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Jewels & Bones
Get PDFA triptych of poems about relics, submitted to Revenant for their special issue on the theme of Dialogues With The Dea
Emotional Damage
Get PDFA prose fiction using Michael Moorcock's open source character Jerry Corneliu
Visualising inclusivity in the workplace: Managing diverse methods to promote inclusion and impact of participatory photography.
Get PDFBackground: There have been many studies of large employers into disability, chronic conditions and an ageing workforce but few studies of small and medium sized businesses. This study was part of a wider investigation by faculty staff, charities and support groups investigating the experience of employees, business owners and self-employed workers. The aim was to find out about their experiences of disability, chronic conditions, ageing and neurodiversity in the workplace with particular focus on the feasibility of reasonable adjustments, support from local government, and identifying self-developed coping strategies.
Methods: Eight participants volunteered from a wider study conducted by the partner organisation. This group included adults with a range of conditions including Dyslexia, Fibromyalgia, ADHD, Multiple Sclerosis, Autism, Visual Impairments and Type 1 Diabetes. The photovoice method was adapted to each of the participants through ongoing negotiation which enabled flexibility of approach and outcome. A developed understanding of private and public audiences became an essential guide in these negotiations, which enabled a coherent outcome across the study. Methods included sourcing images from family archives. Using cameras without touch screens for participants with visual impairments. Using the visual language of documentary photography and more abstract practices to inform development of story.
Results and Implications: The study was conducted throughout the Covid 19 lockdowns which added to the complexity of the project however the flexible approach to developing inclusive methods enabled the work to continue. Beyond the initial scope of the study the outcomes also provide insight into inequalities in working from home, access to health care and implications for key workers with hidden condition
Participants were not always aware of the micro strategies they had developed to succeed in the workplace until seeing these strategies in their own photographs. The image became the site of reflection and self-awareness, which evolved into recognition of the intersection between self-developed strategies and formal reasonable adjustments.
This study was part of a larger university investigation therefore benefitted from the conference and exhibition with business leaders, local government, academics, charities and support groups. A secondary audience was reached through the use of social media that led to further publishing opportunities. To reinforce the initial impact a print edition of the online zine will be distributed to business groups and local government on the anniversary of the conference. This multiplatform longitudinal approach helped increase impact and reinforce collaboration, enabling networks across traditional and social media where participant photographers are the makers, owners and publishers of their stories.
Of the eight participants that volunteered only five completed the project. Two of the three that were unable to complete were both middle aged women that had caring responsibilities for adult children and aging parents. Their insights are absent from this study and should be the focus of future work
Bruise: A Novel
No full textAn understated but fierce novel of family, sport and growing up, Adrian Markle's debut tells the story of an injured MMA fighter who returns to his coastal hometown.
Arriving on the Greyhound, six months late for his father's funeral, Jamie Stuart is injured but unwilling to declare himself retired from the MMA fighting career that has kept him away from his coastal hometown since he was a teenager. His attempts to reconnect with his now-alcoholic older brother, Sid, are thwarted both by Sid's mysterious disappearances from the house and his unwillingness to discuss the death of their younger brother fifteen years earlier.
In the absence of the training schedule that has governed his adult life so far, Jamie sinks into a routine of drinking with Sid and arguing with the regulars at the bar owned by his high-school crush. Then, when he's at his lowest, he is handed an opportunity that offers the money and security he needs. But with it comes the risk of Jamie never finding his way back out.
Set on quiet streets and beaches choked with childhood memories, haunted by the highs of an international athletic career cut short, Bruise is an understated but fierce novel of family, sport, homecomings, and growing up
Promoting equity and employability using live briefs
Get PDF‘Live briefs’ are used in Higher Education programmes, it is suggested that they can help promote equity and employability if they are used in very specific ways. A 'live brief hierarchy' is presented to help lecturers navigate the options whilst considering the ever-increasing demand for improved employability and equity
Nigeria's Untold Stories at a Moment of Change
Get PDFOdudu Efe, known as FayFay, is a Lagos-based audio producer and sound designer and also the founder of NaijaPod Hub, a network dedicated to supporting audio producers and promoting high quality audio storytelling in Nigeria. This interview with FayFay shows how her career in many ways reflects the challenges and promise of Nigerian audio storytelling at this moment in time. Like many freelancers, she takes on branding and imaging, tidies up sound and produces studio-based talk podcasts. But increasingly she’s being commissioned to work on complex historical documentaries and documentary-dramas. And this for FayFay is key, because like others in her field, she now wants to tell Nigerian stories that have too long gone untold – or too long been told by outsiders – and she wants to tell them in creative and absorbing ways that ‘chatcasts’ cannot satisfy. FayFay’s work draws on globally recognisable documentary conventions but also incorporates Nigerian TV and film sound tropes, in what might prove to be an emerging Nigerian audio-documentary style. She remains frustrated by the tendency for so many in the media to hide away in studios, when a roving microphone in the hands of a greater range of people might better capture the richness of lived experience in this hyper-diverse country
At the edges: A question of audience invisibility, disappearance and failure
Get PDFIf we understand that to watch performance is to watch someone dying right before your eyes, then the documentation of performance material, intentionally or otherwise, makes a bid towards what? Permanence? No, not that. Posterity? Maybe, although it seems a rather grand claim. Perhaps then, documentation is a candle in the dark, holding off the inevitability of disappearance, stretching, eking out the memory of our existence before those that might want to remember us are gone too. And we remember that dying is being done not only by the bodies you are watching, but by the body you inhabit. In the Shiva Swarodaya an ancient Sanskrit tantric text, we are told that each human being is born with an allocated, finite number of breaths. Each breath takes us another step closer towards vanishing, the failure of flesh, and the crossing of a boundary from one state into the next.
The idea of a boundary, a line which marks the edge of a territory, is particularly useful when considering what happens in the space between an audience and a performance. Philosopher Martin Heidegger’s assertion that a boundary is the point from which something emerges, offers a different perspective to the more commonly understood sense that a boundary indicates the point at which something ends. It is at this boundary that the intersubjective lies. This chapter considers how the intersubjective and affective exchange might be negotiated in interactive media performances and explore how failure in the space between author and audience is navigated.
All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Beckett, 1983)
