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Assemblages, Utterances and Performativity: Consumers' Experience of Sustainable Disposal of Food Waste.
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Household food waste is a major issue in the UK. Numerous city councils in the UK are piloting household food waste recycling schemes to help mitigate the environmental impact of food waste. By using a performativity lens, the purpose of this paper is to explore how residents in a food waste pilot scheme (dis)engaged with the messages and bins provided by a council. This revealed how consumers (un)performed the act of food waste sorting, recycling, disposal and engagement with the food waste scheme and built an appreciation of the importance of the consumers’ place on their food waste journey.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper drew on the lived experience of 49 residents that participated in a food waste trial in a Northern Council in the UK. This paper undertook in-depth interviewing of household participants with food waste responsibilities, spending time with participants in situ, observing and photographing food waste bins and undertook informal conversations with participants. This paper focused on consumer attitudes and motivations towards food behaviours, food waste and recycling and engagement, or the lack of, with food waste recycling.
Findings
This study illustrates the performativity of food waste recycling at home goes beyond simply “acting” on a recycling message. The findings of this study suggest for food waste messages to be performative, a range of assemblages come together. Second, this paper explores agency, or lack of, and concludes that for performativity to be successful, it requires continuous support, action and repetition. This paper unpacks hindrances to performativity, including neoliberal governance, market conditions and lack of agency in relation to food waste. Finally, this paper reveals how the meaning of food waste has been changed by participation in a food recycling scheme changing the social reality of food waste.
Research limitations/implications
Future research could take a multi-stakeholder approach to explore the performativity of household food waste and examine how consumers break previous, entrenched habits, forming new practices in relation to food waste.
Practical implications
This study offers implications for policymakers by offering understanding on what performativity of food waste recycling scheme means for consumers. This paper suggests offering simple guidance for people, continuous support and communication focusing on the outcome of the scheme which help enhance engagement and greater consideration for socio-economically challenged consumers.
Originality/value
The novelty to this paper lies in the context and approach. This paper studies the underexplored context of the recycling stage of food waste and post-purchase consumer activity. A performativity lens moves beyond the static conceptualisation of recycling as a given sustainability act and draws our attention to the ways it is produced and reproduced
The new artefacts: teaching development during the Covid-19 pandemic and implications for future practice.
Get PDFWithin the context of a dynamic Higher Education environment, demands for flexibility and technological advances present additional challenges for lecturers who are required to simultaneously develop their own praxis whilst encouraging
students to engage with new and/or advanced digital tools. This paper draws on a case study conducted at a post-1992 institution within the United Kingdom during the Covid-19 pandemic. It combines the use of photovoice with an abductive approach that draws on sociomateriality (specifically spatial theories),
to explore lecturers’ perspectives on shifting delivery modes, approaches to supporting blended learning, and any changes in perceptions over time. The findings reveal three themes: reshaping practice, teaching spaces, and surveillance, and the paper draws on these to make a tri-fold contribution. First, it identifies, and evaluates, a range of tools as ‘the new artefacts’, and associated
practices, that were foregrounded during this period. Second, it explores the potential for developing approaches to delivery. Third, it makes recommendations for the future advancement of HE policy and practice
The Power of Reflexive Contextualization in International Business Research [Abstract only]
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An Embedded Genre Based Writing Pedagogy for Early Stage Doctoral Students.
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Writing is crucial to doctoral students. Increasing recognition of the importance and difficulty of doctoral writing has prompted a call for doctoral students to be better supported in developing writing skills and confidence, and for writing to be taught within disciplines. This paper adds to this call by presenting and evaluating an embedded genre-based writing pedagogy for doctoral students. It focuses on early-stage doctoral researchers. Despite literature highlighting the importance of integrating doctoral students into scholarly practices from early stages of studies, there is a lack of writing research with these early-stage students.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper audio-recorded small group tutorials in the early stages of a professional doctorate and supplemented this data set with individual interviews with doctoral students. Data were analysed thematically.
Findings
In this paper, the authors report on four main findings: how genre pedagogy (1) prompted students to revise their understandings of doctoral writing, (2) inspired students to express voice and stance, (3) helped students develop a conscious awareness of writing and (4) influenced (positively) students’ identity formation and emotions.
Originality/value
While interest in doctoral writing has increased, there is little research about doctoral writing pedagogies for early-stage doctoral researchers. This paper also extends the literature on doctoral writing pedagogies by showing how a genre-based pedagogy helps early-stage doctoral researchers understand doctoral writing and develop their own writing via analysis of genres within their disciplinary community
Parents’ lived experience of support through their neonate’s end of life and grief journey: An interpretative phenomenology study
Get PDFMedical and pharmacological advancements have influenced the ability to treat acutely ill neonates. However, complications of prematurity mean that death is unpreventable in some cases. The aim of this study was to explore parents’ lived experiences of end of life care and their perceptions of support needs during and following the death of their baby in neonatal intensive care units in the United Kingdom. A qualitative interpretative phenomenological analysis design was adopted. Unstructured interviews were undertaken with seven parents (five mothers and two fathers). Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to analyze the data. Four themes emerged from the analysis: ‘the enormity of grief’, ‘redefining self and social relations’, ‘trying to survive’ and ‘routes to improved support’. Parents’ experiences of neonatal care after the death of their baby were variable but all narratives highlight a grief that is deep and overwhelming. The Neonatal Grief Sandstorm visual tool, developed from the findings, has potential to support bereavement conversations between health professionals and parents
Systematic review of Apgar scores & cyanosis in Black, Asian, and ethnic minority infants
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Apgar score and cyanosis assessment may disadvantage darker-skinned babies. This review explored cyanosis and Apgar score assessments in Black, Asian, or minority ethnic neonates compared to White neonates.
Material and methods
Four databases were searched. Studies of any methodology were included. A narrative synthesis was undertaken.
Results
Ten studies were included. Three studies involving over 39 million neonates showed Apgar score ≤3 was predictive of neonatal mortality across all ethnicities. Black babies with Apgar score ≤3 had lower mortality rates before 28 days, however, variations in scoring practices were also observed. Three further studies (n = 39,290,014) associated low Apgar scores with poorer mental development up to 22 months, especially in mixed ethnicity and Black infants. One study reported inadequate training in assessing ethnic minority neonates. Cyanosis was the focus of three included studies (n = 455) revealing poor visual assessment of cyanosis across ethnicities. With pulse oximetry occult hypoxemia occurred slightly more frequently in Black neonates. Tongue color indicated oxygen requirement at birth, regardless of ethnicity.
Conclusions
Apgar scores correlate well with neonatal mortality in all ethnicities, however scoring variations exist. Cyanosis assessment is challenging, with tongue and lips the best places to observe in the absence of pulse oximetry.
Impact
Assessment of the color component of the Apgar score and of cyanosis visually are not accurate in babies with darker skin. Small racial differences may exist for pulse oximetry in neonates, but it is more reliable than visual assessment.</p
Development of a Web-based System Dynamics Simulation and Benchmarking Environment for Medical Workforce Planning
Get PDFThe paper presents a web-based modelling and simulation environment which is used for healthcare workforce planning scenario modelling and data benchmarking. Its main aim is to show how modelling and simulation that are based on system dynamics can enhance healthcare user engagement through the use of the World-Wide Web. The presented web-based modelling and simulation environment uses a variety of data inputs and produces a set of data outputs. System dynamics have been used for the realization of the used web-based model. Data benchmarking is performed on the models’ outputs. The paper is divided into clear sections which focus on system dynamics and their applications to healthcare, steadily concentrating on the specific web-based simulation environment. It then presents the functionality of the system, its evaluation and a number of conclusions
Four questions relating to creativity and co-production – Evidence & Policy Blog
Get PDFReflections arising from an Evidence & Policy Special Issue exploring the role and value of Creative Practices in Co-production. This blog post is based on the Editorial to the Special Issue, ‘Exploring the value and role of creative practices in research co-production'.
Originally published online by Evidence & Policy blog, on 01/09/202