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Kevin A Perry
University of Greenland, Social Work, Faculty Member
- Anthropology, Sociology, Social Sciences, Entrepreneurship, Social Work, Race and Ethnicity, and 22 moreSocial Theory, Qualitative methodology, Race and Racism, Interdisciplinarity, Children and Families, Public PolicyStudies, Gender Equality, Public Management, Sociology of Children and Childhood, Racism, Feminist Sociology, Child abuse and neglect, Trust, Management Learning, Social Problems, Discrimination, Chidlren's Rights, Anti-Oppressive Social Work, Conceptualisations of Trust, Trust (Psychology), Trust Theory (Computer Science), and Businessedit
- Currently, I am employed as the head of social work and senior researcher at the University of Greenland in Nuuk (mo... moreCurrently, I am employed as the head of social work and senior researcher at the University of Greenland in Nuuk (more to follow).
Prior to this, I was employed as a postdoc at the University of Aalborg in Denmark for four years. I was attached to a large project in a local authority where the point of departure was to investigate classroom well-being, learning and a sense of belonging from the perspectives of children and young people.
PhD Research
In brief, my PhD Thesis concerns face-to-face encounters between frontline public sector employees and young men from ethnic minority backgrounds in and around an urban neighbourhood in Denmark. The main focus of my thesis concerns 'trust and distrust' building' between the young men and the public sector employees.edit
A comparative study of the Danish & English Social Work Educations about how they equip social workers to tackle child sexual abuse in society.
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This Ph.D. dissertation investigates the micro processes at play between young men with minority ethnic backgrounds and frontline public sector employees in relation to distrust & trust building.
Research Interests: Social Psychology, Anthropology, Social Work, Youth Studies, Ethnography, and 20 moreTrust, Educational Research, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, Police, Local Government and Local Development, Pedagogy, Youth Subcultures, Anthropology of Police & Policing, Social Work Education, Cultural Anthropology, Arts Education and Pedagogy, Social Trust, Youth Justice, Youth gangs, Youth, Pedagogy of Social Work, Youth empowerment, Pedagogia, and Trust/Distrust
Editors: Annette Bilfeldt, Iben Jensen & John Andersen:
Book is in Danish with two English chapters (including an updated version of 'Trust Matters in Ethnography'
Book is in Danish with two English chapters (including an updated version of 'Trust Matters in Ethnography'
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Trust matters in Ethnography and is the key concept which weaves the whole fieldwork experience together – without trust the probability of failure is high. Trust is essential both to gaining and maintaining access to the field as well as... more
Trust matters in Ethnography and is the key concept which weaves the whole fieldwork experience together – without trust the probability of failure is high. Trust is essential both to gaining and maintaining access to the field as well as gaining access to the backstage areas of the lived experiences of people. These are features of ethnography clearly identified in most text books on qualitative research methods. Moreover, the importance of researchers establishing trust often appears in scholarly articles reporting the findings from various strands of qualitative enquiry. However, while there is a strong emphasis on researchers establishing trust both in text books and articles, there is a distinct gap in the literature about how researchers can go about trust building. Drawing on data gathered through nine months of ethnographic fieldwork and on insights from Goffman (1953, 1959) and Luhmann (1979) the following paper hopes to contribute towards filling this gap.
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This article reports the findings from my Msc. (cand.scient.soc) from Aalborg University. My masters dissertation is a comparative research project which compares the English and Danish social work educations to see how they equip... more
This article reports the findings from my Msc. (cand.scient.soc) from Aalborg University. My masters dissertation is a comparative research project which compares the English and Danish social work educations to see how they equip students to tackle child sexual abuse in society.
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Denne bog er resultatet af flere seminarer om potentialer og udfordringer for aktionsforskningen afholdt på Aalborg Universitet i København. Forfatterkredsen i bogen spænder vidt: der er bidrag fra forskere, der arbejder inden for områder... more
Denne bog er resultatet af flere seminarer om potentialer og udfordringer for aktionsforskningen afholdt på Aalborg Universitet i København. Forfatterkredsen i bogen spænder vidt: der er bidrag fra forskere, der arbejder inden for områder som planlægning, naturforvaltning, lokalsamfundsudvikling, pædagogik, socialt arbejde og ældreomsorg. Forfatterkredsen har også stærk international bredde. Udover de fleste skandinaviske lande (Norge, Sverige, Færøerne og Danmark) er der også bidrag fra Nordamerika og Latinamerika. Bogen repræsenterer således forskellige miljøer og -traditioner inden for aktionsforskning: participatorisk aktionsforskning (PAR), pragmatisk aktionsforskning og kritisk-utopisk aktionsforskning. Bogen afspejler således, at aktionsforskningsmiljøet i stigende grad er et globalt community, hvilket også ses i de internationale tidsskrifter på området.
Oplægget til bogen var blandt andet en række problemstillinger om erfaringer fra aktionsforskning, som blev diskuteret på et opstartsseminar. Disse problemstillinger præsenteres i antologiens indledende kapitel. Senere afholdt vi et forfatterseminar med intern feedback på udkast og ideer, inklusiv Skypeforbindelse med forfattere, som ikke kunne være til stede i København. I redigerings- og reviewfasen fik vi også uvurderlig hjælp af mange reviewere fra flere kontinenter. Som redaktører og kollegaer vil vi gerne sige mange tak til de engagerede forfattere og ikke mindst til reviewerne.
Annette Bilfeldt, John Andersen, Michael Søgaard Jørgensen og Kevin Anthony Perry
Oplægget til bogen var blandt andet en række problemstillinger om erfaringer fra aktionsforskning, som blev diskuteret på et opstartsseminar. Disse problemstillinger præsenteres i antologiens indledende kapitel. Senere afholdt vi et forfatterseminar med intern feedback på udkast og ideer, inklusiv Skypeforbindelse med forfattere, som ikke kunne være til stede i København. I redigerings- og reviewfasen fik vi også uvurderlig hjælp af mange reviewere fra flere kontinenter. Som redaktører og kollegaer vil vi gerne sige mange tak til de engagerede forfattere og ikke mindst til reviewerne.
Annette Bilfeldt, John Andersen, Michael Søgaard Jørgensen og Kevin Anthony Perry