This paper describes a Master of Art and Design research project developing a social entrepreneurial design process in fashion. This is a multi method approach focussed upon a Participatory Action Research methodology, to develop creative practice and a relational business model for female refugee outworkers and myself a fashion designer resulting in long term rewarding employment. The project has two primary strands for discussion. Firstly, visual documentation and analysis of textile and garment development incorporating the refugees’ cultural references. Using drawing, embroidery, dyeing and construction skills of the participants in a collaborative design and production process with the researcher, has resulted in the development of a womenswear collection of T shirts. Secondly; the process findings and outcomes of the pilot study which often cross the boundaries of aesthetics, technology, craft, and ethics; drawing together western and developing world cultures in a creative dialogue will be presented. In conclusion, the aims, objectives, outcomes of and potential of this socially sustainable design model, which could be applicable to refugee agencies and New Zealand fashion designers, will be gauged and discussed.

<p>Violence against women, of which intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant part, is a widespread public health problem. There is a great need for effective programs that address this issue. The objective of this study was to explore the experiences expressed by the members of the Karla network whose purpose was to combat IPV. Due to the nature of the study, a qualitative approach was taken and data was gathered through interviews with professionals in the network. The function of collaboration and its impact on the individuals is highlighted by the core category: Striving for progress. The categories that resulted from the analysis were: 1) Achieving professional satisfaction, 2) Developing professional competence, and 3) Treading water. Working within the network was perceived as rewarding, as the network improved the quality of their work. Updated guidelines and routines were regarded as essential to improve the collaboration. To progress in the work against IPV, methods to recognize and attend to abused women should be refined and implemented. More focus needs to be put on preventive actions. There is reason to direct actions toward children and adolescents and thus the arenas that initially should be engaged are media, school, and youth clinics.</p>

Thesis (M.A. (Social Work))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

Thesis (D. M. A.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-140).

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, June, 2005. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 36-38)

Violence against women, of which intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant part, is a widespread public health problem. There is a great need for effective programs that address this issue. The objective of this study was to explore the experiences expressed by the members of the Karla network whose purpose was to combat IPV. Due to the nature of the study, a qualitative approach was taken and data was gathered through interviews with professionals in the network. The function of collaboration and its impact on the individuals is highlighted by the core category: Striving for progress. The categories that resulted from the analysis were: 1) Achieving professional satisfaction, 2) Developing professional competence, and 3) Treading water. Working within the network was perceived as rewarding, as the network improved the quality of their work. Updated guidelines and routines were regarded as essential to improve the collaboration. To progress in the work against IPV, methods to recognize and attend to abused women should be refined and implemented. More focus needs to be put on preventive actions. There is reason to direct actions toward children and adolescents and thus the arenas that initially should be engaged are media, school, and youth clinics.

I omvårdnadsarbetet behövs förmågan att samarbetaoch kommunicera för att ge god vård. Dialog anses nödvändig vid hälso- ochsjukvårdsarbete då informationsutbyte ger ökar kunskap och bidrar tillkollektivt ansvar. Såväl patienter sompersonal på de svenska sjukhusens vårdavdelningar vittnar om att samarbetetmellan professioner inte är optimalt. Syftet med studien varatt undersöka vilka faktorer som skapar ett fungerande vårdteam. Studien genomfördes som en litteraturstudie där nio vetenskapligaartiklar utgjorde underlaget för resultatet. Ett välutvecklat vårdteam med godkommunikation och gott samarbete bör utveckla goda relationer. Goda relationerkommer ur att arbeta mot gemensamma mål, respektera varandras professionellakompetens och att lyfta och bearbeta konflikter. För att detta ska uppnås krävsgod kommunikation. Kommunikationen mellan medlemmarna i teamet underlättas ommedlemmarna talar ett gemensamt språk. Ett sätt att styra kommunikationen motett gemensamt språk kan vara att införa kommunikationshjälpmedel med SBAR somett gott exempel. Problem bland nya medlemmar i ett vårdteam är oförståelse förhur mycket arbete som ligger bakom att bygga ett effektivt team med godkommunikation. Ett team skapas inte av att bara sätta ihop en grupp människor,teamarbete kräver arbete.  En rekommendationär att tidigt i alla utbildningar, som leder till att bli en del av ettvårdteam utbildas och diskutera detta. Dock bör även personal i vårdteam fåchans till fortsatt utbildning i vårdteamsarbete och kommunikation. Merforskning inom området som studien syftar till behövs och speciellt forskningmot svenska förhållanden. / Within caring the ability to collaborate and communicate is needed in order to provide good care. Dialog is considered essential in healthcare work, the exchange of information increases knowledge and contributes to collective responsibility. Patients and staff at Swedish hospital wards testify that cooperation between professions is not optimal. The aim of this study was to examine what factors creates a functioning team. The study was conducted as a case study in which the result was based on nine scientific papers. A well-developed healthcare team with good communication and collaboration develops good relationships. Good relationships come out of working toward common goals, respecting each other’s professional expertise and processed conflicts. Communication between team members is facilitated if members speak a common language. One way to enhance the communication of a common language can be the introduction of specific communication aids with SBAR as a good example. A problem among new team members is the lack of understanding of how much work is behind building an effective team with good communication. A team is not created by simply putting together a group of people, teamwork requires work. One recommendation is that early in any training, which leads to being part of a healthcare team, educate and discuss this issue. However, staff in care teams should also get the chance for further education in communication and teamwork. More research in the area in which the study aimed is needed, especially research on Swedish conditions.

South-South collaboration has grown significantly over the past decade and can be an important tool to boost development and scientific capacity in Southern countries. This research aims to understand the role of China and India’s collaboration with sub-Saharan African countries’ in health biotechnology development on the African continent. I conducted a scientometric analysis, surveyed biotechnology firms, and interviewed researchers, entrepreneurs, and policy makers to identify the drivers, challenges, and impacts of South-South collaboration in health biotechnology and understand the factors that shape it. The main messages resulting from this study indicate that: China and India are active collaborators of sub-Saharan Africa in technology intensive fields, collaboration in traditional medicine is of high priority, drivers for collaboration with China and India are not uniform, and that shared health concerns are motivate and foster South-South collaboration between sub-Saharan Africa, China and India. This research study illustrates that sub-Saharan Africa can harness South-South collaboration to improve capacity, innovation potentials, and promote the development of health biotechnology solutions appropriate for the African context.

South-South collaboration has grown significantly over the past decade and can be an important tool to boost development and scientific capacity in Southern countries. This research aims to understand the role of China and India’s collaboration with sub-Saharan African countries’ in health biotechnology development on the African continent. I conducted a scientometric analysis, surveyed biotechnology firms, and interviewed researchers, entrepreneurs, and policy makers to identify the drivers, challenges, and impacts of South-South collaboration in health biotechnology and understand the factors that shape it. The main messages resulting from this study indicate that: China and India are active collaborators of sub-Saharan Africa in technology intensive fields, collaboration in traditional medicine is of high priority, drivers for collaboration with China and India are not uniform, and that shared health concerns are motivate and foster South-South collaboration between sub-Saharan Africa, China and India. This research study illustrates that sub-Saharan Africa can harness South-South collaboration to improve capacity, innovation potentials, and promote the development of health biotechnology solutions appropriate for the African context.

For successful collaboration to occur, a workspace must support inter-referential awareness - or the ability for one participant to refer to a set of artifacts in the environment, and for that reference to be correctly interpreted by others. While referring to objects in our everyday environment is a straight-forward task, the non-tangible nature of digital artifacts presents us with new interaction challenges. Augmented reality (AR) is inextricably linked to the physical world, and it is natural to believe that the re-integration of physical artifacts into the workspace makes referencing tasks easier; however, we find that these environments combine the referencing challenges from several computing disciplines, which compound across scenarios. This dissertation presents our studies of this form of awareness in collaborative AR environments. It stems from our research in developing mixed reality environments for molecular modeling, where we explored spatial and multi-modal referencing techniques. To encapsulate the myriad of factors found in collaborative AR, we present a generic, theoretical framework and apply it to analyze this domain. Because referencing is a very human-centric activity, we present the results of an exploratory study which examines the behaviors of participants and how they generate references to physical and virtual content in co-located and remote scenarios; we found that participants refer to content using physical and virtual techniques, and that shared video is highly effective in disambiguating references in remote environments. By implementing user feedback from this study, a follow-up study explores how the environment can passively support referencing, where we discovered the role that virtual referencing plays during collaboration. A third study was conducted in order to better understand the effectiveness of giving and interpreting references using a virtual pointer; the results suggest the need for participants to be parallel with the arrow vector (strengthening the argument for shared viewpoints), as well as the importance of shadows in non-stereoscopic environments. Our contributions include a framework for analyzing the domain of inter-referential awareness, the development of novel referencing techniques, the presentation and analysis of our findings from multiple user studies, and a set of guidelines to help designers support this form of awareness.