This report summarises the findings of an international study of the ethical challenges faced by social workers during the Covid-19 pandemic, undertaken during 6th-18th May 2020. 607 responses from 54 countries were received via an online survey, additional interviews and local surveys. Six key themes relating to social workers’ ethical challenges and responses were identified: 1. Creating and maintaining trusting, honest and empathic relationships via phone or internet with due regard to privacy and confidentiality, or in person with protective equipment. 2. Prioritising service user needs and demands, which are greater and different due to the pandemic, when resources are stretched or unavailable and full assessments often impossible. 3. Balancing service user rights, needs and risks against personal risk to social workers and others, in order to provide services as well as possible. 4. Deciding whether to follow national and organisational policies, procedures or guidance (existing or new) or to use professional discretion in circumstances where the policies seem inappropriate, confused or lacking. 5. Acknowledging and handling emotions, fatigue and the need for selfcare, when working in unsafe and stressful circumstances. 6. Using the lessons learned from working during the pandemic to rethink social work in the future.
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Parents who grew up without digital monitoring have a plethora of parental monitoring opportunities at their disposal. While they can engage in surveillance practices to safeguard their children, they also have to balance freedom against control. This research is based on in-depth interviews with eleven early adolescents and eleven parents to investigate everyday negotiations of parental monitoring. Parental monitoring is presented as a form of lateral surveillance because it entails parents engaging in surveillance practices to monitor their children. The results indicate that some parents are motivated to use digital monitoring tools to safeguard and guide their children, while others refrain from surveillance practices to prioritise freedom and trust. The most common forms of surveillance are location tracking and the monitoring of digital behaviour and screen time. Moreover, we provide unique insights into the use of student tracking systems as an impactful form of control. Early adolescents negotiate these parental monitoring practices, with responses ranging from acceptance to active forms of resistance. Some children also monitor their parents, showcasing a reciprocal form of lateral surveillance. In all families, monitoring practices are negotiated in open conversations that also foster digital resilience. This study shows that the concepts of parental monitoring and lateral surveillance fall short in grasping the reciprocal character of monitoring and the power dynamics in parent-child relations. We therefore propose that monitoring practices in families can best be understood as family surveillance, providing a novel concept to understand how surveillance is embedded in contemporary media practices among interconnected family members.
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Facilitate multidisciplinary e-textile development by enhancing collaboration and knowledge transfer across disciplines, ultimately leading to comprehensive requirements while keeping the user interaction in mind. presentation during E-textiles 2023
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De bouw is een conservatieve (risk-averse) en sterk gefragmenteerde markt. De bouw is echter tevens een grootgebruiker van materialen; 40% van de globale grondstoffen wordt gebruikt voor de realisatie van gebouwen (Ness & Xing, 2017). Ook is de gebouwde omgeving een grootgebruiker van energie met 40 % van het Nederlandse totale gebruik (Klimaatmonitor Rijksoverheid 2019). Meer kennisdeling en optimalisatie is cruciaal, met name ten aanzien van de naoorlogse woningbouwvoorraad. Daar ontstaat de komende jaren momentum in de vorm van de stedelijke vernieuwing, sloop-nieuwbouw, renovatie, verduurzaming en erfgoedbeleid. Kenmerkend van de naoorlogse woningbouw is dat ze destijds in hoog tempo zijn gerealiseerd en gebouwd op sterk gestandaardiseerde manieren. Vele ontwerpbureaus en bouwers hebben in die tijd op grote schaal identieke woningbouwcomplexen in alle delen van ons land neergezet. De kennis over wie wat waar heeft gebouwd is echter niet geregistreerd. Kennis daarover biedt de kans om veel sneller en optimaler opgaven en kansen rondom verduurzaming, circulaire waarde en erfgoedbeleid van deze naoorlogse woningbouw te ontdekken en delen. Een combinatie van AI, ruimtelijk onderzoek en co-research kan dit zoekproces automatiseren. In deze KIEM willen we dit verkennen. We bouwen voort op de AI-methodes en technieken die we in het RAAKmkb project Sensing Streetscapes hebben ontwikkeld. In deze Kiem willen we experimenteren wat de meest efficiënte AI-strategie is. Hierbij werken we met co-research. Ruimtelijk experts uit verschillende vakgebieden worden betrokken om de kenmerken van de woningbouwvooraard te duiden – en zo te helpen in wat AI moet gaan leren. Vak- en praktijk experts van woningbouw verduurzaming, circulaire bouw en erfgoedbeleid betrekken we in een co-researchsessie om potentiele use-cases te verkennen. Hoe kan deze kennis een versnelling voor hun opgaven betekenen? Voor de doorontwikkeling tot volwaardige tools beogen we een RAAKmkb of RAAKpubliek aan te vragen.
Treatment of crops with insecticides remains essential because globally more than 75 billion dollars is lost through crop destruction by invasive insects. However it is accompanied by severe disadvantages including i. increasing resistance of the target insects against insecticides and ii. the undesired lethality of beneficial insects such as bees and other pollinator species. The significant reduction of insect species during the last years, at least partly caused by the presently available insecticides has also effects on insect-eating species. Last but not least the presence of residual amount of insecticides in the environment (soil and plants), because of poor (bio)degradation, is another distinct disadvantage. Therefore, the overall aim of this proposal is to design and synthesize peptide based biopesticides. This should lead to Nature inspired green alternatives for insect control because "Peptides" are the small equivalents of "proteins", that are biomolecules, which are universally present in all organisms and subject to their natural biodegradation mechanisms, as well as also chemically degraded in the soil (water, heat, UV, oxygen). Design and synthesis of these environmentally benign compounds will eventually take place in a founded company called "INNOVAPEPLINE". Evaluation of candidate peptide based biopesticides can be carried out in collaboration with a recently founded company (spin-out of the University of Glasgow) called "SOLASTA BIO" (founders professors Shireen Davies, Julian Dow and Rob Liskamp) and/or with other (third) parties such as the University of Wageningen. Upon recent identification of promising candidate compounds ("leads"), chemical optimization studies of leads will take place, followed by evaluation in field trials. In this proposal design, synthesis and chemical optimization of the biological activity of new peptides and development of methods to monitor their biodegradation rate will take place. Thereby expanding the repertoire of peptide based biopesticides. (292 words)
