102 research outputs found
Self-building Our Lives: social care research report
No full text#SelfBuildingOurLives is a collaborative research project drawing upon the work of Andrew Power, Melanie Nind, Andy Coverdale, Hannah Macpherson and Abigail Croydon at University of Southampton, Ed Hall and Alex Kaley at University of Dundee, and a team of advisory group partners including people with learning disabilities and their respective organisations from across the UK.The The report draws on primary research we undertook in England and Scotland with people with learning disabilities, support organisations and commissioners. This was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC): Reclaiming social care: Adults with learning disabilities seizing opportunities in the shift from day services to community lives (ES/P011764/1). The views expressed are those of the authors and not the ESRC.It also draws upon the feedback from participants at a national impact event held in London on 13 November 2019 and feedback received via social media (@SelfBuildLives)
Aluminum aquatic life standard missing parameters document
No full textby: Kaley Major.Title from PDF cover (viewed on August 5, 2021).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (page 23).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Access to social farms for people with dementia living at home in England: A mixed methods analysis using Levesque’s conceptual framework.
No full textWhile much of the care literature has focused on the benefits of social farms for people living with dementia, less research has examined the accessibility of this form of support. Conducted in England between 2023 and 2024, this study examined access to social farms by people living with dementia using the Levesque’s conceptual framework of access as a navigational guide. We surveyed 32 social farms managers, held four online focus groups – two with care professionals and two with social farm staff, and conducted 14 single or dyad interviews with people living with dementia and either their family carer or a social farm volunteer. The sample included six non-farm users unaware of farm-based services, all of whom were people living with dementia originally from India, Bangladesh, or Pakistan but now living in England. The inclusion of multiple perspectives provided novel insights about accessibility and the cultural meaning of animals, which has not been reported in farm-based studies before. Overall, we found a wide variation in access to social farms by people living with dementia in England. People who access a social farm are overwhelmingly White British with the means to travel independently to a social farm (i.e., access to a car and/or carer who can drive). The study shows how the Levesque’s conceptual framework is a helpful navigational tool for researching access to social care. However, to make the framework more compatible for research on access to social care services, and in particular, forms of ‘green care’ we recommend that researchers incorporate more detailed consideration of intersectionality and access to specific facilities and activities within a service, beyond access to the service itself.<br/
‘Disciplined research in undisciplined settings’: Critical Explorations of In-Situ and Mobile Methodologies in Geographies of Health and Wellbeing
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the DOI in this recordIn‐situ and mobile methodologies are increasingly popular within research into diverse geographies of health and wellbeing. These methodologies include data gathering techniques and modes of analysis carried out with research participants as they experience and move through settings with the potential to shape both momentary and longer‐term experiences of health and wellbeing. This methodological development is both a response to and reflection of wider methodological and theoretical thinking across human geography, especially in relation to mobilities, performative, co‐productive and active ways to access and produce knowledge. In addition, the past few decades have seen increased access to geo‐spatial technologies and tools to both locate and record experiential place‐based knowledge. Such methods are capable of producing important new knowledge concerning the emergence (or foreclosing) of health and wellbeing in and through place, yet they are often perceived as ‘risky’, drawing researchers out of their traditional researcher‐controlled environments. Based on discussions developed during and since a July 2018 in situ and mobile methods workshop, this paper discusses the benefits of negotiating the (at times) somewhat messy and unpredictable research encounters that can unfold through such methods. It incorporates examples from recent and ongoing doctoral and post‐doctoral research in health and wellbeing using out situ (in‐situ outdoors) methodological approaches in Britain and Ireland – including go‐along interviews, video ethnography, elicitation and biosensing. Three core themes are presented, concerning the value of mobile and in situ methods in: (a) supporting an ethic of care; (b) attending to more‐than‐human dynamics of health and wellbeing; and (c) integrating matter and meaning in contemporary efforts to understand how health and wellbeing unfold and accrete in and through place.Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC
Making Ourselves Up: The History and Impact of Cosmetics/Makeup
No full textabstract: In 2019 the beauty industry was valued at $532 billion and is continuing to grow at lightning pace (Biron). Clearly, the beauty industry is profitable, so why have so few people bothered to study it? In the Barrett thesis database, as of 2020 there were less than half a dozen theses addressing the cosmetic industry, compared to nearly 50 projects concerning football. In response to the lack of study in academics and general public knowledge concerning the history and impact of cosmetics, the multi-part podcast series, Making Ourselves Up: The History and Impact of Cosmetics/Makeup was created by Kaley Scott, a fashion and sociology student. The personal nature of makeup and cosmetics, making the intimate forum of a podcast the perfect medium. The podcast operates in five episodes. First is: Making Ourselves Up, Makeup Fueling our Memories and Selfhood which contains personal narratives of makeup through interviews, establishing the intimate and wide-reaching effects of cosmetics and makeup. The second and third episodes: How We’ve Made Ourselves Up, from Cleopatra to Helena Rubenstein and How We’ve Made Ourselves Up, from Elizabeth Arden to Glossier cover the entirety of the history of makeup and cosmetics, focusing on western beauty. The third episode: Making Faces, Applying Makeup, the Theories that Let Us Create which focuses on techniques and theories of color and makeup application. Lastly is, Making Change, Cosmetics as a Current of Social Change which reveals how cosmetics have led to social change and continue to allow us to reinvent our society and ourselves. Makeup and cosmetics have been incredibly important for the creator for much of her life and she created this project with the aim of proving how important they are to the rest of the world
Green care in agriculture : interim report : a visual ethnographic study exploring the wellbeing effects of care farming for adults with intellectual disabilities
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“We’re talking about you, not to you”: Methodological reflections on public health research with families with young children
No full textIn this article, we critically reflect upon the experience of public health research involving children and contribute to existing conversations about the methodological and ethical facets of research in this field. Drawing on two phases of a study that sought to explore the lived experiences of families with young children who have had a recent common childhood illness (gastrointestinal infection), we address the research process, from inception of the studies, to fieldwork and the resultant material obtained. We argue that when researching with families about a child-centered experience, it is important to look beyond the individual adult as “participant” and to conceptualize dependents either as, or “like” participants—what we suggest as a “family-centered approach.” Theoretically, this strategy best addresses the lived reality of relationality and responsibility of parent/carers for dependent children; while improving the ease and safety of data collection for the researcher and participants alike
Built for Change: An Adaptive Approach to the Diversification of Halifax’s Residential Neighbourhoods
No full textResidential patterns across Canada have longstanding social and urban qualities that are no longer suited to our current socio-economic world, including smaller and more diverse households and the need to integrate activities of living and working. In Halifax, the municipal government’s promotion of residential densification encourages the demolition of neighbourhoods in favour of high-rise apartment blocks that contribute little to their surroundings.
This thesis investigates the “missing middle” for residential development in the North American city. An adaptive method introduces a more subtle approach to the densification of Halifax’s residential neighbourhoods by modifying existing buildings and properties. Using a typical West End block as its site, a catalogue of design explorations reveals opportunities within our current urban fabric for diverse housing options and more liveable communities that can adapt to cultural change and provide solutions to the current housing crisis
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