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Taking time to appreciate the scenery: an exploration of PhD supervision as pedagogy
No full textA PhD generates new knowledge and builds new links with existing research literature – by definition a ‘mind-bending’ exercise, even without the additional challenges brought on by Covid-19 restrictions. As an undertaking, it is both self-directed and requiring of sustained independence (a part-time PhD may require sustained investment for up to eight years) and demanding of trust and effective communication between candidate and supervisor. This project used visual and creative methodologies to explore an emerging PhD supervisory relationship as it developed during the lockdown restraints of the pandemic. It sought to understand this relationship through the development of a visual and creative methodology designed to help both parties understand the ontological and epistemological assumptions underpinning the research project. Visual artefacts and literary extracts were discussed as metaphors for the supervisor/supervisee relationship and the PhD ‘journey’, providing an exploration that proved valid and valuable to both supervisor and candidate
Political stringency, infection rates, and higher education students' adherence to government measures in the Nordic countries and the UK during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak
No full textUnderstanding predictors of adherence to governmental measures to prevent the
spread of the COVID-19 is fundamental to guide health communication. This study
examined whether political stringency and infection rates during the first wave of the
pandemic were associated with higher education students' adherence to COVID-19
government measures in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland,
and Sweden) and the United Kingdom.
Both individual- and country-level data were used in present study. An international
cross-sectionalsubsample (n = 10,345) of higher-education students was conducted in
May-June 2020 to collect individual-level information on socio-demographics, study
information, living arrangements, health behaviors, stress, and COVID-19-related
concerns, including adherence to government measures. Country-level data on
political stringency from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker and
national infection rates were added to individual-level data. Multiple linear regression
analyses stratified by country were conducted.
Around 66% of students reported adhering to government measures, with the highest
adherence in the UK (73%) followed by Iceland (72%), Denmark (69%), Norway (67%),
Finland (64%) and Sweden (49%). Main predictors for higher adherence were older
age, being femaleand being worried about getting infected with COVID-19 (individuallevel),
an increase in number of days since lockdown, political stringency, and
information about COVID-19 mortality rates (country-level). However, incidence rate
was an inconsistent predictor, which may be explained by imperfect data quality during
the onset of the pandemic.
We conclude that shorter lockdown periods and political stringency are associated with
adherence to government measures among higher education students at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic
Adolescent girls’ experiences of street harassment: emotions, comments, impact, actions and the law
No full textStreet harassment (SH) is experienced by adolescent girls in ways that can affect their self-confidence, well-being and ability to learn. Our work contributes to the literature about street harassment of adolescents when other publications have been limited to harassment in school environments or online. Our multi-disciplinary team from psychology, social policy, linguistics, law and education analysed 118 street harassment reports recorded over a six-week period. The reports were made by children and young people in the UK aged 11–15 years from three secondary schools with 68 identifying as female. We found that adolescent girls show emotional responses that are noticeably different to that of boys, and that girls can construct their experiences of street harassment in ways that are distinctive. Girls can also comment and act in response to experiencing street harassment differently and can be protected in law through specific misogyny hate crime initiatives. We make recommendations for managing street harassment experiences in the interests of protecting children and young people from harm. We also suggest ways to promote adolescent girls’ rights to be seen in society and be free from harassment from other members of the public
Psychological profile of Ministers of Word and Sacrament within the United Reformed Church (URC)
No full textPreference within the perceiving process (sensing or intuition) is one of the main features within psychological type theory that differentiates clergy serving within different streams of the Christian Church. Previous research has identified a higher proportion of intuitive types among Church of England clergy than among clergy serving within the Free Churches (Baptist, Methodist, Salvation Army). New data from 93 ministers serving within the United Reformed Church suggest that this denomination may occupy a position between the Church of England and other Free Churches, with 55% of male ministers, and 53% of female ministers preferring intuition
Assessing the affective dimension of religion within Muslim societies: The Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam, Short Form
No full textThis study developed and tested a Turkish translation of the 23-item Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam (containing 6 negatively-voiced items) on data provided by 493 participants (191 school students and 302 undergraduate students). Two research questions were tested on these data. First, exploratory factor analyses suggested that negatively-voiced items were not performing well and so confirmed the judgement against employing such items in Muslim societies. Second, reliability analyses identified the best performing items to propose a 7-item short form of the Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam. This measure displayed good properties of internal consistency reliability (α = .86) and of construct validity against a measure of prayer frequency
Psychological type and religious affect: A study among adolescent Baptists in Canada
No full textA sample of 299 young people between the ages of 12 and 18 attending a week-long summer youth programme sponsored by the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada completed the Adolescent form of the Francis Psychological Type Scales together with the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity. The data demonstrated that a more positive attitude toward Christianity was associated with a preference for feeling (rather than thinking) and with a preference for judging (rather than perceiving), and that retention rates were lower for extraverts and for intuitive types. The article concludes by recommending psychological type awareness courses within youth ministry training programmes to enhance understanding attrition and retention of young people within Christian activities
Care farming, learning and young people: An exploration into the possible contribution of care farming to young people’s engagement with learning
No full textThis paper focuses on the qualitative findings from a study that explored the possible
contribution of care farming to young people’s engagement with learning. Firstly, the
perceptions and experiences of young people accessing alternative curriculum on
three care farms were gathered through a methodological approach underpinned by
aspects of ethnography. Secondly, care farm providers and school support staff were
consulted to provide a deeper understanding into why young people attend care farms,
and to ascertain if they felt there were any perceived benefits to their learning.
Data were captured longitudinally during typical farming practices such as collecting
eggs, sheep shearing and fencing to capture any naturally occurring evidence.
Unstructured interviews, photo elicitation and semi-structured interviews were all
triangulated with observational fieldwork notes.
Data yielded in this study found that care farms provide a nurturing and enabling
learning environment for young people to self-discover and freedom from the
humiliation and frustration experienced by some in the traditional schooling system.
The most significant finding was the compelling interplay between the care farm
context, the natural environment, and the values of informal education. The informal
relational discourse, made evident through triangulated data, synergised with the
nature-based pedagogy and the multitude of learning contexts on a care farm. This,
therefore, provided a catalyst for young people to learn practically, socially and
introspectively
Essay on the life and manners of the venerable Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, by Philip Perry
No full textThe great medieval scholar and bishop of Lincoln, Robert Grosseteste (c. 1168-1253) was the very epitome of the polymath. A scientist, philosopher, translator, theologian and poet; his learning, imagination and his vast wisdom are little short of awe-inspiring. He was also bishop of the largest diocese in England and in this role he came into conflict with the papacy. In particular, he strongly opposed the policy of giving English benefices to absentee Italians, an opposition he was not afraid to voice in the strongest possible terms. For this reason he was much vaunted in later centuries by Church reformers. John Wyclif admired him greatly and by the time we get to the English Reformation writers such as John Foxe were keen to claim Grosseteste as a type of proto-Protestant. In the eighteenth century Fr Philip Perry, the Rector of St Alban’s English seminary in Valladolid, decided to challenge this image by writing a biography of Grosseteste that would restore his reputation as a solid Roman Catholic. However, Perry’s timing could not have been less auspicious. In 1760s English Catholics were close to achieving emancipation, the Vicar Apostolic, Richard Challoner suppressed the polemical text and to this day it remained until now in handwritten manuscript form. Cunningham has produced a critical edition of this work which offers us a fascinating glimpse into both the life of one of England’s greatest ecclesiastics and also into the precarious politics of the eighteenth-century English Catholic Church
The distinctiveness of state capitalism in Britain: market-making, industrial policy and economic space
No full textBritain is rarely considered an exemplar of ‘state capitalism’. In contrast, we argue that Britain should be treated as the prototype project of state capitalism in the world economic system, the primary contribution of our paper been to outline the parameters of state capitalism in Britain across two historical periods. Turning the conceptual lens of state capitalism towards Britain raises some challenging issues for the wider literature. Recent scholarship has started to consider greater diversity in regimes of state capitalism and moved beyond the typical nation-state geographical imaginary of state capitalism. Similarly, our paper seeks to introduce a new spatiality to state capitalism with deeper sensitivity to multi-scalar relations. State capitalism in Britain has rarely been bound to the geographical limitations of the nation-state; instead, it has been a transnational project, centered variably on empire, Europe, and the global market – with industrial policy tailored to enable the British economy to exploit and/or service these various spaces by ‘making markets’. We emphasize the often-financialized nature of this industrial policy intervention arguing it is constitutive of a ‘financial state capitalism’