This article explores the practice of respect within qualitative research methods. As
interpersonal respect plays a significant role in the esteem felt within a relationship, it can …

Despite past attempts to develop theoretical frameworks to explain diagnostic behaviour,
recent work suggests that the sociology of diagnosis needs further development …

The aim of the study is to explore how school absenteeism as a material-discursive
phenomenon is produced in the practices of humans and nonhumans, when absences and …

Laughter is the most frequently transcribed paralinguistic feature in social research interview
transcripts, occurring even where the transcriber gives no other indication of how words …

Migrating Genders presents a sustained description of male-to-female transgendered
identities, explaining how the fa'afafine fit within the wider gender system of Samoa, and …

Solar PV mini-grid electrification application has been introduced in Ghana to provide
electricity for some rural areas that are located disproportionately beyond the reach of the …

This thesis sets out to explore the complexity of curriculum reform by examining how
different stakeholders, experiencing English language curriculum reform in different 'layers' …

This thesis considers how policy 'works' as an instrument of governance. I report an
ethnographic study of health care policy in the contested field of hospital planning. In this …

In the current turbulent business climate, the need for well-developed leaders, that can
handle the internal and external corporate pressure, is increasing There are a number of …

More and more people are using the internet to access various societal functions. In recent
years, municipalities and private enterprises have increasingly begun to explore and …