Christopher Sykes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3752980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Sykes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Sykes |
| SIGNATURE | SYKES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1650-4196 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A practice-based approach to understanding learning on placement
One of the key challenges in work-integrated learning (WIL) courses is how to account for learning that takes place away from campus, where the work space, daily routines and emergent actions within an organisation shape the possibilities for student learning. What do students do on placement to open the possibilities of working and learning in temporary sites of work? Using a practice-based approach, this paper outlines an ethnographic study of …
A Process Study of Negotiating Challenges of Managing International Development Projects
Despite the role that non-government organisations, including community development organisations, play in social transformation, their approach to managing projects has received little attention. Employing a processual approach and participatory methodology, this paper investigates how a small, distributed, community-based organisation negotiates the challenges associated with managing its geographically dispersed development projects. It examin…
Food and music matters
In this article, we focus on the organizing practices of a community-based, not-for-profit, social justice organization. We investigate how organizational participants interweave bundles of practices involving food and music to choreograph the affective relations that bring forth a sense of belonging, participation, recognition and respect between diverse people, thereby enacting social justice. This article examines the everyday, organizing prac…
A dissemination methodology for learning and teaching developments through engaging and embedding
Dissemination of learning and teaching innovation in higher education requires approaches to change that are socially contextualised, dynamic and self-reflexive. This article, therefore, presents a methodology for dissemination employing an embedding heuristic and engaging in participatory action research. The embedding approach emphasises three organisational domains of action: first, the capacity of communities of practice and distributed leade…
Improving learning and teaching through a multi-institutional, discipline-specific project
Despite repeated calls to improve the quality of Australian business higher education, sector-wide improvement has been elusive. This paper presents an analysis of a multi-institutional project undertaken by the Australian Business Deans Council Teaching and Learning Network. Earlier studies of change in higher education demonstrated the need to move beyond decontextualised, one-size-fits-all models. Building on this earlier work, we suggest that…
Critical Action Research and Organizational Ethnography
Partnership and participation
Partnerships and participation seem to be the order of the day. Yet, for many community organisations, this way of ordering the social policy space is contradictory, creating practice tensions that increase the complexity of local service systems. Such changes impact community organisations in a politics that needs to be made visible if they are to be able to act in the interests of their members and service users. We therefore outline the social…
Cross Roads to Israel. Palestine from Balfour to Bevin
Some Notes on a Recent Journey in Afghanistan
M Y original objective was Luristan, which I hoped to visit in the autumn of last year. At no time is it easy to obtain the necessary permits from the Persian Government, who are anxious for the safety of foreigners and fear lest Luristan might give the visitor a too sensational impression of their country. But the time which I had chosen for making preliminary arrangements at Tehran was especially unfortunate. A very bad impression had been crea…
Food and music matters
In this article, we focus on the organizing practices of a community-based, not-for-profit, social justice organization. We investigate how organizational participants interweave bundles of practices involving food and music to choreograph the affective relations that bring forth a sense of belonging, participation, recognition and respect between diverse people, thereby enacting social justice. This article examines the everyday, organizing prac…
Partnership and participation
Partnerships and participation seem to be the order of the day. Yet, for many community organisations, this way of ordering the social policy space is contradictory, creating practice tensions that increase the complexity of local service systems. Such changes impact community organisations in a politics that needs to be made visible if they are to be able to act in the interests of their members and service users. We therefore outline the social…
A dissemination methodology for learning and teaching developments through engaging and embedding
Dissemination of learning and teaching innovation in higher education requires approaches to change that are socially contextualised, dynamic and self-reflexive. This article, therefore, presents a methodology for dissemination employing an embedding heuristic and engaging in participatory action research. The embedding approach emphasises three organisational domains of action: first, the capacity of communities of practice and distributed leade…
Cross Roads to Israel. Palestine from Balfour to Bevin
Some Notes on a Recent Journey in Afghanistan
M Y original objective was Luristan, which I hoped to visit in the autumn of last year. At no time is it easy to obtain the necessary permits from the Persian Government, who are anxious for the safety of foreigners and fear lest Luristan might give the visitor a too sensational impression of their country. But the time which I had chosen for making preliminary arrangements at Tehran was especially unfortunate. A very bad impression had been crea…
Some Notes on a Recent Journey in Afghanistan
M Y original objective was Luristan, which I hoped to visit in the autumn of last year. At no time is it easy to obtain the necessary permits from the Persian Government, who are anxious for the safety of foreigners and fear lest Luristan might give the visitor a too sensational impression of their country. But the time which I had chosen for making preliminary arrangements at Tehran was especially unfortunate. A very bad impression had been crea…
Cross Roads to Israel. Palestine from Balfour to Bevin
Partnership and participation
Partnerships and participation seem to be the order of the day. Yet, for many community organisations, this way of ordering the social policy space is contradictory, creating practice tensions that increase the complexity of local service systems. Such changes impact community organisations in a politics that needs to be made visible if they are to be able to act in the interests of their members and service users. We therefore outline the social…
Critical Action Research and Organizational Ethnography
Improving learning and teaching through a multi-institutional, discipline-specific project
Despite repeated calls to improve the quality of Australian business higher education, sector-wide improvement has been elusive. This paper presents an analysis of a multi-institutional project undertaken by the Australian Business Deans Council Teaching and Learning Network. Earlier studies of change in higher education demonstrated the need to move beyond decontextualised, one-size-fits-all models. Building on this earlier work, we suggest that…
A dissemination methodology for learning and teaching developments through engaging and embedding
Dissemination of learning and teaching innovation in higher education requires approaches to change that are socially contextualised, dynamic and self-reflexive. This article, therefore, presents a methodology for dissemination employing an embedding heuristic and engaging in participatory action research. The embedding approach emphasises three organisational domains of action: first, the capacity of communities of practice and distributed leade…
Food and music matters
In this article, we focus on the organizing practices of a community-based, not-for-profit, social justice organization. We investigate how organizational participants interweave bundles of practices involving food and music to choreograph the affective relations that bring forth a sense of belonging, participation, recognition and respect between diverse people, thereby enacting social justice. This article examines the everyday, organizing prac…
A Process Study of Negotiating Challenges of Managing International Development Projects
Despite the role that non-government organisations, including community development organisations, play in social transformation, their approach to managing projects has received little attention. Employing a processual approach and participatory methodology, this paper investigates how a small, distributed, community-based organisation negotiates the challenges associated with managing its geographically dispersed development projects. It examin…
A practice-based approach to understanding learning on placement
One of the key challenges in work-integrated learning (WIL) courses is how to account for learning that takes place away from campus, where the work space, daily routines and emergent actions within an organisation shape the possibilities for student learning. What do students do on placement to open the possibilities of working and learning in temporary sites of work? Using a practice-based approach, this paper outlines an ethnographic study of …
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Knowledge management (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Action research (2 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Business (2 works)