Multiple Perspectives on ‘Researching Difference’

Resisting variables – service user/survivor perspectives on researching coercion

Coercion in psychiatry and the fight against forced treatment are two of the main topics in the mental health service user/psychiatric survivor movement worldwide. At the same time, our own user-led or survivor-controlled research in this field is almost nonexistent. This chapter explores some of the structural obstacles to including service user/survivor perspectives in psychiatric research on...

Researching Homelessness in Europe: Theoretical Perspectives

Perspectives on multiple sclerosis.

There is no question that MR imaging is presently the best method for imaging multiple sclerosis (MS); yet, even today, MS remains a clinical diagnosis, with the relationship between clinical course and MR findings still problematic (1, 2). MR imaging appears to be the most important test performed in the diagnostic workup of MS; it has much greater impact than CSF analysis and evoked potential...

Researching Corporate Annual Reports: an Analysis of Perspectives Used

Corporate annual reports (CARs) are the subject of research emanating from different disciplines. A growing body of literature addresses their purpose, design, content and interpretation, as well as reasons for their changing content. This paper reviews examines (mainly post-1990) English-language, academic and practitioner literature analysing or commenting on CARs. The literature is examined ...

Researching Humor on the Internet

Collecting jokes on the Internet is becoming more and more useful, and one might say even unavoidable. The renewed nature of jokes (short, electronically distributed in addition to oral circulation, some jokes created only for electronic media (see Ellis 2001) etc) requires renewed methods for collecting and processing the data. Further than that, the Estonian Internet has some special advantag...