468 research outputs found
Norman Biggs – Strictly not dancing
No full textNorman Biggs is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at LSE. He is the author of 13 books and over 100 papers on Mathematics, and has also published in the fields of Numismatics and Metrology. He has been Librarian and General Secretary of the London Mathematical Society, and Vice-President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. Follow him on Twitter: @norman_biggs
Norman Biggs – Calculus on Clay?
No full textNorman Biggs is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at LSE. He is the author of 13 books and over 100 papers on Mathematics, and has also published in the fields of Numismatics and Metrology. His latest book, “Quite Right: The Story of Mathematics, Measurement, and Money” was released in February 2016. Follow him on Twitter: @norman_biggs
Institutional Racism and the Dynamics of Privilege in Public Health
No full textInstitutional racism, a pattern of differential access to material resources and power determined by race, advantages one sector of the population while disadvantaging another. Such racism is not only about conspicuous acts of violence but can be carried in the hold of mono-cultural perspectives. Overt state violation of principles contributes to the backdrop against which much less overt yet insidious violations occur. New Zealand health policy is one such mono-cultural domain. It is dominated by western bio-medical discourses that preclude and under-value Māori, the indigenous peoples of this land, in the conceptualisation, structure, content, and processes of health policies, despite Te Tiriti o Waitangi guarantees to protect Māori interests.
Since the 1980s, the Department of Health has committed to honouring the Treaty of Waitangi as the founding document of Māori-settler relationships and governance arrangements. Subsequent Waitangi Tribunal reports, produced by an independent Commission of Inquiry have documented the often-illegal actions of successive governments advancing the interests of Pākehā at the expense of Māori. Institutional controls have not prevented inequities between Māori and non-Māori across a plethora of social and economic indicators.
Activist scholars work to expose and transform perceived inequities. My research interest lies in how Crown Ministers and officials within the public health sector practice institutional racism and privilege and how it can be transformed. Through dialogue with Māori working within the health sector, fuelled by critical analysis and strategic advice from a research whānau (family) of Māori health leaders and a Pākehā Tiriti worker, and embracing the traditions of feminist and critical race theory I provide evidence of racism that can invoke strong emotional reactions. More disturbing is its normalisation to nigh imperceptibility within ones personal and professional life. The exposure of racism as a socially created phenomenon is a strength of the research presented here.
My action orientation is my ethical response. Honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a pathway to transforming racism. Such change is likely to be resisted by the Pākehā majority. This anticipated resistance is not a credible reason to weaken responsibility for such necessary change. Transforming institutional racism needs to be driven by senior managers, professional bodies, unions, and by communities. Policies, practices and leadership that enable institutional racism need to be systematically eliminated from the health sector. Crown officials must be supported to strengthen their professional accountabilities and to embrace ethical bicultural practice. Greater transparency could enable more effective monitoring of Crown behaviour and support transformed practice
Electronic Supplementary Material;Photo of Chris Biggs holding a hydrophone from Reproductive resilience of an estuarine fish in the eye of a hurricane
No full textDetailed description of research methods, additional figures, and additional references.;Chris Biggs, the lead author and a graduate student in the Coastal Fisheries Research Program at UT Austin holding one of his hydrophones used to monitor spawning activity in spotted seatrou
HUMAN FERTILISATION AND EMBRYOLOGY: REPRODUCING REGULATION
No full textContributors -- Preface -- 1. The quest for a perfect child: how far should the law intervene? / Hazel Biggs -- 2. Conceptions of welfare / Eric Blyth -- 3. Rethinking the pre-conception welfare principle / Emily Jackson -- 4. Paying gamete donors does not wrong the future child / Heather Draper -- 5. Equality of access to NHS-funded IVF treatment in England and Wales / Laura Riley -- 6. Unforeseen uses of preimplantation genetic diagnosis ethical and legal issues / Jess Buxton -- 7. Parenting genetically unrelated children: a comparison of embryo donation and adoption / Fiona MacCallum -- 8. Unconsidered inconsistencies: parenthood and assisted conception / Kirsty Horsey -- 9. Beyond genetic and gestational dualities: surrogacy agreements, legal parenthood and choice in family formation / Robin Mackenzie -- 10. Beyond health and disability: rethinking the 'foetal abnormality' ground in abortion law / Nicolette Priaulx -- 11. The abortion debate today / Ellie Lee -- Inde
Norman Biggs – History of Mathematics: The LSE Course
No full textNorman Biggs is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at LSE. He is the author of 13 books and over 100 papers on Mathematics, and has also published in the fields of Numismatics and Metrology. His latest book, “Quite Right: The Story of Mathematics, Measurement, and Money” was released in February 2016. Follow him on Twitter: @norman_biggs
Necessary, Unnecessary and Sufficient Conditions
No full textIt is the claim of this paper that the judgement and classification of a work as research is a judgement that is made by the audience and is an issue of its reception, rather than being determined by the intention of the “author”. This is because a work must meet a few basic conditions in order to function as research, and these are centred on issues of communication and audience. While the researcher must purposefully position the work, its reception depends upon it meeting these conditions in the opinion of peers. In recent years there has been much debate about these conditions, and in previous papers I have developed arguments from the practical need to acknowledge the conditions set by research funding agencies on researchers. However, more recent papers have moved the argument from production issues concerning the instrumentality of language (Biggs 2002), through issues of the affect of context on interpretation (Biggs 2003), to the role of the audience in determining what constitutes a meaningful question that needs to be addressed, what would constitute a meaningful response to such questions and therefore the methods that would robustly connect one to the other (Biggs 2005). The present paper is a further contribution to the development of an ontology of research based on first principles and it identifies three necessary and sufficient conditions for a work to be research, and contrasts them with one often cited condition that appears to be unnecessary: authorial intention. The necessary and sufficient conditions are dissemination, originality and context. Other requirements such as the identification of an explicit question are regarded as consequences of these conditions
[Photograph 2012.201.B1083.0638]
No full textPhotograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Visiting with 6-month-old Heather Biggs at Children's Hospital, is Owen Rennert.
Possible reforms to rehabilitation practice in Ireland
No full textA recent period of residence in Ireland has given the author a contemporary over-sight of challenges for rehabilitation professionals in the Irish context. But in the author's view, significant change may not be far away..
SAP - Song Archive Project Publication
No full textPLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE FULL BOOK TEXT - PUBLISHER POLICY ONLY ALLOWS ACCESS TO AN EXTRACT OF THIS BOOK IN THE UWE BRISTOL RESEARCH REPOSITORYThe publication brings together specialists from a wide range of disciplines and academic institutions whereby selected video work from Buchheim’s Song Archive Project facilitate a process of dialogue and exchange between the contributors and the editors. SAP looks at the act of singing and the role of amateur song in contemporary culture drawing together contributions from the fields of art, musical psychology, behavioral psychology, neurology, philosophy and fictional writing.Contributors:Dr Jens Asendorpf is a psychologist, professor and head of department for Psychology at the Humboldt University, Berlin.Sean Ashton is a writer of fiction and and criticism and a contributing editor of MAP Magazine.Dr Liam Devlin is a writer and visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths University of London and the University of Wales, Newport.Dr Alinka Greasley is senior lecturer in Psychology of Music in the School of Music, University of Leeds.Dr Oliver Sacks is a physician, author, and professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.Dr Iain Biggs is reader in Visual Art Practice in the Department of Art & Design, UWE, Bristol, and is a director of PLaCE.Yvonne Buchheim is an artist and senior lecturer at the University of the West of England
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