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Papers by Sevasti-Melissa Nolas
Stories and the telling of stories constitute a major part of our daily life. Increasingly there ... more Stories and the telling of stories constitute a major part of our daily life. Increasingly there is an interest to integrate them into the scientific tradition. As the results of this process remain unclear, the question is raised what is to be studied if stories are to be studied in this way. ...
The study of systematic innovation is rife with conceptual contradictions. Instructions are usual... more The study of systematic innovation is rife with conceptual contradictions. Instructions are usually deceptively simple: start the process with scanning and searching for opportunities, then proceed to strategically electing possible pathways, to resourcing selected options and finally to ...
Subjectivity, 2009
... Towards psychologies of liberation. Sevasti-Melissa Nolas. Abstract. In its ... subscription.... more ... Towards psychologies of liberation. Sevasti-Melissa Nolas. Abstract. In its ... subscription. Current personal subscribers to Subjectivity can view this article. To do this, associate your subscription with your registration at the My Account page. If ...
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 2011
The paper deals with the issue of practical knowledge for enabling participation. Participation a... more The paper deals with the issue of practical knowledge for enabling participation. Participation as a strategy for change is widespread in community, health and human service contexts. Research to date has focused on the mechanisms of beneficiaries' participation (eg identity, ...
Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
Agreement on goals is thought to be central in successfully building a good therapeutic alliance ... more Agreement on goals is thought to be central in successfully building a good therapeutic alliance which in turn improves outcomes. The qualitative idiosyncratic nature of goals set by children and young people in therapy has been relatively unexplored. We investigated service users’ account of the goals they set for them- selves in UK child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) using data collated by CAMHS Out- comes Research Consortium (CORC) members. Six services supplied their goals data for analysis: NHS targeted, specialist, and highly specialist services; a modality specific professional body; and a therapeutic community. Service users were 80 children and young people who had visited the services between 2007 and 2011. Emerging themes arising from key aspects of 241 goals from the participants (as agreed with and recorded by the clinician) were analysed using thematic analysis. The resulting taxonomy of goals consisted of three overarching themes and 25 lower level cat...
Journal of Youth Studies, 2014
Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 2008
Introduction: The introduction of the innovative non-violent resistance approach (NVR) at a multi... more Introduction: The introduction of the innovative non-violent resistance approach (NVR) at a multi-agency service in east Kent, UK, has presented challenges in terms of the recruitment of the necessary wider professional support for the family, with some professionals seeing ...
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, 2008
ABSTRACT The last decade of the 20th century saw the emergence of a new discipline within the rea... more ABSTRACT The last decade of the 20th century saw the emergence of a new discipline within the realm of information systems, which became known as knowledge management (KM). As such, it has become one of the most discussed issues amongst academics and practitioners working in the information systems and human resource management arenas (Prusack, 2001). Amongst academics it has become an area of specialisation with research projects, journals, conferences, books, encyclopaedias, and numerous papers devoted to the topic. Businesses are investing heavily in buying or developing KM supportive systems. However, predominately researchers and practitioners in this area have tended to see (see for example, Alavi & Leidner, 2001; Baskerville, 1998): 1. consider the context in which knowledge management takes place as teams of knowledge workers in communities of practice, whose performance and the performance of their organisation, can be enhanced by knowledge sharing; 2. focus on the process—the creation and application of knowledge management programmes and systems as an organisational resource—neglecting, with some exceptions (Alvesson & Karreman, 2001; Swan & Scarborough, 2001; Schultze, 1999), the wider context in which knowledge management takes place and the fact that resources can be used in ways that can be both creative and destructive, facilitating and manipulative; and 3. stress the role of technology as the enabling agent for KM.
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications (4 Volumes), 2011
Knowledge Management Processes (9781599049335): Frank Land, Urooj Amjad, Sevasti-Melissa Nolas: B... more Knowledge Management Processes (9781599049335): Frank Land, Urooj Amjad, Sevasti-Melissa Nolas: Book Chapters.
Journal of Decision Systems, 2008
The following paper presents the ways in which a group of managers from a postmerger organization... more The following paper presents the ways in which a group of managers from a postmerger organization managed a decision space. The decision space emerged as the result of a poorly integrated (from the social and cultural perspective) merger and acquisition (M&A). The case study involved the group of managers engaging in a collaborative action research project with an academic partner. The research practice provided the opportunity for managers to talk about and explore their thoughts and actions around the merger. The case study was analysed through the lens of a journeying metaphor as a way of accessing the processual and emergent nature of change. Following Humpheys and Brézillon (2002) and Deleuze and Guattari (1987) the analysis presented attempts to chart the decision space triggered by the merger and to understand managers’ sense-making about this space without reducing the complexity of their experiences and thinking.
International Journal of Knowledge Management, 2000
Young people's participation in the evaluation of services designed for them has become wide... more Young people's participation in the evaluation of services designed for them has become widespread in England following the United Kingdom's ratification of the UNCRC. This makes participation a matter of citizenship as well as of research. The paper reflects on these developments ...
The paper draws on the findings of a UK-based British engineering company that in 1999 bought a c... more The paper draws on the findings of a UK-based British engineering company that in 1999 bought a collective of businesses spread across Scandinavia. It focuses on the effects of the merger and acquisitions processes upon the way people reconstruct the new organisation. The paper was originally submitted to the 20th EGOS Colloquium on the Organisation as a set of Dynamic relationships, Slovenia 1-3 July 2004.
World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, 2006
The present article tells an intervention story where two collectives, from business and academia... more The present article tells an intervention story where two collectives, from business and academia, came together to address a business problem through collaborative action research. Among other things, the project created new ways of learning and therefore, knowing about the “business problem.” The author argues that in order to talk about an organizational intervention in a learning context, it was
Stories and the telling of stories constitute a major part of our daily life. Increasingly there ... more Stories and the telling of stories constitute a major part of our daily life. Increasingly there is an interest to integrate them into the scientific tradition. As the results of this process remain unclear, the question is raised what is to be studied if stories are to be studied in this way. ...
The study of systematic innovation is rife with conceptual contradictions. Instructions are usual... more The study of systematic innovation is rife with conceptual contradictions. Instructions are usually deceptively simple: start the process with scanning and searching for opportunities, then proceed to strategically electing possible pathways, to resourcing selected options and finally to ...
Subjectivity, 2009
... Towards psychologies of liberation. Sevasti-Melissa Nolas. Abstract. In its ... subscription.... more ... Towards psychologies of liberation. Sevasti-Melissa Nolas. Abstract. In its ... subscription. Current personal subscribers to Subjectivity can view this article. To do this, associate your subscription with your registration at the My Account page. If ...
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 2011
The paper deals with the issue of practical knowledge for enabling participation. Participation a... more The paper deals with the issue of practical knowledge for enabling participation. Participation as a strategy for change is widespread in community, health and human service contexts. Research to date has focused on the mechanisms of beneficiaries' participation (eg identity, ...
Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
Agreement on goals is thought to be central in successfully building a good therapeutic alliance ... more Agreement on goals is thought to be central in successfully building a good therapeutic alliance which in turn improves outcomes. The qualitative idiosyncratic nature of goals set by children and young people in therapy has been relatively unexplored. We investigated service users’ account of the goals they set for them- selves in UK child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) using data collated by CAMHS Out- comes Research Consortium (CORC) members. Six services supplied their goals data for analysis: NHS targeted, specialist, and highly specialist services; a modality specific professional body; and a therapeutic community. Service users were 80 children and young people who had visited the services between 2007 and 2011. Emerging themes arising from key aspects of 241 goals from the participants (as agreed with and recorded by the clinician) were analysed using thematic analysis. The resulting taxonomy of goals consisted of three overarching themes and 25 lower level cat...
Journal of Youth Studies, 2014
Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 2008
Introduction: The introduction of the innovative non-violent resistance approach (NVR) at a multi... more Introduction: The introduction of the innovative non-violent resistance approach (NVR) at a multi-agency service in east Kent, UK, has presented challenges in terms of the recruitment of the necessary wider professional support for the family, with some professionals seeing ...
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, 2008
ABSTRACT The last decade of the 20th century saw the emergence of a new discipline within the rea... more ABSTRACT The last decade of the 20th century saw the emergence of a new discipline within the realm of information systems, which became known as knowledge management (KM). As such, it has become one of the most discussed issues amongst academics and practitioners working in the information systems and human resource management arenas (Prusack, 2001). Amongst academics it has become an area of specialisation with research projects, journals, conferences, books, encyclopaedias, and numerous papers devoted to the topic. Businesses are investing heavily in buying or developing KM supportive systems. However, predominately researchers and practitioners in this area have tended to see (see for example, Alavi & Leidner, 2001; Baskerville, 1998): 1. consider the context in which knowledge management takes place as teams of knowledge workers in communities of practice, whose performance and the performance of their organisation, can be enhanced by knowledge sharing; 2. focus on the process—the creation and application of knowledge management programmes and systems as an organisational resource—neglecting, with some exceptions (Alvesson & Karreman, 2001; Swan & Scarborough, 2001; Schultze, 1999), the wider context in which knowledge management takes place and the fact that resources can be used in ways that can be both creative and destructive, facilitating and manipulative; and 3. stress the role of technology as the enabling agent for KM.
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications (4 Volumes), 2011
Knowledge Management Processes (9781599049335): Frank Land, Urooj Amjad, Sevasti-Melissa Nolas: B... more Knowledge Management Processes (9781599049335): Frank Land, Urooj Amjad, Sevasti-Melissa Nolas: Book Chapters.
Journal of Decision Systems, 2008
The following paper presents the ways in which a group of managers from a postmerger organization... more The following paper presents the ways in which a group of managers from a postmerger organization managed a decision space. The decision space emerged as the result of a poorly integrated (from the social and cultural perspective) merger and acquisition (M&A). The case study involved the group of managers engaging in a collaborative action research project with an academic partner. The research practice provided the opportunity for managers to talk about and explore their thoughts and actions around the merger. The case study was analysed through the lens of a journeying metaphor as a way of accessing the processual and emergent nature of change. Following Humpheys and Brézillon (2002) and Deleuze and Guattari (1987) the analysis presented attempts to chart the decision space triggered by the merger and to understand managers’ sense-making about this space without reducing the complexity of their experiences and thinking.
International Journal of Knowledge Management, 2000
Young people's participation in the evaluation of services designed for them has become wide... more Young people's participation in the evaluation of services designed for them has become widespread in England following the United Kingdom's ratification of the UNCRC. This makes participation a matter of citizenship as well as of research. The paper reflects on these developments ...
The paper draws on the findings of a UK-based British engineering company that in 1999 bought a c... more The paper draws on the findings of a UK-based British engineering company that in 1999 bought a collective of businesses spread across Scandinavia. It focuses on the effects of the merger and acquisitions processes upon the way people reconstruct the new organisation. The paper was originally submitted to the 20th EGOS Colloquium on the Organisation as a set of Dynamic relationships, Slovenia 1-3 July 2004.
World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, 2006
The present article tells an intervention story where two collectives, from business and academia... more The present article tells an intervention story where two collectives, from business and academia, came together to address a business problem through collaborative action research. Among other things, the project created new ways of learning and therefore, knowing about the “business problem.” The author argues that in order to talk about an organizational intervention in a learning context, it was
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]([Online Open Access: http://discoversociety.org/2017/05/02/children-of-the-financial-crisis/ ] Wh... more [Online Open Access: http://discoversociety.org/2017/05/02/children-of-the-financial-crisis/ ]
What does the recent financial crisis look like through the eyes of children in the intimate spaces of everyday life? Over the last three years we have been carrying out a comparative ethnography, the Connectors Study, funded by the European Research Council (ERCStG33551), to understand how children in Athens, Hyderabad, and London encounter, experience, and engage with the civil and the political in their everyday lives, and might become oriented towards social action.
The study of political activism has neglected people’s personal and social relationships to time.... more The study of political activism has neglected people’s personal and social relationships to time. Age, life course and generation have become increasing important experiences for understanding political participation and political outcomes (e.g. Brexit), and current policies of austerity across the world are affecting people of all ages. At a time when social science is struggling to understand the rapid and unexpected changes to the current political landscape, the essay argues that the study of political activism can be enriched by engaging with the temporal dimensions of people’s everyday social experiences because it enables the discovery of political activism in mundane activities as well as in banal spaces. The authors suggest that a values-based approach that focuses on people’s relationships of concern would be a suitable way to surface contemporary political sites and experiences of activism across the life course and for different generations.
KEYWORDS: Political activism, age, life course, generation, temporality, values
How do children encounter and relate to public life? Drawing on evidence from ethnographic fieldw... more How do children encounter and relate to public life? Drawing on evidence from ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2014 and 2016 for the ERC-funded Connectors Study on the relationship between childhood and public life, this paper explores how children encounter public life in their everyday family environments. Using the instance of political talk as a practice through which public life is encountered in the home, the data presented fill important gaps in knowledge about the lived experience of political talk of younger children. Working with three family histories where political talk was reported by parents to be a practice encountered in their own childhoods and one which they continued in the present amongst themselves as a couple/parents, we make two arguments: that children’s political talk, where it occurs, is idiomatic and performative; and that what is transmitted across generations is the practice of talking politics. Drawing on theories of everyday life developed by Michel de Certeau and others we explore the implications of these findings for the dominant social imaginaries of conversation, and for how political talk is researched.
KEYWORDS: Political talk, socialisation, childhood, generation, transmission, comparative ethnography