Josephine Vaughan, Kim Maund, Thayaparan Gajendran, Justine Lloyd, Cathy Smith and Michael Cohen
This study aims to address the research gap about value in the holistic discourse of creative placemaking. It identifies and synthesises the often discounted social and…
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Purpose
This study aims to address the research gap about value in the holistic discourse of creative placemaking. It identifies and synthesises the often discounted social and environmental values of creative placemaking along with typically emphasised economic values.
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This paper builds upon two research phases; first, a review and extraction of creative placemaking value indicators from relevant current urban, cultural and planning literature; and second, the identification of relevant, practice-based, value indicators through interviews with 23 placemaking experts including practitioners, urban planners, developers and place managers from the two largest cities of NSW, Australia; Sydney and Newcastle.
Findings
This study identifies three broad thematics for valuing creative placemaking along with several sub-categories of qualitative and quantitative indicators. These indicators reveal the holistic value of creative placemaking for its key stakeholders, including expert placemakers, designers, building developers, government and community groups. A key conclusion of the research is the need for tools that grasp the interconnected, and at times conflicting, nature of placemaking’s social, economic and environmental outcomes.
Originality/value
While a variety of value indicators exist to understand the need for ongoing resourcing of creative placemaking, stakeholders identified the limitations of current approaches to determine, represent and appraise the value of creative placemaking. The indicators of value proposed in this research consolidate and extend current discourse about the value of creative placemaking specifically. The indicators themselves have profound practical implications for how creative placemaking is conceived, executed and evaluated. Theoretically, the study builds on the deep relationships between values and practice in creative placemaking, as well as critiquing narrow forms of evaluation that entrench economic benefits over other outcomes.
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Alison Giraud‐Saunders, Margaret Gregory, Richard Poxton, Cathy Smith and David Towell
Findings and good practice are reported from a project promoting engagement of PCTs with the health experiences of people with learning disabilities. Project work was most…
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Findings and good practice are reported from a project promoting engagement of PCTs with the health experiences of people with learning disabilities. Project work was most successful where it linked into mainstream NHS priorities, using good information and specialists' expertise to support mainstream practitioners.
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Wyman Zhuang, Qianchu Liu and Cathy Smith
One of the challenges in the prediction of fatigue crack growth is to identify representative initial flaws and defects that can cause fatigue crack initiation and subsequent…
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One of the challenges in the prediction of fatigue crack growth is to identify representative initial flaws and defects that can cause fatigue crack initiation and subsequent crack growth. Representative initial flaws identified from this experimental study provided an essential input for the fatigue life assessment programme of the PC-9/A training aircraft currently in service. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper addresses this challenge with a critical literature review and experimental assessment of initial flaw types that may cause fatigue crack initiation, by fatigue testing and fractography analysis using optical microscope and scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
Findings
With a focus on aluminium alloy (AA) 2024-T3 thin sheet, the results cover various discontinuities from microstructural constituent particles inherent from the material process to macrostructural defects and surface discontinuities (such as burrs and machining marks) introduced during the production of airframes. It was found that most fatigue cracks originated from the bore surface discontinuities of rivet holes in the PC-9 vertical stabiliser thin panels rather than microstructural material defects of AA2024-T3 inherent from the material process.
Research limitations/implications
The experimental study has found that quantifying fatigue initial flaw sizes which resulted from poorly finished fastener holes with arbitrary discontinuities at the surface is a challenging topic. This topic is under the current investigation using a statistics based analysis of initial flaws in the prediction of fatigue crack growth.
Practical implications
The results obtained from this experimental study provided an essential input for the empennage and aft fuselage recertification and life assessment programme for the PC-9/A training aircraft currently in service.
Originality/value
This experimental study examined AA2024-T3 thin skin panels from two different PC-9/A aircraft. The post-test failure analysis using optical microscope and SEM found that machining defects dominate fatigue crack initiation that can result in subsequent crack propagation.
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Describes and discusses the publishing programme undertaken by the Institute of Management’s Information Centre, including the reasons for setting up the programme, the use of…
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Describes and discusses the publishing programme undertaken by the Institute of Management’s Information Centre, including the reasons for setting up the programme, the use of resources and the benefits and drawbacks. Argues that many information and library services have, through their staff and stock, the expertise and knowledge to undertake a publishing programme.
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Bekir Bora Dedeoğlu, Yusuf Karakuş, Caner Çalışkan and Şule Aydın
In this study, the effects of negative tourism impacts, length of residency and nativity on support for tourism development were examined.
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Purpose
In this study, the effects of negative tourism impacts, length of residency and nativity on support for tourism development were examined.
Design/methodology/approach
Because understanding the attitudes of local people toward tourism support is complex, this study employed both symmetric (PLS-SEM) and asymmetric (fsQCA) approaches from a holistic perspective. A total of 336 individuals from Cappadocia, one of Turkey's most prominent tourist destinations, were surveyed.
Findings
According to the symmetric method results, respondents' negative perceptions of tourism negatively affect attitudes toward tourism support. Native-born status acts as a moderating variable in the relationship between attitudes toward tourism support and the negative economic impacts of tourism. On the other hand, this study shows that the complex interactions of nativity and the negative impacts of tourism directly affect local people's attitudes toward tourism support.
Practical implications
This study revealed that practitioners should adopt a comprehensive perspective to understand the attitudes of local people toward tourism support.
Originality/value
This study, in addition to the findings obtained via the symmetric method, reveals the complex interaction of the negative impacts of tourism, thus providing a roadmap to improve local people's attitudes toward tourism support by using asymmetric modeling.
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Purpose – The purpose of this research was to make visible the process of analyzing our narratives of teacher identity.Design/methodology/approach – These narratives of teacher…
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Purpose – The purpose of this research was to make visible the process of analyzing our narratives of teacher identity.
Design/methodology/approach – These narratives of teacher identity were generated by isolating critical incidents and then drafting them as emblematic narratives. They were then shared with each other and compared against the tool of chronotopic motif developed by Bakhtin.
Findings – We found that our narratives, when filtered through the tool of chronotopic motif, reveal ambivalence about whether we desire to be known or unknown as teacher educators and as people. As we unpack our findings, we move through the tool of chronotopic motif, piece by piece, illuminating our stories by themselves, in relationship with each other, and against the professional literature on teacher educator identity and identity in general.
Practical implications – As teacher educators, we think it is important for others, particularly students, to be known. However, we are ambivalent about whether we want to be known and if so, by whom, and in what pockets of space and temporality.
Social implications – This research has implications for discussions of professional identity, role confusion in teacher education, and professional women in general. It adds to a growing body of literature suggesting that identity is a holistic process that factors heavily into what happens in the context of teacher education courses at a university.
Originality/value – Our chapter demonstrates to colleagues how to conduct a narrative analysis using a tool from literary theory.
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Anne E. Zald and Cathy Seitz Whitaker
Despite the title of this bibliography, there was not a truly underground press in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. The phrase is amisnomer, reputedly coined on the…
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Despite the title of this bibliography, there was not a truly underground press in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. The phrase is amisnomer, reputedly coined on the spur of the moment in 1966 by Thomas Forcade when asked to describe the newly established news service, Underground Press Syndicate, of which he was an active member. The papers mentioned in this bibliography, except for the publications of the Weather Underground, were not published by secretive, covert organizations. Freedom of the press and of expression is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution, although often only symbolically as the experience of the undergrounds will show, and most of the publications that fall into the “underground” described herein maintained public offices, contracted with commercial printers, and often used the U.S. Postal Service to distribute their publications.
Amy L. Brownlee and Britt Isaac Beda
Lauren Tate began a new career at a new organization. Based on information she learned in a recent MBA Leadership course, Lauren approached her new workplace with the goal of…
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Lauren Tate began a new career at a new organization. Based on information she learned in a recent MBA Leadership course, Lauren approached her new workplace with the goal of being more strategic in her interpersonal interactions. She focussed on identifying and building sources of power in this new career and proactively managed her evolving relationships. At some levels, she was very successful and effective but some relationships were characterized by stress. The case asks students to analyze Lauren's actions to determine which were effective and how her actions could have been even more effective.
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Cathy Goodwin and Kelly L. Smith
Suggests that an understanding of the difference betweenfriendliness and courtesy can help providers to meet customerexpectations and improve perceptions of service quality in a…
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Suggests that an understanding of the difference between friendliness and courtesy can help providers to meet customer expectations and improve perceptions of service quality in a variety of service situations. Focuses on the issue of first‐name usage as a gesture of friendliness which is open to misinterpretation. Notes that this aspect of friendliness has been much debated in the popular press and has been identified as part of consumer service by some service organizations. Concludes that consumers express strong preferences for the level of friendliness they want from any type of service encounter, and that expectations will vary from one service to another and also from one customer to another.