Self-help groups in the United Kingdom continue to grow in number and address virtually every conceivable health condition, but they remain the subject of very little theoretical analysis. The literature to date has predominantly focused on their therapeutic effects on…

AIM:

This paper seeks to add to the debate regarding children as researchers by exploring the reality of their participation in research.

BACKGROUND:

As the role children and young people play in knowledge building is…

Following the deaths of Victoria Climbié and of Peter Connelly (Baby P) the media has raged about social work competence, the public have expressed dismay and the government has responded with proposals designed to alter practice procedures. Altering procedures gives…

The first social work course to focus on children's mental health in the UK began in 1929 at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The subsequent child guidance movement spawned the genesis of child and adolescent mental health…

Problematic aspects of intercultural communication are considered in the context of: an increasingly internationalized market for higher education; the globalization of knowledge; the compatibility of distinct national higher education cultures; and the capacity for successful cross-cultural cooperation. This is exemplified…

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This thesis focuses on how small to medium-sized management consultancies internationalise, as this is an under-researched area. Investigation focuses on
identifying the factors that facilitate international market success for these small
to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the challenges they encounter, and…

This project investigates how doctoral students make
‘learning leaps’ to recognise and cross conceptual
and skills thresholds in their research and ways in
which they can be best supported to do so. It
responds to current national and international
concerns…

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As the role children and young people play in the construction of knowledge is recognised, their position in society as social agents is changing. This in turn has led to a change in the way in which they want to…