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Collaboration and partnership: An effective response to complexity and fragmentation or solution built on sand? (2000)
Journal Article

Posits that collaboration in the UK is either recommended as good practice or enshrined within legislation as a necessity. Chronicles that there has been a sustained growth in the number of formal and informal collaborative relationships between stat... Read More about Collaboration and partnership: An effective response to complexity and fragmentation or solution built on sand?.

Applied cognitive task analysis (ACTA): A practitioner’s toolkit for understanding cognitive task demands (2000)
Book Chapter

Cognitive task analysis methods focus on describing and representing the cognitive elements that underlie goal generation, decision making, judgements, etc. Although cognitive task analyses often begin with high-level descriptions of the task based o... Read More about Applied cognitive task analysis (ACTA): A practitioner’s toolkit for understanding cognitive task demands.

"I would rather be size 10 than have straight A's": A focus group study of adolescent girls' wish to be thinner (2000)
Journal Article

The study aimed to investigate the body concerns of adolescent girls, together with the underlying motivations for the wish to be thinner. Focus group methodology was employed in order to access participants' experience in their own language. Altoget... Read More about "I would rather be size 10 than have straight A's": A focus group study of adolescent girls' wish to be thinner.

Embracing the "nation" (2000)
Journal Article

The idea of the "nation" has played only a small role in modern political philosophy because of its apparent irrationalism and amoralism. David Miller, however, sets out to show that these charges can be overcome: nationality is a rational element of... Read More about Embracing the "nation".