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Thinking theoretically in practice disciplines: considering positionality and reflexivity in adult nursing interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) study
No full textThis presentation explores the application of positionality and reflexivity drawing on the experience of a British Minority Ethnic (BME) group senior nurse researching nurses with the same ethnic heritage in an IPA study. It explores how using reflexivity and positionality allowed for exploring IENs' perspectives on their integration into British healthcare and their navigation of career progression. In this presentation, I discussed how as an ethnic researcher, I employed reflexivity and stated my intentionality and positionality in the conduct of the IPA study.
This presentation concludes that the appropriate use of reflexivity and positionality in the IPA study recognises the personal and professional influence of a researcher’s experiences on the research process. Reflexivity and positionality facilitate the researcher’s application of cultural competence and congruency in shaping the research process to ensure the cross-cultural validity and reliability of the research
A self-reflective and practitioner-researcher approach to interprofessional practice in mental health settings
No full textThis context statement is the commentary and analysis of five public works that resulted from my work-based learning and reflective practice in interprofessional teams in the UK. I reflect on their implications for the healthcare system’s current practices in psychiatric care, specifically, not exclusively. Interprofessional collaboration occurs when individuals from different fields work and communicate to achieve a shared goal; healthcare aims to ensure high-quality and safe patient treatment. As a medical graduate working in mental health in British public and private hospitals, I explore the five public works from my professional perspective. Based on the findings of these works, I posit middle-range theories for evidence-based applications in interprofessional practice. These works explore the dynamic interplay between practice-based evidence (PBE) and evidence-based practice (EBP). They aim to discover effective interprofessional procedures to appeal to policymakers and suggest plans for implementing better collaborative care to advance the standard of care and patient safety
Knowledge shortfalls for titi monkey: A poorly known clade of small-bodied South American primates
Get PDFTiti monkeys (Callicebus, Cheracebus, and Plecturocebus) comprise the most species-rich group of primates in South America. Thirty-six currently recognized species composing this group inhabit a multitude of habitats across most of South America. While field-based and laboratory research has provided insights into the behavior, ecology, and physiology of some titis, multiple knowledge gaps regarding their biodiversity patterns persist. Here, we provide an overview of titi research and identify their biodiversity knowledge shortfalls. Using online databases, we collated the literature of all titi studies published up to December 31, 2021. We compiled 521 publications, with 48 % representing in situ field studies of the monkeys. The majority of field-based publications focused on studies conducted in Brazil and Peru. We found that research efforts have increased in recent decades, as indicated by the increased number of publications on titis. However, given the large number of species and their wide distribution across South America, there is limited information about most of these species and their geographic ranges. By highlighting the focal points where conservation-related data are still required, our findings demonstrate the importance of expanding research efforts and investment on the full extent of titi species and their entire geographic regions; doing so will help fill the knowledge shortfalls rather than solely advancing the study of a restricted range of topics in one or two habitats or countries. These advances will contribute to fill knowledge gaps through the creation/expansion of data repositories, citizen science programs, and increased financial support to maintain long-term data collection
Photographic work exhibited in 'On Animals', Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
No full textPhotographic work from Billingham's body of work 'Zoo' was included in 'On Animals', Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, (27th May - 24th September 2023). This exhibition comprised works from forty artists from the gallery’s permanent collection including Elizabeth Frink, Ray Howard-Jones and Graham Sutherland.
The works spanned several centuries and depicted our changing attitude and representations of the other animals we share our planet with.
It explored the lives of animals and the many ways that we as humans impact on them and how these complex relationships are reflected in a variety of art forms.
Works included painting, drawing, photography, textiles, and ceramics.
The exhibition was accompanied by a full programme of workshops, family trails, and events
Market reactions to insider trading prior to corporate earnings disclosure. Does executive pay disparity play any role?
Get PDFThis paper investigates the impact of firms’ executive pay disparity on insider trading returns prior corporate earnings disclosures. We find evidence that executive pay disparity has a significant positive relationship with abnormal returns from insider purchases preceding the good earnings news disclosures, and insider returns are greater for firms with higher earnings surprises. This implies that insiders in high CEO pay gap firms tend to exploit good earnings news to increase the profit in their stock-buying transactions. In contrast, we find a negative relationship between executive pay disparity and abnormal returns of insider sales preceding the bad earnings news disclosures. This indicates that insiders in high CEO pay gap firms are less likely to profit from their stock sales. Our empirical research also provides further evidence to the literature that insider trading is a plausible signal for future earnings of the firms
The ‘therapeutic privilege exception’. Residual paternalism in an age of informed consent post Montgomery or a valuable tool for healthcare professionals?
Get PDFOriginally formulated by courts in the United States of America, as an exception to informed consent, therapeutic privilege provides a healthcare professional with a complete defence of withholding information from a patient where it is believed that disclosure could result in serious physical or psychological harm. Whilst the exception is rarely referred to, it is even rarer for a defence to be successful and yet the exception survives. In 2015, the Supreme Court in England and Wales, in the Montgomery judgment retained therapeutic privilege, albeit in a limited form but still largely undefined. Now renamed therapeutic exception, this principle remains shrouded in uncertainty and renders the law unclear.
This thesis revises the recognised nomenclature of the ‘therapeutic privilege’, introducing the ‘therapeutic privilege exception’ as a reminder of the residual paternalism in healthcare. The development of the therapeutic privilege exception in a range of other domestic jurisdictions alongside the UK will be examined, and its inconsistency and lack of clarity will be highlighted. Close consideration will be given to whether the exception to the doctrine of informed consent may result, unintentionally, in a return to paternalism which will hinder patient autonomy. This phenomenon will be examined in light of qualitative research directed towards both GPs and clinical pharmacists’ clinical experiences of people with intellectual disability and those without.
This thesis will explore whether therapeutic privilege constitutes unacceptable paternalism, or whether there is a clear, defined role for therapeutic privilege in law. It will be argued that should the therapeutic privilege exception have a role, recommendations will clearly set out the elements of the therapeutic privilege exception so that healthcare professionals are not only aware of the existence of the exception but also of its limitations
Ecologies of embodiment: video essays II
Get PDFDominique Rivoal, "The Shared Space of Hackney Marshes" (9:04). My aim as the filmmaker is to develop a somatically informed film-making practice, investigating how attending to soma while operating my camera, can further reveal aspects of relationality within the filmmaker and mover dyad and environment that contains us. // Daniel Portelli, "What the River Doesn't Say About Itself" (9:55). Along a river surrounded by branches and root systems of a mangrove forest, musicians drift on a boat performing music and engaging in eco-acoustical awareness, sensory activation, and perceptual openness. This video essay inquiries into the relationship between cinematic art and how we experience ecology. // Florian Goeschke, "Of Speeds and Slownesses: Co-composing with a Giant Snail" (6:18). The video essay reflects the process of co-composing with a giant snail. What began as a lecture in the context of an online conference for Artistic Research turned out to be a multi-layered phenomenon in dealing with the question of one's own time and temporality and that of another species. // Fani Kostourou and Takako Hasegawa with Theatrum Mundi and Dancing Architects, "Embodied Understanding of Spatial Transformation" (8:55). This is an excerpt montage from a longer film work documenting the choreographic movement research and spatial observation experiments that took place during Theatrum Mundi’s Movement Lisbon Lab in October 2021, to address Lisbon’s uneven and seemingly inaccessible urban landscape
Treated with indignity: perspectives of a woman-led, not-for-profit service organisation when fundraising
No full textManaging emotions in journalism: A guide to enhancing resilience
Get PDFThis book offers the first practical guide to managing emotions in everyday journalism work based on interviews with more than 30 British journalists. It raises awareness of emotional situations and stressors journalists may face, so practitioners are better able to recognise these and prepare for them, and outlines practical emotion management strategies which they can apply to enhance their emotional intelligence and resilience and consequently, feel and perform better in the workplace.
It includes vignettes written by journalists from the United Kingdom, United States, Australia and Croatia, as well as practical scenario exercises that prompt readers to reflect on how they would feel and react in specific situations based on journalists’ everyday work.
The book is key reading for all students of journalism, journalists interested in enhancing their emotional intelligence and resilience, editors wanting to better understand the labour of their staff, and researchers focused on the role of emotions in journalism
Deep combination of radar with optical data for gesture recognition: role of attention in fusion architectures
Get PDFMultimodal time series classification is an important aspect of human gesture recognition, in which limitations of individual sensors can be overcome by combining data from multiple modalities. In a deep learning pipeline, the attention mechanism further allows for a selective, contextual concentration on relevant features. However, while the standard attention mechanism is an effective tool when working with Natural Language Processing (NLP), it is not ideal when working with temporally- or spatially-sparse multi-modal data. In this paper, we present a novel attention mechanism, Multi-Modal Attention Preconditioning (MMAP). We first demonstrate that MMAP outperforms regular attention for the task of classification of modalities involving temporal and spatial sparsity and secondly investigate the impact of attention in the fusion of radar and optical data for gesture recognition via three specific modalities: dense spatiotemporal optical data, spatially sparse/temporally dense kinematic data, and sparse spatiotemporal radar data. We explore the effect of attention on early, intermediate, and late fusion architectures and compare eight different pipelines in terms of accuracy and their ability to preserve detection accuracy when modalities are missing. Results highlight fundamental differences between late and intermediate attention mechanisms in respect to the fusion of radar and optical data