278 research outputs found
Holocaust education: An investigation into the types of learning that take place when students encounter the holocaust
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Education and awarded by Brunel University.This study employs qualitative methods to investigate the types of learning that occurred when students in a single school encountered the Holocaust. The study explored the experiences of 48 students, together with two of their teachers and a Holocaust survivor who visited the school annually to talk to the students. A thematic analysis was conducted to identify prevalent similarities in the students’ responses. Three themes were identified, analysed and discussed. The three themes were: ‘surface level learning’ (their academic knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust), ‘affective learning’ (their emotional engagement with the topic) and ‘connective learning’ (how their encounter with the Holocaust fitted their developing worldview). The first theme revealed that students had a generally sound knowledge of the Holocaust, but there were discrepancies in the specifics of their knowledge. The second theme revealed that learning about the Holocaust had been an emotionally traumatic and complicated process. It also revealed that meeting a Holocaust survivor had a significant impact upon the students, but made them begin to question the provenance of different sources of Holocaust learning. The third theme showed that students had difficulty connecting the Holocaust with modern events and made flawed connections between the two. Finally, the study examines the views of the Holocaust survivor in terms of his intentions and his reasons for giving his testimony in schools. The study’s conclusions are drawn within the context of proposing a new conceptualisation of the Holocaust as a ‘contested space’ in history and in collective memory. A tripartite approach to Holocaust Education is suggested to affect high quality teaching within the ‘contested space’ of the event
Bruce Findlay, 1994
No full textBruce Findlay, lecturer in Psychology, author of "How to Write a Psychology Laboratory Report", a guide to working through the maze of communication and statistical conventions. Swinburne Staff News 12 May 1994
Data relating to Smith et al 2022.xlsx
No full textData relating to Smith et al (final author Dr Emily Gwyer Findlay) published 2022.</p
First person – Amy Findlay
No full textFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Amy Findlay is first author on ‘Mouse Idh3a mutations cause retinal degeneration and reduced mitochondrial function’, published in DMM. Amy is a postdoc in the lab of Ian Jackson at MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. The focus of her research is using mouse models of human disease to investigate the genetic causes of retinal degeneration
Strangers in Style: Digital Intimacy and the Self Becoming on the Style Blogosphere
No full textPublic talk/panel featuring Dr Rosie Findlay (London College of Fashion) and Rosalind Jana (digital editor of Violet magazine, blogger and author) in conversation with Dr Agnes Rocamora (London College of Fashion). A joint event hosted by the Cultural and Historical Studies Hub and the Fashion Media and Imagery Hub at London College of Fashion, Wednesday 22 November 2017
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Law's regulatory relevance?:property, power and market economies /
No full textFocusing on the information economy, free trade exploitation, and confronting terrorist violence, Mark Findlay critiques law's regulatory commodification. Conventional legal regulatory modes such as theft and intellectual property are being challenged by waves of property access and use, which demand the rethinking of property 'rights' and their relationships with the law. Law's Regulatory Relevance? theorises how the law should reposition itself in order to help rather than hinder new pathways of market power, by confronting the dominant neo-liberal economic model that values property through scarcity. With in-depth analysis of empirical case studies, the author explores how law is returning to its communal utility in strengthening social ties, which will in turn restore property as social relations rather than market commodities. In a world of contested narratives about property valuing, law needs to ground its inherent regulatory relevance in the ordering of social change. This book is an essential read for students of law and regulation wanting to explore the contemporary dissent against neo-liberal market economies and the issues of communitarian governance and social resistance. It will also appeal to policy makers interested in law's failing regulatory capacity, particularly through criminalising attacks on conventional property rights, by offering insights into why law's regulatory relevance is at a cross-roads
“We're not financial organisations!”: Financial innovation without regulation in China's rural cooperative funds
No full textThis study is based on a detailed survey of a township-based RCF in Jiangsu Province of China undertaken by the first author in 1997. RCFs are well developed in Jiangsu. In terms of organisational structure, this RCF is typical of RCFs in Jiangsu and nearby regions of China. This RCF is, however, one of the best managed in Jiangsu province with a strong financial position. The study is supplemented by data collected from other field work in China. Recent developments in China's rural financial markets and institutions are documented in Section 2. Section 2 also reviews the emergence and development of the RCFs in Jiangsu. The innovations in lending methodologies introduced by the case-study RCF in Jiangsu are examined in Section 3. Section 4 discusses the regulation and supervision of the case-study RCFs. Conclusions and policy implications are drawn in Section 5.Cheng, Enjiang; Findlay, Christopher Charles; Watson, Andre
Exploring HOD-dependent systematics for the DESI 2024 Full-Shape galaxy clustering analysis
No full textN. Findlay et al. -- Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey Year 1 resultsWe analyse the robustness of the DESI 2024 cosmological inference from the full shape of the galaxy power spectrum to uncertainties in the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) model of the galaxy-halo connection and the choice of priors on nuisance parameters. We assess variations in the recovered cosmological parameters across a range of mocks populated with different HOD models and find that shifts are often greater than 20% of the expected statistical uncertainties from the DESI data. We encapsulate the effect of such shifts in terms of a systematic covariance term, CHOD, and an additional diagonal contribution quantifying the impact of our choice of nuisance parameter priors on the ability of the effective field theory (EFT) model to correctly recover the cosmological parameters of the simulations. These two covariance contributions are designed to be added to the usual covariance term, Cstat, describing the statistical uncertainty in the power spectrum measurement, in order to fairly represent these sources of systematic uncertainty. This novel approach should be more general and robust to the choice of model or additional external datasets used in cosmological fits than the alternative approach of adding systematic uncertainties to the recovered marginalised parameter posteriors. We compare the approaches within the context of a fixed ΛCDM model and demonstrate that our method gives conservative estimates of the systematic uncertainty that nevertheless have little impact on the final posteriors obtained from DESI data.We would like to acknowledge Mark Maus and Kazuya Koyama for serving as internal reviewers of this work and providing useful feedback. We thank Samuel Brieden for a comment on the limitation of fixing nuisance parameters in the creation of the HOD covariance that helped to shape this paper. NF acknowledges support from STFC grant ST/X508688/1 and funding from the University of Portsmouth. SN acknowledges support from an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship, with grant reference ST/T005009/2. CGQ acknowledges support provided by NASA through the NASA Hubble Fellowship grant HST-HF2-51554.001-A awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., for NASA, under contract NAS5-26555. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Office of High-Energy Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, and by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility under the same contract. Additional support for DESI was provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Astronomical Sciences under Contract No. AST-0950945 to the NSF National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory; the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom; the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA); the National Council of Humanities, Science and Technology of Mexico (CONAHCYT); the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain (MICINN), and by the DESI Member Institutions: https://www.desi.lbl.gov/collaborating-institutions. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, or any of the listed funding agencies. The authors are honored to be permitted to conduct scientific research on Iolkam Du’ag (Kitt Peak), a mountain with particular significance to the Tohono O’odham Nation.Peer reviewe
River stories: Genealogies of a threatened inland river system
No full textMost people now living in Australia's 'bread basket', the much-degraded Murray Darling Basin, are like my family, descendants of convicts or free settlers who came to the inland in the 19th or early 20th centuries. Our legacy includes the dispossession of indigenous peoples, species extinction and the ongoing degradation of the ecological communities which now sustain us. My own family's river stories which 'begin' with a pair of impoverished Gaels who migrated with their offspring from the Scottish Highlands, can be considered paradigmatic. I re-narrate it in this essay in response to philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre's challenge--I can only answer the question 'What am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?' Some of these family stories I find myself part of, especially those that have been enacted within the catchment of the now-threatened Lachlan River, are very discomforting, but where do they 'truly' begin? In seeking to understand my relationship with the river and its catchment, and with the indigenous peoples 'my mob' displaced, I explore several possible 'beginnings' and ask a further question: what stories do I want to be part of as co-author, co-narrator and protagonist. I then offer my own yet-to-be enacted 'truth and reconciliation' stories about the future of the inland plains I love
Does Migration Make You Happy?:A Longitudinal Study of Internal Migration and Subjective Well-Being
No full textThe majority of quantitative studies on the consequences of internal migration focus almost exclusively on the labour-market outcomes and the material well-being of migrants. We investigate whether individuals who migrate within the UK become happier after the move than they were before, and whether the effect is permanent or transient. Using life-satisfaction responses from twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey and employing a fixed-effects model, we derive a temporal pattern of migrants’ subjective well-being around the time of the migration event. Our findings make an original contribution by revealing that, on average, migration is preceded by a period when individuals experience a significant decline in happiness for a variety of reasons, including changes in personal living arrangements. Migration itself causes a boost in happiness, and brings people back to their initial levels. The research contributes, therefore, to advancing an understanding of migration in relation to set-point theory. Perhaps surprisingly, long-distance migrants are at least as happy as short-distance migrants despite the higher social and psychological costs involved. The findings of this paper add to the pressure to retheorize migration within a conceptual framework that accounts for social well-being from a life-course perspective
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