STORRE Collection: Electronic copies of Management, Work and Organisation research reports.
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Electronic copies of Management, Work and Organisation research reports.2024-03-29T15:11:51ZRural policing in Scotland: measuring and improving public confidence, in Scottish Institute for Policing Research Annual Report for 2017/18
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/33179
Title: Rural policing in Scotland: measuring and improving public confidence, in Scottish Institute for Policing Research Annual Report for 2017/18
Author(s): Wooff, Andrew; Hail, Yvonne
Abstract: Maintaining and improving public confidence is a key part of Policing Strategy 2026 (Police Scotland, 2017). The strategy notes that ‘public confidence [is] a key measure of our performance’ (p33) and that a ‘broader understanding of public confidence’ (p57) is vital for maintaining and improving policing (Police Scotland, 2017), highlighting the link between public confidence and broader legitimacy and accountability of policing. A range of academic literature also points to the importance of public confidence for understanding police legitimacy and accountability (Jackson et al., 2012; Tyler, 2004). Public confidence, is used as a key measure of how the police are perceived to be doing, with the Scottish Government releasing statistics annually on ‘confidence with the police’. The diverse geography of Scotland and local variation in policing styles makes it important to understand the variation in public confidence across different community types and different geographical locations.2018-09-01T00:00:00ZD2 2 Methodology-and-Conceptual-framework
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/33127
Title: D2 2 Methodology-and-Conceptual-framework
Author(s): Hail, Yvonne; McQuaid, Ronald
Abstract: This document constitutes Deliverable D2.2 ‘Methodology and conceptual framework’ in the framework of the project titled ‘Revealing fair and actionable knowledge from data to support women’s inclusion in transport systems.’ (Project Acronym: DIAMOND; Grant Agreement No 824326). The Deliverable D2.2 aims to define a methodology and a conceptual framework for the overall project by following the next three different tasks according with the DoA: - Task 2.2 ‘DIAMOND fairness concept definition’ produce a definition of fairness to assess the level of fair inclusion of a transport operator and take action to generate more inclusive transport system. A detailed definition of fairness for each use case will be produced. - Task 2.3 ‘DIAMOND methodology design and development’. This is a very important task due to it clearly define the methodology followed in the project to assess and favour women inclusion in the transport sector. A good definition of the methodology, including the data collection, data analysis, and the development of the Toolbox, will be crucial to lead to the results expected in the definition of the use-cases. - Task 2.4 ‘Definition of the conceptual framework’ will set a uniform vision for the following WPs to accomplish the objectives of each use-case. The deliverable introduces the goal per each of the use cases addressed by the project based on the needs identified through a study of the state of the art. These goals were already presented in the D2.1. After a deep analysis to apply the fairness concept to the transport system, a bottom-up (through the Focus group performed at Dublin, Paris and Warsaw) and an up-bottom (through literature review) approach has been defined to achieve a hierarchical model about the Fairness characteristics (FCs) or relevant criteria for women with potential influence on each of the goals defined per each use case. The bottom-up and top down approach converges in a 3 level hierarchized FCs which will allow the interdisciplinary panel to generate Fairness Measures (FMs) for the toolbox and the guidelines. The AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) for qualitative characteristics/criteria and BNs (Bayesian networks) for quantitative characteristics/criteria are the 2 mathematical methodologies used to establish the hierarchy, and a variation of the Rasch model (Section 4.4) is used for the final fairness assessment of the results in order to validate that not only the criteria have the fairness concept inside established in the bottom-up approach (gathering valuable information directly from women by Focus groups), but also that the fairness concept has not been lost along the process. The results of this deliverable are a conceptual framework and a methodology, including the impact assessment and the validation of the toolbox and the Decision Support System (DSS), where all the project development will be obligated to be framed in.2019-06-27T00:00:00ZD4.2 Socio-economic Demographic And Psychological Analysis For Women In Transport Related Choices VF
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/33123
Title: D4.2 Socio-economic Demographic And Psychological Analysis For Women In Transport Related Choices VF
Author(s): Hail, Yvonne; Cullen, Anne-Marie; McQuaid, Ronald
Abstract: This paper is part of Task 4.2 in Work Package 4 and expands on the work already completed in Work Packages 2 and 3 regarding the analysis of data collected for the four Use Cases of the project and on other Deliverables in WP4. The following research questions guided this deliverable: 1. What are the key factors affecting women’s travel choices? 2. How relevant are they in discriminating between different transport modalities? 3. How different job characteristics, and/or contextual factors, in the transport sectors may affect gender balance and or female employability in different areas? 4. What are the key factors influencing career choices for women in different groups and areas in relation to working in transport? Such document consists of 4 sections: Section 1 sets out a brief definition of fairness as operationalised in the DIAMOND project and a working gender-based definition of women (based on D3.1). Section 2 presents the mixed methods methodology used in this report. First, a scoping literature review adds to the existing literature already analysed in WPs 2 and 3 and Task 4.1, in order to develop concepts which will support the thematic qualitative analysis. Second, the report analyses the relevant socio-economic, demographic and psychological data developed in the project. This is based on both the quantitative (set out in D4.3 and so only briefly summarised here) and the qualitative analysis (which is reported in detail in this deliverable, D4.2). The conclusions of combining these different forms of analysis are then presented. Due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the qualitative research interviews were generally conducted over the internet. Section 3 considers Questions 1 and 2 (above) on factors affecting women’s travel choices and modal differences. It provides a synopsis of the literature found during the review and a summary of the results of the project’s quantitative and qualitative research related to Use Cases I, II and III, i.e., women as users of public transport, women as users of autonomous vehicles and women as users of bike sharing schemes. Section 4 considers Questions 3 and 4 (above) and investigates women’s needs as employees in the transport sector. It specifically considers the key factors regarding fairness and inclusiveness of employment for women across the transport sector, especially women working on-site and off-site in the railway, freight transport and the logistics sectors. The main evidence presented in this deliverable is based on qualitative thematic analysis (based primarily on the fairness characteristics used in DIAMOND) of interviews with those working in transport sectors (at various levels) in the partner countries of Ireland, UK, Spain and Poland. The qualitative findings set out in this report also help explore issues raised in applying the fairness characteristics and so also inform the wider DIAMOND project. Hence the qualitative data presented here (including the extensive quotations set out in the Appendices) will help to inform the remainder of the project by providing a resource to add to analysis and tool development in the project. They also crucially, to give voice to the lived experience of the predominantly female people affected by fairness in transport.2021-05-31T00:00:00ZWorking For Families Evaluation 2004-08 Final
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/32952
Title: Working For Families Evaluation 2004-08 Final
Author(s): McQuaid, Ronald; Bond, Sue; Fuertes, Vanesa
Abstract: First paragraph: This report summarises the Final Evaluation Report of the Working for Families Fund (WFF) programme from 2004-08. It was carried out by the Employment Research Institute, Napier University, Edinburgh, for the Scottish Government over this period. Over the four years the budget for WFF was £50 million, a total of 25,508 clients were registered, 53% of all clients (13,594) achieved 'hard‘ outcomes, such as employment, and a further 13% (3,283) achieved other significant outcomes.2009-01-01T00:00:00Z