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Coaching through maternity transitions: through the prism of coaching, how can women going through the maternity transitions in the private equity industry be better supported?
Get PDFAgainst the backdrop of ever-increasing pressure for more diversity in senior roles in financial services, organisations are putting time and resource into creating the conditions for all employees to thrive and have equitable opportunities. It has been identified that maternity is a point of inflexion in the careers of women, with those not returning or changing roles impacting the pipeline of women into senior roles. One of the solutions to this problem is to offer women maternity coaching with an external coach, to support them through the maternity leave transitions out of and back into work.
This thesis explores the lives of women who become mothers working in the Private Equity (PE) industry, an area of financial services with specific cultural nuances that make it systematically challenging for women to take maternity leave and return to work as mothers. The study is carried out through the prism of coaching, by a practicing maternity coach, in two large international PE firms. There is an ample body of literature that explores maternal workers - including the maternity transitions - though not relating to the financial services industry. Maternity coaching literature is limited, with much of the existing knowledge landscape published in consultant or marketing reports.
In this inquiry, the rich data set is drawn from a total of 27 recorded interviews with maternity returners, 38 maternity coaching sessions (including line managers as well as those taking maternity leave), and the coach’s reflective journal. Given the practitioner-researcher nature of this inquiry, the findings have implications for a variety of stakeholders: PE firms, the academic community, the coaching community of practice, and also the researcher’s own approach to coaching. This writing acknowledges the different ‘knowledge cultures’ inherent in these different communities, and intentionally presents each with the findings relevant to their domains
Carry On Kitchen Sink: the early Carry Ons as realist drama
No full textIn British Cinema; A Very Short Introduction (2022), Charles Barr identifies three new forces that came into the national cinema in the mid-to-late ‘fifties; the Hammer horrors, starting with The Quatermass Xperiment in 1955, the ‘new wave’ of realist drama that was launched by the first night of Look Back of Anger in 1956, and the Carry Ons, beginning with Carry On Sergeant in 1958.
It's my contention that these three new forces have more in common than most critics have acknowledged, and that all three should be considered as reactions to the changing social forces of the postwar era, and the increased prominence of working class voices.
Carry On Sergeant is especially significant in this respect – its structure is predictive of Arnold Wesker’s 1962 play Chips With Everything, even down to including a reluctant officer among the squaddies. The cast, as well as making references back to wartime cinema (William Hartnell), and Ealing Comedy (Charles Hawtrey), features Dora Bryan, who in 1961 would appear in A Taste of Honey, one of the defining plays of the ‘kitchen sink’ movement.
My paper will argue that the early Carry Ons, those written by Norman Hudis, and the first four in particular, should be considered as a subgenre within the series, creating a form of film comedy based in (relative) social realism
How do childhood and children's rights mean what they mean? Innovating the debate around the social semantics of childhood and children's rights through an interdisciplinary approach
Get PDFThis article discusses children’s rights as social semantics, approaching them as a form of self-description of a paradoxical relationship that has emerged from the late 20th century within several social systems, a relationship between generational order and children’s position as holders of human rights. Charles Taylor’s theory on the evolution of the semantics of human value is combined with a wide interdisciplinary array of contributions from Childhood Studies, Social Work, Pedagogy, Studies on Constitutionalism to propose an innovative social ontology of children’s rights.
Although the UNCRC has been the object of critical scrutiny since the early 1990s, the authors are not aware of any previous attempt to approach children’s rights as social semantics in an attempt to illuminate the dynamic and paradoxical coupling within discourses on childhood between a fundamental social process, the reproduction of generational order, and a fundamental social institution, human rights as codified in western modernity.
The authors argue that, whilst describing a paradoxical coexistence between intergenerational order and human rights, the semantics of children’s rights maintains its unity as a cultural form because another semantic distinction, between human rights and personal rights continue to generate social meaning. It is hoped that the scholarly debate will benefit from the contribution of this article to enrich the debate around the social ontology of childhood and children’s rights
An exploration of the interaction between professional identity formation and the campus built environment in health professions education
Get PDFBackground: Professional identity formation has been proposed as the backbone of medical education (Cooke et al., 2010a, pg. 7). Educators develop curricula delivering knowledge, skills, and attributes, assisting learners’ transition towards becoming healthcare professionals, through dynamic individual and social processes (Sarraf-Yazdi et al., 2021). In parallel, universities have invested in campus facilities, driven by a range of objectives including improving learning spaces; technology; student social space; and enhancing sense of attachment with the institution. Methods: This qualitative ethnographically informed research explored how students in one higher education institution’s health professional programmes develop professional identity through interactions with each other and the built environment. Pharmacy and medical students’ lived experiences were shared in facilitated focus groups. Observations on campus outside of formal teaching hours were completed. Data was interpreted through a social constructivist lens using reflexive thematic analysis (Braun and Clarke, 2021). Conceptually, symbolic interactionism was used as a framework. Results: The data collection methods generated rich descriptions, insights and understandings of participants, resulting in eight themes and three subthemes. Connections to each other and society were optimised through transparency, inside and outside views, and campus permeability. Lecture Theatres provided opportunities for professional socialisation, inter-professional understanding and reinforced the power of communal learning. Welcoming and accessible places for students to linger and connect facilitated reflection, decompression and support from others in the community of practice. Spaces equipped for authentic learning helped students envisage themselves as future practitioners. This development was further supported through the use of art and artefacts which act as navigational aids. Exertion of agency matters to learners and is facilitated or inhibited through changes in how the built environment is conceived and managed. Conclusion: Physical spaces should be aligned to pedagogical and institutional philosophy to assist in the harmonious development of professional identity cognisant of the needs of society. Impact: Recommendations are made to stakeholders that may foster identity formation through the built environment, along with suggestions for further research in this area
Gender un/bound: traversing educational possibilities
No full textThis book is intrigued by the dis/continuities between gender, education, and the various ways in which they are un/bound together-apart. Queer theory and similar approaches to gender and gender norms have tended to focus on the ways in which norms might be disrupted to trouble the ways in which these performativities constrain the possibilities for becoming (cf. Butler, 1990). To produce a collection focused on the possibilities for unbinding people from gendered expectations in and around educational spaces would fit this remit, yet it is only a fragment of the conversation. Instead, we are more interested in accounting for the ways gender is reconstituted in and through education: how learners make leaps and bounds in their understandings of gender; the boundary making practices that redefine the limits of gender; potential destinations gender is bound for (whether or not they are ever reached); senses of gendered obligation; the various matters that are tied into genderings; the way restraint might be liberating; or perhaps the way gender is bound up like a beautiful book, as an elaborate praxis of care, produced bespoke for its readers. All of these potential meanings and more! Rather than producing a false binary between constraint and sovereignty, we are curious about how our contributors navigate what emerges from the relations that produce the boundaries of gender’s contingent im/possibility in education
The role of character-based personal mitigation in sentencing judgments
Get PDFPersonal mitigating factors (PMFs) such as good character, remorse and addressing addiction help sentencers evaluate an offender’s past, present and future behavior. We analyzed data from the 2011- 2014 Crown Court Sentencing Surveys in England and Wales to examine the relationship between these PMFs and custodial sentences passed on assault and burglary offences, controlling for other sentencing relevant factors. Beyond revealing the distribution and co-occurrence of the three PMFs, it was found that good character, remorse and addressing addiction all had a significant mitigating effect. The effects of addressing addiction were the strongest of the three across both offence types, while good character had a stronger effect on burglary than assault. In addition, some mitigating factors appear to be underweighted when they occur together. We consider the implications of these findings for sentencing policy and practice
Associations between HbA1c reduction and change in depressive symptoms following glucose-lowering treatment in adults: A systematic review of intervention studies
Get PDFIntroduction: Hyperglycemia constitutes a likely pathway linking diabetes and depressive symptoms; lowering glycemic levels may help reduce diabetes-comorbid depressive symptoms. Since randomized controlled trials can help understand temporal associations, we systematically reviewed the evidence regarding the potential association of hemoglobin A1C (HbA1c)-lowering interventions with depressive symptoms.
Methods: PubMed, PsycINFO, CINAHL, and EMBASE databases were searched for randomized controlled trials evaluating A1C-lowering interventions and including assessment of depressive symptoms published between 01/2000–09/2020. Study quality was evaluated using the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool. PROSPERO registration: CRD42020215541.
Results: We retrieved 1,642 studies of which twelve met our inclusion criteria. Nine studies had high and three unclear risks of bias. Baseline depressive symptom scores suggest elevated depressive symptoms in five studies. Baseline HbA1c was <8.0% (<64mmol/mol) in two, 8.0–9.0% (64–75mmol/mol) in eight, and ≥10.0% (≥86mmol/mol) in two studies. Of five studies that found greater HbA1c reduction in the treatment group, three also found greater depressive symptom reduction in the treatment group. Of four studies analyzing whether the change in HbA1c was associated with the change in depressive symptoms, none found a significant association. The main limitation of these studies was relatively low levels of depressive symptoms at baseline, limiting the ability to show a lowering in depressive symptoms after HbA1c reduction.
Conclusions: We found insufficient available data to estimate the association between HbA1c reduction and depressive symptom change following glucose-lowering treatment. Our findings point to an important gap in the diabetes treatment literature. Future clinical trials testing interventions to improve glycemic outcomes might consider measuring depressive symptoms as an outcome to enable analyses of this association
Guaranteeing inclusive education under international human rights law: A proposal for the use of structural indicators addressing issues of equality, non-discrimination and wellbeing
Get PDFConcurrent validity and technological error-based reliability of a novel device for velocity-based training
Get PDFThe aim of this study was to verify the concurrent validity and the biological error-free reliability of a novel low-cost commercial encoder (Ergonauta I). Validity protocol involved comparisons with a custom system and other encoder commercially available (Vitruve). Reliability protocols involved inter devices and inter unit comparisons. No participants were recruited, and reliability assessments were performed in a Smith Machine by bar free fall tests. Our results showed a significant bias for mean velocity (MV) estimated by both encoders only in one of the four conditions investigated (bias=0.05 m/s). Regarding sensitivity, the smallest detectable change suggests only values higher than 0.03 m/s must to be considered as real changes in performance, when monitoring MV and mean propulsive velocity (MPV) through Ergonauta I and Vitruve. Between-days intra-device reliability showed Ergonauta I remains highly reliable after one week for most assessments, whereas slightly less sensitive for peak velocity and peak power output
Representative design: a realistic alternative to (systematic) integrative design
Get PDFWe disagree with Almaatouq et al. that no realistic alternative exists to the "one-at-a-time" paradigm. Seventy years ago, Egon Brunswik introduced representative design which offers a clear path to commensurability and generality. Almaatouq et al.’s integrative design cannot guarantee the external validity and generalizability of results which is sorely needed, while representative design tackles the problem head on