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Supporting the mental health of undergraduate women in chemistry
No full textMental health should be a priority for all and especially for underrepresented groups, including the women in chemistry. Here, the authors discuss and propose supportive mechanisms within academia for the mental health of undergraduate women in chemistry
Employer Forums on Degree Apprenticeship programmes: facilitating stakeholder engagement and learning
No full textSuccess in apprenticeship programmes is a collective endeavour. This paper presents an initiative which supports work-based mentors working alongside The Open University on the Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship (CMDA). Through a regular programme of online meetings – which we term ‘Employer Forums’ – we provide work-based mentors with a community of practice to share and develop knowledge together. Feedback gathered from the nearly 200 mentors who have attended sessions to date confirm that they value the opportunity to attend and contribute. Attendance benefits carry over into the tripartite relationship between apprentice, workplace mentor and HEI Tutor, furthering confidence, and effective working relationships
Looking out as well as in: Social workers, prison yoga teachers and resisting ‘secondhand carcerality’ in UK prisons
No full textDrawing on the early findings of a doctoral study exploring prison yoga teaching in UK prisons, this chapter examines the connections between Justice Social Workers and Prison Yoga Teachers (PYTs), arguing that many features of their work are shared. It sets out the religious origins of the social work profession and how religion has shaped penal practices. Renewed interest in religion and spirituality for social workers reflects the growing research on religious and spiritual programmes taking place in prisons worldwide including prison yoga. Evidence indicates that engagement with these practices can enhance resilience and wellbeing, but the racist, classist, and sexist nature of the carceral logics in which these interventions are embedded only serves to undermine their liberatory potential. JSWs and PYTs based in these environments risk complicity in upholding harmful and oppressive practices. Critical self-awareness and reflexivity are essential if they are to resist the destructive effects of ‘secondhand carcerality’, a process where they become agents of the state and implicated in contributory suffering. It is argued that joining together, learning from each other, and campaigning for political change have the potential to produce a more inclusive and compassionate future
Problems of Whiteness and the Criminological Imagination
No full textThis chapter is based on the premise that both mainstream and critical criminology in the UK have a whiteness problem. It suggests that among other strategies for developing robust, critical currents of anti-racism in criminological work, naming the “the whiteness problem” might enlarge a vocabulary that unsettles its prevailing perspectives. Criminology is far from a unitary or singular entity. It remains a vibrant rendezvous of disciplines around which are gathered an increasing number of self-declared sub-criminologies. In this chapter I argue that establishing whiteness as a legitimate object of critical inquiry and as an appropriate heuristic is potentially a way of reframing the field’s underdeveloped relationship with race scholarship and refocussing its priorities
Petrography, geochronology, and volatile inventory of lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 12593
Get PDFThe petrography and geochemistry of Northwest Africa (NWA) 12593 reveals association with the ferroan anorthosite and magnesian suites, as well as highlands-type clasts that are compositionally distinct from Apollo highlands material, re-affirming previous observations of increased compositional diversity in lunar crustal rocks outside of the Apollo sampled region. A large number of apatite grains were identified in lunar meteorite NWA 12593, in texturally pristine condition and associated with lithic clasts and the impact melt matrix. Chlorine and hydrogen isotope compositions obtained on apatite in NWA 12593 (δ 37 Cl = + 11.3 ‰ to + 53.1 ‰; δD = − 368 ‰ to + 1030 ‰) are significantly greater than in Apollo samples and basaltic lunar meteorites, with a broad range of volatile abundances spanning two orders of magnitude (Cl = 1053-12337 ppm; H2O = 143-4486 ppm). These volatile signatures reveal new insights into the distribution and isotopic heterogeneity of highly volatile elements in areas of the lunar surface not sampled previously and indicate that the lunar interior may have been equally heterogenous throughout its evolution. The variety of impact melt and lithic material in this sample implies a complex impact history that can contribute to future lunar exploration (e.g., Artemis III) surface activity goals of determining the lunar record of Inner Solar System impact history and volatile distribution throughout the lunar surface and interior
The ‘forum effect’: how does participation in online forums affect student retention and academic performance at a distance learning university?
Get PDFDistance learning universities use online asynchronous forums to engage students in course content and build student academic communities. This research uses a mixed-methods approach to provide new empirical and qualitative evidence on the impact of online forum participation on student retention and academic performance on an undergraduate Economics course at a distance learning university. Using inferential logit regression models, we find forum participation has a positive impact on the pass/distinction boundary but not on the pass/fail-resit boundary. Moreover, this study provides evidence of a significant positive effect of forum participation on retention. Encouraging students to post is important because there is a positive ‘forum effect’ regardless of whether the student initiates the post. We also find that the marginal benefit of forum posting is diminishing, implying that ‘nudging’ a student to post even a few times can have a positive impact on their retention, with the first post being most critical. Qualitative evidence from student interviewees suggests that the nature of the forum activities and time aspects are important factors influencing student motivation to participate. Based on these findings we create an ‘ideal recipe’ for forum activities that is most likely to elicit student participation and thus aid student retention
Narrative Analysis and Affective Positioning: Designing a legacy story on Instagram
No full textThe analysis of narratives as small stories (Georgakopoulou, 2007) has been connected to positioning analysis in the context of addressing questions around the continuity and change of identities (Bamberg and Georgakopoulou, 2008). Positioning analysis has since proved a productive lens into a wide range practices of story production, reception, and collectivization primarily in face-to-face interactional contexts, while the study of stories in digital environments has led to its extension to capture aspects of affect in positioning choices, known as affective positioning (Giaxoglou, 2020). This chapter discusses key concerns and shifts in the study of narrative in (socio)linguistic research and relates them to the study of designing narrative and affect in digital contexts. It foregrounds the affective dimensions of narrative, which although widely recognised as integral to it, are often neglected or attended to peripherally. The chapter illustrates the framework of narrative analysis and affective positioning in a worked example of designing an illness narrative on Instagram as a legacy story. It concludes with remarks on further directions for narrative analysis and affective positioning in different contexts, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) synthetic interaction contexts.
English Feminists, Imperialism and the Politics of Organisation in the Irish Suffrage Movement, 1900–14
Get PDFThis article explores how English women's intervention in the Irish suffrage movement was both a help and a hindrance to Irish women. On the one hand, it caused political animosity and division, because many Irish suffrage campaigners feared a subsumption into the larger British movement. On the other hand, Irish women recognised that the links between English and Irish groups helped them maintain pressure on the British parliament, connecting them to the wider British movement. This article looks beyond the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) to account for the political and social diversity and intricacies of the wider suffrage movement in both nations. In doing so, it seeks to understand how political ideologies, national identities and personal friendships were built in the early 20th century. This article shows how imperial feminism permeated the organising of many English societies in Ireland, even those run by socialists who supported the principle of home rule for Ireland. Yet imperial assumptions and attitudes did not entirely eliminate opportunities for solidarity across the Irish sea. This article therefore also examines the ways in which close working relationships were created and sustained, and even provided the basis for future collaborations between English and Irish political activists