Most parents or carers who separate or divorce are able to make arrangements themselves about where their children will reside and how the children’s contact with the non-resident parent will be managed. A further group of parents or carers are…

In an attempt to provide a better understanding of the tension between conformance and performance in the governance context, this study develops a conceptual model for enterprise governance (EG) from the contingency theory perspective. The study argues that the value-based…

Special issue of the journal Women: a Cultural Review, with critical introduction written and edited by Maroula Joannou, Lucie Armitt and Paulina Palmer.

The education and support of leaders at the level of ward or team leader
is essential to move the government’s plan forward for modernizing the
NHS. This study considered the experiences of midwifery team leaders
in a local community midwifery…

Attempts to recognize ‘information’ as an asset have led to an increased awareness of why and how this invisible valuable resource does not appear in the financial statements. This paper aims to develop a model based on three-circled sets of…

Is the tyranny of the co-edition taking away
the magic of a ‘sense of place’ in picturebooks? In this essay, Martin Salisbury discusses the impact of globalised publishing on what picturebook artists may and may not represent.

This is an electronic version of an article published in the Journal of Mental Health, 15(1), pp.103-111. Journal of Mental Health is available online at: http://informahealthcare.com/journal/jmh., Background: Enabling service users to find and keep real jobs is a significant strand…

Two methods of assessing candidates for coloured overlays were compared with the aim of determining which method had the most practical utility. A total of 58 adults were assessed as potential candidates for coloured overlays, using two methods; a questionnaire,…

While the concept of mixed-methods research is more usually associated with combining
quantitative and qualitative approaches, this paper outlines a study that mixed methods by
undertaking qualitative theory testing and derivation when examining the relationship between
health promotion theory and…

The central argument of this paper is that current regimes of performance measurement in the
UK's higher education sector are unlikely to deliver any real improvements in performance.
Rather, the paper argues, the most likely outcomes will be further increases…