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Conservation science and discursive violence: a response to two rejoinders
Get PDFWe respond to two rejoinders to our review article “Science for Success,” which proposed fuller contextualization of epistemological approach, researcher position and interests in conservation research. This way readers—including reviewers and journal editors—can better understand and interpret findings. We suggest this contextualization is particularly important when conservation and development professionals undertake research about programs they are involved in, as this can potentially create a conflict of interest. Both rejoinders follow an extended process of complaint about our article that included academic and legal threats, and ad hominem attacks, with little engagement with the points made about researcher positionality. We consider this to be a form of “discursive violence” deployed to silence unfavorable perspectives, confirming our argument that positionality in conservation (research) begs self-reflection and transparent disclosure
Touch Type
No full textThe work 'Touch-Type' created by Jenny Dunseath and Kate Squires was presented as part of the CreaTech Exhibition.
Touch-Type tries to understand the disembodied experience of communication through digital mediation. The keyboard acts as a sensual touch pad, allowing fingers to extend into letters which when touched haunt the adjacent screen. The dissociation in digital communication dwells in the intra-action of the human and non-human, of presence and absence of passivity and action. This interaction creates hiccups, stutters and confused breakdowns, allowing mis/communications to splinter off. Touch-Type came from our teaching online during Covid. Discussions with students have contributed to these collaborative projects, such as thinking with students about the language around tangible and digital objects and the relationship with the real
A mixed-methods feasibility study of a novel AI-enabled, web-based, clinical decision support system for the treatment of major depression in adults
Get PDFBackground:-
The objective of this paper is to discuss perceived clinical utility and impact on physician-patient relationship of a novel, artificial-intelligence (AI) enabled clinical decision support system (CDSS) for use in treating adults with major depression.
Methods:-
A single arm, naturalistic follow-up study aimed at assessing the acceptability and useability of the software. Patients had a baseline appointment, followed by a minimum of two appointments with the CDSS. Study exit questionnaires and interviews were conducted to assess perceived clinical utility, impact on patient-physician relationship, and understanding and trust. 7 physicians and 17 patients, of which 14 completed, consented to participate.
Results:-
86 % of physicians (6/7) felt the information provided by the CDSS provided more comprehensive understanding of patient situations. 71 % (5/7) felt the information was helpful. 86 % of physicians (6/7) reported the AI/predictive model was useful when deciding treatment. 62 % of patients (8/13) reported improved care due to the tool, and 46 %(6/13) reported a significantly or somewhat improved physician-patient relationship 54 % reported no change. 71 % of physicians (5/7) and 62 % of patients (8/13) rated trusting the tool.
Limitations:-
Small sample size and treatment changes prior to CDSS introduction limits ability to verify impact on outcomes.
Conclusions:-
Qualitative results from 12 patient exit interviews are analyzed and presented. Findings suggest physicians perceived the tool as useful in conducting appointments and used it while deciding treatment. Physicians and patients generally found the tool trustworthy, and it may have positive effects on physician-patient relationships. (Study identifier: NCT04061642)
The importance of reflective practice with Dr. Sharon Colilles [podcast]
No full textThroughout this episode, Shaddai Tembo is joined by Dr. Sharon Colilles to discuss why reflective practice is so important when adopting an inclusive approach.
Sharon touches on the power of being present within the moment and really taking time away from the day-to-day routines is crucial to adapt and ensure inclusivity is embedded. The diversity of children is fluid, and it changes all the time. Therefore, the routine and the environment need to change and adapt, which can only be recognised through self-reflection but also peer to peer reflection too
Explorify: episode 2 [podcast]
No full textA conversation about assessment in primary science. Build confidence in assessing science in your school with Explorify Engagement Leader Becky Ellis and Sarah Earle from Bath Spa University
Blindness for beginners: allowing for degenerative or inconsistent conditions in a post-COVID world
No full textDestin-Ation integration: the impact of the European Destin Project (2018–2022) on Ukrainian journalism and media education
Get PDFDESTIN: Journalism Education for Democracy in Ukraine: Developing Standards, Integrity, and Professionalism was an Erasmus+ funded project involving twenty partners across Europe and Ukraine that aimed to transform the environment for journalism in Ukraine by working with university departments, employers, and other key stakeholders to ensure that higher education programmes better matched the needs of students, the media sector, and democratic society more generally. Between November 2018 and November 2022, it led to the development and implementation of twenty new and revised BA and MA programmes in journalism and media at ten Ukraine universities; seventeen online ‘media literacy’ courses aimed at the Ukrainian public; ‘National Methodological Guidelines’ for BA and MA Journalism programmes shared with Ministry of Education and Science; creation of the Ukrainian Forum for Educators in Media and Journalism; and a dual-diploma Polish-Ukrainian MA programme in journalism, launched in September 2022. This essay will report on the project’s goals, activities, achievements, impact, and legacy and underline the value of education for both improving the quality of journalism and preserving democratic values, particularly during a time of war
CBNRM, national parks, elites, and ethnography: a comment on (mis)representations
Get PDFI respond to a recently published article in Ecology and Society, namely “Can the center hold? Boundary actors and marginality in a community-based natural resource management network” (Snorek and Bolger 2022). I provide additional information for three dimensions of this article: (1) historical context regarding the different and varied roots of contemporary marginalization of peoples along the !Khuiseb River, (2) the positioning and framing of the article in the context of Namibian community-based natural resources management (CBNRM), and (3) the authors’ representation of early ethnographic research with inhabitants of the !Khuiseb valley
'The desert burns clean': the challenge of conveying accurate science through embodied characters in science fiction
Get PDFThis thesis is comprised of two parts: a novel, The Desert Burns Clean, and a
contextualizing exegesis. Together, these two elements allow me to explore the
challenge of accurately portraying the facts of a complex scientific reality while still
accessing the truth of the human body experience. To achieve this, I utilize a variety
of technical craft strategies in my fiction, while examining and reflecting upon them
in my contextualizing exegesis in ways that I hope will be of use to other writers and
critics.
Based on current scientific research, the novel is set in a future where optimal
health—complete with long life—is available for those who can afford it through
regular microbial inoculations begun at birth. In this fictional world, fertility rates have
dropped, and epidemics have become common. Against this backdrop, I have created
five protagonists who are diverse in terms of their genders as well as their cultural,
educational, and racial backgrounds. They must work towards trusting each other to
overcome the machinations of a wealthy and politically powerful owner of a fertility
clinic who wants to exploit their bodies for her illicit research.
The contextual component of my thesis examines the strategies I use to
incorporate accurate scientific information in the novel through the embodied
experiences of my characters. My first strategy is that of worldbuilding. Here, the
scientific information is not overtly present in the text but provides the “natural laws”
of the world and how the characters will experience it. With worldbuilding, an accurate
foundation of current science is laid from which all other aspects of story will be
grounded. Secondly, I explore four forms of exposition through which I relate scientific information overtly through my characters. Finally, I discuss the benefits,
challenges, and limitations of conveying information through characters’ body
experiences.
We cannot escape the fact that information is processed in and through our
bodies. Thus, fundamental to my argument and methodology is the premise that
grounding information and knowledge in human body experience offers writers an
important strategy for conveying complex scientific information accurately in a work
of science fiction