A group of HSC students in Sydney, Australia, average age 18 years participated in a 10 week pilot program of community-based exercise classes. The data revealed that for the students, the main reasons for attending included ...

This article explores the contribution that can be made by philosophy of hope as a theoretical tool for youth studies. The language of hope is powerful - not only in people's everyday discourses but also in education, ...

A constant challenge for scholarly research relates to its impact on and integration into public policy. Where the policy issues are `wicked¿, as are those concerning intercultural relations and social cohesion, social ...

This article reports the responses of New Zealand local government councillors concerning their preferences for, and experiences of, council officer employment; and the values councillors perceive that council officers ...

This article explores the way that professionals are being inducted into articulating apologies to consumers of their services, in this case clinicians apologising to patients. The article focuses on the policy of Open ...

Britain’s approach to refugee claims by lesbians and gay men has been notably hostile in comparison to other Western refugee-receiving nations. For many years decision makers in the UK have refused to accept that those ...

This paper begins with a review of the Chinese government's reforms on the personnel system in the public health care sector since 1978. These policies were designed to give greater economic autonomy to the public health ...