57 research outputs found
Portrait of Martha Strudwick Young
No full textThis is a circa 1880 portrait of author and poet, Martha Strudwick Young
The ‘insider’ ethnographic diagnostic radiographer thinking like ‘an outsider’
No full textPurpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore how the ethnographic researcher navigates their insider-outsider status and provides a methodological contribution to this important aspect of ethnographic research; this will be framed from the researcher’s perspective using a semi-autoethnographic approach.
The ethnographic study being reflected upon explored the culture in a Diagnostic Imaging Department (DID), looking at how radiographers work and what the issues were within their working environment. The original study was carried out within one DID in a District General Hospital in the East of England (Strudwick, 2011).
Design/methodology/approach - In the original study the researcher used ethnography to study the culture in a DID. Observation was carried out for a four-month period. Field notes were recorded and used to formulate topics for the interviews that were to follow.
After the observation, the researcher conducted semi-structured interviews with key informants from the DID. Ten key informants were purposefully sampled from the DID to provide a cross section of opinion from the staff.
The data collected were analysed to identify key themes.
This paper reflects on the data from the original study to explore the tensions between the insider and outsider researcher role and how this contributes to the way the ethnographic researcher views the environment, reports on their findings and how they feel about the data from their own perspective.
Findings - Ethnographers carrying out research in their own area of practice need to try to think like an outsider in order to see the environment with a sense of strangeness but also try to make sense of what the participants are thinking and doing. There is a tension between becoming part of the group in order to understand it and looking at the environment as an outsider in order to make a note of what is happening. Findings from the original ethnographic study will be used to illustrate this point and will be used to reflect on the feelings of the researcher, considering her insider and outsider status.
Originality - The author, who is a diagnostic radiographer and radiography educator reflects on how she managed the insider-outsider tension during her ethnographic observation and after the event when reflecting on the data from the original study
Ethnographic research in healthcare – patients and service users as participants
No full textPurpose: This discussion paper provides an introduction and overview of Ethnography as a qualitative research methodology and outlines its usefulness in understanding the experiences of patients and service users during their healthcare journey. Ethnographic research provides an insight into the group being studied. In this paper that author suggests that ethnography can provide an insight into the behaviours, thoughts and feelings of a patient group.
Methods: Research methods used in ethnographic research have been outlined and discussed along with some of the possible methodological and ethical issues that might occur when carrying out an ethnographic study with a group of patients.
Results: This paper discusses some of the potential results of an ethnographic study with patients and how ethnographic research can be used to study the experiences of patients.
Conclusion: the author draws together some lessons that can be learnt and some possible applications of ethnographic research in healthcare settings with patients. Implications for rehabilitation are also proposed
A diagnostic radiographer's experiences of using ethnography and observation within radiography research
No full textObjectives
This article outlines the use of ethnography as a qualitative research methodology and one of the key data collection methods that is used in ethnographic studies, observation. This is explored in the context of the researcher's doctoral study.
Ethnography and observation will be discussed in relation to research within radiography and their application within qualitative research studies.
Key findings
The author uses examples from their own work to illustrate the strengths and challenges of undertaking an ethnographic study using observation within a diagnostic imaging department.
Conclusion
Ethnography and observation can be utilised to highlight the professional culture of a group of people and uncover some of the unknown behaviours that may be exhibited.
Implications for practice
Ethnography is a useful methodology within radiography research which can be utilised when behaviours and norms are of interest
Воплощение образа сестер-мойр в произведениях искусства
No full textВ статье рассматривается воплощение образа сестер-мойр - персонажей древнегреческой мифологии - в произведениях мирового искусства. Автором анализируются особенности трактовки данного образа в произведениях живописи и графики, скульптуры, декоративно-прикладного искусства, таких как "Ваза Франсуа", мраморная плита из Истрии, фламандский гобелен "Триумф смерти. Три богини судьбы", офорт Дж. Гилрея, картины М. Биджо, П.П. Рубенса, Дж. Струдвика, И. Веддера.In this article author examines the ancient Greek mythology image of Moirai (Fates) in different art pieces. The author analyzes the features of the interpretation of this image in the works of painting and drawing, sculpture, art crafts, such as "Francois Vase", the marble slab from Istria, the Flemish tapestry called "The Triumph of Death. The Fates", the J. Gillray's cartoon print and paintings by M. Bigio, P.P. Rubens, J. Strudwick, E. Vedder.148-15
Automatic creation of interlinear text for philological purposes
No full textInterlinear text presents a collection of interpretations of a manuscript. Whereas such a form is often compiled by a single author or a single team of scholars, we here consider automatic creation of interlinear text out of independently created linguistic resources. In terms of mathematical structures, we investigate the constraints one may want to impose on the rendering and pair-wise alignment of resources, and present a computer algorithm that solves those constraints, resulting in suitable interlinear text.Peer reviewe
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Frieze patterns and Farey complexes
No full textFrieze patterns have attracted significant attention recently, motivated by their relationship with cluster algebras. A longstanding open problem has been to provide a combinatorial model for frieze patterns over the ring of integers modulo N akin to Conway and Coxeter's celebrated model for positive integer frieze patterns. Here we solve this problem using the Farey complex of the ring of integers modulo N; in fact, using more general Farey complexes we provide combinatorial models for frieze patterns over any rings whatsoever.
Our strategy generalises that of the first author and of Morier-Genoud et al. for integers and that of Felikson et al. for Eisenstein integers. We also generalise results of Singerman and Strudwick on diameters of Farey graphs, we recover a theorem of Morier-Genoud on enumerating friezes over finite fields, and we classify those frieze patterns modulo N that lift to frieze patterns over the integers in terms of the topology of the corresponding Farey complexes
Leachate chemistry of two modern municipal waste landfills in Melbourne, Victoria
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 1999 Darryl Grant StrudwickThis study investigates the occurrence and chemical composition of leachate at Clayton South and Brooklyn Municipal waste landfills in Melbourne, Victoria. Both are ‘modern’ municipal waste landfills, being engineered and managed consistent with current regulatory requirements. These landfills accept only putrescible and solid inert waste, but not soluble chemical, hazardous, liquid or prescribed industrial waste. (For complete abstract open document)
Analyses of an extensive range of chemical parameters reveals a complex mixture of inorganic and organic compounds, similar to those of international authors researching leachate chemistry. Dominant ions in these leachates are NH4+, Na+, HC03- and Cl-. Except for Fe, heavy metals are not present in significant concentrations (mostly <O.1mgg/L).
Although extensive organic analyses were undertaken, less than 15% of the Total Organic Carbon has been quantified or identified. Volatile fatty acids, alcohols and phenolic compounds are the major organic components identified. Chlorinated hydrocarbons were measured in low concentrations (<0.01 to 0.11mg/L), particularly at Brooklyn Landfill where there is some evidence of degradation of these compounds. The concentrations of toluene (0.03 to 0.36mg/L) and the xylene isomers (0.13 to 0.66mg/L) are more representative of those found in mixed and hazardous waste landfills in other studies. Organochlorine and organophosphorous pesticides were not detected in any sample. Based on the results of this research, analytical parameters for sampling modern municipal waste landfills are recommended.
Leachate from both Clayton South and Brooklyn Landfills is characteristic of the methanogenesis phase of waste stabilisation, although methanogenesis at Brooklyn appears more localised than at Clayton South due to a higher overall moisture content within the waste at Clayton South.
Significant spatial and temporal heterogeneity of leachate quality is evident at Brooklyn Landfill. The major factors contributing to variation in leachate quality are the heterogeneity of the waste and the degree of stabilisation of organic waste in the vicinity of each sampling location. High concentrations of dichloromethane (0.14mg/L), toluene (1.3mg/L), styrene (0.06mg/L), phenol (l.0mg/L), p-cresol (13.0mg/L) and a-cresol (0.55mg/L) indicate a source of industrial waste in the vicinity of Bore 3 at Brooklyn Landfill.
This study also investigated the effects of the type of sampling location (bore into landfill vs leachate collection sump) and equipment (bailer vs bladder pump) on the composition of leachate samples. The data indicates that heterogeneity in the waste that surrounds each sampling point is the primary control on leachate composition regardless of whether collected from a sump or bore. A point in the leachate collection system (a sump if sealed between sampling events) is the recommended landfill leachate sampling location, due to its collection of leachate from a larger area of the landfill (hence being a more representative sample).
Collecting samples with a bailer instead of a bladder pump resulted in changed leachate chemistry due to volatilisation of ethyl benzene and xylenes, as well as increased sample turbidity, causing increased concentrations of K+, Fe, Zn, Cr, ethanoic acid and 1,8 cineole. However, as there were no significant effects caused by sampling equipment on nearly all of the recommended sampling parameters, and due to the difficulties of gaining leachate samples from the recommended type of sampling location (leachate sump) with the bladder pump, bailers (bottom loading) are the recommended sampling equipment.
Analytical results for leachates were found to be highly dependent on the selected methods of analysis and their relevance to the environment being sampled. Some traditional analytical methods for aqueous samples, such as TDS by gravimetry, SO42- by ICP-MS and nitrogen species by colourimetry were found to be inappropriate for modern municipal waste landfill leachates. Analytical methods for leachate from modern municipal waste landfills are recommended
Frieze patterns and Farey complexes
No full textFrieze patterns have attracted significant attention recently, motivated by
their relationship with cluster algebras. A longstanding open problem has been
to provide a combinatorial model for frieze patterns over the ring of integers
modulo akin to Conway and Coxeter's celebrated model for positive integer
frieze patterns. Here we solve this problem using the Farey complex of the ring
of integers modulo ; in fact, using more general Farey complexes we provide
combinatorial models for frieze patterns over any rings whatsoever.
Our strategy generalises that of the first author and of Morier-Genoud et al.
for integers and that of Felikson et al. for Eisenstein integers. We also
generalise results of Singerman and Strudwick on diameters of Farey graphs, we
recover a theorem of Morier-Genoud on enumerating friezes over finite fields,
and we classify those frieze patterns modulo that lift to frieze patterns
over the integers in terms of the topology of the corresponding Farey
complexes.Comment: 40 pages, 10 figure
Facing the Future: the Changing Shape of Academic Skills Support at Bournemouth University
No full textThis paper explores the potential impact of changes to higher education in England on student expectations, engagement, lifestyles and diversity, and outlines implications for the development of digital literacy within academic skills support at Bournemouth University (BU). We will investigate how tackling resource constraints with organisational change can also enable efficient, centralised provision of support materials that utilise networks to overcome the risk of fragmented support for digital literacy. We will also look at how changing delivery modes for support can accommodate changing student lifestyles whilst tackling a weakness of centralised support for digital literacy: that it can become detached from the student’s subject-focused academic practice. Finally we will explore how involving students in developing support can help us to face changes to student expectations and engagement whilst ensuring that materials are authentic and speak to learners in their own voice
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