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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"insider research"”.
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An insider research into the changing role of the management accountant during organisational change.
This research explores the perceptions of management accountants and their work community within a UK university, during a departmental restructure, when new roles and responsibilities emerged. Current literature on the role of management accountants suggests a lack of understanding as to how their …
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Health Literacy: Knowledge and experiences of Traveller women.
AIM OF RESEARCH The aim of this research is to gain more understanding and insight into the knowledge and experiences of Traveller women in the area of health literacy using a use narrative inquiry approach with an education focus and to explore implications and make recommendations based on the …
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Engaging with change in a post-Bologna teaching university in the Netherlands
… an overhaul of educational provision. This research project attempts to focus on these wide ranging changes through the lens of teacher autonomy in order to establish what is changing in the working lives of teachers in a Dutch university, how they are responding to these changes and how …
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The Palestine Education Initiative: A Case Study on Campaigning, Development Education and Activism in Ireland
… education in Ireland using Participatory Action Research (PAR) as its research method. It examines the establishment of The Palestine Education Initiative, formerly the education sector of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, as a case study of development education in a politicised and …
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A phenomenological insight into the motivations, approaches, and knowledge of final year pre-registration nursing students
… of the nurse. A qualitative phenomenological insider research study is undertaken, utilising a sample size of eighteen final year student nurses as the data source, undertaking semi-structured interviews from a United Kingdom (UK) Higher Education Institution (HEI). Data analysis is undertaken …
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A Soft Competition Among Arbitral Institutions: The institutional oligopoly of mixed arbitration.
… of mixed arbitration. The study combines insider research and work in the archives of inter- and non-governmental organizations, states, and influential individuals. It also draws on numerous leaked diplomatic cables. The thesis finds that the institutional market for treaty-based mixed …
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Widening participation in Higher Education: an investigation of the experiences and views of students, parents, teachers, and higher education staff of a pre-entry programme
… in a pre-entry to HE programme.<br/><br/>The research focussed on researching the influence of a Pathway Opportunity Programme [POP] on students’ aspirations, preparedness and learning for university, with consideration of the most valuable aspects of the POP, alongside how it could be …
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A blurred paradise : insider and outsider perspectives on Paternoster
… façade surface. The overall objective of this research was to review the community conflicts through the use of an insider and outsider approach. This was achieved through using an insider qualitative, consensual, documentary style approach. Fieldwork, participant observation and interviews …
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From Alignment to emergent Academic: the Role of Coaching and Mentoring in supporting the Development of Academic Staff in a post-1992 University
This research developed a qualitative Case Study to explore the role of coaching and mentoring in supporting the alignment of academic staff and organisational strategy. The study employed documentary data, interviews and a questionnaire to examine a four year period of a seven year change …
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Working through change: An insider's analysis of FE teachers and tutors lived experience in a time of initiative overload
This is an investigation by a participant researcher into the ‘hidden world’ of Further Education (FE). I became interested in how the many innovations, which have occurred in the past twenty years have made FE staff feel and how this effected their work and how they coped with what often felt like …
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Tracing the journey: two School-based counsellors ‘coming out’ of the counselling room. An ethnographic enquiry within a UK inner-city secondary school
… comprises a personalised account of the researchers’ own shared journey as experienced counsellors who were new to an inner-city secondary school setting and were encountering difficulties working effectively in that new context. Our initial question was therefore: How could we make sense …
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The transition towards becoming an analytics-driven bank: an action research investigation into the users’ perspective to the end of enhancing the adoption of interactive analysis applications
… organisations, including the one in which this research project has been undertaken. As such, this professional practice-based doctoral research project explores the management of organisational changes towards becoming an analytics-driven organisation, in the context of a mid-scale private …
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Learning to Mother over Coffee and Cake: Naming our Informal Learning
… that meets through regular coffee mornings. The research explores informal learning, motherhood and social support within a framework of Freirean and Feminist thinking. It situates this women’s support group within the wider sphere of Community Education in Ireland. This thesis is a piece of …
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An examination of the perceptions of additional inspectors involved in maintained school inspections (post September 2012)
… and obtain quantitative and qualitative data. Insider research which is highlighted in chapter 3 enabled access to the participants and is a feature of this study because of the researcher’s role as an experienced Ofsted Inspector with extensive knowledge about Ofsted inspection practice. Phase …
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Understanding the beliefs and behaviours of low-skilled adults as they re-engage with mathematics
… understanding, collaboration and discourse. An ‘insider research’ approach was adopted to capitalise on the researcher’s prior experience in the sector. Analysis of data utilised an interpretive approach drawing on Bandura’s triadic reciprocal determinant model that posited beliefs, behaviour and …
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Evaluation of Public Policy Implementation: an Investigation into the National Training Programme at the Ministry of Manpower in the Sultanate of Oman
… providers, and trainees. Conducted through insider research, the experience of 36 informants was gathered through semi-structured interviews, with the findings being analysed thematically using template analysis. This research addresses conflicting policy implementation theories, including …
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Critical exploration of the role of the nurse lecturer in practice situated within an existing Higher Education Institution and NHS partnership
… in a qualitative-interpretive paradigm, with the researchercapitalising on the concept of insider research due to the conduction of the study within herown School of Nursing. A blend of theoretical, purposive and typical case samplingtechniques combined with stakeholder analysis and influence …
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Holding the baby: the contribution of Early Years Teachers to leading practice with babies
… and pedagogical leaders with babies. The research project used insider research to engage with two groups of postgraduate trainees working towards EYTS on their experience of taking part in reflective supervision and experiential learning from their training placements with babies. The …
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A Study of teacher stress exploring practitioner research and teacher collaboration as a way forward.
… 1990; Wilson, 2002). Much of the traditional research on teacher stress has been carried out by external 'experts' using quantitative survey type approaches to analyze occupational stress levels resulting in restrictive data analysis unrepresentative of the true picture of stress in the …
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The lived experiences of designing modules at one UK university: a qualitative account of academic practice
This thesis explores the relatively under-researched experiences of module design of academics employed within one UK university. In all, 96 people responded to an initial e-questionnaire survey, and 23 of these participated in follow-up semi-structured interviews. The qualitative data collected …
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