se anunciaron profusamente en la prensa española. Las experiencias de los manantiales con el agua radiactiva o los emanatorios urbanos fueron algunos de los casos más frecuentes de esas terapias o productos milagro en los que la publicidad de la época utilizaba la ciencia desde el abuso, el desconocimiento o las falsas atribuciones para prometer curaciones para todo tipo de dolencias sin ninguna efectividad práctica. The discovery …
Participatory tools and methods for community action. SESPAS Report 2018
2018
Resumen: La participación es un proceso que requiere la implicación de responsables de la política, del personal directivo y técnico de las instituciones, y de la ciudadanía, así como de la acción intersectorial e interdisciplinaria. Para generar cambios transformadores es necesaria una infraestructura que favorezca la participación y la acción planificada, reconociendo a todos los actores del proceso. Se precisan tiempo y compromiso para su continuidad a través de la producción conjunta de acciones, y de ahí la importancia de consolidar proyectos participativos que continúen más allá de los cambios políticos para que los servicios públicos sean sostenibles. La formación, el uso adecuado de…
Facilitation of Developmental Tasks in Prisons: Applying the Method of Human-Centred Co-evaluation
2021
AbstractCollaboration and learning are especially needed in times of change in the workplace. This chapter describes a novel method for developing work practices and enhancing professionals’ proactiveness through collective, participatory experimentation and evaluation. We used the method in a low-security closed prison in Finland to advance prison staff’s rehabilitation work with prisoners. The design, implementation and evaluation of the innovations prison officers introduced to advance their work (recording the inmates’ behaviour and needs into their sentence plans) are illustrated. Besides describing how the method was applied in practice, we also identify and discuss the gaps within pr…
Children’s conceptions of mental well-being and ideas for its promotion through digital environments
2021
The aim of this study is to further understanding of children’s conceptions of mental well-being and their ideas for its digital promotion. The study is based on the need to provide children an opportunity to actively participate and share their understanding of mental well-being promotion with others in light of their understanding of what online environments and their design can afford for this promotion. The study was implemented as three subsequent workshops in primary school classrooms comprising four teachers and 79 children aged 9-11 years old. In the first two workshops, children reflected on mental well-being, digital environments they utilise and their possible connections to ment…
Journalism in virtual reality : opportunities and future research challenges
2016
This paper presents a state-of-the-art overview on journalism and its opportunities and challenges in virtual reality. First we take a look at what kind of real-life journalistic experiments there have been made in this field so far, then we analyze the research literature on journalistic VR. The paper proceeds to discuss the emergence of virtual reality and immersive journalism explored in the latest reports in the fields of HCI and VR design. In order to analyse VR-journalism further, early draft of analysis model is being developed based on sample of three VR-productions and four VR-applications. The paper concludes to discuss the results of the analysis and outlines more advanced and in…
Taking Stock and Re-Examining the Role of Science Communication
2021
Eight science communication research projects have been funded by the European Commission since 2018. These projects are a response to one of the European Commission's 'Science with and for Society' (SwafS) funding calls ¿ 'SwafS-19: Taking stock and re-examining the role of science communication.' Together these projects have received almost ¿10 million in research funding, and each has been affected to some extent by the COVID-19 global pandemic. This paper provides an overview of the eight projects, how they adapted to the challenges caused by the pandemic, and the subsequent implications for science communication policy and research funding.
“Tra il sì ed il no siam di parer contrario”: la satira alle prese col fascismo
2016
Stavolta la rubrica unisce gli argomenti di vari nostri numeri, tratta di umorismo, ma anche di censura e di politica: perché riguarda un campo dell’umorismo, la satira, che ha ruoli molto diversi, che va dalla polemica sbrigliata al futile intrattenimento, ma che, se non è del tutto compiacente, è comunque temuta e osteggiata dal potere, e vista dai regimi totalitari come una delle peggiori minacce. Lo dimostra il destino di uno dei più brillanti settimanali umoristici italiani, “Il Travaso delle idee”, tra il 1924 e il 1925 sempre più controllato e censurato dalla dittatura fascista. Ripubblichiamo tre articoli di quel periodo, non firmati (secondo una prassi allora frequente), che derido…
Dalla "decomposizione morale" alla "coscienza cosmopolita": l'Affaire Dreyfus e l'assassinio Notarbartolo in due articoli di Guglielmo Ferrero
2019
The article deals with the scandals of the end of the nineteenth century, and republishes two articles by Guglielmo Ferrero, devoted to the Affaire Dreyfus ant the Notarbartolo case.