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This volume offers a critical examination of how widening age asymmetries across diverse Asian societies shape the representational economies through which older adults are constructed, mediated, and understood. Foregrounding the intersection of gender and age, it analyses the discursive positioning of older women in multimodal media environments and situates such portrayals within broader configurations of kinship, intergenerational obligation, and socio-emotional labour. The essays assembled here draw on textual, visual, and audiovisual materials from China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan to interrogate emergent narratives of ageing and to map shifting cultural, familial, and institutional expectations surrounding later life

By engaging with demographic change, transformations in family structures, and evolving regimes of care, the collection elucidates the rearticulation of filial responsibility, economic dependency, and affective interdependence in rapidly ageing societies. It further considers how contemporary multimedia reframes the experience of decline, loss, and grief, and how these representational practices mediate broader ideological debates about the status, agency, and social value of older adults. Collectively, the contributions provide a theoretically grounded and empirically rich account of the cultural imaginaries through which ageing is negotiated in Asia, highlighting the profound reconfigurations of social relations and life-course expectations unfolding across the region.

This book explores themes of managing the challenges in research collaboration due to a shared crisis; cultural, discipline, and race differences; social change and isolation; and cross-national issues. It concerns how a fruitful research collaboration is possible over several years despite these challenges, and the willingness to meet and contribute despite huge time and geographic differences. The book draws together the experience of a very fruitful research collaboration that led to significant scientific and academic outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The chapters of the book are organized in three parts:

• Collaborative Research as a Concept: Foundations, Frameworks, Process, and Principles
• Fruits of Collaborative Research: Practices
• Fruitful Collaborative Research: Pragmatics

The authors examine diverse themes including cross-cultural issues; cultural understanding; collaboration across professional training, disciplines, and positions; uniqueness of collaborative research between races; the mutual focus and bindings of participation; distribution of tasks and first authorship; no free riders; prerequisites and satisfaction of good collaboration; fruits of hard work; pitfalls; and knowledge and understanding of diversity.

Despite the conditions being challenging, such as the non-optimal conditions the authors worked in, the collaboration was still fruitful. The authors built their relationships openly and grew their collaboration. They also shared reflections and lessons learnt including what got them going and kept them going, and what can be learnt from their experiences, not just in times of challenge but also in the calm of the storm. As a team, they broke down international barriers, proving technology can support collaboration, and they showed how a valued team can perform to its optimum.

Fruitful Research Collaboration: Experiences from a Multinational Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration serves as a guide for cross-national/international and other diverse research groups. The book is primarily intended for researchers in a broad range of areas, educators and academic staff, graduate and upper-level undergraduate students, clinicians in health and social care, leaders, cross-international collaborators from a broad area of expertise, and early career and mid-career researchers.

This book explores the disruptive dimension of care: its activist capacity to foster new forms of affective citizenship and to generate civic responsibilities that challenge established political orders. Drawing on a comparative ethnography of migrant solidarity networks in Turin and Florence, Italy, this book follows the lived experiences of volunteers, host families, activists, professionals and local communities involved in welcoming migrants. It brings to light the intimate conflicts, ethical dilemmas and emotional transformations through which care becomes a site for disruptive forms of citizenship. Far from being a simple act of assistance or social maintenance, care emerges in these contexts as a transformative practice that unsettles moral hierarchies, dismantles political boundaries and crosses affective barriers, opening up unprecedented spaces of participation, creativity and political imagination. In the context of restrictive migration policies and the growing precarity of rights, this volume rethinks care as a form of collective action, and offers an integrated reading of care, emotions and citizenship, revealing how, in the ordinary and disruptive gestures of caring solidarity with migrants, a crucial part of the democratic future is at stake.

We all go through transitions in life: some are small and seemingly mundane, while others are big and more obviously life changing. In everyday life, we talk about transitions without thinking too much about the term.

Offering a clear, concept-led framework, this book provides a fresh way of understanding change across the lifespan. It unpacks the processes, markers and social conditions that define transitions, drawing together theories of change to reveal how we can better support people before, during and after major life shifts. By examining three core transitions - from pre-school to school, from youth to adulthood and from worker to pensioner - this book demonstrates how a focused conceptual approach can strengthen practice across diverse settings.

Essential reading for researchers and practitioners in social work, health and social care, education and related professions, Transitions will enable readers to recognise, interpret and respond to life changes with greater confidence, clarity and care.

This book is reshaping digital clinical practice worldwide. It equips graduate students in nursing, mental health nursing and mental health professions with the evidence based knowledge and practical skills needed to deliver safe, effective, and scalable digitally enabled care. Anchored in the latest research, it offers clear guidance on supporting person centred, technology driven approaches that promote mental, physical, social, and emotional wellbeing across the life span.

The rapid expansion of digital health?propelled by global public health and mental health priorities and accelerated by the COVID 19 pandemic and global geopolitical instability ?has transformed the way therapeutic services are designed, delivered, and accessed. While technological innovation has advanced at unprecedented speed, the preparation of a workforce ready to implement these tools has lagged behind. This book addresses that gap by bringing together international, nurse led digital health innovators and clinicians who bridge the divide between technological development and everyday therapeutic practice.

Organised into four major sections, the book follows a consistent chapter structure grounded in sound pedagogy. Each chapter introduces foundational concepts through motivating, accessible explanations, then deepens understanding by examining core theoretical principles and appraising the current evidence base. The final component of each chapter translates this knowledge into clinical practice, presenting implementation strategies, real world examples, and case studies that illuminate the practical realities of digital therapeutic work.

Featuring contributions from experts across the globe, this is an essential resource for emerging professionals seeking confidence, competence, and contemporary expertise in digital health practice.

This book introduces a critical way of thinking about the narratives around which the human species has shaped itself. It considers the way in which prevailing social mindsets preclude a full understanding of our fundamental interdependency as a species. It offers not a manifesto, but a methodology framed with reference to our human 'species being' - to the Nature-bound, self-consciously active, socially interdependent character of a global people.

Drawing from anthropological, historical and critical social science accounts, the book examines the shaping of human consciousness, our interactions with Nature, the origins of social domination and the constraints on human sociality.

Presenting a fundamental challenge to current policy, practice and thinking in the fields of social policy, social development and beyond, this book proposes a strikingly new narrative characterisation of the human subject.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence.

This book offers a fresh and critical take on the relationship between disability, work, and capitalism in the UK. Challenging the idea that disabled people are 'non-workers', it shows how society is dependent upon their everyday paid and unpaid activities. Drawing on research with disabled participants, it expands what counts as work: from care, assistance, and work for the state to resistance and rest.

The book centres disabled people's own critiques of precarious work and productivism, highlighting how disability is fundamental to debates on class and exploitation. Insightful and collaborative, it rejects the productivist lens through which disability is often approached, and rethinks possibilities for a non-capitalist organisation of society.

This book explores how Jewish American parents perceive the cultural responsiveness of autism support services provided through public education and clinical settings across the United States. Drawing on qualitative interviews and focus groups with thirteen parents, the study examines how cultural identity shapes experiences of inclusion, advocacy, and service provision. It highlights the ways in which Jewish cultural needs are often overlooked in mainstream autism programming, and how families navigate these gaps through community engagement and personal adaptation.

The book contributes to interdisciplinary debates on culturally responsive care, neurodiversity, and minority representation in educational and behavioral health systems. It situates Jewish American experiences within broader discussions of ethnic and religious identity, offering insights for educators, clinicians, and policymakers seeking to improve equity in autism services. Methodologically, it integrates case study research with thematic analysis and reflects on the generalizability of findings globally.

This timely study will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in psychology, education, sociology, psychiatry, and religious studies, particularly those working at the intersection of culture and neurodiversity. It also offers practical implications for training professionals to better support culturally diverse families.

Can the outdoors transform lives of people with dementia?

This timely collection explores how nature-based activities - from social farming to walking, travel and creative practices- can support wellbeing, connection and quality of life.

Bringing together international research, practice examples and lived experience, the book critically examines both the promise and the challenges of outdoor based support and care across diverse contexts. Grounded in theory yet rich in real-world insight, it identifies best practices while addressing barriers to access and implementation.

At a moment when dementia is a global public health priority, this innovative book offers a vital rethinking of care beyond traditional indoor settings.

Public services increasingly rely on co-production to tackle complex social challenges, yet many initiatives struggle to endure beyond short-term success.

Making Co-production Sustainable bridges the gap between academic theory and real-world implementation, offering a comprehensive roadmap for building lasting collaborative practices. Drawing on case studies from health services, neighbourhood development, public safety and beyond, this edited collection examines the organisational dynamics and strategic frameworks necessary for embedding co-production into mainstream public service delivery.

From digital technologies and performance management to institutional support and evidence-based design, this invaluable book addresses the long-term scalability challenges often overlooked in existing research. It balances optimistic possibilities with practical strategies, offering a clear pathway for overcoming barriers to sustainability and scalability.

The Labour of Care is the first national, comparative history of health care work. In this book, historian Peter L. Twohig analyses the responses of governments, employers, professional groups, training programs , and unions to the challenge of staffing Canada’s health care system and the reorganization of care.

Through careful archival analysis, Twohig demonstrates the conditions under which employees’ boundaries become more flexible, the paths to health care work expand, and tensions emerge among workers in response to labour shortages, decreased funding, and health care reform. This book is attentive to the various identities of health care workers, as women, professionals, union members, and more. It also situates these developments within broader social, economic, and policy changes that reshaped Canada’s health care landscape in the second half of the twentieth century. Examining health care workers in this way reveals a new history of health care that highlights the experiences and contributions of a wide range of workers whose voices have not yet been heard.

This global playbook for reinventing healthcare brings together over 100 experts from across all continents to transition systems from traditional ?sick care“ toward prevention-driven, data-enabled, and patient-centric models. Across four comprehensive parts, the book maps global megatrends and regional challenges?spanning the US, Europe, MENA, and beyond?while providing concrete tools such as disease-pathway frameworks, MR-enabled prototyping, and policy innovation. By presenting best-practice co-creation cases and guidance on KPIs, investment strategies, and emerging technologies like AI and digital twins, it serves as a practical toolbox for biomedical engineers and health innovators. Ultimately, it empowers readers to move beyond incremental technology toward value-driven innovation, helping them transform unmet needs into validated, scalable ventures that democratize healthcare access worldwide.

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Collaboration, critical thinking and cultural competency are essential skills that shape young people’s futures. These key skills are often cultivated in the informal, creative spaces that society easily overlooks.

Drawing on the Australian Research Council and industry co-funded Vital Arts project, this book offers a bold and practical new vision: an inclusive, practice-based micro-credential system that recognises the competencies that young people build through creative cultural participation. Challenging prevailing policy narratives that pathologise young people, the book shows how partnerships between industry, cultural organisations and youth-led initiatives can reimagine education, diversify pathways into work and support genuine social mobility.

Offering fresh conceptual tools, compelling empirical insights and a transformative model for accrediting skills, this book repositions youth arts organisations and creative programmes as key actors in constructing more equitable and meaningful routes into employment.

Popular portrayals of medical schools and teaching hospitals focus on professors, researchers, and clinicians, neglecting the essential work carried out by a myriad of administrators, staff, and others who contribute to the everyday life of a medical school. Without their work, medical education’s institutions could not function.

This volume examines the invisible labour that makes medical education possible. Drawing on international scholars, clinicians, practitioners, and those who do the often-unacknowledged work, A Chorus of Unheard Voices explores the contributions made by those who are not celebrated for supporting medical education. Organized into three sections ? Education Delivery, Evidence Assembly, and Institutional Concerns ? this book combines historical context, critical analysis, and examples from practice to highlight the variety of contributions that enable medical training.

By centring these contributors, this book challenges assumptions about the work that matters in academic medicine. It provides a new perspective on expertise, professionalism, and the organization of medical education, showing how training is sustained and strengthened by the collective efforts of people in roles like anatomy technician, librarian, and accreditor. Essential reading for educators, scholars, and health professionals alike, this volume reframes medical education as a collaborative enterprise and invites us to celebrate all those who bring it to life.

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How do older women use art and media to resist ageist and sexist norms that regulate their intimacy and sexuality?

This book brings the subversive aesthetic strategies of older women to the forefront, using the concept of ‘unruliness’, understood as a failure or unwillingness to conform.

Drawing on critical age studies, feminist theory and allied critical approaches, the book develops a new conceptual model that positions ageing women’s aesthetic interventions as a source of insight and social change.

Combining theory with close readings of art and media, this book is a bold framework for rethinking ageing, sexuality and empowerment.

Covering a wide range of issues, the 22 cases included in Case Studies in Canadian Health Policy and Management constitute an exceptional resource for bringing real-life policy questions into the classroom.

Based on actual events, the cases were developed with input from students in the course, most of whom were mid-career professionals with strong field experience and were extensively tested in Raisa B. Deber’s graduate and undergraduate case studies courses at the University of Toronto. Each case features both a substantive health policy issue and key concepts and methods appropriate to examining public policy, public health, and health care management issues. In each case, the book provides a summary of the case and the related policy issues, a description of events, suggested questions for discussion, supporting information, and lists works cited and further reading. An accompanying volume of teaching notes helps guide how the case can be taught. The book also includes a substantial introductory chapter which provides a framework and summary of key policy concepts and indicates which of these can be used in which cases.

Featuring updated and new cases, the third edition of this formative textbook is suitable for graduate and undergraduate classrooms across disciplines and fields.

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Virtual Reality promises immersion for all, yet it is built around assumptions of able-bodied users that leave many disabled people behind.

Drawing on original research with users, care providers and developers, this book examines how mainstream Virtual Reality design encodes a narrow idea of the 'normal' body - and the real costs of that choice. It shows how decisions made at the design stage, often invisible to non-disabled users, create barriers around vision, movement and sensory experience.

Moving beyond critique, it argues for a fundamental rethinking of VR design centring diverse bodies and minds. In doing so, it not only reframes accessibility, but expands what VR can be, and who it is truly for.

This book traces the social and political history of foster care in Ireland from 1862 to 1991, examining how child welfare policy evolved alongside institutional power, Catholic ideology, and the development of social work as a profession. Using a blend of archival records and oral history interviews with formerly fostered individuals, it uncovers how foster care was shaped by systems of containment, religious influence, and neglect?and how it was eventually reframed as a modern, humane alternative to institutionalisation. While rooted in Irish history, the book speaks to broader themes of state control, reproductive justice, and the politics of care. It also reflects on contemporary efforts at redress and public memory. Rather than framing the history of care solely as one of progress or scandal, the book offers a critical genealogy of Irish welfare, informed by Foucault’s notion of the 'history of the present'. It argues that contemporary structures of child protection cannot be fully understood without tracing their entanglement with a century of religious authority, gendered moral surveillance, and institutional containment.

Dieses Buch eroffnet eine neue diskursive Perspektive auf Kinderschutz, indem es Kinder als aktive Akteur*innen und ?shifting agents“ versteht. Im Zentrum stehen die Erfahrungen und Sichtweisen von Kindern, die von hauslicher Gewalt betroffen sind und mit dem Kinderschutzsystem in Kontakt waren, etwa durch Inobhutnahmen, Unterbringungen in Einrichtungen oder ambulante Hilfen zur Erziehung.

Auf der Grundlage eines kinderrechtsbasierten und partizipativen Forschungsansatzes werden Kinder nicht nur als Beforschte, sondern als Mitgestaltende des Forschungsprozesses einbezogen. In Fokusgruppen wirken sie aktiv an der Entwicklung des Studiendesigns sowie an der Auswertung der Daten mit und pragen so die Wissensproduktion entscheidend mit.

Die Analyse zeigt, wie durch diese Form der Beteiligung nicht nur neues Wissen entsteht, sondern auch Prozesse der Ermachtigung angestosen werden. Gleichzeitig eroffnet sie Raume fur eine kritische Reflexion bestehender Machtverhaltnisse zwischen den Generationen und tragt zu deren Transformation im Kontext des Kinderschutzes bei. Ziel ist ein Kinderschutz, der die Perspektiven, Interessen und Rechte von Kindern konsequent in den Mittelpunkt stellt.