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Retracing footsteps: An exhibition of landscape, text and image
Get PDF© The Author(s) 2024.This article reflects on an interdisciplinary research project between a cultural geographer and practising artists in documenting the changing landscape of the mountain Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon), Wales. The project draws on archival materials in the form of 19th-century visitors’ books housed in summit ‘hotel’ huts. The visitor books provide a point of departure for research which references the historic insights of the varying tourist encounters of the mountain landscape. By physically retracing the footsteps of 19th-century tourists, the team employed image-making practices to (re)imagine how the mountain is experienced today. This led to a curated exhibition that juxtaposed 19c. visitor book extracts and photographs to communicate the historical and
contemporary social-spatial and environmental changes and tensions within the landscape. This paper critically reflects on the retrieval, selection and exhibition of text and image and argues how this process offers new geographical interpretations and forms of dissemination of past and present understandings of human encounters with landscapes.UnfundedAAM deposited 24/10/2024. AAM swapped for VoR 16/12/202
'Come!' Dracula's Bawdy
Get PDFA consideration of whether Bram Stoker's novel Dracula is intentionally bawdy.Unfunde
Pandora's Box (2005)
No full textPublishing information and table of contents for issue 3 (2005)Founded 2003, Pandora’s Box is an annual literary periodical publishing a selection of the year’s best creative writing by students and staff at the University of Chester.N/
Book Review: Étienne Anheim, Laurent Feller, Madeleine Jeay and Giuliano Milani (eds), Le Pouvoir des Listes au Moyen Âge – II. Listes d’objets/ listes de personnes. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020. Pp. 320. EURO 22
Get PDFThis document is the Author Accepted version of a published work that appeared in final form in [Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies]. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1086/731084A book review of Étienne Anheim, Laurent Feller, Madeleine Jeay and Giuliano Milani (eds), Le Pouvoir des Listes au Moyen Âge – II. Listes d’objets/ listes de personnes. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020. Pp. 320. EURO 22.Unfunde
A systematic environmental intervention, nidotherapy, given to whole communities: protocol for a randomised stepped-wedge trial
Get PDFEnvironmental changes can be positive in mental illness. Systematic, planned and guided environmental change in all its aspects is called nidotherapy. It has shown some benefit but has not been extended to whole communities. A cluster-randomised step-wedge trial is planned in six village communities in Nottinghamshire, England, covering an adult population of 400. Adults in six villages will be offered a full personal environmental assessment followed by agreed change in different 3-month periods over the course of 1 year. All six villages have populations between 51 and 100 residents and are similar demographically. Assessments of mental health, personality status, social function, quality of life and environment satisfaction will be made. After the initial baseline period of 3 months, two villages will be randomised to nidotherapy for 3 months, a further two at 6 months and the last two at 9 months. The primary outcome will be change in social function; secondary outcomes include health-related quality of life, anxiety and depressive symptoms, personality status, costs of nidotherapy and life satisfaction. Adverse events will also be recorded. The analysis will be carried out using a multimodal statistical approach examining (a) the change in scores of the primary outcome (social function); (b) change in scores of all secondary outcomes, including costs; and (c) changes in environmental satisfaction. The findings of this study should help to determine whether nidotherapy has a place in the early detection and treatment of mental pathology.N/
Examining How Suspect Veracity and Culpability Effect Interviewer and Interviewee Behaviour in Homicide Interviews
No full textThis thesis examines the effect of suspect veracity (whether a suspect provides a truthful or deceptive account) and culpability (whether the suspect was subsequently found guilty of the offence) on police interviewing practices in homicide cases. These variables are treated as analytically distinct, addressing a common limitation in existing research, which has often conflated deception with guilt. The study focuses on how suspect veracity and culpability affects interviewer conduct and suspect responses in real investigative contexts. Homicide interviews were analysed due to their evidential complexity, consequential and legal seriousness, and the demands they place on interviewers. In contrast to research based on experimental or simulated data, this thesis draws on field data to provide insight into police interviewing as it is practised. The research is based on 60 audio-recorded homicide suspect interviews, totalling 113 hours of material. Four empirical studies systematically examined the effect of veracity and culpability using content analysis and structured coding frameworks. The first two studies investigated question and statement types, and suspect responses. The third and fourth examined the type and timing of evidence disclosure and the corresponding suspect behaviour. A fifth study, using questionnaire data from police officers, explored professional perceptions of the interview practices observed in the field data. Data were analysed using both quantitative and qualitative methods, including descriptive and inferential statistics and thematic analysis. Findings indicate that veracity and culpability affected interviewer behaviour across all stages of the interview. Suspects who deceptively denied their culpability were more frequently challenged, through both questioning and increased evidence disclosure. In contrast, truthful suspects who admitted culpability were met with clarification-based questions, reflecting a more collaborative, narrative-focused approach. Furthermore, suspects who truthfully denied culpability may present interpretive challenges, as their honesty could be less apparent perhaps due to limited knowledge, cautious responses, and misplaced confidence in being believed. While recommended practices were generally followed, the limited use of open questions and variability in evidence disclosure suggest areas for further development. The thesis contributes to the field by providing empirically grounded insights into how suspect veracity and culpability affect interviewer and suspect decision-making in serious crime contexts
The role of BACP in maximising the potential of counselling and psychological therapies research in the UK: Benefitting clients, communities, and societies
Get PDFThis is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [Barkham, M., Charura, D., Cooper, M., Gabriel, L., Hanley, T., McLeod, T., Moller, N., Reeves, A., & Smith, K. (2024). The role of BACP in maximising the potential of counselling and psychological therapies research in the UK: Benefitting clients, communities, and societies. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 24(4), 1133-1140], which has been published in final form at [https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12777]. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) is the largest professional membership body within the field of counselling and psychological therapies in the UK, but there is a mismatch between its membership of >65,000 and its research impact. This article sets out a potential strategic direction as considered by an informal grouping of researchers and teachers in the field. Actionable research plans are outlined at three levels: client-practitioner, local communities, and societies. At the client-practitioner level, data-informed practice can be readily implemented as a therapeutic aid akin to supervision, providing the potential for integrating research into everyday practice. At the community level, interdisciplinary collaborations together with a focus on equality, diversity, and inclusiveness are paths to building a community of researchers and citizens that includes marginalised populations. The importance of social justice extends into the societal level, connecting with politics at a micro and macro level, and engaging internationally to respond to actual threats (e.g., climate change). Across these three levels, high value is placed on data with its potential for informing and improving practice, but also enhancing the lives of people in communities and societies. Overall, research strategies need to be collaborative (i.e., collegial) and less singular (i.e., individually- project based), developing cumulative knowledge around specific topics via a ‘capture and build’ strategy for small projects with strategic oversight by BACP. Clarity of research strategy combined with collaborative and collective action from BACP and leaders in the field can help realise the full potential of BACP’s research capacity.unfunde
Gambling, cryptocurrency, and financial trading sponsorship in high-level men's soccer leagues: An update for the 2023/2024 season
Get PDFThis is the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM). The final published version (Version of Record) can be found on the publisher's website. The copyright of any third-party content, such as images, remains with the copyright holder.The AAM was added to the record on 13/11/202
Retaining talent through job enrichment
Get PDF© [2023, Emerald Publishing Limited]. This AAM is provided for your own personal use only. It may not be used for resale, reprinting, systematic distribution, emailing, or for any other commercial purpose without the permission of the publisher.Global talent shortages, new skill demand and rising numbers of unfilled posts are fuelling an increasingly challenging job market, exacerbated by economic uncertainty and transformational digital change. Seeking creative solutions in response, the authors examine talent management’s (TM) theoretical and conceptual foundations, specifically the identification and selection of talent and TM programme design to explore the challenges and benefits of side-of-desk projects as interventions.
Design/methodology/approach
Taking an inductive qualitative approach, questionnaires, focus groups and semi-structured interviews gathered data from three employee groups in a UK digital communications organisation.
Findings
The authors reveal inconsistencies in the definition and selection of talent, highlighting programme quality challenges to expose a direct correlation between participant experience and motivation and retention, along with the longer-term challenges of balancing talented human capital, shareholder expectations and sustainable workforce resourcing.
Originality/value
The authors' research extends existing knowledge concerning the effect of organisational culture, context and workforce demands upon TM programmes, providing theoretical and practical implications for leaders and policymakers in designing enrichment activities to motivate, develop and retain talent. The authors make recommendations to inform the future design of TM programmes, revealing new opportunities to develop hidden talent and presenting a realistic and sustainable toolkit for future practice in the form of an organisational logic model
Exploring local perspectives on flood risk: A participatory GIS approach for bridging the gap between modelled and perceived flood risk zones
Get PDFAs cities continue to expand and climate change exacerbates flooding, development within flood risk zones becomes an increasingly pressing concern. Engineered solutions alone cannot fully address the risks to individuals and communities, especially when local officials and residents have conflicting understanding of the risk. Participatory GIS (PGIS) offers a unique opportunity to bridge this gap by engaging with communities to better understand their perceptions of flood risk. While PGIS has traditionally been used in developing nations as an alternative to numerical flood models, its potential for use in developed nations is largely unexplored. This paper presents a case study of survey-based PGIS conducted in Reading, a large town in Berkshire, UK. Findings suggest that local residents possess a surprisingly accurate understanding of flood risk zones, but discrepancies with modelled flood risk were also identified. These discrepancies may be due to issues with cartographic representation, but also raise concerns about the accuracy of numerical flood models. By examining local perceptions of flood
risk, this study highlights the importance of considering community perspectives in flood risk management and offers valuable insights for practitioners seeking to bridge the gap between modelled and perceived flood risk zones
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