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Critical perspectives on social identity, work, and organization
No full textThis chapter analyzes social identity in relation to work and organizations from a critical theoretical perspective. It focuses on social identity theory (SIT), which has become one of the most dominant perspectives in the study of organizational behavior. Despite its obvious utility, social identity theory’s roots in experimental and survey-based methods and the prominence of social cognition present several problems when interpreting the complex nature of identity in and around work and organizations. We focus on three problematic areas within the organizational and workplace SIT research: cognitivism and dualism, downplaying emotional aspects of identity, and functionalism and the foreclosing of power and ideology in shaping identity. The chapter points to alternative critical approaches to identity processes at work and in organizations. It concludes by proposing that critical work and organizational psychology should focus on the link between identity and ideology, while prioritizing the study of subjectivity
Employing an insider-outsider research approach across Saudi and Irish contexts
No full textIn this lightning talk, we outline the insider–outsider research approach underpinning our exploration of the lived experiences of female angel investors in Saudi Arabia. Our emerging findings show how practice architectures - cultural, material, and social arrangements - shape the everyday practices of these investors. These insights have led us to broaden our study to a contrasting setting, the island of Ireland, and to introduce an ethnographic component. By bringing these two contexts into dialogue, we aim to deepen understanding of how different practice architectures influence women’s engagement in angel investment across diverse sociocultural environments
Fie Upon “But Yet”: Stanza Lead Words and Adversative Conjunctions in The Faerie Queene
No full textThis essay explores the first words in each stanza of Spenser's Faerie Queene, with a full index in an appendix of these words. It argues that these words give subtle yet pervasive semantic colouration to the poem, repeatedly inflecting the narrative in new directions. It is written as part of a festschrift for Judith H. Anderson, a leading scholar of medieval and renaissance poetry, who died in 2022
Builder-Blocker general position games
No full textThis paper considers a game version of the general position problem in which a general position set is built through adversarial play. Two players in a graph, Builder and Blocker, take it in turns to add a vertex to a set, such that the vertices of this set are always in general position. The goal of Builder is to create a large general position set, whilst the aim of Blocker is to frustrate Builder's plans by making the set as small as possible. The game finishes when no further vertices can be added without creating three-in-a-line and the number of vertices in this set is the game general position number. We determine this number for some common graph classes and provide sharp bounds, in particular for the case of trees. We also discuss the effect of changing the order of the players
The tour guide profession: An attractive option for UAE nationals majoring in tourism?
Get PDFThe UAE is targeting the tourism sector as part of its drive to diversify away from an overdependence on oil and is seeking to attract more nationals to the tour guide profession. The purpose of this research is to assess what factors influence the likelihood of Emirati tourism students considering this vocation. A model that incorporates Career Decision-Making Profile and Arabian Gulf Social Contract dimensions was developed. Survey results (n = 186) show that the nature of the job is considered attractive and, traits like ‘willingness to compromise’ and ‘independent decision making’, increased the likelihood of choosing the profession. Yet, “classic public sector” job preferences and perceptions on societal sentiment toward the ‘appropriacy’ of nonconventional vocations acted as deterrents. Recommendations are to make higher education internship programs more tailored to the individual student and modify the remit of the tour guide role at government-owned sites and venues
Business continuity, bureaucratic resilience and the limitations of neoliberal survival logics in international organisations
No full textThis article contends that investigating relationalities between business continuity management, staff behaviours and bureaucratic resilience advances understandings of IO survival. Drawing on in-depth interviews, a global staff survey and a discourse analysis of UN reports and applying a postcolonial feminist theoretical approach to the study of IOs, the article examines how the UN Secretary-General’s Alternative Working Arrangements directive to close physical offices and open ‘virtual offices’ was implemented in the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is contended that business continuity management is necessary for IO survival since if the IO bureaucracy is unable to be productive and maintain its spheres of influence during a crisis, it risks losing power and authority. Between March 2020 and August 2021, staff facilitated IO survival organically, from the bottom-up in four ways: demonstrating good performance and productivity; being adaptable and resilient; maintaining personal spheres of influence and building communities of care within the UN. However, the UN’s neoliberal, technocratic approach to business continuity and bureaucratic resilience-building neglected staff care needs. Consequently, IO survival is predicated on staff performing as exploited gendered and racialised ‘neoliberal subjects’, revealing a chronic structural crisis rooted in the UN bureaucracy’s hierarchical composition and unequal employment regime
The emotional labour of online course discussion forums: some autoethnographic insights
No full textOnline discussion forums are now commonplace in Higher Education and Further Education courses, however, the extent to which learners engage in meaningful dialogue in these virtual spaces varies widely. Whilst a body of research has examined a range of issues surrounding discussion forums, less research attention has been paid to the emotional and affective aspects of participation. This paper reports an autoethnography of the first author’s experiences and affective responses to discussion forums whilst studying three online postgraduate microcredential courses. The study was underpinned by the cultural-historical concept of ‘subjective senses and configurations’ (Gonzales Rey, 2012; 2016; 2017) to theorise how a person’s lived experiences create a frame through which they perceive and interpret the social and cultural world. The findings highlight how one learner experienced a broad spectrum of affective responses which could vary rapidly as she progressed through the course. Decisions whether to participate in forums were influenced by an entanglement of personal factors, course-content related factors (or subject matter) and by task related factors. The study illustrates the unpredictability in learners’ responses to, and participation in, discussion forums; it urges educators to avoid typecasting individual learners, or learner groups, and instead, embrace the uncertainty of learners’ responses
Creative Pedagogies in school
No full textThis chapter updates Cremin and Chappell’s (2019) creative pedagogies systematic literature review focusing on studies between 2019 and 2024. The methodology followed the original study protocols, searching four major research databases using the same terms and inclusion/exclusion criteria. Following rigorous critical reading and discussion around quality and relevance, 14 new papers remained for further analysis. During this process six of the original seven features were identified: generating and exploring ideas; encouraging autonomy and agency; problem-solving; risk-taking; co-constructing and collaborating; and teacher creativity. Playfulness was not evident. The significance of the manifestation of the features and their occurrence patterns are discussed. An example is also provided of the creative pedagogies in action within the Penryn Creativity Collaboratives initiative, where all the features and more are evidenced within a framework of action research projects which were collated within an overarching research study; a model which demonstrates positive implications for teacher ownership. Whilst the chapter suggests impact is still difficult to track, it offers significant new insights into creative pedagogies particularly in relation to risk-taking, assessment, dialogue, metacognition and skills, showing that internationally progress continues to be made in rigorously articulating and practicing creative pedagogies as an important element of current formal schooling
Prevalence and risk factors of early gestational diabetes mellitus (EGDM) in Indians: The STRiDE study
No full textAim
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is usually diagnosed between 24–28 weeks (late GDM, LGDM). When diagnosed before 20 weeks, it is termed early GDM (EGDM). This study aimed to assess the prevalence and risk factors of EGDM compared to LGDM in Asian Indian women.
Methods
STratification of Risk of Diabetes in Early pregnancy (STRiDE), a prospective cohort study recruited 3,070 pregnant women before 16 weeks gestation across seven antenatal clinics in South India. Of these, 2,703 underwent early screening using fasting plasma glucose (FPG). Women with normal FPG underwent an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) at 24–28 weeks. Participants were classified into EGDM (FPG 92–125 mg/dL), LGDM (FPG < 92 mg/dL and abnormal OGTT), and normal glucose tolerance (NGT). Prevalence and risk factors were analyzed using logistic regression.
Results
Prevalence of EGDM and LGDM were 21.5 % and 19.5 %, respectively. Compared to LGDM, EGDM women had higher early pregnancy weight (63.9 vs. 61.2 kg), BMI (25.8 vs. 25.0 kg/m2), HbA1c (5.3 % vs. 5.1 %), and previous history of GDM (8.5 % vs. 5.3 %). Previous history of GDM was associated with EGDM, whereas family history of diabetes was associated with LGDM risk.
Conclusions
Women with EGDM have a unique metabolic profile and different risk factors compared to those with LGDM
Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation of Bipolaron Superconductivity in Extended Hubbard–Holstein models on Face‐Centered‐Cubic and Body‐Centered‐Cubic Lattices
Get PDFWe investigate superlight pairing of bipolarons driven by electron‐phonon interactions (EPIs) in face‐center‐cubic (FCC) and body‐center‐cubic (BCC) lattices using a continuous‐time path‐integral quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm. The EPIs are of the Holstein and extended Holstein types, and a Hubbard interaction is also included. Effects of adiabaticity are calculated. The number of phonons associated with the bipolaron, inverse mass, and radius are calculated and used to construct a phase diagram for bipolaron pairing (identifying the regions of pairing into intersite bipolarons and onsite bipolarons). From the inverse mass we determine that for the extended interaction, there is a region of light pairing associated with intersite bipolarons formed in both BCC and FCC lattices. Intersite bipolarons in the extended model at intermediate phonon frequency and large Coulomb repulsion become superlight due to first order hopping effects. We estimate the transition temperature, determining that intersite bipolarons are associated with regions of high transition temperatures