The Annual Report of the Institute Archaeology (1937–58) is now available as an open-access journal through a UCL digitisation initiative. This article aims to draw attention history and its potential for research into both wider discipline. Research examines within context professionalisation archaeology in mid-twentieth century explores how contemporary journals recorded, reflected promoted c...

Social Sciences and especially Sociology and History are very useful to understand how the Cryptographic Field has been shaped in France in 19th and 20th centuries. This paper tackles this issue explaining how and why this Field has been influenced in-depth by a strong process of ‘Professionalism’ under the Ecole Polytechnique rule. Being neither a Mathematician nor a Cryptologist, but a Social...

INTRODUCTION Professionalism and its assessment across the medical education continuum have become prominent topics in recent years. We consider the nature of professionalism and how it emerges and relates to the work carried out by doctors and doctors-in-training. THESIS AND DISCUSSION We suggest 6 domains in which evidence of professionalism can be expected: ethical practice; reflection/sel...

As Nigel Malin observes in his latest book ‘De-Professionalism and Austerity: Challenges for the Public Sector’, ‘If austerity finished tomorrow it is likely that de-professionalisation would continue driven by neo-liberal approach to service provision’ (p.26). This timely, insightful authoritatively written provides an incisive analysis of role global neo-liberalism associated measures forging...

This article discusses the structure and possible future developments of Counsellors' education in Germany places these findings an international context. It presents a concept narrative professional identity as ‘core idea’ gives suggestions on how to implement this worldwide.