Community Practitioners Research Articles

Moving into communities of practice: experiences of psychology students in their internship

Internships that are carried out as part of an education program are a way of preparing students for their professional entry. Internships can be seen as an introduction to communities of practice (CoP) that students are to act in. The aim of the present study is to investigate the experience of psychology master students in Denmark during their internship and how this experience may reflect their moving into a community of practice. Eighty-seven psychology master students described a total of 495 experienced challenges in the beginning and at the end of their ten-month part-time internship as part of a reflective teaching task. Content analysis identified ten themes. CoP theory and its three common process denominators community, practice and identity were used as theoretical lens. The “Practice” domain included the themes Skills to solve concrete tasks, task delineations and directives, and relational competencies. “Practice community” encompassed Interns’ position for participation, Internship supervisor as a community gatekeeper, Community stressors, and Disagreement in the professional community; and “identity” included experiences related to professional identity, personal impact of work, and personal characteristics. Psychological professionalism emerged as an overarching concept across these domains. Future studies and educational planning should focus on supporting students in handling not only challenges related to concrete work practice and interaction in the community of practitioners, but also identity and the idea of learning as personal transformation as part of moving into practice.

Rural Psychiatrists Know Multidisciplinary Care and Cultural Sensitivity

Rural Psychiatrists Know Multidisciplinary Care and Cultural Sensitivity

A Survey on Redactable Blockchain: Challenges and Opportunities

While immutability is an important property of blockchain and can be utilized to build a credible data publishing platform, the same property can also be abused to disseminate illicit content and may violate requirements under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as well as other privacy regulations. Hence, there has been increased focus on designing redactable blockchain-based solutions, which is the focus of this survey article. Specifically, we survey the extant literature on redactable blockchain, and discuss the existing limitations and challenges prior to outlining a number of future research opportunities which hopefully will benefit the broader research and practitioner communities.

Sosialisasi Kompetensi Guru Madrasah MIN 3 Langkat di Era Revolusi Industri 5.0

This community service program aims to enhance the technological competencies of madrasah teachers in facing the challenges of the Industrial Revolution 5.0. The primary issue identified was the low level of technological skills among madrasah teachers, which can hinder the integration of technology into the learning process. To address this issue, a series of intensive training, continuous mentoring, and the formation of practitioner communities were implemented. The methods used included an initial survey to identify needs, intensive training followed by interactive workshops, and mentoring through reflective sessions and technical support. Active participation from teachers and community involvement in this process were key factors in the program's success. The results of this program showed a significant increase in teachers' technological skills, the formation of an active practitioner community, and positive social changes, including the emergence of local leaders among the teachers. The program also succeeded in creating new awareness regarding the importance of technology in education in the digital era. These findings support theories of technology-based learning and social change.

Investigating local policy instruments for different types of urban agriculture in four European cities: A case study analysis on the use and effectiveness of the applied policy instruments

Over the last decades, urban agriculture (UA) and controlled environmental agriculture (CEA) have been growing in many urban areas of the world to supply fresh food locally and to provide multiple benefits for the sustainable development of urban landscapes. Municipal policies and regulatory tools are increasingly employed to support UA/CEA and minimize practical challenges. However, especially in Europe, there is a lack of systematic reviews that evaluate the impacts of city-level food policies for UA/CEA and their effectiveness as perceived by local responsible actors. To address this gap, this study presents a qualitative overview of municipal policies that affect UA/CEA. We reviewed more than 83 policy documents and manuscripts and performed an online structured survey targeting key local managers or employees of UA and innovative CEA systems in four EU cities – Barcelona (Spain), Lyon (France), Trieste and Udine (Italy). We assessed policy tools, especially for three identified types of UA (allotment gardens, community gardens and closed spaces using CEA) by mainly focusing on public and private institutions and including aspects concerning land use planning, health and environmental policies. The findings demonstrate how the four cities’ municipal governments specifically designed and combined a multiplicity of policy instruments to enable, regulate and acknowledge UA/CEA as part of the urban metabolism and landscape. The policy instruments were shaped by different local governance and institutional structures as well as by the local actors and community practitioners and their growing interest in UA/CEA.

Overcoming Challenges to Open Research Practices – A Perspective From the Global South: A Commentary on “(Why) Are Open Research Practices the Future for the Study of Language Learning?”

Overcoming Challenges to Open Research Practices – A Perspective From the Global South: A Commentary on “(Why) Are Open Research Practices the Future for the Study of Language Learning?”

Assessment of a Practitioner-Derived Framework for Measuring Girl’s Agency in East Africa

Although soft skills are considered important for quality education, there is little consensus on which skills matter for which populations and few cross-culturally validated measures. We propose a conceptual and methodological remedy to this quandary through an investigation of “agency” as an outcome measure for adolescent girls’ life skills programs. We engage community practitioners in East Africa to derive a four-dimensional structure of agency from theory, practitioner expertise, and empirical evidence. We develop and pilot this regional measure of agency for adolescent girls, utilizing confirmatory factor analysis to confirm the underlying structure of our instrument and to investigate its use as a pre-post measure. Analysis was conducted using data collected from 1,953 girls in four countries. Results indicate a four-latent factor structure representing the construct of agency. We argue that researchers should prioritize investigating the regional limits to validity of contextually specific soft skills measures over establishing universal metrics.

Bridge management through digital twin-based anomaly detection systems: A systematic review

Bridge infrastructure has great economic, social, and cultural value. Nevertheless, many of the infrastructural assets are in poor conservation condition as has been recently evidenced by the collapse of several bridges worldwide. The objective of this systematic review is to collect and synthesize state-of-the-art knowledge and information about how bridge information modeling, finite element modeling, and bridge health monitoring are combined and used in the creation of digital twins (DT) of bridges, and how these models could generate damage scenarios to be used by anomaly detection algorithms for damage detection on bridges, especially in bridges with cultural heritage value. A total of 76 relevant studies from 2017 up to 2022 have been taken into account in this review. The synthesis results show a consensus toward the future adoption of DT for bridge design, management, and operation among the scientific community and bridge practitioners. The main gaps identified are related to the lack of software interoperability, the required improvement of the performance of anomaly-detection algorithms, and the approach definition to be adopted for the integration of DT at the macro scale. Other potential developments are related to the implementation of Industry 5.0 concepts and ideas within DT frameworks.

Cross-group friendship and collective action in community solidarity initiatives with displaced people and resident/nationals.

Introduction: In Ireland, people seeking asylum (displaced people) receive accommodation in a system called "Direct Provision" (DP) while they wait for their applications for protection to be processed. The living conditions of DP have been described as illegal and inhumane by national and international human rights groups, and the system exacerbates the social exclusion of displaced people. Community responses to DP by displaced people and resident/nationals of Ireland include the creation of informal groups called community solidarity initiatives (CSI), through which cross-group friendships are forged by participation in shared cultural activities. We hypothesized that, compared to non-CSI participants, participants of CSI would report more cross-group friendships, and that more cross-group friendships would predict stronger collective action intentions to support the campaign to end DP, especially among resident/nationals. Methods: We recruited residents/nationals and displaced persons with and without CSI experience to complete a self-report questionnaire (n = 199), measuring cross-group friendship, collective action intentions, and intergroup attitudes. Data were collected between July 2020 and March 2021, using a combination of online and paper surveys. We conducted ANOVA and conditional process analyses on the data to test our hypotheses. Results: As predicted, CSI participants reported more contact with cross-group friends and stronger collective action intentions than non-participators. Conditional process analysis indicated that CSI participation facilitated resident/nationals' political solidarity with displaced people through cross-group friendship. Discussion: Findings identify the role of group membership in the relationship between contact and collective action for migrant justice, illustrating the potential of CSI to bolster intergroup solidarity and social cohesion through shared activities and cross-group friendship. As such, findings make an important contribution to the literature on intergroup contact, solidarity, and social cohesion, and will be relevant for community practitioners, civil society organisations, NGOs, and policy makers.

Preface

Measurement technology and automation is a composite technology that integrates automation, electronics, computer, control engineering, information processing, machinery and other disciplines and technologies, and is widely used in automation equipment and production automation process in various fields such as transportation, electricity, metallurgy, chemical engineering, building materials and so on. Measurement technology, especially for intelligent measurement technology are now playing a very important role in many fields such as industrial automation, agriculture automation, transportation and communication, social service system and etc., and the trend of the measurement technology is combination of sensor, signal processing, intelligent evaluate and decision, communication and self diagnose and other related technology. Mechanical automation are also widely used and developed faster and faster such as robot technology, digital manufacturing and extreme manufacturing, and it is changing our life greatly now.The research and application of measurement technology and automation device not only has important theoretical significance, conforms to the strategy of scientific and technological development at present and for a long time in the future, but also closely combines with the actual situation of the national economy, and has important significance in promoting the technological progress of enterprises, the transformation of traditional industrial technology and the modernization of railway technical equipment.In order to provide an international forum to exchange ideas for the domestic and foreign scholars and experts from the related fields, The ICMTMA 2023 will brings together an international community of researchers and practitioners in the field of the related domain to discuss the latest advancements of the discipline, shape its future directions, and promote its diffusion among the scientific community at large.ICMTMA 2023 was sponsored by Huaiyin Institute of Technology, China; Changsha University of Science & Technology, China, and was held in Changsha, China, Jan 6-7, 2023. It is an annual forum dedicated to the emerging and challenging topics in measurement technology and mechatronics automation.On behalf of the organizing committee, we thank for Huaiyin Institute of Technology, China; Changsha University of Science & Technology, China for its sponsorship and logistics support. We gratefully acknowledge IOP publishing, and we also thank the members of organizing committees and the program committees. We wish to express our heartfelt appreciation to the keynote speakers, reviewers, IOP editors and students help. Last but not least, we thank all the authors and participants for their great contribution that made this conference possible and all the hard work worthwhile.We wish to see you in the ICMTMA 2023.The Committees of ICMTMA2023List of Organizing Committees are available in the Pdf.

Nglangkahi Wedding Traditions in Lengkong Village, Bojong District, Tegal City Based on Urf and Sociology Study

Human behavior in choosing a life partner certainly has its own considerations. Sometimes considerations are not just material issues but also immaterial issues. In carrying out a wedding, there is a tradition that is still preserved and guarded by the community, even though this tradition is an unwritten law, it is certain that every region has living traditions that have been in effect for generations. This tradition must be obeyed by the local community because it is manifested in the form of taboos and even traditional ceremonies. Like the unique tradition in Lengkong Village, Bojong District, Tegal City, the people in this village have beliefs and traditions in a wedding which they usually call "nglangkahi Manten". In the research journal the problem formulation will be published, namely: What is the Ngangkahi tradition, How is the ngangkahi tradition practiced, How is the legal sociology review of the ngangkahi tradition. This researcher used field research located in Lengkong Village, Bojong District, Tegal City. The data source was obtained using interview techniques with several community leaders and practitioners of the ngangkati tradition. Which will contain various kinds of information about the Ngangkahi tradition. The factors that influence the existence belief in the prohibition of stepping over are: fanaticism in the teachings of ancestors, the influence of customs and culture, educational factors and the factor of respect for parental advice.

Measuring Resident Quality of Life in Appalachian Mountain Towns: A Case Study and Proposed Methodology

Abstract This article explores quality of life (QoL) for community residents in the context of mountain towns in the Appalachian region of the United States. The literature on the dimensions that define community QoL is consulted, along with a discussion of the methods and sources used by policymakers in Roanoke, Virginia, to develop a QoL index. This method is then replicated and extended to illustrate how community leaders can benchmark their region's performance, make comparisons with other similar towns, and use it as a tool to help market their community. The article adds value by sharing the Roanoke model with the academic and practitioner community for the first time and by demonstrating how its methodology can be affordably and sustainably adapted for use in any small community, including the case study Appalachian Mountain town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

О научном обеспечении импортозамещения в национальной безопасности России

The study of national economic and financial security in the context of sanctions and import substitution revealed the lack of a unified methodology in the economic block of the Russian Federation, manifested in the form of discrepancies in the methodological approaches of regulatory institutions of the ministerial level. The presence of such theoretical and methodological discrepancies in the work of the regulatory institutions of Russia indicates the lack of a unified national state ideology for the formation of the development strategy of individual territories and the country as a whole. Effective and stable development of the country is impossible without strong science, the results of which are implemented in public practice. Declaring a serious large-scale import substitution project, there is actually no task to develop an appropriate theoretical and methodological basis for it, to define a paradigm that is designed to reflect national interests. The presence of developed theories and methodology as the basis of the scientific foundation in the country’s economy, including economic security as an integral part of Russia’s national security, allows us to develop effective strategies that constitute a unique intellectual base for the development of the country’s economic sectors. If import substitution is based only on the initial level, without a scientific basis that takes into account the national interests of Russia, the preservation of the country’s sovereignty turns out to be an impossible task. To verify the assertions made, letters were sent containing questions about the use by institutions of domestic or foreign theoretical and methodological tools in their work. The correspondence covered 7 ministries and the Bank of Russia, which form the economic bloc of the RF Government. The analysis of the responses allows us to conclude: import substitution in Russia is defined narrowly, only in relation to groups of goods, technology and equipment without taking into account scientific domestic developments in theory and methodology; it is not clear what domestic/foreign tools are used in the economic block of Russia; there is no constructive interaction between representatives of the scientific and educational community and managerial practitioners. Import substitution in Russia should start from the theoretical and methodological level, where the strategy is defined and the integrity in the activities of the institution and the relevant sector of the economy of the country is set.

The promises and challenges of clinical AI in community paediatric medicine.

The widespread adoption of virtual care technologies has quickly reshaped healthcare operations and delivery, particularly in the context of community medicine. In this paper, we use the virtual care landscape as a point of departure to envision the promises and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. Our analysis is directed towards community care practitioners interested in learning more about how AI can change their practice along with the critical considerations required to integrate AI into their practice. We highlight examples of how AI can enable access to new sources of clinical data while augmenting clinical workflows and healthcare delivery. AI can help optimize how and when care is delivered by community practitioners while also improving practice efficiency, accessibility, and the overall quality of care. Unlike virtual care, however, AI is still missing many of the key enablers required to facilitate adoption into the community care landscape and there are challenges we must consider and resolve for AI to successfully improve healthcare delivery. We discuss several critical considerations, including data governance in the clinic setting, healthcare practitioner education, regulation of AI in healthcare, clinician reimbursement, and access to both technology and the internet.

Advancing Radical Food Geographies Praxis through Participatory Film

The academic field of geography is deeply embedded within capitalist and settler colonial logics and has played a major role in suppressing and concealing Indigenous histories along with rights claims, cultures, and practices. While geography’s origins are deeply problematic, over the past decades, many scholars and practitioners have offered counter theoretical and practical perspectives and approaches. Radical food geographies praxis is one such example that is rooted in engaged and socially relevant theory, practice, and reflection. In this article, we present reflections from our experience with radical food geographies research praxis through a collaborative food sovereignty, action-oriented project co-developed and co-led by two settler academics, a documentary filmmaker, and the Chief of Batchewana First Nation. From 2018-2022, we embarked on an effort to share stories of Batchewana First Nation’s historical and current fishing practices, culture, and governance through the co-creation of a feature length documentary film titled, Lake Superior Our Helper: Stories from Batchewanaung Anishinabek Fisheries (https://www.batchewanaungfish.ca). To write this paper, we engaged in a process of collective autoethnography that involved documenting our individual reflections on the project and then bringing these perspectives into dialogue. Emerging from this process, we share our insights for an engaged research praxis, focusing on meaningful and authentic relationships and partnership building, participatory film as a tool for collaborative research, and radical food geographies. We present these insights with the aim of improving our own individual and collaborative practice and to share our learnings with other scholars, activists, and community practitioners engaged in similar partnership-based and praxis-oriented geographic research.

A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Community-Based Intimate Partner Violence Interventions in India.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) in India remains an entrenched and prevalent public health issue. Despite ample evidence of the widespread problem of IPV in India and associated mental and physical morbidities, far less is known about intervention models to reduce IPV in India. The aims of this meta-analysis and systematic review are to assess the effectiveness of community-based interventions to reduce IPV in India and to provide a narrative synthesis of these intervention approaches. A total of 9 databases were searched to identify peer-reviewed, English-language articles published between January 2000 and September 2022. The search identified 10 studies that met study inclusion criteria, including 3 randomized control trials, 4 quasi-experimental, 2 pre/post, and 1 time-series evaluation. Eight studies were included in the meta-analysis. There was notable variation in the interventions and approaches employed to reduce IPV and varying measurement of IPV outcomes. The results of the meta-analysis show that participating in community-based IPV interventions produced a significant reduction in IPV among women. When considering different types of IPV, study participants were less likely to report physical and psychological IPV victimization. In addition, participants were also less likely to report approving of IPV after participating in community-based IPV interventions. Community-based interventions and research addressing IPV are still evolving in India. Missing descriptions of theoretical frameworks, sampling, intervention design, and inadequately reported effectiveness of intervention (both quantitative and qualitative reporting) need to be addressed. Moreover, long-term evaluations of the pilot interventions are needed to provide a clear picture of the long-term effectiveness, sustainability, and replicability of the community-based IPV interventions. The findings have implications for researchers, practitioners (community health workers, clinicians, and social workers), and policymakers keen on IPV reduction in India and globally.

Vietas nozīme stāstījumos par dejošanu Pārdaugavā

It is important for people to structure the space around them and give it meaning, and this is evident in the stories of people involved in dance, not only talking about the process of dancing itself but also about the place and space where they dance. The project “Urban Experiences: Narratives, Memories and Place Heritage” (lzp-2020/1-0096), implemented by researchers from the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art at the University of Latvia and launched in 2021, includes a study in Rīga, Pārdaugava. It involved interviews with representatives of folk dance and stage folk dance groups working in Pārdaugava. In order to deepen the understanding of an important community of practitioners of Latvia’s intangible cultural heritage – dancers and dance teachers – the aim of this article is to find out where folk dance and stage folk dance perform today, which are the places they pay attention to and highlight as important, and how they shape their everyday dance life. Experiencing different places and spaces in the city shapes both the identity of dancers and dance teachers and the perception of a particular place. In other words, there is a two-way interaction: the person shapes the place, and the place shapes the person. Through semi-structured interviews with members of the dance community and subsequent analysis, the place where classes and concerts take place is crucial in sustaining their everyday practices. Rehearsal spaces create an atmosphere for everyday activities and are also important for socialising and maintaining a sense of community. Although most dancing takes place indoors, in recent years, there has been more dancing outdoors. And although this experience has not always been seen as a success, it has provided a different perspective on the space around us, and an opportunity for people who do not dance to be exposed to different dance practices. The article “The importance of place in narratives about dancing in Pārdaugava” analyses the contexts in which places appear in the narratives of people involved in dance, the meanings they attach to them and what they highlight as important characteristics of the dance environment, which in turn constitute this important part of the intangible cultural heritage.

Fit for purpose? Assessing the accessibility, theory of action, and accountability of digital technology interventions for sexual and gender-based violence prevention and response

This paper presents the results of a scoping review of Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D) interventions designed to address sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Our analysis considers the extent to which these ICT4D interventions align with established strategies for preventing and responding to SGBV from gender equality and global health practitioner communities. Using a feminist lens, we propose three parameters against which design features of digitally-based SGBV interventions should be assessed: (1) accessibility, (2) theory of action, and (3) accountability. Reading the intervention landscape through these parameters, our results indicate that ICT interventions to address SGBV deploy creative use of various technologies, from mapping software to social networks and document storage. That said, we also find significant scope for improving the accessibility of existing interventions through use of features that remove literacy barriers. Our findings around the accountability of interventions highlight the need for far greater engagement with emerging conceptualizations of data rights. Finally, we show that existing theories of action are only partially aligned with “offline” best practices.

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'Don't lose it on the bus!': Casting the normative biosexual citizen in early Scottish pre-exposure prophylaxis provision.

The introduction of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) raises important questions around how new biotechnologies are negotiated within contemporary settings and how they can shape the moral governance of biocitizens, or as we explore, biosexual citizens. This article draws on qualitative interviews and focus groups to consider how the normative biosexual citizen was cast at the start of provision in Scotland by clinical and community practitioners. Our findings show how practitioners navigated ideas around who was deserving of support and access to PrEP in the context of limited resources, interpreted what legitimate risk narratives might look like for different groups and translated particular gendered, sexualised and racialised risk profiles in the context of PrEP provision. This draws attention to how normative biosexual citizenship was not determined through meeting a set of clinical criteria and adhering to a prophylaxis regime but cast through ongoing negotiations with clinical and community practitioners in relation to normative ideas of essential care, constrained resources, risk narratives and gendered and racialised bodies. Our research indicates how access to PrEP will continue to demand particular enactments of normative biosexual citizenship that may well be at odds with the experiences and needs of communities affected by HIV.