The social work field education liaison role is fraught with tensions, contradictions and ambiguity, causing confusion about the role, functions responsibilities of across individual staff, students universities, resulting in students’ divergent experiences staff floundering mire uncertainty. As an academic, my undertaking different institutions observing colleagues fulfilling differently manag...

BACKGROUND Recruitment to paediatric palliative care research is challenging, with high rates of non-invitation of eligible families by clinicians. The impact on sample characteristics is unknown. AIM To investigate, using mixed methods, non-invitation of eligible families and ensuing selection bias in an interview study about parents' experiences of advance care planning (ACP). DESIGN We e...

Javier Fernández Sebastián's latest book is truly a tour de force. While it offers lucid appraisal of conceptual history, with focus on the ‘conceptual revolution’ that Iberian Atlantic underwent during first half nineteenth century, also serious statement profession – indeed, ‘no discipline’, as he tells us, can sustain itself ‘if not based theoretical reflection about its own status disciplin...

the intention of this paper is to define the concept of the spirit of place, and then to identify methods for its preservation in historical urban contexts. in fact, this study seeks to answer the question whether the spirit of the place and its components can be derived from tissue structure to improve? and whether we can weave his old identity in psychological indicators - human behavior foun...

I would like to thank Giancarlo Succi and Michele Marchesi for having invited me to give a lecture to this conference. I confess to feel here as a fish out of the water: I’m an economist, and my special field is Industrial organisation. But, apart from the very friendship with Giancarlo and the appeal of spending a couple of days in Alghero, (which were in themselves sufficient reasons to accep...