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Young Ukrainians in the UK: lives in limbo
Full text linkThe project is underpinned by the need to evaluate the measures supporting young, displaced Ukrainian people. While young people constitute a large number of arrivals to the UK from Ukraine, there is little data about their experiences including education, employment, housing and social relations in general. Still, most of the young refugees would like to stay in the UK even when it would feel safe to return to Ukraine, as both our study, and the recent data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) demonstrate. Since 2022, many of the young Ukrainians have graduated from school, started higher education (HE) degrees or begun working, and are trying to build their lives in the UK. However, they face challenges from forced displacement, war trauma, and adapting to a new country. Despite their efforts, there is little indication that their social and intellectual contributions are adequately valued. Ukrainians have no certainty of their future life in the UK as neither the Ukrainian Family Scheme nor the Ukrainian Sponsorship Scheme (“Homes for Ukraine”) provide pathways for citizenship
Equipping local government to deliver national and local priorities
Full text linkCouncils’ wide remit, local knowledge, democratic accountability, public service ethos, and key roles in working with partners and shaping local places makes them critical to the delivery of the new government’s five missions.
The government is committed to wider and deeper devolution. This paper argues why, once a series of key reforms are in place, they should have the confidence to equip local authorities with more power and (when public finances allow) prioritise additional resources to councils, in turn enabling the delivery of national and local priorities.
The Institute of Local Government Studies (INLOGOV) at the University of Birmingham has led research on local government for over 60 years. In this paper we highlight three critical issues and recommend short and longer-term actions to address them: financial arrangements, audit and
performance management, and community power and participation. The diagram below summarises our key recommendations
First Steps in Urban Water
Full text linkClimate change is creating more extreme weather, and the frequency and severity of both flooding events and droughts is
increasing. Sustainable water resource management is essential to mitigate both effects while improving water quality. This guide provides an overview to managing urban water as a resource
Carl Johan Lamm (1902-1981)
Full text linkCarl Johan Lamm (1901-1981) was a Swedish art historian for Near Eastern studies. For his academic career the situation in Sweden was not favourable, because Near Eastern art studies were not well established. Lamm received considerable help of his parents and was thus able to succeed with his far-reaching plans to study glass from the Middle East, travel abroad and receive funds for acquisitions and publications. His meeting with the German scholar Friedrich Sarre (1865-1945), gave Lamm the chance to publish his first two publications on the topic of glass and rock crystal from the early and middle Near Eastern period. He was the first to study glass from Iran, but he also published on Oriental textiles and other art topics. The war 1939-45 proved to be a considerable hinderance for his plans. Lamm was not a companionable character and never joined an institution for an academic career despite his outstanding scholarly reputation as the most important scholar in the field of glass studies from the Near East in his time
Exile and subjectivity: words and images in the writings of Sadakichi Hartmann
Full text linkThis article considers the fundamental role played by self-fashioning in the aesthetic theory elaborated by the Japanese German American art critic Sadakichi Hartmann (1867-1944) in the early twentieth century. I read this concern with subjectivity in the context of what Hartmann believed to be the fragile, exiled, connections between word and image. The Symbolist aesthetic Hartmann elaborated in his work as a critic and historian of painting and photography brought with it a consciousness of the suspect and depleted power of words and of their capacity to reflect the world and experience not through exactitude but through suggestion and imprecision. Hartmann the poet worked with that quality of perception in the early part of his career, and the consequences for the potential of language to conjure the world, and of the visual to do the same, provides a central theme in a body of significant critical work that is coloured by his sense of exile and ‘strangeness’
Trading Modernity. Female gallerists at work for the art of their time in the first half of the 20th Century
Full text linkIn the 1910s and 1920s, female art dealers such as Maria Kunde (Kunstsalon Maria Kunde, Hamburg) championed the art of their time. This commitment of women to contemporary art can also be followed up in exile – for example in London: Ala Story who came from Vienna was not only active in several progressive London galleries for contemporary art, but also emigrated to the USA in 1940, where she established the American British Art Center in New York. In the post-war period, art dealer Hanna Bekker vom Rath (Frankfurter Kunstkabinett) was an important advocates of the modernists banned by the Nazis, but also stood up for younger artists.
The mentioned female gallerists were active in a field of contemporary art, less burdened by competition with male colleagues and offering opportunities for profiling and commitment. At the same time, modern and contemporary art received a significant boost from the activities of these and other female actors
Late Middle Ages and Renaissance: the forgotten contribution of Max Dvořák
Full text linkMax Dvořák, one of the pilasters of the Viennese school of art history, is nowadays widely known for the works of his final years as well as for writings on monument conservation. Through a reconstruction of the historical and academic context and a brief presentation of Dvořák’s studies on the transition period from the fourteenth to the fifteenth century, the author aims to show that the Bohemian scholar made an important contribution to the art historical debate of the time, for which he is hardly appreciated today.
This article examines a selection of Dvořák’s early writings from the first decade of the twenthieth century. In particular, the habilitation thesis Das Rätsel der Kunst der Brüder van Eyck (The Enigma of the Art of the Van Eyck Brothers, 1903) is consulted. While many scholars claim that there is a wide gap between his older works and those from the last years of his life, as stated by his former students Karl M. Swoboda and Johannes Wilde in the preface to Kunstgeschichte als Geistesgeschichte (1924), it is argued here that Dvořák’s point of view already presents the basic elements of his more mature conclusions at the beginning of his academic career. Likewise, it is reflected on the fact that Dvořák made a remarkable contribution to a new consideration of the transitional period between the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, among other workd, with his Enigma, but that this is today attributed not to him but to the cultural historian Johan Huizinga and his work Autumn of the Middle Ages (1919)
The Vienna School of Art History from the 1960s to the mid-1970s: the renewal of art history and the influence of art schools
Full text linkThis article presents the hypothesis that art schools have enabled art history to digest the new definitions of art from the 1960s and overcome the methodological crisis diagnosed by Arthur C. Danto and Hans Belting; more concretely that the Viennese Kunsthochschulen served as laboratories for the experimentation of new art histories. To this end, the ways in which contemporary art was theorised and art history was practised at the Hochschule für angewandte Kunst and at the Akademie der bildenden Künste will be studied. The relationship between the Institut für Kunstgeschichte at the University of Vienna and contemporary art will also be examined. By analysing the place of art schools in the history of art history, the research project, briefly presented in this article and intended to be developed over the next few years, aims to contribute to a better appreciation of the role of institutions, actors and networks in art historiography
Ambient air quality monitoring for healthcare settings
Full text linkKey messages 1. Air quality monitoring at healthcare sites can help understand exposure levels, identify local pollution sources, and inform targeted actions to reduce staff and patient exposure to poor air quality. 2. Air pollutant levels may be measured using diffusion tubes (nitrogen dioxide) and air quality sensors (particulate matter). 3. Appropriate planning and technical support/expert advice for healthcare site monitoring can help ensure that the air quality data generated are useful and usable
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