Socialisation in doctoral education is a multifaceted process through which students acquire the knowledge, skills and values required to perform scholarly community. The literature reports numerous experiences of students, but socialisation challenges faced by international has received limited attention. As an student, I have used self-study approach develop personal narrative about some unex...

Ethnic–racial socialisation describes how parents transmit information, perspectives and values relating to race and ethnicity to their children in highly multicultural societies such as the United Kingdom. It serves as an important parenting tool to manage increased diversity. One type of ethnic–racial socialisation is preparation for bias, in which parents aim to make children aware of discri...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate Smoke-free Kids, a new home based programme to assist parents who smoke in socializing their children against smoking. DESIGN Two year randomised controlled trial. PARTICIPANTS At baseline, 887 adult smokers who had an abstinent child in the third grade (ages 7-8 years); 671 adults and children were retained through the 24 month follow up. INTERVENTION Programme modu...

This paper reports results of an empirical examination of the facilitating role of experimentation and socialisation in enhancing individual knowledge and performance in decision making. A laboratory experiment was conducted using 28 graduate students as voluntary subjects. Performance of actual subjects was compared with that of their nominal naive and optimal counterparts. Results indicate th...

Drawing on the quantitative datasets of Electronic Arts’ FIFA 20 top 100 players and their qualitative descriptors, paper addresses following: (1) How do ideas race manifest influence digital worlds? (2) football simulations (games) disrupt or reproduce racialised stereotypes logics found within in social world? (3) does playing video games contribute to users’ understandings sport. This paper,...

The process of political socialisation of adolescents includes more than the acquisition of knowledge about society, citizenship and the political system. In a democracy, citizens are expected to participate actively in the political process. Active participation, however, requires citizens to believe in their own ability to influence the course of politics, in other words, to feel politically ...