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Justice, Resilience and Participatory Processes
No full textCurrent policies promote shared responsibility by governments and the population to minimise the impact of disasters and recover post-disaster including preparation and adaptation to potential hazards such as those precipitated by climate change. Through a process that is not well enunciated, communities are expected to become ‘resilient’. This chapter explores the meanings and mechanisms of achieving community resilience, with a focus on participatory processes that promote knowledge exchange, transparency and inclusiveness, core ingredients of procedural and distributional justice. It explores what is meant by ‘vulnerable’ communities, extending current thinking beyond ‘the usual’, illustrated with a case study of the 2011 flooding disaster of Rocklea industrial area in Brisbane Australia. It concludes with suggestions for participatory research about practical application of the concepts to achieve resilient communities
‘A flight over the study area’: ecological ontologies in doctoral thesis acknowledgments
No full textThe formation of emerging doctoral scholarly identities has received significant attention in recent Education research, some of which is situated within the spatial turn that seeks to understand the impact of space and place upon identity and pedagogy. In this research project, involving analysis of PhD thesis acknowledgements written in 1980, we began with focusing on how these texts illustrated the social, epistemological and spatial aspects of doctoral scholarly identity formation. However, our encounters with these evocative data challenged us to enlarge our thinking about the relationship between a scholarly identity, place and things, and offered possibilities to apply the concepts of the ‘placeful university’ and ‘ecological ontology’ to our analysis. These concepts offer an alternative way of thinking about mind and matter in doctoral education that takes us beyond Cartesian dualism, undermining and decentring the traditional and neoliberal university’s construct of the heroic individual researcher
Higher education, intellectual property, and incubation mechanisms: The case of Australia’s Indie 100
No full textThis chapter describes a research and engagement project through which a pedagogy of experience presented itself as a fruitful way forward for teaching creative industries professionalism in higher education (HE) contexts. The project, Indie 100, involved hundreds of local musicians at an annual attempt to create 100 new songs in 100 hours. Following an intense week of music production, the project undertook to promote and commercialise the material over the following 12 months. During the five-year period in which the project ran, its participants—including musicians, students, and industry professionals from throughout Australia and internationally, along with staff from the university that ran the project—formed into numerous and surprising project configurations, many of which resulted in ongoing success. The historical slant of the chapter situates today’s young musician within a fast-emerging, post-digital ‘handicraft’ economy. That is, rather than being simply an industrial hand—solely a maker of musical things—today’s musicians will often need to compose, record, stage, produce, release, promote, and manage the copyrights they produce, at least until they can afford to ‘outsource’ one or more of the functions that add up to a musical living. Or, to put it more simply, today’s musicians must make, promote, and sell their music, with all the complications that involves. The recorded music industry is especially perplexing for young artists, in large part because of its intersection with national and international intellectual property (IP) regimes, and with a long corporate influence on the ways in which the act of making a record is understood, both legally and interpersonally. The chapter details the ways in which IP and musical aspirations redound against each other to produce the complex legal relationships involved in any recording. It shows how John Dewey’s emphasis on locality provides a basis upon which new understandings of curriculum can emerge in a globalised semiotic environment (which includes the legal, business, and aesthetic environments) dominated by the likes of Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. The experience of Indie 100 showed all of us involved how quickly and strangely the informational deluge facilitated by those behemoths has come to challenge the centuries-old ‘knowledge monopoly’ formerly held by universities and other institutes of higher learning. Rather than continue as brokers of ‘sacred’ or ‘secret’ information, our experience of Indie 100 indicates the future for HE, at least in creative industries, is one in which students are guided through high-value, high-stakes, high-profile projects that immerse them in professional networks, professional working circumstances, and professional levels of intensity and engagement
The Experience of Novelty and the Novelty of Experience
No full textIn cognitive psychology novelty is an antecedent of attention, emotion, memory, and behavior. However, the relationship between novelty and experience memorability remains conceptually underdeveloped in tourism. This research applies cognitive appraisal theory (CAT) to explore the contribution of novelty and emotion to memorable tourism experiences (MTEs). Seventy-five novel travel episodes were identified through semi-structured interviews. Analysis focused on the antecedent and consequent conditions of novelty. Novel experiences, whether positive or negative, were identified as critical to experience memorability. Novelty could be segmented into trip-related and event-related dimensions. Novelty contributes to how spatial, temporal, and contextual details of tourism experiences are remembered and reconstructed due to the elicitation of intense emotions. Analysis revealed negative experiences deemed as novel were found to be re-evaluated and often remembered as a positive experience. A conceptual model titled “cognitive appraisal of novelty in memorable tourism experiences” is presented for consideration in future research. By applying a retrospective and prospective approach the conceptual model explores the role of novelty through the process of cognitive appraisal, identifying goals, attention, and prior experiences as central for the experience of novelty. Future research should consider the application of recent advance in CAT to advance inquiry on tourism experiences as a psychological phenomenon
Re‐examining the reciprocal effects model of self‐concept, self‐efficacy, and academic achievement in a comparison of the Cross‐Lagged Panel and Random‐Intercept Cross‐Lagged Panel frameworks
No full textBackground:
The cross‐lagged panel (regression) model (CLPM) is the usual framework of choice to test the longitudinal reciprocal effects between self‐concept and achievement. Criticisms of the CLPM are that causal paths are over‐estimated as they fail to discriminate between‐ and within‐person variation. The random‐intercept cross‐lagged panel model (RI‐CLPM) is one alternative that extends the CLPM by partialling out between‐person variance.
Aims:
We compare analyses from a CLPM and a RI‐CLPM which examine the reciprocal relationships between self‐concept, self‐efficacy, and achievement and determine the extent CLPM estimates are inflated by between‐person variance.
Sample(s):
Participants (n = 314) were first‐year undergraduate psychology students recruited as part of the STudent Engagement with Education and Learning (STEEL) project.
Methods:
Participants completed measures of self‐efficacy and self‐concept prior to completing fortnightly quiz assessments.
Results:
Cross‐Lagged Panel (regression) Model estimates are likely over‐estimated in comparison with RI‐CLPM estimates. Cross‐Lagged Panel (regression) Model analyses identified a reciprocal effects relationship between self‐concept and achievement, confirming established literature. In RI‐CLPM analyses, these effects were attenuated and a skill development association between achievement and self‐concept was supported. A reciprocal relationship between self‐efficacy and achievement was supported. Better model fit was reported for the RI‐CLPM analyses.
Conclusions:
Prior findings relating to the reciprocal effects of self‐concept and achievement need to be reconsidered. Whilst such a relationship was supported in a CLPM analysis in this study, within an RI‐CLPM framework, only achievement predicted self‐concept. However, in both CLPM and RI‐CLPM models a reciprocal effects model of self‐efficacy and achievement was supported
Save our screens: 3 things government must do now to keep Australian content alive
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‘The doctor will Skype you now’: telehealth may limit coronavirus spread, but there’s more we can do to protect health workers
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Development of an Anthropometric Prediction Model for Fat-Free Mass and Muscle Mass in Elite Athletes
No full textThe monitoring of body composition is common in sports given the association with performance. Surface anthropometry is often preferred when monitoring changes for its convenience, practicality, and portability. However, anthropometry does not provide valid estimates of absolute lean tissue in elite athletes. The aim of this investigation was to develop anthropometric models for estimating fat-free mass (FFM) and skeletal muscle mass (SMM) using an accepted reference physique assessment technique. Sixty-four athletes across 18 sports underwent surface anthropometry and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) assessment. Anthropometric models for estimating FFM and SMM were developed using forward selection multiple linear regression analysis and contrasted against previously developed equations. Most anthropometric models under review performed poorly compared with DXA. However, models derived from athletic populations such as the Withers equation demonstrated a stronger correlation with DXA estimates of FFM (r = .98). Equations that incorporated skinfolds with limb girths were more effective at explaining the variance in DXA estimates of lean tissue (Sesbreno FFM [R2 = .94] and Lee SMM [R2 = .94] models). The Sesbreno equation could be useful for estimating absolute indices of lean tissue across a range of physiques if an accepted option like DXA is inaccessible. Future work should explore the validity of the Sesbreno model across a broader range of physiques common to athletic populations
Bayesian hierarchical modelling of basketball tracking data - a case study of spatial entropy and spatial effectiveness
No full textSpatio-temporal data in sport is increasing rapidly, however suitable statistical methods for analysing this data are underdeveloped. The current study establishes the need for spatial statistical methods, propose a Bayesian hierarchical model as an appropriate method for comparing spatial variables, and test this model across three spatial scales. The need for spatial statistical methods was established through the identification of spatial autocorrelation. This necessitated the use of a Bayesian hierarchical model to test for an association between spatial ball movement entropy and spatial effectiveness. Posterior distribution results showed a generally positive association such that increases in entropy were associated with increases in effectiveness. The strength and confidence of the associations were impacted by the spatial scale, with the 6 × 6 grid showing the most conclusive evidence of a positive relationship; the 4 × 4 grid was mostly positive, however with a large variation; and finally, the basket-centric scale results were less conclusive. The results of the current study demonstrate the suitability of a Bayesian hierarchical model for testing for associations or differences between spatial variables. With the increase in spatial analyses in sport, this study presents an appropriate statistical method for dealing with complex problems associated with spatial analyses
Biomechanical insights into the role of foot pads during locomotion in camelid species
No full textFrom the camel’s toes to the horse’s hooves, the diversity in foot morphology among mammals is striking. One distinguishing feature is the presence of fat pads, which may play a role in reducing foot pressures, or may be related to habitat specialization. The camelid family provides a useful paradigm to explore this as within this phylogenetically constrained group we see prominent (camels) and greatly reduced (alpacas) fat pads. We found similar scaling of vertical ground reaction force with body mass, but camels had larger foot contact areas, which increased with velocity, unlike alpacas, meaning camels had relatively lower foot pressures. Further, variation between specific regions under the foot was greater in alpacas than camels. Together, these results provide strong evidence for the role of fat pads in reducing relative peak locomotor foot pressures, suggesting that the fat pad role in habitat specialization remains difficult to disentangle