Over the past 14 years, working independently and with other original thinkers, I have produced works that have on two fronts contributed to the evolving understanding of ethnic relations in contemporary Britain. The first is around social/community cohesion, media and representation as well as counter-terrorism policy as explored through the social sciences. The second domain covering the same themes is couched within the humanities, in particular, the production of literary fiction.

[pt] A presente tese tem o propósito de revelar alguns desdobramentos da atuação, em Psicologia Comunitária, de uma equipe de estagiários do Serviço de Psicologia Aplicada, sob a supervisão da autora. Este trabalho está sendo desenvolvido, desde janeiro de 2002, no Posto de Saúde IADAS (Instituto dos Amigos da Saúde), uma ONG da própria comunidade de Muzema. Atualmente, a Psicologia Social Comunitária contribui para a análise das relações entre o mundo subjetivo e o objetivo, sendo, também, um espaço de alargamento dos domínios tradicionais da Psicologia. Através desta perspectiva pudemos realizar um trabalho clínico, tomando como norteador de nossa prática o conceito de Clínica Ampliada. A inserção do psicólogo nas comunidades de baixa renda promove o diálogo entre sujeitos de contextos diferentes, possibilitando a reconstrução cultural, a ética da solidariedade e a construção de projetos coletivos, num cenário de individualismo urbano crescente. Seguindo a metodologia da pesquisa participante e apresentando um referencial teórico sócio-histórico, foram realizadas doze entrevistas semi-estruturadas com mulheres da comunidade. As falas das entrevistadas foram entendidas à luz das teorias utilizadas e articuladas à realidade cultural observada. Uma reflexão sobre a comunidade na cultura contemporânea, o individualismo, a ausência do Estado e a realidade dos excluídos serviram como temas nesta articulação teórico-prática. Os resultados mostraram que os discursos das mulheres indicaram pistas de problemas compartilhados, mas que, na contemporaneidade, são vistos como algo centrado no plano individual. A valorização das falas em sua singularidade, além de não generalizar um percurso de sujeitos excluídos, impede a desqualificação da potência de sujeitos moradores das comunidades e a homogeneização das subjetividades que observamos hoje. Finalmente, defende-se a tese de que a comunidade é analisada como um microcosmo de um contexto mais amplo de análise, possibilitando, assim, a construção de políticas públicas e sociais a partir dos principais temas investigados neste estudo. / [en] The objective of this thesis is to discuss recent developments in Community Psychology as practiced by a team of trainees at the Applied Psychology Service, under the author's supervision. This project has been carried out since January 2002, at the IADAS Health Center (IADAS meaning Friends of Health Institute), an NGO managed by the community at Muzema. Today, Social Community Psychology contributes to analyses of the relationships between the subjective and objective worlds, and is also a space for broadening the traditional spheres of psychology. From this perspective clinical work can be carried out on the basis of the Broadened Clinic Concept. The insertion of psychologists into lowincome communities can also bring about dialog among subjects from different contexts. Cultural reconstruction thus becomes possible, as well as the ethic of concern for others and the construction of collective projects in today's context of growing urban individualism. Using the methodology of participated research and based on a framework of sociohistorical theoretical reference, twelve semi-structured interviews were held with women of the community. Their discourse was interpreted in the light of the theories employed by the author and articulated with the cultural reality observed. Several different topics were discussed and reflected upon in this theoretical-practical articulation, such as the community in contemporary culture, individualism, the absence of the State, and the reality of excluded populations. The results showed that the women are aware of problems that are common but which, in contemporary life, are seen as existing only on the individual level. Besides avoiding generalizations on histories of excluded subjects, the recognition of words in their uniqueness prevents one from disregarding the power of subjects who live in communities and the uniformization of today's subjectivities. Finally, the position is held that communities can be analyzed as microcosms of a broader context, it therefore being possible to construct public and social policies on the basis of the main themes investigated in this study.

Volunteers examines as a social community and social institution. The study reveals the problems of volunteer’s social community and identifies the shortcomings of institutional context. Master's thesis gives recommendations for the development of the volunteer’s social community in the institutional context, proposes measures to optimize the financial support of non-profit organizations and volunteers’ initiatives as one of the factors in the development of volunteer’s social community. / В рамках магистерской диссертации волонтерство рассматривается как социальная общность и социальный институт. Эмпирическое исследование позволило выявить проблемы социальной общности волонтеров и недостатки институциональных условий функционирования данной общности. В рамках магистерской диссертации предложены рекомендации по совершенствованию институциональных условий функционирования социальной общности волонтеров. Предложены меры по оптимизации системы финансовой поддержки некоммерческих организаций и инициатив волонтеров в качестве одного из факторов развития социальной общности волонтеров.

<p dir="ltr">Virtual Reality (VR) has become a pivotal element in modern society, transforming interactions with digital content and interpersonal communication. As VR integrates into various sectors, understanding its forensic potential is crucial for legal, investigative, and security purposes. This involves examining the digital footprints and artifacts left by immersive technologies. While previous studies in digital forensics have primarily concentrated on traditional computing devices such as smartphones and computers, research on VR, particularly on specific devices like the Oculus Go, Meta Quest, and Meta Quest 2, has been limited. This thesis explores the digital forensics of VR, focusing on the Oculus Go, Meta Quest and Meta Quest 2, using tools like Magnet AXIOM and Wireshark. The research uncovers specific forensic and network-based artifacts from eight social community applications, revealing user personally identifiable information, application usage history, WiFi network details, and multimedia content. These findings have significant implications for legal proceedings and cybercrime investigations, highlighting the role these artifacts can play in influencing the outcome of cases. This research not only deepens our understanding of VR-related digital forensics but also sets the stage for further investigations in this rapidly evolving domain.</p>

Over the past 14 years, working independently and with other original thinkers, I have produced works that have on two fronts contributed to the evolving understanding of ethnic relations in contemporary Britain. The first is around social/community cohesion, media and representation as well as counter-terrorism policy as explored through the social sciences. The second domain covering the same themes is couched within the humanities, in particular, the production of literary fiction.

I Sverige och i många andra välfärdsländer ökar den förväntade livslängden. Det kan innebära att belastningen på hälso- och sjukvården kommer att stiga alltmer. Därför är det viktigt att samhället kan hjälpa äldre personer att leva ett friskt och självständigt liv så länge som möjligt. Uppsatsen lägger fokus på en av de faktorer som anses vara en viktig del i ett hälsosamt åldrande; en social gemenskap. Motsatsen är en social isolering som påverkar individens hälsa och livskvalitet negativt. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur social gemenskap upplevs som hälsofrämjande och bidrar till livskvalitet hos äldre personer som är självständiga i sin vardag. För att undersöka frågan har personer över 65 år som definierats som självständiga intervjuats. En kvalitativ metod har alltså använts. Resultatet visar att en social gemenskap är betydelsefull på olika sätt för individens hälsa och livskvalitet. En mänsklig rättighet är att människor ska kunna uppnå goda förutsättningar för en hög levnadsstandard och en social gemenskap utgör en viktig del. Därför måste samhället tillhandahålla förutsättningar för den äldre befolkningen att kunna ta del av en social gemenskap. Med denna hälsofrämjande åtgärd kan vinster göras i både folkhälsa och samhällsekonomi. / In Sweden and in many other welfare countries the expected lifespan is increasing. This might lead to a rising strain of the healthcare. It is therefore important that the society can empower elderly to live a well and independent life as long as possible. The paper focus on one of the factors that considers to be an important part of a healthy ageing; social community. The opposite is a social isolation which effect the individual health and life of quality negative. The papers aim is to examine how social community is experienced as healthpromoting and contribute to quality of life in elderly people who are independent in their daily life. To study the aim, people over the age 65 who has been defined as independent, has been interviewed. A qualitative method has thereby been used. The result shows that social community is important in different ways in relation to the individual’s health and quality of life. It is a human right that people are able to reach conditions for a high lifestandard and social community is thereby an important part. The society must provide the elderly population conditions to be able to be a part of a social community. With this healthpromoting action profits can arise both in public health and in national economy.

隨著社群網站的大量崛起，人們在網路上的行為從早期的單方面獲得資訊，慢慢轉變到與他人的網頁互動，以至於到最近的發展成社群（Community）關係。網路使用者對虛擬社群的好奇，導致了相關社群網站的蓬勃發展。近年來對於社群網路的研究日漸興盛，各個研究領域都分別以其擅長的角度嘗試切入，想了解為何社群網路如此快速的崛起、社群網路形成的各種架構或是社群網路上的大量資料呈現的資訊以及其分析等等。 社群網站滿足了人們期待與其他人產生互動、情感維繫以及得到更多資訊的需要，提供了一個虛擬空間，讓關心相同主題的使用者群聚在一起並且分享資訊。無論是想與他人互動，或是情感維繫以及渴望得到資訊，這些動機皆與人的情感表現息息相關，本研究即是採用情感的角度，來觀察社群中的特定行動者與其網路。 有關世界城市網路的研究目前並不多見，本研究嘗試以城市為社會網路中的行動者角色，研究一個由網路相片分享構築成的特殊社群網站Flickr。利用相片可忠實呈現拍攝者與被拍攝者情感的特性，以「城市」與「情感」兩大基礎來觀察此社群，嘗試構築出一個有關世界城市情感面向的網路關係。根據本研究目的，我們將建立「城市－情感共現網路」，來發掘世界主要城市之間隱含的連結與關係，或是其隱藏的情感表現。 / Along with considerable growth of social network websites, people’s actions on internet changed slowly from acquiring information to exchanging information and interacting with other people via web pages, and eventually this change has created a so-called “community relationship” on line. This blossom of relevant social network websites resulted from internet users’ curiosity about the invented virtual community. Numerous researchers in each relevant field have donated themselves into analysis and researches aiming to understand the reasons why all kinds of community websites have been created so quickly, how these communities have been structured, how the information and data underlying these websites have been presented and analyzed. The goal of this paper is to dig out links and relations between big cities worldwide and human emotions in these cities via community websites. We tried to analyze a unique community website “Flickr” that functions on the base of uploading pictures only. We categorized the pictures on Flickr on two pillar axes, “Region” and “Emotion”, as the emotions of photo shooters and personages have been detailed and recorded by these pictures. By the above categories, We drew a map of emotions in cities that will reveal a 2-mode network of emotions and cities.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:31:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Juliana Santos Graciani.pdf: 10872847 bytes, checksum: cd763f608845d88a2ab33ef2404687e2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-27 / The research aimed to reflect on the educational practice by analyzing the Plans Pedagogical Integration Program of Social Educators Activities AABB Community in light of the foundations of Social Pedagogy and Social Community Psychology, assuming that the theoretical aspects and methodological these can contribute to the understanding of this social project. We use this research, qualitative methodology and the technical procedure of document analysis, referring to the activities of Pedagogical Plans sent to the competition 2013. Agenda Case For the research was requested to accept the use of authority term of the Contest data and for the choice of the criterion of educational practices we chose to analyze all 105 experiments sent. The analysis was performed from the three categories of Community Social Psychology (Active Participation, Strengthening Affective and Community Impact Bonds) and the four fields of Social Pedagogy (Epistemological, sociopedagogical, sociocultural and sociopolitical). As for the results obtained, the Socio-cultural domain and Active Participation category were those most stood out, soon after, the sociopolitical domain, and finally simultaneously with the same score, the Epistemological and socio-pedagogical fields of Social Pedagogy and the categories of strengthening Affective Links and Community Impacts, prevailed in second and third place in the Community Social Psychology. We conclude that the educational practices encouraged the artistic actions, cultural, sports, environmental, social and educational complementation and citizenship, favoring the personal, family and community exercise of educational proposals with the changes in the reality experienced individually and in society, aspects that the transversalizam theoretical and practical foundations of the relationship between science Social Pedagogy and Social Community Psychology front of the educational practice / A pesquisa teve como objetivo geral refletir sobre a prática educativa por meio da análise dos Planos Pedagógicos de Atividades dos Educadores Sociais do Programa Integração AABB Comunidade, a luz dos fundamentos da Pedagogia Social e da Psicologia Social Comunitária, partindo do pressuposto que os aspectos teóricos e metodológicos destas podem contribuir para a compreensão deste projeto social. Utilizamos nesta pesquisa, a metodologia qualitativa e o procedimento técnico da análise documental, referente aos Planos Pedagógicos de Atividades enviados ao concurso Capa da Agenda de 2013. Para a realização da pesquisa foi solicitada a aceitação do termo de autorização de utilização dos dados do Concurso e para a escolha do critério das práticas educativas optamos em analisar todas as 105 experiências enviadas. A análise foi realizada a partir das três categorias da Psicologia Social Comunitária (Participação Ativa, Fortalecimento dos Vínculos Afetivos e Impacto Comunitário) e dos quatro domínios da Pedagogia Social (Epistemológico, Sociopedagógico, Sociocultural e Sociopolítico). Quanto aos resultados obtidos, o domínio Sociocultural e a categoria Participação Ativa foram as que mais se sobressaíram, logo a seguir, o domínio Sociopolítico, e por último simultaneamente com o mesmo score, os domínios Epistemológico e Sociopedagógico da Pedagogia Social e as categorias relativas ao Fortalecimento dos Vínculos Afetivos e os Impactos Comunitários, prevaleceram em segundo e terceiro lugar da Psicologia Social Comunitária. Concluímos que as práticas educativas incentivaram as ações artísticas, culturais, esportivas, ambientais, de complementação socioeducacional e de cidadania, favorecendo ao exercício pessoal, familiar e comunitário de propostas educativas que produzem transformações na realidade vivida individualmente e em sociedade, aspectos estes que transversalizam os fundamentos teóricos e práticos da articulação entre as ciências Pedagogia Social e Psicologia Social Comunitária frente à prática educativa

Äldres hälsa har förbättrats de senare åren samt har de blivit mer fysiskt aktiva. Syftet med studien var att beskriva äldres syn på förutsättningar för att bibehålla välbefinnandet efter pensioneringen. Studien genomfördes med kvalitativ metod genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med tio informanter i åldrarna 63-84 år. Det framkom i resultatet att minst en nära vän var en viktig del för att främja välbefinnandet. Interaktion med vänner och familj var också en viktig aspekt för att må bra. Att bibehålla en god rörelseförmåga var av stor vikt då promenader i naturen ansågs vara en viktig aspekt av välbefinnandet. Det ansågs även vara av stor betydelse att fortsätta ha en aktiv vardag efter pensioneringen. Att engagera sig ideellt för att skapa ett mervärde var vanligt förekommande. Tillgängligheten hade stor betydelse för valet av aktiviteter men informanterna var för det mesta nöjda med dagens utbud. Studien kan ligga till grund för vidare undersökning av äldres välbefinnande gällande aktivitet och gemenskap i vardagen bland äldre. En betydelsefull aspekt vore att belysa hur de som inte deltar i organiserade aktiviteter ser på sitt välbefinnande och vad som är orsaken till att de inte engagerar sig. / The health of the elderly has improved during the last years, and they have at the same time become more physical active. The aim of the study was to describe the seniors’ views on prerequisites in order to maintain their well-being after retirement. The study was carried out using a qualitive method through semistructured interviews of informants in the age range of 63-84 years. The interviews showed the importance of at least one close friend in order to promote well-being. Interaction between friends and family was another important aspect. Also, maintaining the physical ability counted as important as walking in the nature was a significant aspect of well-being. It also appeared to be of great importance to continue having an active life after reirement. Several of the informants were engaged at no profit to create added value. Avaliability was of a major importance in making the choice of activity, but the informants were to a great deal satisfied by the supply. The study can be used as a foundation for further research in the area of activities, communities and active life among elderly. An important aspect would be to illuminate how people who does not engage in organisationed activities view their well-being and the reason to why they do not participate

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:20:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 4121173 bytes, checksum: c5e277cca7fe43f9d318dec50b11d02c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This work makes an analysis of the process of the social preparation of the Jardim Botânico Community Bank and of its social currency called the orquídea (orchid) in the community of São Rafael, a poor neighborhood in João Pessoa, Brazil, and of how the mechanisms of social community administration of this initiative of support and fomentation of local development are built. The community development banks belong to the field of solidarity finance as collective forms of organization of mutual aid which aim at guaranteeing access to credit and stimulating development in impoverished communities through the organization of the local economy generating new socio-economic interaction and building a new reality. We shall approach the institutional arrangement created by the community, the social management, the activities carried out, and the instruments utilized for promoting development in the community. It is a question of a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory case study through which we try to make a contribution to the understanding of the community development banks in the country. / O presente trabalho analisa o processo de construção social em curso da experiência do Banco Comunitário Jardim Botânico e da Moeda Social Orquídea, na Comunidade São Rafael em João Pessoa/PB, e como são constituídos os mecanismos de gestão social comunitária desta iniciativa de apoio e fomento ao desenvolvimento local. Os bancos comunitários de desenvolvimento estão compreendidos no campo das finanças solidárias, enquanto formas de organização coletivas de apoio mútuo que visam garantir o acesso ao crédito e estimular o desenvolvimento em comunidades empobrecidas através da organização da economia local, gerando novas interações socioeconômicas e a construção de uma nova realidade. Abordaremos o arranjo institucional construído pela comunidade, a gestão social, as ações realizadas, os instrumentos utilizados para a promoção do desenvolvimento na comunidade. Trata-se de um estudo de caso, com característica qualitativa, descritiva e exploratória, através do qual procuramos contribuir para a compreensão das experiências de bancos comunitários de desenvolvimento no país.