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Is international law losing its relevance?
No full textSimon Parsons expresses concern about the rise of tribalism and resort to force. The article briefly charts the development of international law since 1945, notes the restraints on the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court and refers to international law aspects of ongoing military conflicts
Reflecting on the use of Google Docs for online interviews: innovation in qualitative data collection
Get PDFGoogle Docs is a widely used online word processing software. Despite its broad popularity in business and education, Google Docs is under-utilised as a tool to facilitate qualitative interviews within research. In this article, we reflect on our experiences as two PhDs using Google Docs to conduct synchronous, online, written interviews. We present two case studies, which, to our knowledge, are the first to utilise Google Docs to conduct web-based written interviews. In doing so, we (a) outline the development and implementation of the methodology, (b) highlight the key themes we identified when considering the benefits and challenges of conducting interviews using this technology and (c) discuss possible future uses of the methodology. We argue that synchronous web-based written interviews via Google Docs offer unprecedented opportunities for qualitative research
Education, emotions and place: developing learning and teaching strategies for international fieldwork
No full textPlay the street
No full textIn this workshop making was proposed as a speculation on reality, as a nodal activity that might allow us to perceive interactions between objects/things (material, tool, body, language, space), as mesh.
‘Good’ or ‘bad’ judgments of individual contributions were irrelevant; engagement was everything. The difficulty of translating and communicating tacit (if not ‘unknown’) knowledge is a critical element of the research process. As is the difficulty of working under close observation. Is making changed by observation? And how might we know this?
The group was split into teams of three, each with three roles: Maker + Writer + Documenter. Each team member performs each role, for one hour.
Data generated (image, moving image, text, sound) was collated and a group evaluation held after the doing together symposium. The making, the writing, the documentation and the evaluation, together, constitute the research. As part of the evaluation, the group will decide how best to share the research
A realist analysis of civilised tourism in China: a social structural and agential perspective
Get PDFThis study investigates structural and agential mechanisms that bring about the value-informed practices in civilised tourism in China. It discovers that positional powers and the present social movement of civilised tourism development co-create a condition for agencies to suffice - triggering psychological and social causes engineered by agents’ capabilities of recognising their concerns, reflexive and evaluative reasoning, forging of identity, moral engagement, and learning. The transition from being a moral self to a civilised Chinese tourist to one who represents China is highlighted. The study concludes: the good level of gelness between sampled actors and the ideation of civilised tourism, and identified variations in socio-cultural interactions suggest a morphogenesis of contingent complementarity (i.e. transforming the system). Practical implications are discussed
Children are artists: supporting children’s learning identity as artists
No full textThis book explores how we can better understand and support children’s learning identity as artists. It discusses an innovative pedagogical approach that outlines parents’ and educators’ roles in developing and supporting children as artists.
Drawing on original research, the book discusses rich case study examples and vignettes to give new insights into children’s learning and developing identities as artists. It identifies the key characteristics of children’s creative learning and outlines a creative and reflective pedagogy while highlighting the role of adults in the process. The chapters discuss topics such as curiosity, creative skills, self-directed learning, real-life contexts for learning and ways of engaging creative learning and imagination
Writing music for an ancient Roman ensemble: artistic research in the recording studio
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to produce a music album of a standard to be suitable for the music production industry. A series of Neo-Hellenic ensemble compositions have been composed and recorded to get as close as possible to ancient Roman popular music. By investigating the music that would have been heard by Greco-Romans during the height of the Roman Empire, this thesis will seek to ask how historical accuracy and commercial music are conciliated during music production. Another aim is to seek to define the role, freedoms and constraints that the relationship with a record label and publisher have to the accompanying album, and how they were consolidated and managed. The research is carried out through practice-based ensemble making in the recording studio. The addition of a rattle cup as a possible musical instrument in an ancient Roman ensemble also contributes to our knowledge of ancient Roman music. The methodologies reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the research. For example, scientific music historiography uses the idea that historic data from the past can be extrapolated and related to music, and this was employed in the lyric research, history of music notation, iconography and socio-economic analysis of the period. This approach is combined with art iconography to justify the use of lyre and aulos playing together in an ensemble, even though the balance inequality in a recording studio raises questions about this practice. An ethnographic examination of household accounts, payments to musicians, documented budgets for feast days and numbers of entertainers provides socio-political insights into the payment of musicians, the level of disposable income they would have had and the subsequent impact on affordable instrumentation. Experimental archaeology is another methodology used extensively in the studio because, when working with an ensemble of reconstructed ancient instruments, unanticipated problems and situations arose which may well have occurred in the Greco-Roman era, both with players and instruments. By attempting to solve performance issues relating to the materials that instruments would have been made of, much can be deduced about the musicians’ lives, socio-economic situation and living conditions
Lives lived at the edges: on storytelling that honours the complexity of mental illness and trauma
Get PDFThis PhD by Publication consists of two parts: a selection of my published
outputs and this accompanying critical reflection. My published works include
my debut novel, The Shock of the Fall, my subsequent nonfiction book, The
Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia (also published as This Book
Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health), and my recent podcast series,
Why Do I Feel?
The critical reflection exammes these works in the context of their
contribution to contemporary discourse about mental illness and trauma,
aspects of human experience that I have sought to better understand
throughout my professional career, not only as a writer but as a mental health
nurse. It demonstrates how, by working across multiple creative forms, I have
been able to advance and deepen my knowledge of this subject and bring
meaningful insights into the public domain.
Guiding this inquiry is a question: How can we tell stories that honour
the unyielding complexity of mental illness and trauma while remaining alert to
the challenges of engaging a general audience?
I address this in two chapters. The first focuses on my fiction and
interrogates the creative and ethical choices that shaped my novel. The second
considers my nonfiction in prose and audio. Throughout the essay, I draw from
seminal works in the field that have informed my writing, present original
interview material, and evaluate mental health theory and practice
Fifty years on – and still no resolution: deaf education, ideology, policy and the cost of resistance
Get PDFThis article proposes and develops a model of teacher resistance based on interviews with eleven teachers employed in a school for the deaf that operated an oral teaching policy up to 1979. It focuses on the relationship between the reified structures in deaf education and individual agency. Teachers had to negotiate tensions between how they were instructed to teach and what they felt was best for the students in terms of language, cultural identity and community membership. Costs of collusion and resistance, and the pertinence of these issues in the context of current discourse around speaking and listening are discussed