The opportunities and challenges that younger, female, civilian researchers can encounter when undertaking ethnographic research with predominantly male military veterans are relatively underexplored sociologically. This is despite a growing literature on reflexivity in military studies over the past decade. To address this gap, we draw on symbolic interactionist insights to examine the reflective account of…Continue Reading Researching retired ex-servicemen: reflections on ethnographic encounters
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Optimising social procurement policy outcomes through cross-sector collaboration in the Australian construction industry
Social procurement policies are an emerging policy instrument being used by governments around the world to leverage infrastructure and construction spending to address intractable social problems in the communities they represent. The relational nature of social procurement policies requires construction firms to develop new collaborative partnerships with organisations from the government, not-for-profit and community sectors….Continue Reading Optimising social procurement policy outcomes through cross-sector collaboration in the Australian construction industry