The European policy emphasis on providing informal care at home causes caregivers and home care professionals having more contact with each other, which makes it important for them to find satisfying ways to share care. Findings from the literature show that sharing care between caregivers and professionals can be improved. This study therefore examines to what degree and why caregivers’ judgements on sharing care with home care professionals vary. To improve our understanding of social inequities in caregiving experiences, the study adopts an intersectional perspective. We investigate how personal and situational characteristics attached to care judgements are interwoven. Using data of the Netherlands Institute for Social Research, we conducted bivariate and multivariate linear regression analysis (N = 292). We combined four survey questions into a 1–4 scale on ‘caregiver judgement’ (α = 0.69) and used caregivers’ personal (such as gender and health status) and situational characteristics (such as the care recipient's impairment and type of care) as determinants to discern whether these are related to the caregivers’ judgement. Using a multiplicative approach, we also examined the relationship between mutually constituting factors of the caregivers’ judgement. Adjusted for all characteristics, caregivers who provide care to a parent or child with a mental impairment and those aged between 45 and 64 years or with a paid job providing care to someone with a mental impairment are likely to judge sharing care more negatively. Also, men providing care with help from other caregivers and caregivers providing care because they like to do so who provide domestic help seem more likely to be less satisfied about sharing care. This knowledge is vital for professionals providing home care, because it clarifies differences in caregivers’ experiences and hence induce knowledge how to pay special attention to those who may experience less satisfaction while sharing care.
Purpose – Information verification is an important factor in commercial valuation practice.Valuers use their professional autonomy to decide on the level of verification required, thereby creating an opportunity for client-related judgement bias in valuation. The purpose of this paper is to assess the manifestation of client attachment risks in information verification. Design/methodology/approach – A case-based questionnaire was used to retrieve data from 290 commercial valuation professionals in the Netherlands, providing a 15 per cent response rate of the Dutch commercial valuation population. Descriptive and inferential statistics have been used to test research hypotheses involving relations between information verification and professional features that may indicate client attachment such as an executive job level and brokerage experience. Findings – The results reveal that valuers acting at partner level within their organisation obtain lower scores on information verification compared to lower-ranked valuers. Also, brokerage experience correlates negatively to information verification of valuation professionals. Both findings have statistical significance. Research limitations/implications – The results reflect valuers’ reasoning behaviour rather than actual behaviour. Replication of findings through experimental design will contribute to research validity. Practical implications – Maintaining close client contact in a competitive environment is important for business continuity yet may foster client attachment.The associated downside risks in valuation practice call for higher awareness of (subconscious) client influence and the development of attitudinal scepticism in valuer training programmes. Originality/value – This paper is one of the few that explore possible sources of valuer judgement bias by relating client-friendly valuer features to a key area of valuation i.e. information verification.
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Studenten in het beroepsonderwijs leren op de werkplek om een goede beroepsuitoefenaar te worden. Beoordeling van het werkplekleren gebeurt vaak op de werkplek en door de werkplek. Dit promotieonderzoek wil in kaart brengen hoe werkplekopleiders de student beoordelen.
Society continues to place an exaggerated emphasis on women's skins, judging the value of lives lived within, by the colour and condition of these surfaces. This artistic research will explore how the skin of a painting might unpack this site of judgement, highlight its objectification, and offer women alternative visualizations of their own sense of embodiment. This speculative renovation of traditional concepts of portrayal will explore how painting, as an aesthetic body whose material skin is both its surface and its inner content (its representations) can help us imagine our portrayal in a different way, focusing, not on what we look like to others, but on how we sense, touch, and experience. How might we visualise skin from its ghostly inner side? This feminist enquiry will unfold alongside archival research on The Ten Largest (1906-07), a painting series by Swedish Modernist Hilma af Klint. Initial findings suggest the artist was mapping traditional clothing designs into a spectral, painterly idea of a body in time. Fundamental methods research, and access to newly available Af Klint archives, will expand upon these roots in maps and women’s craft practices and explore them as political acts, linked to Swedish Life Reform, and knowingly sidestepping a non-inclusive art history. Blending archival study with a contemporary practice informed by eco-feminism is an approach to artistic research that re-vivifies an historical paradigm that seems remote today, but which may offer a new understanding of the past that allows us to also re-think our present. This mutuality, and Af Klint’s rhizomatic approach to image-making, will therefore also inform the pedagogical development of a Methods Research programme, as part of this post-doc. This will extend across MA and PhD study, and be further enriched by pedagogy research at Cal-Arts, Los Angeles, and Konstfack, Stockholm.
Werknemers en werkgevers in de Groen Grond Infra (GGI) sector krijgen een steeds grotere rol in de natuurinclusieve transitie binnen de agrarische sector en GGI. Deze groene transitie vereist verschillende soorten kennis, investeringen en inzet van loonwerkers. De betrokken loonwerkers moeten nu niet alleen taken uitvoeren maar ook meedenken over hoe die taken uit te voeren om bij te dragen aan de groene transitie. Een belangrijk onderdeel van deze verandering is dat werknemers als "change agents" gaan optreden. Dit betekent dat ze, dankzij hun kennis en houding, helpen om de groene transitie te realiseren. De GGI-sector omvat veel verschillende werkterreinen, zoals cultuurtechniek, agrarisch loonwerk en beheer van groene ruimtes. Om studenten op te leiden voor de arbeidsmarkt in deze diverse sector, is een nieuwe aanpak nodig. Deze aanpak moet de diversiteit van de sector bedienen en studenten stimuleren om een ondernemende en duurzame rol aan te nemen. Bedrijven, studenten, docenten, onderzoekers en andere betrokkenen gaan in een praktijkonderzoek een leeromgeving creëren die opleidt voor deze "change agents". In dit pilot-onderzoek werken studenten, bedrijven, een docent-onderzoeker, een practor en lector samen met vraaggestuurd onderwijs. Dit betekent dat de leerbehoeften van de studenten centraal staan, binnen kaders van duurzaamheid en natuurinclusiviteit. Het bedrijfsleven en het onderwijs faciliteren het leerproces, bewaken de kaders en reflecteren met de studenten op hun toekomstige rol als "change agents" in de GGI-sector. Het doel van dit pilot-onderzoek is dat studenten GGI(loonwerk) vaardigheden en tools ontwikkelen om mee te denken binnen de groene transitie. Door middel van interviews, Situational Judgement Tests en rubrics wordt inzicht verkregen in dit proces. De onderzoeksvraag is: Hoe kan vraaggestuurd onderwijs, vormgegeven door studenten, bedrijfsleven en Terra MBO, bijdragen aan een ondernemende houding bij GGI-studenten, zodat zij beter kunnen functioneren als "change agents" in toekomstbestendig loonwerk?
