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Precarity and Resource Depletion in Aviation: Job Insecurity and Workplace Health and Safety Hazards
Full text linkThis study investigates job insecurity, intensifying work demands, and workplace mistreatment as psychosocial hazards contributing to burnout among UK cabin crew within aviation’s neoliberal employment regime. We used Conservation of Resources theory to examine the pathways to burnout. Path modelling of survey data from 972 cabin crew reveals job insecurity indirectly increases burnout via heightened demands and greater exposure to bullying and harassment. Managerial support buffers the insecurity–mistreatment relationship; peer support provides minimal protection. The results extend theory by linking resource loss processes to labour market institutions and emphasise the need for renewed union engagement in occupational health and safety
Mary Seacole (1805–1881)
No full textMary Seacole was a British-Jamaican nurse and humanitarian whose medical knowledge and courage saved lives during the Crimean War. Trained in both Caribbean healing traditions and Western medicine, she provided frontline care where formal systems failed. Denied official recognition because of her race and gender, Seacole funded her own journey to the battlefield, establishing the British Hotel near Balaclava to treat wounded soldiers under fire. For decades, her contributions were marginalised by colonial histories that privileged white European figures. Remembering Mary Seacole challenges whose knowledge is valued and whose contributions are made visible
Unencountering
No full textIn his latest blog, Dr Chris Tiplady discusses how he and his colleague, Senior Lecturer, Mr Michael Atkinson at the University of Sunderland, teach students how to move on from patient encounters, how to cope, how to balance all that uncertainty and be able to move on to the next patient or even just go home to the family
Disorientation and asylum-seeking youth: examining the emotional and embodied impacts of the UK asylum system
No full textDisorientation is a critical emotional and embodied dimension in the slow violence of the UK government’s asylum policies. This paper focuses on young asylum seekers in Newcastle-Gateshead, UK and examines their everyday experiences of the “politics of disorientation”. We demonstrate how the effects of overlapping bordering practices can result in dynamic disorientations that ebb and flow but nevertheless endure in the lifeworld of asylum seekers. First, we highlight how the enforced dispersal of asylum seekers around the UK can trigger multi-layered feelings of disorientation. Dispersal destabilises orientation to space, relations with others, bodies, and life directions, triggering what we call dispersal disorientation. Second, we argue that asylum policy can impede key aspects of the transition to adulthood for young asylum seekers, contributing to intense feelings of disorientation. Finally, we examine how asylum seekers carry out reorientation work through their everyday strategies, alongside the support of voluntary and community groups
E-Commerce, Institutional Voids, and Socio-Cultural Factors in Online Groceries Shopping: Exploring the Interrelationships in an African Context
Full text linkThis study explores how socio-cultural complexities and institutional barriers affect the shopping experience of online groceries shoppers in Africa. Adopting a qualitative method with an interpretivist philosophy, 16 in-depth semi structured interviews were conducted with online groceries shoppers in Lagos, Nigeria. Findings reveal that while participants adopt online shopping due to convenience, product variety, and AI-powered decision-support devices, their engagement is constrained by digital mistrust, data insecurity, infrastructural limitations, and weak regulatory enforcement system. The theoretical contributions relate to the e-commerce and technology acceptance literature, and the managerial implications include insights for platform designers, retailers, and policymakers to enhance trust and digital inclusion. This knowledge will help to enhance the emerging markets’ digital retail landscape. Our paper also extends the current theorizing around institutional theory
The secondary school curriculum
No full textThis unit examines the central role of the secondary school curriculum in shaping educational experiences and outcomes. It explores how 'the curriculum' encompasses far more than traditional subject disciplines, extending to all activities promoting intellectual, personal, social and physical development of pupils. The unit traces the evolution from teacher-controlled curriculum decisions to government-prescribed frameworks, examining how political, social and economic factors influence curriculum content and structure. Through comparative analysis of different national approaches across the UK, beginning teachers are encouraged to understand curriculum as both a contested space and a tool for social transformation. The unit emphasises teacher agency, demonstrating how beginning teachers can move beyond simply delivering prescribed content to become active curriculum makers who adapt and transform curriculum documents into meaningful learning experiences
Disentangled Image-Text Classification: Enhancing Visual Representations with MLLM-driven Knowledge Transfer
No full textMultimodal image-text classification plays a critical role in applications such as content moderation, news recommendation, and multimedia understanding. Despite recent advances, visual modality faces higher representation learning complexity than textual modality in semantic extraction, which often leads to a semantic gap between visual and textual representations. In addition, conventional fusion strategies introduce cross-modal redundancy, further limiting classification performance. To address
these issues,we proposeMD-MLLM, a novel image-text classification framework that leverages large multimodal language models (MLLMs) to generate semantically enhanced visual representations.
To mitigate redundancy introduced by direct MLLM feature integration, we introduce a hierarchical disentanglement mechanism based on the Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion (HSIC) and orthogonality constraints, which explicitly separates modality-specific and shared representations. Furthermore, a hierarchical fusion strategy combines original unimodal features with disentangled shared semantics, promoting discriminative feature learning and cross-modal complementarity. Extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets, N24News and Food101, show that MD-MLLM achieves consistently stable improvements in classification accuracy and exhibits competitive performance compared with various representative multimodal baselines. The framework also demonstrates good generalization ability and robustness across different multimodal scenarios. The code is available at https://github.com/xiaohaochen0308/MD-MLLM
Implementing pragmatic case finding to address alcohol use in general practice: a mixed methods feasibility study
Full text linkBackground: screening and brief interventions (sBis) for alcohol use are effective butchallenging to implement in primary care settings. Universal screening is resource-intensive and may not align with general practitioners’ (GPs) perceived professional role.Pragmatic case finding (PcF), which integrates alcohol discussions into clinically relevantcontexts, may provide a feasible alternative to traditional sBi.
Aim: this study aimed to assess the feasibility and acceptability of tailored, theory-basededucational outreach visits (eOVs) to embed PcF in primary care, explore its influenceon professional practice in addressing alcohol, and examine changes in determinants ofGP behaviour pre- and post-implementation.
Design and setting: Four eOVs were delivered in GP clinics in stavanger and Oslo,Norway, involving 37 GPs and 22 support staff, to enhance GPs’ ability to managealcohol-related health problems.
Method: a mixed-methods feasibility study comprising semi-structured group interviewsand quantitative surveys. Group interviews explored GPs’ experiences, while theDeterminants of implementation Behaviour Questionnaire (DiBQ) assessed changes inknowledge, skills and intentions. Qualitative data were thematically analysed.Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics.
Results: GPs (n = 10) perceived the eOVs as feasible and acceptable, preferring in-personover remote delivery. Key themes included greater awareness of alcohol’s healthimpacts, sustaining awareness of hidden cases, reducing stigma through normaliseddiscussions, and balancing motivation with the challenge of changing entrenchedhabits. survey findings (n = 19) showed a gradual, positive shift in GPs’ knowledge, skills,and goals to discuss alcohol.Conclusion: the eOVs were feasible and acceptable for embedding PcF in primarycare. they may strengthen GPs’ capacity to address alcohol in routine consultations, butfurther research is needed to assess fidelity, sustainability, and patient-level outcomes.
Trial registration number: clinicaltrials.gov iD: Nct04725552