Instead of presenting participation in HE as having both public and personal benefits, neoliberalism places most emphasis on the latter: rather than a primary benefit of an educated society being society itself, the emphasis is on the individual, with HE conceived of as a financial investment in oneself, for which students are entitled to value for money (Holmwood, 2011; Williams, 2013).
Presenting participation as an opportunity (both opt-in and opt-out) appear to bias decision making and affects uptake.
Descriptive statistics will be used to present participation and retention rates, potential year group differences (2012 vs. 2013), and group differences in age, BMI, body fat percent, fitness level, parents' socioeconomic status, and ethnicity.
Civil servants explained in interviews that the EC had presented the participation of NGOs as a criterion for officially recognizing the platform.
Data from WHO is presented, including participation in GISRS, as a means to independently measure the influenza testing capacity of laboratories.
This allowed us to study how doctors presented trial participation, and how the parents understood these discussions and perceived the trial.
This is because traditional bioethics, the culture of autonomy, and the social paradigm of ethics—individually and collectively fail to meet the challenges presented by participation.
More recently, the unique opportunities and hazards presented by participation for senior students and newly qualified doctors have been described in detail by Dornan and colleagues [ 1].
In the assessment of our proposal the wider implications of enforcing changes to our research design that narrowed its focus was not recognised by the ethics committee as their concern was directed at the risks presented by participation in research activities, and not by the wider implications on what could then be known.
Here we describe the detailed recruitment process for a telephone-based obesity prevention programme for families with overweight children and present participation rates, the study design and a socio-demographic description of participating families.
