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Fourteen ways of reading the messages sent from a spot marked in yellow; Lab sample 5: Quehonavir, serum drug for acuity of vision, perception and seeing
No full textWastework [group exhibition]
No full textWastework is the third and final iteration of an exhibition which began as The Waste Makers on Cornucopia Street at Newhaven Art Space in 2022 before travelling to The Lethaby Gallery at Central Saint Martins.
All three exhibitions explore waste and how we might interpret, rework and re-examine it. How do we arrive at waste? Is it matter out of place? What is the difference between dirt and waste? And what might digital waste be? Focusing on restoration and rehabilitation the show presents diverse artworks from North America, India, and the UK, representing the globalised nature of waste.
The work from Compound 13 lab, for example, has been made inside the informal settlement of Dharavi, Mumbai, which recycles 80% of Mumbai's plastic.
Curated by Ian Dawson, the exhibition continues to accrue new works and takes on new configurations in each space exploring how longstanding artistic practices such as collage and assemblage can glean new perspectives on waste studies and the politics of disposability.
Ian Dawson is an artist, sculptor, lecturer and researcher. He is director of the Critical Practices Research Group at Winchester School of Art and convener of the Materials Lab at the University of Southampton.
Contributing artists: John Walter, Donna Mitchell, Jasone Miranda Bilbao, Compound 13 Lab, Ian Dawson, Aqui Thami, Louisa Minkin, Sharmila Samant, Miguelzinta Solis, Andrea Mason, Ben Parry, Amanda Jobson, Marie-Louise Jones, Erika Trotzig, Jefford Horrigan, Mario Rossi, Mia Taylor, Stephen Cornford, Ali Eales and Trinity Art Group
Changing responses during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison of psychological wellbeing and work-related quality of life of UK health and social care workers
Get PDFAim: to explore the psychological wellbeing and work-related quality of life amongst United Kingdom (UK) health and social care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Subject and methods: Health and social care professionals within nursing, midwifery, allied health professions, social care and social work occupations working in the UK during the pandemic were recruited. Repeated cross-sectional online surveys were conducted during six time periods of the pandemic (May–July 2020, November–February 2021, May–July 2021, November 2021–February 2022, May–July 2022 and November 2022–February 2023). Results: Over 14,000 participants completed the surveys during the data collection periods. The findings revealed that over the pandemic, psychological wellbeing and work-related quality of life scores significantly decreased. Conclusions: The overall psychological wellbeing and work-related quality of life of health and social care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic significantly declined. Further research is warranted on the lasting impact of the pandemic on this workforce. The health and social care workforce needs support to prevent further deterioration and to rebuild its wellbeing and resilience
Positionality in postdigital research: the power to effect change
No full textConducting postdigital research opens up an endless range of diverse topics and possible methodological approaches. This is a strength and a barrier to furthering powerful, disruptive opportunities for concrete forms of political change that the idea of the postdigital offers. As a messy, universal concept, the postdigital remains open to diverse, cultural interpretations of what to research, and how to research it, an inclusive space where all may contribute to postdigital dialogue. Yet to effect meaningful change our collaborative, edgeless, community also requires concrete examples of studies, that are in dialogue with the diverse, postdigital positionalities of each researcher. By postdigital positionality, I refer to a personal stance and critically reflexive conviction by each individual to meaningfully engage with their own identity, values and potential bias, as they conduct postdigital research within a neoliberal, data-driven, digitally unequal society, where culture wars rage. Following an exploration of the individual nature of postdigital research through positionality, the political economic structure that surrounds postdigital research is considered alongside the potential role of postdigital decoloniality research. A model of personal and community postdigital positionality is presented, with attention in particular to where the language of postdigital positionality engages with the language of postdigital community
Literature Across Borders: the pilot year. Part 2: the students
Get PDFThis ‘project proceedings’ article comprises eight reflections from students involved in
the Pilot Year of the Literature across Borders project, facilitated by The Green
Literature Festival (India) between Ashoka University (India) and Bath Spa University
(UK). This article pairs with a partner piece (see this issue) outlining the concept,
planning, and delivery of the pilot year, and exploring staff reflections
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No full textIt’s been years since Stef last left her house. The loss of her brother combined with the quiet dread of the unknown conspiring to keep her inside. When her brother Liam’s best friend, Evan, arrives to give Liam’s journal to Stef, they begin a relationship. However, when Stef and Evan start to unpack their shared trauma, they question if their relationship can ever break free from its confines? Caught between Evan’s images of a world outside that they could inhabit, and a story of lost love that Stef is translating from a previous generation, Stef must choose the kind of future she wants, and whether Evan will be a part of it
Learning ‘in the hive’: social character and student wellbeing in the age of psychometric data
Get PDFGrowing societal concern about a crisis in the wellbeing of young people has prompted a range of responses from governments and corporations, predicated on an ideal of the resilient, self-reliant individual. Behavioural economists, data scientists and educational technology companies now offer a variety of psychological interventions based on psychometric data, aimed at ‘equipping’ individual students with the necessary skills and character to enable them to withstand the pressures of contemporary life. As a consequence, the critical importance of mutually supportive interpersonal relationships continues to be neglected in mainstream approaches to Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). This article draws on Fromm’s theory of social character and Zuboff’s analysis of ‘life in the hive’ to challenge the assumptions about human behaviour underpinning data science and its application in digital tools for social and emotional learning and self-managed wellbeing. To improve students’ wellbeing, we need to begin with an understanding of why they are more likely to thrive within a network of mutually supportive social relationships than a digital ‘hive’
Phonemes and phonics: an exploration with young children about their thought processes and meta-language when encountering new sound-symbolic experiences
No full textHenry Swanzy: the selected diaries - Ichabod 1948-58
No full textHenry Swanzy (1915-2004) has an unrivalled position as a midwife of Caribbean and West African writing in the 1950s period. As the editor of the BBC Caribbean Voices programme (initiated by Una Marson) between 1946 and 1954, he was there as the careers of George Lamming, Edgar Mittelholzer, Jan Carew, Andrew Salkey, Wilson Harris, Kamau Brathwaite, V.S. Naipaul, Sam Selvon and many others took off in London. He was pleased to receive work from women in the Caribbean such as Edwina Melville, Gloria Escoffery and Eula Redhead. As editor, Swanzy looked for work that was authentic to its Caribbean roots, in language, theme and social concern. As an Irishman, Swanzy had a sufficiently critical view of colonialism to be positively sympathetic to the nationalist thrust of the writing. He was well-respected by the writers to whom he offered both literary and personal support – and not least for his awareness of their pecuniary needs. Once Caribbean Voices was well established, it was left in the hands of Caribbean editors and Swanzy went to Ghana in 1954 to encourage and support writers and broadcasting there, launching the radio programme The Singing Net and being part of the writing careers of Cyprian Ekwensi, Efua Sutherland and many others. Thanks to the generosity of Swanzy’s heirs, his private and often amusingly indiscreet diaries of this period (known as “Ichabod”) have been made available and carefully edited and documented by the team of Niblett, Campbell and Smith. With an introduction that puts Swanzy and these radio programmes in context, this is both an essential, entertaining and highly readable book for anyone even remotely interested in the development of Caribbean and West African writing.
Not least of its value is the extensive appendix where Niblett et al. have documented all the writers mentioned in the diary. This, in itself, is a salutary reminder of the wealth of writing talent in both the Caribbean and Ghana that flowered in this period but then, in the absence of other opportunities, disappeared from view