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This chapter is focussed on the macro context of higher education and describes the historical developments in higher education and how these developments affect academic jobs and academic work. When we sketch the development of higher education with a few broad strokes of the pen, we see (1) a development from a small-scale elite institution to broad training (and research) institutes; (2) a struggle over control of higher education; and (3) a movement in which higher education is professionalized and increasingly assigned a societal task, with a series of consequences for education, research and impact. These developments contribute to a field of tension in which old traditions of academic behaviour must be reconciled with demands that are placed on higher education by society. This makes talent management, both on an individual and collective level, no easy task.

This study aims to determine the key indicators affecting the resilience of the construction supply chain to flooding and calculate the resilience of the urban construction supply chain in three cases city.

This study combines expert opinions and literature review to determine key indicators and establish a fuzzy EWM-GRA-TOPSIS evaluation model. The index weight was calculated using the entropy weight method, and GRA-TOPSIS was used for comprehensive evaluation.

The results of the study show that the three cities are ranked from the high to low in order of Hangzhou, Hefei and Zhengzhou.

The innovative method adopted in this study comprising EWM-GRA-TOPSIS reduced the influence of subjectivity, fully extracted and utilized data, in a way that respects objective reality. Further, this approach enabled the absolute and relative level of urban construction supply chain resilience to be identified, allowing improvements in the comprehensiveness of decision-making. The method is relatively simple, reasonable, understandable, and computationally efficient. Within the approach, the entropy weight method was used to assign different index weights, and the GRA-TOPSIS was used to rank the resilience of the construction supply chain in three urban cities. The development of resilience provides a robust decision-making basis and theoretical reference, further enriching research methods, and having strong practical value. The study serves to improve risk awareness and resilience, which in turn helps to reduce losses. It also provides enhanced awareness regarding the future enhancement of supply chain resilience for urban construction.

Links between trauma and psychosis have been well evidenced. Trauma has been proposed to underlie psychotic experiences, with the trauma model of psychosis suggesting psychotic experiences represent forms of trauma-related distress. As such, traumatic experiences can be seen symbolised in the content of psychosis experiences. Despite this, Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) predominantly operate within a medicalised model, where trauma and trauma-informed care are often neglected. Therefore, staff training was delivered on the trauma model of psychosis and trauma-informed care. This study aims to assess whether the training would improve knowledge and attitude in working with trauma and whether the training would improve staff recognition of the connections between the content of psychosis and previous trauma.

The training consisted of an online 1-h session, with measures of trauma-informed care (knowledge and attitude) and trauma-psychosis links (symbolism questionnaire) collected pre- and post-training. The training was open to all 115 staff in the CMHTs, 53 attended, however, only 23 completed both pre- and post-measures.

Wilcoxon signed-rank tests revealed significant differences in pre- and post-performance on both the trauma-informed care and symbolism questionnaire. Findings showed in this sample that the training improved knowledge and attitude in trauma-informed care and staff ability to recognise connections between trauma and psychotic experiences.

A novel symbolism questionnaire was designed for this evaluation. The findings extend the literature, as they show that staff were more accurate in recognising the specific underlying trauma to the psychosis content following training.