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Kevin A Perry
University of Greenland, Social Work, Faculty Member
- Anthropology, Sociology, Social Sciences, Entrepreneurship, Social Work, Race and Ethnicity, and 23 moreSocial Theory, Qualitative methodology, Race and Racism, Interdisciplinarity, Children and Families, Public PolicyStudies, Gender Equality, Public Management, Sociology of Children and Childhood, Racism, Feminist Sociology, Child abuse and neglect, Trust, Management Learning, Social Problems, Discrimination, Chidlren's Rights, Anti-Oppressive Social Work, Conceptualisations of Trust, Trust (Psychology), Trust Theory (Computer Science), Business, and Critical Race Studiesedit
- Currently, I am employed as a senior researcher at Ilisimatusarfik (the University of Greenland), in the Social Scien... moreCurrently, I am employed as a senior researcher at Ilisimatusarfik (the University of Greenland), in the Social Science Faculty. Ilisimatusarfik is located in Nuuk.
The focus of my current research is on social work with children and young people and social problems.
Prior to this, I was employed as a postdoc at the University of Aalborg in Denmark for four years. I was attached to a large project in a local authority where the point of departure was to investigate classroom well-being, learning and a sense of belonging from the perspectives of children and young people.
PhD Research
In brief, my PhD Thesis concerns face-to-face encounters between frontline public sector employees and young men from ethnic minority backgrounds in and around an urban neighbourhood in Denmark. The main focus of my thesis concerns 'trust and distrust' building' between the young men and the public sector employees.edit
Denne følgende artikel handler om det igangvaerende samarbejde om deltagende aktionsforskning mellem Kommuneqarfik Sermersooqs gadeteam og Ilisimatusarfiks Center for Arktisk Velfaerd (ICAV) i Nuuk. I artiklen skitserer jeg samarbejdet og... more
Denne følgende artikel handler om det igangvaerende samarbejde om deltagende aktionsforskning mellem Kommuneqarfik Sermersooqs gadeteam og Ilisimatusarfiks Center for Arktisk Velfaerd (ICAV) i Nuuk. I artiklen skitserer jeg samarbejdet og det opsøgende sociale arbejde udført af gadeteamet i Nuuk. Til sidst afsluttes artiklen med at skitsere det faktiske udbytte af samarbejdet-altså hvad gadeteamet indtil videre har fået ud af samarbejdet.
Research Interests: Community Ecology, Homelessness, Indigenous Knowledge, Empowerment, International Social Work, and 13 moreSocial Work Education, Capacity Building, Community Empowerment, Human Services & Social Work, Pedagogy of Social Work, Greenland, Inuit, Aboriginal homelessness and housing, Adult, Community participation and engagement, International policy and social work, Indigenous cultures, mental health, homelessness, and substance abuse, Community Outreach, and Social Worker
En udsendelse fra Danmarks Radio fremhævede i år alvorlige sociale problemer blandt børn og unge i Tasiilaq i Østgrønland – og udsendelsen fremhævede også alvorlige mangler i den sociale indsats. I udsendelsen hævdes det, at kommunen og... more
En udsendelse fra Danmarks Radio fremhævede i år alvorlige sociale problemer blandt børn og unge i Tasiilaq i Østgrønland – og udsendelsen fremhævede også alvorlige mangler i den sociale indsats. I udsendelsen hævdes det, at kommunen og dens ansatte ikke reagerede eller ikke reagerede tilstrækkeligt nok, når de modtog underretninger fra fagfolk. I denne artikel tager vi udgangspunkt i situationen i Tasiilaq gennem DR’s udsendelse ”Byen hvor børn forsvinder” – og med afsæt i en række kvalitative interviews med offentligt ansatte i byen. Vi anlægger et socialpolitisk perspektiv på temaet som en case ved bl.a. at se på situationen fra de offentlige ansattes perspektiv – og gennem analyser af mulige udfordringer i en del af en offentlig socialadministration, som dels skal udføres lokalt i Tasiilaq, og dernæst en distanceret efterbehandling på den anden side af Indlandsisen i Nuuk. Hvilke udfordringer giver det i den fremtidige beskyttelse af byens børn og unge?
Research Interests: Social Work, Social Sciences, Child abuse and neglect, Poverty, Arctic Social Science, and 11 moreCommunity Development, Research, Child Protection Social Work, Human Services & Social Work, Arctic, Child Sexual Abuse, Inuit, Social Services, Contemporary Greenland, Field Study, and Social Work and Health Services
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Research Interests: Social Psychology, Anthropology, Social Work, Ethnography, Trust, and 15 moreEducational Research, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, Political Science, Police, Local Government and Local Development, Pedagogy, Social Work Education, Cultural Anthropology, Arts Education and Pedagogy, Social Trust, Youth, Pedagogy of Social Work, Pedagogia, and Roskilde Universitet
A comparative study of the Danish & English Social Work Educations about how they equip social workers to tackle child sexual abuse in society.
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This Ph.D. dissertation investigates the micro processes at play between young men with minority ethnic backgrounds and frontline public sector employees in relation to distrust & trust building.
Research Interests: Social Psychology, Anthropology, Social Work, Youth Studies, Ethnography, and 20 moreTrust, Educational Research, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, Police, Local Government and Local Development, Pedagogy, Youth Subcultures, Anthropology of Police & Policing, Social Work Education, Cultural Anthropology, Arts Education and Pedagogy, Social Trust, Youth Justice, Youth gangs, Youth, Pedagogy of Social Work, Youth empowerment, Pedagogia, and Trust/Distrust
Editors: Annette Bilfeldt, Iben Jensen & John Andersen:
Book is in Danish with two English chapters (including an updated version of 'Trust Matters in Ethnography'
Book is in Danish with two English chapters (including an updated version of 'Trust Matters in Ethnography'
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Trust matters in Ethnography and is the key concept which weaves the whole fieldwork experience together – without trust the probability of failure is high. Trust is essential both to gaining and maintaining access to the field as well as... more
Trust matters in Ethnography and is the key concept which weaves the whole fieldwork experience together – without trust the probability of failure is high. Trust is essential both to gaining and maintaining access to the field as well as gaining access to the backstage areas of the lived experiences of people. These are features of ethnography clearly identified in most text books on qualitative research methods. Moreover, the importance of researchers establishing trust often appears in scholarly articles reporting the findings from various strands of qualitative enquiry. However, while there is a strong emphasis on researchers establishing trust both in text books and articles, there is a distinct gap in the literature about how researchers can go about trust building. Drawing on data gathered through nine months of ethnographic fieldwork and on insights from Goffman (1953, 1959) and Luhmann (1979) the following paper hopes to contribute towards filling this gap.
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This article reports the findings from my Msc. (cand.scient.soc) from Aalborg University. My masters dissertation is a comparative research project which compares the English and Danish social work educations to see how they equip... more
This article reports the findings from my Msc. (cand.scient.soc) from Aalborg University. My masters dissertation is a comparative research project which compares the English and Danish social work educations to see how they equip students to tackle child sexual abuse in society.
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Research Interests: Teacher Education, Trust, Learning and Teaching, Student Motivation And Engagement, Inclusion, and 10 moreTeacher Research, Well-Being, Teachers' professional development, Classroom Management, Classroom Interaction, Students, School, Students Motivation, Classroom Observation, and School management and leadership
Denne bog er resultatet af flere seminarer om potentialer og udfordringer for aktionsforskningen afholdt på Aalborg Universitet i København. Forfatterkredsen i bogen spænder vidt: der er bidrag fra forskere, der arbejder inden for områder... more
Denne bog er resultatet af flere seminarer om potentialer og udfordringer for aktionsforskningen afholdt på Aalborg Universitet i København. Forfatterkredsen i bogen spænder vidt: der er bidrag fra forskere, der arbejder inden for områder som planlægning, naturforvaltning, lokalsamfundsudvikling, pædagogik, socialt arbejde og ældreomsorg. Forfatterkredsen har også stærk international bredde. Udover de fleste skandinaviske lande (Norge, Sverige, Færøerne og Danmark) er der også bidrag fra Nordamerika og Latinamerika. Bogen repræsenterer således forskellige miljøer og -traditioner inden for aktionsforskning: participatorisk aktionsforskning (PAR), pragmatisk aktionsforskning og kritisk-utopisk aktionsforskning. Bogen afspejler således, at aktionsforskningsmiljøet i stigende grad er et globalt community, hvilket også ses i de internationale tidsskrifter på området.
Oplægget til bogen var blandt andet en række problemstillinger om erfaringer fra aktionsforskning, som blev diskuteret på et opstartsseminar. Disse problemstillinger præsenteres i antologiens indledende kapitel. Senere afholdt vi et forfatterseminar med intern feedback på udkast og ideer, inklusiv Skypeforbindelse med forfattere, som ikke kunne være til stede i København. I redigerings- og reviewfasen fik vi også uvurderlig hjælp af mange reviewere fra flere kontinenter. Som redaktører og kollegaer vil vi gerne sige mange tak til de engagerede forfattere og ikke mindst til reviewerne.
Annette Bilfeldt, John Andersen, Michael Søgaard Jørgensen og Kevin Anthony Perry
Oplægget til bogen var blandt andet en række problemstillinger om erfaringer fra aktionsforskning, som blev diskuteret på et opstartsseminar. Disse problemstillinger præsenteres i antologiens indledende kapitel. Senere afholdt vi et forfatterseminar med intern feedback på udkast og ideer, inklusiv Skypeforbindelse med forfattere, som ikke kunne være til stede i København. I redigerings- og reviewfasen fik vi også uvurderlig hjælp af mange reviewere fra flere kontinenter. Som redaktører og kollegaer vil vi gerne sige mange tak til de engagerede forfattere og ikke mindst til reviewerne.
Annette Bilfeldt, John Andersen, Michael Søgaard Jørgensen og Kevin Anthony Perry