237,235 research outputs found
Alzheimer’s Disease: The Challenge of the Second Century
No full textIn the first of our State of the Art Review series, David M. Holtzman, John C. Morris, and Alison M. Goate explore the rapid pace of Alzheimer’s disease research and the challenges to translating research breakthroughs into clinical treatments.</jats:p
RESEARCH OF ALISON M TURTLE
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/69986Biographical and autobiographical information on members of the Australian Psychological Society gathered by Alison M Turtle in order to compile a Biographical Register of Australian Psychologists for the Society.111385
Acquisition: [2008.0043] "RESEARCH OF ALISON M TURTLE
Veteran Law Students: Institutional Initiatives To Transform Their Law School Experiences
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William Pulteney Alison : activist philanthropist and pioneer of social medicine
No full textThe thesis looks in detail at three inter-related aspects of
Alison's life. It examines, firstly, his role in the development
of Edinburgh's rudimentary 'health' network, achieved through the
expansion of the existing medical charity structure and the
introduction of a more interventionist and coordinated approach to
the city's health problems. It traces, secondly, the development
of Alison's social thought - in 1820 he believed that medical and
practical relief for the poor could and should be supplied through
the voluntary charities and only when that proved unsatisfactory
through the poor law, whereas by 1840 he argued that public health
should be the responsibility of government and that the excessive
increase in poverty and disease in Scotland, which he believed had
occurred, was proof that the charitable and legal relief provided
was inadequate. Finally, Alison's influence on the passage of
Scottish poor law and public health legislation in the 1840s and
1850s is examined - the latter involving an assessment of how far
he was responsible for the legislative delay. The poor law debate,
1840-1845, which reveals the forces shaping the reform and the
prevailing attitudes to poverty, highlights the challenge which
Alison's opinions represented and the resulting turmoil in Scottish
social thinking, while his reasons for opposing health legislation,
which established London control are of great importance. They
reveal differences in the rationale behind, and way in which, the
concept of public health was developed in Scotland and England.
Unlike Chadwick and his supporters, Alison emphasised poverty
amelioration and sanitary reform. Part of the explanation for the
differing opinions lay in their respective miasmatic and
contagionist theories for fever generation, but it also reflects,
perhaps more significantly, the impact of European medical police
ideas on Scottish medical opinion - Alison's view of public health
closely resembled that of the French hygienists
Review of "Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England" by Alison V. Scott
No full textAlison V. Scott. Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015. 246 pp. $112.00. Review by Emilie M. Brinkman, Purdue University
Repositioning the graphic designer as researcher
No full textIn academic terms, the discipline of graphic design is relatively young. Consequently the position of the discipline within academic territory, and the role of the designer, continue to be debated. In part, these debates have been a product of attempts to define and defend the discipline’s borders from within, in order to establish a sense of the role of graphic design and the graphic designer as commensurate with other disciplines both within and beyond art and design. In recent years graphic designers have variously been defined as ‘authors’, ‘producers’ and ‘readers’, yet none of these definitions seem to have provided any kind of productive or lasting impact within the academy. This paper suggests that rather than continue to seek territorial definitions and positions from within, it could be more productive to look beyond the confines of the discipline. Gaining a broader, interdisciplinary perspective on, and understanding of, qualitative research methods from other disciplines may enable the graphic designer to more fully position his or her practice within the wider academy. Such a perspective could help facilitate the repositioning and redefinition of the graphic designer as ‘researcher’ - a move that would be productive in relation to the future development of postgraduate research within the discipline
Thomas, Alison M.
No full textretiredPhD (University of Reading, UK)
MA (University of Cambridge, UK)
BA (University of Cambridge, UK)
Memberships:
Canadian Sociological Association
British Sociological Association
British Psychological Society
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Douglas College Faculty member 2005 - 2020.
I began my academic career in the UK, then immigrated to Canada in 1996, teaching for eight years in the Sociology Department at the University of Victoria before joining Douglas College in 2005. I currently teach courses in Introductory Sociology, Gender, Family, and Research Methods. After spending many years conducting research on gender (including an analysis of how Mother’s Day and Father’s Day cards portray gendered roles in the home), I have more recently been engaged mainly in research on teaching and learning. I participated in two collaborative studies with Douglas College colleagues (the first exploring student engagement, and the second, student experiences in our summer ‘field schools’) and then in 2012 embarked on a solo research project investigating student learning in the introductory sociology course I teach. Specifically, my three-year study employed the concept of learning thresholds to examine how students’ exposure to the 'sociological imagination' can have a transformative effect on their worldview. This research revealed important variations in students’ initial ability to develop a sociological imagination and also in its long-term impact on them, and (in keeping with the ethos of SoTL) these findings have ultimately led me to revise my approach to teaching this concept
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