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"Improved access, delayed accreditation, low recognition”: Perspectives of mental health educators, preceptors and students on the Kintampo Project in Ghana
Get PDFPurposeThe problem of mental health care neglect in Ghana is gradually improving. The Kintampo Project which trained mental health workers in Ghana has played a critical role through increasing access to mental health care.MethodologyThis qualitative study explored participants' perspectives on the Kintampo Project in three broad areas: perceived effectiveness, gains and challenges. Seventeen (17) interviews were conducted with former students, preceptors and educators from the project. The interviews were digitally audio-recorded, transcribed, coded and analysed using deductive and thematic methods.FindingsThe participants perceived the project to have been successful in increasing the number of mental health workers in Ghana. The project provided a route for career progression for those involved. However, the Kintampo Project faced accreditation issues, low recognition, improper integration and remuneration of trained staff in the Ghana Health Service. This study points to the fact thatthe sustainability of mental health training in Ghana can be obstructed, due to this career path being less attractive. Further research is needed to explore how best to achieve sustainability of similar mental health innovations
‘Indirect’ evidence in assessing the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic: two case studies from the West Sussex coastal plain
No full textWest Sussex Coastal Plain: Quarry expansion in raised beach depositsIndirect means of assessing archaeological significance are commonly used in Pleistocene contexts given the properties of Palaeolithic sites and the thickness of associated stratigraphic sequences.Approaches comprise the excavation of test pits and drilling of boreholes, and less commonly, use of electrical conductivity tomography and other geophysical techniques. All have been employed on the West Sussex coastal plain, where fine-grained strata associated with Pleistocene raised beaches have been shown to be of considerable archaeological significance (most famously at Amey’s Eartham Pit, Boxgrove).Two such test pit/borehole studies carried out prior to quarry expansions are discussed here: Lavant Quarry, which lies about 280m north of the supposed Aldingbourne raised beach, and Drayton Lane Oving, 1.2km south of the Brighton–Norton cliff line. The results from both investigations demonstrate the value of indirect evidence in improving stratigraphic/geomorphological models and hence future archaeological mitigation.Despite field observations to the contrary, subsequent laboratory sedimentological analysis demonstrated that deposits of the Aldingbourne raised beach were not present in the proposed Lavant Quarry extension. On the other hand, raised beach deposits do outcrop on the Drayton Lane site, albeit that the sequence is entirely of sands, suggesting that archaeologically significant Norton Silts outcrop north of the location
How schools and teachers can make refugee children feel welcome
No full textTeachers in the UK are welcoming children seeking sanctuary into their classrooms. In 2022, 46,000 young people aged under 18 arrived in the UK from Ukraine. More than 5,000 asylum applications were made by unaccompanied children in 2022.Studies have shown that teachers can feel ill-equipped or may not receive formal training to meet the needs of these new arrivals in their classrooms.In a range of research projects, my colleagues and I have explored teachers’ approaches to welcoming refugee children. We found that by taking specific steps to create an inclusive school environment, schools and teachers can provide a place where a newly arrived child can feel safe and able to trust the adults in their community
POPULIST POLITICAL MASCULINITIES, GENDER EQUALITY AND NORM CONTESTATION IN GEORGIA AND ARMENIA
Get PDFOver the past two decades, the literature on norm diffusion in the post-Soviet space has grown dramatically. Increasingly, norm diffusion scholars have stressed the role of geopolitical competition between powerful international actors, notably Russia and the EU, in achieving and/or resisting liberal-democratic reform in the region. This article contributes to this recent norm research by adding a corrective to the literature, exploring the agency of local rather than external actors in the contestation of global gender equality norms, utilizing the high-value case-studies of Georgia and Armenia. By uncovering taken-for-granted gendered power dimensions in local norm contestation – a subject barely addressed in norm diffusion literature – this article offers an explanation for the persistence of non-democratic trends in the post-Soviet space as a whole. Specifically, this article examines populist political masculinities contesting EU gender equality policies and related norms concerning violence against women and LGBT rights, arguing that in Georgia and Armenia, it is local populist actors, utilising patriarchal and heterosexual taken-for-granted discourses to ‘reclaim’ local masculinities and their political legitimacy, who represent a major challenge to gender equality norms
How Did You Escape? A Rapport-Based Framework For Time-Critical Questioning Involving Cooperative Interviewees
No full textManaging Protected Areas:People and Places
No full textThis open access book brings together 16 specially commissioned chapters drawn from a range of different professional-practitioner and academic global perspectives on the importance of the relationship between people and green and blue spaces.It focuses on issues surrounding the importance of natural environments on public health and wellbeing, and the environmental, cultural, and social importance of green and blue spaces that can result through responsible and sustainable adaptive management processes.It explores how the Covid-19 pandemic forced reconsiderations of our relationship with these natural spaces and highlights the important impact of the pace of climate change.While not pretending to have the answers, the stimulating and imaginative contributions embrace rich perspectives drawn from backgrounds as diverse as heritage studies, tourism, conservation, geography, policy formulation, public health, environmental health, research methods, history, literature, art, and theology
Landscapes of the Romantic Sublime:The Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Artistic Visions and Contributions to the Development of the Management of Natural Heritage
No full textHuman-First, Please: Assessing Citizen Views and Industrial Ambition for Emotional AI in Recommender Systems
No full textThis paper qualitatively explores the views of diverse members of the British public on applications of biometric emotional AI technologies patented by two globally dominant consumer-facing recommender systems, Amazon and Spotify. Examining Amazon and Spotify patents for biometric profiling of users’ emotions, disposition, and behaviour to offer them tailored services, ads, and products from their wider platforms, this paper points to industrial ambition regarding emotional AI. Little is known about ordinary people’s views on deployment of such technology, and given the complex, abstract, and future-facing nature of such technologies, ascertaining informed lay views is hard. We address this through our innovative, qualitative study of diverse British-based adults (n=46) that presents to them near-horizon use cases in an interactive fictional narrative that deploys design fiction principles and ContraVision techniques. We find the themes of “usefulness,” “resignation,” “uneasy terms of engagement,” and “human-first,” adding rich and nuanced insights to prior survey work on users’ views towards biometric-based emotional AI technologies. In contributing to a richer understanding of whether emotional AI technologies should be deployed in consumer-facing recommender systems, and if so, on what terms, we find that well-established policy-friendly criticisms apply to global emotional AI recommender systems. We conclude, however, that problems of alienation and need for a human-first approach to emerging AI technology are the most significant criticisms
