Social Media, Research Ethics and Your Research

Social media platforms (like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter) represent incredible potential for researchers to conduct research and recruit survey participants. However the old rules still apply, along with some new rules too. This presentation looks at current and emerging issues in conducting research on social media and recruiting participants using social media channels. It also covers guidelines that apply to your activities, examples and some best practices

Getting Found - Using social media to build your research profile

Have you thought about your online profile? There are so many options that will help you to get found and network with others (e.g. LinkedIn, Academia.edu, ResearchGate and more). But where do you start? Do you know what option(s) will be the right fit for you, your objectives and your research? This presentation will prime you to make informed decisions about building your profile on social/research networking sites

Strange Bedfellows: Homo-eroticism and Landscape in Two Bush Novels from the 1920s

The paper focuses on two bush novels published in 1923: E.L. Grant Watson's The Desert Horizon and Marie Bjelke Petersen's Jewelled Nights arguing that they tilt the scales of mateship towards a subversive homo-erotic reading than other Austrlaian novels

Locations of Manufacturing in Windsor Early This Century

This study seeks to describe the location of manufacturing establishments in the City of Windsor in the early part of this century. The section below sets out the reasons for the interest that that general period holds. A review of the relevant literature forms the next chapter, where there is discussion of urban historical studies, local histories of Windsor, and studies of intro-urban industrial location and of manufacturing districts. A chapter on methodology deals with the choice of data sources, the methods by which these were used, and the way the data were analyzed. It also explains the choice of the particular area of study and of the sub-areas used in the analysis, the industrial classification procedure, and the selection of the particular dates chosen for examination, which are 1904, 1909, 1914, 1919, and 1924. The presentation and discussion of the data then follows, using text, tables and maps. Location over time and by type are considered, as are the rates of the appearance and disappearance of manufacturing establishments, and as are moves by the establishments. The paper is then brought to a conclusion

Simulation of regional product and income with emphasis on Iowa, 1954-1974

To simulate the growth of a region\u27s product and income is to create the data that describe the evolution of a regional economic system. In this study the data pertain to the Iowa economy for the 20-year period - 1954 to 1974. They are presented for two primary purposes - to illustrate (a) the effects of major market and technological trends on a state or regional economy and (b) the uses of social accounting data in state or regional development and planing. Estimates of the gross Iowa product are presented to show its changing composition over the 1954-74 period. In addition, a system of economic relationships is used to generate year-to-year changes in specific components of Iowa\u27s gross product. The Iowa data show the principal structural features of the state\u27s economy. In 1954, for example, the gross Iowa product (i.e., the value added by economic activity in Iowa) was 5.6 billion dollars, of which 4.5 billion dollars was in the form of personal income payments. Thus, the 1954 gross state product of $2,090 per capita was sufficient to allow for an average personal income of$1,690, given a total Iowa population of 2,665,000. By 1974, the Iowa gross product will reach 9.5 billion dollars (in constant 1954 dollars) - an increase over the 20-year period of 2.7 percent per year, compounded annually - according to the benchmark projections. Total population in 1974 is estimated at 2,852,400, an increase of only 1/3 percent per year. Per-capita personal income would reach 2,560 dollars per person, while projected gross investment would reach 2.2 billion dollars

The Catholic church in the Australian colonies, 1840-1865

In the century or so beginning 1776 European communities all over the world were politically remoulded in terms of the Enlightenment politique: the sovereignty of the multitude realised in legislatures of elected representatives, and even ( in some cases) in an elected executive. Now this development was congenial to Catholic thinking, as the future Pius VII declared when Napoleon first upturned the status quoante in Italy. For instance, election and representation and consultation with the governed dominate the entire constitution of several of the mediaeval religious orders which flourish to this day. In 1800, however, the Catholic West had to rediscover this thomist tradition - the diffusion of responsibility under the aegis of the natural law - after the centuries of practical and theoretical authoritarianism introduced by, and in response to, the Protestant revolt. O’Connell managed this in Ireland, between 1800 and 1814-0 ; Bishop England ( more than any other) spread the good news in the United States; McEncroe ( more than any other) in Australia But there was in all these men a pronounced tendency to mobilise the Catholic vote by an explicit appeal to a combination of national and religious loyalties very effective, when the appeal was made against the social background of penal Ireland, a warm and intimate alliance of people and priest against an invader alien in religion as well as race, and ruling, for all practical purposes, by martial law What was needed, to finish the education of the Catholic political conscience in modern industrial nation-state democracy, was a more careful disengagement of the sacred from the secular. O'Connell himself began this; it was part of his genius to see that the British Constitution as it stood, provided sufficient guarantee of the liberties of the Church, and that in New South Wales where the national issue was not tiere to complicate, there could in truth be " a free church in a free state. For a very short period in the 1830*8, the moderation of Bourke, in the civil sphere, and Polding in the eccelesiastical, seemed likely to achieve this; W.G-. Broughton assisting, in a fashion, by dividing the Protestants, at a time when open and ideological unbelief was rare. There followed, however, a period of crisis; the critical period, not only in the formation of Australian Catholicism, but in the formation of Australian civilisation as a whole. Papulation, settlement, and economic diversification, went ahead at a very rapid rate. While the Church shared in the sudden prosperity, its rulers were confronted with a building and staffing programme which imposed a severe strain on slender resources - resources the more slender in that the growth of secularism restricted state aid just when geographical scattering and the break-up of the family as a group threatened to attenuate popular allegiance to the hierarchical church