Deeper Engagement Research Articles

Knowledge management (KM) and crowdsourcing (CS) are increasingly recognized as vital mechanisms for enhancing innovation, collaboration, and competitiveness in the service business sector. Yet their integration within tourism enterprises remains theoretically fragmented and empirically underexplored. This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric mapping of KM, CS, and Tourism Enterprise Competitiveness (TEC) to illuminate their intellectual foundations, developmental trajectories, and alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Drawing on a PRISMA-guided retrieval from the Web of Science Core Collection (2009–2024) and a refined sample of 463 documents, the analysis integrates quantitative bibliometrics, network mapping, conceptual structure modelling, and SDG alignment using VOSviewer and R-Biblioshiny. Findings reveal a multidisciplinary but geographically concentrated body of research dominated by contributions from the United States, China, Europe non from the global south. Although the field exhibits high citation influence, a negative growth rate of −4.52 percent suggests stagnation in recent output. Thematic patterns highlight management, innovation, and community participation as core clusters, while critical themes such as governance, trust, and data quality remain underrepresented. SDG mapping shows strong engagement with SDG 11(Sustainable Cities and Communities) and SDG 9 (Industry Innovation and Infrastructure) but weaker attention to education, climate action, social inclusion, decent work and economic growth. The study argues that advancing the integration of KM and CS demands greater methodological diversity, deeper engagement with human and social dimensions, as well as stronger governance frameworks to translate collective knowledge into sustainable tourism enterprise competitiveness and future opportunities.

This study investigated the impact of generative AI usage on academic engagement among students at a selected College of Education in Ghana. The study aimed to examine the kinds of generative AI tools, identify the different ways students utilize these GenAI in their learning, and assess the overall influence on their academic engagement by employing a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design. This design was chosen to provide a comprehensive understanding through both quantitative and qualitative data. Ninety-four students participated in the quantitative phase via purposive sampling and completed a survey examining the types of generative AI tools they use and the effects on their academic engagement. Additionally, twelve students were interviewed to gather in-depth qualitative insights that could not be captured by the survey. Findings Revealed that generative AI positively influences students’ academic engagement and improves their learning environment. It serves as an effective tool to enhance learning and engagement. However, findings from some respondents via qualitative interview reveal that, excessive reliance on generative AI also poses risks by encouraging laziness and overdependence, less creativity and immersive engagement due to easy access to the AI tools, which may affect academic integrity. The implication for this study is that generative AI tools like ChatGPT spark curiosity by offering instant feedback, tailored learning journeys, and interactive experiences that turn complex concepts into manageable insights. The study highlights generative AI as a double-edged tool: while it empowers students with efficiency, creativity, and deeper engagement, it also risks encouraging shortcuts, dependency, and ethical breaches. Ensuring responsible and ethical integration of AI is therefore vital, with academic integrity anchored in fairness, honesty, and originality remaining at the heart of scholarly practice.

The Metaverse—an evolving convergence of virtual and physical realities—has emerged as a transformative platform, particularly within the fashion and retail industries. Its immersive nature aligns closely with the principles of flow theory, which describes the optimal psychological state of deep engagement and enjoyment. This study investigates the dynamics of fashion retail shopping in the Metaverse through a novel multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework. Specifically, it integrates the CRITIC and ARAS methods within a spherical fuzzy environment to address decision-making under uncertainty. Flow theory is employed as the theoretical lens, with its dimensions serving as evaluation criteria. By incorporating spherical fuzzy sets, the model accommodates expert uncertainty more effectively. The findings provide empirical insights into the relative importance of flow constructs in shaping immersive consumer experiences in Metaverse-based retail environments. This study offers both theoretical contributions to the literature on digital consumer behavior and practical implications for fashion brands navigating immersive virtual ecosystems. Sensitivity analyses and comparative validation further demonstrate the robustness of the proposed framework.

This study introduces the concept of bipolar fuzzy commutative hyper BCK-ideals (BF-CHBCKIs) within the algebraic framework of hyper BCK-algebras, offering a novel approach to modeling dual uncertainty through bipolar fuzzy sets. By defining and classifying BF-CHBCKIs across multiple types and examining their structural relationships with reflexive, strong, and weak hyper BCK-ideals, we establish a comprehensive theoretical foundation supported by formal theorems and illustrative examples. These findings extend current understandings in hyperstructure theory and fuzzy algebra, contributing to the broader landscape of abstract mathematical reasoning. Importantly, this research aligns with the goals of Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG-4) by promoting inclusive and equitable quality education. The formalization of BF-CHBCKIs fosters advanced mathematical thinking and provides meaningful tools for enhancing learning environments, particularly in schools and institutions that emphasize research-oriented instruction. By integrating abstract algebraic structures with uncertainty modeling, this work supports the cultivation of analytical skills, mathematical creativity, and deeper engagement with formal logic among students and emerging researchers.

Introduction: Effective communication remains a cornerstone of compassionate healthcare, closely linked to patient experience and care outcomes [1]. In 2022, the Comprehensive Communication Skills Training (CCST) course was developed at a medium-sized trust, in response to feedback from bereaved families and frontline staff, aiming to improve communication in emotionally complex scenarios [2]. Preceding the creation of the course, the facilitators attended a two-day training in experiential learning. Since its inception, the course has been refined; a Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) component, produced through a listen-create-reconnect exercise with relatives with lived experience, has been added. This development helps attendees understand how to respond to complaints in the moment and highlights the function of PALS as a key support service for patients and families. Methods: The training uses immersive simulation, with actor role players enacting authentic patient and family encounters. This encourages deep emotional engagement and reflection. Participants follow the journey of an elderly inpatient, and his wife, encountering pivotal communication challenges during his final hospital stay. The effectiveness of this training is credited with the collaboration; scenarios and debrief content, which are shaped by the real stories of patients and bereaved relatives, whose voices are woven throughout the training. This ensures the course content remains both emotionally resonant and grounded in lived experience, a hallmark of meaningful communication education [3]. Results: Approximately 300 trust staff have participated, all describe an increased confidence in managing difficult conversations. The newly introduced PALS module has been a welcome addition with participants reporting a better understanding of the role of PALS in supporting patients. Participants have highlighted the value of the emotional realism, the protected space for self-reflection, and the power of hearing service user stories in their own words. In 2023/2024 poor communication was indicated as the primary theme in 100% of the complaints made in relation to end of life care. Current complaints data for the trust shows a significant reduction related to this theme, attributable to just 22% (1 April 2024 – 31 December 2024). Discussion: By blending experiential learning with patient-informed narrative and structured reflection, participants reconsider how they listen, respond, and empathise. CCST builds confidence, strengthening trust between staff and patients and attendees feel directly connected to the experiences. The simulation-based transformative I’s [4], involvement, inclusion and influence underpin this programme. CCST’s growing reputation is leading to the embedding of the training in multi-professional induction and continuing education. Ethics Statement: As the submitting author, I can confirm that all relevant ethical standards of research and dissemination have been met. Additionally, I can confirm that the necessary ethical approval has been obtained, where applicable.

Using a master’s thesis on ‘Terrestrial Management’ as an example, this article uses Hannah Arendt’s concepts of storytelling and thinking to give an account of writing a thesis as a story. We read these concepts through ideas from post-qualitative inquiry and suggest that thinking through storytelling is important for giving birth to new concepts. We suggest that writing a thesis as a story is a practice of love with the intention of giving birth. This involves playful encounters with other thinkers and practitioners to engage in everyday theatres in the mind. Engaging with concepts from the margins of management, as well as a focus on the marginalized, allows for rearranging the field. Writing a thesis as a story combines deep engagement with stories as they emerge through the interconnectedness of people, places, and practices with artistic modes of writing and the authors’ ethical conversations with themselves while navigating unfamiliar territories. A storyteller manipulates fragmented material into a story while still keeping it open at its edges. Writing is true when it is grounded in people, places, and practices, when it allows for continuous curiosity and conversation, and when it discloses an ethical and political agent who cares about the world.

This article investigates the enduring afterlife of twentieth-century childhood ‘care’. Based on a deep engagement with the National Library of Australia's Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants Oral History Collection, it examines experiences of institutional ‘care’ across this collection through the lenses of carceral geography, criminology and memory studies. In comparison to more explicitly place-based approaches to institutionalisation, these oral histories reveal how diffuse carceral sites and experiences are reanimated through the realm of memory. The sensorial dimensions of these memories underscore the diffuse and layered temporality of institutionalisation, which I explore as an afterlife. By tracing how time, space, memory, and sensation are interwoven in accounts of institutionalisation, the article highlights the persistent impacts of institutionalisation and cautions against conceiving of carceral space as too narrowly bounded by the physical.

ABSTRACT Even though news media have expanded their coverage of climate change (CC) over the past decades, public understanding of the issue remains limited and often clouded by misconceptions about its causes, consequences, and potential solutions. One contributing factor to this gap could be the increasing prevalence of strategies to (dis)engage with news, such as news avoidance and “snacking.” News avoidance is not necessarily an all-encompassing phenomenon; it often manifests in a topic-specific form. Relatedly, “snacking” on news typically involves the skimming of headlines and photos without deep engagement, which can lead audiences to miss critical aspects of the content. This study systematically examines the psychological and cognitive factors that contribute to these two forms of (dis)engagement with news related to CC coverage. Using longitudinal survey data from Spain, we found evidence that low interest in CC and the “news-finds-me” (NFM) perception are key predictors of CC news avoidance. Moreover, trust in science and NFM are positively linked to “snacking” over time.

The forest bioeconomy is an emerging global sector that uses forest material to make value-added bioproducts that range from pharmaceuticals to biofuels. Notwithstanding their capacity to advance various United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, forest bioproducts face considerable sustainability challenges in global supply chains associated with harvesting, processing, and transportation. Using a systematic literature review focused on challenges and solutions to sustainability in forest bioeconomy supply chains, we analyze 81 peer-reviewed studies to identify the primary sustainability challenges and their attendant solutions. We find that economic barriers to scaling the forest bioeconomy are the most commonly studied challenge, while social and environmental challenges are often marginalized. Increasing stakeholder engagement is the most commonly mentioned solution, but the limitations of stakeholder engagement are largely absent from scholarly discourse. Lastly, we identify significant gaps in the literature related to coverage of non-European countries and analysis of key sectors like mass timber construction. The results gesture to the need for more research on under-represented regions and sectors, greater attention to social and environmental supply chain challenges, and deeper engagement with adjacent literatures on the intersection of public policy with sustainable supply chain governance.

This research explores the cyclic conceptualisation of knowledge within the academia–industry interface, encompassing insights from academics, practitioners and researchers. The objective of the study is to analyse how organisational knowledge of Industry 4.0 has changed thematically and to show the teamwork between universities and companies. This study distinguishes itself by combining Husserl and Heidegger’s phenomenological method, offering a thorough grasp of participants’ experiences and their real-world settings. This unique approach of hermeneutic phenomenology moves beyond description to an interpretation of being within its context, using the hermeneutic circle to understand phenomena through shared knowledge and experience rather than bracketing enables a deep engagement with participants’ lived experiences, providing valuable insights into the advancement of organisational knowledge. This article sheds light on technological innovation and sustainability’s pivotal role while emphasising the significance of sustainable strategic knowledge management practices. Drawing insights from verbatim excerpts and autoethnographic observations, the study identifies strategies conducive to fostering effective academic–industry collaborations. The research identifies effective strategies for successful academic–industry collaborations, drawing on direct quotes and personal observations. Real challenges and experiences of academics, researchers and practitioners are captured, besides putting across a repertoire of strategies to catalyse innovation, nurture collaboration, mitigate risk and foster learning and economic growth to keep pace with the dynamic competitive landscape.

Discomfort is pedagogically significant in encouraging learners to step out of their comfort zone to explore how systems of meaning are implicated in the stigmatising processes of those who experience poverty. In this article, we propose a discomforting pedagogy of poverty and outline a set of inter-related tools for teachers and learners to interpret these processes with the aim of unsettling normalised views of poverty in the classroom. We offer a practice-based reflection of using this pedagogic approach, which asks students to contemplate individually and collectively how they are entangled in discourses, representations and shared vulnerabilities. By scaffolding discomfort in a supportive environment, we contend that a deeper engagement with the structural realities of poverty offers an alternative learning pathway to make sense of poverty as difficult sociological knowledge.

This introductory paper to a special issue on InterAsian digitalities proposes the term TransAsian digitalities as an epistemology and a methodology to research digital life outside of a Western frame, in parts of the world where the fraught relationship between human beings and technological devices and platforms is vibrant and understudied. The introduction retraces the origin of TransAsian digitalities which is part of a broader set of research activities, conservations, and conferences on Southern Digitalities, a project to theorize digital life in the Global South at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South (#IAS_NUQ) at Northwestern University in Qatar. It situates TransAsian digitalities within current efforts to decolonize knowledge production on the digital, emphasizing the need to rethink the categories at our disposal to make sense of digital life in Asia. Asia is here understood not as a locus or bounded geographical space, but rather as a nexus, made up of diverse digital encounters, frictions, and tensions. As the special issue demonstrates, using TransAsian Digitalities as an epistemology and a methodology moves us beyond national and sub-regional siloes into new and unchartered territories. Building on earlier debates about “Asia as method,” we propose TransAsian digitalities as a standpoint from which to forge new knowledge on the digital rooted in deep local engagements and theories. The article ends by providing a brief overview of the six papers in the special issue.

Architectural education has increasingly engaged with the Circular Economy (CE); however, integration remains largely material-centric, emphasising life-cycle accounting, efficiency, and design for disassembly, while social, cultural, and governance dimensions are underrepresented. This study introduces the Circular Commons Framework, which repositions circularity as a collective, participatory, and socio-spatial practice. Using a qualitative comparative case study methodology, five international cases were analysed through eight dimensions spanning technical CE strategies and pedagogical approaches. Cross-case synthesis reveals convergent patterns around multi-scalar systems thinking, transdisciplinary collaboration, and stakeholder engagement. Nonetheless, persistent gaps emerged across cases, including those related to elective-based delivery, weak assessment infrastructure, and underdeveloped social equity dimensions. The Circular Commons Framework comprises four empirically grounded components: Circular Design Practices, Local Knowledge and Cultural Practices, Collaborative Governance, and Circular Synergy Workshops. Operationalisation guidance addresses curricular design, pedagogical methods, assessment mechanisms, and institutional enablers. Mainstreaming the framework requires systemic institutional support, including accreditation reform, supportive policy environments, and effective resource allocation, which are currently constraining even well-designed pedagogical initiatives. The framework positions architects as equity-minded stewards facilitating socially just and culturally resonant circular transitions. Limitations, including scalability tensions, indicate that the framework requires validation through longitudinal research and deeper engagement with non-Western knowledge systems.

The paper examines the marginalia of Lazar Baranovych in two copies of his sermon collections, “Mech Dukhovnyi” (“The Spiritual Sword”, 1666) and “Truby na dni narochyti” (“Trumpets for Major Feast Days”, 1674), preserved in the Early Printed and Rare Books Department of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine. The aim of the study is to identify references to the sources Baranovych used and to reconstruct the circle of works and authors that shaped his reading repertoire. The research demonstrated that, besides mentioning the Eastern Fathers of the Church, which is common for an Orthodox hierarch, Baranovych also engaged with the lives of Western saints and works by Roman Catholic authors of the early modern period. Notably, his reading preferences included Po­lish authors, particularly several 17th-century Catholic preachers. Furthermore, Baranovych cited hagiographic and historical literature, as well as classical antiquity texts. A significant portion of his marginalia comprises biblical quotations, reflecting his deep engagement with scripture. A distinctive feature of Baranovych’s marginalia is his use of self-quotation, referencing his own writings. The analyzed copies, densely annotated with Baranovych’s handwritten notes, represent unique monuments in the history of the Ukrainian book culture in the 17th century. They provide valuable insights into both the author’s practice of revisiting his own works and his habit of compiling reading excerpts and citations.

Students often arrive in science classrooms with understandings shaped by popular media, where scientific concepts are frequently misrepresented. Rather than dismissing these portrayals, this assignment leverages them to enhance science literacy and critical thinking. In a required undergraduate evolution course, students were tasked with selecting a fictional pop culture universe (e.g., Pokémon, Jurassic Park, and X-Men) and analyzing how evolution and/or biology was represented. Students identified scientific claims, whether explicit or implicit, assessed them using core evolution and biology concepts, and then offered recommendations to improve scientific accuracy without compromising creativity. Final products took the form of narrated slideshows or short videos designed for a general audience, emphasizing public science communication. This project encouraged deep engagement, flexible thinking, and application of course material through familiar media. It also fostered creativity and allowed students to express conceptual mastery in a format distinct from traditional exams. This assignment is low-tech, adaptable to various biology subfields, and easily integrated into different course structures.

This paper explores how a group of university researchers from the U.S. engaged with relationality as an ontological, epistemological, and axiological commitment to develop a research collaboration with an Indigenous Maya Tzotzil Muslim community in Chiapas, Mexico. We discuss how relationality has been central to our ways of knowing and being in all dimensions and stages of this research project, ranging from identifying the focus of the investigation to planning the design and implementation of the project. Second, we explore how and why this relational approach relied on slowing down the research process in order to make this community-centered project meaningful and relevant for this Maya Muslim community. This paper shows how these relational research processes and spaces invited a deep engagement not only with modes of relationality with the community but also with who we are as researchers incontrovertibly shaped by different human and more-than-human contexts.

ABSTRACT This study investigates the influence of digital content marketing on the behavioural intentions of potential tourists in the geotourism sector, with telepresence and flow serving as mediating variables. Data was collected through a structured questionnaire, and both divergent and convergent validity were assessed to confirm the instrument's validity. Reliability was evaluated using factor loadings, composite reliability, and Cronbach's alpha. The data were analysed using structural equation modelling techniques via SmartPLS software. Results demonstrate that digital content marketing significantly impacts the behavioural intentions of tourists in the geotourism domain, primarily through fostering telepresence and flow experiences. Telepresence, by simulating a realistic presence in the destination, not only enhances the overall experience but also cultivates a deeper emotional connection with the location. Flow, characterised by a state of deep engagement with digital content, further amplifies tourists’ intention to travel and positively affects their decision-making processes. The study suggests that geotourism entrepreneurs and policymakers should prioritise the creation of engaging, interactive digital content and harness emerging technologies to optimise marketing strategies. Effective digital content marketing can enhance brand awareness, attract a broader audience, and ultimately boost tourism sales and services.

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has evolved significantly with technological advances, allowing for higher procedural success rates and improved patient outcomes. However, the growing complexity of cases involving severely calcified lesions, tortuous vessels, and chronic total occlusions has increased procedural challenges. In such scenarios, the guide extension catheter (GEC, or guiding catheter extension) plays a critical role by enhancing device passage and providing additional backup support, making it indispensable in modern PCI. Various types of GECs offer distinct characteristics that influence their selection based on lesion type, device compatibility, and procedural requirements. The GEC is used for multiple purposes, including backup support, deep engagement, imaging device insertion, stent protection, thrombectomy, and foreign body removal. Despite its utility, GEC use is associated with potential complications, including vessel injury, thrombosis, air embolism, and hemodynamic instability. Careful technique and proper selection are critical to minimizing risks. Overall, the GEC is an essential tool in complex PCI procedures, offering significant advantages in improving procedural success.

Purpose This paper reports on the establishment phase of a co-designed evaluation project of a leadership development program in a rural health service in Victoria, Australia. Design/methodology/approach We used autoethnography to capture the perspectives of key stakeholders in an insider/outsider action research project. Findings Our findings highlight how co-design can effectively be used to build authentic academic and/or practitioner partnerships, the organic nature of action research in human resource management (HRM) interventions and the opportunity that insider and/or outsider research provides for deep engagement and mutual learning involving reflective practitioners, pracademics and impact-driven academics leading to far-reaching outcomes and impact. Our study also highlights how training evaluation can be strengthened by a process involving several stages and diverse stakeholders. Originality/value Our study provides a methodological framework for HRM research that can be used to bridge the research-practice gap in HRM and encourage learning and knowledge sharing. The study contributes towards building leadership capabilities and a resilient rural healthcare workforce.

SIREN is a citizen science project that involves lay people in the digitization of historical daily discharge measurements from Italian rivers. Such data, largely available only in printed yearbooks, hinders scientific progress in hydrological studies and water resource management. In this article, we examine the motivations behind citizen engagement in SIREN. Our multi-step approach combines quantitative analysis of online contributions, pilot interviews with selected volunteers, and a comprehensive questionnaire collecting basic demographic data and subjective impressions of the experience. Through these approaches, we identify three participant profiles: two driven primarily by the activity itself and one by the scientific content. The first profile values the straightforward nature of data entry, seeing it as an easy way to contribute with existing skills. The second profile treats participation as a leisure activity, readily fitting into brief intervals of free time. The third profile stems from deeper engagement, encompassing volunteers with professional or personal interests in hydrology, Italian geography, or both. The study also highlights the significant role of retired individuals (an underrepresented group in the citizen science literature) who often contribute using skills developed during their careers. This work highlights the importance of creating citizen science projects that are accessible, meaningful, and connected to volunteers’ lives and interests.