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Market research is a crucial factor in the product management lifecycle. It helps validate product ideas, understand the target audience, identify market gaps, and shape product positioning. At each stage of the lifecycle, market research plays a pivotal role.

End-of-life Goals of Care (GoC) discussions aim to support care that is consistent with patients’ preferences and values. This study uses an exploratory qualitative design drawing upon a social constructivist epistemology to examine family carers’ perspectives on GoC within acute Australian hospital settings. Twenty-five family carers of aging inpatients were recruited from six Australian hospitals to participate in recorded, semi-structured interviews. Data were transcribed and analyzed usi...

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This month’s Office Hours is a conversation with Sarah Damaske, author of The Tolls of Uncertainty. Damaske is a professor of sociology and labor and employment relations at Pennsylvania State University. She shares some good reasons to be hopeful about the future of sociology and also reminds us of the potential for profound and surprising moments during interviews.

Monitoring and Evaluation Consultancy in Jordan about Education and Gender, requiring 5-9 years of experience, from Plan International; closing on 3 May 2023

U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mihm rejected Meredith Downes’ claims that she was underpaid because of gender or suffered retaliation for comments she made.

New Delhi [India], December 3 (ANI/NewsVoir): Experts from the Public Health Foundation of India and University of Leicester have been awarded a prestigious grant of nearly Pound 10 million by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, UK to help improve the health outcomes and re-orient health systems to effectively address multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs) or multimorbidity in India and Nepal. The Public Health Foundation of India and University of Leicester will collaborate with...

Internationally, COVID-19 has forced educational reform and disrupted already strained social work field education systems. This inquiry began pre-pandemic, responding to placement scarcity, which was only exacerbated by the pandemic as agencies migrated to online service delivery and universities responded to sudden placement cancellations. Educators found themselves navigating two interlinked global trends: 1) workplace learning that was changing radically; and 2) the immediate need to identif...

Background: Younger women's engagement with gambling has changed over recent decades due to a range of socio-cultural, environmental and commercial factors. However, younger women's distinct lived experiences with gambling have rarely been considered. The following critical qualitative inquiry explored factors that influenced younger women's engagement with gambling and their perceptions of gambling risks. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 41 Australian women...