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Prisoners regulating prisons: voice, action, participation and riot
Get PDFBuck, G. & Tomczak, P., Prisoners regulating prisons: Voice, action, participation and riot. Criminology and Criminal Justice, (Journal Volume Number 24 and Issue Number 1) pp. 144-163. Copyright © [2022] (Copyright Holder). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.Prisoners are a critical source of prison regulation around the world, but regulation by (rather than of) prisoners remains little analysed. In this article, we utilise the 1990 riots at HMP Strangeways (England), as a case study of prisoners (re)shaping imprisonment. We examine prisoners’ roles in these riots and subsequent cross-sectoral regulatory activities. We innovatively use the four-phase process of translation from actor-network theory to guide document analysis of i) Lord Woolf’s (1991) official inquiry into the riots and ii) the voluntary organisation Prison Reform Trust’s (2015) follow up report. We explore how participatory approaches could inform prison regulation through (former) prisoners partnering with external regulators throughout the processes of identifying problems and solutions to establish broader alliances seeking social change
The Long-Arm Approach to Placement Supervision and Assessment
Get PDFThis document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in BJN, 31(4), copyright ©MA Healthcare, after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2022.31.4.247In response, to the regulatory changes that require health and/or social care registrants to supervise and assess students on practice placements (NMC, 2018), the University of Chester’s (UoC) Faculty of Health and Social Care (H&SC) has developed an innovative long-arm practice supervision model, which supports the development of these types of practice placements as HUBs and also funds the registrants to deliver it, ensuring optimum support for students and the practice area
Suicide rates amongst individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Get PDFBackground
Existing evidence suggests that some individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds are at increased risk of suicide compared to their majority ethnic counterparts, whereas others are at decreased risk. We aimed to estimate the absolute and relative risk of suicide in individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds globally.
Methods
Databases (Medline, Embase, and PsycInfo) were searched for epidemiological studies between 01/01/2000 and 3/07/2020, which provided data on absolute and relative rates of suicide amongst ethnic minority groups. Studies reporting on clinical or specific populations were excluded. Pairs of reviewers independently screened titles, abstracts, and full texts. We used random effects meta-analysis to estimate overall, sex, location, migrant status, and ancestral origin, stratified pooled estimates for absolute and rate ratios. PROSPERO registration: CRD42020197940.
Findings
A total of 128 studies were included with 6,026,103 suicide deaths in individuals from an ethnic minority background across 31 countries. Using data from 42 moderate-high quality studies, we estimated a pooled suicide rate of 12·1 per 100,000 (95% CIs 8·4–17·6) in people from ethnic minority backgrounds with a broad range of estimates (1·2–139·7 per 100,000). There was weak statistical evidence from 51 moderate-high quality studies that individuals from ethnic minority groups were more likely to die by suicide (RR 1·3 95% CIs 0·9–1·7) with again a broad range amongst studies (RR 0·2–18·5). In our sub-group analysis we only found evidence of elevated risk for indigenous populations (RR: 2·8 95% CIs 1·9–4·0; pooled rate: 23·2 per 100,000 95% CIs 14·7–36·6). There was very substantial heterogeneity (I2 > 98%) between studies for all pooled estimates.
Interpretation
The homogeneous grouping of individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds is inappropriate. To support suicide prevention in marginalised groups, further exploration of important contextual differences in risk is required. It is possible that some ethnic minority groups (for example those from indigenous backgrounds) have higher rates of suicide than majority populations
A Review of the Publication Trend of Data Analytics
Get PDFData Analytics has been considered as a promising topic. This paper aims to review the trends of Data Analytics in terms of related publications. More specifically, in this study we analysed 18-years real-world data obtained from Web of Science database for the purpose. These data include the first relevant publication found in the database. In total, 18610 relevant publications have been identified during 2004 to 2021. According to the findings from analysing the identified publications, we suggest that Data Analytics is a glowing global topic involving affiliations and funding sponsors from different countries. On top of the industrial voice saying Data Analytics is an emerging topic, the findings from this paper can provide an additional reference for the education sector, government, and academia, to conduct, promote and support the Data Analytics related research. We believe this is the first time that a study has been conducted to comprehensively review the development trends of Data Analytics. Hopefully, this study can shed some light on related research
Exploring the transformational learning potential of the ‘outside field’ coach mentor: An ethnographic study with four duoethnographies
No full textDespite the awareness that sports coaches actively seek advice and support from those they consider to be mentors (including, those mentors who may be positioned as non-sport, or outside the field of sport), there remains a paucity of empirical research, about ‘what happens’ or ‘what goes on’ in the mentoring space, particularly from a learning impact perspective. Indeed, ‘what is spoken about’, ‘what is said and by whom’ and ‘what may be learnt’ by mentoring participants in the mentoring space remains largely unknown. There may be reasons for this, including the fact that coach mentoring episodes are figuratively hidden, often private affairs. By gaining privileged mentor access to three high-performance Futsal coaches’ this study aims to explore the role of an outside field coach mentor, during a period of time when each Futsal coach is preparing national Futsal teams for international competition. Data about what happens in the coach mentoring space is collected through a form of collaborative reflexive dialogue (between the coach mentor and each Futsal coach), leading to the formation of four separate duoethnographies. In order to analyse the dialogue contained in each duoethnography (DE), the work of Jack Mezirow’s Transformation Learning (TL) theory is adopted as a lens to further explore the transformative learning potential of the coach mentor. Participation in this study was entirely voluntary, based on the principle of the informed consent from three high-performance Futsal coaches. Through the writing and analysis of each DE, findings reveal the potential an outside field coach mentor may have in supporting the transformational learning of each Futsal coach and indeed his own. In this way, this current study contributes both to a wider understanding of the role of a coach mentor in the context of high-performance sports coaching and equally the value of DE as an approach for critical reflexive dialogue in sports coach mentoring
Essential Subject Knowledge for Primary Teaching
No full textWhat is RE? What does subject knowledge look like in RE in the Primary school
Identifying and reviewing the key literature for your assignment
No full textIdentifying the most relevant, up-to-date and reliable references is a critical stage in the preparation of a whole range of assessments at university, including essays, reports, projects and dissertations, but it is a stage which is often rushed and unsystematic. As Boell and Cecez-Kecmanovic (2014: 257) argue: “The quality and success of scholarly work depends in large measure on the quality of the literature review process.” This chapter is designed to help you improve the quality of your literature search and your written review of the literature, both of which are key elements in undertaking a research project and writing an essay (West et al., 2019).
This chapter is organized into the following sections:
• The purpose of searching the literature
• Making a start
• Framing your search
• Managing your search
• Search tools
• Evaluating the literature
• Writing the literature revie
Destroy the 'Sutton Hoo Treasure'!
Get PDFOpen access book chapter. Permission granted by Archaeopress.This chapter presents a survey and critique of the use of ‘treasure(s)’ to describe the burial assemblage from the Mound 1 ship-burial at Sutton Hoo since its discovery in 1939. I argue that referring to the contents of Mound 1 as ‘treasure(s)’ is not merely misrepresenting, commodifying and sensationalising its funerary context and wider significance. Furthermore, the persistent use of the terms directly relates also to specific, multiple valences which assert and perpetuate a specific interpretation of the grave as a ‘King’s Mound’. Moreover, referring to more than the rare and high-status character of the finds, ‘treasure(s)’ also casts the assemblage’s identity as a ‘national treasure’, legitimising its curation by the British Museum and valorising the benefaction of the landowner who commissioned the 1938 and 1939 excavations: Mrs Edith Pretty. Another key dimension to the use of the term is the assemblage’s perceived relationship with the epic Old English poem Beowulf and the ‘treasures’ it describes. As a label, ‘treasure(s)’ inaccurately and tenaciously sublimates the rich and complex story of the grave, the contexts of the cemetery, locality and region into a simplified simulacrum of early East Anglian/Anglo-Saxon kingship linked to religious conversion and tied to patriotic modern concepts of Englishness. I demonstrate how the use of ‘treasure’ reveals a nexus of Anglo-Saxonist and Germanist ideological readings of the assemblage in academic discourse and popular culture
Small-RNA Sequencing Reveals Altered Skeletal Muscle microRNAs and snoRNAs Signatures in Weanling Male Offspring from Mouse Dams Fed a Low Protein Diet during Lactation
Get PDFMaternal diet during gestation and lactation affects the development of skeletal muscles in offspring and determines muscle health in later life. In this paper, we describe the association between maternal low protein diet-induced changes in offspring skeletal muscle and the differential expression (DE) of small non-coding RNAs (sncRNAs). We used a mouse model of maternal protein restriction, where dams were fed either a normal (N, 20%) or a low protein (L, 8%) diet during gestation and newborns were cross-fostered to N or L lactating dams, resulting in the generation of NN, NL and LN offspring groups. Total body and tibialis anterior (TA) weights were decreased in weanling NL male offspring but were not different in the LN group, as compared to NN. However, histological evaluation of TA muscle revealed reduced muscle fibre size in both groups at weaning. Small RNA-sequencing demonstrated DE of multiple miRs, snoRNAs and snRNAs. Bioinformatic analyses of miRs-15a, -34a, -122 and -199a, in combination with known myomiRs, confirmed their implication in key muscle-specific biological processes. This is the first comprehensive report for the DE of sncRNAs in nutrition-associated programming of skeletal muscle development, highlighting the need for further research to unravel the detailed molecular mechanisms
In corpore sano, acta non verba: permanent performance under precariousness
Get PDFPerformance art is a passionate objection to how contemporary work damages people and planet through a constant drive to perform. I examine this phenomenon using a provocative practice-as-research methodology which imbricates theory and performance autoethnography with art making and documenting. Findings are derived through artworks involving blood toxins, a discarded turkey body, 500 Financial Times newspapers, life-threatening blood pressure readings, apples, 101 Google translations, fish, governmental grand narratives, cola jus, tea cakes pressed by a person with diabetes, collective balloon popping, binary code poetry, a 7.5 hour-long performance appraisal, and hope. I argue that practice-as-research is, in itself, a compositional strategy for precariousness and that it can temporarily pause the constant drive to perform.Advance HE (National Teaching Fellowship grant
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