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Jackie Chan: a winning formula
No full textInterview for DVD Extra for the Blu-ray Box-set, 'The Jackie Chan Collection, vol 2 (1983–1993)', published by Shout! Factory. The interview discusses the development of Jackie Chan's signature comedy kung fu style and reflects on its relation to Hing Kong cinema, culture, politics and history
Views about perceived training needs of health care professionals in relation to socially assistive robots: an international online survey
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As Artificial Intelligence and social robots are increasingly used in health and social care, it is imperative to explore the training needs of the workforce, factoring in their cultural background.
Objectives
Explore views on perceived training needs among professionals around the world and how these related to country cultures.
Design
Cross-sectional, descriptive, mixed-methods international online survey.
Methods
Descriptive statistical analysis explored the ranking across countries and relationships with three Hofstede cultural dimensions. Thematic analysis was conducted on the open-ended text responses.
Results
A sample of N = 1284 participants from eighteen countries. Knowing the capabilities of the robots was ranked as the top training need across all participating countries and this was also reflected in the thematic analysis. Participants' culture, expressed through three Hofstede's dimensions, revealed statistically significant ranking differences.
Conclusions
Future research should further explore other factors such as the level of digital maturity of the workplace.
Impact Statement
Training needs of health and social care staff to use robotics are fast growing and preparation should factor in patient safety and be based on the principles of person- and culture-centred care
Who Cares
No full textWho Cares is a cross-disciplinary dance video project (dance and visual arts) that explores and applies the use of thermal imaging in creating an innovative new work which, in
partnership with NHS staff, reflects on the role of touch as a signifier of care, contamination,intimacy and trust.
The format of presentation can either be in miniature on a series of ipods within a gallery space, or large-scale projection within or outside spaces, dependent on the needs of the venue or Festival.
Collaborating artist Caroline Broadhead.
Dancers: Alice Labant and Martina Conti
Selling Greek food in London: Negotiating competitive and solidary positionings over dinner among food professionals
No full textThe 2007/2008 financial crisis more than doubled the number of Greek nationals (Pratsinakis et al. 2020, ONS 2022). This transformation is visible in London’s foodscapes as the number of Greek restaurants in the city boomed over the last decade, which was also marked by Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. This presentation, based on Research England-funded project, shows how professionals in London’s Greek food businesses oscillated between competitive and solidarity positionings in conversations over dinner.
The data for this presentation were collected in focus-group interactions and using multi-sited, participatory, multisensory ethnographic tools (Pink 2015). Five Greek hospitality workers alongside 4 researchers participated in discussions, that took place over dinner in three Greek restaurants in London, and were followed by two online conversations. The data were analysed using concepts from Membership and Conversation Analysis (Smith, Fitzerald, Housley 2021; Mondada 2018) to examine negotiation of categorisations situated in the glocal economic conditions.
Participants claimed, ascribed and negotiated a range of professional roles (from novice to expert) and other regional and social class identities and contrasting positionings vis-a-vis what is considered “Greek” food, including juxtapositions between homecooked and professionally-prepared food and contrasting constructions of authenticity, tradition and modernity in Greek food and hospitality. At the same time, participants also constructed some solidarity positionings as joint members of the Greek food hospitality industry in the UK, looking to forge shared networks that would help them face the shared challenges in staffing and costs created in part by wider economic and political forces of Brexit and post-Covid recession. The participants’ limits as to how far they were prepared to go in terms of making intra-sector alliances in times of crisis provides a glimpse into the wider neoliberal context of the UK (food) market of free competition, gig economy, and gentrification.
References:
Mondada, L. 2018. The multimodal interactional organization of tasting: practices of tasting cheese in gourmet shops. Discourse Studies 20, 743-769.
Pink, S. 2015. Doing Sensory Ethnography. Sage.
Pratsinakis, M., King, R., Himmelstine, C.L. and Mazzilli, C. 2020, A Crisis-Driven Migration? Aspirations and Experiences of the Post-2008 South European Migrants in London. International Migration, 58: 15-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12583
Smith, R., R. Fitzerald, W. Housley 2021. On Sacks: Methodology, Materials, and Inspirations. Routledge
Developing Brazil's sustainable finance entrepreneurship ecosystem: The role of keystone actors and institutional logics
No full textInsufficient attention has been given to the need to nurture the new emerging forms of sustainable entrepreneurship which are required to meet the sustainable development objectives for emerging economies like Brazil. In this chapter, we focus on finance as an essential enabler, critically assessing the roles of key actors in developing suitable Sustainable Entrepreneurship Finance Ecosystems (SEFE). Adopting an Institutional Logics lens, we draw on qualitative case methodology to examine the catalytic role of the support organizations operating at the interface between sustainable entrepreneurs, investors and policy to develop and scale-up sustainable enterprise solutions. Findings demonstrate that the emerging sustainable entrepreneurship is hindered by limited business acumen resulting in a lack of financiers’ trust that emerging businesses can deliver against investment requirements. Summarizing findings, we adopt the concept of ‘keystone actors’ from systems ecology to account for emerging multi-level support mechanisms offered by a small number of key actors to overcome SEFE deficiencies and move from “buzzword status” to a valid and practical systemic concept
Valorisation of brewery wastes in a circular bioeconomy – from low-cost animal feed to high-value products
No full textThe global brewery industry generates around 46 million metric tonnes of by-products annually. The brewing process produces solid wastes such as spent grains, spent hops and spent yeasts. Wastewater is generated from the production and cleaning of fermentation and storage tanks as well as vats and bottles rinsing. The majority of the solid wastes are either disposed of in the environment or used as low-cost animal feed. Brewery wastes are in fact viable and sustainable commodities. They contain residual compounds and materials that can be used to produce valuable chemicals, pharmaceuticals and biopolymers, or act as platform chemicals to be further processed into higher-value products. Brewery
wastes and wastewater can also function as feedstock for energy production. This chapter provides an overview of the brewing process to highlight the major waste streams of the industry. The chemical properties of the wastes are detailed to illustrate their intrinsic values. The state-of-the-art biotechnological advances to valorise brewery waste are discussed and a circular bioeconomy conceptual model is proposed. It is hoped that the knowledge presented in this chapter will help to maximise the socio-economic potential of brewery wastes and the sustainability of the brewery industry to reduce their impact on the environment and burden on the ecosystem
I, Medusa
No full text'I, Medusa' is a fantasy poem by A J Dalton published in Illustrated Worlds magazine. The poem falls into the broader category of 'speculative poetry'. 'I, Medusa' has feminist themes
Experiences, psychological health, and prenatal bonding of surrogate mothers: a longitudinal study
No full textAim and methods: The current study explores the psychological well-being and prenatal bonding of surrogates in comparison to a matched group of expectant mothers in India who had children for international intending parents. Surrogate mothers were interviewed at three time points: during pregnancy, four to six months post-birth, and five years post-birth. Studies in the West have found that surrogates do not suffer long-term psychological harm and often keep in touch with the parents and the surrogate child. Semi-structured interviews and standardized questionnaires were administered to 50 surrogates and 69 expectant mothers during pregnancy, 45 surrogates and 49 expectant mothers 4-6 months post-birth, and 19 surrogates 5 years post-birth.
Results: While overall psychological health did not significantly differ for the surrogates over the three time points, surrogates had higher levels of depression compared to the comparison group of mothers, during pregnancy and post-birth. Low social support during pregnancy and stigma associated with surrogacy from others were found to be predictive of higher depression in surrogates a few months post-birth. Regarding prenatal bonding, surrogates interacted less with and thought less about the fetus but adopted better eating habits and were more likely to avoid unhealthy practices during pregnancy, than expectant mothers. Importantly, attachment with the unborn baby during pregnancy was not significantly associated with greater psychological distress during pregnancy or after relinquishment. Nearly half of the surrogates did not meet the intended parents and only one third met the newborn. None of them met the child at the time of delivery
Hybrid transitions as spaces for children's agency
No full textSince the early 21st century, psycho-pedagogical research has explored the impact of digital technology on the cognitive and social development of the child, suggesting that digital technology can bring learning opportunities and foster children's literacy creativity. However research has been concerned about the use of digital technologies for children’s learning rather than focusing on children’s active role as authors of knowledge as they move between digitally enhanced experiences and non-digitally enhanced experiences.
This presentation discusses situations when children move between the use of AI-based technology and non-digitally enhanced interactions to co-construct narratives, showing agency by claiming authorship of valid knowledge.
AI-based technology refers to educational games incorporating intelligence voice assistants (IVA) technology. Children’s transitions between IVA-based technology and non-digitally enhanced interactions are discussed as spaces where children generate and access domains of knowledge. The investigation based on the concept of hybrid-transitions. ‘Hybrid’ refers to children’s movement between IVA-based technology and non-digitally enhanced interactions
How can HR navigate the challenge of ChatGPT?
No full textExciting tools such as ChatGPT offer promising opportunities. However, caution is warranted, as evidenced by widely reported cases.
AI is not a novel technology, and its integration into human resources processes and policies has been ongoing. Given the current media coverage and political debates, some managers may be wondering about the implications. The answer lies in the rise of large language models (LLMs) and new general AI systems that have the ability to ‘learn’ and surpass their original tasks. In some cases, programmers themselves struggle to track how an AI tool acquires knowledge or produces results. This uncertainty is heightened by the fact that widely used tools are often provided free of charge by organisations operating in a regulatory gray area.
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