30472 research outputs found
Sort by
Factors contributing to stress and well-being among trainee Psychiatrists in Victoria, Australia
No full textDoctors in training experience stress, as they balance the demands of working and studying at the same time. As evidenced by reports of suicides among trainee doctors, it is clear that the level of stress they experience is dangerously high. Long working hours, which can lead to exhaustion, burnout, and time taken away from meaningful activities and relationships outside of work, are a large contributor to trainee stress and increase the likelihood of mental illness and suicidal ideation. For psychiatry trainees, this workload burden is also compounded by a high emotional burden associated with the nature of their work, including patient suicides, aggression, and threats. This study sought to investigate the factors that contribute to the stress and well-being of psychiatry trainees, through in-depth interviews analyzed via qualitative, template analysis. The main sources of stress identified were workload, aspects related to the psychiatry training program, and workplace-based aggression. Supervision, external supports such as family and health professionals, and distraction or “switching off” were the main sources of well-being support. Overall, this study highlighted the importance of structural factors in the workplace and training program in psychiatry trainee stress and well-being levels. Workload and training commitments limited the amount of time trainees could devote to well-being-related activities, despite their awareness of these. This study contributes useful insights into how we can better look after the mental health and well-being of psychiatry trainees, as future leaders of our mental health system
Picturing oneself over time: a multi-modal interpretative phenomenological analysis of pain management trajectories
Get PDFBackground: Chronic pain can be a disabling condition with impacts that affect the sense of identity of those who live with it. This article idiographically describes the longitudinal evolution of the sense of self of participants following their referral to a pain management service and participation in a pain management program (PMP).
Methods: Participants were interviewed three times: before they attended a PMP, and one and six months after the PMP. Data included the drawings of themselves that participants created at each interview and the transcripts of the interviews guided by the drawings, analysed longitudinally using interpretative phenomenological analysis.
Results: This paper describes in detail the cases of four participants: two who experienced a positive albeit troubled trajectory following their PMP and two who did not experience any positive change. The results provide a nuanced account of how the impacts of chronic pain on identity can evolve, with different people engaging with different aspects of a PMP and some people not engaging at all, and how pain self-management strategies enable those that do engage to cope in times of difficulty.
Conclusions: Participant responses to PMP participation are idiosyncratic and interviews with drawings of self analysed longitudinally can help illustrate processes of change
Russian attitudes to public international law
No full textBook synopsis: This accessible text explains how Russian law works in all its principal areas. It elucidates the main concepts and frameworks behind Russian law, and uses original legal sources and case law to explain how it operates in practice. The contributors, all of whom are leading experts on Russian law, employ original research to further knowledge of the Russian legal profession, legal culture, judiciary and court systems, providing a scholarly and practical account of Russian law for students and scholars alike. It is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the subject
Precarity and populism: explaining populist outlook and populist voting in Europe through subjective financial and work-related insecurity
No full textPrecarity is often evoked in discussions about the rise of populism, but there is a dearth of systematic operationalization of the sociological concept of insecurity in populist research. This study fills this gap by theorizing about and empirically linking work-related and financial insecurity to populist outlook and voting in ten European countries. We propose a theoretical framework that links insecurity, respectively, to populist attitudes (symbolic link) and to populist voting (instrumental link). Our empirical investigation of 10 European countries finds a positive association between work and financial insecurity and populist outlook (people-centrism and anti-elitism, in particular) in all our case study countries. Precarity explains votes for Radical Populist Right and Radical Populist Left in all cases except populist right voting in Poland, Hungary, and Italy. Among the dimensions of precarity, financial insecurity and insecurity of work conditions show a particularly significant association with populist attitudes and voting, while the insecurity of tenure provides mixed results. These results suggest that insecurity may have an effect on the diffusion of populist attitudes and populist voting. It also indicates that populist outlook and voting should be investigated by not simply examining the insecurity of tenure but also using measures of insecurity that capture the conditions of work and financial insecurity of individuals
Authoritarianism, perceptions of security threats and the Covid-19 pandemic: a new perspective
Get PDFThis paper offers a new perspective on when and why individual-level authoritarian perceptions of security threats change. We re-examine claims that authoritarian members of the public responded in counterintuitive fashion to the Covid-19 pandemic. The response was counterintuitive in that, rather than a desire for stronger government with the ability to impose measures to address the pandemic and its consequences, authoritarian individuals rejected a stronger government response and embraced individual autonomy. The paper draws on perceptions of security threats—issues that directly or indirectly harm personal or collective safety and welfare—from surveys in two different contexts in England: 2012, when perceptions of the threat from infectious disease was low relative to most other security threats, and 2020, when perceptions of the personal and collective threat of Covid-19 superseded all other security threats. We argue that the authoritarian response was not counterintuitive once we account for the type of threat it represente
China's hidden century: 1796-1912
No full textBook synopsis: The accompanying hardback catalogue to the British Museum exhibition, China’s hidden century: 1796–1912.
Cultural creativity in China between 1796 and 1912 demonstrated extraordinary resilience in a time of warfare, land shortages, famines and uprisings. Innovation can be seen in material culture (including print, painting, calligraphy, textiles, fashion, jewellery, ceramics, lacquer, glass, arms and armour, rugs, silver, money, and photography) during a century in which China’s art, literature, crafts and technology faced unprecedented exposure to global influences.
1796 – the official end of the reign of the Qianlong emperor – is viewed as the end of the ‘high Qing’ and the start of a period of protracted crisis. In 1912, the last emperor, Puyi, abdicated after the revolution of 1911, bringing to an end some 2,000 years of dynastic rule and making way for the republic.
Until recently, the 19th century in China has been often defined – and dismissed – as an era of cultural decline. Built on new research from a four-year project supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and with chapter contributions by international scholars from leading institutions, this beautifully illustrated, 336-page book edited by Jessica Harrison-Hall and Julia Lovell sets out a fresh understanding of this important era. It presents a stunning array of objects and artworks to create a detailed visual account of responses to war, technology, urbanisation, political transformations, and external influences
Bertrand and Dora Russell on sex, marriage and the rule of fathers
No full textReviewers of Bertrand Russell’s Marriage and Morals (1929) came to no consensus on the purpose of the work. Some saw it advocating love in marriage, others destroying marriage and still others as an attempt to justify promiscuity. Their confusion is in part due to various tensions in the work. This paper proposes that these were the result of an unsuccessful attempt to combine two incompatible value systems: aristocratic values and the new morality which Bertrand Russell and his wife at the time, Dora, promoted. The book also reveals a couple in crisis – whose ideals had proved impossible to realise in their life together.
The paper will begin with a brief introduction to Marriage and Morals, including the nature of the work and its content. The second section will detail four topics in which conflicting ideas appear: instinct, sexual freedom, marriage, and fatherhood. The third section details two sets of values that clash in Marriage and Morals: aristocratic values and the so-called ‘new morality’. The latter will be partly illustrated by the contemporaneous writings of Dora Russell. The fourth section will return to the problematic areas from Marriage and Morals and attempt to disentangle these by considering the struggles theoretically and personally which the Russells were experiencing. The conclusion sums up what has been discovered about attitudes toward sex, marriage and family in Marriage and Morals and in Bertrand Russell’s own mind at a period of intense transition in his personal life
‘“Film Director Tanaka Kinuyo” Murakawa Hide: The challenges of female authorship”
No full textIn 1953, Tanaka Kinuyo, one of Japan's legendary stars, made her debut as a film director, becoming the first Japanese woman to regularly direct feature-length fiction films. In "Eiga kantoku Tanaka Kinuyo" ("Film Director Tanaka Kinuyo," 2016), Murakawa Hide explores Tanaka's early directorial career through interviews with actors and staff members who worked under Tanaka at the time. These interviews provide valuable insight into the industrial and political context in which Tanaka debuted and how she was perceived inside the industry. Included here is an original translation of Murakawa's article as well as an introduction from the translator addressing how the gendered experiences of authorship, stardom, and ageism intersect in Tanaka's directorial career.
Critical introduction to Murakawa’s writing (approx. 4,000 words) and translation Japanese-English of the text. Winner of the Translation and Publication Committee of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual competition
Reality check: Russel Brand, survivors of rape and the criminal justice system
Get PDFThe historically problematic relationship between the criminal Justice System and complainants of rape surfaced again with the recent allegations made on the comedian and TV presented Russel Brand
JG Ballard was not a prophet
No full textOpinion piece arguing againts the idea of science fiction as capable of prediction, with a focus on the work of JG Ballar
Data sources:
Access Repository Dashboard
Do you manage Birkbeck Institutional Research Online? Access insider analytics, issue reports and manage access to outputs from your repository in the CORE Repository Dashboard!