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Combatting the Digital Influence Industry within Surveillance Capitalism: the Potentials and Pitfalls of Personal Information Management Systems
No full textStakeholder perceptions of primary school education about food sustainability and farm animal welfare in England
Get PDFBackgroundThere is growing consensus on the negative impacts of food production on the natural environment and planetary viability. UK society is also increasingly concerned about the impact of intensive farming systems on the billions of sentient farmed animals within them. In liberal democracies and capitalist economies, enlightened citizens and informed consumers are key to the solution to environmental crises, such as anthropogenic climate change. Despite this, there is minimal provision for food sustainability and farm animal welfare in England’s National Curriculum.PurposeTo investigate the views of stakeholders on the provision of food sustainability and farm animal welfare education in English primary schools.SampleTen stakeholders selected for their knowledge or interest in food sustainability and farm animal welfare education.Design and methodsIn-depth, semi-structured interviews, analysed naturalistically within an interpretivist framework.ResultsBarriers to teaching food sustainability and farm animal welfare reported by stakeholders were restraints caused by the curriculum, the need and lack of funding, a lack of teacher knowledge about the topic, and concerns about its controversy. Best methods identified for teaching were teaching from an early age and throughout all of schooling, adopting a cross-curricular approach, facilitating learning in a hands-on way, and not waiting for change from government reform.ConclusionThis research informs the debate on the provision of food sustainability and farm animal welfare education in English primary schools. Given that the environmental crisis is a global one, and that sentient animals are farmed across the world, the research may also inform discussion on inclusion of food sustainability and farm animal welfare outside of the English education context
Webside manner and beyond: Utilising simulation to transform telehealth skills in allied health profession students
No full textAn Evaluation of a Language Cafe in Aberdeen: Focusing on Complementary Language Learning and Active Citizenship
Get PDFThe Changing Role of the Management Accountant in the UK - an Institutional Logics Perspective
Get PDFSilent Prayer vs Safe Access: The UK’s Cautious Approach to the Regulation of Silent Prayer Outside Premises Providing Abortion Services
No full textAncient Mycobacterium leprae genome reveals medieval English red squirrels as animal leprosy host
No full textLeprosy, one of the oldest recorded diseases in human history, remains prevalent in Asia, Africa, and South America, with over 200,000 cases every year. Although ancient DNA (aDNA) approaches on the major causative agent, Mycobacterium leprae, have elucidated the disease’s evolutionary history the role of animal hosts and interspecies transmission in the past remains unexplored. Research has uncovered relationships between medieval strains isolated from archaeological human remains and modern animal hosts such as the red squirrel in England. However, the time frame, distribution, and direction of transmissions remains unknown. Here, we studied 25 human and 12 squirrel samples from two archaeological sites in Winchester, a medieval English city well known for its leprosarium and connections to the fur trade. We reconstructed four medieval M. leprae genomes, including one from a red squirrel, at a 2.2-fold average coverage. Our analysis revealed a phylogenetic placement of all strains on branch 3 as well as a close relationship between the squirrel strain and one newly reconstructed medieval human strain. In particular, the medieval squirrel strain is more closely related to some medieval human strains from Winchester than to modern red squirrel strains from England, indicating a yet-undetected circulation of M. leprae in non-human hosts in the Middle Ages. Our study represents the first One Health approach for M. leprae in archaeology, which is centered around a medieval animal host strain, and highlights the future capability of such approaches to understand the disease’s zoonotic past and current potential
Rooms of Our Own: The Spatial Turn in Histories of Women's Education
No full textVirginia Woolf’s «A Room of One’s Own» (Woolf, 1929) provides a resonant spatial metaphor for envisaging the negotiation of factors that mediate/facilitate women’s «horizons of possibility» which accrue around the ideas encapsulated in another spatial metaphor «women’s place». Space is an expansive concept and offers possibilities for investigation both materially and metaphorically, and at different scales from the intimate to global. This article takes three historical case studies; on the Mothers’ Union, a girls’ junior technical school and women’s presence at the Anglican Church congress to reflect on the embedded nature of space and place in research into women’s activism in philanthropy, education and the work place. This article draws on the spatial turn in scholarship underpinned by Henri Lefebvre’s landmark Production of Space and the work of feminist geographers Linda McDowell, who focuses on the gendered nature of space and identity, and Doreen Massey who conceives spaces as arenas of conflict (Lefebvre, 1991; Massey, 1994; McDowell, 1999).To conceptualise the validation of women occupying space whether in ‘rooms of their own’ or as agents in a wider public sphere we draw on Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of capital and pedagogic authority