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About making: keep chewing the gum
No full textJenny Dunseath ran this session aimed at audiences with an interest in art practice. This playful and sometimes stupid session involved multi-sensory, participatory approaches. While focus, certainty, coherence, and singularity are commonly considered pedagogical ideals, this session explored the nature of an art practice and the relevance of distraction and uncertainty to promote flexible, multifaceted, adaptive, and associative thinking
The use of behavioural science within public health: a cross-sectional survey of UK local authority
No full textBackground: In the UK, local authorities are responsible for public health and are expected to utilise
behavioural science disciplines, including health psychology, to understand and support health behaviour
change. A previous qualitative study undertaken by the authors indicates that behavioural science use by local
authorities may be limited and impacted by a range of psychosocial factors. This study aims to build upon
these findings by assessing behavioural science use and its determinants nationally across UK local
authorities.
Methods: A quantitative cross-sectional survey design will be adopted. An adapted version of the Determinants
of Implementation Behaviour Questionnaire will be completed by 410 local authority public health practitioners,
recruited via purposive sampling. Following descriptive statistics, hierarchical multiple regressions will assess
the relationship between behavioural science use and its determinants within this population.
Expected results: It is anticipated that the overall use of behavioural science will be low across UK local
authorities. It is further expected that the successful use of behavioural science will be strongly predicted by
organisational influences as well as having the knowledge and skills in how to apply behavioural science.
Current stage of work: Data collection to start imminently pending anticipated confirmation of ethical approval.
Discussion: This study will enable a more comprehensive understanding of UK local authorities' use of
behavioural science within public health. This knowledge will facilitate the development of targeted
interventions aimed at building capacity within local authority public health teams to successfully apply
behavioural science and behaviour change frameworks to support population-level behaviour change
Online gaming and language aggression in a Tunisian Arabic context
No full textThis paper intends to examine the development of conflictual interactions, how they might be resolved, and the socio-cultural norms involved, by adopting an analytical framework in an online gaming context. The current paper was inspired by Kádár and Haugh’s framework as it enables me to investigate both the macro and micro aspects of (im)politeness. The study’s aim is to further examine how impoliteness, language aggression and conflict are realised in two online gaming platforms, namely Fortnite and PUBG Mobile. Thus, I will explore discursively how these phenomena are subjective in a Tunisian Arabic setting and discuss how participants reach their subjective perception of conflict in ways that do not always correspond to the supposed intentions of the ostensible offender. The results indicate that conflict is subjective as it is evaluated in different ways by different gamers and could be a result of a conflictual intention. The findings also reveal that conflict may also be created/ escalated as a result of a non-conflictual intention. Thus, this paper contributes to understanding of conflict, how impoliteness can lead to conflict and the various aspects of impoliteness/the perception of impoliteness
Creating authentic and positive stories about personhood for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities: a call for reader expressions of interest
Get PDFThis paper introduces the controversial concept of ‘personhood’ as it relates to people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD). Traditional narratives of ‘PMLD’, combined with dominant accounts of what it means to be a person, can lead to people with PMLD being identified as ‘non-persons’. We are concerned that framing people with PMLD as non-persons contributes to the perpetuation of existing inequalities that this group experiences. We are interested in changing this narrative in ways that allow authentic and positive stories of personhood for people with PMLD to be generated and shared. In closing this paper, we introduce our new research in this field, and welcome readers to contact us if they are interested in getting involved
A rapid review of reflective supervision in social work
Get PDFReflective supervision (RS) is a crucial component of social work practice but little is known about how RS works within the UK context and what the outcomes of RS are for social workers and their service users. A rapid literature review comprised searching four databases for academic and grey literature on the topic of social work RS. The Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool and the University College London’s literature assessment method were employed in an expedited quality appraisal for all included papers. Twenty-seven papers were included. Findings suggest that a supportive, available manager or a peer-group enables reflective practice. Regularity of supervisory sessions and acknowledgement of a social worker’s autonomy are seen as enablers of reflexivity. In contrast, task-oriented approach that is overly focused on accountability and hindered by the sparsity of resources proves problematic for both social workers and service users. Whilst theoretical papers were available, RS was not defined in a uniform fashion and there was limited evidence pertaining to supervisory practice. More research focusing on what works and what improvements are needed in RS, including adopting a participatory approach would help to bridge this gap and further inform policy and practice
The improvising teacher: reconceptualising pedagogy, expertise and professionalism
No full textDrawing on theories of improvisation and expertise alongside empirical research, the book argues that teacher expertise is fundamentally improvisatory.
The book provides a theoretical model for teacher expertise that is relevant internationally and illustrates the nature of advanced practice in a global classroom through case studies of expert teachers in England. It makes a theoretical and conceptual case to support the case for the improvising teacher as a prototype model of expert practice. Sorensen draws on critical studies in improvisation and the study of expertise and expert practice, and argues that now more than ever, teachers must be flexible, creative and skilled in adaptation. Providing a critical evaluation on how to approach the professional development of the improvising teacher, the book outlines how the improvising teacher signifies a broader cultural shift in the way we understand teaching and teacher professionalism
it is really hard to focus when there are too many things to do
Get PDFEveryone is busy. We tend to have too many things to do, and not enough time to do them. Or we don’t manage our time effectively. Or we try to do everything at once and fail. In it is really hard to focus when there are too many things to do the players are presented with a collection of tasks which involve completing different series of actions, including playing melodic patterns, sequences of object sounds and samples. Individual players may cue these sequences, affecting the behaviour of the group as a whole. Once a sequence has been started, players must complete it while trying to manage the completion of any unfinished sequences. Simultaneously, other instructions modify the way they complete these tasks, necessitating decisions as to how best to proceed in order to do the best they can
Automating the flow of data between digital forensic tools using Apache NiFi
No full textIn digital forensics, sources of digital evidence range from computer disk drives, memories, mobile phones, network dumps, and all kinds of IoT devices, etc. Therefore, different tools are required for digital evidence collection and analysis from various sources. Even though each tool works automatically, data from one tool to another often need to be prepared manually. This paper introduces a NiFi-based solution that enables automatically moving data between digital forensic tools, reducing manual work in practice. A DataFlow designed in NiFi can monitor and fetch the input data, pre-processing the data and run digital forensic tools for data analytics. Besides, NiFi can also be used for remote evidence acquisition and data sharing between law enforcement agencies (LEAs). This paper also presents a couple of use cases of using NiFi for digital evidence processing: they are 1) file carving, 2) NSRL (National Software Reference Library) hash lookup, 3) categorising files by MIME type, and 4) IoT logs parsing