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An Archaeological History of Hermitages and Eremtic Communities in Medieval Britain and Beyond
No full textDeveloping the AMPHORA policy guidelines for heritage projects as mental health interventions: A Delphi Consultation
Get PDFPurpose: Engaging with heritage to support mental health and wellbeing has become a focus of research and policy, more recently moving towards social prescription of heritage interventions. While there are benefits to active participation, there are potential risks to those taking part and to the non-renewable historic remains and landscape that form the core of these projects. The purpose of the current research was to develop best practice guidelines for organisations offering heritage projects as interventions for people who live with mental health issues to protect both participants and heritage. Design: There were two research phases; a Sandpit with World Café discussions to produce a set of research priorities, and a Delphi Consultation, employing three questionnaires distributed over six months, to develop best practice guidelines. The panel in both phases comprised experts through lived experience, policy, practice, and research. Findings: The AMPHORA guidelines cover three stages: Project Development, Project Delivery, and Project Follow up, with a set of action points for each stage. Of particular importance was authentic participation and expertise to ensure appropriate management of heritage/ historic environment assets and support for participants. Social implications: The AMPHORA guidelines can assist all organisations in the delivery of safe projects that support the mental health of those involved, as well as enhancing and protecting the historic environment.Originality: These are the first research-led guidelines that help heritage organisations support those living with mental health issues.<br/
The sense of touch in relation to working with archaeological human skeletal remains
No full textWhilst sight may be the most recognised factor in the analysis of human remains touch will also play an important part in our interpretations and is paramount in the learning experience for osteology students. Both the look and feel of archaeological human skeletal remains will be dependent on a variety of factors. The age-at-death and biological sex of the deceased as well as taphonomic processes associated with the burial environment will all play a part in both the texture of skeletal remains. The geology of the burial site, rates of fluctuation in ground water, and any disturbance to the site, as well as funerary rites performed (coffined or non-coffined burials), and the time since burial, will all play a part in the preservation of human remains. These factors will affect both how the remains look and feel in terms of erosion, weight, colouration, and completeness of individual bones. Pathological conditions that these once living individuals may have suffered from can also cause changes to the bones in life which remain apparent in their skeletal remains, such as loss of bone density, increase in bone formation, and deformation. This chapter will aim to discuss these processes reflecting on how human skeletal remains are perceived through the sense of touch. The results of a questionnaire directed at recent students will then be presented, focusing on the experiences and reflections, of the first time that trainees handled archaeological human skeletal remains, indicating that most people are surprised by the way the remains feel. Comparisons with plastic training replica skeletons will also be discussed to determine if these are good proxies for the real remains. Finally, the respondents were asked to reflect on the emotional experiences that they felt on handling human remains. Their reflections are mostly positive and overall, it can be seen that the sense of touch is an important part of the learning experience. <br/
Religion, Death and the Senses
No full textThis edited collection brings together academics and practitioners to explore 6 physical and 3 socio-cultural senses in relation to death and dying: the senses of sight, of smell, of sound, of taste, of touch, of movement, of decency, of humour, and of loss. Each sense section will comprise two chapters to providediffering examples of how death and dying can be viewed through the lens of human physical and cultural senses. Chapters will include historical and contemporary examples of ways in which death, dying and grieving are inextricable from their physical sensual expressions and socio-cultural mores. Most books about death explore how death can be theorised, theologised, and philosophised, or attend to the particular needs of health professionals working in palliative or pastoral care, with little attention to how people engage with and attend to, death, dying and grief sensually. The uniqueness of this collection lies in two areas, firstly its deep engagement with a range of physical and socio-cultural sensual responses to death and dying, and secondly, through its contributors who are drawn from a wide spectrum of professional, practical, and theoretical expertise and scholarship in fields which continue to redefine our understanding of mortality
Data Scientist Knowledge and Skills Evaluation towards a Data-Driven Research Methodology
No full textThe modern business world increasingly requires a higher level of data science expertise as well as abilities in problem solving and data analytics. Data science is a broad and fast-moving field of methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract insights from data. The University of Winchester has followed the guidance of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) and worked in partnership with a number of international, national and regional employers in the design and development of its Data Scientist (integrated degree) programme, which leads to a Bachelor’s degree in Data Science. This degree apprenticeship supports students in gaining the knowledge and skills that are in demand by employers today and into the future, where working in multi-disciplinary teams alongside domain experts will often be the norm. IfATE specifies an End-point Assessment (EPA) plan to enable the apprenticeship to be completed in accordance with its Data Scientist degree apprenticeship standard. This paper considers professional practice and competence in data science and links the processes used in completing the EPA with domain-based knowledge and expertise. It reviews representative solution methodologies before demonstrating the applicability of a data-driven research methodology to discover insights and achieve organisational goals