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Unequal Stories
No full textUnequal Stories is a collaborative, GCRF-funded research project between Falmouth University, United Kingdom (UK), and the University of Johannesburg, South Africa (RSA). Guided by Sustainable Development Goal #5 (gender equality), this cross-national (RSA & UK) comparative research project aims to explore gender diversity, equality, and representation across various design disciplines (industrial design, fashion design, graphic design, etc.) within Higher Education (HE) and Industry.
The project was prompted by an analysis of statistical data around gender and diversity in design disciplines. For example, a recent study by the British Design Council (2018) identified that while 63% of all UK Art and Design graduates are female, the UK's design workforce comprises a 78:22 gender split (male to female), compared to the 53:47 gender split of the wider UK workforce. These statistics were influenced by the extreme gender imbalances in the disciplines of Architecture, multimedia, and Industrial design. Similar statistics have been identified in other countries, including Australia and the United States. While some quantitative data of this nature from South Africa is available, it is significantly outdated (2008).
While the data indicate systemic issues impacting gender equality in design industries, it does little to shed light on underlying reasons. By conducting a narrative inquiry around attitudes and perceptions of gender among participants currently studying towards a qualification in a design discipline and those with design industry experience, Unequal Stories seeks to surface stories related to equality and inequality in the design industries.
The narrative data was gathered, shared, and analysed via two methods on the Unequal Stories platform:
1) Participants (in both HE and Industry) were asked to share their stories anonymously. This data was then mapped on the website through data visualization, allowing users to compare and contrast the stories according to tag, location, and discipline.
2) Through a Pedagogic Toolkit, students from design departments in RSA and the UK were asked to respond to the shared data, offering further insights using a critical design approach. The outcomes of this process were then shared in an exhibition
UNEQUAL STORIES (v1): SURFACING STORIES OF GENDER INEQUALITY IN DESIGN
Full text linkUnequal Stories is a cross-national research project between Falmouth University (United Kingdom) and the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) investigating gender equality, diversity, and representation in the design disciplines in Higher Education (HE) and industry. Employing research through and for design, the pilot project (Unequal Stories v1) utilises an innovative UX data collection, mapping, and visualisation tool to surface phenomenological Stories (lived experiences) of gender inequality in design. By centring designers' voices, the project aims to contribute to the ongoing sociological mapping of the field through participatory and inclusive strategies. In this article, the authors briefly situate Unequal Stories against a backdrop of an ongoing ‘diversity crisis’ in design; describe the aims, methodology, and limitations of the project; and present the initial findings of the research via a thematic analysis. The results indicate a significant prevalence of marginalising issues within the design industry — including bullying, sexual harassment, and exclusion; a compounding impact of intersectional inequalities; discrepancies in inequality within HE compared to the workplace; and the impact of gendered expectations and confidence as some of the contributing factors that lead to women not entering the design workforce after graduation, or leaving the design industry entirely. The findings also indicate that, despite statistical evidence to the contrary, gender inequality in design is frequently dismissed as a ‘non-issue.’ These results contribute to the expanding body of literature on gender diversity and representation in design, offering valuable insights for policymakers, educators, and practitioners
Boook.Land: The Speaking Machine
Full text linkThe Speaking Machine is a practice-led research project conceived and developed by Falmouth University’s School of Communication in collaboration with and industry practitioners Harry Boyd and design studio TwoMuch. The project explores how communication design can structure digital participatory platforms for collaborative storytelling and distributed creative practice. It further explores how specific interface constraints—such as one-at-a-time contributions and limited narrative visibility—can generate new forms of narrative authorship. Initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic, the project responds to the challenge of sustaining creative collaboration under conditions of spatial and social isolation. By repositioning design as a ‘structuring agent’ in narrative systems, the research contributes to debates around digital authorship, speculative publishing, and networked co-creation within communication design
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The impact of Health Information Technology (I-HIT) scale : the Australian results
No full textOne of role of the nurse in the clinical setting is that of coordinating communication across the healthcare team. On a daily basis nurses interact with the person receiving care, their family members, and multiple care providers thus placing the nurse in the central position with access to a vast array of information on the person. Through this nurses have historically functioned as “information repositories”. With the advent of Health Information Technology (HIT) tools there is a potential that HIT could impact interdisciplinary communication, practice efficiency and effectiveness, relationships and workflow in acute\ud
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In 2005, the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Community developed the IHITScale to measure the impact of HIT on the nursing role and interdisciplinary communication in USA hospitals. In 2007, nursing informatics colleagues from Australia, Finland, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and the USA formed a research collaborative to validate the IHIT in six additional countries. This paper will discuss the background, methodology, results and implications from the Australian IHIT survey of over 1100 nurses. The results are\ud
currently being analyzed and will be presented at the conference
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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