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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
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A guide to the Immigration Act 2016 / Alison Harvey, Zoe Harper.
No full textInterview with Alison Frank, September 25, 2009
No full textInterview Themes: How Frank chooses research topics (00:50)
Aspects of her training as a historian Frank found useful (07:00)
Books that have inspired and informed Frank's work (11:11)
On the role of area studies for scholarship on East-Central Europe (14:00)
"Internationalizing" the history of East-Central Europe (19:30)
Advice to young historians/scholars working on the region (22:11)Interview with Alison Frank, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. Interview conducted in Ithaca, NY on September 25, 2009. Professor Frank is the author of a number of articles and an excellent book on the oil industry in the Habsburg Monarchy entitled Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia. She is now working on a project on the coastline of Austria-Hungary.1_9lz5ekh
Veteran Law Students: Institutional Initiatives To Transform Their Law School Experiences
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Introduction: The Politics of Resilience and Recovery in Mental Health Care
No full textThe articles included in this special issue engage these themes across a number of national settings, institutional spaces, and empirical sites, from universities to mental health commissions, to national policy in an international context. They focus, especially, on Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom, where recent and significant changes in mental health governance have relied heavily on the notions of recovery and resilience, often to questionable effect. They deal, as we have said, with some of the most central themes in social justice studies. As a collection, the articles help us think through some of the pressing political questions about social justice that have arisen with the adoption of the mantras of resilience and recovery in mental health governance
Negotiating the Culture of Resistance: A Critical Assessment of Protest Politics
No full textBoth for those within the movement and the public at large, the anti-globalization movement has become increasingly defined by large-scale protests such as those opposing the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in Quebec City. Such events successfully render visible the strength of the movement, expose an emerging global elite, politicize neoliberal restructuring, and capture the media and public's attention. Yet the privileging of large-scale protest for advancing anti-globalist politics is increasingly being questioned both by those involved in the movement and by the Left in general.Peer reviewe
'Knowledge workers' as the new apprentices: the influence of organisational autonomy, goals and values on the nurturing of expertise
No full textThis paper explores the concept of apprenticeship in the context of the professional formation of knowledge workers. It draws on evidence from research conducted in two knowledge intensive organizations: a research-intensive, elite university; and a ‘cutting edge’ software engineering company. In the former, we investigated the learning environments of contract researchers, whilst in the latter we focused on the learning environments of software engineers. Both organisations have ‘global’ reach in that they operate within international marketplaces and see themselves as international players. The research in the university and the software engineering company was conducted as part of a larger project that investigated work and learning across diverse public and private occupational sectors (Felstead et al 2009). The research evidence about the workplace learning and career formation experiences of these knowledge workers is explored using aspects of the expansive – restrictive framework to compare the environments in terms of three themes: organisational goals and workforce development; expertise and trust; and, opportunities to expand learning. The paper argues that conceiving the professional formation of knowledge workers as apprenticeship provides an approach which can improve the way employers construct and support that formation
Hybrid Modelling and Simulation (M&S): Driving Innovation in the Theory and Practice of M&S
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from IEEE via the DOI in this recordHybrid Simulation (HS) is the application of two or more simulation techniques (e.g., ABS, DES, SD) in a
single M&S study. Distinct from HS, Hybrid Modelling (HM) is defined as the combined application of
simulation approaches (including HS) with methods and techniques from the broader OR/MS literature and
also across disciplines. In this paper, we expand on the unified conceptual representation and classification
of hybrid M&S, which includes both HS (Model Types A-C), hybrid OR/MS models (D, D.1) and crossdisciplinary hybrid models (Type E), and assess their innovation potential. We argue that model types
associated with HM (D, D.1, E), with its focus on OR/MS and cross-disciplinary research, are particularly
well-placed in driving innovation in the theory and practice of M&S. Application of these innovative HM
methodologies will lead to innovation in the application space as new approaches in stakeholder
engagement, conceptual modelling, system representation, V&V, experimentation, etc. are identified
Portrait of Alison Dolling, author and historian, Adelaide, 1978 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from accompanying information.; "Dolling, Alison. Writes under Mary Broughton, Hazel de Berg collection. From Adelaide Festival, South Australia"--Compactus card.; Condition: Scratched.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4764650; Conversation with Alison Dolling (Mary Broughton); located at; National Library of Australia Oral History collection ORAL TRC1/1067
3. Alsop (Joseph). From the silent Earth. A Report on the Greek Bronze Age. Introduction by Sir Maurice Bowra. Photographs by Alison Frantz. New York, Evanston, London, Harper and Row, 1964
No full textDeshayes Jean. 3. Alsop (Joseph). From the silent Earth. A Report on the Greek Bronze Age. Introduction by Sir Maurice Bowra. Photographs by Alison Frantz. New York, Evanston, London, Harper and Row, 1964. In: Revue des Études Grecques, tome 77, fascicule 364-365, Janvier-juin 1964. pp. 295-297
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