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Photovoice with care: A creative and accessible method for representing lived experiences
Get PDFPhotovoice is a research method with great promise as a tool for people looking to tell stories about their lives and work toward change, it also has much to offer criminology, creating insightful material from the perspectives of those most intimately connected to the research topic. This article reflects on photovoice as a resource for lived experience practitioners, activists, and leaders. The work we reflect upon is a co-designed, participatory study of a community-led crime prevention organisation: ‘Reformed’. We (Natasha and Kemi) founded Reformed after being released from prison to multiple barriers and low expectations from criminal justice professionals.Cheshire and Merseyside Social Work Teaching Partnership [2020–2022] Grant number [HSC 20-27]
The psychosocial considerations for behaviour change, mental health and work-related satisfaction in pre-registration nurses, during coronavirus pandemic
Get PDFThe mental health of healthcare workers was affected by physical and psychological challenges during the pandemic. The aim was to study how psychosocial considerations can help manage behaviour change, mental health, and work satisfaction of nurse trainees in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. This cross-sectional study involved ninety-nine students. Participants’ anxiety, fear of the coronavirus, and perceived work satisfaction were measured by GAD-7, FCV19S and COM-B scales and assessed using descriptive, correlational and linear regression analysis. The significant zero-order correlations between job satisfaction and fear, anxiety and psychosocial considerations were significant. They indicated moderate strength that allowed for further inferential development to find the best predictors of job satisfaction. The findings suggested that 50% of trainees showed anxiety above the suggested ≥ 8 cut-off on GAD-7, and 48% scored high for fear on FCV19S. There was a significant effect between year groups F (2, 99) = 4.25, p = .02, η 2 = .081, with a Tukey post hoc test showing a significant difference between training years 1 and 2 with a p = .015. A significant linear regression found that psychosocial variables in behaviour change p = <.001 and anxiety p = .011 were significant factors in job satisfaction, explaining 53.4% of the variance. Conclusion: Satisfaction was associated with higher levels of psychosocial considerations and low levels of anxiety and fear, which adds to previous literature on job satisfaction in nurse education. Future implications must examine ways to alleviate mental health effects and to support policy and curricula to address this need.n/
Unspeakable fat, unspeakable beauty: Fatness, apophasis and the overflowing of excess
No full textThis chapter draws on Augustine’s theology of perfect heavenly bodies including his theological rendering of beauty and fat to consider what apophasis might mean for feminist theological thinking about fatness and women’s fat. Routinely criticized for promoting a flight from the body and its excessive passions and a vision of resurrection bodies as free from the imperfections of the material flesh, Augustine provides an interesting although perhaps unlikely dialogue partner for thinking about this. My claim is that there is much to glean from him, despite the difficulties he presents. There is also much to garner from feminist fat activism and from critical feminist reflections on the fluidity of fat embodiment. Both inform my feminist theological appraisal of fat bodies as unspeakable bodiesunfunde
Travelling Solo: Flash Fictions [Kindle Edition]
No full textThis book is not available on ChesterRep.In an East Anglian seaside town, a woman recognises her lost son at a supermarket checkout. Outside on the marine parade, a van driver dreams of rescuing a young woman from the seedy tourist trade. Meanwhile, a few miles away, a redundant City banker has retreated to the coast in an effort to reinvent himself. In these thirty flash fictions, paths cross, people meet and part, and always there are consequences, often misremembered or misunderstood.
Funny, caustic and poignant by turns, the stories remind us that we each find our own way through the muddle of life.N/
The ARRIVE guidelines 2.0 author checklist
Get PDFThe ARRIVE guidelines 2.0 - full author checklistEstablishment of consensual husbandry protocols for laboratory Xenopus laevis using novel physiological and behavioural techniques. | Funder: National Centre for the Replacement Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research | Grant ID: NC/K000497/
Quantifying morphological changes in middle trapezius with ultrasonography and histogram matching for participants with and without Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy
Get PDF© The Author(s) 2024.Objective: Echogenicity is a biomarker in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). Currently, it is not possible to compare echogenicity values, derived using quantified muscle sonography capture, based on different equipment instrumentation settings. Image normalization, using histogram matching, could address this limitation. The aim of this study was to investigate the sensitivity of histogram matching, with trapezius muscle echogenicity values, in participants with and without FSHD. Materials and Methods: Sensitivity analysis of a single measurement timepoint case control study of participants with FSHD, using age- and gender-matched controls. Correlations between trapezius muscle echogenicity, muscle thickness, and shoulder range of movements were also completed. Results: Data were collected for 14 participants, seven with FSHD and seven controls. The cohort had a mean age of 41.6 years. The FSHD group echogenicity values (118.2) were higher than controls (42.3), respectively, as well as statistically significant ( p = .002). An overall variance of 6.2 (range = −2.9 to 15.4) was identified between the reference images. Echogenicity explained 81% of the variance in muscle thickness and 74% of the variance in range of movement muscle thickness was explained by 61% of the variance for range of movement. Conclusion: Histogram matching for comparison of echogenicity was required. Different reference images affect echogenicity values, but the variability was less than between group differences. Further longitudinal evaluation based on a larger sample of participants is needed.This work was funded by the Orthopaedic Institute Limited: Award RPG18
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Get PDFThis book is for higher and further education tutors who wish to build on their experience, and deliver exciting and accessible classroom techniques and practices that are highly interactive, creative, and engaging to help further the teaching of sustainability.RKT16/0
Student-parents’ experiences of personal and academic support in UK higher education: barriers and challenges to equality of opportunity and policy and practice recommendations to mitigate them
Get PDFThis paper discusses the findings of a study of students with parental responsibility (student-parents) in England and Scotland. Exploring participants’ experiences of pastoral and academic support during their university journey, the study builds on previous small-scale research projects into the needs of student-parents (Todd, 2023a; 2023b) and was undertaken in the wake of both the UK's Universities and Colleges Admissions Service's (UCAS) new question inviting student-parents to self-identify when applying to university and the 2023 introduction of the Office for Students’ (OfS) Equality of Opportunity Risk Register (EORR) for institutions based in England. The study's findings reveal pockets of institutional good practice but also systemic failures in pastoral and academic support for student-parents across the sector, which pose a considerable risk to their retention, progression and success. This paper links these failures to the risk factors identified in the EORR, explores recommendations for practice to minimise these risks, and shares the findings that contributed to the OfS's decision, in January 2024, to include student-parents in the EORR, meaning all providers in England will now be obliged to have regard to this cohort in their Access and Participation planning.Unfunde
“Played like a deck of cards” Youth workers’ accounts of Adverse Childhood Experiences and engaging in Trauma Informed Practice. Analysing discourse and its impact on professional identity
No full textThrough engagement in in critical and social constructionist research this thesis demonstrates prevailing discourses about youth work, its identity as a profession, and the way Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have come to be understood within, and to inform, contemporary youth work practice.
Initially the historical, theoretical, and practical underpinnings of youth work in England and Wales is considered and its evolution is situated within broader socio-political and economic contexts. Competing paradigms framing youth work are noted. The tensions between those paradigms, one focussed on empowerment and social justice, the other on personal development within existing structures, are explored. Historical shifts in youth work are analysed, from its philanthropic beginnings and the "golden age" following the Albemarle Report to its neo-liberal reframing under austerity policies. Particular attention is given to how ACEs have recently emerged as a construct shaping youth work discourse, often pathologising young people while obscuring structural inequalities.
The methodology for the thesis is then explained. It is noted that the thesis draws on insights from critical and constructivist research and that a critical discourse analysis approach, examining youth workers’ account of contemporary practice, is undertaken. The choice of methodological framework is justified on the basis that it facilitates a critical understanding of how a concern for ACEs is applied when youth workers engage with young people. Also, on the basis that it facilitates an exploration of how power, knowledge, and identity are constructed and contested as youth workers give account of their profession and work.
The findings address issues of fragmentation in youth work's professional identity, exacerbated by competing definitions and models of practice. While ACEs is presented as providing a lens for understanding individual trauma, its uncritical adoption is shown to depoliticise youth work, steering it away from structural critiques towards individualised and therapeutic interventions. Youth workers are shown to articulate a desire for greater clarity and coherence in professional standards, emphasising the importance of voluntary engagement, relational work, and empowerment. However, medicalised and neo-liberal discourses are shown to
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constrain these ideals, leading to prioritisation of targeted interventions over universal provision.
The findings, however, also address the potential for a reinvigorated form of youth working focussed on transformative conversations. Transformative conversations are relational, dialogic exchanges that can foster critical reflection, empowerment, and subject re-positioning. Spaces for such conversations, which have the potential to challenge dominant discourses, are identified to enable youth workers to question societal norms and their positioning within power structures. An interface between transformative conversations and the discourse analytic approach to the research is noted. This is because both are founded on deconstructing language and power dynamics to reveal how meanings, albeit shaped by broader societal discourses, are also co-constructed. Accordingly, it is shown how insights from discourse analysis can be used to inform transformative conversations to potentially resist oppressive narratives, aligning with a youth work agenda focused on social justice and empowerment.
The discussion situates the findings within the broader context of social justice, arguing for a reinvigoration of youth work’s emancipatory ethos through transformative conversations and dialogue. The need for a renewed commitment to addressing systemic inequalities through collective, rights-based approaches is emphasised. The thesis concludes with a call for a reimagining of youth work as a radical, transformative practice that resists neo-liberal commodification. The thesis contributes to the academic and practical understanding of youth work by offering a critical lens through which contemporary and future challenges may be viewed
Barriers and incentives influencing the use of partograph in Nigeria: A comprehensive review
Get PDFThis comprehensive review examines the barriers and incentives influencing the use of partographs in maternal healthcare within Nigeria. Maternal mortality remains a critical concern in the country, making it imperative to evaluate the factors that shape the adoption of essential tools like the partograph. The literature review underscores the global significance of partograph utilization, emphasizing its role in improving maternal outcomes. A particular focus is placed on existing studies and findings relevant to Nigeria, providing a nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by healthcare providers. The article delves into the barriers hindering the widespread adoption of partographs in Nigeria, including issues related to training, resource availability, and cultural considerations. Additionally, it explores the incentives that can positively influence healthcare practitioners and facilities to integrate partographs into their maternal care protocols. Government policies and initiatives in Nigeria related to maternal healthcare and partograph use are also analyzed, shedding light on the broader contextual factors impacting implementation. Through examining case studies, the review presents real-world examples that illustrate successful and challenging instances of partograph implementation. The article concludes with actionable recommendations to overcome identified barriers and enhance incentives for effectively integrating partographs into maternal healthcare practices in Nigeria. This study contributes valuable insights to the ongoing discourse on improving maternal healthcare, emphasizing the need for tailored strategies in the Nigerian context.Unfunde
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