Camlus Odhus (codhus20@gmail.com) University of Lancaster, 2025 Download Abstract Introduction Improving the quality of primary health care (PHC) is an urgent priority, given millions of deaths attributable to poor quality health services. Yet, little is known about the culture of… Read More »Culture, Barriers and Enablers of Primary Health Care Quality Improvement in Kenya
Lisa Ellem (lisa.ellem@scu.edu.au) Education, Southern Cross University, 2023 Download from repository Abstract Today’s adult learners are social and economic revolutionaries who invite change. Adult learners operate in the adult learning industry that holds substantial national, social, and economic benefits. However,… Read More »Adult Learning: What does an adult learner need
Kennedy Masime (kennedy.masime@gmail.com) Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Johannesburg , 2023 Download from repository Abstract Political scientists are, generally, agreed that political parties play a very important role in the consolidation of democracy. Indeed, parties play several… Read More »Theorising Party and Party System Institutionalisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case Studies of Kenya and Ghana
Alexandros Stavrianos Anglia Ruskin University, 2024 Download Abstract This study examined the Forest School approach as a way for all children to access outdoor education. In so doing, this study related the values and philosophical principles of outdoor education and… Read More »How Forest School supports inclusive practices: observations of child engagement and view of teachers and parents in one English primary school
Theerapat Ungsuchaval School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research, University of Kent, 2019 Download from repository Abstract The thesis is an exploratory study of the Thai Health Promotion Foundation (THPF), an independent autonomous public organisation (APO) and its NGO… Read More »Metagovernance and NGOisation in Thailand: An Exploratory Study of the Thai Health Promotion Foundation (THPF) and Nongovernmental Organisations (NGOs)
Linda Tinkler (linda.tinkler@sheffield.ac.uk) University of Sheffield, 2023 Download from repository Abstract Introduction & Background Clinical research activity generates multiple health benefits. Resistance/avoidance at the interface between research delivery and clinical service delivery may affect the success of research. Little is… Read More »Multiprofessional perceptions of clinical research delivery and Clinical Research Nursing: Exploring the interface between clinical service delivery and clinical research delivery in the NHS
Stephanie King (s.king2@derby.ac.uk) Nottingham Trent University, 2024 Download from repository Abstract This thesis is a qualitative study bringing together lived experiences of school exclusion with a novel use of theory. The analysis deepens understanding of how school exclusion both represents… Read More »“You don’t go here anymore”: An exploration of school exclusion
By Aikerim Bektemirova In academia, we are all familiar with the pressure to ‘publish or perish’. But for many scholars in non-Anglophone contexts, this pressure is compounded by an additional linguistic barrier, as one Kazakhstani faculty member describes the difficulties… Read More »Beyond the Skills Deficit: A Critical Realist View of Academic Writing in Kazakhstan
A guest post by Anthony Thorpe and Jean Pierre Elonga Mboyo. Our book ‘Educational Leadership and Critical Realism’ is the latest addition to the Routledge Studies in Critical Realism series. Our paths crossed at an International Association of Critical Realism… Read More »Educational Leadership and Critical Realism
A guest post by Leigh Price (University of Inland Norway, leigh.price@inn.no), Andreas Vavvos (University ofCrete, Greece & University of Saint Andrews, UK), and Jan Zumoberhaus (University of Fribourg,Switzerland). Submission Deadline: 28 February 2025 The Journal of Critical Realism is calling… Read More »Call for papers: special issue on critical realism and human-nature relations