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The Antecedents And Characteristics Of Academic Servant Leadership: A Case Study In A Faith-Based University In Indonesia
No full textThis study explores the practice of academic servant leadership in a faith-based university in Indonesia. The exploration is intended to understand the origin of academic servant leadership and the characteristics of an academic servant leader. This research has posed two research questions: how do the academic leaders understand the meaning of their servant leadership? and what are the characteristics of an academic servant leader? The second research question is also intended to create a classification of academic servant leader’s characteristics. In this research, case study is chosen as the methodology since it is able to explain the academic servant leadership phenomena from the leaders’ perspective in their context. The case study methodology employs semi-structured interview s as the data collection method. Thirty higher educational leaders were questioned in a semi-structured interview in order to get their views on their academic leadership. These leaders are positioned at three different levels: departmental, decanal and presidential. The triangulation of data gathered from interviewing leaders at three different levels has ensured the trustworthiness of the research. The qualitative data analysis shows that servant leadership stems from the servant’s heart which obtained through a spiritual transformation. This personal experience has been identified as the antecedents of servant leadership. Besides that, this research have found ten characteristics of an academic servant leader categorised into four groups: intrinsic, extrinsic, relational and transformational. These findings are important for the leadership development of the case campus and the enrichment of the concept of higher educational leadership. Key words: Academic leadership, Servant Leadership, Servant heart, Spiritual transformation, Servant leader’s characteristics *Doctoral Researcher under the School of Education of University of Birmingham funded by the Directorate General of Higher Education of Indonesia
IGNTP guidelines for XML transcriptions of New Testament manuscripts (version 1.5)
Get PDFGuidelines for converting plain text transcriptions of New Testament manuscripts created by the International Greek New Testament Project (IGNTP) into XML according to the TEI P5, and specifications for transcriptions made directly in XML.
Version 1.5 (replacing all earlier versions).
This version of the guidelines was developed in conjunction with the Transcription Editor created by the Kompetenzzentrum für elektronische Erschließungs- und Publikationsverfahren in den Geisteswissenschaften, Universität Trier, as part of the Workspace for Collaborative Editing
Becoming an(other): A consideration of 'disrupted migrations'
No full textThe uncritical retelling of the dominant ‘Windrush story’ simplistically serves to conceal the agentic realities of those young men and women who migrated from Jamaica to England prior to 1962. The maintenance of this ‘single story’ (Adichie 2009) renders invisible a number of contradictions regarding the lived realities of subsequent Jamaican generations, particularly for those born in England. The concept of the Other, that is those who are deemed to infringe the normative boundaries of British society, endures as a relatively unchallenged concept within the disciplines of Sociology and Criminology (Spalek 2008). Arguably, the attribution of other status serves to reify the contemporary construct of the Black other as emerging from the textual post-war Jamaican immigrant. Informed by fieldwork undertaken for my PhD ‘Becoming the Other: the problematisation of the Windrush generations,’ this study develops narrative conversations with three generations of ten families within the Old Trafford area of Manchester, England. Emerging findings attest to the experience of ‘critical moments’ from which “Black British” identities are negotiated. The process of becoming the other as experienced by the ‘first born’ (2nd generation) is detected through a series of ‘touches’ (Tate 2016). That is, the association of the first born to the imagined Black Jamaican, as problem. Yet, such significant interactions are not only detected in the first born’s external encounters with the white English other, but also controversially through a number of internal cues from significant others (parents, siblings, family and friends). Within this paper, I want to consider that the experience of internal otherisation serves to form an(other) identity for the first born in England prior to external encounters. Furthermore, such encounters suggest a continuity in migratory distancing (a)way from Jamaicaness towards a more precarious (Black) Britishness
Domestic abuse services: an experience-based co-design study
Get PDFBackground: The Home Office recently conducted a survey in which they explored whether domestic abuse (DA) victims were satisfied with the services they received. The survey demonstrated that DA victims are dissatisfied. A consortium of the Police and their domestic violence support organisations decided to conduct this study to explore satisfaction with their services in greater detail and to use these findings to improve services.
Objective: To investigate how services can be improved for people who experienced DA.
Method: The study will be conducted in three phases: (1) the study will evaluate experiences of current services. We will include participants from three stakeholder groups: DA survivors, DA support staff, and criminal justice staff. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted with representatives from each group. (2) The co-design process involves firstly discussing the Phase 1 findings with each of the three stakeholder groups, in order to identify priorities for change. The group representatives then come together for a collaborative co-design event, in order to plan improvements. (3) We will study the process and outcome of the Experience-Based Co-Design (EBCD) intervention. Implications: The study will increase our understanding of the psychosocial needs of DA survivors in the UK through using the EBCD process. This is important because the design of services is primarily based on expert views; service-users are rarely involved. Furthermore, EBCD has not been used in policing before and therefore this study will comprise internationally ground-breaking work
See you later... crocodile? The ecological diversity of the crocodylians and their relatives
Get PDFCan you tell the difference between a crocodile and an alligator? It is a tricky task for most people. Although they come in different sizes and have other slight differences, most modern crocodylians look pretty much the same to a non-specialist eye. However, the picture is very different when we consider the 200-million-year evolution of the crocodylian lineage. Many fossil species of Crocodyliformes, the group that includes crocodylians and their relatives, are completely different from the semi-aquatic forms we have today. These extinct crocodyliform species include fully sea-going forms with flippers, giant dinosaur-eating terrestrial predators, greyhound-like fast-running small omnivores, bizarre filter-feeders, and even plant-eaters with complex mammal-like dentitions. Accordingly, my PhD research project aims to investigate and understand which environmental and biological factors drove the evolution of this huge diversity, as well as its decline towards the low ecological diversity seen today. To do this I am collecting anatomical data and information on body size and mass from hundreds of fossil specimens worldwide. I will use this data to quantify changes in ecological diversity through time, and will compare the results with environmental (climate and geographical) data and major evolutionary changes (e.g. origins of major lineages)
Exploring the position of Rorty’s ironist in an educational context
Get PDFThis study addresses Richard Rorty's concept of "the ironist" and their place in Education. The ironist has anxieties towards language and believes our society is governed by metaphysics that use semantic arguments to validate their finality. Rorty's ironist further believes that we need to constantly redescribe all elements of our postmodern society to eventually instigate change.
My research uses this ironist perspective to examine Education as a metaphysical being and its genealogy. The research comprises of three overall areas:
The place of ironism in Education; schools currently justify their place as a "Truth" of our society through research and assessment, but these systems are a final vocabulary to be deconstructed.
The history of Education; through the challenging of language, it becomes quickly clear that the history of the words and concepts becomes essential in understanding their origins, and thus reasons why we hold them in such high regard. Deconstructing these terms may reveal ideas about governance or religion that lie at the heart of Education.
A redescription of Education; Rorty places great weight on the place of literature and fictions as methods of redescription, so to implement the grounds for change. This form of fictional redescription will be used to make a fresh start with Education, rather than simply redefine it within the vocabularies that currently exist
Upgrading of heavy oil by dispersed biogenic magnetite catalysts
No full textIn situ catalytic upgrading of heavy oil offers significant cost savings and overcomes logistical challenges associated with the high viscosity, low API gravity and high molecular weight fractions of unconventional hydrocarbon resources. The THAI-CAPRI process (toe-to-heel air injection – catalytic upgrading process in situ) offers one such route to upgrading through the use of high surface area transition metal cracking catalysts surrounding the production well. Here, we describe the catalytic upgrading of heavy oil in a stirred batch reactor by a biogenic nanoscale magnetite (BnM; Fe2O3). A 97.8% decrease in viscosity relative to the feed oil was achieved and coking was lower compared to thermal cracking alone (6.9 wt% versus 10.2 wt%). The activity of this catalyst was further enhanced by a simple one-step addition of surface associated Pd to achieve loadings of 4.3, 7.1 and 9.5 wt% Pd. This led to significant decreases in viscosity of up to 99.4% for BnM loaded with 9.5 wt% Pd. An increment of 7.8° in API gravity with respect to the feed oil was achieved for 9.5 wt% Pd-BnM, compared with thermal cracking alone (5.3°). Whilst this level of upgrading was comparable to commercially available and previously tested catalysts, significant decreases in the coke content (3 wt% for 9.5 wt% Pd-BnM versus 10 wt% for thermal cracking) and associated increases in liquid content (~90 wt% for 9.5 wt% Pd-BnM versus ~79 wt% for thermal cracking) demonstrate the potential for the use of Pd-augmented biogenic magnetite as a catalyst in the THAI CAPRI process
Uncovering Coherence Effects in an Overdamped Quantum System
No full textIt is usually considered that the spectrum of an optical cavity coupled to an atomic medium does not exhibit a normal-mode splitting unless the system satisfies the "strong coupling" condition, meaning the Rabi frequency of the coherent coupling exceeds the decay rates of atom and cavity excitations. We show that this need not be the case, but depends on the way in which the coupled system is probed. Measurements of the reflection of a probe laser from the input mirror of an overdamped cavity reveal an avoided crossing in the spectrum which is not observed when driving the atoms directly and measuring the Purcell-enhanced cavity emission. We understand these observations by noting a formal correspondence with electromagnetically-induced transparency of a three-level atom in free space, where our cavity acts as the absorbing medium and the coupled atoms play the role of the control field.
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Two original data files “reflection_20140716.dat” and “flourescence_20150708.dat” corresponding to reflection and fluorescence measurement presented in the paper.
Both files are in format of plain text file.
The first column is the absolute laser frequency which the microcavity was locked to.
The second column is the RF frequency used to drive the double-pass acousto-optic modulator.
The columns afterward are the experimental data (APD counts) corresponding to sequential time bins. The numbers are in floating-point format as result of averaging
Bichromatic homodyne detection of broadband quadrature squeezing
No full textData underlying the publication "Bichromatic homodyne detection of broadband quadrature squeezing" (in press)
Pro Bono Challenges and Opportunities: A Student Perspective
No full textBased on a talk given at the November 2016 Student Pro Bono Conference in Birminghnam, this paper considers the common challenges law students face when undertaking pro bono work and the invaluable mitigating benefits
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