The purpose of this paper is to propose that interprofessional working between professionals who work with people living with HIV (PLWHIV) contributes to improvements in the…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to propose that interprofessional working between professionals who work with people living with HIV (PLWHIV) contributes to improvements in the health, social care needs and long-term outcomes of PLWHIV. Interprofessional working initiatives have been useful in promoting successful frameworks used towards improving various aspects of the HIV disease family planning and transmission prevention. The paper proposes that interprofessional working is important in elevating stigma and discrimination that sometimes prevent PLWHIV from successfully achieving parenthood through adoption. The objective of this study is to contribute to social work practice and literature that supports adoption.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper draws on an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) study looking at the experiences of PLWHIV going through the adoption process. The study relied on in-depth interviews with six PLWHIV who had gone through the adoption process and presented views regarding a need for better collaborative working by those assessing PLWHIV going through adoption. The sample was purpose and homogeneous. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and analysed using IPA framework. Transcripts had been written up and analysed individually. Following which a cross-case analysis to create meaning and conceptual understanding that was common among all cases.
Findings
Drawing on themes around interprofessional working, this paper argues that there is a need for improved and transparent interprofessional working models within adoption systems. The paper provides conceptual understanding around interprofessional working and how this can be brought about to support the needs of PLWHIV seeking to adopt children. It proposes that working in isolation will leave PLWHIV feeling that the adoption process is ambiguous and unfair, yet efforts to combat this are evident in healthcare settings.
Research limitations/implications
Limitations to this study include an acceptable but small convenience sample within IPA methodological approaches. This is a hard to reach sample and results may not be generalisable.
Practical implications
This paper opens a dialogue for discussing issues around the adoption for PLWHIV and informing professionals about increasing opportunities for PLWHIV to adopt children where there is a high demand for adoptive parents.
Social implications
Placing the views of participants in this study within the body of knowledge could influence meaningful collaboration between adoption social workers and those supporting PLWHIV within health, social care and voluntary sectors. This may influence change and reduce stigma and barriers preventing some PLWHIV from successfully adopting children.
Originality/value
This paper meets an identified need to explore how PLWHIV can be supported to achieve parenthood. The paper expands on existing knowledge around the need to provide fertility treatment to PLWHIV. It suggests that child adoption can be promoted through child adoption and ultimately promoting normalcy around the desires of PLWHIV to achieve parenthood using non-traditional methods of conception.
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The purpose of this paper is to outline the development of public sector real estate asset management in the UK from the 1980s to the present day.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to outline the development of public sector real estate asset management in the UK from the 1980s to the present day.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper is a narrative based upon a chronology of a selection of the reports, studies and research of the subject by academics, audit bodies, consultants, government departments, eminent business people and economists. The principal findings of the referenced reports/research are drawn out and highlighted. It should be noted that the extensive reference schedule is arranged in date order and not in the usual alphabetic sequence.
Findings
The analysis shows cycles of asset management focus across the public sector over the 30 years of the narrative. The attention of government changes, often reflecting straitened economic times, from influencing local authority asset management to highlighting the better use of the assets used by its departments. A strategy to involve private sector‐generated solutions to improve efficiency and generate cash is currently under development.
Research limitations/implications
This is a narrative paper. In‐depth research of the referenced reports would produce valuable insights to inform future strategies.
Originality/value
Strategists should be aware that some asset management issues identified in the 1980s remain unsolved and are still evident today.
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the link between rationale, practice and outcomes in municipal property asset management and through this to gain an improved understanding…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the link between rationale, practice and outcomes in municipal property asset management and through this to gain an improved understanding of the emerging discipline of public sector asset management.
Design/methodology/approach
An analytical framework was developed comprising models to measure why councils carry out asset management (rationale); how they do it (practice) and what is achieved (outcomes). This was applied through an extensive survey of 18 councils and an intensive survey of three councils in a comparative study of UK and Russia. This paper draws on the UK field work only.
Findings
A weak but discernable link was found between rationale and practice, but the link between practice and outcomes was unproven. This lack of empirical evidence to show good practice leads to effective asset management remains a problematic area requiring further research and reinforces the orthodoxy that the adoption of practice is used as a proxy for measuring outcomes. Four “change factors” were identified as important in the transformation from property management to asset management and a broad typology was advanced to position cases in their path of evolution or level of maturity in this transformation process.
Research limitations/implications
Cases were chosen to provide a mix in terms of their status, size and perceived maturity in asset management.
Originality/value
There has been limited examination of the linkage between rationale, practice and outcomes in asset management and the analytical framework and typology present some innovative conceptual thinking to explore the nature of an emerging discipline which remains problematic to define easily.
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Julia R. Daniels and Heather Hebard
Discourses of racism have always circulated within US classrooms and, in the current sociopolitical climate, they move with a renewed sense of legitimacy, entitlement and…
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Purpose
Discourses of racism have always circulated within US classrooms and, in the current sociopolitical climate, they move with a renewed sense of legitimacy, entitlement and violence. This paper aims to engage the consequences of these shifts for the ways that racism works in university-based classrooms and, more specifically, through the authors’ own teaching as White language and literacy educators.
Design/methodology/approach
This teacher narrative reconceptualizes moments of racialized violence in the courses, as constructed via circulating discourses of racism. The authors draw attention to the ways that we, as White educators, authorize and are complicit in this violence.
Findings
This paper explicates a praxis of questioning, developed through efforts to reflect on our complicity in and responsibility for racial violence in our classrooms. The authors offer this praxis of questioning to other White language and literacy teachers as a heuristic for sensemaking with regard to racism in classrooms.
Originality/value
The authors situate this paper within a broader struggle to engage themselves and other White educators in work for racial justice and invite others to take up this praxis of questioning as an initial step toward examining the authors’ complicity in – and authorization of – discourses of racism.
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Tam Cane, Vasso Vydellingum and Wendy Knibb
The purpose of this paper is to examine the experiences that people with HIV faced as they navigated through the intricate processes of trying to access adoption services in the…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the experiences that people with HIV faced as they navigated through the intricate processes of trying to access adoption services in the south of England. It proposes the need to pay more attention to people living with HIV (PLWHIV) able to adopt children. The study aims to develop an increased focus on PLWHIV able to adopt.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper is an exploratory study using an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach. Open-ended interviews were conducted with seven participants including individuals and couples. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using IPA’s cross-case and ideographic analysis.
Findings
The paper provides empirical insights about the challenges that PLWHIV experienced with social workers. Positive experiences were in the minority. Lack of information, inadequate support, stigma and discrimination, cultural insensitivity and disempowerment were frequently reported. The paper suggests that greater understanding and better education for social workers would improve access to adoption by people with HIV.
Research limitations/implications
Given the chosen approach and small sample size, results may not be generalisable.
Practical implications
This study increases knowledge, promotes positive attitudes and improved support for PLWHIV who are stable and able to offer permanency to adoptive children.
Originality/value
This paper provides new ideas in an area that is scarcely researched. It identifies the need to undertake further studies to understand how social workers assess PLWHIV and what can be done to provide adequate support.
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This paper examines the creation and delivery of real estate strategies in the corporate environment against the not unusual backdrop of management unwillingness to focus on…
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This paper examines the creation and delivery of real estate strategies in the corporate environment against the not unusual backdrop of management unwillingness to focus on non‐operational subjects, the problem of business inertia and the protection of old demarcations. While there are often barriers to delivering a co‐ordinated, business‐wide accommodation plan, this paper looks at one route to success:the marketing of the strategy and its delivery to internal customers emphasising the corporate, business division and staff benefits. The tangible proof of the strategy through new and flexible buildings, new ways of working, performance measurement and benchmarking gives the real estate team a powerful array of marketing material. The key is to communicate endlessly about the progress and the benefits that are brought to the business through this targeted approach to space management and delivery. This is an interesting facet of corporate real estate management and one which is essential to a more rapid and less stressful delivery of a programme to provide the optimum portfolio of space and, as a result, competitive advantage to the business.
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M. Christopher Brown, T. Elon Dancy and Jason E. Lane
In this chapter, the authors interrogate the structures, natures, processes, and variables that shape globalized collegiate desegregation. The authors pay attention to the history…
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In this chapter, the authors interrogate the structures, natures, processes, and variables that shape globalized collegiate desegregation. The authors pay attention to the history of segregation in South African culture, then proceed to current efforts to dismantle and rebuild the country’s educational enterprise. Drawing parallels with segregation policy in the United States, the authors argue that both nations may draw from global lessons about systemic global anti-Black oppression and its structural forms (e.g., apartheid, inequities in higher education). More specifically, the authors ground arguments in an analysis of the linguistic hegemony that continues to inculcate the college-aspiring students of South Africa. Understanding fundamental desegregation characteristics of racial hegemonic nations (e.g., United States) vis-à-vis racial and linguistic hegemonic nations (e.g., South Africa) is imperative to increase understanding of democratization of educational systems throughout the world.