With the future of New South Wales (NSW) regional train services under question, concern has been... more With the future of New South Wales (NSW) regional train services under question, concern has been expressed that replacement of trains with coaches will diminish levels of mobility and raise social exclusion for some people. Provision has been made on coaches for people considered to be disabled, but without recognition of the needs of people who do not fit either able or disabled categorisation. All train services offer better accessibility and therefore mobility to all people. The issue of regional train service cessation and replacement raises questions regarding the reliability of existing Australian studies about train service replacement, the degree to which health and illness are affected, as well as the potential for the exacerbation of existing social exclusion. An examination of the literature and some historical investigation undertaken by the authors highlights these limitations amid the ableism/disablism dualism in existing research and rural transport policy. The paper...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, educators around the globe seek to understand how to support studen... more During the COVID-19 pandemic, educators around the globe seek to understand how to support students whose academic performance is impacted by mental health challenges. This article presents a co-operative inquiry undertaken by colleagues in Canada and Australia, responding to the question; what insights can the existing Carleton University framework of reflective questions offer to educators responding to student mental health challenges in social work education during the COVID-19 pandemic? The risks and complexities of attending to student mental health needs are illustrated by a pandemic-informed case study that extends the framework into this unique context and illustrates the importance of respecting learning requirements, combating discrimination, protecting students' rights, and honouring the professional and legislative mandates of social work within all responses aimed at supporting student mental health resilience during COVID-19. This article acknowledges the limitati...
Concepts of providing, doing, participating in, delivering, developing and using services have be... more Concepts of providing, doing, participating in, delivering, developing and using services have been made problematic by the increasing bureaucratisation and regulation of non-profit organisations. It is now further complicated by new versions of mutual obligation and the 'third way', such as 'Big Society' in the United Kingdom and 'Nudge' in the United States. This article draws on data collected in 1999 and compares it with some new data emerging from online blogs between 2000 and 2012. It is argued that instead of moving on from notions around service acts to the reality of service discourses, policy has remained bound by the notion that service is an act and not, as the data suggests, a discourse informed by notions such as norms of reciprocity and expectations of unpaid provision of knowledge.
The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference 2012 will be a joint event including bo... more The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference 2012 will be a joint event including both TASA and the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ), including a special trans-Tasman plenary session.
Voluntary service is experiencing transition. This transition is marked by social, symbolic and p... more Voluntary service is experiencing transition. This transition is marked by social, symbolic and policy changes that have transformed the relationship between paid and unpaid work, and is reordering the connection between voluntary practice and professional expertise. Giddens (1998) identified this as the third way. Rose (2000) sees this transformation as a strategy embodying a tacit regime around the economic transactions that implicate the agent in self-governance based on normative moral possibilities, thus ordering the moral subject. Research has not yet established the fundamental elements of this transforming logic, or the mechanisms by which oppositions such as paid and unpaid are being resolved by voluntary organisations. The thesis argues that third way commentators’ view of the bureaucratic transformation of voluntary service that examines “historical and social conditions, professional strategies, and disciplinary stakes and constraints…” (Shusterman, 1999: 10) does not ac...
... MERRILYN CRICHTON AND CATHERINE STRONG Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia ... In Peru, ... more ... MERRILYN CRICHTON AND CATHERINE STRONG Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia ... In Peru, Thomas Love and Anna Garwood (2011) found that microhydro sys-tems, as well as wind and solar electricity sys-tems, similarly impacted villagers in rural Cajamarca. ...
Interagency communication of client data is complicated by privacy legislation. A study of region... more Interagency communication of client data is complicated by privacy legislation. A study of regional service provision involving interviews with mental health professionals, found challenges in communicative processes between agencies were exacerbated by the heavy workloads. Dependence on individual professional interpretations of legislation, and on manual handling, led to delays that detrimentally affected client welfare. The main recommendation arising from this article is the creation of an ehealth system that is able to negotiate differing levels of access to client data through centralised controls, where the administration of that system ensures that it stays current with changing legislative requirements. The main contribution of the proposed model is to combine two well-known concepts: data integration and generalisation. People with mental illness are amongst the most vulnerable members of society, and current ehealth systems that provide access to medical records inadequat...
... [img], PDF - Merrilyn Crichton Thesis Restricted to ... The data was collected and analysed u... more ... [img], PDF - Merrilyn Crichton Thesis Restricted to ... The data was collected and analysed using Kenneth Burke's rhetorical analysis (1969a, 1969b, 1989), Erving Goffman's footing (Burns, 1992; Goffman, 1981), and Harvey Sacks' indexicality and membership categorisation ...
With the future of New South Wales (NSW) regional train services under question, concern has been... more With the future of New South Wales (NSW) regional train services under question, concern has been expressed that replacement of trains with coaches will diminish levels of mobility and raise social exclusion for some people. Provision has been made on coaches for people considered to be disabled, but without recognition of the needs of people who do not fit either able or disabled categorisation. All train services offer better accessibility and therefore mobility to all people. The issue of regional train service cessation and replacement raises questions regarding the reliability of existing Australian studies about train service replacement, the degree to which health and illness are affected, as well as the potential for the exacerbation of existing social exclusion. An examination of the literature and some historical investigation undertaken by the authors highlights these limitations amid the ableism/disablism dualism in existing research and rural transport policy. The paper...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, educators around the globe seek to understand how to support studen... more During the COVID-19 pandemic, educators around the globe seek to understand how to support students whose academic performance is impacted by mental health challenges. This article presents a co-operative inquiry undertaken by colleagues in Canada and Australia, responding to the question; what insights can the existing Carleton University framework of reflective questions offer to educators responding to student mental health challenges in social work education during the COVID-19 pandemic? The risks and complexities of attending to student mental health needs are illustrated by a pandemic-informed case study that extends the framework into this unique context and illustrates the importance of respecting learning requirements, combating discrimination, protecting students' rights, and honouring the professional and legislative mandates of social work within all responses aimed at supporting student mental health resilience during COVID-19. This article acknowledges the limitati...
Concepts of providing, doing, participating in, delivering, developing and using services have be... more Concepts of providing, doing, participating in, delivering, developing and using services have been made problematic by the increasing bureaucratisation and regulation of non-profit organisations. It is now further complicated by new versions of mutual obligation and the 'third way', such as 'Big Society' in the United Kingdom and 'Nudge' in the United States. This article draws on data collected in 1999 and compares it with some new data emerging from online blogs between 2000 and 2012. It is argued that instead of moving on from notions around service acts to the reality of service discourses, policy has remained bound by the notion that service is an act and not, as the data suggests, a discourse informed by notions such as norms of reciprocity and expectations of unpaid provision of knowledge.
The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference 2012 will be a joint event including bo... more The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference 2012 will be a joint event including both TASA and the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ), including a special trans-Tasman plenary session.
Voluntary service is experiencing transition. This transition is marked by social, symbolic and p... more Voluntary service is experiencing transition. This transition is marked by social, symbolic and policy changes that have transformed the relationship between paid and unpaid work, and is reordering the connection between voluntary practice and professional expertise. Giddens (1998) identified this as the third way. Rose (2000) sees this transformation as a strategy embodying a tacit regime around the economic transactions that implicate the agent in self-governance based on normative moral possibilities, thus ordering the moral subject. Research has not yet established the fundamental elements of this transforming logic, or the mechanisms by which oppositions such as paid and unpaid are being resolved by voluntary organisations. The thesis argues that third way commentators’ view of the bureaucratic transformation of voluntary service that examines “historical and social conditions, professional strategies, and disciplinary stakes and constraints…” (Shusterman, 1999: 10) does not ac...
... MERRILYN CRICHTON AND CATHERINE STRONG Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia ... In Peru, ... more ... MERRILYN CRICHTON AND CATHERINE STRONG Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia ... In Peru, Thomas Love and Anna Garwood (2011) found that microhydro sys-tems, as well as wind and solar electricity sys-tems, similarly impacted villagers in rural Cajamarca. ...
Interagency communication of client data is complicated by privacy legislation. A study of region... more Interagency communication of client data is complicated by privacy legislation. A study of regional service provision involving interviews with mental health professionals, found challenges in communicative processes between agencies were exacerbated by the heavy workloads. Dependence on individual professional interpretations of legislation, and on manual handling, led to delays that detrimentally affected client welfare. The main recommendation arising from this article is the creation of an ehealth system that is able to negotiate differing levels of access to client data through centralised controls, where the administration of that system ensures that it stays current with changing legislative requirements. The main contribution of the proposed model is to combine two well-known concepts: data integration and generalisation. People with mental illness are amongst the most vulnerable members of society, and current ehealth systems that provide access to medical records inadequat...
... [img], PDF - Merrilyn Crichton Thesis Restricted to ... The data was collected and analysed u... more ... [img], PDF - Merrilyn Crichton Thesis Restricted to ... The data was collected and analysed using Kenneth Burke's rhetorical analysis (1969a, 1969b, 1989), Erving Goffman's footing (Burns, 1992; Goffman, 1981), and Harvey Sacks' indexicality and membership categorisation ...
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