This paper seeks to historicise the formation of youth studies in Australia with a specific focus on how absence Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall and other race critical postcolonial scholars has produced particular research cultures, trajectories traditions that have thus far made it difficult incorporate ethnicity as central an Australian agenda, both theoretically methodologically. Drawing range his...

Organizations face an increasingly turbulent environment requiring flexibility and agility of processes and structures. Therefore, it is necessary to examine the interaction between formal organizational structures and informal networks in fulfilling these needs. A considerable body of evidence about informal collaborative arrangements in organizations exists, pointing to their importance in ac...

The portal is a point of convergence for many uses and users. Along with the Internet itself, the portal crosses or combines many traditionally separate areas of research, each with its own perspective or perspectives. Such a combination creates a challenge for researchers on how to combine these various perspectives in examining portal and Internet use. This paper examines the methodological c...

Finding your way in qualitative research is not simply another qualitative research instruction manual offering tools, techniques and tricks for coding, or quick fixes for methodological mayhem. The text is aimed at social science students and researchers, and while it offers some how-to basics, it mainly claims to attend to “positioning” an investigation within epistemological, theoretical and...

(1941) argues that the sole criterion for excellent research is that the researcher produces " beauty. " While seemingly ineffable and frustratingly imprecise, Hardy instead suggests that creating beauty is straightforward. First, the work must be accurate: erroneous results are useless. Second, one's peers must recognize the work to be interesting, exciting, elegant, and " cool. " While this s...

A number of recent papers in environmental economics have focused on the process of researching preferences – agents are uncertain about preferences but with effort may narrow their uncertainty. This issue has arisen in formulating bids in contingent valuation as well as the debate over the divergence between WTP and WTA. In the context of contingent valuation, it has been suggested that the hy...