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'It can't be found in books': how a flipped-classroom approach using online videos can engage postgraduate students in dissertation writing
No full text‘Dad! Cut that Part Out!’ Children’s Rights to Privacy in the Age of ‘Generation Tagged’: Sharenting, Digital Kidnapping and the Child Micro-Celebrity’
No full textWesternised societies have become familiar with social and digital media. Children born since the turn of the twenty-first century, known more informally as ‘millennials’, have grown up in an age where social media has been a part of the everyday lives of many families. In what has become known as ‘sharenting’, parents can easily post images and video clips of their children on social media sites. Some parents do this by setting up social media accounts in their child’s name or by using their own social media profiles. Some parents engage in ‘blogging’ and ‘vlogging’ or have created a YouTube Channel, on which they display the daily activity of their family including their children. Some parents engage their children in fly-on-the-wall documentaries which are broadcast on television. Intimate parts of children’s lives can therefore be easily exposed without their knowledge or consent, without consideration of the risks involved and without an appreciation of what their children’s wishes might be in the future, once they become adults
All Kinds of Feelings
No full textA heavily illustrated text for 5-7 year olds designed to help them recognise and understand a range of feelings in themselves and those around them
The Relevance of In Silico, In Vitro and Non-human Primate Based Approaches to Clinical Research on Major Depressive Disorder
Get PDFMajor depressive disorder (MDD) is the most severe form of depression and the leading cause of disability worldwide. When considering research approaches aimed at understanding MDD, it is important that their effectiveness is evaluated. Here, we assessed the effectiveness of original studies on MDD by rating their contributions to subsequent medical papers on the subject, and we compared the respective contribution of findings from non-human primate (NHP) studies and from human-based in vitro or in silico research approaches. For each publication, we conducted a quantitative citation analysis and a systematic qualitative analysis of the citations. In the majority of cases, human-based research approaches (both in silico and in vitro) received more citations in subsequent human research papers than did NHP studies. In addition, the human-based approaches were considered to be more relevant to the hypotheses and/or to the methods featured in the citing papers. The results of this study suggest that studies based on in silico and in vitro approaches are taken into account by medical researchers more often than are NHP-based approaches. In addition, these human-based approaches are usually cheaper and less ethically contentious than NHP studies. Therefore, we suggest that the traditional animal-based approach for testing medical hypotheses should be revised, and more opportunities created for further developing human-relevant innovative techniques.</p
Practice based learning: stories that reveal and influence
Get PDFWe are curious as to how leaders can become more understanding and reflexive (Cunliffe 2004; Hibbert & Cunliffe 2015) of their own practice and how this might be facilitated in meaningful ways. How leaders do their job is increasingly important and difficult because our world is becoming more uncertain and erratic. Yet through this, leaders need to be able to understand, involve others and make reasoned choices, often with incomplete knowledge. It is within this challenge that we explore practice based learning (PBL), by this we mean developing the ability to understand, involve others and make reasoned choices, often with incomplete and hazy knowledge. In this sense, practice development is a social process. This paper presents an agenda for research into PBL . The insights generated will influence further learning about leadership as an iterative process of research. We briefly consider the social and individual nature of such learning, making clear that both are a reflection of the other. Within an action research methodology we seek to use a blend of action learning and story (Gabriel 2000) to understand and apply learning in the challenging contexts leaders find themselves in
Tafida Raqeeb Judgment Summary: Continuation of Life-Sustaining Treatment in Italy held to be in Child’s Best Interests
No full textTowards a parrhesiastic engagement with graduate employability
No full textGraduate employability has become a central part of the policy debate on the relevance and value of higher education in Europe, often associated with meeting the economic demands of society. This has led to a sense of institutional vulnerability to the vagaries of market forces and public opinion, leading some higher education institutions to adopt narrow and reductive approaches to engaging with graduate employability in response. Yet such responses are not inevitable. This article deploys Foucault’s notion of parrhesia to argue that the vulnerability experienced by institutions represents an opportunity to engage with the truth of graduate employability. By conceiving of employability as the pursuit of self-transformation, institutions are able to induce students to problematise their own employability. In doing so, the possibility exists of disrupting narrow conceptions of employability and of opening up myriad possibilities of being.</p
Identifying stressors and coping strategies of elite esports competitors
Get PDFResearchers have examined some of the psychological aspects of competing at a high level in esports. The present study aims to build on this literature by examining the various stressors faced and the associated coping strategies employed by seven esports competitors. The interviews were inductively analysed, and the findings illustrated a range of internal (e.g., communication issues, lack of shared team goals) and external (e.g., event audience, media interviews) stressors that the participants faced. Following this, the coping strategies used to deal with these stressors were deductively analysed. A number of emotion- (e.g., breathing, relaxation) problem- (e.g., intra-team communication after matches) and approach- (e.g., team camps, delegating roles) coping strategies were described by participants. Avoidance coping strategies were predominantly highlighted as being used during games. Results are considered in line with how applied practitioners might support players to develop strategies to deal with stressors, which might in turn lead to enhancing performance