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Engaging with actor-network theory as a methodology in medical education research
No full textThis book outlines a methodology based on actor-network theory (ANT) and praxiography and applies this to the field of medical education. Drawn from a detailed account of practice in a medical setting, this book shows how researchers in education and medical education can learn to work with ANT approaches and attune to different insights in practice.
The book gives a detailed account of what actor-network theory can bring to research, through the investigation of social and material networks. The philosophical underpinnings of actor-network theory are presented as the basis of this emerging methodology, through an exploration of learning as disruption, practice as human and material assemblages, and power as regulated difference in worlds of practice. This is a qualitative approach for exploring complexity that does not attempt to represent or reduce but allows for unique insights into practice that might otherwise be overlooked
Victorians decoded: art and telegraphy (2017) [REF2021 collection]
No full textVictorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy celebrated the 150th anniversary of the first successful communications cable laid across the Atlantic Ocean, connecting Europe with America. A collaboration between Guildhall Art Gallery, King's College London, The Courtauld Institute of Art and the Institute of Making at University College London, the exhibition used iconic Victorian paintings and early telegraphic objects to explore how cable telegraphy transformed people's understanding of time, space and speed of communication.
This Collection contains information about the exhibition Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy, Guildhall Art Gallery, City of London, 20 September 2016 - 22 January 2017. The exhibition was the final output of an AHRC-funded project entitled Scrambled Messages. This collection contains documentation of the exhibition and curatorial processes, the exhibition catalogue, and various research workshops, conferences, and symposia that took place as part of the Scrambled Messages project. It also contains a 300-word Statement about the research project, a Research Timeline, and a set of Research Questions
On the Inside (2017-2019) [REF2021 collection]
No full text'On the Inside' is a creative practice research project resulting in a performance, which was created by Dr Helena Enright, Senior Lecturer in Drama, at Bath Spa University, in partnership with Geese Theatre Company, Birmingham and the University of Warwick. The research explores how a Theatre of Testimony performance methodology combined with an Applied Theatre methodology can respond creatively to the contemporary experiences of mothers in prison in the UK, and the archive, culminating in a theatre performance output entitled 'Playing the Game.'
This Collection documents a single-component creative practice output with contextualising information. The output is the performance and script, and contextualising information includes a 300 word statement, research timeline and research questions documents, project participant and project structure information, related websites, and a conference presentation abstract
Sanded steps, standing over stones (2017, 2018) [REF2021 collection]
No full textSanded Steps, Standing Over Stones is a live art work that rethinks ‘trace’ and ‘event’ in historical––and ongoing aporetic––situations that become self-effacing and unhappening. It uses self-effacing gestures such as the sweeping of sand, and audience participation in enunciating found-words from texts and slogans, to trace cultural revolutions and social demonstrations from May ’68 to Occupy––and asks whether such events insist or desist in happening today.
This collection contains a 300-word Statement outlining the research project; a Research Timeline and set of Research Questions; photographic documentation of the Bath 2017 iteration of the artwork and information relating to the Embodied Cartographies Symposium; photographic documentation and video footage of the Montreal 2018 iteration of the artwork and documentation relating to Resting, Walking, Place-Making: How Do We Talk About Invisible, Liminal Spaces in Art?; a journal article by Luzar; and a bibliography of works cited
The impact of working conditions on the UK’s teaching assistants
Get PDFTeaching assistants (TAs) in the United Kingdom typically work with students with additional and special needs, including the most challenging and vulnerable pupils, in low paid, precarious roles. However, no research has examined how organisational factors such as job demand, control, and support can influence TAs' wellbeing, despite recent evidence demonstrating the importance of organisational factors to teacher wellbeing. Using a large-scale questionnaire approach, data from 2,957 UK TAs investigated the extent to which job demands, control, role clarity, peer- and management-support, organisational change, relationship quality, and student and parental behaviour contribute to perceived stress. Results show that job demands and control consistently contribute to increased perceived stress in TAs regardless of the phase of school in which they are based. There is also some evidence that TAs experience aggression from pupils and parents. For primary-based TAs, a broader range of factors contribute to stress, including levels of support and negative pupil behaviour. Implications are subsequently discussed, with reference to the TAs themselves and the culture of schools in which they work, as are suggestions of the implications for the children in their care. Suggestions for future research and intervention are also discussed
Science at the seaside: pleasure hunts in North Devon (2014-2017) [REF2021 collection]
No full textScience at the Seaside is a collaboration between Ilfracombe Museum, Bath Spa University and the University of Exeter, which proposes a new and original understanding of the interlinked growth of popular science and coastal tourism during the Victorian period, with the different outputs producing original insights into the Victorian fascination with natural history.
This multi-component output Collection provides evidence of a co-authored chapter, a co-curated permanent exhibition with a written guide, workshops, an educational activities programme, and the digitization of c.2000 museum objects, which derive from research undertaken as part of a North Devon FLAG-funded project, ‘Science at the Seaside: Pleasure Hunts in Victorian Devon’ (October 2013-August 2015). Contextualising information includes a 300 word statement, Research Timeline and Research Questions, and documentation of research dissemination through conference papers and public talks
Spoken word in print: instant coffee - a conversation with Clive Birnie from Burning Eye Books
No full textPunti di Fuga / Fluchtpunkte - enacting empathy
No full textThe chapter discusses resonances emerging from the extension of a somatic-informed creative practice into an arts-activist context concerned with social inclusion and cultural transformation. It reflects upon arts activist projects undertaken in collaboration with biologist/arts-activist Stefania Milazzo in Sicily and Dresden, Germany between 2008 and 2015. The author discusses how a Feldenkrais-informed socially engaged arts practice can serve as a vessel to construct a shared dignified experience between participants, where trust, imagination and empathy are challenged and schooled, through awared and playful interaction. What sort of cultural capital and social learning do we need in our contemporary world of increasing global crises? How do we construct global citizenship through spirited experiential learning situations? Can a shared embodied practice allow us to move beyond being cultural bystanders towards being creative and empathetic activists? Can we still imagine and design a better future world and develop compassionate ways of interaction with an-other
Testing a modified cognitive interview with category clustering recall in Iran
Get PDFThe cognitive interview (CI) has been an effective method for interviewing eyewitnesses often leading to changes in legislation and practice in many countries. This study was the first to employ the CI in Iran and test whether category clustering recall (CCR) was superior to a free recall when incorporated within an investigative interview. A between‐subjects design assigned 66 participants to one of three interview conditions after they watched a mock robbery. The participants were interviewed 48 hr later using either a structured interview (SI), the CI, or a modified cognitive interview (MCI) that replaced free recall with CCR at the first retrieval attempt. Analysis of variance suggests CCR was more effective than free recall and the CI group recalled more information than the SI group, replicating the CI superiority effect. This has implications for law enforcement in Iran and worldwide by suggesting these techniques can be used to enhance recall
