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Reflections on Supervision; problematising the 'gay' researcher's identity
No full textThis paper is about potential problems supervisors may encounter with Higher Research Degree students whose qualitative research implicates their sexual identity construction. Specifically, I reflect upon my own experience as a research student but also draw upon my experience as a supervisor. As such, the paper suggests that supervisors with students who identify as 'gay' are encouraged to assist them in problematising their 'identity politics' in consideration of its complicity with hetero-normativity
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
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
Unstable acts : a practitioner's case study of the poetics of postdramatic theatre and intermediality
No full textThis practice-led research enquiry examines the form and experience of postdramatic theatre and intermediality. Through three practice-led enquiry cycles, the performance, Unstable Acts, was created. The study was designed to introduce the practitioner to a new process of practice within a postmodern aesthetic and to investigate the theory and practice of intermedial performance. Accordingly, Unstable Acts generated moments of praxis concerning postdramatic theatre and intermediality. By analysing this praxis an increasingly complex understanding of de-representational performance, the liminal experience, percipience, reflection and intermediality in postdramatic theatre was developed.\ud
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In responding to Unstable Acts, the study proposes a working model for the poetics of postdramatic theatre which places intermediality as a formal recurrence of the postdramatic form. The model also proposes that the postdramaturgical strategy of de-representational performance is a central stylistic quality of postdramatic form, and that the liminal experience is central to the postdramatic theatre experience. Connecting de-representation and liminality through queer theory, the model contends that reflection is an important aspect of both the form and experience of postdramatic theatre.\ud
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In so doing, the study provides a clearer understanding for theorists and practitioners of the poetics of postdramatic theatre and the position of intermediality in postdramatic practice
The Empty City - Creative Development One
No full textProject Overview ¬\ud
Taking inspiration from the narrative of David Megarrity and Jonathon Oxlade’s picture book The Empty City, this project seeks to take the book and adapt it into a hybrid theatre work, which includes, live performance, animation, film, mask and original music. \ud
The creative team want to pursue this project because we believe that early childhood audience have an understanding and appreciation of sophisticated hybridity of theatrical forms through their play. As such, the project harnesses the innovative theatre work often made for adults and creates a work with the same formal sophistication and strength for children. The project is innovative in both form and process with a view to positioning the eventual work as a festival event, for national and international audiences. To achieve this goal we have positioned the creative development with a high profile venue partner, the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, who are at the forefront of innovative festival productions for early childhood audience with the Out Of the Box Festival.\ud
The process for the creative development is a particularly risky; because it seeks a genuine convergence of forms where no one form will be privileged over the other throughout the process, however all of them through their convergence can be considered as ‘theatre’. \ud
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Current Status - The work has received a New Works grant from the Australia Council Theatre Board for $25 500 for the first phase of creative development (see Funding Schedule attached for future options to bring the work to performance and potentially national/international tour)\ud
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Research Outline\ud
This project positions the work as three way collaboration, between creative practitioners, industry and the Higher Education sector framing the project as both creative practice and research. \ud
Maintaining the integrity of the creative development as research Queensland University of Technology has contributed in-kind support and funds for a Research Assistant to facilitate research methodologies, data collection and reporting on the intermedial creative process and the audience’s reception of the creative development. The methodologies implemented would best be practice-led research methodologies and qualitative audience reception methods.\ud
The Research Assistant will commence working with the creative team in a part-time capacity in late 2008. Researching both the methodology and gathering data on the planning phase before the intensive creative development in January 2009.It is envisaged that after the creative development the Research Assistant and the Director will analyse the data with the potential for a paper written on the outcomes of this practice-led research. Equally an audience reception study would serve particularly well for the acquittal, to generating more rigorous funding applications and importantly to direct the next phase of the creative development.\u
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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