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Vegan leather cricket gear project
Get PDFOverall project report on challenges and opportunities related to the use of vegan leather in the development of cricket gear (PASIC). The research was funded by UKRI via University for the Creative Arts, AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)
Sustainability, cricket gear, clothing and apparel: cricket gear
Get PDFReport on sustainability challenges and opportunities related to cricket gear (PASIC). The research was funded by Research England Strategic Priorities Fund
Espoused model of women entrepreneurship: antecedents to women entrepreneurial intention and moderating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy
Get PDFPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop and propose an espoused model of women’s entrepreneurship (EMWE) and test its predictive power on women’s entrepreneurial intentions. Also, the authors examine the moderating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy, given its dynamic nature that can be influenced by training.
Design/methodology/approach – Data was collected from 303 female students from undergraduate/postgraduate programs in reputed Indian higher education institutions using a self-administered questionnaire.
Findings – The study confirmed that all four factors – perceived entrepreneurial potential, perceived relational support, perceived educational support and perceived structural support – were positively related to the women’s entrepreneurial intentions. Simultaneously, results confirmed the moderating effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy.
Research limitations/implications – The study presents that more women may be inclined towards adopting entrepreneurship as their career based on their potential and self-efficacy if adequate educational, relational and structural support was provided.
Originality/value – Existing studies in entrepreneurship have focused primarily on men. This work fills this gap and not only proposes but empirically examines the EMWE in the Indian context. It also provides evidence of a significant impact of perceived entrepreneurial potential and perceived relational support on women’s entrepreneurial intentions and posits the role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy as an important moderator, unlike past studies
Using digital touch in the process of improvising and the implications for kinaesthesia
Get PDFThe Digital Touch Project took place between 2019 and 2020 and is part of wider research considering wearable technology in dance-making. In questioning the use of body-worn digital tools/aids in the dance-making process, the project aimed to discover more about how technology-assisted creativity operates and its influence.
Six experienced dancers/choreographers utilized the prototypes in their choreographic practices. The workshops enabled data collection via a mixed-method approach of semi-structured interviews, embodied participation (researcher as a participant), fieldnotes and movement analysis from video footage. The coded data and thematic analysis have been collated with the transcribed movement and provide evidence towards two different forms of digital touch and its promotion of heightened attentional focus, greater fluidity of interoceptive and exteroceptive abilities within improvisation and varied working relationships with the prototypes
Catalyzing transformational leadership in Chinese hospitality industry – complexity theory perspective: mix method approach
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The study seeks to propose a linear model by applying complexity theory and resource-based theory to investigate how hotels achieve competitive advantage and organizational performance during the Covid-19 pandemic from the perspective of hotel leaders.
Design/methodology/approach
Using a standardized questionnaire and convenience sampling approach hotel managers and administrative employees were surveyed online. A total of 354 participants from five provinces in China were examined using Smart PLS and fsQCA 3.0 for analysis. The utilization of the asymmetric method facilitates the elucidation of relationships that may not be readily apparent when employing conventional symmetric approaches.
Findings
The results display a significant impact of transformational leadership (TL) on market orientation (MO), competitive advantage (CA) and organizational performance (OP). The results show numerous combinations using fsQCA that can be utilized to increase OP within the hotel industry.
Originality/value
At present, there is a lack of substantial empirical evidence to comprehensively investigate the impact of TL on MO, CA and OP in the field of hospitality research specifically in the context of the Covid-19. The study also contributes by providing an explanation of the factors that contribute to the development of a higher organizational performance base through TL, MO and CA during the Covid-19 pandemic
DISTRACTED PEDAGOGY: activating attentional dispersal
Get PDFDISTRACTED PEDAGOGY: Activating Attentional Dispersal, was a session convened by Moyra Derby and Flora Parrott for 'On Not Knowing – How Artists Teach', a conference at Glasgow School of Art that shared and explored the various approaches, methods and understandings of artists who teach in the field of higher education and beyond.
The DISTRACTED PEDAGOGY session proposed the creative potential of distraction as a counter to focus as a pedagogic ideal through a series of experimental participatory formats, interventions and short papers. Informed by the sensibilities of practice generated pedagogies and in response to the neurodiversity of art school communities, Distracted Pedagogy considered the empathetic and responsive aspects of distraction and attentional dispersal, connecting to multi sensory and cognitively divergent aspects of not knowing.
The session hosted a series of innovative contributions from researchers from Uni Arts Helsinki, Kingston University, Westminster & Bath Spa, UAL, Royal Holloway & UCA.
The session contributions were:
‘CHEW’, a series of cross sensory interventions, encouraging focus to oscillate from the mind to the body and from thought to action, and embodied cognition (Kate Squires and Jenny Dunseath, Westminster & Bath Spa).
Looking Elsewhere: an introductory paper that positions distraction as a creative cognitive mode, set against a backdrop of constrictive attentional expectations that can impact pedagogical contexts and discount the neurodiversity of attentional experience in art school Moyra Derby UCA, Flora Parrott, Royal Holloway).
‘The Iridescent Creature’ a participatory performance that emerged from an online workshop using video conferencing software with fine art undergraduate students in 2020 that explores the dispersal of attention between body / material / space / diagram (Alice Gale-Finney, JJ Chan & Andrea Stokes, Kingston).
‘Cripping the Grindstone: Embracing Distracted Pedagogy through Critical Disability Studies’ , a short paper that presents a conception of distracted pedagogy with the dual role of qualitatively shifting arts pedagogy and curriculum toward greater equity and access for neurodivergent, disabled, and chronically ill students, while also cultivating distraction as a mode of creative potential for all students (Timothy Smith, Uni Arts Helsinki).
The art of leaning: incidentality as productive distraction, a workshop that explores leaning in relation to incidentality, using touch, pressure and other sensory understanding to make creative connections as our bodies encounter the surrounding environment. Proposed in relation to the Artist Placement Group’s (1966-89) term 'incidental person', it tested incidentality as a species of productive distraction (Incidental Unit: Marsha Bradfield UAL)
Review of exhibition 'Slips & Burns' by Maria Ahmed at Photofusion
No full textSlips and Burns is a series of experimental photographic collages by Maria Ahmed that combines both traditional photographic and digital techniques. Using images from her personal familial archive as a starting point, together with found images of her mother’s native Finland, and additional vernacular images, Ahmed’s work uses the language of photography to suggest absences, gaps and silences to blur truth and fiction
Refurbishing a ‘right-hand’ cricket batting glove using a ‘vegan’ chamois leather
Get PDFThe report provides a case study on the disassembly & refurbishment of a cricket batting glove using vegan chamois leather. Vegan Leather Cricket Gear (VLCG) project is funded by UKRI via University for the Creative Arts, AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)
Createch Surrey
Get PDFThe report highlights findings and analysis of research covering the development of the Createch sector in Surrey in the UK. This study builds on three reports completed in 2020, 2021 and 2023 on Creative Industries, Sustainability, Industry 4.0 and Createch. The research was funded by Research England Strategic Priorities Fund
The future of platforms, big data and new forms of capital accumulation
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The paper argues that the classical Marxist theory of capitalist accumulation is inadequate to understand new forms of capitalism and their accumulation processes determined by “platforms” and “big data”. Big data platforms are shaping the processes of production, labour, the price of products and market conditions. “Digital platforms” and “big data” have become an integral part of the processes of production, distribution and exchange relations. These twin pillars are central to the capitalist accumulation processes. The article argues that the classical Marxist theory of capitalist accumulation is inadequate to understand new forms of capitalism and their accumulation processes determined by “platforms” and “big data”.
Design/methodology/approach
As a conceptual paper, this paper follows critical methodological lineages and traditions based on non-linear historical narratives around the conceptualisation, construction and transition of the “Marxist theory of capital accumulation” in the age of platform economy. This paper follows a discourse analysis (Fairclough, 2003) to locate the way in which an artificial intelligence (AI)-led platform economy helps identify and conceptualise new forms of capitalist accumulation. It engages with Jørgensen and Phillips' (2002) contextual and empirical discursive traditions to undertake a qualitative comparative analysis by exploring a broad range of complex factors with case studies and examples from leading firms within the platform economy. Finally, it adopts two steps of “Theory Synthesis and Theory Adaptation” as outlined by Jaakkola (2020) to synthesise, adopt and expand the Marxist theory of capital accumulation under platform capitalism.
Findings
This article identifies new trends and forms of data driven capitalist accumulation processes within the platform capitalism. The findings suggest that an AI led platform economy creates new forms of capitalist accumulation. The article helps to develop theoretical understanding and conceptual frameworks to understand and explain these new forms of capital accumulation.
Originality/value
This study builds upon the limited theorisation on the AI and new capitalist accumulation processes. This article identifies new trends and forms of data driven capitalist accumulation processes within platform capitalism. The article helps to understand digital and platform capitalisms in the lens of digital labour and expands the theory of capitalist accumulation and its new forms in the age of datafication. While critiquing the Marxist theory of capitalist accumulation, the article offers alternative approaches for the future
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