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Game-Based Approaches for Research Skills Training and Researcher Development: A Survey of Attitudes and Acceptance in Higher Education
Get PDFResearch skills training is both crucial and ubiquitous in Higher Education (HE), however there are a range of pedagogical challenges in effectively delivering research capabilities and learning outcomes. The move towards constructivism, including game-based learning (GBL) techniques, in research skills training has been shown to improve outcomes for students, yet GBL for research skills is under-researched compared to other application domains.
This paper analyses the results of a new survey of attitudes towards GBL specifically for improving research skills training in UK HE institutions. Responses came from 92 researcher developers, research leaders, librarians, and academic skills teachers. Results demonstrate a very strong appetite for games and gamified approaches in this topic area, with a large majority of respondents noting the potential for novel, interactive and experiential techniques for delivering high-level learning outcomes. Thematic analysis of qualitative responses identifies and analyses key themes such as: institutional and attitudinal barriers to the use of GBL; the need for balancing flexibility in learning approaches with a structured framework to scaffold learning; and for a choice of complementary methods to suit diverse learner cohorts. Other key findings are related to accessibility; platforms for engagement; cultural knowledge and perceptions; and the potential for cognitive overload. Results also identify those topics within researcher development that are thought to be most important for GBL approaches.
This paper gives a clear overview of the attitudes, opportunities, barriers, and concerns of HE staff when considering the use of GBL to complement existing research skills training provision in universities and contextualizes this with current opportunities for engagement with GBL for research skills
Celebrating Patient Journeys within a Learning Disabilities Assessment and Treatment Ward
No full textAssessment and Treatment Wards (ATW) support individuals with learning disabilities in situations where the required clinical response goes beyond that possible in the community. Individuals can find the transition into an ATW challenging, partly due to the complex and rapidly changing dynamics within it. Staff’s focus on person-centred practice, and health care environments as places of growth and healing, can also be undermined by circumstances out-with their control, such as delayed discharge. Gaining fresh perspective on these issues can be difficult for those working within them. For these reasons, a novel collaboration with the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) School of Innovation & Technology (SIT) was developed, to explore new approaches to the relational transitions which characterise admissions.
2 GSA SIT interns from the Product Design Undergraduate course were recruited to work with staff and patients of the Ayrshire ATW over 5 weeks. Using co-design methods and approaches, they captured participants’ insights, in order to develop resources which could support patients during admission, enable them to record their progress, and remind them of their achievements post-discharge. Opportunities for patients to leave a legacy within the ward for others to benefit from were also explored.
The interns co-created a wellbeing journal to be held by patients. Alongside this, a framework booklet for staff was created to document, share and celebrate their creative capabilities to help them produce future engagement activities and better evidence the value from their current service.
This work was supported by the NHS Ayrshire and Arran Mental Health Endowments Fund
Work exhibited at group exhibition "Night Shift"
No full textA selection of work made in the Quiet Hours. Based the idea of dissection the hours of the Day and Night using a liturgical marker at regular intervals, images are made during ‘Matins’, a later portion of the eighth hour of the night. The act of photography is one that escapes the canon of faith, whilst remaining a liturgy of sorts. A visual record of an hour that exists outside modes of production, the images are transgressive acts that escape Capitalist structures and point towards acts of faith that are illuminated by evental horizons - not credo. The Image is a ritual that hold affirmative dependencies to both transgression and taboo and bring inner and outer experiences together
Narrative Engagement in Interactive Cinematic VR Experiences
Get PDFThis research is an exploratory work focused on investigating narrative engagement in cinematic virtual reality experiences. VR has the potential to create immersive engaging stories. We are yet, however, to formally identify a way to measure or create engagement expressly for cinematic virtual reality. Therefore, through this investigation, we theorised and created and analytical framework for narrative engagement. This framework (VRNEF) assesses narrative engagement in cinematic VR, as well as assists in its creation through practical design guidelines. The work was evaluated through the creation a of implementation of the VRNEF and the results of which are presented in this thesis
Jonas Staal's 'Climate Propagandas'
Get PDFA review of Dutch artist Jonas Staal's new book on the pending Climate Catastrophe which examines his concerns about propaganda - the good and the bad of it; reveals who are the culprits planning to exploit and profit from it and what might be done about it. The review views this new book in the critical context of Staal's broad politically-committed artistic oeuvre
Instant Whip: Fraser Taylor Textiles & Papers 1977-87 Revisited [legacy exhibition catalogue]
No full textThe exhibition Instant Whip focused on a unique collection of textiles and papers held by The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) Archives and Collections. Donated by interdisciplinary
artist Fraser Taylor in 2014, and spanning the period 1977–87, the collection comprises sketchbooks, slides, drawings, designs, printed textile samples, fabric lengths, garments,
photographs and ephemera from his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Printed Textiles at GSA and the Royal College of Art (RCA) respectively. It also includes work produced by the pioneering creative studio, The Cloth, which Taylor formed with David Band (d.2011), Brian Bolger and Helen Manning for their RCA Degree Show in 1983.
The exhibition ran from 16 March - 20 April 2024 in the Reid Gallery and Window on Heritage, GSA, Glasgow. This legacy exhibition catalogue features an introduction by Helena Britt and Panel, essay 'The Archive Revisited' by Fraser Taylor and a series of photographs documenting the exhibition by Andrew Lee. The inside cover features artwork by Fraser Taylor and the publication is designed by Graphical House
Ceramics
No full textA short text about the history of ceramic education at the Glasgow School of Art for the GSA's archives and collections
My body was their first home
Get PDFText by Roxanna Watson, edited by Rosie Morris. Published by hardcopy* on the occasion of the exhibition GESTURES by Rosie Morris, Church of St. John, Healey, 4-6 October, 2024.
The text discusses the complexities of intergenerational care-giving from Roxanna Watson's perspective, in relation to Rosie Morris' art work (prints on aluminium and soft sculptures). Topics covered include touch, memory, fragility, body, childhood, parenting, aging, dens, domestic waste, materials, titles and fear of loss
Ducky (nest)
No full textDucky (nest)
Lithograph on Somerset Velvet Antique
7.5 x 11 ⅜ inches / 19.2 x 28.7cm
Edition of 20
Printed at Hole Editions
2024
This is the second lithographic print edition in the series ‘nest’, thinking through memories of my Mum plaiting mine and my sister’s hair everyday before school, alongside ideas of shelter, security and the complexities of care-giving. It looks so tender, but it was a painful routine! The title refers to my childhood growing up in the East Midlands. The work aims to connects with other peoples memories and interactions with loved ones
Moving Images Within Precarious Structures: Class Matters
No full textIn collaboration with Lux Scotland, the second episode of a year-long programme Moving Images Within Precarious Structures is curated by Deborah Jackson, Michelle Hannah and Hayley Jane Dawson. This screening explores themes of social class and its theoretical, practical and ideological implications that intersect with, for example, education, migration, sex, gender, race, ethnicity, and inclusionary /exclusionary politics.
Delivered in partnership with Fine Art Research (School of Fine Art) at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA), and LUX Scotland, Moving Images Within Precarious Structures is a year-long programme of episodes that start from the proposition that precarity is a condition of artist moving image practice. Through screenings, talks, workshops, and publishing, Moving Images Within Precarious Structures examines the ways precarity structures the aesthetics and politics of artist moving image, and how new ways of making, materialising and thinking the moving image can work in opposition to the conditions, effects and affects of precarity.
Programme:
‘The Irreducible Difference of the Other’ (2013), Vivienne Dick (26 mins)
‘Tower XYZ’ (2016), Ayo Akingbade (3 mins)
‘The Expulsion’ (2019), Larry Achiampong (15 mins)
‘Tory Stories – An Ugly Steak of Violence’ (1984), Peter Savage (2 mins)
‘Soon Come’ (2022), Matthew Arthur Williams (20 mins