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Exploring the potential of expressive art in employee development for front-line workers and first-line managers: a “very” rapid review using AI
No full textDigital storytelling – individual meaning-making for heritage tourism
No full textExperiential learning emphasises student-centred, collaborative and inclusive methods that are often difficult to implement in traditional teaching environments. In order to maximise the benefits of experiential learning, there needs to be a critical focus on developing creative pedagogies and innovative approaches. Student-led projects offer opportunities for students to engage in experiential learning (McGovern, 2018). Heritage, a complex and multi-dimensional concept, is often difficult for students to conceptualise and contextualise. Heritage evolves over time, is open to different interpretations and involves different stakeholders in its conservation and tourism development. The integration of digital stories as a summative assessment helps to enrich students’ critical understanding of the intricate dynamics involved in utilising and promoting heritage in tourism, compared to more conventional assessment methods such as reports and essays. Through the use of digital storytelling students are encouraged to personalise and contextualise key concepts related to heritage, thereby enhancing their independent and reflective approaches to knowledge construction and co-construction.
The process of creating and sharing digital stories requires students to construct, reconstruct, and evaluate their experiences, often incorporating their emotions and inviting deeper reflection. Additionally, digital storytelling challenges students to consider how they produce, explore, and promote their narratives, thereby enhancing problem-solving skills applicable to real-world contexts and contributing to their employability. While digital storytelling has been widely adopted in healthcare and nursing education (Gazarian, 2010; McGovern, 2018; Keune and Salter, 2022), its broader application across disciplines, such as social sciences and management studies, needs to be further improved. This paper highlights the use of digital storytelling as a creative and innovative pedagogical tool that facilitates and integrates student reflections and experiences to enhance a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of heritage tourism
Editorial: Digital health interventions for schizophrenia: setting standards for mental health
No full textDigital mental health is rapidly progressing, despite the phasing out of changes to care delivery catalyzed by social distancing measures associated with COVID-19 (Torous et al., 2020). Beyond the widespread adoption of video consultations, interest and research in smartphone apps, wearables, and virtual reality have also expanded. While innovations abound, psychosis research is notable for producing rapid, high-quality, and clinically actionable results. In this editorial, we discuss why psychosis research has and will continue to serve as a paradigm for safe and effective digital health innovation that can be implemented across the world and in the Global South. The themes and discussion points are derived from an in-person meeting in October 2023 organized by AC and JT, supported by Angelini Pharma, and attended by researchers, clinicians, people with lived experience, trainees, and
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Ten years on: The Snowy White Peaks of the NHS [Commentary]
No full textOver one-quarter of English National Health Service (NHS) staff are from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds. Peer-reviewed research, grey literature and staff surveys consistently show that the NHS treats such staff less favourably than white staff in recruitment, career progression, bullying, discipline, referrals to professional regulators and the response when BME staff raise concerns.1 Such disadvantage may be compounded for the growing number of overseas trained staff and through intersectional disadvantage, notably for BME female staff.
BME staff report exposure to ‘microaggressions’, racist stereotyping, prejudice and overt unfair treatment, and such experiences are associated with low employee satisfaction and greater staff turnover.2 These experiences are associated with emotional problems, somatic symptoms, low job satisfaction and long periods of sickness absence among this workforce.3 Race discrimination adversely impacts access to and the provision of healthcare.4
The NHS response to race discrimination within the NHS has been late, glacial and often performative. In the wake of the Macpherson Inquiry (1998),5 Ministers launched the Race Equality Action Plan (REAP)6 to address the striking absence of BME staff from senior positions.
However, when The Snowy White Peaks of the NHS (TSWP) (2014)7 reviewed progress a decade later, there was almost none to be found. A decade further on this commentary considers the impact of that 2014 report
A study of convent life and the impact of communal living on Sisters, who disaffiliate from the convent
Get PDFThe declining Christian population in the UK has become a significant concern, with projections indicating a decrease to 45% by 2050, in contrast to an 11% rise in the Muslim population.
Previous studies in this area have predominantly focused on the number of young women entering religious Orders and those successfully making their final vows. However, none have delved into the factors triggering disaffiliation from these religious Orders. This study aims to identify the factors influencing early exits from religious Orders and provide recommendations to minimise further exits in the future.
Employing Logistic Regression Analysis and a T-test, this study analysed questionnaires completed by 259 participants in the UK. The sample comprised Sisters who were still part of various Orders and were asked about their likelihood of leaving on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 indicating those who had left the Order. Both validated and self-developed scales were utilised for measurement purposes.
The findings from the analyses reveal that Authoritative Influence, Neglect, General Anxiety Disorder (GAD), and Quality of life all contribute to disaffiliation. This implies that the more Sisters experience these, the more likely they are to disaffiliate from the Order. Surprisingly, Negative Affectivity (AffN) encourages Sisters to remain in the Order. In other words, the more Sisters experience negative emotions, the more likely they are to stay with the Order, which is unexpected. Additionally, the T-test indicates that Sisters who remained with the Order exhibited better relationships with their superiors and peers compared to those who left, who may have faced difficulties in relating to others within the Order.
It is recommended to repeat the survey longitudinal across different times, space and places or employ different approaches, such as focus group as mixed-methods, to validate these findings for future research
Skill intensity in manufacturing exports: do basic, technology-intensive or differentiated exports cause growth in Kuwait?
Get PDFThis study examines the causality between basic, technology-intensive, and differentiated manufacturing exports and economic growth in Kuwait using data from 1970 to 2021 and two augmented production function models: one with natural resource exports (Model 1) and the other without on both sides of the model (Model 2). The Johansen cointegration and the autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL) bound tests are conducted to examine the long-run relationship between the variables. In addition, the Granger causality test in a vector autoregressive framework (VAR) and the Toda–Yamamoto test are employed to explore the directions of the short- and long-run causality between variables, respectively. The empirical results of Model 1 indicate that neither of the decomposed manufacturing exports directly causes economic growth in the short or long run at any conventional significance level, whereas natural resource exports cause economic growth, basic and technology-intensive manufactured exports in the short-run at the 5% level. Model 2 estimations confirm the absence of direct causality between decomposed manufacturing exports and economic growth, whereas a long-run causality runs from output net of natural resource exports to basic manufactured exports at the 10% level. Both model estimations indicate that all the variables jointly cause economic growth and basic manufactured exports in the short and long run, directly or indirectly through imports, confirming the existence of a circular causation. These findings can serve as the basis for designing specific export–import policies to foster diversification and a sustainable economic growth in line with Kuwait’s Vision 2035
Coming out in the workplace: a comparative study between Italy and England
Get PDFIntroduction: The study aims to analyze the main characteristics and differences relating to the lived experiences of coming out in the workplace in two very different territorial contexts (Italy and England), looking at universities as a case study.
Method: 30 sexual and gender minority university teachers (15 from Italy and 15 from England), ranging from 29 to 56 years of age (M = 41.66; SD = 10.13), were recruited in 2019 to participate in a qualitative research study. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed in line with the assumptions of the six-step thematic analysis approach.
Result: The propensity to come out in the workplace is mainly affected by legislative safeguards. However, policies and the regulatory framework alone are not enough. Results suggested that the cultural context and the working climate have an equally significant impact.
Conclusion: The stigma toward LGBT + people cannot be eradicated overnight and changing cultural beliefs is a slow process that requires imaginative and creative methods to get students and the university community to interact with LGBT + people.
Practical implications: Stimulating a bottom-up change within individual institutions can represent a possible strategy to activate a process of change and social inclusion toward the LGBT + community with an echo on the wider environmental and cultural context
Not so black and white: a history of race from white supremacy to identity politics by Kenan Malik, London, Hurst Press, 2023, 328pp., £20 (hardback), ISBN 978-1787387769 [Book Review]
Get PDFNot So Black and White’ is a book which undoubtedly asks the reader to take more than a cursory look at the past to understand our political present. Malik undermines the idea that identity is the necessary locus of belief and values, underscoring – importantly – that we shouldn’t presuppose where an individual’s social or political allegiance should lie on the basis of their ethnoracial background. This review will evaluate Malik’s detailed and earnest attempt at locating and critiquing contemporary identity politics in the history of race and race relations
DIY Ballroom / Live in 'March 2012' (online exhibition as part of Time Lapse, a project at SITE Santa Fe)
No full textDIY Ballroom / Live, 2007-8, a video/audio work (13 mins 24 secs) and live event by susan pui san lok, was part of "March 2012", an online exhibition presented as part of Time-Lapse 18 February to 20 May 2012.
In 1969, Seth Siegelaub, pioneering supporter of conceptual art, organized March 1969 a.k.a One Month, an exhibition that existed only in catalogue form. Siegelaub invited 31 artists to contribute a work; one for each day of the month. Time-Lapse curators Irene Hofmann and Janet Dees conceived of March 2012 as a project that pays homage to Siegelaub’s ground-breaking 'exhibition,' updated for today’s virtual, technological world. March 2012 was be hosted on the homepage of SITE’s website. Each day during March one work by a different artist was featured. susan pui san lok was invited to show DIY Ballroom (2007) (originally created for Cornerhouse, Manchester/BBC Bigger Picture national touring commissions programme) as part of March 2012.
The participating artists were an international and intergenerational group currently working with conceptual, time-based and media-oriented practices, including: Axle Contemporary, Daniel Bejar, Martin John Callanan, Beth Coleman + Howard Goldkrand, Ron Cooper, Matthew Cusick, Faith Denham, Brent Green, Hillerbrand + Magsamen, Jennie C. Jones, Tellervo Kalleinen + Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Conor McGarrigle, Linda Montano, neuroTransmitter, Huong Ngo (in collaboration with George Monteleone and Or Zubalsky), Paul Notzold, Geof Oppenheimer, Ben Patterson, Dawit L. Petros, Adrian Piper, Liliana Porter, Postcommodity, Mark Tribe, Claudia X. Valdes, and Donald Woodman.
A cumulative archive of works was on view in SITE’s galleries during March; and an archive of all 31 works was on view through April and May 2012
“I’ll show you differences”: Skills, creativity and meaning
Get PDFThis article arises out of critical contemplation of skills in relation to Higher Education pedagogy as it relates to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. As the emphasis on skills dominates more and more of the discourse about pedagogy in Higher Education, the article aims to make some critical comments about the reductionist approach to education that easily becomes part of skills discourse. In addition to criticising instrumentalist deployment of skills in Higher Education policy, the article also considers the supposedly most ‘radical’ perspective on the idea of skill which is implicit in enactivists’ accounts of the embedding of sensorimotor action in cognition. It is argued that such a perspective is undermined by its insistence on a model of direct human-environment which brackets creativity, anticipation and the future. The article suggests that such a perspective would be illumined by dialogue with Ernst Bloch’s concept of the ‘not-yet’