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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Thesis 2009 Canada English CIHR, SSHRC, NSERCCIHR ,SSHRC ,NSERCAuthors: Edwards, Barbara Jean;Edwards, Barbara Jean;This qualitative case study explores the perceptions of the Simon Fraser University (SFU) Education research assistant (RA) experience. The purpose of this investigation was to understand what RAs do in their research assistantship. The case study involved seventeen RAs; data consisted of seventeen questionnaires and three interviews. To structure the investigation, activity theory was used to frame the research questions, the data collection instruments and parts of the analysis. The activity theory analysis suggests that RAs are motivated to support themselves financially while interacting with other faculty to learn research skills, possibly for research productivity. These RAs use various intellectual resources, a computer and skills to manage their time and the project. They work on various RA tasks, depending on the length of time they have been a RA. The reported outcomes include intellectual growth, valuable interaction with the community, research productivity, various influences on their PhD and networking outside of the RA activity system’s community. Based on this activity system view of the RA experience, it seems the presumption that the RA-ship is mostly about money, research and a dyadic relationship is questionable. Viewing the RA experience in a new light leads to the understanding that it is the village that contributes to the RAs’ growth and socialization instead of one or two individuals. Notwithstanding the many environmental constraints of the Canadian post-secondary system and at SFU that limit financially funding RA-ships, it is suggested to build on the finding that RAs report the broad community as critical to their intellectual development. Various workshops might enhance the PhD experience and other steps taken to enrich the research assistantship by intentionally integrating the other aspects of the RA’s lifeworld (work experience, PhD career) into the research assistantship.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Thesis 2006 Canada English SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Irving, Michelle Angela;Irving, Michelle Angela;Laptop music performance has proliferated as a new form of practice over the past decade, resulting in new approaches and challenges to musical norms. This paper describes issues in laptop music performance, and discusses approaches in computer music research in relation to a qualitative study of "minimal" electronic music practice. The research aims to understand the social and technological dimensions of laptop music performance through a synthesis of methodological frameworks found in Technology Studies including Andrew Feenberg's "Instrumentalization Theory" and Trevor Pinch and Weibe Bijker's "Social Construction of Technology" (SCOT) These perspectives are combined with first-person methodologies and will show how the "minimal" electronic music community of practice interprets laptop music performance as an extension of the recording studio-as-musical instrument, and the techniques and musical form of DJ culture. The research examines Robert Henke's Monodeck and Ableton Live as examples of the instantiation of interpretations in the "minimal" context.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Thesis 2013 Canada SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Erlichman, Leigh Anne Deana;Erlichman, Leigh Anne Deana;Serious violent young offenders have been described as “a rare species.” Most general population studies do not examine serious and violent young offenders. The vast majority of research on school risk factors and offending focus on delinquency as opposed to serious and violent offending by youth. Research has demonstrated that school problems (poor academic performance, truancy, dropout) are related to delinquency. The aim of the current study is to assess whether school and family problems are significant predictors of serious violent and serious property offences for incarcerated youth. This study also examines whether Aboriginal ethnicity is a significant predictor of serious violent and serious property offences. Data for this thesis is from a sample of serious and violent young offenders in custody drawn from two secure custody facilities and two open custody units located in a major urban centre of British Columbia, Canada (n = 404). The sample consists of youth (aged 12–19) who were interviewed as part of the research project entitled the Vancouver Serious and Violent Incarcerated Young Offenders Study. Bivariate tests and logistic regression models are used to analyze the role of school and family problems in predicting serious violent and serious property offences. Results show that school problems, family problems, age, mental health problems, and substance use are significant predictors of serious violent offences. Family problems, mental health problems, gender, and Aboriginal ethnicity are significant predictors of serious property offences. School problems, gender, age, mental health problems, and substance use are significant predictors of serious violent and serious property offences (SVSP offences). School problems, family problems, gender, mental health problems, and substance use are significant predictors of no serious violent and no serious property offences (no-SVSP offences). When adjusting for the effect of demographics, mental health problems, and substance use, school and family problems are important independent predictors of serious violent offences and no-SVSP offences. School problems are also a strong independent predictor of SVSP offences. Family problems emerged as an independent risk factor for serious property offences.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Thesis 2009 Canada English SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Taylor, Marta;Taylor, Marta;Solid waste management is becoming an increasingly pressing issue with the rise of land constraints, concern over environmental degradation, and pressures to recover resources. Cities across Canada are turning to organics as an important waste component to target for diversion. This study investigates the nature of current comprehensive organic waste programs in mid-sized Canadian cities. A case study analysis highlights the three forms of centralized composting used in Canada: source-separated, mixed waste, and hybrid systems. These case studies illustrate the common elements for a successful organics program as well as their constraints and risks. A policy analysis of the organic diversion systems points out the key criteria and factors a municipality needs to determine and discuss in the process of selecting an organics strategy.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2015 CanadaPublic Library of Science (PLoS) SSHRC, ARC | The future of palaeoclima..., ARC | Voyaging, Trade and the D...SSHRC ,ARC| The future of palaeoclimate and archaeological research in Australia: next generation instrumentation for chronology and environmental reconstruction ,ARC| Voyaging, Trade and the Development of Ancient Complex Societies in East Polynesia: An Interdisciplinary ApproachAuthors: David Burley; Kevan Edinborough; Marshall Weisler; Jian-xin Zhao;David Burley; Kevan Edinborough; Marshall Weisler; Jian-xin Zhao;First settlement of Polynesia, and population expansion throughout the ancestral Polynesian homeland are foundation events for global history. A precise chronology is paramount to informed archaeological interpretation of these events and their consequences. Recently applied chronometric hygiene protocols excluding radiocarbon dates on wood charcoal without species identification all but eliminates this chronology as it has been built for the Kingdom of Tonga, the initial islands to be settled in Polynesia. In this paper we re-examine and redevelop this chronology through application of Bayesian models to the questioned suite of radiocarbon dates, but also incorporating short-lived wood charcoal dates from archived samples and high precision U/Th dates on coral artifacts. These models provide generation level precision allowing us to track population migration from first Lapita occupation on the island of Tongatapu through Tonga's central and northern island groups. They further illustrate an exceptionally short duration for the initial colonizing Lapita phase and a somewhat abrupt transition to ancestral Polynesian society as it is currently defined.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Thesis 2006 Canada English SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Sures, Gary;Sures, Gary;This thesis examines the representation of Louis Riel and the Metis people in the novel La bourrasque (1925) by Maurice Constantin-Weyer. It is argued that by using vulgarity, irony and historical manipulation, the novel stresses the racial inferiority of the Metis and the racial superiority of the English in order to illustrate the Darwinian principle of natural selection. The representation of the Metis is slightly ambiguous in that the novel conveys sympathy towards their plight, but suggests that their defeat was inevitable. By applying the metaphor "Survival of the Fittest" to the story of the Red River Rebellion, La bourrasque professes Social Darwinism. The thesis discusses the popularity of Social Darwinism in France at the turn of the twentieth century, and traces a social trajectory of Constantin-Weyer to suggest that the Social Darwinist themes of La bourrasque stem from the social context in which the novel was conceived and produced.
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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Thesis 2013 Canada SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Robertson , Kirsten Marie-Paule;Robertson , Kirsten Marie-Paule;The purpose of this dissertation is to illuminate the connection between workplace relationships and meaningful work. This goal is accomplished through two papers. The first paper adopts a social networks lens to develop a process model explaining how the strength of intraorganizational network ties may influence meaningfulness. Ties of different strengths are expected to influence work meaningfulness through the mechanisms of individuation, contribution, and unification. Rather than one type of tie being superior in terms of its impact on meaningfulness, the theory explains the importance of maintaining a diverse network portfolio that includes both strong and weak ties. The second paper explores how people actively construct the interpretations of their interactions with others in a way that impacts the experience of meaningful work. By conducting an ethnographic study of veterinary workers, the concept of cognitive relationship crafting and its three dimensions of contact, character, and impact crafting are introduced. The data is used to explain how these different forms of cognitive relationship crafting link to meaningful work, as well as the possibility of virtuous cycles of meaningfulness when mechanisms of agency are combined with the mechanisms of unification and contribution enabled by cognitive relationship crafting.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Thesis 2009 Canada English SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Stewart, Nicole;Stewart, Nicole;As regulatory frameworks, social housing policies are intended to assess, frame and reflect the general ideals and priorities of societies regarding poor and ‘hard to house’ populations. Yet, the extent to which abstract principles of well-being are achieved is dependent upon the daily practices, decisions and discretion of a multitude of advocates from across the housing sector. This research is a multi-scalar analysis of the relationship between urban housing policies and the practices of housing advocates involved in maintaining and creating housing for low-income populations in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The work focuses on how people and places are represented in policy documents and explores how and if these constructions are reproduced in the practices of housing advocates. Using a poststructuralist framework, I argue that current municipal policy is based on a neoliberal approach to housing provision that is reflected in both the challenges and strategies to housing vulnerable populations.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Thesis 2003 Canada English SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Kepkay, Mark;Kepkay, Mark;All Research productsarrow_drop_down <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- document.write('<div id="oa_widget"></div>'); document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.openaire.eu/index.php?option=com_openaire&view=widget&format=raw&projectId=od_______497::65f03784c3ed923eb6f3c91e5b8c902f&type=result"></script>'); --> </script>
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Thesis 2012 Canada SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Morden, Hilary Kim;Morden, Hilary Kim;The anonymity, affordability, and accessibility of the Internet can shelter individuals who perpetrate violent acts online. In Canada, some of these acts are prosecuted under existing criminal law statutes (e.g., cyber-stalking, under harassment, s. 264, and cyber-bullying, under intimidation, s. 423[1]). However, it is unclear whether victims of other online behaviours such as cyber-rape and organized griefing have any established legal recourse. Examples of virtual violence in social networking sites, immersive games, and metaverses are critically examined against the backdrop of cyberspace as place, psychology of the constructed persona, and violations of trust online. These examples are then discussed with reference to current criminological theory and relevant Canadian and American legislation.
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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Thesis 2009 Canada English CIHR, SSHRC, NSERCCIHR ,SSHRC ,NSERCAuthors: Edwards, Barbara Jean;Edwards, Barbara Jean;This qualitative case study explores the perceptions of the Simon Fraser University (SFU) Education research assistant (RA) experience. The purpose of this investigation was to understand what RAs do in their research assistantship. The case study involved seventeen RAs; data consisted of seventeen questionnaires and three interviews. To structure the investigation, activity theory was used to frame the research questions, the data collection instruments and parts of the analysis. The activity theory analysis suggests that RAs are motivated to support themselves financially while interacting with other faculty to learn research skills, possibly for research productivity. These RAs use various intellectual resources, a computer and skills to manage their time and the project. They work on various RA tasks, depending on the length of time they have been a RA. The reported outcomes include intellectual growth, valuable interaction with the community, research productivity, various influences on their PhD and networking outside of the RA activity system’s community. Based on this activity system view of the RA experience, it seems the presumption that the RA-ship is mostly about money, research and a dyadic relationship is questionable. Viewing the RA experience in a new light leads to the understanding that it is the village that contributes to the RAs’ growth and socialization instead of one or two individuals. Notwithstanding the many environmental constraints of the Canadian post-secondary system and at SFU that limit financially funding RA-ships, it is suggested to build on the finding that RAs report the broad community as critical to their intellectual development. Various workshops might enhance the PhD experience and other steps taken to enrich the research assistantship by intentionally integrating the other aspects of the RA’s lifeworld (work experience, PhD career) into the research assistantship.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Thesis 2006 Canada English SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Irving, Michelle Angela;Irving, Michelle Angela;Laptop music performance has proliferated as a new form of practice over the past decade, resulting in new approaches and challenges to musical norms. This paper describes issues in laptop music performance, and discusses approaches in computer music research in relation to a qualitative study of "minimal" electronic music practice. The research aims to understand the social and technological dimensions of laptop music performance through a synthesis of methodological frameworks found in Technology Studies including Andrew Feenberg's "Instrumentalization Theory" and Trevor Pinch and Weibe Bijker's "Social Construction of Technology" (SCOT) These perspectives are combined with first-person methodologies and will show how the "minimal" electronic music community of practice interprets laptop music performance as an extension of the recording studio-as-musical instrument, and the techniques and musical form of DJ culture. The research examines Robert Henke's Monodeck and Ableton Live as examples of the instantiation of interpretations in the "minimal" context.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Thesis 2013 Canada SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Erlichman, Leigh Anne Deana;Erlichman, Leigh Anne Deana;Serious violent young offenders have been described as “a rare species.” Most general population studies do not examine serious and violent young offenders. The vast majority of research on school risk factors and offending focus on delinquency as opposed to serious and violent offending by youth. Research has demonstrated that school problems (poor academic performance, truancy, dropout) are related to delinquency. The aim of the current study is to assess whether school and family problems are significant predictors of serious violent and serious property offences for incarcerated youth. This study also examines whether Aboriginal ethnicity is a significant predictor of serious violent and serious property offences. Data for this thesis is from a sample of serious and violent young offenders in custody drawn from two secure custody facilities and two open custody units located in a major urban centre of British Columbia, Canada (n = 404). The sample consists of youth (aged 12–19) who were interviewed as part of the research project entitled the Vancouver Serious and Violent Incarcerated Young Offenders Study. Bivariate tests and logistic regression models are used to analyze the role of school and family problems in predicting serious violent and serious property offences. Results show that school problems, family problems, age, mental health problems, and substance use are significant predictors of serious violent offences. Family problems, mental health problems, gender, and Aboriginal ethnicity are significant predictors of serious property offences. School problems, gender, age, mental health problems, and substance use are significant predictors of serious violent and serious property offences (SVSP offences). School problems, family problems, gender, mental health problems, and substance use are significant predictors of no serious violent and no serious property offences (no-SVSP offences). When adjusting for the effect of demographics, mental health problems, and substance use, school and family problems are important independent predictors of serious violent offences and no-SVSP offences. School problems are also a strong independent predictor of SVSP offences. Family problems emerged as an independent risk factor for serious property offences.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Thesis 2009 Canada English SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Taylor, Marta;Taylor, Marta;Solid waste management is becoming an increasingly pressing issue with the rise of land constraints, concern over environmental degradation, and pressures to recover resources. Cities across Canada are turning to organics as an important waste component to target for diversion. This study investigates the nature of current comprehensive organic waste programs in mid-sized Canadian cities. A case study analysis highlights the three forms of centralized composting used in Canada: source-separated, mixed waste, and hybrid systems. These case studies illustrate the common elements for a successful organics program as well as their constraints and risks. A policy analysis of the organic diversion systems points out the key criteria and factors a municipality needs to determine and discuss in the process of selecting an organics strategy.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2015 CanadaPublic Library of Science (PLoS) SSHRC, ARC | The future of palaeoclima..., ARC | Voyaging, Trade and the D...SSHRC ,ARC| The future of palaeoclimate and archaeological research in Australia: next generation instrumentation for chronology and environmental reconstruction ,ARC| Voyaging, Trade and the Development of Ancient Complex Societies in East Polynesia: An Interdisciplinary ApproachAuthors: David Burley; Kevan Edinborough; Marshall Weisler; Jian-xin Zhao;David Burley; Kevan Edinborough; Marshall Weisler; Jian-xin Zhao;First settlement of Polynesia, and population expansion throughout the ancestral Polynesian homeland are foundation events for global history. A precise chronology is paramount to informed archaeological interpretation of these events and their consequences. Recently applied chronometric hygiene protocols excluding radiocarbon dates on wood charcoal without species identification all but eliminates this chronology as it has been built for the Kingdom of Tonga, the initial islands to be settled in Polynesia. In this paper we re-examine and redevelop this chronology through application of Bayesian models to the questioned suite of radiocarbon dates, but also incorporating short-lived wood charcoal dates from archived samples and high precision U/Th dates on coral artifacts. These models provide generation level precision allowing us to track population migration from first Lapita occupation on the island of Tongatapu through Tonga's central and northern island groups. They further illustrate an exceptionally short duration for the initial colonizing Lapita phase and a somewhat abrupt transition to ancestral Polynesian society as it is currently defined.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Thesis 2006 Canada English SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Sures, Gary;Sures, Gary;This thesis examines the representation of Louis Riel and the Metis people in the novel La bourrasque (1925) by Maurice Constantin-Weyer. It is argued that by using vulgarity, irony and historical manipulation, the novel stresses the racial inferiority of the Metis and the racial superiority of the English in order to illustrate the Darwinian principle of natural selection. The representation of the Metis is slightly ambiguous in that the novel conveys sympathy towards their plight, but suggests that their defeat was inevitable. By applying the metaphor "Survival of the Fittest" to the story of the Red River Rebellion, La bourrasque professes Social Darwinism. The thesis discusses the popularity of Social Darwinism in France at the turn of the twentieth century, and traces a social trajectory of Constantin-Weyer to suggest that the Social Darwinist themes of La bourrasque stem from the social context in which the novel was conceived and produced.
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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Thesis 2013 Canada SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Robertson , Kirsten Marie-Paule;Robertson , Kirsten Marie-Paule;The purpose of this dissertation is to illuminate the connection between workplace relationships and meaningful work. This goal is accomplished through two papers. The first paper adopts a social networks lens to develop a process model explaining how the strength of intraorganizational network ties may influence meaningfulness. Ties of different strengths are expected to influence work meaningfulness through the mechanisms of individuation, contribution, and unification. Rather than one type of tie being superior in terms of its impact on meaningfulness, the theory explains the importance of maintaining a diverse network portfolio that includes both strong and weak ties. The second paper explores how people actively construct the interpretations of their interactions with others in a way that impacts the experience of meaningful work. By conducting an ethnographic study of veterinary workers, the concept of cognitive relationship crafting and its three dimensions of contact, character, and impact crafting are introduced. The data is used to explain how these different forms of cognitive relationship crafting link to meaningful work, as well as the possibility of virtuous cycles of meaningfulness when mechanisms of agency are combined with the mechanisms of unification and contribution enabled by cognitive relationship crafting.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Thesis 2009 Canada English SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Stewart, Nicole;Stewart, Nicole;As regulatory frameworks, social housing policies are intended to assess, frame and reflect the general ideals and priorities of societies regarding poor and ‘hard to house’ populations. Yet, the extent to which abstract principles of well-being are achieved is dependent upon the daily practices, decisions and discretion of a multitude of advocates from across the housing sector. This research is a multi-scalar analysis of the relationship between urban housing policies and the practices of housing advocates involved in maintaining and creating housing for low-income populations in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The work focuses on how people and places are represented in policy documents and explores how and if these constructions are reproduced in the practices of housing advocates. Using a poststructuralist framework, I argue that current municipal policy is based on a neoliberal approach to housing provision that is reflected in both the challenges and strategies to housing vulnerable populations.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Thesis 2003 Canada English SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Kepkay, Mark;Kepkay, Mark;All Research productsarrow_drop_down <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- document.write('<div id="oa_widget"></div>'); document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.openaire.eu/index.php?option=com_openaire&view=widget&format=raw&projectId=od_______497::65f03784c3ed923eb6f3c91e5b8c902f&type=result"></script>'); --> </script>
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Thesis 2012 Canada SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Morden, Hilary Kim;Morden, Hilary Kim;The anonymity, affordability, and accessibility of the Internet can shelter individuals who perpetrate violent acts online. In Canada, some of these acts are prosecuted under existing criminal law statutes (e.g., cyber-stalking, under harassment, s. 264, and cyber-bullying, under intimidation, s. 423[1]). However, it is unclear whether victims of other online behaviours such as cyber-rape and organized griefing have any established legal recourse. Examples of virtual violence in social networking sites, immersive games, and metaverses are critically examined against the backdrop of cyberspace as place, psychology of the constructed persona, and violations of trust online. These examples are then discussed with reference to current criminological theory and relevant Canadian and American legislation.
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