932 research outputs found
A Personal Visit with Ashley Bryan
No full textDunkley describes her meeting with Ashley Bryan, children\u27s author, illustrator, and historian
Conversations with practitioners 1 : Dr Sunita Welch
No full textIn this first of our ‘conversations with practitioners’, we speak to Dr Sunita Welch, Senior Specialist in Evaluation at Natural England. Sunita has spent a long and varied career working in outdoor and environmental education, in a prior role managing education and interpretation at the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority for 14 years. Reflecting on her career and cultures of work in the outdoor education and activity profession, Sunita discusses the role of race, gender and class in accessing work in this sector. She then reflects on several themes from the preceding chapters which contribute to feelings of familiarity and unfamiliarity for young people, including the impacts of residential visits, masculinist cultures of endurance in outdoor instructing, comfort and discomfort in ‘nature’ and diversity in the outdoor and countryside management sector
Conversations with practitioners 3: Toby Clark
No full textIn this final conversation with a practitioner, we speak to Toby Clark, the John Muir Award Scotland Manager. Here, Toby discusses the ecological mindset underpinning the work of the John Muir Trust, and shares how his own early ecological experiences in ‘nature’ played a pivotal role in his career in conservation. He speaks about his past experience of working with unemployed young people in the outdoors, whilst addressing some of the misinterpretations outdoor educators and instructors can make working with groups that often do not have privileged access to the outdoors. Toby reflects on some of the chapters in the preceding themes, particularly on the importance of a ‘low dose’ of novelty for young people encountering certain places or activities for the first time. He problematises ideas of authenticity in outdoor experiences, and the importance of recognising what young people themselves see as authentic about places. Reflecting more on the work of the John Muir Trust, Toby considers the importance of the family in increasing young people’s access to ‘nature’ and the outdoors
Who creates the narrative? The case of RE/F/r:ACE, a participatory media artwork in city space
No full textThis paper discusses the roles of artist, author, participant and spectator within the context of participatory media art events, with reference to RE/F/r.ACE, a participatory video project developed by Andy Best-Dunkley, Merja Puustinen and Victor Khachtchanski. RE/F/r.ACE enables participants to easily contribute their own images as raw material to the ongoing flow of visual and audio narrative projected into the public city environment. Situating the project within an art historical context, the paper discusses the social and political coding of the architectonic urban environment, and the rules and norms relating to, and controlling, our everyday use of public space. When the notion of free “open to all” public space is under threat from ongoing commercialisation and gentrification of urban centres worldwide, RE/F/r.ACE is an example of one attempt to draw attention to this transformation in a creative, positive, and artistic manner.Peer reviewe
Spot a Bee
No full textThere has been a marked decline in bee numbers in rural landscape due to e.g. habitat loss, climate chance and pesticide use. Our suburban spaces such as parks and gardens are stocked with plants and flowers. Could these spaces provide oases for our bees?
Spot a Bee citizen science project invites you to help scientists understand which plants bees are reliant upon in towns, cities, and villages across the UK. If you spot a bee, take a photo of the plants they are buzzing around then share it via the app or website.
Spot a Bee was co-created by Dr Ria Dunkley, School of Education at the University of Glasgow in partnership with the School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University. Ria's research focuses upon the many ways in which individuals and communities are meeting climate change and ecological crisis in their everyday lives
Dangerous liaisons: A ‘Big Four’ framework that provides a ‘hint’ to understanding an adversary’s strategy for influence.
No full textBeliefs, attitudes and behaviour can be influenced in myriad ways. History has consistently demonstrated the struggle between protagonist and antagonist to win over ‘the people’, often through the simultaneous promotion and destruction of places, icons, myths, symbols and stories. Neil Verrall, Mark Dunkley and Toby Gane, three army reserve officers, and Richard Byrne, an independent geographer, describe four interconnected ways in which hostile state actors or non-state terrorist groups might attempt to influence their target audiences as part of strategy
sj-docx-1-jcn-10.1177_08830738221120741 - Supplemental material for A Scoping Review of Magnetic Resonance Modalities Used in Detection of Persistent Postconcussion Symptoms in Pediatric Populations
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-jcn-10.1177_08830738221120741 for A Scoping Review of Magnetic Resonance Modalities Used in Detection of Persistent Postconcussion Symptoms in Pediatric Populations by Elena Sheldrake, Brendan Lam, Hiba Al-Hakeem, Anne L. Wheeler, Benjamin I. Goldstein, Benjamin T. Dunkley, Stephanie Ameis, Nick Reed and Shannon E. Scratch in Journal of Child Neurology</p
Dynamics of sediment flux to a bathyal continental margin section through the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum
No full textThe response of the Earth system to greenhouse-gas-driven warming is of critical importance for the future trajectory of our planetary environment. Hyperthermal events – past climate transients with global-scale warming significantly above background climate variability – can provide insights into the nature and magnitude of these responses. The largest hyperthermal of the Cenozoic was the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM ∼ 56 Ma). Here we present new high-resolution bulk sediment stable isotope and major element data for the classic PETM section at Zumaia, Spain. With these data we provide a new detailed stratigraphic correlation to other key deep-ocean and terrestrial PETM reference sections. With this new correlation and age model we are able to demonstrate that detrital sediment accumulation rates within the Zumaia continental margin section increased more than 4-fold during the PETM, representing a radical change in regional hydrology that drove dramatic increases in terrestrial-to-marine sediment flux. Most remarkable is that detrital accumulation rates remain high throughout the body of the PETM, and even reach peak values during the recovery phase of the characteristic PETM carbon isotope excursion (CIE). Using a series of Earth system model inversions, driven by the new Zumaia carbon isotope record, we demonstrate that the silicate weathering feedback alone is insufficient to recover the PETM CIE, and that active organic carbon burial is required to match the observed dynamics of the CIE. Further, we demonstrate that the period of maximum organic carbon sequestration coincides with the peak in detrital accumulation rates observed at Zumaia. Based on these results, we hypothesise that orbital-scale variations in subtropical hydro-climates, and their subsequent impact on sediment dynamics, may contribute to the rapid climate and CIE recovery from peak-PETM conditions
HT–LP crustal syntectonic anatexis as a source of the Permian magmatism in the Eastern Southern Alps: evidence from xenoliths in the Euganean trachytes (NE Italy)
No full textOligocene trachytes from the Euganean Hills include various regionally metamorphosed gneissic and granulitic xenoliths. These xenoliths provide the unique opportunity to investigate South Alpine intermediate to deep crustal levels that are not at present exposed in the Eastern Alps. The estimated P–T conditions are in the range of 780–850°C and 0.45–0.55 GPa for a migmatitic gneiss xenolith. Sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP II) U–Pb analyses on zircon from this xenolith provide concordant ages around 259.7 ± 3.5 Ma, consistent with a proton-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) U–Th–Pb age on monazite of 262 ± 12 Ma. The Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic compositions, and major and trace element data show distinct origins for the different types of xenoliths. Mafic granulite xenoliths have an isotopic signature close to mantle-derived rocks and to Permian gabbroic rocks from the Western Southern Alps. Metapelite xenoliths have high Sr and low Nd initial ratios like those of acid crustal rocks ..
smj75/sillburp: Greenhouse gas flux generated by igneous sills
No full textCode and results used in Jones, S. M., Hoggett, M., Greene, S. E. & Dunkley Jones, T., Large Igneous Province thermogenic greenhouse gas flux could have initiated Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum climate change, Nature Communications, in press Sept 2019.</p
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