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Journal article

A linguist’s journey toward community engaged scholarship: insights on definitions, practice and evaluation policies

This article contributes to the current conversation surrounding the definition of community-engaged scholarship (CES) by providing critical insights from a linguist’s journey towards establishing a CES partnership with a middle school. I argue that a prescribed CES definition for all disciplines is neither possible nor desirable. CES has gained appeal in recent years because of...
Report

Teens, social media & technology 2018


Until recently, Facebook had dominated the social media landscape among America’s youth – but it is no longer the most popular online platform among teens, according to this Pew Research Center survey.
Journal article

Community-engaged research with rural Latino adolescents: design and implementation strategies to study the social determinants of health

The health of adolescents, perhaps more than in any other period of their life, is shaped by the social determinants of health (SDH). The constellation of SDH that disadvantages a specific group’s health may also make members of that population unable or unwilling to engage in health research. To build a comprehensive body of knowledge...
Report

Enabling a grid of microgrids


Integration of resources, monetizing existing and planned assets, and energy trading improves the financial viability of microgrids and could make such systems more attainable and more resilient for a greater number of customers and communities.
Literature review

Platform work: types and implications for work and employment - literature review


As part of Eurofound’s research activities on ‘work and employment in the digital age’, and more specifically its research strand related to platforms, this paper aims to provide a review of relevant literature on platform work, notably as regards the different emerging types of platform work and the related working conditions, legal developments and trends...
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