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Going Beyond Metric Driven Responses to Surveys: Evaluating uses of UKES to Support Students' Critical Reflection on their Learning Gain
Get PDFGenuine engagement by academic staff and students in reflective practice in a time of great institutional pressure and a neo-liberal agenda for more metrics driven practice has become increasingly difficult to set time aside for. While more and more feedback is being requested on teaching practice, the quality, validity or reliability of this feedback is not always apparent. This case study explores a project developed at a small-medium sized institution, which aimed to provide an alternative rationale for lecturers to gain richer feedback about their teaching and student experience. The UK Engagement Survey was used in an original way as a reflective tool to increase the engagement with the survey itself and thus enhance the quality of the data. This article will outline the interactive, workshop-based nature of our approach and the effects this has had on the nature of the survey data and response rate
Enhancing the Efficacy of Religious Peacebuilding Practice: An Evidence-based Framework for Assessing Dominant Risks in Religious Peacebuilding
No full textThe ‘risk assessment’ in peacebuilding has become a standard, if sometimes slightly formulaic and performative, element of project design and written proposals. Largely driven by donor requirements and organisational procedures, the relatively new discipline and practice recognised as ‘Religious Peacebuilding’ has taken on many of the elements of ‘secular’ peacebuilding, including the risk assessment. This means that organisations increasingly have to attempt to understand the associated risks to projects with a religious dimension often without any specific guidelines, and in many cases, any relevant knowledge or previous experience of working with religious actors in peacebuilding. Consequently, the primary objective of this paper is to propose the first risk assessment framework for peacebuilding projects which explicitly focus on religious dimensions and actors. The framework is based on analysis of case studies and project evaluations from a number of contexts; and has the potential to make a tangible difference to the efficacy and impact of peacebuilding projects in a variety of post-conflict contexts. This paper will also briefly consider how the proposed framework relates to contemporary theoretical debates concerning the instrumentalization of religion, and increasing technocracy in peacebuilding theory and practice
Disruptive Pedagogy for Disruptive Times: Relative Poverty in Responsible Management Education
No full textEnding poverty in all forms everywhere is a key message of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 1), yet many business and management classrooms remain silent on the multiple, overlapping inequalities created by relative poverty in particular. Drawing on critical education scholarship, this paper argues that in order to imbue students with a more nuanced understanding of the challenges relative poverty presents, a new learning approach is required - one which is unsettling and deliberately challenging to reflect the troubling realities we face. This paper introduces a disruptive pedagogy framework to illustrate this approach, organised around a three-dimensional view of relative poverty comprising of; discourses, representations and vulnerabilities. As an educational practice, disruptive pedagogy attempts to interrupt normalising discourses to encourage authentic learning and positively reframe language and representations associated with social justice issues. In developed countries, where the majority of those we educate are more privileged than those who suffer relative poverty in society, this paper considers the merits of a disruptive pedagogical approach in awakening a sense of in/justice in students, thus broadening their knowledge of poverty in all its relative forms and manifestations
Validity of single-point assessments for determining leg pulse-wave velocity in sitting and supine positions
Get PDFOccupational therapy in primary care:Exploring the role of occupational therapy from a primary care perspective
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Brexit and Animal Welfare Impact Assessment: Analysis of the Threats Brexit Poses to Animal Protection in the UK, EU and Internationally
Get PDFThe British people voted in a 2016 referendum to leave the European Union and the United Kingdom (UK) is set to leave the EU in 2019. Brexit is a major political change and it presents both threats and opportunities for animal protection. This paper assesses the threats that Brexit poses to animal protection in terms of five criteria. These are first, the political situation; second, regulatory changes; third, economic and trade factors; fourth, institutional considerations; and fifth, EU and international impacts. The EU has the most progressive animal welfare laws in the world. The UK Conservative Government, which is delivering Brexit, has a mixed record on animal protection. Brexit is forecast to have a negative impact on the UK economy, which is likely to negatively affect animal welfare. A major threat of Brexit is the import of meat and dairy products to the UK raised in lower welfare standards from nations such as the United States (US). The development of Brexit policy suggests there is a significant risk that this threat will materialise. Furthermore, Brexit will result in a reduced political lobby within the EU for progressive animal protection reform. Despite the UK being a progressive animal protection nation, she will have less power to exert this influence to improve animal welfare outside of the EU. Brexit poses substantial risks to weaken animal protection in the UK, EU and internationally. Further research is needed to assess the opportunities presented by Brexit to judge whether Brexit will be overall positive or negative for animal protection
Average is the New Fantastico
No full textA collaborative word and image project with painter Roma Tearn