scholarly journals Opportunities and challenges of contemporary corruption research: An interview with Donatella Della Porta

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felippe Clemente ◽  
◽  
Luis De Sousa ◽  
Luciana Alexandra Ghica ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Political Research ◽  
7Th Edition ◽  
The University

This is an edited and revised version of an interview recorded in September 2021, which served as closing remarks for the 3rd edition of the Research Methods School on Corruption and Anti-Corruption Analysis (CORAN), Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (Portugal), 27-30 September 2021. The event was organized jointly with the Centre for International Cooperation and Development Studies (IDC) of the University of Bucharest, as part of the 7th edition of the International Interdisciplinary Conference of Political Research SCOPE: Science of Politics. The notes and specific references were added to support especially younger researchers who may not be very familiar with the field or with certain past events.

scholarly journals Opportunities and challenges of contemporary corruption research: An interview with Donatella Della Porta

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felippe Clemente ◽  
◽  
Luis De Sousa ◽  
Luciana Alexandra Ghica ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Political Research ◽  
7Th Edition ◽  
The University

This is an edited and revised version of an interview recorded in September 2021, which served as closing remarks for the 3rd edition of the Research Methods School on Corruption and Anti-Corruption Analysis (CORAN), Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (Portugal), 27-30 September 2021. The event was organized jointly with the Centre for International Cooperation and Development Studies (IDC) of the University of Bucharest, as part of the 7th edition of the International Interdisciplinary Conference of Political Research SCOPE: Science of Politics. The notes and specific references were added to support especially younger researchers who may not be very familiar with the field or with certain past events.

scholarly journals Multivariate Analysis of Students’ Perception of the Impact of Lecturers’ Ranks on their Performance at the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University for Development Studies-Navrongo, Ghana

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Faustina Nyame ◽  
Ibrahim Alhassan ◽  
Abukari Alhassan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Mathematical Sciences ◽  
The University ◽  
Higher Institutions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

This paper examines students’ perception of the impact of lecturers’ ranks on their performance across departments in the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences (FMS) of the University for Development Studies (UDS), Navrongo Campus. The study used a self-designed structured questionnaire administered to 160 respondents (students) of the Faculty. All the 160 questionnaires were retrieved, which represents 100% response rate. The data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25.0 for windows. Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) results showed that (at P<0.05) Senior Lecturers received higher ratings followed by Lecturers and then Assistant Lecturers, indicating that the ranks of Teaching Staff significantly influenced their performance across the various departments of the Faculty. Recommendations and implications for management of Higher Institutions of Learning (HIL) have been discussed. The paper contributes to the literature in the area of supervision and evaluation of the performance of teaching staff in the HIL context.

" I feel like I am wasting my time..." Addressing statistics anxiety in students required to learn statistics as part of another course.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxine v Swingler ◽  
Phil McAleer ◽  
Lorna Morrow
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Statistics Anxiety ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
University Courses ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Curricula ◽  
The University

Statistics and research methods are embedded in the university curricula for Psychology and more widely in the curricula for university courses in education and the social sciences (QAA, 2010; BPS 2013), yet many students underestimate the extent of statistics covered in these subjects (Ruggeri, Dempster, Hanna & Cleary, 2008). Although statistics is an important part of many courses, it is also one of the subjects that is most disliked by students (Sciutto, 2002), and indeed causes anxiety in students (Schacht & Stewart, 1990).The purpose of the current research was initially to identify the levels of statistics anxiety in UG and PGT psychology students; identify perceived causes of this; and establish any practical interventions that could be introduced in an attempt to alleviate anxiety and increase student engagement. The second stage of the research was to introduce and evaluate a number of practical interventions targeted at alleviating statistics anxiety in psychology students at the University of Glasgow.

Environmental engineering education in conjunction with or as Part of social sciences curricula

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.H. Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
Basic Training ◽  
The University ◽  
Engineering Programme ◽  
Environmental Infrastructure

Traditionally in Germany environmental engineering education took place within the context of a civil engineering programme. There were reasons for this: the beginning of much of what we understand today to be environmental works fell within the parameters of city engineering. There were and are advantages mostly in view of the necessary planning, construction and operation of environmental infrastructure. There are also disadvantages which become more and more pronounced as the field of environmental protection expands: the civil engineer frequently lacks basic training in disciplines such as biology and chemistry and carries a large and sometimes burdensome knowledge of other less relevant subjects. Thus, educators begin to look for alternatives. This paper deals with an alternative that was developed some ten years ago and therefore has proven viable and successful: at the University of Karlsruhe students may choose to major in environmental engineering within the context or on the basis of an economics and business administration curriculum. The basic question here is as to what extent the student masters the field of environmental engineering if he or she has predominantly a solid background in social sciences and very little in natural sciences. The paper will describe the curriculum in structure and intensity and evaluate the accumulated knowledge and suitability of these students in terms of actual environmental problems. This will be done in terms of examination performance parallel and/or relative to traditionally trained civil environmental engineers as well as in terms of topics successfully treated in Masters' theses. In conclusion, it is argued that such combination of curricula should not be confined to economic sciences and environmental engineering but also be planned for legal sciences and environmental engineering.

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