Consumers as tutors – legitimate teachers?

Consumers as tutors – legitimate teachers?

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to research the feasibility of training mental health consumers as tutors for 4th year medical students in psychiatry. METHODS A partnership between a consumer network and an academic unit in Psychological Medicine was formed to jointly develop a training package for consumer tutors and a curriculum in interviewing skills for medical students. Student atti...

Teachers' and tutors' social reflection around SenseCam images

As photographic technologies continue to develop, so too do the social practices surrounding their use. The focus of this paper is on the social practices surrounding images captured from a new photographic device – SenseCam – which, rather than capturing individual images when triggered by the user, automatically captures a series of images. This paper is concerned with the use of SenseCam dig...

Entrepreneurship as a legitimate field of knowledge.

Entrepreneurship as a research topic has been approached from disciplines such as economics, sociology or psychology. After justifying its study, we define the domain of the field, highlighting what has currently become its dominant paradigm, the process of the discovery, assessment and exploitation of opportunities. We then describe the main perspectives and offer an integrated conceptual fram...

Electronic games: A legitimate diversional therapy intervention for health care consumers?

From legitimate consumers to public relations pawns: the tobacco industry and young Australians.

OBJECTIVE To document the Australian tobacco industry's activities regarding youth smoking to support tobacco control. METHOD 492 industry documents from primary and secondary websites were abstracted and analysed. RESULTS Australian legislation and rhetoric on youth and tobacco has changed dramatically over the last 50 years, from an unproblematic association of teenagers and smoking in th...