Host: Professor David Horn

Venue: MSI Large Lecture Theatre, SLS

Followed by reception in CTIR ‘street’

About the lecture series:

The Bridget Ogilvie Lecture is named after Dame Bridget Ogilvie who was Director of the Wellcome Trust 1991 - 1998 and who played an important role in the development of the College of Life Sciences, in particular in the special award of £10 million that lead to the building of the Wellcome Trust Building in 1997.  Each Wellcome funded Division in SLS takes turns in nominating the Bridget Ogilvie Lecturer and this year is the turn of BCDD.

Biography:

Fiona Marshall FRS FMedSci is President of Biomedical Research at Novartis, the company’s innovation engine, where she leads approximately 5,300 scientists and other associates across six research sites dedicated to the discovery of high-value medicines for patients.  She is a British pharmacologist, founder and Senior Vice President of Discovery, Preclinical & Translational Medicine at Merck & Co. She previously served as Chief Scientific Officer at Heptares Therapeutic, where she was Vice President of the Japanese biopharmaceutical company Sosei. She was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2016 and the Royal Society in 2021.

Helga Fasching is an Associate Professor at the Department of Education, University of Vienna, Austria. She led the five-year Research Project “Cooperation for Inclusion in Educational Transitions” Project Website; she is the scientific director of the Advanced Study in Psychotherapy: Systemic Psychotherapy/Systemic Family Therapy (University Master course), Postgraduate Center (PGC) at the University of Vienna. Advanced Study in Psychotherapy: Systemic Psychotherapy/Systemic Family Therapy; she is a Psychotherapist (systemic family therapy), in her former work she was a leader of a Vocational Inclusion Project for young People with Disabilities.

Her Research Focuses are: Inclusive transitions from school to work; Collaborations between young people with disabilities, their parents and professionals (participative transition planning); Vocational participation experiences of persons with intellectual disabilities; Intersectional research/research on inequality (disability, gender, migration and family background); Qualitative transitions and family research (systemic approach); Systemic concepts in inclusive educational, psychosocial, and therapeutic fields of work; Qualitative research methods (ethics in qualitative research, narrative/intensive interviews, grounded theory, longitudinal studies; Participatory research, transdisciplinary research. Email: [email protected]

In this presentation, I show a participatory method to involve young people with disabilities in research by using reflecting teams. In the course of the longitudinal project “Cooperation for Inclusion in Educational Transitions” on the transition from school to work of young people with disabilities, we examined ways to increase the participation of these people in the design and content of reflecting team sessions. In this regard, the reflecting team, more often used in a counselling context, was adapted to provide a special form of group discussion for participatory research with young people with different disabilities. The presentation describes and discusses the adaptations that were made in the reflecting team research process. These adaptations included giving these young people, rather than a researcher, a role as moderator, inviting increased visualization within the reflecting process, and using an outsider-witness approach. Finally, we discuss the potential of the reflecting team for our participatory research with young people with disabilities.

This presentation starts with a short overview of the research context, which includes the theoretical framing and the research design of the project. I then continue with a discussion of participatory research methodology and show how and why I use the reflecting team as a special form of group discussion for our participatory research with young people with different disabilities. Next, I describe the process of reflecting on team sessions with young people with disabilities. We then reflect on the method of the reflecting team for participatory cooperation and describe the adaptations which were made (young people as moderators, increased visualization, and using the outsider-witness approach). Finally, I discuss the potential of the reflecting team for our participatory research with young people with disabilities for participative cooperation.

References

Fasching, H., Felbermayr, K. & Todd, L. (2023). Involving Young People with Disabilities in Post-school Transitions through Reflecting Teams. Methodological Reflections and Adaptions for more Participation in a Longitudinal Study. In: International Journal of Educational and Life Transitions, 2(1): 19, pp. 1–15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijelt.44 (peer reviewed).

Fasching, H. & Felbermayr, K. (2022). Participative cooperation during transition: experiences of young people with disabilities in Austria. In: Journal of Social Inclusion, special Issue “Challenges in the school-work-transition, 10(2), https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v10i2.5079www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/5079 (peer reviewed).

Husny, M. & Fasching, H. (2020). The consulting of executive practitioners in participative cooperation: how professionals view the inclusive transitional process of youths with disabilities in Austria. In: European Journal of Special Needs Education, 7:2, 206-219, https://doi.org/10.1080/08856257.2020.1862338 (peer reviewed).

Local governments may resort to extra-budgetary revenues, such as traffic fines, when being in fiscal distress. 

This may distort transportation choices and deteriorate the access to market. This paper collects traffic monitoring equipment procurement announcement data from 2014 to 2019 in China to examine the impact of local fiscal pressure on traffic cameras procurement. We exploit the comprehensive "business tax to VAT" reform in 2016 as an exogenous shock to local fiscal revenue. 

We find that in regions with better road access, when local governments face more fiscal pressure, they will significantly procure more traffic cameras. This effect is more pronounced in areas with poor institutional environment, low fiscal transparency, and weaker leading officials. Increasing procurement in traffic cameras is associated with more revenues from fines, more public appeals about traffic fines, and less market entry. 

This suggests the hidden fiscal incentives underlying the construction of surveillance system in China.

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Speaker: Professor Liang Pinghan  (Sun Yat-Sen University)

Host: Dr Sisi Sung