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Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
No full textIn the era of the early modern ‘secret state’, two notorious brothers set up an elaborate intelligence network, managing a vast array of spies and informers watchful for Jacobite plots against Britain
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No full textConor Wilson's research explores the proposition that making is a particularly intimate form of engagement between body and world. Some questions that emerge from this research are:
1. Does making allow us to access a mode of thinking/being that we can’t access in other ways?
2. Can we provide evidence of embodied knowledge other than through ‘doing the knowledge’, or through visual documentation?
3. How do we bring writing closer to making?
The third, in particular, is a question that seems central to the conduct of Practice-based Research. Through a series of noticing, making and writing exercises, we explored together how we might address these questions, while practising a ‘…kind of receptivity, of openness, or “hospitality”’ (Helene Cixous)
Usability of responsible gambling information on gambling operator’ websites: a webcam-based eye tracking study
No full textRecent research underscored the resurgence of webcam-based eye tracking as a cost-effective, ecologically valid, and scalable choice, attributed to advancements in machine learning-assisted calibration methods. Online gambling poses a public health concern, necessi- tating innovative research methods and evidence-based strategies for harm reduction. This study investigates users’ fixation patterns on responsible gambling (RG) information in different formats on gambling websites using webcam-based eye tracking. Participants browsed six gambling websites to search for RG information. 19 participants’ data were analyzed on Areas of Interest (AOIs) cate- gorized based on RG formats. The study has found that usability varied across RG formats and also highlights both feasibility and challenges of webcam-based eye tracking for online behavior re- search, with practical implications to gambling stakeholders
Editorial - Advancing physical literacy research in children
Get PDFThe collection of papers in this Special Issue serves to extend the literature and evidence
base for physical literacy (PL) research within child and youth populations. Currently, child and
youth populations are increasingly sedentary, resulting in them spending less time engaging in daily
physical activity (PA). Physical literacy serves as an attractive concept to help reframe and address
physical inactivity and poor health and wellbeing, utilising a different and integrated approach to
physical activity, health and wellbeing promotion. The studies presented in this Special Issue respond
to previous calls in PL research for further empirical evidence, clarity around PL assessment, the
utility of physical literacy with diverse populations including indigenous children and those with
disabilities, the application of PL within early years, parental engagement and the role of physical
education in the promotion of PL. These studies shed new light on the frontiers of PL research within
child and youth populations
Cultural heritage and histories of the Northern Namib / Skeleton Coast National Park
No full textWe outline Indigenous cultural heritage and histories associated with the Northern Namib Desert, designated since 1971 as the Skeleton Coast National Park. We draw on two main sources of information: 1) historical documents stretching back to the late 1800s; and 2) oral history research with now elderly people who have direct and familial memories of using and living in areas now within the Park boundary. This material affirms that localities and resources now included within the Park were used by local people in historical times, their access linked with the availability of valued foods, especially !nara melons (Acanthosicyos horridus) and marine foods such as mussels. Memories about these localities, resources and heritage concerns, including graves of family members, remain lively for some individuals and their families today. We argue for the importance of understanding the Northern Namib as a remembered cultural landscape, as well as an area of high conservation value. In doing so, protecting and perhaps restoring access to sites with significant contemporary cultural heritage value, would be appropriate. Such sites include locations of culturally important foods such as !nara, graves of known ancestors, and named and remembered former dwelling places. We hope the material shared here will contribute to a diversified recognition of values for the Skeleton Coast National Park, to shape ecological and heritage conservation practice and visitor experiences into the future
From ‘smart city’ to wise city? Thinking with ecology, water, and hydrocitizenship
No full textThis chapter seeks to explore a number of questions relating to smart city thinking and water. It points out that cities in ecological and in many more specific ways are ‘stupid spaces’, rife with a whole range of systemic shortcomings. The obvious attraction of smart technologies is the hope of addressing at least some of those shortcomings. But for cities to be wise, rather than smart, and deeper, an ecological view of sustainability is required. This will require pushing ideas of smartness, or wisdom, to embrace the non-human, ecological and the underpinning elemental flows of water which sustain all life
Embers of the hands: hidden histories of the Viking Age
No full textImagine a Viking, and a certain image springs to mind: a nameless, faceless warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorise the hapless local population of a northern European country.
Yet while such characters define the Viking Age today, they were in the minority. This is the history of all the other people - children, enslaved people, seers, artisans, travellers, writers - who inhabited the medieval Nordic world. Encompassing not just Norway, Denmark and Sweden, but also Iceland, Greenland, parts of the British Isles, Continental Europe and Russia, this is a history of a Viking Age filled with real people of different ages, genders and ethnicities, as told through the traces that they left behind, from hairstyles to place names, love-notes to gravestones
Global class actions: towards a blockchain-based dispute resolution system
Get PDFMass injuries caused by the violations of multinational firms are becoming more and more common in today’s globalised economy as goods and services are sold worldwide, and the harm these goods and services cause affects many widely scattered victims in different countries. Even if the same or almost identical factual situations injure consumers worldwide, whether they obtain any remedies varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction as each country designs its class action procedure differently. In order to overcome jurisdictional variations and compensate consumers with small claims in a more effective and efficient manner, this article deliberates on the idea of incorporating blockchain-based dispute resolution methods into class action proceedings. In this light, the article discusses to what extent blockchain-based dispute resolution systems can be used in class actions to provide better access to justice to consumers at the global level
Research priorities for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response: an interdisciplinary Delphi study
Get PDFAutonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a multisensory experience most often associated with feelings of relaxation and altered consciousness, elicited by stimuli which include whispering, repetitive movements, and close personal attention. Since 2015, ASMR research has grown rapidly, spanning disciplines from neuroscience to media studies but lacking a collaborative or interdisciplinary approach. To build a cohesive and connected structure for ASMR research moving forwards, a modified Delphi study was conducted with ASMR experts, practitioners, community members, and researchers from various disciplines. Ninety-eight participants provided 451 suggestions for ASMR research priorities which were condensed into 13 key areas: (1) Definition, conceptual clarification, and measurement of ASMR; (2) Origins and development of ASMR; (3) Neurophysiology of ASMR; (4) Understanding ASMR triggers; (5) Factors affecting the likelihood of experiencing/eliciting ASMR; (6) ASMR and individual/cultural differences; (7) ASMR and the senses; (8) ASMR and social intimacy; (9) Positive and negative consequences of ASMR in the general population; (10) Therapeutic applications of ASMR in clinical contexts; (11) Effects of long-term ASMR use; (12) ASMR platforms and technology; (13) ASMR community, culture, and practice. These were voted on by 70% of the initial participant pool using best/worst scaling methods. The resulting agenda provides a clear map for ASMR research to enable new and existing researchers to orient themselves towards important questions for the field and to inspire interdisciplinary collaborations