Kind Of Partnership Research Articles

Discipline‐based academic development through a tripartite partnership

This paper describes a discipline‐based academic development project based upon a tripartite relationship between departmental staff, work‐based practitioners and the central academic development unit which took place over one academic year within the Department of Physiotherapy, Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh. The purpose of the project was to discuss and debate the concept of the ‘reflective practitioner’, to develop strategies for enabling undergraduate students to be reflective, and to devise a framework for assessment of reflective practice in clinical work‐based learning. The outcomes of the project, most important of which was a change in the learning experience for students, demonstrate that academic development can be valuable and productive when undertaken as a partnership and placed in a disciplinary context. The authors identify key elements important to the success of the academic development process which should be applicable in similar situations and which could serve as guidelines for the planning and delivery of staff development through similar kinds of partnerships.

Public trust and initiatives for new health care partnerships.

Effective communication between doctor and patient is a critical component of high-quality care. The physician's credibility has a significant effect on treatment outcomes. Because changes in medicine and larger cultural trends challenge the ability of clinicians to engage their patients' trust, new kinds of partnerships must be created. To do this effectively, physicians have to sharpen their communication skills and devise strategies for assuring that their patients become informed allies in their own treatment. A number of innovations are helping to build these alliances: training in communication skills; creative uses of the Internet and videotape technologies; improved "customer service" programs; critical pathways for patients; and special educational aids. All these tools promise to be useful, but they require careful development and evaluation.

Culture Sells: Cezanne and Corporate Identity

is in Philadelphia by Advanta, read the tag line on Cezanne posters, postcards, billboards, and buses. Although patronage of the arts by business and the use of art in advertising and marketing are nothing new, the corporate sponsorship of Cezanne at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was widely publicized as a new kind of partnership: one based upon close cooperation between sponsor and recipient. Regardless of whether this relationship was indeed something unique in the history of corporate arts sponsorship, it raises issues about the cultural processes and logics by which, at a particular historical moment, discourses of identity, consumerism, and art intersect. The made possible in the sponsorship acknowledgment points to a rhetoric of endless possibility, imagination, and creativity that links an image of art and artists with that of the consumer to construct an ostensibly unique and authentic identity for a corporation, its workers, and its products.' With over 100 oils, 35 sketches, and 35 watercolors, Cezanne was the first major retrospective of post-Impressionist Paul Cezanne's work in 60 years. The exhibit, which included works gathered from 71 museums and seven private collections, traveled to three museums: the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in Paris, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Cezanne ran in Philadelphia from May 30 to September 1, 1996, drawing nearly 549,000 visitors. It joined a long string of art exhibitions featuring large collections of the work of canonical artists: Matisse, Monet, Picasso, Homer, and Vermeer, to name a few.2 Despite predictions in the 1980s that museums would begin to lose money on blockbusters as auction prices of major artworks (and, concomitantly, insurance rates) skyrocketed, the blockbuster has survived and become a major source of income for many museums (Csaszar 1996). Although these exhibitions historically have drawn large audiences, they are extraordinarily expensive to mount due to the costs of transporting, securing, and, especially, insuring works of art often valued at millions of dollars (Stapen 1989). For these reasons, combined with an overall decline in government funding

The university and the health of children.

"It is the argument of this article that those responsible for the health and well-being of children need to muster the political will, and mount an effective social strategy, to forge different kinds of partnerships with allies in higher education."

Building school community relationships: The role of higher education

THIS PAPER is an outgrowth of a 1996 study conducted through the National School Network, which includes organizations and schools that are pioneers in integrating the Internet into the curriculum. In the course of our research, we found that community groups are more likely to make the investment required to build a local information infrastructure and support school restructuring when they are able to understand and participate in the educational benefits from that infrastructure. As organizations that function within the local community, schools, as well as teachers, administrators, students, and parents are affected by the local environment—its values, norms, political structures, and economy. As centers of learning, schools also influence their local communities. Our findings indicated that by forming different kinds of partnerships including ones with higher education, the school can enrich its curriculum, and the community can grow to understand, accept, and benefit from the networking technology and the changes in the school. This paper describes two case studies taken from National School Network (NSN) members which involve higher education to help build successful school—community involvement.

A learning community in the making ‐ Middlesex University’s new MA in personal and organizational development

Makes a case for a new kind of partnership between universities and their local communities within which organizational as well as individual learning can be recognized, developed and accredited. Describes Middlesex University’s new MA in personal and organizational development and suggests that a programme of this kind could be a catalyst for such a change to be brought about.

The Sunland Park/Camino Real Partnership

The location and management of landfills is among the many controversial issues confronting many American communities. Greatly increasing the controversy is the issue of interest group politics in the local landfill siting and international waste trading policies. Exploring the historical and political controversies, this study examines landfill politics in a public‐private partnership. The analysis reveals the vulnerability of local public authority and citizen participation in this kind of partnership.

National Libraries and Electronic Document Delivery

National libraries that have relied upon traditional methods of document delivery must prepare to re-establish themselves in the electronic age by forming two different kinds of partnership. In the short term, for monograph supply they should ally with major libraries, or consortia, sharing network facilities. For ‘journal’ articles in the long term they should join with the electronic publishers, both bringing market expertise and partnering telecommunications agencies capable of direct delivery to the researcher, bypassing traditional libraries.

Groundwork – a case study in landscape and amenity management

Abstract The Groundwork trusts have now been in operation for well over a decade and have implemented a wide range of projects across England and Wales. The origins and purposes of Groundwork are traced, and an overview of the types of project undertaken is presented. The relationship of the trusts to public and private sector funding, and the kinds of partnership involved, are examined. Many successes have been achieved in landscape renewal, although there have been some frictions with local authorities, and it is still difficult to make objective assessments of value for money or performance across a wide range of criteria. Nevertheless, the network of Groundwork trusts looks set to continue to offer a broad and flexible approach to environmental management.

Making randomised trials larger: a simple solution?

However, to fully mobilize this workforce, it has to be perceived that the women or consumers themselves have a stake in the clinical trial and that the questions we address and the method of addressing these questions has been scrutinized and perhaps modified by these special interest groups. As an experiment in this direction, I have just established a consumers' advisory group chaired by Mrs Hazel Thornton, a well-known and outspoken advocate of the patients' needs in clinical trials. 8 This new group has been given the task of advising on the design and conduct of a trial of hormone replacement therapy for women with acute or chronic menopausal problems who have been treated for breast cancer in the past. The need for such a trial has been well documented already and yet the ethical dilemma of conducting such a trial is enormous. 9 What better way for such a committee to cut its teeth and to set an agenda for the future. In my opinion, the only way of resolving these dilemmas are for the clinical trial organizations to be perceived as providers and the women themselves as the purchasers. We have the expertise and the scientific methodology to help those women who want to see advances in the prevention and cure of breast cancer. Only by this kind of partnership can we reverse the trend to 'rightism' and protect ourselves from the ill-informed attacks from the self-appointed arm-. chair ethicists.

Business partnerships with families

B usiness has provided vital and strategic leadership in education reform. Most of these efforts have focused on the school. One of the key points we are realizing toclay is that children learn a lot outside the classroom, and what they bring ir7to the classroom determines how well they succeed in school ancl, later, on the job. Today we are coming out of the dark ages-we are discovering much that we dicl not know before about how and when children learn. We are recognizing that 90 percent of a child’s time before the age of 18 is spent not at school, but at home. What this means for business is that a new kind of partnership has to be built to improve and reform education. Business needs to-ancl calz-form p,artnerships that include schools but

EC/Hungary Agreement: Framework for a New Kind of Partnership

EC/Hungary Agreement: Framework for a New Kind of Partnership

Healthy ageingHealthy ageing G Garrett editorWolfe262pp£12.951-870065-22-0

Gill Garrett has done much to promote awareness of the health needs of older people among nurses in previous publications. This collection of 45 papers, formerly published elsewhere, is part of this consciousness-raising exercise. All have been updated and revised. There are many positive things about Healthy Ageing. The contributors range from lecturers to practitioners. Ward sisters/charge nurses and specialist nurses contributed on important clinical issues. Some articles are written by two authors who may represent both the academic and the clinical aspects of care. This kind of partnership is to be welcomed if the theory and practice divide is to be bridged. The editor does suggest that the book is not intended to be a definitive text. The chapters are too short to be more than an introduction to the subjects, and the standards of the articles vary. The article on nutrition, eg, draws on very old references, which may be perfectly relevant for some subjects, but not really for physiology when more recent literature contradicts these earlier references.

Aid Cooperation: What Kind of Partnership? Experiences with Technical Assistance to Tanzania and East Africa

Summary Kjell J. Havnevik, ‘Aid Cooperation: What Kind of Partnership? Experiences with Technical Assistance to Tanzania and East Africa’, Forum for Development Studies, No. 2, 1992, pp. 163–180. The article attempts to analyse the donor-recipient relations connected with technical assistance to Africa. The article contains and alalysis of the background and evolution of technical assistance as well post colonial development in Africa with particular emphasis on Tanzania. The major objective of the article is to analyse the character of donor-recipient relations using concrete evidence from technical assistance activities and programmes of the Norwegian Aid Agency (NORAD) and the World Bank in Tanzania. Hence the more basic content of these relations in terms of biases, imbalances and dependency are identified and analysed.

Young Women Subject to Statutory Orders and the Transition to Independence: Contradictions in policy and practice

This paper examines the way the state welfare system deals with young women who are subject to statutory orders and their need for support as they move towards independence. Young women’s views of their needs are highlighted. Evidence is drawn from the author’s and other relevant Australian and overseas research. The issues are examined within the context of general community trends and policy and practice implications are studied using Community Services Victoria as a case example.A variety of social and economic factors are leading to young people in the general community living with their parents for longer periods of time. In contrast, young people subject to statutory orders, especially young women, are often being discharged from these orders - and thus isolated from adult guidance - shortly after they pass their mid-teens.Assumptions about these young women’s needs - that they no longer require nor wish for support and are ready for complete independence at this early age - are challenged. The legal, organisational and practice constraints which reinforce these assumptions are analysed. The apparent contradiction arising from young women refusing services which they also say they require, is also discussed.The author demonstrates that there is a need for a reconceptualisation of the issue. A new kind of partnership between workers and young women on statutory orders is needed and a policy and administrative framework which facilitates this. The implications of the findings for practice and policy - and especially the important contribution ttiat young women’s views can make to the development of social policy - are presented.

MANAGEMENT TRAINING — A NEW APPROACH

W.H. Smith and Oxford Polytechnic have set up a new agreement which is likely to transform the way in which UK managers gain professional management qualifications. The initiative has come from W.H. Smith, which proposes a new kind of partnership between business and higher education in Britain. Peter Bagnall, Managing Director, Staff and Services, said:

Finding volunteers and keeping them

The following is a shortened version of a talk given at the SWRAB Annual Meeting of Secretaries of Voluntary Associations, Arundel Castle, West Sussex, 2 November 1983. The traditional image of the volunteer is out of date; but new types of volunteers are emerging, and they are growing in number. Our changing society calls for a more broadly based and widely ranging approach to recruitment. Keeping volunteers means ensuring that they have job satisfaction by providing appropriate selection, training and support. The future role of voluntary organisations lies in a new kind of partnership with statutory services.

Science, regulations, and the safe handling of chemicals

Diverse scientific, technical, and technological factors must be considered when developing chemical safety regulations which may have to bridge many segments of industry. The handling and disposal of chemical wastes, too, have their own unique problems at every stage in the chain. Unfortunately, regulatory initiatives based on sound scientific and factual evaluation have often been lacking in the regulatory process. Some examples of ill-conceived regulations are the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's original generic cancer policy; the Environmental Protection Agency's 1979 proposal for an airborne carcinogen policy; and a move by the Food and Drug Administration in 1979 to regulate carcinogen residues in meat and poultry on the basis of unproven science. Industry realized that poor regulations would be far worse than no regulations at all. As one response, the American Industrial Health Council (AIHC) was formed to promote the integration of sound science into regulatory policies and decisions relating to chronic health hazards. This paper, presented as a speech before the Industrial Research Institute in May of 1982, describes the AIHC's proposals. The AIHC defined a logical decision process consisting of four steps leading to the selection of appropriate regulatory responses. The first three steps, Hazard Identification, Hazard Evaluation, and Risk Evaluation, are called the risk assessment process. The final stage is Regulatory Response. Use of this process can bring about the right kind of partnership between science and society in the regulatory process. These principles are so general they can be applied in regulatory areas beyond those originally intended, such as the problems of hazardous waste sites. An example of a bad approach to dealing with hazardous waste is the Love Canal waste site. In this case, the regulators did not first seek sound scientific facts on which to base societal value judgments. A positive example of hazardous waste site management implementing this four-step process is the McColl disposal site in Fullerton, California. While some aspects of the investigation are still in the Hazard Identification stage, others have moved into the second stage of Hazard Evaluation. This is a case where there has been a deliberate avoidance of leaping to conclusions before the existence and the degree of hazard have been determined so that the risks can be assessed and the proper responses made. A framework for decision making represents a common-sense approach. The AIHC's principles have not been fully embedded in the legislative or regulatory processes of this country, but the opportunity now exists to get these principles and methodologies embedded in the laws as they are amended, in regulations as they are created, and in policies as they are devised.

When is applied urban research ‘policy relevant?’

The type of research presented in this paper requires unusual support and guidance from others. The survey of NSF/RANN funding in the field of urban management and public service delivery could not have been accomplished without encouragement and facilitation of L. Vaughn Blankenship, Director of the Division of Applied Research, The National Science Foundation. The case study called “Managing Vandalism” relied on the goodwill, honesty and perceptiveness of Robert Fichter and Alvin Scott, two extraordinary City employees who took risks in conducting this project and then in reflecting on it. Tribute is also due to the 30 public servants around the country who responded sincerely and thoughtfully to an extensive telephone interview on that project, all ‘in the cause of science’. The case study called “Property Tax Policy” depended on about twenty key informants. Of this group, Robert Weinberg of Boston University, Alexander Ganz of the City of Boston, and Michael Schneider of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development were absolutely essential, as allies and subjects who helped me to search through the many strands of this complex project. Our nation's quest for ‘high quality, policy-relevant social research’ has grown considerably during the past decade. Typically, ventures of this type are jointly pursued by three partners: sponsors, users and researchers. The first provides financial support. The second ultimately makes decisions which are informed by the research findings. And the third has primary responsibility for producing new knowledge. This kind of partnership is unnatural: it brings together a set of people who tend to have different goals, styles, traditions, and institutional affiliations. The resulting process of knowledge production is clearly different from that of basic science. And its criteria of relevance vary in important respects from applied research in the engineering or natural sciences. This paper views that tripartite venture as a unique kind of social system. It asks the question: When is applied social research ‘policy-relevant’? Answers to this question are proposed for a particular class of applied social research projects, ones for which the Federal government is the sponsor, and decision-makers in State or local government are the intended users. Trends in policy for Federally-supported R&D, the nature of the applied social research community, the needs of State and local government, and even the training of public managers and administrators all point to the growing significance of this locus of inquiry. The paper generally draws on over five years experience by the National Science Foundation in supporting research relating to the performance of various non-Federal government activities. A more detailed set of findings is presented from two in-depth case studies of this kind of research project. The subject of the first is the management of vandalism in public parks and recreational facilities, while the second deals with property tax policy. These two case studies provide methodological approaches and empirical insights for future investigations of this class of applied research activity. They also suggest certain strategies for those who find themselves in one of the several key roles in such joint ventures.

Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient

Just before Christmas 1976, a report of the diagnosis and treatment of an illness appeared in a medical journal. There is, of course, nothing unusual about that, except that this report dealt with just one patient and was written by the patient himself— Norman Cousins, for more than 30 years an editor of Saturday Review magazine. As an intelligent, well-educated layman with a strong determination to overcome his illness, Cousins was disinclined to accept hospitalization and treatment unquestioningly. Some might consider him a difficult patient in that he refused to let technicians draw blood more frequently than once every three days and challenged the hospital diet as poorly balanced. But he also studied his own illness, speculated on its possible causes, and—in a kind of partnership with his physician—undertook some unusual approaches to overcoming it. Among these was the medicine of laughter, resulting from the reading of amusing books and