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Irish Architecture Career Tracker Survey (IACT), 2023
No full textThe Irish Architecture Career Tracker survey gathered over 680 completed questionnaires. The primary focus was to understand why people leave the profession of architecture, attitudes towards and perceptions of gender equality within the profession and the wider discipline, as well as sexism and discrimination. It includes items which look at the architecture as a profession and the occupations which come under its umbrella as a broader discipline i.e. it allows for individuals who are working in the broad field of architecture as well as registered architects. It includes items which examine work culture, such as long working hours, as well as standard measures of work-family conflict and work pressure, and subjective stress. It uses new measures of attitudes towards gender equity developed by the European Social Survey Round 11 ‘Gender in Contemporary Europe: Rethinking Equality and the Backlash’, developed by Banducci, et al 2020. These are the salience of gender equality policies, contemporary sexism (measure from Ambivalent Sexism Index (Glick and Fiske, 1996) ). It also includes items on experience of microaggressions, bullying, harassment and discrimination at work. It has items which ask about the intersection of gender and professional identity and the perceived impact of gender on career. The data does not include data from other collections, but the survey questionnaire used questions adapted from other surveys, in particular Eurobarometer gender equality surveys and the European Social Survey (ESS; O’Connell et al., 2010; Clark et al., 2012, 2013; European Commission and European Parliament, 2015, 2017; ESS, 2020; YesWePlan!, 2020). The survey ends with a set of questions on the importance of 34 factors in the decision to leave the professional practice of architecture
I AM AN ARCHITECT. Gender and Professional Identity in Irish Architecture
No full text[EN] The Irish Architecture Career Tracker Survey launched in March 2023 and received over 680 responses. Part of the Gender Equity in Irish Architecture research project, it asked female participants the extent to which they agreed with the statement ‘The term ‘woman in architecture’ is an important reflection of who I am professionally’. Preliminary results show that overall, only 40% agreed with the statement. When asked the follow up question ‘What term, if any, would you prefer?’ of those who disagreed with the statement, the most popular response was simply ‘architect’. Respondents were also asked ‘How important is being a woman/man to the way you think about your career?’. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the results for men and women are the inverse of one another. This paper presents some of the preliminary findings of this ongoing research project and reflects on the intersection of gender identity and professional identity in the context of the architectural profession and its history in Ireland. It considers the intersection of gender and professional identity, the ‘ontic load’ of gender, and asks how can we as researchers, academics, and advocates support women in architecture while simultaneously not alienating those who seek to reject the label? https://genderequityirisharchitecture.ie/ http://ocs.editorial.upv.es/index.php/ICAG/ICAG2023Macmanus, D. (2025). I AM AN ARCHITECT. Gender and Professional Identity in Irish Architecture. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 955-974. https://doi.org/10.4995/ICAG2023.2023.16717OCS95597
Frederick H. Evans's lantern-slide lectures as a "clock for Seeing"
Get PDFIn Frederick H. Evans’s Lantern-Slide Lectures as a “Clock for Seeing,” Dervla MacManus presents an indepth examination of the British photographer Frederick Henry Evans’s Lincoln Cathedral lantern-slide lecture, which he delivered three times—in 1896, 1899, and 1902. Although better known for his platinotype photography, Evans also created series of lantern slides that represent prolonged encounters with buildings played out in sequences of images. Recalling Roland Barthes’s description of the photograph as a “temporal hallucination,” MacManus identifies and explores the spatial and temporal hallucinations evoked by Evans’s Lincoln Cathedral lecture. She argues that the temporal character of the lecture was a complex constellation driven by the built fabric of the cathedral itself, moving back and forth between past and present, and in turn giving rise to a spatial ordering of time. This analysis highlights the significant role played by optical technologies in Evans’s creation of a spatially and temporally idealized version of the cathedral. Further, it shows how Evans’s encounter with the building, mediated by the camera lens, encouraged a shift in photographic modes—from a spatial mode intended to re-create architectural experience to a scopic mode that scrutinized the cathedral’s richly carved surfaces
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
‘Illustrated Picturesquely and Architecturally in Photography’: William J. Stillman and the Acropolis in Word and Image
Get PDFIn 1870, the American William J. Stillman ' diplomat, journalist, painter and photographer ' published an album of autotypes entitled The Acropolis of Athens: Illustrated Picturesquely and Architecturally in Photography. (A second version of the publication would follow in'. ) For a newcomer to the medium, Stillman's images were remarkable for their poise and clarity. But where the photographs were 'clear and lively', to borrow John Szarkowski's phrase, the brief text which accompanied each was, by comparison, laborious and lifeless. Facing each other across each double-spread, text and image seemed to speak in completely different registers, in a manner which presaged many subsequent uses of similar material, most famously Vers Une Architecture. This paper will explore the relationship between those two registers in terms of Stillman's intentions, in terms of contemporary ideas on the depiction of architecture and in terms of the modes of publication will followed. Stillman was deeply involved in contemporary discussions of artistic depiction and its relationship to the truth of experience. In his critique of Ruskin's essay on Turner's Slave Ship, Stillman contends that Ruskin, in pressing his claims for the painting's objective validity, 'left out of all consideration the subjective transformation of natural truth which is the basis of art.' For Stillman, the vivid rendering of the experience of the world depended, ultimately, on artistic subjectivity. Conceding the power of Ruskin's 'word picture' (as he terms it), he is nonetheless uneasy with its conflation of the stable, reliable viewpoint offered by words and the visceral, mutable view by images. Thus, although primarily known for his vivid writing, in The Acropolis of Athens, Stillman used the images to communicate experience, while the words stuck close to the facts
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
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