Qualitative case study of the collective learning of staff working in a corrections centre under conditions of rapid organisational change. Conceptualises the notion of collective competence that is emergent and relationally ...

There¿s no escape: we are always in relationship. Being aware of this matters. Doing something to build constructive relationships for sustainability, matters even more. This paper considers the connection between good ...

This thesis focuses on what I have called truth management. First it traces how modernist and postmodern theorists play their versions of what counts as true. A key critique I stage of modernist theorising is that it ...

Call centres are a source of job growth in many parts of the world. Jobs in call centres are a manifestation of the opportunities offered by ICT together with the internal restructuring of organisations, to reduce costs ...

The Australian health care system exists within a particular socio-political environment which characterises its modus operandi and thus, the patient’s and health professional’s experiences of the system. Consumers’ ...

The selected publications presented here are concerned with the development of practice and knowledge in midwifery. The thesis underlying the publications is that the development of a positive personal relationship between ...

The term 'work ready graduates' is commonly used by Universities to describe students who have been well prepared and who can seamlessly enter professional practice. It is an ideal that is simpler said than achieved in ...

The Franco-Algerian War (1954¿62) was a long, tremendously hard-fought, dirty war of decolonisation, with profound consequences for the millions of people caught up in it. It caused deep division in France as, amongst other ...