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Unknowability and enabled wayfinding
Get PDFScholars are in the business of ‘knowing’; they conduct research to expand knowledge and meet various stakeholders’ (e.g., society’s, executives’, policymakers’) expectations through teaching and learning tools. Stakeholders expect scholars to contribute to the knowledge repository in management in the same way they would expect, for example, a chemist or civil engineer. However, can we meaningfully do so? Does the management field have the same knowability potential as that afforded by chemistry or engineering? I contend that it does not or at least not in the way that Aristotelian empiricism or Newtonian rationality imply. Instead, I argue for a lens of unknowability and call for a concomitant recalibration of management pedagogies through enabled wayfinding. With a more honest reflection on our knowability potential, enabled wayfinding introduces a bolder approach to teaching and learning that should trigger renewed optimism for the future state of our scholarly craft
“They think we are trying to combine knowledges, whereas we are trying to harmonize them”: a visual exploration of what promotes successful collaboration between mental health workers and healers in Indonesia
Get PDFImplementation of community mental health in Indonesia has been limited and under-resourced. Pasung (physical restraint and confinement) is still commonly used and many people do not receive formal mental health care. While pluralistic use of traditional and faith healing and psychiatric services is common, the relationship between the two systems is ambiguous and overlooked in mental health policy. Meanwhile, examples of collaboration between health professionals and traditional and faith-based healers (TFHs) for mental health exist in various settings, including Indonesia. However, there is limited research on the lived experiences and everyday practices of those engaged in such partnerships, including mental health workers, healers, and families, and what makes them successful. This paper presents findings from the visual research project ‘Together for Mental Health’ to illustrate the facilitators and barriers to pluralistic collaborations in the Indonesian context. Our focus was on partnerships that were already established, rather than those implemented as part of research projects or interventions. Using visual ethnography, we observed eight case studies in locations representative of the three main religions in the country: Java (predominantly Muslim), Bali (Hindu), and Flores (Roman Catholic). We conducted filmed ethnographic observations of collaborative practices and in-depth interviews with 20 mental health professionals, 12 TFHs, 28 people living with mental health conditions, and 16 caregivers. The study found converging themes related to facilitating factors and barriers in practices of pluralistic collaboration for mental health care in Indonesia. Facilitating factors included actors’ role perception and motive, openness to collaboration, and negotiations of care. Barriers included negative role perceptions, inadequate infrastructure, and unfavourable social environments. Findings suggest potential for successful collaboration between TFHs and formal mental health practitioners, drawing on lessons from existing good practices. To support future pluralistic collaboration for mental health care, incorporating these lessons into professional education and policies and stronger mental health care governance are needed
Explainer: The European Convention on Human Rights and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement
No full textThis explainer examines the relationship between the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and the European Convention on Human Rights. It explores the role that the Convention plays and what UK withdrawal from it would mean for Northern Ireland
Exploring the perspectives about barriers and facilitators to accessing and engaging with domestic violence services among Turkish immigrant women: a photovoice study
Get PDFThis research aims to shed light on the unique perspectives of Turkish immigrant women in London regarding access to domestic abuse services. Employing a qualitative photovoice study with eight Turkish women, the research uncovers barriers and facilitators to accessing and engaging with such services. Organizational obstacles, cultural influences, individual and practical challenges emerged as barriers, while state-provided facilities, community support, resilience, and faith were identified as facilitators. Thematic analysis revealed the emotional impact of domestic violence and migration. This study advocates for culturally sensitive support services to promote empowerment and improve access to necessary help
Explainer: Does the European Convention on Human Rights stop foreign criminals being removed from the UK?
No full textIn March 2025, the Home Secretary announced a review of how Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the right to respect for private and family life) is being interpreted and applied by UK immigration judges. In June, the Lord Chancellor signaled plans to consider and discuss reform of the ECHR itself. The Home Secretary is reported to have ordered a review of how Article 3 (prohibition of torture and other severe ill-treatment) is being interpreted and applied in extradition cases.
This explainer examines the relationship between the ECHR and immigration law
The case for compassionate caring for the well-being of others, through problem-based learning, an Azerbaijani perspective
Get PDFThe Covid-19 pandemic has offered some hope for permanent positive changes, especially for the emergence of the disposition to care, not caring practice, but a normative disposition of care. That is to say ontological care is not just caring practices, which can, although not necessarily just be enacted, say in role play in the world; teacher, doctor, nurse, mother, father by is a way of being. Moreover, this means that an ethic of care presented as being concerned with actions and not just intentions, which make no sense for care as a moral imperative. In this paper, this distinction is explored in the context of problem based learning in Azerbaijan
Beyond anthropocentric boundaries, childing as an embodied kind of praxis: a conversation with Jayne Osgood and Sid Mohandas
Get PDFThis intra-view explores the idea of "childing" as an embodied, relational kind of praxis that challenges colonial and anthropocentric frameworks in education. The authors discuss how childing disrupts linear notions of time, hierarchies of knowledge, and conventional adult-child binaries by focusing on sensibilities and relationalities. Grounded in critical posthumanist theories and thinking with Indigenous perspectives, childing invites disruption, care, re-membering, and re-turning to land and more-than-human relations, fostering experiential and inclusive ways of being, doing and knowing. The conversation highlights how embracing childing can unsettle colonial influences, and open new spaces for learning across early childhood to higher education contexts
Fostering impact through resonance: collaborative methodologies in arts research
Get PDFPurpose: This paper provides methodological insights into effectively collaborating with arts organizations, highlighting approaches that can lead to impactful and meaningful research outcomes. It focuses on impact-making processes and the role of resonance.
Design/methodology/approach: As part of an ongoing collaboration with two arts organizations, the theatre group Next Door But One (NDB1) and St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, this paper explores how knowledge co-creation processes during data collection and analysis can lead to impact.
Findings: Our study introduces the role of resonance - a state where people feel engaged, heard, and connected - as a critical vehicle for impact. Resonance emerged from our collaborative research approach grounded in emancipatory praxis, which allowed us to engage in mutual (un)learning to make space for new insights and perspectives. The process of creating trust and a sense of safety nurtures resonance in collaborative research.
Research limitations/implications: This research underscores the transformative potential of collaborative methodologies, highlighting their role in fostering resonance between partners and stakeholders. Given the complex and extensive networks of the partnering organizations, we acknowledge the challenge of attributing our collaboration as the principal driver of change.
Practical implications: Organizations that embrace resonance-seeking practices and spaces can co-create and enhance organizational capacity to articulate social value, and contribute to sustained positive impacts addressing societal challenges.
Originality/value: This paper unpacks the underexplored role of resonant-seeking approaches in developing and evidencing impact
UN Global Compact: Communication on Engagement 2025
No full textAs a proud member of the UN Global Compact, the world’s leading corporate sustainability initiative, Middlesex University Dubai reaffirms its commitment to advancing sustainable development through comprehensive sustainability reporting and outreach. We are fully committed to ensuring that our campus-wide efforts in support of the SDGs, their targets and their aligned principles, reflect our ongoing leadership in sustainability education.
On behalf of Middlesex University Dubai, the Institute of Sustainable Development submits this Communication on Engagement (COE) report to the UN Global Compact. The report presents how Middlesex University Dubai integrates SDGs into its strategic priorities and institutional operations, through education, research, knowledge exchange, community outreach, and industry partnerships
Informing fitness testing data reporting and visualization in elite soccer: a survey into practitioner preferences and needs
No full textThis cross-sectional survey explored elite soccer practitioners' fitness testing reporting and visualization preferences. Overall, 145 soccer practitioners completed an online survey comprising 27 questions, with three sections: a) background information, b) preferences for fitness testing report content and insights, and c) preferences and interpretation of data visualization formats. Fixed-response questions were analyzed using frequency analysis, while thematic analysis was applied to open-ended questions to generate key themes. Participants predominantly valued tracking changes (91%) in performance over benchmark (61%) or position-specific (58%) comparisons. While 44.8% prioritized individual performance, 42.1% emphasized both individual and team-level insights. Concerning the presentation of data, raw scores were the preferred format (62.1%), followed by standardized (37.2%) and composite scores (23.5%), depending on the context. Participants highly valued interactive dashboards (91%), quadrant charts (87.6%), and traffic-light systems (77.2%). Bar charts (77.2%) were the preferred visual format for inter-player comparisons, valued for their clarity and reduced cognitive load, while line charts (51.7%) were favored for tracking performance over time, due to their simplicity and user familiarity. Radar charts (59.3%) were the preferred format for comparing individual performances to the wider team, valued for their ability to provide a holistic overview of strengths and weaknesses. Uncertainty indicators were endorsed by 52.3%, primarily for enhancing data interpretation and decision-making, although concerns were raised about their ease of understanding and visual clutter. Practitioners can use this study’s findings to inform user-friendly reporting strategies and meet diverse audience needs. Findings should also support practitioner training and the adoption of evolving industry practices