A5034212426- Irish and British Studies
- Rural development and sustainability
- International Development and Aid
- Education Systems and Policy
- Social Issues in Poland
- Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research
- Political Systems and Governance
- European Cultural and National Identity
- Eastern European Communism and Reforms
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Human Rights and Development
- Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
- Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- Russia and Soviet political economy
University of Ulster
2001-2025
Abstract In the UK, a range of operational tools and policy guidelines regulate staffing in various Health Social Care sectors. Nonetheless, frameworks to ensure safe social work remain less advanced. This study focuses on older people’s community teams Northern Ireland due high volume cases vacancies within these teams. Our findings provide evidence based actual caseloads (direct with service users) workloads at individual, team, regional levels this programme care. The analysis revealed...
Abstract The social work profession’s future lies largely in the hands of early career professionals (those working two years or less post-qualification). Their intentions to remain profession and their wellbeing affect performance system functioning. While coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic changed practice, its impact on workers needs specific exploration. Repeated cross-sectional surveys were conducted during six phases across UK. We compared quantitative qualitative findings by...
Aim: to explore the psychological wellbeing and work-related quality of life amongst United Kingdom (UK) health social care workers during COVID-19 pandemic. Subject methods: Health professionals within nursing, midwifery, allied professions, work occupations working in UK pandemic were recruited. Repeated cross-sectional online surveys conducted six time periods (May–July 2020, November–February 2021, May–July November 2021–February 2022, 2022 2022–February 2023). Results: Over 14,000...
Structural adjustments can have negative impact, especially for the poorest people in rural areas. This article explores consequences of liberalization cotton production northern Ghana, terms gender relations household and bigger community context provisioning. It draws on an 18-month study conducted 1995 1996. Section 1 describes agriculture Kusasi, Ghana. 2 looks at households, farming provisioning situations Mamprusi. The effects structural adjustment how women responded to new...
<p>The challenges of maintaining an effective and sustainable healthcare workforce include the recruitment retention skilled nurses. COVID-19 exacerbated these challenges, but they persist beyond pandemic. We explored impact work-related quality life burnout on reported intentions to leave a variety professions including nursing. collected data at five time-points from November 2020 February 2023 via online survey. The validated measures used included Copenhagen Burnout Inventory...
This article looks at the international dimension of local and regional economic development policy. We illustrate our argument about difficulties comparing relative effectiveness policy using experience a comparative study in Australia, US, England Northern Ireland. The empirical work suggests that preferred tools their locally perceived vary but careful interpretation is necessary to understand why this case. Given exchange neither inherently bad nor good, it inevitable, we argue for...
Stefan Goodwin (2009), Africa in Europe (Plymouth: Lexington). Volume One: Antiquity into the Age of Global Exploration, 260pp., Pb: £18.95, ISBN-13: 978-0739117262 Two: Interdependencies, Relocations and Globalization, 430pp., £24.95, 978-0739127667