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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES"”.
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Towards the collaborative museum? Social media, participation, disciplinary experts and the public in the contemporary museum
This thesis examines the use of social media by museums aiming to establish collaborative relationships with the public. Social media platforms have been widely espoused as transformative in allowing diverse, new or previously excluded audiences to enter into egalitarian, participatory …
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The relation between post-migration experiences and psychosocial wellbeing: an exploratory study of the perceptions of highly educated refugees in the U.K.
… their post-migration experiences and their psychosocial well-being. A literature review of the migration and psychological health area and the widely-used stress and coping approach revealed that the “vulnerable” and “passive” images have all too often been assigned to refugees when discussing …
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Fragmenting probation? A qualitative study of voluntary, public and private sectors’ interactions in supervision
… the new structures and relationships. The research concludes that, for supervisees and supervisors, the involuntary nature of community supervision is significant. The supervisees in this study viewed the requirements of their community orders as legitimate because the orders were imposed …
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Through the lens of Levinas: An ethnographically-informed case study of pupils’ practices of facing in music-making
… century whose influence is increasing throughout social science disciplines and who, writing firstly as a teacher, provides valuable philosophical tools with which to investigate current practices in education. Over the past three decades competing paradigms for music education have tended to …
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Disambiguating the Similar: Investigating Pattern Separation in Medial Temporal Lobe Structures Using Rodent Models
This dissertation investigates the mechanisms underlying pattern separation, using rodent models and behavioural tasks that assess the use of representations for similar stimuli. Pattern separation is a theoretical mechanism involving the transformation of inputs into output representations that …
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Practitioners in the youth justice system: a case study of the youth offending service
The central aim of this descriptive and exploratory study is to empirically examine the views and perspectives of practitioners working with young people in the youth justice system in England and Wales. Based on a case study of Peterborough youth offending service (PYOS), the study adopts a …
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