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Elizabeth Fry: 'The Angel of Prisons'
No full textThe latest in a series of site-specific plays inspired by the history of Newham in east London. In Elizabeth Fry: The Angel of Prisons, three prisoners have a story to tell. It’s the story of Elizabeth Fry and how she changed prisons forever. But this is not a history lesson. You’ll hear both contemporary and historical language. You’ll see both modern-day and period mash-up costumes. Because the question remains the same today as it did in Elizabeth Fry’s time: does prison actually work
Twiplomacy
Get PDFTwiplomacy, or Twitter diplomacy, refers to the use of the social network Twitter by those with diplomatic mandates in the purpose of achieving nation-state or international organisation’s foreign policy goals. The concept has gained traction during the tenure of the US President Donald Trump who extensively used this social network to communicate about foreign leaders and countries. Scholarship, on the other hand, has historically been more concerned with the use of Twitter in public diplomacy, with debates ongoing about the impact that Twitter’s logic and affordances have on the transformations in diplomacy, and in particular, digital diplomacy. Early hypotheses that (public) diplomacy on Twitter might be more open, transparent, collaborative, interactive and networked, have mostly been disputed, as the majority of diplomatic entities are found to be using Twitter mostly as another dissemination channel. The effects of Twiplomacy are yet to be fully understood
Impact of choreographic approach on health and performance aesthetics in a company of mature dancers
No full textPurpose: This study aimed to explore the impact of a somatically informed choreographic approach on physical health and movement ability, quality of life and performance aesthetics in a company of mature dancers.
Literature review: Current literature on dance and the older body has focussed on dance as a means to slow the physiological and cognitive decline associated with ageing or chronic health conditions, rather than primarily as a means of creative expression and performance. While dance has been demonstrated to have beneficial health and social outcomes for older adults and as a tool for falls prevention, relatively little research has investigated the aesthetic qualities of dance in the older body, or the how the choreographic and performance process relates to health.
Methods: Fifteen dancers (F=13, M = 2) were recruited from a performance company for mature dancers (68.27±6.32 years). Prior to, and after an 8-week choreographic intensive culminating in performance, dancers completed the Short-Form 36 (SF-36), a sit to stand test, and movement analysis of shoulder flexion, lateral flexion and rotation of the torso, roll down and performance of a short dance phrase which was then analysed for changes in movement quality. Throughout the project auto-ethnographic observations were made, pain scores recorded, and reflective diaries completed.
Results and Discussion: Dancers scored highly both pre and post dance intensive for their age group in all SF-36 subscales including general health (78.33±12.12 and 78.75±13.16 respectively) and physical function (91.67±9.37 and 90.00±11.08). Pain scores spiked in correlation with dance intensives and were therefore indicative of delayed onset muscle soreness and reflected good recovery and no detrimental effect on participation in dance intensives. Subjective changes in movement quality were observed alongside improvements in balance ability ascribed to the inward focus engendered by the somatically informed creative process. Participants commented that they were able to achieve more, physically and aesthetically than they had previously believed possible.
Conclusion: This approach to choreography allowed dancers to rediscover connection with their body, affecting movement quality. Selected tests were appropriate for older adults in dance classes. However, it is recommended that further studies treat older adults as dancers primarily when selecting tests to measure health and aesthetic performance outcomes
Make a difference: collaboration and participation in arts-led research
Get PDFLoraine Leeson discusses the way that creative process can effectively lead research enquiry. Thinking about art as a process and not just a product of research can offer a means of bringing the imagination more fully into play and serve to release the creative energies of others in order to spark the momentum that enables an arts-led intervention to take effect in the wider world
How can midwives and educators better understand, teach and support neurodivergent students?
Get PDFIn this article, the authors explore the experiences of neurodivergent student midwives, defining neurodiversity and giving a spotlight to neurodivergent voices. In a midwifery climate of high attrition and with a growing number of neurodivergent students entering higher education, this article makes recommendations about how you can better understand, teach and support neurodivergent students in university and clinical placements to make midwifery education more inclusive and sustainable
BIM and integrated digital delivery risk disasters
No full textThis presentation will discuss possible risk parameters that can cause failure on BIM projects, their impact and mitigation solutions that can be used to resolve them, taking into consideration the whole life-cycle and an Interdisciplinary approach
‘What happened to me does not define who I am’: narratives of resilience in survivor victim impact statements
Get PDFWhile research shows that “ideal victims” still receive more media coverage and more favorable depictions and results in the criminal justice system, it is not clear whether this is how victims of crime want to present themselves. We code and analyze the transcripts of 21 violence against women survivor victim impact statements (VIS) from YouTube videos, to assess how survivors present their victimization. While survivors of violence discuss their pain and trauma, they also call for better services and protection for other survivors, and attempt to bring awareness about the ubiquity of violence while motivating other survivors to come forward. Survivors rarely present themselves as stereotypically defined “ideal victims,” though in some cases, they do focus on their own blamelessness and the motherly, familial relationships that have been negatively impacted by their victimization. Though ideal victim presentation may be a rational response for those seeking justice from patriarchal legal institutions, survivors resist ideal victim presentations based on stereotypical notions of femininity, demonstrating that from their perspectives, hierarchies between “deserving” and “undeserving” victims may be dissipating
Explainer: the Bill of Rights Bill
No full textThe explainer sets out the main features of the Bill of Rights Bill 202
The Practices of Making
No full textThis is an online exhibition that works as a visual portfolio for my research project at the GCRF Gender Justice Security Hub
Operationalising a process model of innovation for the mining industry
Get PDFTechnological innovations in mining help improve the efficiency, sustainability and productivity of the mining sector. However, most research on the development and implementation of technological innovations is at the level of the organisation and often not context-specific, providing limited insights into specific practices of individual employees and teams, underpinning the innovation process. This study operationalises a process model of innovation for the mining industry. Using data from twenty-five interviews with mining experts, our study identified and mapped actionable practices that mining organisations can adopt to effectively identify, develop and implement innovation. Three main contributions emerged from the study. The study offers an actionable process model of innovation for mining that considers the mining context at the level of individual and team behaviours. The study reveals the need to involve multiple types of stakeholders and that the mix of stakeholder types varies between innovation phases. Finally, the study finds that the innovation practices identified map to six innovation culture enablers, all of which are required but vary in importance across each phase of the innovation process