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    • Yorke, Louise; Rose, Pauline; Pankhurst, Alula (2021)
      In this chapter we consider why education systems have not yet achieved equitable access and learning for all girls, despite high-level government commitment. Taking Ethiopia as a case study, we refer to the ‘domains of ...
    • Rose, Pauline; Arnot, Madeleine; Jeffery, Roger; Singal, Nidhi (2021)
      "The introduction explains the rationale for focusing on education reform in relation to the tackling of social inequality in Southern contexts. The aim of the book is to bring together the analysis of past evidence of ...
    • Jolly, Richard (2021)
      Education
    • Mitchell, Paul Mark (2021)
      Assessing the value for money offered by new health technologies is playing an increasingly important role in aiding decision-making in health and care. Even in a pre-COVID-19 world, international healthcare systems ...
    • Coriat, Anne-Marie (2021)
      Whilst there are many common features in doctoral training across the world, there is considerable variation in how training is delivered, funded and supported. Approaches vary depending on the nature of the degree, on ...
    • Baraitser, Lisa; Brook, William (2021)
      This paper opens up the relationship between vulnerability and the temporalities of care. It takes ‘care’ as not just a material practice that supports, manages and sustains vulnerable bodies, but as a temporal practice, ...
    • Ulnicane, Inga; Knight, William; Leach, Tonii; Stahl, Bernd Carsten; Wanjiku, Winter-Gladys (2022)
      This chapter aims to contribute to AI research by providing insights into policy dynamics and content. Using concepts and insights from social studies of emerging sciences and technologies such as performative function of ...
    • Noblet, Andrew; Nielsen, Karina (2018)
      This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book highlights that an important guiding principle when developing organizational interventions is ...
    • Martin, Angela J.; LaMontagne, Anthony Daniel (2018)
      Small-medium enterprises (SMEs) are a vital employment sector in most developed economies but these work settings have not featured widely in occupational health research and practice. Given the high prevalence of mental ...
    • von Thiele Schwarz, Ulrica; Richter, Anne; Hasson, Henna (2018)
      In designing, implementing, and evaluating organizational interventions, program logic plays a central role as it outlines the core components of the intervention and links them to both proximal and distal outcomes. Also, ...
    • Nielsen, Karina; Noblet, Andrew (2018)
      This chapter discusses the need for understanding what works for whom in which circumstances from a research and a policy perspective. It reviews state-of-the-art of evidence base on what works for whom in which circumstances, ...
    • Ceatha, Nerilee; Kelly, Ayrton; Killeen, Tara (2021)
      This co-created chapter explores the involvement of the authors in the development of the Irish LGBTI+ National Youth Strategy 2018-2020: LGBTI+ young people: visible, valued and included. More specifically, it provides ...
    • Maier, Ingrid (2022)
      In the second half of the 17th century, the translators of the Russian ambassadorial office had to translate a large number of books. Among them, the equestrian books by Antoine de Pluvinel from the 1620s stand out: Maneige ...
    • Abdel-Fadil, Mona (2022)
      EPDF of Chapter 9 available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This thought-provoking collection takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject of humour in Islam. It ranges across sociological, cultural, theological ...
    • Renz, Monika (2022)
      Fear and Primordial Trust explores fear as an existential phenomenon and how it can be overcome. Illustrated by clinical examples from the author’s practice as a psychotherapist and spiritual caregiver working with the ...
    • Renz, Monika (2022)
      Fear and Primordial Trust explores fear as an existential phenomenon and how it can be overcome. Illustrated by clinical examples from the author’s practice as a psychotherapist and spiritual caregiver working with the ...
    • Flemming, Rebecca (2021)
      Medical and philosophical theories of generation from the classical world are often classified according to whether the female as well as the male produces ‘seed’, the fluid substance which does the most important work in ...
    • Sundqvist, Pia (2022)
      Chapter 25. Learning across the lifespan: Age, language learning, and technology.
    • Koralun-Bereźnicka, Julia; Szramowski, Dawid (2021)
      Chapter 5 attempts to evaluate the relative importance of the country, industry and size effect in the corporate trade credit policies. This is done by analysing the multi-sectional clustering results based on various sets ...
    • Koralun-Bereźnicka, Julia; Szramowski, Dawid (2021)
      This chapter describes the role of trade credit in the functioning of enterprises. It presents the essence and the use of this form of finance, as well as placing it in a historical context. The chapter discusses the role ...