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All-inclusive holiday service quality: development and validation of a measurement scale
Get PDFThis study aims to develop and validate a comprehensive scale for measuring service quality in all-inclusive holidays. Employing a mixed-methods approach, the research identifies and validates a seven-dimensional scale encompassing travel, service encounters, public environment, dining, accommodation, entertainment, and arrival and departure. The findings make a significant contribution to the limited body of knowledge on all-inclusive holidays and, more specifically, on service quality within this tourism segment. The validated scale offers practical value for industry practitioners by enabling more effective monitoring and management of key service areas, as well as informing the design and marketing of all-inclusive holiday offerings
‘At the Promised Place: Expanding Imagination Through Book Art’
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Urawa Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
15th November 2025 – 18th January 2026
My book artwork 'Condensations' (2017) is shown in this group exhibition. ‘At the Promised Place: Expanding Imagination Through Book Art’ at the Urawa Art Museum brings together nearly 100 artists’ bookworks made in Japan and the UK. Since opening in 2000, Urawa Art Museum in Saitama, Japan has focused on ‘Art of Books’ as their collection policy to build a unique and international collection of book related artworks.
For this exhibition, artists’ books selected by Sarah Bodman at the University of the West of England, Bristol have been carefully paired with a range of Japanese bookworks from the museum collection. The exhibition offers a site of conversation where not only the books from the two countries are in dialogue, but the visitors too are welcomed into the space to extend their imaginations around what book art is and can be.
Exhibiting artists: Noriko Ambe, Karen Babayan, Roelof Bakker, Guy Begbie, Kate Bernstein, Les Bicknell, Guy Bigland, Sarah Bodman, Tracey Bush, Angie Butler, Nancy Campbell, Angus Carlyle, Chrystal Cherniwchan, Jackie Chettur, Egidija Čiricaitė, Helen Douglas, David Faithfull, Keiko Fujii, Naoyo Fukuda, Robert Good, Noëlle Griffiths, Warren Harper, Gabriella Hirst, Kosai Hori, Jane Hyslop, Susan Johanknecht, Julie Johnstone, Mitsuo Kano, Hitoshi Karasawa, Etsutomu Kashihara, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Déirdre Kelly, Nobuo Kurosu, U-fan Lee, Sophie Loss, Imi Maufe, John McDowall, John McDowall, Hiroshi Nakamura, Hiroshi Nakao, Yohei Nishimura, Alastair R. Noble, Michael O'Shea, Tsunao Okumura, Kazuhide Omi, Kouseki Ono, Yasutomo Ota, Sumi Perera, Richard Roberts, Stevie Ronnie, Colin Sackett, Lucy May Schofield, Mieko Shiomi, Tim Shore, Thomas Sowden, Craig Tattersall, Finlay Taylor, Ramon Todo, Asako Tokitsu, Nathan Walker, Aiko Yamada
EI Search: How to Search for Knowledge in the Age of Generative AI
Get PDFMany widely available search engines prioritise quick access to information, without acknowledging that knowledge is situated across different disciplines. EI Search is the first search engine to empower users’ curiosity about the nature of knowledge and boost epistemic insight into how disciplines work. Unlike conventional search tools that treat knowledge as a monolith, EI Search prompts users to explore complex questions through up to ten disciplines, each offering distinct perspectives. EI Search builds on previous work with the Epistemic Insight Discipline Wheel (DW), an educational graphic that visualises disciplines as interconnected yet distinct fields. Displaying the Discipline Wheel in schools and universities has been shown to empower staff and students to wonder how different disciplines approach a complex topic. However, the DW’s static format limits its capacity to teach epistemic insight and help students to engage with the architecture of knowledge itself. Motivated by the opportunity presented by Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), we reconceptualised the DW into an interactive tool—EI Search—whereby entering a question and selecting disciplines by clicking on them means that users receive pen portraits by GenAI about the approach that each discipline takes. In Phase 1, we developed multifaceted prompts for GenAI to model scholarly knowledge and discipline-specific norms. Phase 2 involved co-creative refinement with educators, technologists, and students, leading to a prototype tailored for educational contexts. In Phase 3, we adapted the tool for secondary schools, gathering data on student interactions. Our findings demonstrate that EI Search effectively ignites epistemic curiosity, fosters agentic learning, and builds disciplinary and interdisciplinary epistemic insight. The research takes place at a pivotal point in the evolution of search engines. We make recommendations about how and why the next generation of search tools should respond to the arrival of GenAI. We also make recommendations for education based on what this research reveals about the power of EI Search to boost knowledge literacy and open users’ minds to the value of taking different perspectives
Navigating Co-creation in Participatory Ethnographic Youth Research: Flexibility, Intensity, and an Ethical Path Towards Meaningful Collaboration
Get PDFThis chapter presents a case study of the "Re-imagining Door 84" project, a participatory ethnographic research initiative conducted in collaboration with Door 84, a local youth and community centre in York. Researchers from York St John University collaborated with young people, empowering them to design and implement their own research projects. Using methods such as surveys, interviews, and mapping exercises, the young researchers explored community relations and envisioned future possibilities for Door 84. Central to this project was the emphasis on ethical co-creation and genuine collaboration, fostering an inclusive environment where youth autonomy and agency were prioritised.
The chapter highlights the dynamic nature of informed consent, illustrating how trust-building through ‘deep hanging out’ allowed participants to engage and disengage on their own terms. This fluid participation not only respected the young researchers' autonomy but also enriched the research process, leading to more authentic and meaningful contributions. Insights from this project extend beyond Door 84, offering a broader understanding of effective participatory ethnographic research with young people.
Reflecting on the project's challenges and successes, the chapter underscores the importance of flexibility, ethical engagement, and responsiveness in research. It demonstrates the potential of participatory ethnographic research to engage positively with communities, guided by social justice and ethical principles, empowering young voices and ensuring their perspectives are represented in community narratives
Intercultural Romantic Relationships: How is the Love?
Get PDFNumbers of intercultural romantic relationships are rising in the Western part of the world. However, there remains paucity in empirical evidence on how cultural differences impact those in intercultural romantic relationships. This study was conducted using qualitative methodology and involved a culturally diverse sample of 28 individuals who participated in semi-structured interviews. Interview data was analysed using Reflexive Thematic Analysis. Results revealed that culture was conceptualised as meaningfully shaping the psycho-social-sexual-spiritual and existential aspects of relational functioning. It is highlighted that intercultural partners face challenges that are a combination of cultural, socioeconomic, and personal factors, which are compounded by changes across the lifespan. Findings facilitate a new way of understanding factors that enable the effective functioning of relationships that unite multiple cultures, including support from extended family and wider community. Furthermore, effective communication, active engagement with each other's culture, and importance of attunement were identified as key to co-creating a third, intercultural reality within romantic relationships
Sexual Healing – Is Sexual Health Adequately Addressed by GI Physicians in Patients with IBD
No full textBayesian-Optimised Latent Encoding and Agent-Based Simulation for Enhanced Medical Image Character Recognition.
Get PDFThis paper presents a Bayesian-optimised Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE) for synthetic data augmentation, embedded within an agent-based simulation framework. The CVAE systematically refines latent-space representations, generating high-quality synthetic character images that enhance dataset diversity and reduce the risk of overfitting. Bayesian optimisation ensures optimal latent variable selection, improving reconstruction accuracy while enabling scalable Medical Image Character Recognition (MICR) training. The proposed agent-based system introduces autonomous agents: patient agents, doctor agents, imaging device agents, and recognition agents that collaborate to simulate real-world MICR workflows. This structured pipeline enables dynamic dataset augmentation while supporting medical diagnostics and automated text extraction. Experimental evaluations demonstrate significant performance improvements, with CNN models achieving accuracy gains of +3.2%, +3.5%, and +1.79% on the public dataset and +2.41%, +6.85%, and +1.60% on the private dataset when augmented with 50, 100, and 150 synthetic images per class, respectively. This research validates the effectiveness of Bayesian-tuned latent-space encoding and a supporting agent-based data augmentation, offering a scalable, computationally efficient solution for MICR enhancement
Tomás Mario Kalmar. King Alfred the Great, His Hagiographers and His Cult: A Childhood Remembered Hagiography Beyond Tradition. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. Pp. 308. $150.00 (cloth).
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Life savers: ensuring health and safety works for you.
No full textHealth and safety are essential to successful field research, but abstract guidance can make for dull reading. In this chapter we illustrate health and safety thinking in practice with a series of ten fieldwork scenarios, each accompanied by a health and safety adviser’s perspective. Our examples encompass a mix of individual and group work in a range of environments, from undergraduate to postgraduate and postdoctoral research. We use them to consider two critical questions: ‘who am I working with?’ and ‘what are my responsibilities?’. We then end with some tips for risk assessment. The chapter thus offers insight into health and safety as a way of thinking, rather than a box to be ticked
Conclusion
Get PDFThis concluding chapter provides a reflection on what has been learnt and achieved from the preceding sections of the book. Drawing on key themes which emerge from the contributing chapters of the book, emphasis is placed on the idea that there are many different forms of social justice action and activism in language education, and these include educating and researching. To this end, I consider the notion of ‘research-activism’ within the context of language education as a means of progressing social justice. There is acknowledgement of how risk, vulnerability and discomfort (Badwan, 2021; Cunningham et al, 2021) are inevitably key elements of research-activism. With this in mind (and in line with other authors in the field of language and social justice), I argue that future developments in language education and social justice action need to be communal and collegiate, rather than individualised. And this communal social justice work involves examining how dimensions of injustice intersect and overlap, and often emerge from the same systems of oppression. I discuss this with particular reference to how patriarchal structures and systems do not just produce gender-based injustices – they also produce racism, disability-based injustice, homophobia, transphobia and other forms of oppression. Finally, I consider how a future development of the field needs to involve an enjoining of social and environmental justice in relation to language education, as well as in other domains of social justice work. I draw on Bendell’s (2020; 2018) concept of environmental ‘deep adaptation’ and consider how this might provide a useful lens for thinking about language education and social justice in the long term