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ItemNo Preview AvailableFollowing Zudima in Dima Hasao(The Locovore, 2023-05-23)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableCOVID-19 passports and refugees: an emerging border technology of exclusion and mobility injustice(Informa UK Limited, 2022-01-01)The global COVID-19 pandemic has seen unprecedented state border closures and a proliferation of novel restrictions on human mobility both within and between states. This article examines the human rights implications for refugees and asylum seekers of one COVID-19 response measure within and beyond Australia: namely, the adoption of COVID-19 vaccination passport systems. We argue that the use of COVID-19 passport systems in 2021 intensified and entrenched the growing inequalities between states and people in the vaccine-rich Global North and vaccine-deprived Global South as well as between citizens and non-citizens within particular states. Using the concepts of ‘mobility injustice’ and ‘immunoprivilege’, we explore how COVID-19 passport systems created particular additional barriers for refugees to access asylum, to exercise their right to mobility and to realise their right to health. We thus call for ongoing vigilance against the potential for COVID-19 passport systems to be redeployed in future times of global pandemics or emergencies to the detriment of refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented people, both in Australia and globally, even while being touted as a means of protecting populations, opening international travel and granting greater freedoms.
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ItemThe design roots of policy problems: Unpacking the role of procedural tools in design fitness and resilience(Wiley, 2023)While policy design scholars have made significant conceptual and empirical advances in identifying and evaluating procedural tools, there has been a little focus on understanding how they interact with the more traditional “substantive” elements of a policy mix and their critical functions in policy mix designs. As a result, there is uncertainty about how procedural tools affect policy effectiveness—at adoption or over time. To address this gap, we propose a framework for deconstructing policy mix designs to examine how procedural tools interact with substantive tools in ways that either contribute to or undermine design “fitness” and “resilience.” The framework's diagnostic utility is illustrated by its application to unpack healthcare arrangements in Singapore and India, which reveals design “fault lines” that policy researchers and practitioners need to be aware of. We conclude by offering research directions for further investigating the role of procedural tools in shaping policy dynamics and outcomes.
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ItemDigital authoritarianism and the devolution of authoritarian rule: examining Syria's patriotic hackers(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2023-03-24)Given the sensitive nature of cybersecurity in authoritarian regimes, the existence of semi-autonomous patriotic hackers raises questions about their function because no security-adjacent actor can survive without at least tacit regime approval. Reflecting the attention that the phenomenon has received from scholars of defence and cybersecurity, the hackers’ presence has to date been viewed as a pragmatic strategy that either compensates for autocrats’ own lack of technological capacity, or that deflects blowback from high-stakes cyber operations. But less is known about how the hackers’ presence relates to authoritarian stabilization and survival agendas. This prompts this article to ask: How does the devolution of cybersecurity functions to patriotic hackers influence regime stabilization and survival agendas? Observing patriotic hacking in Syria through work on authoritarian devolution, space and cybersecurity, the article argues that while there is much precedent for authoritarian power devolution, digital devolution has novel mechanisms and effects. This is because the internet enables regimes to consciously and instrumentally manipulate the process, thereby creating a sense of constantly shifting space between themselves and the hackers that facilitates new opportunities for authoritarian stabilization and survival.
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ItemIntegrating interprofessional electronic medical record teaching in preregistration healthcare degrees: A case study(ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, 2023-01-01)BACKGROUND: Electronic medical record (EMR) adoption across healthcare necessitates a purposeful curriculum design to prepare graduates for the delivery of safe and effective patient care in digitally-enabled environments. OBJECTIVE: To describe the design and development of an Interprofessional Electronic Medical Record (iEMR) subject that introduces healthcare students to its utility in clinical settings. METHODS: A six-stage design-based educational research framework (Focus, Formulation, Contextualisation, Definition, Implementation, Evaluation) was used to instigate the iEMR design and development in nursing and five allied health graduate entry to practice (preregistration) degrees at an Australian university. RESULTS: In the Focus process, the concept and interdisciplinary partnerships were developed. The Formulation process secured grant support for subject design and development, including a rapid literature review to accommodate various course and curriculum structures. Discipline-specific subject themes were created through the Contextualisation process. During the Definition process, learning objectives and content resources were built. The Implementation process describes the pilot implementation in the nursing program, where assessment tasks were refined, and interdisciplinary clinical case studies originated. DISCUSSION: The design and development of an iEMR subject is underpinned by internal support for educational innovation and in alignment with digital health strategies in employer organisations. Identified barriers include faculty-level changes in strategic support for teaching innovation, managerial expectations of workload, the scope of work required by academics and learning designers, and the gap between the technology platform required to support online learning and the infrastructure needed to support simulated EMR use. A key discovery was the difficulty of finding EMR software, whether designed for teaching purposes or for clinical use, that could be adapted to meet the needs of this project. CONCLUSION: The lessons learned are relevant to educators and learning designers attempting a similar process. Issues remain surrounding the sustainability of the iEMR subject and maintaining academic responsibility for ongoing curriculum management.
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ItemThe Beharell Patrol of 1938: The First Government Patrol Across the Land of Kubo People (Nomad District, Western Province, Papua New Guinea)(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2023-04-03)
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