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The Power of Brevity: Creativity Judgments in English Language Haiku and Senryu Poetry
Full text linkUnderstanding how creativity is judged in brief, structured texts is essential for exploring aesthetic and emotional engagement in minimalist art forms. Haiku and Senryu, two concise poetic genres, provide a unique lens to investigate how creativity is perceived under constraints of brevity. This study examines how readers' subjective experiences of poems, their personality traits, and the structure of their semantic memory networks influence creativity judgments. Fifty-one participants evaluated 140 English-language poems (70 Haiku and 70 Senryu) and 70 nonpoetic control texts in a laboratory experiment. Participants rated each stimulus on aesthetic appeal, vivid imagery, emotionality, originality, and overall creativity. They also completed seven personality assessments, and their semantic memory networks were estimated by a verbal fluency task. We found originality to be the strongest predictor of creativity in both poetic genres. However, the influence of aesthetic appeal and emotionality varied: Haiku balanced aesthetic beauty and emotional resonance, while Senryu prioritized emotional resonance. Personality traits, including the vividness of visual and auditory imagery, significantly influenced creativity judgments. Participants who favored Haiku exhibited more efficient and flexible semantic memory networks. This study provides novel insights into how creativity is evaluated in constrained poetic forms, offering broader implications for creativity in structured art
Sound in Clinical Environments (SILENTS): Overview of a mixed methods intervention to improve acoustic comfort in a hospital ward in London
Full text linkAn adequate acoustic environment in hospitals is considered crucial for avoiding stress and distraction in staff, and for promoting rest and recovery in patients. These goals are often challenged by design, technical and behavioural factors, even when the awareness of the impact of sounds in hospitals is generally higher than for other spaces. As a response to the high noise levels reported by staff members of the Acute Assessment Unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, the ongoing project Sound in Clinical Environments (SILENTS) was created with the aim of improving the experienced acoustic environment. In this paper, we provide an overview of the different stages of the intervention being conducted, which will use qualitative and quantitative methodologies for the evaluation of the situation before and after the intervention. The assessment strategy included long-term SPL measurements through fixed monitoring, personal dosimeters and portable devices, questionnaires for patients and interviews with staff members. Part of the preliminary quantitative results from this assessment are presented and discussed in the context of the specific limitations that can be encountered while undertaking noise analysis and interventions in healthcare environments
Empirical evaluation of public hatespeech datasets
Full text linkDespite the extensive communication benefits offered by social media platforms, numerous challenges must be addressed to ensure user safety. One of the most significant risks faced by users on these platforms is targeted hatespeech. Social media platforms are widely utilized for generating datasets employed in training and evaluating machine learning algorithms for hatespeech detection. However, existing public datasets exhibit numerous limitations, hindering the effective training of these algorithms and leading to inaccurate hatespeech classification. This study provides a systematic empirical evaluation of several public datasets commonly used in automated hatespeech classification. Through rigorous analysis, we present compelling evidence highlighting the limitations of current hatespeech datasets. Additionally, we conduct a range of statistical analyses to elucidate the strengths and weaknesses inherent in these datasets. This work aims to advance the development of more accurate and reliable machine learning models for hatespeech detection by addressing the dataset limitations identified
Can AI Tools Enhance Access to Remedies as envisaged under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Yay or Nay? A Critical Assessment
No full textThis article examines whether and to what extent artificial intelligence (AI) tools can enhance access to remedies for victims of corporate human rights abuses within the framework of corporate responsibility to respect human rights under the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP). Adopting a doctrinal and interdisciplinary approach, the article draws on international legal frameworks, ethical AI guidelines, and practical examples of AI deployment in global supply chain management, operational-level grievance mechanisms, and alternative dispute resolution.
The analysis highlights the potential of AI to lower barriers faced by both victims and businesses by improving transparency and accountability across complex global supply chains, enhancing evidence gathering, and increasing the efficiency and accessibility of operational-level grievance mechanisms. Nevertheless, it also identifies significant risks, including bias, poor data quality, privacy concerns, and the possibility of deepening existing power imbalances.
The article concludes that while AI can meaningfully support access to remedies, this can only be realised if AI systems are embedded within robust rights-based governance frameworks that ensure transparency, accountability, effective oversight, and equitable access
The page becomes the plot [to Sancintya Mohini Simpson]
No full textThe opening text of Artes Mundi's series of writing commissions, beside/gerllaw, takes the form of a letter addressed to artist Sancintya Mohini Simpson, who is showing work in Chapter, Cardiff as part of Artes Mundi 11. Becca Voelcker builds on her workshop format rooted in epistolary writing, and broader research on women’s labour and land-based practice, to meditate around the centrality in Simpson’s work of building narratives which run counter to the logics of colonial archives. Departing from Wales’ coastal and mountainous north-west, this deeply evocative essay provokes rich questions on the myriad definitions and possibilities of “archiving,” on rural modernity, and on how we build structures for holding ideas even as we cannot sense them yet
‘Dokkhina Sundari’: `A local story of climate emergency in Bangladesh
No full textBook chapter that explores the climate emergency in the Sundarbans region of Bangladesh and how theatre, drama and art is raising awareness of the issue and also giving local people voice and visibility.
This chapter critically explores the climate emergency in Bangladesh and examines the important dual role that the creative arts can play in, firstly, raising awareness of wider geo-political issues of social justice and equity, and, secondly, voicing dissent against power structures, corporatised globalisation and government. Bangladesh is one of the world’s poorest and most densely populated countries, and the topography, geography, rapid urbanisation, as well as the experience of consistent widespread flooding, human displacement and extreme weather mean that Bangladesh remains at the centre of all discourse related to climate change, climate justice and climate emergency. With a focus on the 2014 theatre production of ‘Dokkhina Sundari’ which raises a critical voice against the decision to build the coal-based thermal Rampal Power Station very close to the ‘green wall’ of the Sundarbans in southern Bangladesh, this chapter takes the form of an in-depth conversation with the director of the play—Sudip Chakroborthy. The ultimate message of ‘Dokkhina Sundari’ is a significant one—that all life is precious (humans, animals, plants, habitat) and that we all have a moral and ethical duty to preserve and protect this
Diversifying curricula: how are people of colour represented in lecture slide images?
Full text linkDiversifying higher education curricula has been called for as one way to reduce racial inequalities in higher education. This study makes an original contribution by focusing on images of people in lecture slides. We explored how people of colour versus white individuals were portrayed in images (n = 250) used in lecture slides in four first-year core social sciences modules and whether the images were likely to be ‘inspiring’ to racially minoritised students. Drawing on visual content analysis used in textbook studies and thematic analysis, we developed a novel method of analysing lecture slide images. Only 12% of the images presented people of colour in positive, non-stereotyped and active roles that could be described as inspiring. People of colour were less likely to be presented and less likely to be featured exclusively in an image than white people. By applying a Critical Race Theory framework, we discuss implications for curricular reform
The transgender space invader: Out of time and out of affect
Full text linkThis short article builds on Nirmal Puwar’s concept of ‘space invaders’ – individuals deemed anomalously ‘out of place’ due to discordant identity markers of gender and/or race. I offer a transgender reading of Puwar’s work, to argue how following ‘out of place’ trans individuals are also positioned as both ‘out of time’ and ‘out of affect’ in a cisgender world. This piece highlights critical work on space, time and transgender feeling in the past decade following the percieved watershed moment of the ‘trangender tipping point’ in 2014