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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.

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.

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.

Dieses Buch eroeffnet 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 haeuslicher 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 praegen so die Wissensproduktion entscheidend mit.

Die Analyse zeigt, wie durch diese Form der Beteiligung nicht nur neues Wissen entsteht, sondern auch Prozesse der Ermaechtigung angestossen werden. Gleichzeitig eroeffnet sie Raeume fuer eine kritische Reflexion bestehender Machtverhaeltnisse zwischen den Generationen und traegt 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.

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.

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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.

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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.

This book presents a state-of-the-art picture of substance use-related phenomena, needs, intervention responses and barriers across varying European contexts and among different displaced populations in Europe. It addresses critical knowledge gaps concerning substance use and interventions targeting the growing refugee population in Europe. The volume is a first step in advancing the growing knowledge base in public health research on substance use among refugees and also identifies ways forward in both policy and interventions from a rights-based perspective.

This edited collection is pioneering in its effort to solidify and advance this emerging research domain. It is the first-known work that brings together knowledge in the field of substance use-related phenomena and interventions among refugees in Europe as a result of the joint effort of over 30 scholars with diverse European backgrounds (Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and Ukraine).

The chapters included in this volume collectively illustrate how pre-, during- and post-migration experiences intersect with social, economic and policy conditions to shape substance use trajectories and related health outcomes. Taken together, the chapters offer a comparative and multi-level perspective on substance use among refugees in Europe, demonstrating the field's diversity and framing directions for inclusive policy and practice. The volume concludes by outlining clear directions for advancing research and policy making concerned with substance use among refugees in Europe, to be further developed within the European Migration and Substance Use (EUMISU) research network, established alongside this publication and which serves as a platform for knowledge transfer, fostering future research and collaboration.

Substance Use Among Refugees in Europe: Emerging Research Directions From Social Epidemiology to Structural Prevention is a valuable tool for practitioners and policy makers in the refugee reception domain, prevention and substance use treatment. Moreover, it is a reference for senior and early career scholars in public health, sociology, and criminology with an interest in the migration and substance use nexus.

Health and illness are universal human experiences, yet how they are understood, perceived, and lived varies widely across individuals and populations. These differences are shaped by the social, cultural, and environmental contexts in which people live, as well as by the choices they make throughout the life course. Health behaviors-whether protective or harmful-play a pivotal role in shaping health outcomes. Behaviors such as dietary practices, alcohol use, smoking, physical activity, sexual health behaviors, medication adherence, preventive screening, and vaccination can either reduce vulnerability to disease or heighten health risks. Understanding these behaviors across both healthy and at-risk populations remains a central priority in public health and is essential to improving population health worldwide.

Equally important, individual behavior does not occur in isolation. As emphasized by the World Health Organization, health is profoundly shaped by the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age. Social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental factors systematically influence health opportunities and outcomes, contributing to persistent health inequities. These broader determinants of health-and their intersections with individual behavior-form a central focus of this handbook and the wider series.

This volume is the inaugural title in a handbook series on health behavior and illness prevention, commissioned by Springer in Singapore. It brings together authoritative, interdisciplinary perspectives on core health concepts, health behavior, environmental health, health promotion, health literacy, intervention design, and research methods. Structured across three books and multiple thematic parts, the series provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and addressing health behavior and illness prevention at individual, community, and societal levels.

The present handbook addresses foundational concepts of health, the nature and determinants of health behavior, and the environmental conditions that shape both. It integrates theory with practice and adopts a critical, equity-focused perspective. Rather than privileging deficit-based or individual-blame models, the volume situates health-compromising behaviors within broader structural and systemic contexts. For example, limited health literacy may reflect unequal access to education, which itself is often rooted in marginalization, poverty, and power imbalances. By unpacking these deeper drivers, the handbook advances a more just and nuanced understanding of health behavior.

Contributors include leading researchers, educators, and practitioners specializing in health, health behavior, and environmental health. Their collective expertise enriches current understanding of health and illness prevention and offers evidence-informed insights to support policy, practice, and research. This handbook will be an essential resource for students, scholars, and professionals across the health sciences who seek to advance health equity and improve population well-being globally.

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.

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.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.

As more and more countries realise that their population and often their workforce includes a large group of healthy and active people over 55 years of age, the interest in understanding this group has increased. Investigating examples from across Europe, this edited collection looks at how older workers tackle the new digital world.

While dated stereotypes of older workers as slower, more stubborn and firmly rooted in the past still exist, this collection takes an updated look at the situation in Europe relating to older workers who are using and developing new technologies. Identifying similarities and differences in competence development, cultures and policies, chapters provide a rich opportunity for learning and comparison. The chapters cover skills and lifelong learning, policy, attitudes, barriers and drivers.

With rich insight and breadth, Older Workers and Digital Literacy provides a much-needed update on our understanding of older workers and how they are adapting to digitalization in their workplaces.

This book offers a view of the elderly person in our contemporary society as a subject in an interpersonal-intersubjective psychoanalytic context.

The contemporary elderly subject can no longer be viewed as an object in need of care and compassion. The experience of aging today requires orientating and treating the elderly as complex biological, social, and psychological subjects. This book is an updated psychoanalytic compass which captures the depth and complexity of the new aging process through the notion of mutual recognition to create an intersubjective experiential understanding. It illuminates various subjective aging experiences through a tapestry of texts, viewpoints, and dialogue with leading aging experts as multi-generational and multi-disciplinary representatives, who observe aging from within and without.

Enriched with copious clinical material, as well as personal perspectives, this is a positive and compassionate guide to aging for all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

Examining how Singapore has responded to one of the most pressing social challenges of our time, this book analyses one of the world's fastest-ageing societies. The book provides an evidence-based account of how a small but highly developed state has built and adapted its policies for older adults over seven decades.

Covering key policy areas, the author traces how government approaches have evolved across six distinct historical periods, from a foundational self-reliance model to an increasingly distributed whole-of-society framework. A growing reliance on indirect policy tools such as employer incentives, tax relief, and public-private partnerships is contrasted with economies around the world. Based on a series of interviews across multiple generations, the book presents evidence of policy effectiveness for a national approach to ageing.

Concluding with a new framework for evaluating whether ageing policies genuinely meet older adults' needs, this book provides a valuable reference for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seeking evidence-informed frameworks for designing and reforming ageing governance systems across diverse national contexts.

This book emerges at a moment when Europe is confronting two profound and interconnected transformations: the digitalisation of work and the ageing of its workforce. Drawing on comparative insights from 22 European countries and the collaborative work of COST Action CA21107: "Work Inequalities in Later Life Redefined by Digitalisation", the volume brings these developments into dialogue rather than treating them as separate policy or research concerns. It asks how digital change reshapes work inequalities, health, inclusion, and opportunity in later working life. Through an introductory chapter and 22 country chapters, the book offers a rich, context-sensitive account of how older workers experience digital transformation across diverse labour markets, institutions, and social settings. It synthesises existing knowledge on how work inequalities in later life are redefined by digitalisation, examines the impact of digitalised work environments on older workers' health, and identifies best practices for understanding and overcoming digital challenges among older people across Europe. In doing so, the volume highlights both the risks of exclusion, technostress, and widening inequality, and the possibilities opened by inclusive technologies, lifelong learning, age-sensitive workplace design, and supportive public policies. It invites scholars, policymakers, employers, and practitioners to rethink digitalisation not only as a technological transition, but also as a social challenge that must be shaped deliberately to support fair, healthy, and sustainable working lives for all generations.

Written by an expert researcher and author, this text focuses on innovation in qualitative research, exploring new areas for qualitative research.

Featuring an extended discussion of how to develop a coherent and robust qualitative research program, this book contains chapters on: *qualitative research synthesis approaches * secondary qualitative data analysis * the diverse landscape of qualitative internet research * advances in grounded theory * qualitatively driven mixed methods * different methods of qualitative content analysis.

This is an essential text for researchers in the health and social sciences, especially those with an interest in qualitative research.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online.

Surrogacy unsettles established understandings of parenthood, family and reproduction. Many of the debates around surrogacy focus on ideas about what is best for children, yet regulation has largely been shaped without their direct engagement. Children's Voices in Surrogacy Law: Hearing the Views of Children on Surrogacy Law Reform addresses this gap through the first empirical study of its kind in the UK, presenting the perspectives of 54 children aged 8-18.

Drawing on group interviews and creative methods, the study captures the views of surrogate-born children, children of surrogates, and children without experience of surrogacy. It examines their perspectives on legal parenthood, payments, and access to information about origins, showing how existing legal frameworks are experienced and understood by those they most affect.

Authors Katherine Wade, Kirsty Horsey, and Zaina Mahmoud challenge prevailing assumptions and reveal the limits of adult-centred approaches. Set against ongoing law reform efforts, including the UK Law Commissions' 2023 proposals, the book argues that meaningful and sustainable surrogacy law reform requires recognising children as active participants in, rather than passive subjects of, legal frameworks.

An essential resource for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners concerned with the future of family law and child-centred regulation, Children's Voices in Surrogacy Law offers an innovative and replicable methodology for incorporating children's perspectives into legal consultation.

Healthcare That Learns: Value-Based Care, Artificial Intelligence, and the Learning Health System provides a timely and pragmatic exploration of how healthcare organizations can transform into continuously learning systems - a shift rapidly becoming imperative as value-based care accelerates and artificial intelligence reshapes practice. The book provides a unified roadmap for transforming healthcare systems into continuously learning organizations capable of delivering true value-based care.

Healthcare today faces converging pressures: unsustainable costs, uneven outcomes, payer demands for value, and disruptive advances in AI. At the same time, the 17-year "know-do gap" between evidence and practice undermines progress. Healthcare That Learns offers a blueprint for bridging this gap by uniting three critical forces - value-based care, artificial intelligence, and the learning health system framework.

Unlike works that treat AI or quality improvement in isolation, this book integrates them into a single, practical framework. Readers will gain actionable strategies to close evidence-practice gaps, improve outcomes, and reduce waste. Key themes include micro-to-macro learning cycles, knowledge transfer, sociotechnical alignment, AI governance, and equity by design. Each chapter begins with a real-world vignette and translates concepts into practical tools. Topics span the urgency of value-based care, foundations of learning health systems, enabling technologies (data, AI, generative AI), leadership and cultural change, ethics and equity, and case-based roadmaps for implementation.

Healthcare is being pushed to its limits. Workforce shortages are growing. Clinician burnout is accelerating. Consumers are demanding a radically different experience. And artificial intelligence is no longer a future concept-it is rapidly becoming the foundation of a new kind of healthcare system.

In this bold and timely second edition of AI in Health, internationally recognized AI advisor and former Microsoft health executive Tom Lawry presents a compelling operating guide for leaders navigating the rise of Intelligent Health Systems-organizations that use AI, data, and connected technologies to deliver more proactive, personalized, efficient, and human-centered care.

At its core, this book makes a powerful argument: done right, AI is not about replacing people. It is about empowering them. Empowering clinicians with more time to care. Empowering leaders with better intelligence and decision-making. Empowering patients and consumers with greater access, insight, and control over their health.

Blending powerful storytelling, practical insight, and real-world examples from across healthcare, pharma, and technology, AI in Health shows leaders how to move beyond experimentation and begin building the next generation of healthcare organizations.

Urgent, visionary, and deeply practical, this is essential reading for anyone determined to help shape the future of healthcare.

More time and freer days: that was the promise of the digital era. Instead many of us feel chronically off-balance - rushed, stretched thin, or left with too much of the wrong kind of time. This is not a personal failure, argues sociologist Boroka Bo, but rather a social condition. Time poverty is contagious, networked, shaped by shared rhythms, and transmitted through relationships.

Drawing on immersive fieldwork with new parents and recent retirees in Toronto's wealthiest and poorest neighbourhoods, alongside large-scale time-use data, Bo shows how time is distributed throughout lives and how time imbalances emerge, spread, and become socially patterned across class, race, gender, and immigration status. She eschews productivity hacks, presenting instead an inclusive view that accounts for individuals' discretionary time needs based on life circumstances. The result is the Goldilocks theory of time availability, a powerful lens for understanding how both too little and too much free time shape health and well-being.

Written with clarity and compassion, Timeless advances a new framework for temporal equilibrium and provides practical ways to create temporal sanctuaries: shared spaces in time for rest, recovery, and renewal.

While there is a growing number of sociological studies looking at LGBTQ+ ageing, these mostly focus on the intersection of age and sexual identity, often leaving out the impact of lived experiences on the ageing process. Imagining Queer Time delves into the ageing experience of older same-sex couples in Scotland by studying the intersection of their past, present, and future, and by exploring their life stories in historical and political contexts.

Positioning the couples' experiences within a UK-wide context of ageing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, Dora Jandric presents novel ideas on queer ageing and queer time with the context of older same-sex couples' lived experiences. With implication beyond Scottish borders, this study explores the questions of belonging, time, and same-sex relationships and how they impact the ageing experience, offering a novel way of exploring queer time through the temporal narratives of older same-sex couples. Participant accounts highlight the role of the past and present in the couples' imagination of the future, which is conceptualised through collective, interpersonal, and imagined relationships. Arguing for a closer examination of the relational aspect of personal biographies and the socio-historical contexts of people's lives in studies about the experience of ageing in same-sex couples, the author gives voice to a (still) invisible population in ageing and sexuality studies.

Concluding that the interpersonal, collective, and imagined relationships the participants formed during their lifetimes allowed them to imagine the future as utopian, this work puts forward a new idea about what constitutes queer time and how older LGBTQ+ people are main actors in its creation.

Epidemics and the Modern Age focuses on the history of disease and its social significance in a global setting, from the Age of Revolutions to the Covid Pandemic, considering tuberculosis, cholera, the plague, "Spanish" Influenza, HIV/AIDS, and many more.

Blending a history of epidemics with a history of social and cultural responses to disease, the book shows how the spread of illness can be directly linked to the phenomena we sum up with the word "modernity": the growth of the state, racial and economic inequality, the rise of globalization, urbanization, imperialism, and total war. The book highlights how epidemic outbreaks are moments during which preexisting divisions, cultural assumptions, and bureaucratic blind spots are glaringly magnified and exacerbated. Fear of disease has often been as consequential than disease itself-the experience of living through an epidemic is not reducible to scientific advances and bacteriological details. Through case studies, evocative anecdotes, and a broad research base, this textbook considers disease outbreaks not just from the perspectives of doctors and patients, but also the viewpoints of government workers, travelers, caregivers, and artists, through the lens of culture and critical analysis.

Epidemics and the Modern Age will be of interest to students of Global History, Cultural Studies, Medicine, and Public Policy Administration.

A Strategic Guide to AI in Healthcare provides a complete strategic architecture for understanding and implementing artificial intelligence across hospitals, health systems, and governments.

While AI is advancing rapidly, most organisations lack the strategic frameworks, organisational readiness, and implementation know-how to adopt it safely and at scale. The book is therefore structured around the adoption journey. Part I builds awareness and technical literacy, sets out the landscape, and explains why so many AI integrations fail. Part II focuses on hospital-level strategy and implementation, with chapters on building the business case, AI literacy and training, running pilots, scaling to enterprise, workforce transformation, and governance and ethics. Part III extends these themes to government and national strategy, covering regulatory navigation, national data infrastructure and interoperability, and cybersecurity. Each of the 17 chapters combines theory with practitioner case studies (Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, the NHS AI Lab, WannaCry, Synnovis), structured exercises for executive education, and implementation checklists usable directly in board meetings, AI governance councils, and procurement reviews.

A timely and important resource, the book will be essential reading for anyone responsible for the strategic development of hospitals or healthcare systems and for researchers in this field.