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This volume examines the criteria of excellence producing
inequalities of gender in the daily working environment and
evaluation of academics. Policymakers have increasingly placed
emphasis on gender equality as part of a strategy for achieving
research excellence, and efforts to reduce gender bias have become
mainstream. This book suggests that this goal has remained elusive
in practice due to continuing under-representation of women across
many academic and scientific fields. Questioning the old structures
of male dominance still prevalent in national research policy, the
book explores the effects of institutional values and practices on
the careers of academics, particularly the academic identities of
women and their career developments. It focuses on case studies
drawn from Europe while also highlighting the rise of new forms of
public management and a neoliberal framing of the value of academic
work, that have a much broader global reach. Using participatory
research, the book analyses contemporary forms of "gendered
excellence" in an intersectional and international perspective. It
will be of interest to junior/senior researchers, teachers, and
scholars in sociology, education, gender studies, history,
political science and science and technology studies.
Information is a key resource to primary health care and is
increasingly required in individual practices. This book will
demystify the subject, which is often presented in complex terms.
It sets out in a simple and interesting way what information those
working in primary care will need, the systems required to deliver
them and how to set them up. Information and IT for Primary Care
uses exercises, stories, key points, case studies, model answers
and think boxes. Worldwide web links refers the reader to resources
and shows how to get the most out of your computer. The book is
user-friendly, jargon free and based on primary research evidence.
It is essential reading for everyone working in primary care
organisations including GPs, practice managers and nurses, and
staff working in community trusts and the NHS.
This collection turns a spotlight on gender innovation in the
social sciences. Eighteen short and accessibly written case studies
show how feminist and gender perspectives bring new concepts,
theories and policy solutions. Scholars across five disciplines-
economics, history, philosophy, political science and sociology -
demonstrate how paying attention to gender can sharpen the focus of
the social sciences, improve the public policy they inform, and
change the way we measure things. Gender innovation provokes
rethinking at both the core and the margins of established
disciplines, sometimes developing alternative fields of research
that chart new territory. These case studies celebrate the
contribution of feminist and gender scholars and span topics
ranging from budgeting, electoral systems and security studies to
the ethics of care, emotional labor and climate change.
Interrogating the concepts of allegiance and identity in a
globalised world involves renewing our understanding of membership
and participation within and beyond the nation-state. Allegiance
can be used to define a singular national identity and common
connection to a nation-state. In a global context, however, we need
more dynamic conceptions to understand the importance of
maintaining diversity and building allegiance with others outside
borders. Understanding how allegiance and identity are being
reconfigured today provides valuable insights into important
contemporary debates around citizenship. This book reveals how
public and international law understand allegiance and identity.
Each involves viewing the nation-state as fundamental to concepts
of allegiance and identity, but they also see the world slightly
differently. With contributions from philosophers, political
scientists and social psychologists, the result is a thorough
appraisal of allegiance and identity in a range of socio-legal
contexts.
High-quality Allied Health delivery through a motivated, committed
and expert workforce depends on strong management and leadership.
To provide this, Allied Health Profession managers need solid,
evidence-based business skills just as much as clinical knowledge
and ability. This book focuses on the key management areas of
money, measurement and marketing as applied to the Allied Health
Professions. Bringing together nationally and internationally
acknowledged and recognised experts from around the world, it
explains the finances of healthcare, particularly in a
cash-strapped environment, information and information management,
and the marketing of services - in the broadest sense - based on a
robust foundation of business planning and business-case
development, project management, service level agreements and
specification. Report writing and presentation skills are also
covered, along with editors' quality and leadership evaluation
framework, the Management Quality Matrix. The information,
background and practical techniques covered in this book will make
it a thought-provoking and indespensible resource both for managers
and leaders of Allied Health Professionals and for those training
future managers and leaders.
This stimulating series is unique in providing advice on
management, leadership and development for those in the Allied
Health Professions (AHP). This concise companion guides readers
through current key management challenges, the structure of the
NHS, legal matters, professional regulation, research and cultural
issues. With contributions from internationally renowned
professionals, Managing and Leading in the Allied Health
Professions provides vital information for AHP managers and
aspiring managers, senior clinicians, extended scope practitioners,
clinical specialists, AHP educators, researchers, staff and
students. It will also be invaluable for clinical scientists,
pharmacists and optometrists.
Despite its place in the humanities, the career prospects and
numbers of women in philosophy much more closely resemble those
found in the sciences and engineering. This book collects a series
of critical essays by female philosophers pursuing the question of
why philosophy continues to be inhospitable to women and what can
be done to change it. By examining the social and institutional
conditions of contemporary academic philosophy in the Anglophone
world as well as its methods, culture, and characteristic
commitments, the volume provides a case study in interpretation of
one academic discipline in which women's progress seems to have
stalled since initial gains made in the 1980s. Some contributors
make use of concepts developed in other contexts to explain women's
under-representation, including the effects of unconscious biases,
stereotype threat, and micro-inequities. Other chapters draw on the
resources of feminist philosophy to challenge everyday
understandings of time, communication, authority and merit, as
these shape effective but often unrecognised forms of
discrimination and exclusion. Often it is assumed that women need
to change to fit existing institutions. This book instead offers
concrete reflections on the way in which philosophy needs to
change, in order to accommodate and benefit from the important
contribution women's full participation makes to the discipline.
"This is a fantastic collection on the gender imbalance in
Anglophone philosophy. The essays represent a variety of approaches
to the problem of women's underrepresentation. It is especially
important that the book not only offers a way for philosophers to
learn about psychological and sociological results that have a
bearing on how we organize ourselves, but also a way for us to
become more reflective about distinctively philosophical aspects of
our practice. " -Sally Haslanger, Professor of Philosophy,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Allied Health Professions - Essential Guides series is unique
in providing advice on management, leadership and development for
those in the Allied Health Professions (AHP). This highly practical
volume offers a wide range of assessment tools and techniques in
such critical areas as management quality, organisational and
management structure, benchmarking, capacity and demand management,
care pathway design, activity analysis, report writing and
presentation skills. The layout is conducive to easy comprehension;
tables, figures and boxed text aid quick reference and everyday
application, and many of the resources are also provided on a
complimentary CD. With contributions from internationally renowned
professionals Key tools and techniques in management and leadership
of the allied health professions provides tools that will be vital
to all allied health professionals interested in providing timely,
efficient and cost-effective care for their patients. These will
include AHP managers and aspiring managers, senior clinicians,
extended scope practitioners, clinical specialists, AHP educators,
researchers, staff and students. 'The NHS is facing the greatest
period of challenge in its history. The key to success is
leadership. Allied Health Professionals will be a central part of
this leadership response. In this work, Robert and Fiona continue
their series supporting Allied Health Professionals in that
leadership journey. It is an important contribution to this
critical effort.' From the Foreword by Jim Easton
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