scholarly journals Conversing with Caribbean and Northern Scottish Landscapes and Lifescapes

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Salt ◽  
Susan P. Mains
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Anglophone Caribbean ◽  
Broad Scope ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Scottish History ◽  
Key Questions

This conversation–and the 2015 Landscapes and Lifescapes Symposium (in Inverness) out of which it grew—offers a starting point for us to collaboratively explore transatlantic histories and geographies and to open up other interdisciplinary conversations addressing how we understand our relationships to identity, history and place. The discussion addresses five key questions that provide a broad scope for thinking about how the relationships between the Anglo-Caribbean and Northern Scotland have been depicted historically, and how the idea of landscapes and lifescapes may help us to diversify this dialogue further. These questions are: 1) what can we learn from investigating the entangled histories and geographies of Scotland and the Anglophone Caribbean; 2) how are these two places—and the islands that surround them—linked; 3) how do we shift depictions of Scottish history to include Caribbean people, movements, systems and perspectives; 4) what is lost in representations of the Caribbean and Scotland as ‘peripheral’ British territories; and, 5) what role can community-based collaborative research projects play in our societal understanding of landscapes and lifescapes (in all forms) in both regions

scholarly journals Creating space for negotiating the nature and outcomes of collaborative research projects with Aboriginal communities

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 83-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Comprehensive Collection ◽  
Western Arctic ◽  
Communicative Space

This article investigates intellectual property and ethical issues involved in negotiating research processes and outcomes in collaborative projects with Aboriginal communities. A series of ideas are outlined to lay a foundation for thinking about ways to create a conceptual space for open and constructive discussions between research partners. Habermas’s notion of “communicative space” is applied to a partnership between southern-based anthropologists and members of the Inuvialuit community of the Canadian Western Arctic. This partnership is focused on documenting knowledge about a large and comprehensive collection of ancestral ethnographic objects housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and on disseminating this knowledge in meaningful ways to the Inuvialuit, anthropological, and museum communities. This article presents a suite of methods generated by the research group that lay some useful parameters for designing research and fostering trust and investment among partners. It also discusses the dynamics of community-based research practices and, specifically, methods for conceiving, constructing, and sustaining research projects.

scholarly journals WORCS: A workflow for open reproducible code in science

Data Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Caspar J. Van Lissa ◽  
Andreas M. Brandmaier ◽  
Loek Brinkman ◽  
Anna-Lena Lamprecht ◽  
Aaron Peikert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Source Code ◽  
R Package ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Tabular Data ◽  
Step Procedure ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
And Training

Adopting open science principles can be challenging, requiring conceptual education and training in the use of new tools. This paper introduces the Workflow for Open Reproducible Code in Science (WORCS): A step-by-step procedure that researchers can follow to make a research project open and reproducible. This workflow intends to lower the threshold for adoption of open science principles. It is based on established best practices, and can be used either in parallel to, or in absence of, top-down requirements by journals, institutions, and funding bodies. To facilitate widespread adoption, the WORCS principles have been implemented in the R package worcs, which offers an RStudio project template and utility functions for specific workflow steps. This paper introduces the conceptual workflow, discusses how it meets different standards for open science, and addresses the functionality provided by the R implementation, worcs. This paper is primarily targeted towards scholars conducting research projects in R, conducting research that involves academic prose, analysis code, and tabular data. However, the workflow is flexible enough to accommodate other scenarios, and offers a starting point for customized solutions. The source code for the R package and manuscript, and a list of examplesof WORCS projects, are available at https://github.com/cjvanlissa/worcs.

scholarly journals And yet Again: Having Breakfast Is Positively Associated with Lower BMI and Healthier General Eating Behavior in Schoolchildren

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1351
Author(s):  
Peggy Ober ◽  
Carolin Sobek ◽  
Nancy Stein ◽  
Ulrike Spielau ◽  
Sarah Abel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Weight Status ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
School Setting ◽  
School Type ◽  
Community Based Interventions ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Nutritional Behavior ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
National Programs

Given the high prevalence of childhood overweight, school-based programs aiming at nutritional behavior may be a good starting point for community-based interventions. Therefore, we investigated associations between school-related meal patterns and weight status in 1215 schoolchildren. Anthropometry was performed on-site in schools. Children reported their meal habits, and parents provided family-related information via questionnaires. Associations between nutritional behavior and weight status were estimated using hierarchical linear and logistic regression. Analyses were adjusted for age, socio–economic status, school type, migration background, and parental weight status. Having breakfast was associated with a lower BMI-SDS (βadj = −0.51, p = 0.004) and a lower risk of being overweight (ORadj = 0.30, p = 0.009), while having two breakfasts resulting in stronger associations (BMI-SDS: βadj = −0.66, p < 0.001; risk of overweight: ORadj = 0.22, p = 0.001). Likewise, children who regularly skipped breakfast on school days showed stronger associations (BMI-SDS: β = 0.49, p < 0.001; risk of overweight: OR = 3.29, p < 0.001) than children who skipped breakfast only occasionally (BMI-SDS: β = 0.43, p < 0.001; risk of overweight: OR = 2.72, p = 0.032). The associations persisted after controlling for parental SES and weight status. Therefore, our data confirm the school setting as a suitable starting point for community-based interventions and may underline the necessity of national programs providing free breakfast and lunch to children.

scholarly journals Community-based management of environmental challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria del Mar Delgado-Serrano ◽  
Jayalaxshmi Mistry ◽  
Bettina Matzdorf ◽  
Gregoire Leclerc
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Environmental Challenges ◽  
The Caribbean

scholarly journals Financing Domestic Rainwater Harvesting in the Caribbean

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Everson James Peters
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Rainwater Harvesting ◽  
Strategic Partnerships ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Capital Costs ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Major Constraint ◽  
Financing Mechanism ◽  
The Caribbean

Domestic rainwater harvesting (DRWH), an old technology, is playing a key role in meeting some objectives of the UN “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” and building resilience to climate change, particularly in the Caribbean. DRWH projects can be implemented through self-financing, government subsidies, and micro-financing or by external agencies. Most recent promotion initiatives of DRWH have emphasized funding by external agencies, often ignoring the potential financial contributions of beneficiaries. Regional experiences have shown that, generally, the high initial capital costs for DRWH systems is a major constraint. However, in some cases, success in DRWH is possible through self-financing. This study reviews the experiences of some DRWH projects or by external agencies to determine a suitable financing mechanism. This paper shows that households can self-finance DRWH systems if payments are based on 5% of household income and interest rates are less than 5%, It concludes that the product/business cycle pattern of development adequately describes the development of DRWH in some parts of the Caribbean. It is recommended that such a model should be considered in designing DRWH projects through strategic partnerships of the beneficiaries with between local and international NGOs, community based organisations and domestic financial institutions like credit unions.

scholarly journals What was Research for the Peasants of Córdoba? Participation in the Early Years of Participatory Action Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Rappaport
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
National Association ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
The Caribbean

Abstract Reflections on participatory and collaborative research commonly neglect to pay attention to the fact that for community researchers, investigation into their own realities frequently takes forms very different from those of academic scholars. They may use methods that are more explicitly intuitive and may depart from approaches that involve the rigorous collection and systematization of data. This paper explores what research might have meant to the Caribbean peasants of the early 1970s with whom Colombian sociologist Orlando Fals Borda developed his approach to what is today called participatory action research. In particular, it focuses on the field notes of Alfonso Salgado Martínez, a leader of the National Association of Peasant Users-Sincelejo Line (ANUC, Asociación Nacional de Usuarios Campesinos-Línea Sincelejo), juxtaposing them to his published work, both read in comparison to Fals Borda's own notes and writings.

scholarly journals (Not So) Dangerous Liaisons: A Framework for Evaluating Collaborative Research Projects

2017 ◽  
Vol VIII (Special) ◽  
pp. 167-179
Author(s):  
Pinar Oztop ◽  
Frank Loesche ◽  
Diego Maranan ◽  
Kathryn Francis ◽  
Vaibhav Tyagi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Projects
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