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[Portrait of E. J. Rupert Atkinson] [picture].
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from compactus card.; Condition: good, glued to compactus card.; "E. J. Rupert Atkinson (Evelyn John), Australian author & playwright, see Who's who 1927" --compactus card. E. J. Rupert Atkinson wrote a number of volumes of lyric, narrative and philosophical verse and plays
Understanding university student priorities for mental health and well‐being support: A mixed‐methods exploration using the person‐based approach
No full textPoor student well-being at UK universities is overstretching institutional support services, highlighting a need for effective new resources. Despite extensive literature on mental health and well-being interventions, students’ engagement with support remains unexplored. The study aimed to understand students’ experience of engagement with well-being support, identify their well-being needs and form concrete recommendations for future intervention design and delivery. The Person-Based Approach to intervention design was followed to centralise users’ experience, in turn maximising acceptability and effectiveness of resources. An online survey (N = 52) was followed by three focus groups (N = 14). Survey data were analysed descriptively, and reflexive thematic analysis was performed on qualitative data. Mixed-methods data integration produced four key student priorities for well-being resources – ease of access, inclusive and preventative approach, sense of community and a safe space, and applying skills to real-life contexts. Five actionable guiding principles for intervention design were produced through consultation with expert stakeholders. This work helps understand why and how students engage with support at university. The resulting recommendations can inform future intervention development, leading to more acceptable, engaging and effective student well-being resources
Linking the global and the local in educational research: some insights from dynamic systems theory
No full textFurlong’s (2004) recent discussion of ‘the re-emergence of the paradigm wars’ draws attention to the remarkable resilience of what Martin Hammersley (2002) has called ‘two worlds theories’ in educational research (e.g. theory/practice; quantitative/ qualitative; global/local). Although the last thirty years or so have witnessed a range of analyses and deconstructions of binary thinking from a variety of critical and postmodern perspectives (see, for example, Derrida, 1976; Kaufman, 2001; Parker, 1997, Stronach & McLure, 1997), such thinking appears to be particularly recalcitrant within educational discourses
Sensationalising Hull: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Theatrical and Literary Connections
No full textBest-selling Victorian sensation fiction author Mary Elizabeth Braddon was (in)famous for novels depicting female bigamists, attempted murder, arson and bribery; anything and everything that shocked Victorian sensibilities. Before she gained international fame with Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) and Aurora Floyd (1862) though, she began her writing career in the East Riding, and she continued to use the county as a setting for her fiction for the next fifty years. Braddon also toured the county as a travelling actress in the 1850s, sparking a debate within Hull’s Board of Health while raising money for Pearson Park. Braddon’s connections with Hull and the East Riding illustrate her creative talents, her fiery passion and a notoriety that continued for the rest of her life
Sensationalising Hull: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Theatrical and Literary Connections
No full textBest-selling Victorian sensation fiction author Mary Elizabeth Braddon was (in)famous for novels depicting female bigamists, attempted murder, arson and bribery; anything and everything that shocked Victorian sensibilities. Before she gained international fame with Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) and Aurora Floyd (1862) though, she began her writing career in the East Riding, and she continued to use the county as a setting for her fiction for the next fifty years. Braddon also toured the county as a travelling actress in the 1850s, sparking a debate within Hull’s Board of Health while raising money for Pearson Park. Braddon’s connections with Hull and the East Riding illustrate her creative talents, her fiery passion and a notoriety that continued for the rest of her life
Tilting at Windmills : BLDSC and the UK Higher Education Community
No full textPurpose - To provide an overview of, the relationship between the British Library and higher education libraries in the 1990s, with particular relation to document supply. It also goes on to explore current developments in scholarly communication. Design/methodology/approach - The author played a role in several of the events described and uses the available literature to enlarge on a personal view of that decade. Findings - The paper shows that the relationship was a strained one caused in part by a mismatch of resources, but is in any case dwarfed by the larger external forces and changing opportunities and technologies for scholarly communication. Originality/value - Provides a record of the period
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Managing the Expected: Studies on Health and Organizational Science amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textModern organizations, especially health care delivery organizations, invest a significant amount of time and resources to prepare for, respond to, and resile through crises of various kinds. And yet, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and deepened weaknesses in health care delivery organizations and public health more broadly. In this dissertation, across a quantitative and two qualitative studies, I investigate some of these weaknesses and theorize management strategies to promote health, well-being, and resilience. In Paper One (co-authored with Michaela J. Kerrissey, Nicholas Stark, James Hardy, and Christopher Peabody), using interviews conducted near the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, I trace variation in communication processes in two emergency departments to construct centralization and democratization of information by contextual experts as a guiding framework for organizational communication amid crises. In Paper Two (co-authored with Mariam K. Atkinson, Masha Kuznetsova, Elizabeth Bambury, and Paul Biddinger), I use in-depth qualitative data collected across 12 urban and rural US hospitals to investigate how organizations balance the use of formal and informal practices to respond to challenges arising during crises. In Paper Three (co-authored with Amy C. Edmondson), I use data from the National Health Interview Survey to produce national representative estimates of physically distanced work across occupations and analyze the implications of physical distancing on worker health and well-being. Together, these three studies improve our understanding of managing in health care and for health, especially amid increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity
TIME EVOLUTION OF SHORT-LIVED MOLECULAR SPECIES OBSERVED BY INTRACAVITY LASER ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY
No full textAuthor Institution: Laboratoire de Spectcometrie Physique Universite Scientifique et Medicale de Grenoble BP68 38042, Saint Martin d'Heres; Department of Chemistry, Davidson College, Davidson; Department of Chemistry, Syracuse University SyracuseWe report the feasibility of using CW intracavity laser absorption spectroscopy (ICLAS) as a probe in detecting transient species generated by pulsed laser photolysis. The method of detection uses a time-generated CW laser beam and time-resolved spectra which are delayed with respect to the photolysis pulse. Variable time delays and a constant generation time have been used to detect the time dependence of the absorbing species at times as short as a few microseconds. We applied the technique to the study of the time evolution of the formation of the free radical HCO generated by photolysis of gas-phase acetaldehyde at pressures down to tens of mtorr. We have also found that the ultimate sensitivity of the ICLAS technique is limited mainly by the mechanical stability of the cavity. M. Chenevier, M. A. Melieres, F. Stoeckel, to be published G. H. Atkinson, A. H. Laufer and M. J. Kurylo, J. Chem. Phys. 59 (1973) 350. G. H. Atkinson, T. M. Heimlich and M. W. Schuyler, J. Chem. Phys. 66 (1977 5005. A. J. Gill and G. H. Atkinson, Chem. Phys. Letters, 64 (1979) 426. R, J. Gill, W. D. Johnson and G. H. Atkinson, Chem. Phys. 58 (1981) 29
Role of ERK1/ERK2 and p70(S6K) pathway in insulin signalling of protein synthesis
No full textThe signalling pathways by which insulin triggers protein synthesis were studied using an antisense strategy to deplete ERK1/ERK2 and rapamycin to inhibit the p70(S6K) pathway. The results indicated that ERK1/ERK2 principally regulated the amount of the protein synthesis machinery available in the cell while the p70S6K pathway contributed to modulating its activation in response to insulin. ERK1/ERK2 also mediated in a small proportion of insulin-stimulated protein synthesis which included the induction of c-fos protein. When c-fos induction was blocked the majority of insulin-stimulated protein synthesis still occurred and thus did not require transcriptional regulation of c-fos or its targets
Constructions of learning in higher education: metaphor, epistemology, and complexity
No full textThis chapter sets out to explore the ways in which learning in Higher Education is discussed by a group of learners, as opposed to how it is discussed by theorists and policy makers2. This will be done through examining metaphors in the talk of a group of mature students who are about to embark upon a university access course. Questions will then be raised about the type of analysis which underpins this discussion, and an alternative analysis will be explored which will attempt to look at description and metaphor from a different epistemological perspective, that of complexity and non-linear/dynamic systems theory (Cilliers, 1998; Bosma & Kunnen, 2001)
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