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Accelerating Disaster Risk Reduction: policy & practice change to empower local community partnerships
No full textVirtual learning environment (‘Ivy Street’) for palliative medicine education: student and facilitator evaluation
No full textAim:- The study aimed to evaluate student and facilitator perceptions regarding the novel use of a virtual learning environment (VLE) in the development and implementation of ‘Ivy Street’.
Sample/methods:- Healthcare professionals enrolled on the first palliative and end-of-life care masters level module and course facilitators were invited to participate in the study. Two online surveys were developed comprising five open-ended questions to gain both student (n=16) and facilitator (n=4) perceptions of Ivy Street. Data were analysed thematically.
Findings:- The key theme to emerge was the ‘Positive Perceptions of Ivy Street’. A second sub theme ‘Critical Feedback of Ivy Street’ focused on some initial technical issues. Respondents perceived the use of Ivy Street to be enjoyable, enabling and promoting peer discussion, while also having a high impact on student engagement. Respondents commented how Ivy Street removed concerns regarding confidentiality when discussing patient cases through utilisation of standardised Ivy Street characters.
Conclusion:- The novel use of a VLE through developing characters, a story and vignettes is considered to be an effective and engaging method of learning for healthcare professionals enrolled on a palliative and end-of-life care module
The future of HRD, volume I: innovation and technology
No full textThis edited collection captures current thinking about and future practices and strategies for human resource development (HRD). It brings together contributions from a number of leading academics, practitioners and consultants who are active in the debate about the future of HRD. As the world of work grows ever more complex, diverse and ambiguous, there is growing interest in how technology, globalisation, changing workforce demographics and talent development can play a greater role in developing organisations for the future. In this context, HRD is a critical tool to address current complexity and offer solutions to organisational learning needs. Volume I focuses on how technology affects organisational and individual life through innovation, creativity and learning. Contributions explore the growing trends around technology and how HRD could respond to these changes at the micro and macro levels
The future of HRD in a post-pandemic world: insights from Dr Wilson Wong
No full textThis chapter is an interview with Dr Wilson Wong. He is Head of Insight and Futures at the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Chair of the Human Capital Standards Committee at the British Standards Institution (BSI). Wilson shares with us his insights as to what the future could hold for human resource development (HRD) and organisations in a post-pandemic world. In the interview Wilson argues that technology has not lived up to its promise in our fight against Covid-19. He argues that the underlying problems are multi-faceted and therefore the solutions must be holistic. These solutions range from taking care of the environment and wildlife to addressing a potential cause of pandemics, developing government policies in preparing nations for unlikely but impactful events to organisational business models that mediate between new technologies and markets
A longitudinal study of young women’s transitions in Tower Hamlets in an age of austerity
No full textThis five-year longitudinal study looks into the career aspirations and transitions for young women in Tower Hamlets, predominantly from Bangladeshi backgrounds. For this project, it was important to concentrate on one school in the borough. It was conducted over the period 2014–19, at a time when austerity measures disproportionally impacted those from low income families, women and minority ethnic groups
China’s internationalized higher education during Covid-19: collective student autoethnography
No full textThis article presents 15 autoethnographical texts detailing student experiences at Beijing Normal University in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Contributions have been collected over 6 weeks between 15 February and 1 April 2020, edited by Hejia Wang (assisted by Moses Oladele Ogunniran and Yingying Huang), and supervised by Michael Peters. Through shared in-depth empirical feelings and representations from a wide variety of cultural, historical, and social contexts, the article outlines an answer to the question: How do students, connected virtually but separated physically in an internationalized university, deal with disruption brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic? Student testimonies offer reflections on Covid-19 and Chinese international education, experiences of online teaching and learning, reflections on university coping mechanisms, an account of realities and feelings related to changes in academic life, and discussions on coping strategies in Chinese international higher education. Contributors expose their individual feelings, effects, benefits, challenges, and risk management strategies. Collected at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, these testimonies are unable to offer systemic answers to challenges facing the whole world. However, these experiences and feelings will provide important inputs to global discussions about the future of the world, after Covid-19
Human Origami: uncovering meta-levels of corporeal embodiment through movement improvisation
No full textHuman Origami is an improvisational exploration of body folding that addresses multiple levels of embodiment – biological, meta-physical, creative and performative. This process-based, somatic movement approach to expanding the corporeal took its point of departure from phenomenologist Gilles Deleuze, explicitly from his writings on the fold. Human Origami evolved over two years of applied dance research with students at a London dance conservatory, expanding to other sites in Europe, the USA and Asia (Singapore). Here, dancer and multi-media artist Susan Sentler, and dance educator Glenna Batson situate Human Origami within the evolving discourse of multidimensional corporeality
Dancing diffraction: many bodies make light work in Sasha Milavic Davies and Lucy Railton's 'everything that rises must dance' (2018)
Get PDF'everything that rises must dance' (2018) is a dance performance produced by Complicite, premiered as part of Dance Umbrella Festival and created by choreographer Sasha Milavic Davies, composer Lucy Railton, dance artists Antigone Avdi, Makiko Aoyama, Amanda Dufour, Valentina Formenti, Jennifer Irons, Camilla Isola, Ciara Lynch, Gabrielle Nimo, Claudia Palazzo and Inês Pinheiro and 200 volunteer performers. This article focuses on the collaborative choreographic processes used with the volunteer community cast of 200 women residents of London, as a way to think through the term diffraction as employed in the works of feminist theorists Karen Barad and Kathrin Thiele. Barad (2014:168) reminds us that 'Diffraction owes as much to a thick legacy of feminist theorizing about difference as it does to physics'. She argues that diffraction is a material-discursive practice that can be employed to trouble dichotomies, explaining that ‘Diffraction is not a set pattern, but rather an iterative (re)configuring of patterns of differentiating-entangling’ (ibid). With 'everything that rises must dance' (2018), Sasha Milavic Davies and Lucy Railton aimed to produce a response to the city of London, a ‘living archive of female movement’. This article examines the ways in which the volunteer performers involved in the project engaged in an iterative process of observation, embodiment and (re)configuring of patterns to create a complex dialogue between their bodies and performance site. I argue that the concept of diffraction allows for a critical reflection on how the choreographic strategies employed in everything that rises must dance might open up radical ways of being together, bringing our attention to others experiences, and of asking us to think about the dominant discourses that currently exist around how we share urban spaces and to invite us to think about ways to question, challenge or resist these
No more eggs
No full textIn this short piece of creative non-fiction, Kate Pullinger writes about her empty nest and the broader changes wrought in the UK over the past decade