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Falling with grace: how adapted martial arts techniques are helping seniors stay safe
No full textGlobally, falls rank as the second leading cause of accidental deaths (WHO, 2021). In 2020, there were 6,410 deaths reported from accidental falls in England and Wales, with 5,850 of these affecting individuals aged 65 and older (NHS, 2022). It is estimated that one in three adults over 65 and half of people over 80 will experience at least one fall per year (NHS, 2024). The aging population compounds the problem. In England, for example, the number of people aged 65-79 is expected to increase by nearly 30%, reaching over 10 million within the next 40 years. Similarly, the number of people aged 80 and older is expected to more than double to over 6 million (Centre for Aging, 2024). The cost of these falls to the NHS is estimated at over £2.3 billion annually (NHS, 2019), covering emergency hospital admissions, treatments, and ongoing care for injuries such as hip fractures, which are especially common among older adults. Recognising that not all falls are preventable, the University of Worcester launched the Fall Safe training programme in the summer of 2024. This initiative combines physical strength and balance training with adapted martial arts fall techniques, to empower older adults in the local community to better prepare for the physical consequence of a fall
Emotional Labour: The Management of Feeling and Display in the Workplace
No full textCoined by Arlie Hochschild, emotional labour is a valuable theory for sociology of work scholars. It generally refers to an individual’s management of feeling and display within the workplace and the commodification of it by business leads. Written in the context of 1980’s America, this chapter will summarise the main concepts outlined within Hochschild’s seminal theory which includes feeling rules, surface and deep acting. This will be followed by a discussion of its antecedents which incorporates three interlinked discourses of labour, display, and emotion within its construction. Theoretical inspiration, for Hochschild, involved the writings of Erving Goffman and Sigmund Freud. I will then highlight significant interdisciplinary developments and various criticisms that have led to the advancement of theory. In the latter part of this chapter, I look towards the future of emotional labour and argue that scholars should attend more to place and context when researching others doing emotion management in the workplace. I also suggest that focusing on the outsourcing of emotional labour via online robots, or chatbots, would be a highly prosperous phenomenon to uncover
(self-) Seduction in the Manufacturing of Consent: Exploring Emotional Exploitation in the Service Sector
Get PDFThis article uncovers an underexplored phenomenon observed in managerial–employee exchanges within the service sector: emotional exploitation. Drawing on ethnographic insights from the public house industry, it explores how managers deploy emotion-inducing tactics to seduce lower-echelon workers into accepting unfavourable working condition. Crucially, such consent is not always manufactured by management; processes of self-seduction - where workers consent through self-persuasion - also play a central role. Emotional exploitation, this paper argues, is a routine feature of pub work, shaped by fluctuating emotional intensities, surplus or shortages of staff, and the affective pull of collegial relationships. It further examines how low-paid workers both heed and resist the mechanisms of (self-)seduction. In doing so, it extends Jocoy’s (2003) analysis of emotional labour within labour control strategies, adds to Burawoy’s (1979) theory of manufacturing consent, and deepens Hochschild’s (1983) thesis on the commodification of emotion under capitalism - highlighting how (self-)seduction further alienates workers from aspects of the self
Aislinn Evans - Bring Me My Chariot of Fire!: A&E Accessibility and Environment Podcast
No full textAislinn Evans talks about her work Bring Me My Chariot of Fire! Aislinn is a site-responsive artist looking at the urban and industrial sites she calls home. She talks about the inspirations and ideas behind the work and her experience as a young, neurodivergent artist living in London
Beauty as Duty: The original influencers?
No full textIn the absence of the many men conscripted into military services during the Second World War, women stepped in to help keep Britain running by temporarily adopting ‘masculine’ roles at home and in the workplace.
However, one decidedly ‘feminine’ approach that British women were encouraged to contribute to the war effort was through their appearance
Walking with purpose - Eight solo women's pilgrimage hiking and wellbeing experiences on the via Francigena
Get PDFBackground: There is little research on women who undertake solo pilgrimage walking. Purpose: This study examined the experiences of women who undertake solo pilgrimage walking, and to consider its impact on their wellbeing. Methodology/approach: Interviews were conducted with eight solo female walkers who had walked between 200 and 1662 km on the via Francigena pilgrimage route. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to explore the data and draw tentative conclusions. Findings/conclusions: The study finds that the walkers were seeking solitude, seeking adventure, seeking connection to others, and seeking connection to themselves. The study concludes that solo pilgrimage walking improved participants’ sense of wellbeing by building identity and resilience, and that the search for community was an important part of solo pilgrimage walking experience. Implications: The study highlights that and that solo pilgrimage walking can be seen as a source of wellbeing as it
appears to be a means to release tension, process grief and engage in physical movement that creates a meditative and reflective state
Joint Stakeholder Submission to the Universal Periodic Review: Forth Cycle, 50th Session of the UPR Working Group (United States of America)
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Accountability: Always a Chameleon?
No full textThis book brings clarity and understanding to the concept of accountability through the lens of conceptual political analysis. As the structure of the modern state has become more complex, the architecture of accountability has itself needed to evolve and re-orientate in an attempt to keep pace. This has led to an increased emphasis not on accountability per se but on different kinds or types of accountability. As such, it is argued here that accountability has emerged to become a concept with adjectives and there is a real need to properly understand accountability in an increasingly fractured world. The theoretical and analytical glue that binds all of the chapters in this collection is a commitment to working within the contours of the work of the philosopher, Giovanni Sartori. This is an approach that has been used to tease apart and interrogate a range of concepts including terrorism, governance, coups, gender equality, deliberation, warfare, clientelism, hybrid regimes, democracy, right through to art, love, rape and violence. It is also an approach that facilitates the cultivation of complex debates concerning the limits of conceptual flexibility. The volume consists of twelve chapters, grouped into three main parts. The introductory part provides the foundations for the collection. Part I on Power explores the normative dimensions of accountability as a means to control and regulate power. Part II on Politics focuses inter alia on accountability following a period of crisis and the emergence of new technology such as algorithms. The final part, Part III, on Particularities looks at concepts such as social accountability and what is meant by supplementary accountability. This broad-ranging collection increases the conceptual toolkit that social and political scientists and lawyers can use to interrogate change at a number of levels and in a range of sectors. Whether through a focus on moral, individual or gendered accountability, or through a shift towards clashing, stakeholder or social accountability, there is a clear flow and coherence through the chapters. The volume will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of Legal and Political Theory, Legal and Political Philosophy and Accountability Studies
The role of the nurse leader in facilitating effective support and communication to raise concerns
Get PDFThis article examines several factors that can affect how raising of concerns can be supported. Nurse leaders have a vital role in this process to maintain patient safety and act accordingly within the NMC Code. Considerations are provided to explore how the nurse leader can facilitate communication with all team members to influence organisational culture, where colleagues feel confident in voicing concerns. Professional responsibilities pertinent to this process are highlighted which include the nurse leader as an advocate and supporting constructive challenge