860 research outputs found
The experience of caring for someone with dementia: a biographical study
No full textThis research was about the lived experience of caring for someone with dementia. Six informal carers of people with dementia were interviewed. The carers were defined as ‘informal’ as they were family and friends, and therefore unpaid. Five of the carers were women who had or were supporting their mothers, and one was a man, who had cared for a friend. Three carers identified as lesbian or gay. I wanted to hear the stories of a group that are generally neglected in research (Turnball, 2002). Carers are diverse with a range of needs, and I wished to discover if services were ‘gay friendly’ or implicitly heterosexist. In addition I wanted lesbian and gay carers’ stories to be heard and their contribution to be recognised. The research is important as there are an estimated 750,000 people living with dementia in the UK and 500,000 partners, family members and friends are involved in caring for someone with dementia at a value of £6 billion a year, if care was provided by health and social care services (Department of Health, 2009). The research method was biographical in relation to the participants’ caring role. It explored three areas: the experience of caring, coping approaches and encounters with health and social care services. The interviews with carers took place in 2010 and the cared for had, or were living in: London, Wales, south-east and north-west England. The theoretical perspective of the research was person centred (Kitwood, 1997) set within the legislative and social policy framework for carers. The data was analysed primarily through pre-determined codes arising from the interview schedule and Skills for Care ‘Core Principles for Carers’ (2010) but also searching for patterns within and across cases. The findings were that the carers did not experience the person with dementia as a burden, but contact with health and social services was often problematic due to the fragmentation of services, lack of one practitioner co-ordinating care, and an absence of knowledge about carers’ legal entitlements. In addition services adopted a medical model of care focusing on the dementia of the cared for with limited interest in the cared for or carer’s biography, consequently services were not person centred, or gay friendly. Carers’ commitment to the person with dementia was on a continuum between the obligations of kinship and unconditional love. Positive aspects in the relationships endured in particular humour and shared activities. The messages for practice were that health and social care practitioners require training in person centred practice, as well as the legislation and policy framework for carers. Personalisation of services provides opportunities for shifting services from a task centred to person centred approach, including the development of gay friendly services?<br/
"Ice Road" by Gillian Slovo. [review - radio script]
No full text"Ice road" is a novel of nineteenth century proportions by prolific British author Gillian
Slovo. With its broad canvas of Russian history and large cast of characters, led by a
young woman called Natasha, it consciously harks back to Tolstoy’s "War and Peace".
The story begins with a cleaner called Irina Davydovna Arbatova, a pragmatic
worker born at the beginning of the twentieth century, who by various chance encounters
becomes involved in the family of Boris Aleksandrovic Ivanov, a party official, one of the new soviet ruling class. The setting is Leningrad, and the year is 1934
Editing Aphra Behn in the Digital Age: An Interview with Gillian Wright and Alan Hogarth
No full textThis interview provides a view of the work in progress for the Cambridge University Press edition of the Complete Works of Aphra Behn. Gillian Wright serves as a general editor (with Elaine Hobby, Claire Bowditch, and Mel Evans) as well as the volume editor for Behn’s poetry. Alan Hogarth is the Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Mel Evans on the computational stylistics and author attribution testing. The discussion focuses on the scope and principles of editing the poetry of Aphra Behn, the role of stylometry in establishing the corpus, the status of work, a few particular poems, and some surprises
Nieznajoma z North Carthage. Dwuznaczne narracje Gillian Flynn w powieści "Zaginiona dziewczyna"
No full textThis article analyzes the use of narration in Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl. The author employs the „missing white woman syndrome” and unreliable narrators to manipulate readers' perceptions and expectations.This article analyzes the use of narration in Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl. The author employs the „missing white woman syndrome” and unreliable narrators to manipulate readers' perceptions and expectations
Gillian Dooley interviews Joris Luyendijk, author of 'Fit to Print: Misrepresenting the Middle East'.
No full textInterview with Joris Luyendijk, author of 'Fit to Print: Misrepresenting the Middle East', a book about the problems of foreign journalism in the Middle East
Conjuring our beings: Stacey Gillian Abe and Immy Mali in conversational partnership
No full textThe series of Conversational Partnerships began in 2017 in African Arts vol. 50, no. 2, with a conversation between two artists: Eria Nsubuga SANE from Uganda and Sikhumbuzo Makandula from South Africa. The format of a “conversational partnership” (Rubin and Rubin 2012: 7) emphasizes the cocreation of meaning by the interviewer and interviewee as coauthors. This enables a move away from the art history format of the interviewer (usually a writer) assuming the role of the sole author and the interviewee (often an artist) having no status as an author despite the fact that her or his practice-led creation of knowledge is foundational to the content of the interview. Stacey Gillian Abe and Immy Mali participated in a joint artists' residency as part of the RAW program at Rhodes University in South Africa from November to December 2017. During this time, they engaged with each other's practice-led work, and they created this conversational partnership at a writing breakaway in the Eastern Cape
Gillian Anderson speaks out about equal pay and her book, ‘We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere ’
No full textAn interview with Gillian Anderson and co-author Jennifer Nadel about their new book, 'We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere.
Analiza enodejank Gillian Plowman
No full textThis diploma paper explores three dramatic texts by Gillian Plowman - Me and My Friend (1990), The Window Cleaner (2006) and The Ox and the Ass. Its main topic is the study of characters featuring in the works and their linguistic and stylistic expression as shown at the levels of register, colloquialisms and slang. In the first part, the history and basic features of the one act play are discussed. In the second part, linguistic and stylistic features of the plays are examined, paying special attention to the differences and similarities between characters and plays. The examination provides a framework for the comparison which is summarized in the concluding part of the paper. The author\u27s main concern is to establish main differences and similarities between stylistic makeup of individual plays and characters and to find out to what extent the playwright has succeeded in adapting seemingly simple plot for the more demanding audiences of the 21 century.Diplomsko delo razčlenjuje tri dramska besedila Gillian Plowman - Me and My Friend (1990), The Window Cleaner (2006) in The Ox and the Ass. Avtorica podrobno raziskuje in razčlenjuje glavne osebe in jezikovne ter slogovne značilnosti del, kot se kažejo na ravni registra ter pogovornih in sleng izrazov. Prvi del diplomskega dela obsega zgodovino enodejanke in njene bistvene značilnosti. Drugi del raziskuje jezikovne in slogovne značilnosti značajev in posameznih iger ter ugotavlja podobnosti in razlike med njimi, ki jih nato povzema v zaključnem delu. Avtorico zanima, v koliki meri je pisateljici uspelo prilagoditi navidezno preprost zaplet zahtevnejšim potrebam publike 21. stoletja
The use of nuclear track autoradiography in the study of the distribution of Thorium and its products in living organisms.
No full textA thesis presented by Gillian B Ward (M. Sc.) for the degree of Ph.D in the Faculty of Sciences (Physics applied to Medicine) in University of London. June 1955. Scanned with permission from the Author 22-06-15
El libro vive. Historias. Revista de la Dirección de Estudios Históricos. Num. 87 (2014) enero-abril
No full textSuplemento de libros del Times de Nueva York, 12 de agosto de 2012. Traducción de Antonio Saborit.Especialista en la historia de la literatura en Estados Unidos y en la historia del libro, Gillian Silverman es profesora asociada en la Universidad de Colorado, co-directora del programa Feminism & Co: Art, Sex and Politics en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo en la ciudad de Denver y autora del libro Bodies & Books. Reading and the Fantasy Communion in Nineteenth-Century America (2012). Tomado del suplemento de libros del Times de Nueva York, 12 de agosto de 2012
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