Purpose: The aim of this paper is to assess both the philosophical underpinnings and contributions to knowledge made by research in the field of strategy in the five years between 2002 and 2006.

Design/methodology/approach: The paper begins with…

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Health-promoting strategies need to be culturally appropriate to encourage healthy behaviours and lifestyle choices in children and young people. This rapid review explores the effects of participating in creative activities on the health and well-being of children aged between…

Describes the design thinking behind, and the outline structure of, a multimedia system to represent and elicit comments on some aspects of Thames Chase Community Forest in Essex. It is part of a programme of research projects being carried out…

Presented at the 21st Conference of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE), held in Granada, in Summer 2006., One of twenty-five papers exploring our contemporary reading of what is global, the way we comparatively understand this world of new…

The word ‘assessment’ can strike terror into any student. However, providing evidence of knowledge and skills for professional practice is an integral and essential part of university life as a nursing student.
This book helps nursing students better understand the…

Presented at the PRHE (Pedagogical Research in Higher Education) Conference 16-17 June 2008., This paper highlights aspects of our experience as “exploratory practitioners” researching
the use and the value of two modes of assessment (web-based discourse and sketchbook
learning journals).…

Competence approaches are among the techniques that claim to measure the behaviour, skills, knowledge and understanding crucial to effective managerial performance. It is claimed that competence approaches empower and develop managers while enabling them to meet organizational objectives. Since the…

This article considers aspects of the assimilation of academic research to town planning guidelines and policies, in particular research conducted in terms, and with methodologies, remote from practical town planning processes. It grew out of an interdisciplinary project examining the…

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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…