scholarly journals Women Rugby Union Coaches’ Experiences of Formal Coach Education in Ireland and the United Kingdom: A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
Gareth M. Barrett ◽  
I. Sherwin ◽  
Alexander D. Blackett
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Rugby Union ◽  
Women Coaches ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Coach Education ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Abductive Logic ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Continual Professional Development ◽  
Education Courses

Although the sport of rugby union has expanded globally in both the men’s and women’s formats recently, there remains an under-representation of women coaches across all contexts. Research has focused its analysis on the under-representation of women coaches in a select few sports such as soccer. No extant research has empirically analyzed this under-representation within rugby union. This study addressed this research lacuna on why this under-representation exists from the perspective of 21 women rugby union coaches based within the United Kingdom and Ireland. The specific research objective was to analyze the coaches’ lived experiences of attending formal coach education courses in rugby union. Data were collected through individual semi-structured interviews. Data were analyzed thematically and conceptualized via an abductive logic against LaVoi’s Ecological-Intersectional Model and Pierre Bourdieu’s species of capital. Supportive and positive themes reported how the coach education courses had been delivered in a collegiate and lateral manner. Courses thus acted as settings where greater amounts of cultural and social capital could be acquired from both course tutors and peers. This enabled social networks to be made that were used for continual professional development beyond the courses. Barriers and negative experiences orientated upon the lack of empathy imparted by course tutors on account of men having fulfilled these roles on most occasions. Recommendations on how national governing bodies can improve the experiences of women coaches attending future coach education courses are discussed.

scholarly journals Ageing in Urban Neighbourhoods: Exploring Place Insideness Amongst Older Adults in India, Brazil and the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-223
Author(s):  
Ryan Woolrych ◽  
Jamuna Duvurru ◽  
Adriana Portella ◽  
Judith Sixsmith ◽  
Deborah Menezes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Older People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods

The ageing in place agenda emphasises the importance of supporting older adults to age in their communities surrounded by the personal resources to age well. In exploring the relationship between older people and their environment, the concept of place insideness is seen as central to constructing feelings of identity, belonging and attachment in old age. Yet there has been little research exploring how older adults experience place insideness across different urban, social and cultural contexts which is an impediment to identifying effective interventions for age-friendly cities and communities. This article explores how place insideness is experienced amongst older adults across India, Brazil and the United Kingdom. The article presents qualitative findings from 294 semi-structured interviews collected across 9 cities and 27 neighbourhoods. The findings reveal that older adults cultivate their sense of place insideness in old age through dimensions of physical insideness (i.e., environmental competence in navigating and engaging in the community), social insideness (i.e., knowing others) and autobiographical insideness (i.e., shared place histories). In drawing on older people’s understanding of their communities, this article explores the opportunities and challenges in developing a sense of place insideness to support ageing well. We identify implications for policy and practice in terms of how we can better design urban environments as age-friendly communities which support a greater sense of place for older people.

Into the Purple Zone: Deconstructing the Politics/Administration Distinction

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
pp. 752-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Alford ◽  
Jean Hartley ◽  
Sophie Yates ◽  
Owen Hughes
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Clear Line ◽  
Do So

We add new data to the long-standing debate about the interface between politics and administration, deploying theory and evidence indicating that it varies. It can be either a “purple zone” of interaction between the red of politics and the blue of administration, or a clear line. We use survey responses from 1,012 mostly senior public managers in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, along with semi-structured interviews with 42 of them, to examine the extent to which public managers perceive that they “cross” the line or go into a zone, and the ways in which they do so. Our inclusion of a zone as well as a line recasts how roles and relationships between politicians and administrators can be conceived. Moreover, it raises questions about how particular contingencies affect whether public managers perceive and work with a line or a zone.

scholarly journals Towards an epistemology of data journalism in the devolved nations of the United Kingdom: Changes and continuities in materiality, performativity and reflexivity

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 915-932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eddy Borges-Rey
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Original Model ◽  
Regional Data ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Distinctive Character ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Data Journalism ◽  
Epistemological Framework

This article outlines a general epistemological framework of data journalism in the devolved nations of the United Kingdom. By using an original model based on three conceptual lenses – materiality, performativity and reflexivity – this study examines the development of this form of journalism, the challenges it faces and its particularities in the context of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This research, therefore, offers unique insights from semi-structured interviews with data journalists and data editors based at, or working as freelancers for, the mainstream news organisations of these regions. The results suggest that data journalism in these devolved nations displays a distinctive character just as much as it reinforces the norms and rituals of the legacy organisations that pioneered this practice. While various models of data exploitation are tested, regional data journalists creatively circumvent generalised organisational struggles to lay the groundwork for their trade and professional community.

scholarly journals Creating a climate that catalyses healthcare innovation in the United Kingdom – learning lessons from international innovators

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Cresswell ◽  
Sarah Cunningham-Burley ◽  
Aziz Sheikh
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Technology Markets ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Central Direction ◽  
Regional Strategies ◽  
Service Staff ◽  
Healthcare Innovation ◽  
The Uk

Background: The United Kingdom (UK) lags behind other high-income countries in relation to technological innovation in healthcare. In order to inform UK strategy on how to catalyse innovation, we sought to understand what national strategies can help to promote a climate for innovation in healthcare settings by extracting lessons for the UK from international innovators.Methods: We undertook a series of qualitative semi-structured interviews with senior international innovators from a range of health related policy, care/service delivery, commercial and academic backgrounds. Thematic analysis helped to explore how different stakeholder groups could facilitate/inhibit innovation at individual, organisational, and wider societal levels.Results: We conducted 14 interviews and found that a conducive climate for healthcare innovation comprised of national/regional strategies stimulating commercial competition, promoting public/private relationships, and providing central direction (e.g. incentives for adoption and regulation through standards) without being restrictive. Organisational attitudes with a willingness to experiment and to take risks were also seen as important, but a bottom-up approach to innovation, based on the identification of clinical need, was seen as a crucial first step to construct relevant national policies.Conclusions:  There is now a need to create mechanisms through which frontline National Health Service staff in relation can raise ideas/concerns and suggest opportunities for improvement, and then build national innovation environments that seek to address these needs. This should be accompanied by creating competitive health technology markets to stimulate a commercial environment that attracts high-quality health information technology experts and innovators working in partnership with staff and patients.

scholarly journals “I Can’t Blame Mum”: A Qualitative Exploration of Relational Dynamics in Women With Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122199491
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. Newton ◽  
Jennifer Glover
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Female Genital Mutilation ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Relational Dynamics ◽  
Genital Mutilation ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Female Genital

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is conceptualized as an interpersonal act, commonly initiated by mothers. This study investigates relational dynamics among adult women who experienced FGM in childhood and have since migrated to the United Kingdom. A qualitative research design was employed, using semi-structured interviews and interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) with nine women. Three superordinate themes emerged: (a) “The ‘who to blame?’ conflict: Preserving goodness in parents”; (b) “Better or worse? Positioning the self in relation to others”; and (c) “Regaining power: Righting the wrongs.” Implications for understanding the relational consequences of FGM and the discontinuation of its intergenerational transmission are considered.

scholarly journals “Why Did I Really Want to Coach? To Help Girls”:

10.29173/mm8 ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 2-25
Author(s):  
Alanna Fittes
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Rugby Union ◽  
Women Coaches ◽  
International Level ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Disciplinary Power ◽  
The World ◽  
Woman Leader

The purpose of this study was to investigate women coaches’ experiences in high-performance rugby union. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four women who had experience coaching at the representative, university, and/or international level. Informed by a Foucauldian feminism, the analysis revealed how disciplinary power, the formation of dominant knowledges, and the pervasiveness of surveillance operated in a deeply masculine environment of high-performance rugby. This study provides an in-depth examination of femininity, masculinity, and what it means to be a woman leader in the world of high-performance rugby union.

Lithium monitoring patterns in the United Kingdom and Ireland: Can shared care agreements play a role in improving monitoring quality? A systematic review

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Aubry ◽  
L. Scott ◽  
E. Cassidy
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Secondary Care ◽  
Shared Care ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Optimal Care ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Monitoring Quality ◽  
Academic Search

BackgroundThe appropriate monitoring of patients on lithium therapy has been the subject of extensive research in the form of clinical audits and surveys culminating in the development of specific guidelines to help clinicians provide optimal care for patients on lithium. The concept of ‘shared care’ has also gained attention in the literature with various types of shared care interventions being introduced as potential ways of improving communication between primary and secondary care.ObjectivesThis article aims to (1) review the literature evaluating lithium monitoring practices in the United Kingdom and Ireland in the last 25 years and (2) determine whether locally agreed shared care agreements have the potential to improve monitoring quality.MethodsA literature search was conducted using the following databases: PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Academic Search Premier, CINAHL and PsychInfo. A total of 12 studies were selected for review including 11 audits/prospective chart reviews and one qualitative study using semi-structured interviews.ConclusionsOverall, the quality of lithium monitoring seems to be improving throughout the years. However, none of the studies reviewed revealed complete adherence to monitoring guidelines. This may be due to a lack of effective communication between primary and secondary care. Several shared care interventions have been described in the literature but there is a paucity of studies concerned with the effects of local shared care arrangements designed for the specific purpose of lithium monitoring. Nonetheless, the extant data suggests that such agreements may help improve monitoring standards by allowing the responsibilities for managing the prescribing and monitoring of lithium to be more clearly defined and shared between primary and secondary care.

scholarly journals Killing squirrels: Exploring motivations and practices of lethal wildlife management

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 120-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah L. Crowley ◽  
Steve Hinchliffe ◽  
Robbie A. McDonald
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Pest Control ◽  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Sciurus Carolinensis ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Lethal Control ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Conservation Projects ◽  
Grey Squirrels

Wildlife management, pest control and conservation projects often involve killing nonhuman animals. In the United Kingdom, introduced grey squirrels Sciurus carolinensis are killed in large numbers to protect remnant populations of European red squirrels Sciurus vulgaris. Grey squirrels are also killed outside of red squirrel areas to protect broadleaved trees from squirrel damage, and as part of routine pest control, opportunistically, and sometimes recreationally. In order to investigate the ways in which this killing is conceived and practised in the United Kingdom, we conducted semi-structured interviews with practitioners and undertook participant observation of squirrel management activities, including lethal control. Analysing these field data, we identified important variations in practitioners’ approaches to killing squirrels, and here we outline three ‘modes of killing’ – reparative/sacrificial, stewardship, and categorical – which comprise different primary motivations, moral principles, ultimate aims, and practical methods. We explore both productive alliances and possible tensions between these modes, and propose that clear, explicit consideration of how and why animals are both killed and ‘made killable’ should be a key component of any wildlife management initiative that involves lethal control.

scholarly journals Exploring factors that impact the decision to use assistive telecare: perspectives of family care-givers of older people in the United Kingdom

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 1912-1932 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERICA J. COOK ◽  
GURCH RANDHAWA ◽  
ANDY GUPPY ◽  
CHLOE SHARP ◽  
GARRY BARTON ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Older People ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Framework Analysis ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Service Framework

ABSTRACTIn the United Kingdom (UK), an ageing population met with the reduction of social care funding has led to reduced support for older people marked with an increased demand on family care-givers. Assistive telecare (AT) devices are viewed as an innovative and effective way to support older people. However, there is limited research which has explored adoption of AT from the perspectives of family care-givers. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 family care-givers of patients who used the Assistive Telehealth and Telecare service in Cambridgeshire, UK. Family care-givers were either the spouse (N = 8) or child of the patient (N = 6). The patients' age ranged from 75 to 98, and either received a telecare standalone device or connected service. Framework analysis was used to analyse the transcripts. This study revealed that family care-givers play a crucial role in supporting the patient's decision to adopt and engage with AT devices. Knowledge and awareness, perceived responsibility, usefulness and usability, alongside functionality of the equipment, were influential factors in the decision-making process. AT devices were viewed positively, considered easy to use, useful and functional, with reassurance of the patient's safety being a core reason for adoption. Efforts to increase adoption and engagement should adapt recruitment strategies and service pathways to support both the patient and their care-giver.

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