Category: 24 Feb

Pocket Guide to Teaching for Clinical Instructors, 3rd ed. (Stockport E-Book)

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Editor(s):Ian Bullock, Mike Davis, Andrew Lockey, Kevin Mackway-Jones
First published:12 June 2015
Print ISBN:9781118860076 |Online ISBN:9781119088769 |DOI:10.1002/9781119088769

The Pocket Guide to Teaching for Clinical Instructors, 3rd edition, provides a concise introduction to teaching. Written by experienced medical educators from the Advanced Life Support Group and Resuscitation Council (UK), this best-selling guide gives comprehensive and practical advice on the most effective teaching methods.

Pocket Guide to Teaching for Clinical Instructors covers basic principles and practical aspects of teaching in a variety of modalities. This edition includes material which reflects current developments within instructor courses and includes new material on feedback, an awareness of non-technical skills, the teaching of teams and supporting learners.

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in teaching doctors and healthcare professionals in any context. It is aimed at the relative newcomer to the teaching role in all its variety and provides essential, practical advice as to how to get the best out of learners.

How to Be a Reflexive Researcher

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Hibbert P Pages: 176 Format: PDF Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 02/11/2021
eISBN-13: 9781839101854

This stimulating and challenging book provides a guide to reflexivity and reflexive practice, explaining its relevance to research in management, organisation studies and the social sciences. Rooted in the latest research, case studies and the author’s personal experience, the book builds a new perspective on reflexive practice involving bodily, emotional, rational and relational insights.

Paul Hibbert draws on personal experience, using the examples of his doctoral research and an advanced collaborative research project as case studies, to demonstrate how reflexive practice plays out in a range of research contexts. Each chapter includes dialogue points to encourage the reader to form their own opinions in response to the author’s point of view. Offering prospects for research that incorporates personal learning, growth and development, How to be a Reflexive Researcher also explores avenues of future research on reflexivity and reflexive practice. The book concludes that reflexive practice is not simply a research skill but is instead integral to the scholarly way of life.

Providing a comprehensive treatment of reflexive practice, this book will be a useful guide for scholars and students of business and management and the social sciences more broadly, especially those with an interest in qualitative and interpretive research approaches.

Reflexivity: a practical guide for researchers in health and social sciences

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Authors: Finlay Land  Gough B Pages: 251 Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 15/04/2008
eISBN-13: 9780470776988

Reflexivity is a popular tool used to analyse personal, intersubjective and social processes which shape research projects. It enables researchers, particularly within the qualitative tradition, to acknowledge their role and the situated nature of their research. In the current climate, which sees the popularity of qualitative methods coupled with increased public and professional scrutiny of research, reflexivity provides a means of bolstering greater transparency and quality in research.

This book recognises the considerable value of reflexivity to researchers, and provides a means to navigate this field. The book is foremost a practical guide which examines reflexivity at different stages of the research process. The editors and contributors offer candid approaches to the subject, which supply readers with diverse strategies on how to do reflexivity in practice.

Features

  • Provides an accessible, practical guide to reflexive research processes, methods and outcomes
  • Encompasses both the health and social science fields
  • Includes contributions from international researchers

The book is aimed at postgraduate and final year students of health and social sciences. Interested clinicians will also find useful insights in the text.

Reflexive Leadership In Context

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 86 Format: EPUB Publisher: Routledge
Published: 30/11/2020
eISBN-13: 9781000228588

This concise textbook seeks to unpack the real-life complexities of leadership by examining the theories and models surrounding it and encouraging self-analysis in the individual’s own contexts.

The book:

  • Provides an outline knowledge of the various perspectives of leadership theory;
  • Develops a critical and robust framework for considering existing leadership theory and consequently applying leadership practice across the organisation;
  • Identifies individual and important characteristics likely to enhance leadership practice in the workplace;
  • Considers a framework for analysing leadership performance and methods and practicalities for application.

Reflexive Leadership in Context provides a practical and concise introduction for executive education students currently studying for MSc/MBA apprenticeship programmes, as well as supplementary reading for postgraduate students studying modules within Leadership and Management.

Doing reflexivity: An introduction

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 175 Format: EPUB Publisher: The Policy Press
Published: 25/01/2017
eISBN-13: 9781447330882

Reflexivity is vital in social research projects, but there remains relatively little advice on how to execute it in practice. This book provides social science researchers with both a strong rationale for the importance of thinking reflexively and a practical guide to doing reflexivity within their research. The first book on the subject to build primarily on the theoretical and empirical contributions of Pierre Bourdieu’s reflexive work, it combines academic analysis with practical examples and case studies, drawing both on recent reflexive research projects and original empirical data from new projects conducted by the author. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the book will be of interest to researchers from all career stages and disciplinary backgrounds, but especially early-career researchers and students who are struggling with subjectivity, positionality, and the realities of being reflexive.

Advanced Analytics in Power BI With R and Python: Ingesting, Transforming, Visualizing

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 393 Format: EPUB Publisher: APress
Published: 13/10/2020
eISBN-13: 9781484258293

This easy-to-follow guide provides R and Python recipes to help you learn and apply the top languages in the field of data analytics to your work in Microsoft Power BI. Data analytics expert and author Ryan Wade shows you how to use R and Python to perform tasks that are extremely hard, if not impossible, to do using native Power BI tools. For example, you will learn to score Power BI data using custom data science models and powerful models from Microsoft Cognitive Services.

The R and Python languages are powerful complements to Power BI. They enable advanced data transformation techniques that are difficult to perform in Power BI in its default configuration but become easier by leveraging the capabilities of R and Python. If you are a business analyst, data analyst, or a data scientist who wants to push Power BI and transform it from being just a business intelligence tool into an advanced data analytics tool, then this is the book to help you do that.

What You Will Learn

  • Create advanced data visualizations via R using the ggplot2 package
  • Ingest data using R and Python to overcome some limitations of Power Query
  • Apply machine learning models to your data using R and Python without the need of Power BI premium compacity
  • Incorporate advanced AI in Power BI without the need of Power BI premium compacity via Microsoft Cognitive Services, IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding, and pre-trained models in SQL Server Machine Learning Services
  • Perform advanced string manipulations not otherwise possible in Power BI using R and Python

Who This Book Is For

Power users, data analysts, and data scientists who want to go beyond Power BI’s built-in functionality to create advanced visualizations, transform data in ways not otherwise supported, and automate data ingestion from sources such as SQL Server and Excel in a more concise way

Building the Modern Workplace With SharePoint Online: Solutions With SPFx, Power Automate, Power Apps, Teams, and PVA

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 343 Format: EPUB Publisher: APress Published: 01/07/2021
eISBN-13: 9781484269459

Build a digital workplace solution from scratch using SharePoint Online, Teams, and the Power Platform. The book will help you implement all the modern capabilities of the SharePoint Framework, Teams, and Power Platform into a SharePoint Online solution.You will begin your journey with a short overview of the basics of SharePoint Online. You will then work through a case study with a solutions approach to implement various business requirements using SharePoint Online. Further, you will learn how to provision sites using PnP and build SharePoint forms using out-of-the-box forms. The next section covers Power Apps and Power Automate, followed by a discussion on SharePoint Framework where you will learn to customize SharePoint Online sites using SPFx. Moving forward you will go through configuration and customization of PnP modern search. Wrapping up, you will integrate Microsoft Teams, MS Graph, and Power Virtual Agents with SharePoint Online. After reading Building the Modern Workplace with SharePoint Online you will be able to build SharePoint Online sites according to your business requirements and integrate SharePoint Online with other services for a modern workplace experience. What You Will Learn:

  • Build modern workplace solutions using SharePoint Online out-of-the-box features Use Power App forms, SPFx web parts, SPFx extensions, and modern search
  • Create Power Automate workflows
  • Develop Teams solutions and chatbots
  • Use Microsoft Graph and PnP JS with SharePointCustomize search capabilities
  • Who This Book Is ForAll SharePoint developers and power users.

Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate: Achieve digital transformation through business automation with minimal coding

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 302 Format: EPUB Publisher: Packt Publishing
Published: 18/09/2020
eISBN-13: 9781781267608

Enhance your organization’s productivity by automating repetitive tasks and simplifying business workflows using Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow)Key FeaturesCreate basic and advanced workflows for automating Twitter posts, sending emails, push notifications, and much moreManage user inputs, documents, approvals, and database storage using flow controlsCreate flows that integrate with services both inside and outside the Microsoft 365 ecosystemBook DescriptionMicrosoft Power Automate (formerly Flow) is a workflow automation tool built into Microsoft 365 to help businesses and users to automate repetitive tasks or trigger business processes without user intervention. If you are new to Microsoft Power Automate, this book will give you a comprehensive introduction to help you to get up to speed with automating business processes in no time. Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide will show you how to configure automation workflows for business processes between hundreds of Microsoft and third-party applications. Once you understand how to use connectors, triggers, and actions to automate business processes, you’ll get to grips with managing user inputs, documents, approvals, and database storage using efficient flow controls. This Power Automate book explains key concepts and takes you through creating your own flows step by step. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned how to use Microsoft Power Automate to replace repetitive tasks with business workflow automation technology.What you will learn:

  • Get to grips with the building blocks of Power Automate, its services, and core capabilities
  • Explore connectors in Power Automate to automate email workflows
  • Discover how to create a flow for copying files between two cloud services
  • Understand the business process, connectors, and actions for creating approval flows
  • Use flows to save responses submitted to a database through Microsoft Forms
  • Find out how to integrate Power Automate with Microsoft Teams

Who this book is forThe book is for technologists, system administrators, and Power users with little or no Microsoft Power Automate experience. Familiarity with basic Microsoft 365 services is expected.