Susan Robertson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3692654 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susan Robertson |
| NOMBRES | Susan |
| APELLIDO | Robertson |
| FIRMA | ROBERTSON S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Saskatchewan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5129-2216 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Digitalised higher education
Higher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intelligence. Universities aim to operate as data-powered organisations to support institutional efficiency and the personalisation of learning and student experience. These developments are occurring against the backdrop of university digital infrastructure mov…
Capturing Contested Mobile Space
Coastal urban edges, defined by significant spaces of mobilities, create tensions in the oppositions of flows of the practices of vision and action. Photography captures moments and tells fragments of stories. A closer, longer look of photographic images allows for otherwise un-noticed details. We notice the gendered automobilities at play in the coastal roadways and street spaces of Brighton, UK and Havana, Cuba, both renowned for their celebrat…
Space, Place and Educational Settings
This open access book covers the topic of educational settings in space and place thereby adopting quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Free read!
Market making and the (re)production of knowledge in public universities
This collection of short essays presents and examines six vignettes of organisational change in British, New Zealand and European universities. Drawing on the social studies of economisation literature, formal research projects and auto-ethnographic insights, the authors detail profound changes in how knowledge is produced in universities. They examine policy documents, calculative techniques and management practices to illustrate how proliferati…
Regulação e risco na governação da educação
De algum tempo a esta parte, temos reflectido nos nossos ensaios sobre as consequências das mudanças no estado providência keynesiano, no sentido daquilo que designamos por estados competitivos, de acordo com Cerny, e sobre o efeito dessas mudanças para a legitimação do sistema, o papel da educação neste processo e as consequências dessas alterações para a educação e para a sua própria legitimação
Introduction to special issue
The 2016 Brexit vote in the UK and the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency in the United States have acted as moments of rupture in debates on politics and societies, particularly in the Wes
Illuminating urban street (u)topias
A utopian vision of the city is often bright, well-lit, and conversely darkness and night are more often associated with dystopia. This paper uses an ethnographic study of night-time in a busy street space in the middle of a south coast UK city in order to demonstrate the application of ‘utopia as method’, or rather utopia as a mobile method in understanding justice and injustice in urban space. In doing so, we suggest the possibilities of urban …
Workplace Harassment Interventions and Labour Process Theory
Workplace harassment, from a labour process theoretic perspective, is a consequence of the convergence of several historical trends that affect the way work is organized under contemporary capitalism. On this view, interventions such as communication skills training, complaint procedures, and workplace policies have limited chance of eliminating harassment in the workplace. However, there is minimal research identifying, testing, and refining the…
Ameliorating Workplace Harassment among Direct Caregivers in Canada's Healthcare System
The article reports on a theatre-based intervention designed to address workplace harassment among direct caregivers in Canada. The study is part of a larger analytical project that relies on labour process theory and critical realist evaluation methodology to understand what interventions work, how, for whom, and under what circumstances. Using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, the reported intervention addresses workplace harassment by chall…
Caring for cancer survivors with the popular expressive arts
Research has demonstrated considerable health benefits derived from incorporating the arts in health care. Yet, the process of translating research knowledge into clinical practice requires a sensitive understanding of the practice context. In this article, we consider the challenges to clinicians’ integration of the popular, expressive art forms into their practice. We assess these art forms for their potential value for the health and well-bein…
A Class Act
This book offers an original and challenging theoretical and empirical approach to mapping the changing nature of teachers' work historically and in the contemporary period. It is an attempt to understand how and in what ways teachers' work has changed following the demise of the post-war settlement and the imminent collapse of teachers' project of professionalism secured through solidaristic strategies such as unionism. Dr. Robertson argues that…
Public Private Partnerships in Education
Far from simply being a form of cost sharing between the "state" and the "market," PPP has been celebrated by some, and condemned by others, as the champion of change in the new millennium. This book has been written by the best minds in education policy, political economy, and development studies. They convincingly argue that public private partnership represents a new mode of governance that ranges from covert support of the private sector (vou…
A origem das parcerias público-privada na governança global da educação
Durante a última década, a globalização da governança educacional por meio de parcerias público-privadas (PPP) tem gerado considerável debate quanto ao seu significado, propósito, status e resultados. Este debate é particularmente aquecido no setor da educação por causa da ampla aceitação da educação como atividade complexa, social e política que deve permanecer, em grande parte, se não totalmente, no setor público, servindo a interesses públicos…
Modelling Dimensions of 'the Social' in Knowledge Teams
The introduction of knowledge teams, as a new form of work organisation, is one of many institutional transformations associated with the knowledge economy. The research on the effects of this new form of work organisation on the social processes by which knowledge workers exchange, create, and apply knowledge is limited. The research that does exist uses various communication theories to explain the social interactions within knowledge teams. We…
Globalisation and Europeanisation in Education
Visions of urban mobility
This paper explores issues of urban architecture and geography through an interpretation of built form. More specifically, it attends to the urban landscapes of mobility of the elevated highway, showing how landscape and environment frame ideas and practices of movement. The concept of limited-access highways in the city could be considered as the epitome of modernity, reflecting the ever-increasing speed of everyday life and the distancing of in…
Global review of health care surveys using lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS), 1984–2004
Interview with Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology, School of Economics, University of Coimbra and Distinguished Legal Scholar, Law School, University of Wisconsin‐Madison. He is also director of
Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome
Worldwide, it is estimated that there are more than 100.000 infants born with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) each year. In 1998, standard case definitions for surveillance of CRS and rubella were developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2001, 123 countries/territories reported a total of 836.356 rubella cases. In the future more countries are expected to report on rubella as a global measles/rubella laboratory network is further de…
WTO/Gats and the global education services industry
(2003). WTO/GATS and the global education services industry. Globalisation, Societies and Education: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 259-266
Interview with Robert W. Cox
Local States of Emergency
In the present paper, we argue that neo-liberal governance regimes are deeply contradictory and that these contradictions are increasingly evident within the education sector. Drawing on a case study of the consequences restructuring in education in New Zealand, arguably a paradigm case of neo-liberal governance, we suggest the state is faced with a dilemma about how best to manage these tensions and contradictions within the framework of the pol…
Working through the Hyphens
I began reviewing The Unknown City: lives of poor and working class young adults by Michelle Fine and Lois Weis in the week that Britain declared its outrage at the brutal killing of a young, recently arrived, Nigerian boy-Damalola Taylor-as he walked home from school. Home for Damalola was a relatively poor, predominantly black, inner-London community that, like the two urban communities-Buffalo and NewJersey-in Fine and Weis' study, had been ra…
Working through the Hyphens
Developing consumer‐led maternity services
Objective This paper describes a prospective study of women’s views and experiences of maternity services. The aim was to examine the way women make choices and decisions about maternity care and the factors which influence decision making, with a view to developing services which best meet the needs of the population. Patient choice issues reviewed included: choice of place of birth, choice of lead professional and choices in labour management. …
A origem das parcerias público-privada na governança global da educação
Durante a última década, a globalização da governança educacional por meio de parcerias público-privadas (PPP) tem gerado considerável debate quanto ao seu significado, propósito, status e resultados. Este debate é particularmente aquecido no setor da educação por causa da ampla aceitação da educação como atividade complexa, social e política que deve permanecer, em grande parte, se não totalmente, no setor público, servindo a interesses públicos…
Visions of urban mobility
This paper explores issues of urban architecture and geography through an interpretation of built form. More specifically, it attends to the urban landscapes of mobility of the elevated highway, showing how landscape and environment frame ideas and practices of movement. The concept of limited-access highways in the city could be considered as the epitome of modernity, reflecting the ever-increasing speed of everyday life and the distancing of in…
Interview with Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology, School of Economics, University of Coimbra and Distinguished Legal Scholar, Law School, University of Wisconsin‐Madison. He is also director of
Local States of Emergency
In the present paper, we argue that neo-liberal governance regimes are deeply contradictory and that these contradictions are increasingly evident within the education sector. Drawing on a case study of the consequences restructuring in education in New Zealand, arguably a paradigm case of neo-liberal governance, we suggest the state is faced with a dilemma about how best to manage these tensions and contradictions within the framework of the pol…
Gender differences in humor appreciation
Introduction to special issue
The 2016 Brexit vote in the UK and the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency in the United States have acted as moments of rupture in debates on politics and societies, particularly in the Wes
WTO/Gats and the global education services industry
(2003). WTO/GATS and the global education services industry. Globalisation, Societies and Education: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 259-266
Interview with Robert W. Cox
Digitalised higher education
Higher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intelligence. Universities aim to operate as data-powered organisations to support institutional efficiency and the personalisation of learning and student experience. These developments are occurring against the backdrop of university digital infrastructure mov…
Illuminating urban street (u)topias
A utopian vision of the city is often bright, well-lit, and conversely darkness and night are more often associated with dystopia. This paper uses an ethnographic study of night-time in a busy street space in the middle of a south coast UK city in order to demonstrate the application of ‘utopia as method’, or rather utopia as a mobile method in understanding justice and injustice in urban space. In doing so, we suggest the possibilities of urban …
Workplace Harassment Interventions and Labour Process Theory
Workplace harassment, from a labour process theoretic perspective, is a consequence of the convergence of several historical trends that affect the way work is organized under contemporary capitalism. On this view, interventions such as communication skills training, complaint procedures, and workplace policies have limited chance of eliminating harassment in the workplace. However, there is minimal research identifying, testing, and refining the…
Ameliorating Workplace Harassment among Direct Caregivers in Canada's Healthcare System
The article reports on a theatre-based intervention designed to address workplace harassment among direct caregivers in Canada. The study is part of a larger analytical project that relies on labour process theory and critical realist evaluation methodology to understand what interventions work, how, for whom, and under what circumstances. Using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, the reported intervention addresses workplace harassment by chall…
Modelling Dimensions of 'the Social' in Knowledge Teams
The introduction of knowledge teams, as a new form of work organisation, is one of many institutional transformations associated with the knowledge economy. The research on the effects of this new form of work organisation on the social processes by which knowledge workers exchange, create, and apply knowledge is limited. The research that does exist uses various communication theories to explain the social interactions within knowledge teams. We…
Banning Voluntary Labour
We would like to thank our anonymous reviewer for detailed comments on the paper, including a suggested change of title. These have been extremely helpful in refining the paper
Curriculum fragmentation impedes students’ understanding of technology and the environment
This paper uses secondary school students’ understanding of the technology/environment interface to highlight the problems associated with curriculum fragmentation. It identifies the structure of the school day as a strong factor in forcing students to create boundaries between subjects and implicates the unitization of the curriculum in Western Australia in further strengthening the compartmentalisation of students’ knowledge. It considers ways …
Taking the Queen's Shilling∗
∗We wish to acknowledge our indebtedness to Eva Cox, Fran Hausfield and Sue Wills whose original paper “Taking the Queen's Shilling: Accepting Social Research Consultancies in the 1970's”, was the source of inspiration for reflection on the links between academic research and social policy in the 1990's
The Madang Earthquake
L’Action française
Maurice Barrés referred to the French Canadian survival in North America as "le miracle canadien ". In his novels and his parliamentary speeches, Barrés divulged his romantic attachment to the maintenance of French traditions. Recognition from a prestigious Frenchman was heart-warming to French Canadians. They acknowledged the attention by granting Barrés priority in the literary pages of Quebec1 s newspapers. The survival of French Canada howeve…
Table des auteurs de compte rendus
Contrasting Climatic Histories for the Snake River Plain, Idaho, Resulting from Multiple Thermal Maxima
Ten sites near the Snake River Plain have consistent differences in their climatic histories. Sites at low elevation reflect the “early Holocene xerothermic” of the Pacific Northwest, whereas most climatic chronologies at high elevation indicate maximum warmth or aridity somewhat later, ca. 6000 yr ago. This elevational contrast in climatic histories is duplicated at three sites from the central Snake River Plain. For sites in such close proximit…
Preventing rubella
Cases of rubella continue to occur among adults in the United States because 10-20 per cent of persons in this age group remain susceptible. To evaluate the potential preventability of these cases, we present a method for assessing missed opportunities for rubella immunization, based on immunization recommendations of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP) of the US Public Health Service (PHS). Immunization programs faced with limit…
Gender differences in humor appreciation
Taking the Queen's Shilling∗
∗We wish to acknowledge our indebtedness to Eva Cox, Fran Hausfield and Sue Wills whose original paper “Taking the Queen's Shilling: Accepting Social Research Consultancies in the 1970's”, was the source of inspiration for reflection on the links between academic research and social policy in the 1990's
Coordination in Youth Affairs
One of the components associated with the widely heralded shift to ‘new managerialism’ in the public sector has been an increased emphasis on coordination between government departments as a means to enhance effective service provision. This article examines the capacity for coordination to fulfil this objective. Drawing upon a case study of coordination in youth affairs in Western Australia, the article examines the process by which the coordina…
Curriculum fragmentation impedes students’ understanding of technology and the environment
This paper uses secondary school students’ understanding of the technology/environment interface to highlight the problems associated with curriculum fragmentation. It identifies the structure of the school day as a strong factor in forcing students to create boundaries between subjects and implicates the unitization of the curriculum in Western Australia in further strengthening the compartmentalisation of students’ knowledge. It considers ways …
Registro de ensayos con vacunas del Programa Mundial de Vacunas e Inmunización de la OMS
En 1995, el Programa Mundial de Vacunas e Inmunización de la OMS estableció un registro para ensayos con vacunas. En septiembre de 1996, este registro contenía 50 ensayos de vacunación patrocinados por la OMS, de los cuales 25 (50%) eran estudios ya terminados. Las vacunas que se habían estudiado con mayor frecuencia fueron las de sarampión (9 ensayos), poliovirus (8 ensayos), cólera (8 ensayos), Escherichia coli enterotoxígena (4 ensayos) y neum…
Teacher Activism in the 1990s
Banning Voluntary Labour
We would like to thank our anonymous reviewer for detailed comments on the paper, including a suggested change of title. These have been extremely helpful in refining the paper
Developing consumer‐led maternity services
Objective This paper describes a prospective study of women’s views and experiences of maternity services. The aim was to examine the way women make choices and decisions about maternity care and the factors which influence decision making, with a view to developing services which best meet the needs of the population. Patient choice issues reviewed included: choice of place of birth, choice of lead professional and choices in labour management. …
Working through the Hyphens
I began reviewing The Unknown City: lives of poor and working class young adults by Michelle Fine and Lois Weis in the week that Britain declared its outrage at the brutal killing of a young, recently arrived, Nigerian boy-Damalola Taylor-as he walked home from school. Home for Damalola was a relatively poor, predominantly black, inner-London community that, like the two urban communities-Buffalo and NewJersey-in Fine and Weis' study, had been ra…
Working through the Hyphens
Local States of Emergency
In the present paper, we argue that neo-liberal governance regimes are deeply contradictory and that these contradictions are increasingly evident within the education sector. Drawing on a case study of the consequences restructuring in education in New Zealand, arguably a paradigm case of neo-liberal governance, we suggest the state is faced with a dilemma about how best to manage these tensions and contradictions within the framework of the pol…
Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome
Worldwide, it is estimated that there are more than 100.000 infants born with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) each year. In 1998, standard case definitions for surveillance of CRS and rubella were developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2001, 123 countries/territories reported a total of 836.356 rubella cases. In the future more countries are expected to report on rubella as a global measles/rubella laboratory network is further de…
WTO/Gats and the global education services industry
(2003). WTO/GATS and the global education services industry. Globalisation, Societies and Education: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 259-266
Interview with Robert W. Cox
Interview with Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology, School of Economics, University of Coimbra and Distinguished Legal Scholar, Law School, University of Wisconsin‐Madison. He is also director of
Global review of health care surveys using lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS), 1984–2004
Visions of urban mobility
This paper explores issues of urban architecture and geography through an interpretation of built form. More specifically, it attends to the urban landscapes of mobility of the elevated highway, showing how landscape and environment frame ideas and practices of movement. The concept of limited-access highways in the city could be considered as the epitome of modernity, reflecting the ever-increasing speed of everyday life and the distancing of in…
Globalisation and Europeanisation in Education
Modelling Dimensions of 'the Social' in Knowledge Teams
The introduction of knowledge teams, as a new form of work organisation, is one of many institutional transformations associated with the knowledge economy. The research on the effects of this new form of work organisation on the social processes by which knowledge workers exchange, create, and apply knowledge is limited. The research that does exist uses various communication theories to explain the social interactions within knowledge teams. We…
Public Private Partnerships in Education
Far from simply being a form of cost sharing between the "state" and the "market," PPP has been celebrated by some, and condemned by others, as the champion of change in the new millennium. This book has been written by the best minds in education policy, political economy, and development studies. They convincingly argue that public private partnership represents a new mode of governance that ranges from covert support of the private sector (vou…
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