Préoccupations éthiques des intervenants dans leur travail d'accompagnement auprès des aînés en fin de vie résidant en centre d'hébergement

Cette thèse en bioéthique a pour objectif d'identifier les préoccupations éthiques des intervenants dans leur tâche d'accompagnement des personnes âgées en fin de vie qui résident en centre d'hébergement. Dans le cadre d'une recherche exploratoire de type qualitatif, 12 entrevues semi dirigées sont réalisées avec des intervenants travaillant en contact direct auprès de la clientèle des centres d'hébergement. L'originalité de cette thèse est de donner la parole aux intervenants en contact direct avec les résidents et de recueillir les préoccupations qu'ils ont en tête lorsqu'ils exécutent leur gestes de soins. L'analyse qualitative des contenus d'entrevue permet de dégager de multiples préoccupations de ces intervenants face à différents éléments du milieu, tels l'établissement en tant qu'organisation, les résidents en fin de vie, les pairs de ces derniers, les collaborateurs des intervenants (familles et collègues de travail), de même qu'envers eux-mêmes au plan de leur savoir-faire et de leur savoir-être. Certains éléments en limitent toutefois la portée : le choix de volontaires comme participants, le nombre réduit de ces derniers particulièrement au niveau des personnes de sexe masculin, et l'effet de désidérabilité sociale qui a pu entraîner la présentation d'une vision améliorée de la réalité. Cette thèse contribue à l'avancement des connaissances en bioéthique en démontrant que le recours à la pensée éthique de Ricœur constitue une grille pertinente à utiliser pour la compréhension et l'analyse du fonctionnement institutionnel, du vécu des résidents en fin de vie de même que des interventions du personnel au plan de leur accompagnement envers les résidents et les familles. En s'appuyant sur les composantes de la peine éthique de Ricœur pour jeter les bases d'un programme de fin de vie en centre d'hébergement, cette thèse montre également que la référence à Ricœur peut constituer une ressource valable pour élaborer une réponse à la directive ministérielle en tenant compte des recommandations des intervenants.

The UK Professional Standards Framework: applying it to support for international students

This is a part of a collection of materials developed by the HEAcademy Subject Centre for Languages, linguistics and area studies. The materials provide reflective activities designed to engage teachers with some of the key issues in working with international students and practical ideas for ways in which these can be addressed. They will be of particular interest to new staff or anyone new to working with international students.

The UK Professional Standards Framework: applying it to support for international students

This is a part of a collection of materials developed by the HEAcademy Subject Centre for Languages, linguistics and area studies. The materials provide reflective activities designed to engage teachers with some of the key issues in working with international students and practical ideas for ways in which these can be addressed. They will be of particular interest to new staff or anyone new to working with international students.

Linking the UK Professional Standards Framework to reflective practice and action research

This is a part of a collection of materials developed by the HEAcademy Subject Centre for Languages, linguistics and area studies. The materials provide reflective activities designed to engage teachers with some of the key issues in working with international students and practical ideas for ways in which these can be addressed. They will be of particular interest to new staff or anyone new to working with international students.

The UK Professional Standards Framework: applying it to support for international students

This is a part of a collection of materials developed by the HEAcademy Subject Centre for Languages, linguistics and area studies. The materials provide reflective activities designed to engage teachers with some of the key issues in working with international students and practical ideas for ways in which these can be addressed. They will be of particular interest to new staff or anyone new to working with international students.

The UK Professional Standards Framework: applying it to support for international students

This is a part of a collection of materials developed by the HEAcademy Subject Centre for Languages, linguistics and area studies. The materials provide reflective activities designed to engage teachers with some of the key issues in working with international students and practical ideas for ways in which these can be addressed. They will be of particular interest to new staff or anyone new to working with international students.

Presentation for EASiHE Kick Off

A presentation to explain the principles of EdShare

Managing References presentation

A short PowerPoint presentation to introduce how to Manage Refences. This can be used with notes for Reference Manager, EndNote or EndNote Web.

copyright resources

A collection of resources to inform staff about copyright issues, including useful links to articles and webpages as well as a PDF called "Copyright in Context" pertinant questions and answers that formed part of a study morning held at the Hartley Library in May 2010 and also a narrated powerpoint presentation by Adam Warren.

Workshop Planning at WSA

A presentation from 2009 on who to enable staff to plan workshops within the School.

Sot23 things Blogger presentation

The presentation to support the Blogger creation for Sot23

An ontological approach to competency management

Competency management is a very important part of a well-functioning organisation. Unfortunately competency descriptions are not uniformly specified nor defined across borders: National, sectorial or organisational, leading to an opaque competency description market with a multitude of competency frameworks and competency benchmarks. An ontology is a formalised description of a domain, which enables automated reasoning engines to be built which by utilising the interrelations between entities can make “intelligent” choices in different situations within the domain. Introducing formalised competency ontologies automated tools, such as skill gap analysis, training suggestion generation, job search and recruitment, can be developed, which compare and contrast different competency descriptions on the semantic level. The major problem with defining a common formalised ontology for competencies is that there are so many viewpoints of competencies and competency frameworks. Work within the TRACE project has focused on finding common trends within different competency frameworks in order to allow an intermediate competency description to be made, which other frameworks can reference. This research has shown that competencies can be divided up into “knowledge”, “skills” and what we call “others”. An ontology has been created based on this with a simple structure of different “kinds” of “knowledges” and “skills” using semantic interrelations to define the basic semantic structure of the ontology. A prototype tool for analysing a skill gap analysis has been developed. Personal profiles can be produced using the tool and a skill gap analysis is performed on a desired competency profile by using an ontologically based inference engine, which is able to list closest fit and possible proficiency gaps