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Rhyl Caravan Parks
No full textIt is composed of 18 black&white photographs taken in the 1980s and 1990s. It is included in a box set of 100 Café Royal Books titled Archive Two and is in the collection of major institutions. The CRB photobook Rhyl Caravan Parks and images from it featured in Clarke’s touring exhibition End of the Season (2015 – 2017). Rhyl Caravan Parks, and two images from the photobook, were exhibited at the Martin Parr Foundation in the exhibition Café Royal Books: Documentary, Zines and Subversion (14 April-12 June 2022); and at Stills: Centre for Photography, Edinburgh as part of the exhibition titled Café Royal Books (10 November 2023 – 10 February 2024).Rhyl Caravan Parks was published by Café Royal Books in an edition of 150 in 2015, and was reprinted in 2020 in an edition of 250. It was edited by Craig Atkinson, founder of Café Royal Books. Rhyl Caravan Parks is one of Clarke’s four CRB publications dedicated to the topic of the seaside town of Rhyl, North Wales and is part of Clarke's larger project that documented family holidays in Rhyl. This photobook was published to coincide with Clarke’s exhibition End of the Season at the Grosvenor Museum, Chester. The black&white photographs record the caravan parks of Towyn situated west of Rhyl’s seaside resort. This CRB also marks Clarke's early exploration of his photographic archive that dates from the early 1980s
Developing a supportive community of practice: a doctoral case study
Get PDFThis paper employs a qualitative case study to suggest how the research journey of doctoral students can be improved in educational institutions by encouraging the formation of small and informal Communities of Practice (CoP). It examines themes emerging from the feelings and opinions of four part-time professional doctorate students about their study experience and participation in their emergent CoP. A peer group developed where the students share their experience, expertise, insight, and knowledge in a caring and supportive, but informal, forum. CoP could become an effective tool to aid retention, identity development and wellbeing of postgraduate level students, factors which have been previously identified as key areas of risk. An autoethnographic approach was used to review the feelings, perceptions, and opinions of the four case study group members about their experiences of the informal CoP to date. Thematic analysis of transcripts and WhatsApp communications was used to reveal the perceived common benefits and gains from participation in the informal CoP such as joy, safe spaces, and identity development, aligning members experiences to a CoP lifecycle. The study found small group formation at doctoral programme induction, and encouragement for students to organise their own regular study days using of social channels, may impact overall success. Application and adaptation of this doctoral CoP model could form the basis for future research and a model for academic institutions to suggest to new and existing students
Keywords/key phrases: community of practice, lifecycle, professional doctoral students, support, identity.N/
Strategic Sport Development
No full textThis edited book is not available on ChesterRepThe field of sports development is becoming ever more professional, with the levels of expertise in planning and efficiency required of those working in private or national sports institutions higher than they have ever been. In response to this, strategic sports development has emerged as a means of applying business strategies to the context of sports development. Strategic Sports Development is the first book to directly address this important new field. The book comprehensively explains the strategic concepts and techniques that sports students and practitioners across the UK and internationally need to understand. It includes: national and local case studies that appraise existing strategic management practice in sports development separate full introductions to sports development and business strategy a range of tasks and resources that encourage the reader to develop knowledge, skills and competencies through the application of theory to practical examples the application of strategic management principles to the development of sport and development through sport everything the reader needs to engage meaningfully with the relevant National Occupational Standards for the sport development profession. Strategic Sports Development is designed to help students develop the practical skills needed to contribute to development strategy in a vocational context, and give practitioners the confidence and know-how to improve the strategic development of their sports organization. This book is essential reading for all students and practitioners of strategic sports development, and a valuable resource for students of sports management or development in general.Unfunde
Introduction: Charlotte Brontë and Material Culture
No full textThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society on 23/09/2024, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2024.2377499Unfunde
Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences: Popular Music Autobiographies
No full textThis book chapter is not available on ChesterRepThis chapter considers female fans’ book-length autobiographies, life stories written that recount years spent following stars, particularly from the worlds of 1960s, 1970s and 1980s rock and pop. Mass culture criticism, parasocial interaction, totemism, and participatory culture are widely understood as distinct paradigms through which academics can analyze media fandom. In parallel, I suggest they can also be seen as discursive resources that pop fans exploit in the development of autobiographic accounts. To explain this idea, I compare four case study books: My Ticket to Ride by Janice Mitchell (2021), Ah-Ha Moments by Larissa Bendell (2016), Bye, Bye Baby by Caroline Sullivan (2000), My Men, Mick and Me by Andee Baker (2020). My argument is that in such autobiographic accounts some female fans, particularly, play upon aspects of these familiar frames of thinking, not only to talk about their experiences of fandom, but also to frame their encounters inspirationally, and think about gender relations in ways that are potentially empowering.N/
Missional Capital: Volunteering and Faith Communication
Get PDFIn this thesis, I identify missional capital, which is a form of social capital comprising theological capital, bridging capital, and linking capital, collectively underpinned by bonding capital to explain how volunteering provides lay Christians with confidence they can participate with God in mission. Based on qualitative interviews and participant observation, I find that the experience of volunteering can give lay Christians assurance about sharing their faith commitments in their workplaces and communities, despite their general anxiety about sharing their beliefs with non-Christian peers. My participants believe that stories of their volunteering experiences are welcomed by their friends and colleagues and tell these in order to initiate discussions about their Christian beliefs.
My research arises from my professional practice as volunteer and leader at a Christian witness and service project I pseudonymously name “The Chapel”. The Church of England recognises the importance of witness and service projects, such as The Chapel, to help address its crisis of declining attendance (Church of England Research and Statistics, 2020; The Church of England, 2022, Oct 22). However, since existing volunteer studies typically focus on recruitment and retention (Wilson, 2012), there has been little research into how Christian witness and service projects might also help the Church of England to equip lay Christians to communicate their beliefs beyond their faith community.
My research shows how practices of prayer, listening and storytelling employed by The Chapel leverage the liminality and communitas inherent in volunteer witness and service projects to facilitate theological play. This play strengthens volunteers’ conviction that they can identify and participate in God’s existing activity in visitors’ lives. The attitudes and practices arising from this integrate belief and action creating missional capital. The church is usually conceived as either gathered in worship or scattered in witness and service to the world (Van Gelder & Zscheile, 2011). This study illustrates the service-learning potential of witness and service projects, such as The Chapel, which combine elements of corporate worship with individual witness. I suggest similar practices could be tested in other Christian witness and service projects to teach other lay Christian volunteers to communicate their faith more effectively
Bioprospecting for Jellyceuticals: Evaluating jellyfish as a sustainable biomedical resource
Get PDFInterest in using the class Scyphozoa (‘jellyfish’) as bioresources is on the rise, though it remains unclear how the stability of jellyfish populations will be affected by increased fishery demands. While aquaculture is seldom considered as an option for obtaining jellyfish biomass, it may be necessary to relieve natural populations from fishing pressures and conserve ecosystem services supported by jellyfish. It is therefore important to assess whether aquaculture could provide sought-after jellyfish bioresources. Conversely, there is evidence to suggest that jellyfish abundances might be increasing globally, and it has been suggested that jellyfish fisheries may help regulate disaster events associated with jellyfish population ‘blooms’. Understanding how environmental variables regulate jellyfish physiology is essential to better predict how their population dynamics may change in the future. This type of assessment could help determine whether aquaculture or fisheries will represent a more sustainable method of jellyfish exploitation in the future.
This thesis investigated key environmental drivers of jellyfish development throughout multiple life stages to improve aquaculture techniques and infer how different natural environmental conditions might influence jellyfish physiology. Chapter 2 used a meta-analytical approach to examine the types of research that have been conducted on every scyphozoan genus between 2001-2021. This chapter identified understudied areas of jellyfish biology that could constrain our capacity to harvest jellyfish biomass sustainably. Notably, it was highlighted that relatively few studies have focused on the general biology of jellyfish early life stages or the ecophysiology of the medusa life stage. Chapter 3 assessed the influence of seawater media on Aurelia aurita (moon jellyfish) planula larva and polyp development. Cultivating A. aurita planulae and polyps in artificial seawater reduced the likelihood of successful metamorphosis compared to when natural seawater was used, but husbandry methods that can be used to overcome this issue and cultivate jellyfish with limited access to natural seawater were described. Chapter 4 considered how temperature and feeding regimes influence the growth and asexual reproduction of A. aurita polyps. Temperature and food availability had different effects on somatic growth and populations cultivated in warmer conditions produced more ephyrae (juvenile jellyfish) following a controlled winter simulation.
Chapter 5 tested the influence of similar temperature regimes on subsequent ephyra growth and development into adult medusae. The fastest somatic growth rates were observed at 15 °C and sexual reproduction was impaired at temperatures > 18 °C. Chapter 6 extracted and characterised collagenous solutions derived from medusa samples cultivated within a laboratory setting. The results suggested that the thermal stability of jellyfish collagen is regulated by specific environmental factors and could be optimised through different cultivation protocols. In Chapter 7, ephyrae from the tropical genus Cassiopea (upside-down jellyfish) were cultivated at different temperatures and a range of developmental, morphological, and behavioural metrics were investigated. Somatic growth and morphological development were impaired at temperatures > 25 °C, indicating the stability of Cassiopea sp. fisheries within tropical regions could decline as ocean temperatures rise. Morphometric results from this chapter also suggested that Cassiopea sp. display morphological plasticity in response to temperature. Collectively, these chapters provide insights into how certain environmental conditions can regulate jellyfish biomass production and growth, how jellyfish-derived collagen can be obtained ex situ, and where further research is needed to ensure a sustainable growth of jellyfish exploitation
Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, 12.1 (April 2024)
No full textFounded 2008, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine is a biannual literary periodical publishing flash fictions of up to 360 words.N/
Handbook of Flood Risk Management in Developing Countries
Get PDFIn the wake of worldwide health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, preparedness for disasters can be seriously challenging, especially for already-struggling developing nations. Evidence shows that investigating the dynamic balance between preparedness, communication and response helps in understanding the management systems of two very different forms of disasters happening together. One such case was investigated in Bangladesh, one of the countries with the highest level of vulnerability to changing climate. Bangladesh is prone to frequent cyclones, and more than 80% of the population is potentially at risk of flooding. The country is renowned for its Cyclone Preparedness Programme; however, managing the risk of Cyclone Amphan (May 2020) was hampered, as the country had never previously prepared for a cyclone during a global pandemic. This chapter examines the preparedness of the coastal population for dealing with the ‘dual disasters’ of Amphan and COVID-19. Two sets of participants (affected community, expert group) were interviewed using a snowball method to elucidate the adequacy of their preparedness levels. The outcome of the exercise revealed that due to inefficient institutional support and limited personal capacity, participants were not effectively prepared for the disasters. Their responses echoed some fundamental flaws in disaster management in the context of preparedness and response in tackling dual disasters for developing nations. Policy makers in Bangladesh and elsewhere need to stop normalising vulnerability.Unfunde
The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism
No full textThis chapter argues that the framing of ‘Europe’ in the UK news media saw a gradual adoption of geographically ‘distancing’ language from the early 1950s (and exponentially onwards to the 2016 referendum), which fed into political debate and profoundly shaped public opinion. From the geographically correct, but dated sounding ‘continent’ to the near-universal use of ‘Europe’ to describe ‘anywhere but here’, this analysis of digitized databases suggests that the British press has shaped public attitudes in a considerably more fundamental way than the well-documented attempts by populist politicians. The role of newspapers in the formulation and distribution of ideas, in a broad sense, underpins this study. The use of the word ‘Europe’ transcends geographical reality to encompass alternative worldviews, descriptions of political positions and affinity. This chapter will unpick this linguistic evolution, examining the data derived from content analysis through the prism of place representation, ideology and emotional association.N/
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