‘I'M NOT A PERFORMING MONKEY’: REFLECTIONS ON THE EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE OF DEVELOPING A COLLABORATIVE TRAINING INITIATIVE BETWEEN SERVICE USERS AND LECTURER

In recent years there has been much interest in exploring how to meaningfully involve service users in social work education and training but there has been little attention paid to the emotional experience of such work. Working together involves emotional labour on the part of both the lecturer and the service user which is often overlooked in both the planning and evaluation of such work. Drawing on a collaborative training initiative undertaken by the authors on the subject of mental illness, this paper seeks to unpick some of the unconscious dynamics that can be at play. Using psychodynamic concepts such as transference, projection, reverie and containment, this paper aims to explore the emotional experience of service user and lecturer, as well as students, when working collaboratively. Assumptions and expectations underpinning service users' involvement in social work education will be unpicked with a view to facilitating an alternative understanding of experiences in the classroom and lecture theatre.     

‘Widening cross-disciplinary research for mental health’: what is missing from the Research Councils UK mental health agenda?

This current issues article is a brief critical examination of the recent Research Councils UK agenda and call for cross-disciplinary research in mental health. Our argument is based on the fact that patient and public involvement (PPI) is the only involvement and influencing strategy for service users and survivors in the agenda. Service user and survivor research as a discipline in itself remains unacknowledged. We conclude that service user and survivor research is distinct and is different to PPI, and should be recognised in any mental health research agenda.     

Exploring the value of involving experts-by-experience in social work research: experiences from Slovenia and the UK

The evidence base for the methodological validity of conducting participatory research is becoming established. This article reviews the experiences of two researchers undertaking Ph.D. studies in Slovenia and UK, respectively, and considers the value of involving service users and carers in social work research. The Slovenian research involved user-researchers who developed research tools and undertook qualitative research. The first author explores the co-researchers’ impact on the research process and its outcomes, identifying both individual and collective empowerment of the co-researchers. The English study involved people from diverse backgrounds, who developed a recovery training programme for carers of people with schizophrenia. The second author describes how the steering group, and the carers who participated in the programme were impacted by the research process and experienced a sense of empowerment and how they influenced the development of new knowledge through the reflexive cycle. The authors draw out the commonalities and differences in our research that add to the existing evidence base supporting the development of participatory inquiry. We conclude by affirming the value of user participation in research in leading to the empowerment of users, the development of new research perspectives, and in contributing to theory in social work research and practice.     

Where does time spent on the Internet come from? Tracing the influence of information and communications technology use on daily activities

We explore from a time-use perspective how private use of computers and the Internet [information and communications technologies (ICTs)] is transforming everyday life. Data from the Swedish 2010–2011 Time-Use Survey reflect a situation in which Internet use has spread widely and become routine for many. Using covariate analysis, we analyse differences in general time use between four groups of ICT users ranging from non-users to heavy users. The theoretical departure point is a nuanced discussion of the time-displacement concept. Results indicate that private time spent using ICTs is associated primarily with individuals’ available free time, that is, elastic relative to time for paid work (i.e. contracted time). Heavy ICT users spend more time on activities carried out alone, are more home centred, and less mobile. Heavy use is associated with somewhat less committed time spent, for example, on maintenance work or taking care of children. Regarding personal time, time for meals is negatively related to heavy use, while night-time sleep is unaffected. Concerning free time, heavy use takes time from sports and outdoor recreation, but has no effect on offline media use, entertainment and cultural activities, or reading. Heavy use does not affect time spent on social activities, for example, for social interaction with family and friends or time spent on voluntary associations. Observed differences become significant at certain thresholds of ICT-related time use, involving heavy users who spend one hour or more on computers and the Internet every day.     

基于随机运输路径选择的物流中心选址模型

旨在以物流系统总费用最小化为目标进行物流中心选址规划.政府做出物流中心选址规划后,客户会选择合适的供应商进行交易,并根据已有物流中心与交通流分布进行货物运输路线决策,使其总费用最少.论文提出了物流中心选址双层规划模型,考虑投资费用的约束,保证用户平衡的同时使整个物流系统总费用最低.其中上层规划目标是使物流系统总费用最小化,下层规划建立了一个Logit随机用户均衡模型,并构造了一个等价的凸规划问题.最后针对模型提出了一个算法,并通过算例说明其可行性.     

在线用户创新社区创意采纳研究述评与展望

用户创意是企业战略性创新资源,如何选择最有潜力的创意成为组织创造力和创新的关键。在线用户创意采纳作为创意质量高低的重要评判标准,成为学者们关注的焦点。文章系统总结了在线用户创新社区创意采纳的研究现状和未来方向,基于现有文献,首先介绍了在线用户创意采纳的概念及测量;而后梳理总结了在线用户创意采纳的影响因素及作用机制;随后归纳分析了在线用户创意采纳的三个研究视角;最后据此提出了一个整体的研究框架,提出了未来研究需关注的发展方向,以期为在线用户创新社区创意采纳的研究与管理提供参考。     

油气资源开发中的资源耗竭补偿标准

油气资源是可耗竭性资源,过度开采会损害子孙后代的利益。因此,油气资源税费体系应增加反映油气资源耗竭补偿的税费,以维护代际公平。油气资源耗竭补偿标准是研究油气资源耗竭补偿的难点和重点。采用使用者成本法对油气资源耗竭补偿标准进行研究,折现率和开采年限是两个重要参数。折现率选择时间偏好率,避免主观选择的随意性,开采年限应考虑新增储量。以中国2000—2014年数据测算,油气资源耗竭补偿标准为15%~22%,标准偏高。原因主要有两个:人均消费增长率偏高和开采年限偏低。     

基于应用扩展和网络论坛的领先用户识别方法研究

回顾了领先用户识别的电话网络法,分析了它的应用局限性。电话网络法只适合领先用户相对分散的情况下,企业需要找到部分领先用户为企业新产品概念开发贡献产品创意。但当领先用户的应用扩展到产品推广之后,为了使领先用户在市场中的领导地位能影响普通用户,并进一步带来更好的新产品绩效,需要找到目标群体中的全部领先用户。网络论坛的设立使得领先用户在产品开发论坛中相对集中,从而问卷法识别领先用户的效率能够得到保证。确立了识别领先用户的三大指标:市场或技术趋势、客户收益、信息复杂性。用统计学与概率论的方法建立了领先用户的识别模型。     

基于PPM理论的社交媒体平台间的用户转移行为研究

社交媒体平台可以从“推-拉-系泊”方面进行有效管理，以满足用户需求，促进平台发展。基于前人的研究提炼相关变量，基于PPM（push-pull-mooring）理论框架，采用结构方程模型，使用227个有效样本对模型进行验证。研究显示，系统质量缺陷、信息质量缺陷和感知隐私风险等显著影响用户的负面性感知价值，对用户的转移意愿产生推动作用，替代品吸引力作为拉力因素显著影响转移意愿，转移成本作为系泊因素对习惯无显著影响，技术自我效能和社会影响作为系泊因素显著影响用户习惯，从而显著影响用户转移意愿，且转移意愿显著影响其转移行为。