Master's thesis of Social Work

The objectives of the research "Clinical supervision in the alcohol and other drugs sector as conducted by external supervisors under a social work framework: is it effective?" are: To describe and explore supervisee’s experiences of individual and group supervision by external supervisors; To identify the factors involved with effective/ non-effective clinical supervision; To ascertain whether there are any specific AOD issues in clinical supervision.

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This thesis addresses important issues about how to make game characters and virtual agents more realistic or believable by using cognitive-social personality theories. We begin motivation by discussing two examples. The first is from a television series and the second is a more concrete example that will be used throughout the thesis to explain concepts and the model. These examples represent the ideal goal of our work.

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This study centred on three local governments which claimed to give priority to youth participation. Two of those municipalities were identified on the basis of employing youth participation officers, while the third was volunteered to participate in the study by the Mayor of the day who claimed that " their Council was streets ahead " of other local governments in their response to the issues of young people from within their municipality.

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The researcher of this project is a volunteer worker at the International Buddhist College of Victoria. Anecdotal evidence has put forwarded prior to this research that communication and relationships between parents and children in IBCV were deteriorating as a result of parents working long hours and children spending too much time playing computer games.

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The concept of coworking caters to freelancers and entrepreneurs who not only seek a shared office space but also be part of a socially bound group with similar ideas and goals. The aim of providing a space that fosters collaboration, sense of community, enhances creativity and sustains communication within a diverse group of independent professionals. Whilst the concept has flourished over the span of 10 years, little is known of the participants’ experiences within coworking spaces and whether such spaces do deliver what it promises.

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With process and materiality as subject and content, this project works through the changing and intertextual nature of contemporaneous meaning making under late-capitalism. The project makes use of common wooden materials such as pine, MDF, and plywood to support an object- and installation-based practice. Through the social relations of materiality and visibility of process, the physical outcomes promote the multiplicities of our intertextual contemporaneity while maintaining a physical grounding in the reality of everyday lived experiences.

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This study explores the way in which Primary School Principals perceive and experience emotions in their day-to-day lives. To understand the varying elements of school leadership a qualitative research approach using semi-structured interviews was used, which was appropriate due to the social and psychological nature of the topic being studied. Two interviews were conducted a year apart with participants to provide a detailed examination of the participants’ experiences and to gain deeper insights into their perceptions of emotions in their work.

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This qualitative study offers a significant contribution to addressing the increasing youth suicide rate in Australia, with suicide now the leading cause of death for young people aged 15 to 24 years old (AIHW, 2017, 2020b; Robinson et al., 2016). The research goal is to investigate what guides and shapes school social work practice in preventing and responding to suicidal students in Victorian secondary schools, and the implications for social work practice and education.

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This thesis explores contemporary experiences of entrepreneurial knowledge work in emerging and rapidly changing areas of economy and society through a detailed ethnographic analysis of the motivations, social practices and changing experiences of a pioneering Coworking community in Melbourne, Australia. Coworking is a complex social phenomenon.

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This thesis investigates the extent to which our knowledge of modern systems oriented accounting theories can explain the shortcomings in nineteenth century financial reporting as carried out by the railway companies. The work is not intended to be a thesis on history. Nor is it a thesis on accounting theories. Rather, the work looks at historical events from the perspective of a modern accountant.

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Methods used in the research include: Literature review, case study, comparison and in-depth interview. Data used in the research include the system of current policies, regulations of Vietnam, primary and secondary data from relevant survey, field work data collection and in-depth interviews.

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Employee benefits can be divided into two main categories; mandatory (or legally required) benefits which are usually made obligatory by the government of a country, and non-mandatory (or discretionary) benefits which a benefits provided by employers at their own will. Mandatory benefits differ from country to country and usually include benefits such as pension schemes (including retirement, widows), social security etc. non mandatory benefits include perks such as cycle to work schemes, medical insurance, canteen facilities, dental insurance, employee training etc.

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In today’s world, the way business and organisations deal with their procedure of lading their work is more project driven and moreover they are driven by sustainability goals than ever before. It is evident that for a project to be successful the inclusion of sustainability is clear but the vision and approach for the two domains are different, so it would be interesting to investigate the link between them. Especially by examining, the comprehensive importance of stakeholders in project management processes.

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