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Dressing for Evacuation (2018-2019) [REF2021 collection]
No full textA series of life size photographic portraits, Dressing for Evacuation, was shown as part of the Tentworks Exhibition at the Feverish World Symposium, October 2018 in Vermont, USA, and FutureScan4: Valuing Practice, January 2019, University of Bolton, UK.
Dressing for Evacuation, the first project in a series of works titled Imagining Neutopia, sets out to discover what clothes people may take with them into an unknown future. Through a fictional scenario the project offers insight into the human emergency response of getting dressed and gathering a limited selection of possessions. Participants were asked to dress as if they had been alerted to an imminent large-scale evacuation, responses were recorded in a photoshoot and accompanying survey.
This Collection comprises a single-component output with contextualising information, providing evidence of the series of photographic portraits and exhibitions. Contextualising information includes a 300-word statement, research timeline, research questions, and documentation of methods and process
Discovering ‘what works’
Get PDFFuelled by the pandemic, a stronger focus on communication is helping SENCOs to ensure that all children's needs are met and that colleagues share their expertise
Playful walks: a methodological approach for analysing the embodied citizenship of young people in the countryside
No full textThe chapter focusses on ways participation and citizenship can be understood differently in young people, to create a new everyday index of citizenship. Using participatory methods, I’m examining the embodied experiences of young people in the rural town of Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK.
Urban and rural are figured as cosmopolitan (Amin, 2008; 2012), opposing agricultural and national culture (Williams, 1973); and health damaging (Grinde and Patil, 2009; Velarde, Fry and Tveit, 20017) versus ‘therapeutic’. (Louv, 2012). My research examines the practices of rural young people, to understand how their experience both aligns and is at odds with urban studies.
The chapter foregrounds the landscape as spontaneous (De Certeau et al., 1998) with my methods underlining place-making in the rural.
Experimenting with multimedia, visual methods engages young people in order to understand participation and everyday citizenship.
Exploring the everyday, through the visual and physical foregrounds the ludic, mico-engagements of young people with their localities. (Horton and Kraftl, 2009: 19). By understanding playfulness as subversion (Bakhtin, 1984),(Sutton-Smith, 2009), the chapter foregrounds a way to access forms of participation outside institutional, state activity. To be playful is an approach and reflects how young people are in the world.
The chapter focuses on methodological approaches and empirical tales from the field
Recalculation of minimum wave heights from coastal boulder deposits in the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary, UK: implications for understanding the high-magnitude flood event of AD 1607
No full textA high-magnitude coastal flood event catastrophically affected the macrotidal Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in southwest Great Britain, United Kingdom, on 30th January 1607 causing an estimated 2000 fatalities. Historical and physical evidence has provided a basis for the development of a theory that the flood may have been due to a tsunami rather than a storm. Previous studies have collected field data to test this hypothesis including a dataset of 136 wave-transported boulder clasts that was utilised to estimate minimum wave heights through hydrodynamic equations in 2007, but the dataset has hitherto remained unpublished in full. Since 2007 these equations have undergone refinement and for this paper minimum wave heights were recalculated from boulder measurements using revised hydrodynamic equations and presents the complete dataset for the first time. A recent study claiming that such equations are flawed is considered premature, given ongoing refinements to the equations. The results of the present study indicate that a tsunami 4.2 m high can explain the dislodgement of all boulders measured, equivalent to a storm wave height of 16.9 m, which is considerably greater than observed storm wave heights in the region. An up-channel increase in minimum wave height is also suggested by these data, generally corroborating the 2007 study, which may be due to wave amplification caused by the overall funnel-shape of the embayment. The areas worst affected by the 1607 flood are located in the coastal lowlands of the inner Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary, coinciding with the highest minimum estimated wave heights
Alman hukukunda küçüklerin evlat edinilmesinde yeni dönem = New era for the adoption of minors in German law
No full textIn relation to the adoption of minors in the article of 1741/II of German Civil Law, a person who is not married may adopt a child only alone. A married couple may adopt a child only jointly. A spouse may adopt a child of his spouse alone. He may also adopt a child alone if the other spouse cannot adopt the child because he is incapable of contracting or has not yet reached the age of twenty-one. In a decision of 26 March 2019, the German Federal Constitutional Court held that the Civil Code provisions violate the equal treatment clause of article 3, paragraph 1 of the Basic Law, because they unjustifiably disadvantage children in families in which the couple are not married and instructed the legislature to enact new provisions by 31 March 2020. This study aims to first examine the conditions for the adoption of minors in German Law in general, then the Court's ruling and the new provision that came into force on 31 March 2020 and the legislative intention
Cleaning up our acts: psychological interventions to reduce engine idling and improve air quality
No full textA large-scale field experiment tested psychological interventions to reduce engine idling at long-wait stops. Messages based on theories of normative influence, outcome efficacy, and self-regulation were displayed approaching railway crossing on street poles. Observers coded whether drivers (N = 6049) turned off their engine while waiting at the railway crossings (only 27.2% did so at baseline). Automatic air quality monitors recorded levels of pollutants during barrier down times. To different degrees, the social norm and outcome efficacy messages successfully increased the proportion of drivers who turned off their engines (by 42% and 25%, respectively) and significantly reduced concentrations of atmospheric particulate matter (PM2.5) 2 m above ground level. Thus, the environment was improved through behavior change. Moreover, of both practical and theoretical significance, there was an ‘accelerator effect’, in line with theories of normative influence whereby the social norm message was increasingly effective as the volume of traffic increased
Why Do I Feel? [5-part series]
No full textAward-winning author and mental health expert, Nathan Filer invites us to consider a challenging emotion by listening to real-life stories and hearing from world-leading experts and therapists. We live in strange times, which have inspired many of us to examine our lives more closely. This podcast embraces that curiosity and self-reflection. Sometimes, this will touch upon deep sorrow, but there will also be joy, playfulness and hope
Modern-day sin-eaters [blog post]
No full textLow paid workers consuming the worst horrors of the Internet. Key points:
1) Social media content moderators are developing PTSD.
2) There is evidence that some content moderators are becoming radicalised.
3) Social media companies must do far more to protect their workforce
Psychometric properties and correlates of precarious manhood beliefs in 62 nations
No full text'Precarious manhood beliefs' portray manhood, relative to womanhood, as a social status that is hard to earn, easy to lose, and proven via public action. Here, we present cross-cultural data on a brief measure of precarious manhood beliefs (the Precarious Manhood Beliefs scale [PMB]) that covaries meaningfully with other cross-culturally validated gender ideologies and with country-level indices of gender equality and human development. Using data from university samples in 62 countries across 13 world regions (N = 33,417), we demonstrate: (1) the psychometric isomorphism of the PMB (i.e., its comparability in meaning and statistical properties across the individual and country levels); (2) the PMB’s distinctness from, and associations with, ambivalent sexism and ambivalence toward men; and (3) associations of the PMB with nation-level gender equality and human development. Findings are discussed in terms of their statistical and theoretical implications for understanding widely-held beliefs about the precariousness of the male gender role