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A team approach to teaching molecular biosciences: involving, recognising and rewarding others
Get PDFShould Decisions of Independent Accountability Mechanisms be Binding?
No full textIndependent Accountability Mechanisms (IAM s) are essential entities tasked with delivering justice and redress with fairness to project-affected peoples, ensuring that impacted communities’ voices are heard and their rights are upheld in the context of projects financed by International Financial Institutions (IFI s). However, a significant limitation of IAM s is their lack of binding decision-making power, which raises serious concerns regarding their effectiveness in addressing grievances and providing meaningful remedies. After processing a complaint, IAM s make recommendations based on their findings of non-compliance to the parent institution’s Board of Directors or to the head of the parent institution to make decisions on the outcome of the complaint. The absence of binding authority poses a fundamental problem, as it undermines the potential for IAM s to hold IFI s accountable for the harm caused by their projects
Misogyny, Misogynoir and Violent Online Rhetoric Against Women and Girls in Sport: The Case of Joey Barton
No full textResearch question: This study adopts an intersectional feminist lens to investigate misogynistic and violent online rhetoric directed at women and girls in sport, focusing on the case of former footballer and heavy social media user, Joey Barton. This research aims to fill the gap in understanding how online platforms provide an outlet for, and in many ways amplify, misogyny, creating a hostile environment for female athletes.Research methods: The study employs a thematic analysis of social media data, examining three specific trigger events where Barton targeted women with abusive language: his comments on goalkeeper Mary Earps winning Sports Personality of the Year, his attacks on football pundit Eni Aluko, and his criticism of young goalkeeper Ava Easdon. This qualitative analysis focuses on the nature of the public response and the discursive strategies used. Results and Findings: The findings reveal a pervasive culture of misogyny and online violence directed at women in sport. Barton's behaviour highlights the intersection of gender, race, and online violence, demonstrating how social media platforms can amplify harmful content. Key themes identified include widespread public condemnation, calls for accountability, intersectional violence, and the symbolic use of emojis to convey hostility. Implications: The study highlights the urgent need for effective countermeasures to protect women athletes from abuse and the role of social media platforms in perpetuating harmful content. It also calls for increased accountability and the implementation of robust policies to safeguard female athletes online
Serious Gaming to Explore and Investigate Disaster Recovery Gaps
Get PDF•Purpose: To understand the potential of serious gaming as an imaginative and creative method to collect data in disaster studies that addresses key concerns such as extractive research, power inequalities, and bridging the theory-practice gap in exploring post-disaster recovery.•Design/methodology/approach: Novel serious gaming approach deployed to connect theory-practice by identifying and co-analysing post-disaster recovery gaps in a workshop setting.•Findings: The serious game has value in bridging theory-practice divides, identifying and exploring gaps/solutions in post-flood recovery, and as a novel social science research approach for disaster studies. •Originality: The paper proposes a creative and co-developed serious game method of data collection for disaster studies •Practical implications: Outlining a dialogic approach to knowledge construction between academics, practitioners, policymakers, and community voices on post-disaster recovery.•Social implications: Fostering collaboration and knowledge construction on post-disaster recovery gaps across stakeholders is valuable in improving disaster resilience strategies that benefit communities affected by disasters
Playing it Safer: Applied Drama as a means of reducing barriers to LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sports and education environments
No full textIn a context where more than 40% of LGBTQIA+ individuals in the UK are estimated to avoid sports due to experiences of discrimination, with disengagement closely linked to negative experiences during physical education at school, the ability of specifically LGBTQIA+-oriented sports clubs to buck this trend and create vibrant inclusive sporting communities across the country warrants both celebration and investigation. Safer, a new play centred on the experiences of the recently formed Hull Roundheads ‘gay and inclusive’ rugby club, has been part of such an investigation led by a creative research team at the University of Hull (England) since 2022. This paper reports on the use of Safer and Applied Drama workshops in schools and colleges in the Hull and Humber region as a highly effective means of amplifying the voices of LGBTQIA+ youth and supporting educational environments in improving their understanding and capacity to be inclusive in sports settings and beyond
Doing qualitative data analysis
No full textThis chapter discusses how to analyse, make sense of, and write up qualitative data in sport coaching research. It starts by introducing qualitative data analysis, its overarching goal, and different forms of analysis used in sport coaching research. The main body of the chapter provides a series of guiding principles designed to assist sport coaching researchers with the practical ‘doing’ of qualitative data analysis. This is followed by author reflections and key learnings on writing (up) as an integral method of analysis. The chapter concludes with critical questions to help readers take up and practise the activities discussed
Combined AHP-GIS methodology for floating offshore wind site selection in South Africa
Get PDFA sustainable approach to site selection can enhance the techno-economic feasibility of floating wind projects. This is because site selection is a multicriteria problem including technical, environmental, social, and economic factors. The issue is more pronounced in emerging and future markets where market and policy developments do not account for the complex life cycle aspects of technology development. Moreover, previous offshore wind site selection studies have utilised multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approaches that are not directly integrated with GIS software for mapping of the most attractive sites. The implication for prospective markets is that it fails to address the ambiguity regarding the feasibility of floating offshore wind technology, especially with knowledge of its high development costs. This study tackles the problem by deploying a multidisciplinary methodology for selecting the best sites for floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT) in South Africa. It included analytical hierarchy process (AHP) pairwise judgements from experts to assess the evaluation criteria, a Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis to implement results in South Africa's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), and windPRO simulations to assess the actual development potential of the technology in the selected sites. The AHP final weights constitutes a comprehensive set of evaluation criteria for future studies in floating wind site selection. Results also show that 25 sites in the Northern Cape (NC), Western Cape (WC), Eastern Cape (EC), and Kwazulu Natal (KN) regions of the country can host over 71 GW of floating wind capacity. To achieve this potential, industry actors and policymakers must prioritise selected sites with considerations of the characteristics that may influence the techno-economic feasibility of future floating wind projects in South Africa
A techno-economic and life cycle assessment of a new power and biomass to liquids (PBtL) configuration with negative emissions for producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)
Get PDFA novel configuration of the hybrid Power-and-Biomass to Liquids (PBtL) pathway for producing sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) has been developed and assessed from a techno-economic and environmental perspective. The proposed configuration can achieve negative emissions and hence a new bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) route is proposed.The amount of CO2 that is captured within the process and that is sent for storage ranges from 0 % to 100 %, defining the various PBtL-CCS scenarios that are evaluated. Mass and energy balances have been established through process modelling in Aspen Plus and validated using data available in the literature. Further, the System Advisor Model (SAM) tool was used to model a dedicated offshore wind farm, based on location specific wind data. Results from the technical assessment have set the foundation for economic and environmental evaluations. The economic evaluation of the proposed SAF production configurations estimates minimum jet fuel selling prices (MJSP) ranging from 0.0651 to 0.0673 £/MJ, mainly driven by electricity consumption and feedstock cost. Costs for CO2 compression, transport, and storage have a small contribution to the MJSPs of all the proposed scenarios. Global warming potentials range from −105.33 to 13.93 gCO2eq/MJ, with PBtL-CCS scenarios offering negative emissions and aligning with the aviation industry’s net-zero ambition for 2050. Water footprints range from 0.52 to 0.40 l/MJ, mainly driven by the water requirements of the alkaline electrolyser and refinery, followed by the wind electricity water footprint. Based on the outputs of the assessments, the resulting SAF could benefit of the support proposed by the UK SAF mandate, which could boost their economic performance by awarding certificates with monetary value. Estimates indicate that the cost of certificates that breakeven the fossil jet fuel price could reduce if negative emissions are also rewarded under this scheme.Overall, the study introduces for the first time and assesses a novel net-negative SAF configuration, and the new information generated provides meaningful insights to a variety of stakeholders such as process developers, academics and policy makers
Re-Encountering Rodríguez: It Calls You Back and Draws You In – the Personal Papers of Luis J. Rodríguez
No full textOpinion: Prison Categorisation Policy in the United Kingdom
Get PDFThis opinion piece, drawing on the lived experiences of a life sentenced prisoner (first author), serves to highlight our concerns related to the HM Prison & Probation Service Security Categorization Policy Framework (HMPPS, 2024) in the United Kingdom (UK). The Framework creates unmanageable workload for prison staff, and it creates anxiety for prisoners. At a time when spending from the public purse is increasingly being scrutinized, this is an opportunity to think radically about how best to update and change policy to reduce workloads, create more certainty for staff and prisoners and to help foster a more stable culture within the adult male prison estate