32 research outputs found
Memphis State University men\u27s golf team, 1972
No full textMemphis State University men\u27s golf team in 1972. Front (l-r): Billy Bowie, Lou Scinta, Quinn Houston, Billy Buchanan, David Hallford; Back: Coach Brogden, Tom Fussaro, Ken Walsh, Mike Nelson, Gary Bennett, Don Campbell.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-ua-ph-gallery2/1028/thumbnail.jp
Only Time Will Tell
No full textTime is told by clocks and narrators, yet not in equal measure. Narration can slow time down or speed it up, it can take big chunks of time to narrate a minute or narrate a whole day in a split second. Among narrative tenses, the past takes pride of place. But how is the future told in which things are about to happen? What time, what temporal consistency or fragmentation, what counterfactual fraying emerges if narratives employ future tenses? Is there something inherently erratic in narrating futures? Is the use of future tense able to make us pause and distance ourselves from what is being told, or does it dissolve into an ever more porous actuality? The ICI Library Event Only Time Will Tell will explore the eccentric aspects of the future tense in the context of the ICI’s current research focus Errans, in Time. It will consist of a staged reading delving into the manifold ways of literary futures and, in its second half, the opening of the exhibition Untimely Now, an art installation of former train station clocks by Franziska and Sophia Hoffmann.Programme Welcome: Corinna Haas Introduction to the Exhibition: Claudia Peppel Part 1 Staged Reading: Only Time will Tell ICI Fellows will read excerpts from Tom McCarthy, Lydia Davis, Maurice Blanchot, Christine Brooke-Rose, Thomas Mann, and others. Part 2 Opening of the Exhibition: Untimely Now The artists Franziska and Sophia Hoffmann will be present
26: School of Art Faculty (Exhibition Catalogue)
No full textThis exhibition featured the work of current professors in the University of Tennessee School of Art.
Exhibiting faculty were: Emily Ward Bivens, Michael Brakke, Sally B. Brogden, Jason S. Brown, Marcia Goldenstein, Baldwin Lee, Paul Lee, Whitney Edward Leland, Wade Lough, Sarah Lowe, Beauvais Lyons, Norman Magden, Frank Martin, Tom Riesing, Deborah Shmerler, Jered Sprecher, Carolyn Staples, Patricia Tinajero-Baker, David Wilson, and Sam Yates.
Also included in the catalogue are art history faculty members: Alexis L. Boylan, William J. Dewey, Timothy W. Hiles, Dorothy Metzger Habel, Amy Neff, and Suzanne E. Wright
On-demand webcast: expert panel discussion assessing Australia's progress in suicide prevention
No full textThis on-demand webcast (held on 10 September 2014) was hosted by news and current affairs journalist Mike Munro and is just over an hour of expert panellist discussion in relation to Australia’s response to the first ever World Health Organisation (WHO) World Suicide Report. Online viewers were also invited to submit questions throughout the discussion and questions were then posed to panellists followed the facilitated discussion of the paper.
Panellists include:
Indigenous leader, Dr Tom Calma AO
Professor Helen Christensen, Executive Director, Black Dog Institute and Chair of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Suicide Prevention
John Brogden, Chairman, Lifeline Australia
Dr Michael Dudley, Psychiatrist and Suicide Prevention Australia Board Director
Associate Professor Jane Burns, CEO Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre
Graeme Cowan, Motivational speaker and Lived Experience representative
Whether you work in the health sector, or are an interested member of the community, you are all welcome to watch the forum.
This panel discussion was convened by Suicide Prevention Australia on behalf of the National Coalition for Suicide Prevention.
Webcast running time: 82 mins
Joint submission to the Australian Government Treasury for the Measuring What Matters second consultation process, May 2023
No full textIn April 2023, the Australian Government invited a second round of feedback on the Treasury’s Measuring What Matters Statement; Australia’s first national framework on wellbeing. Recognising that traditional economic indicators provide important insights, but not a complete picture or holistic view of the community’s wellbeing, the Statement sought to define a suite of social and environmental indicators.
Treasury set out several key questions and invited organisations and individuals to conduct their own consultation guided by these questions. The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use recognised the need to 1) ensure mental health is considered as paramount in any conceptualisation of wellbeing, and 2) centre both academic evidence and the voices of young people. As such, two consultation sessions were held; firstly with Australia’s Mental Health Think Tank, which is chaired by The Matilda Centre’s Professor Maree Teesson; and secondly with the PREMISE Centre of Research Excellence in Prevention and Early Intervention in Mental Illness and Substance Use Youth Advisory Board and The Matilda Centre Youth Mental Health Advisory Team.
Chaired by Distinguished Professor Maree Teesson AC, Australia’s Mental Health Think Tank includes mental health experts from around Australia: Mr John Brogden AM, Professor Philip Batterham, Professor Alison Calear, Professor Tom Calma AO, Scientia Professor Helen Christensen AO, Professor Patricia Dudgeon AM, Professor Ian Hickie AM, Professor Frances Kay-Lambkin, Professor Patrick McGorry AO, Professor John McGrath, Professor Marc Stears, and Professor Harvey Whiteford.
Eight diverse young people aged 16-25 were involved in the second submission and were reimbursed for their participation.
The findings from these consultations and resulting submissions are contained in this document.
In July 2023, Treasury released the final Measuring What Matters Framework. Australia’s Mental Health Think Tank, The Matilda Centre and PREMISE look forward to hearing more about the implementation of this framework and tracking of the 50 chosen indicators
An investigation into the culture(s) of the Metropolitan Police force between the 1930s and the 1960s
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University, 28/11/2001.The majority of published work in the area of police occupational culture follows the methodological template of Skolnick (1994) which utilises both participant observation and the interview. The way in which this approach has been used has proved problematic for a number of reasons. First, it has promoted a view that police occupational culture is static and unchanging. Second, it has failed to acknowledge that officers have a choice whether or not to engage in certain behaviours. Third, it has promoted a view that police officers display essentially negative behaviours. The aim of the present research was to investigate, by means of techniques drawn from oral history, the culture or cultures of police officers within the Metropolitan Police Force in London between the 1930s and the 1960s. Firstly, there was a desire to find out to what extent accepted correlates of police occupational culture applied to police work in the period prior to the 1960s when it was first investigated. Secondly, if there did appear to be differences between the findings of the present research and those of authors charting post-1960s police culture, ideas would be forwarded in an attempt to explain such variations. Examples of factors which could account for such variations might include changes in the relationship between the police and the public, changes in police practice or changes in legislation. Through 26 interviews with retired officers, it was found that the intensity of Skolnick's key factors for the emergence of police occupational culture (danger, authority and the need to appear efficient) appeared to be greatly influenced by wider societal factors manifested in the state of police/public relations. Similarly, the present research found great variations within the officers' apparent adherence to key parts of the police 'working personality' as proposed by Skolnick. In short, the great variation in police behaviours exhibited in the present research could be attributed to the fact that wider social factors served to affect the intensity of Skolnick's three key factors
Encouraging desistance through resettlement: an exploration of voluntary sector practice
No full textThis study is an exploration of voluntary-sector resettlement practice and the encouragement of the desistance process through resettlement work. The author discusses how desistance theory ties in
with resettlement practice. This exploration is important because of the current political context of
resettlement and the Government’s pledge to revive the rehabilitative ideal. Through this revival, the
Government has focused their efforts towards resettlement support, both in custody and on release, with a view to supporting offenders to lead lives free from crime. The voluntary-sector has been given an important role within this agenda and they have been encouraged to become major
providers of resettlement services through Payment by Results contracts. Therefore, this research aims to address how effectively voluntary-sector organisations can support desistance through resettlement.
The author uses thematic analysis and a deductive ‘top-down’ process to analyse a series of in-depth interviews sourced from staff, volunteers and service-users of a voluntary-sector resettlement
project. The author analysed the data in accordance with the literature surrounding resettlement and desistance with particular emphasis on whether voluntary resettlement practice accords with desistance research and theory. The author then uses those findings in order to shed light on the implications of the implementation of desistance in resettlement practice.
The author concludes that voluntary-sector resettlement practice did not accord with desistance due to the incorrect utilisations of practices. Underpinning this was a lack of understanding, on an
organisational level, of desistance in resettlement work and it was found that this was either a
possible consequence of, or made worse by, the traditional model of resettlement which voluntary-sector organisations work within which, by their nature, militate against a desistance-based
approach to resettlement. The collective findings, therefore, led the author to question whether
desistance theory and research is useful for voluntary-sector organisations to implement due to the complex nature of desistance and the difficulty in retrofitting it into traditional ways of voluntary-sector workings. Thus, these implications and findings provide a foundation for, and indicators of, future research into how resettlement services can support desistance through resettlement
Doing qualitative research with people and organisations: How do researchers understand and negotiate their research relationships?
No full textUsing the child and family research arena as a base, and by generating and analysing empirical data according to the grounded theory methodology proposed by Glaser and Strauss (1967), this thesis adopts an empirical approach to the study of the research relationship. More specifically, it explores how researchers (n=13) understand the research process and, in particular, how they negotiate the process of doing research with people and organisations. Four key social actors are identified and discussed. These are: the researchers, the funding agencies, the gate-keepers, and the research groups. Whilst, the issues involved with the post-data collection stages of research are not presented here, the issues associated with the pre-data-collection phases and data-collection phases of research are articulated. Within the pre-data collection phases of research, the process of research generation and how the interests of researchers converge with funding agencies are examined and discussed. Similarly, the roles of gate-keeping groups, who straddle the pre-data collection and data collection phases of research, are also explored and the supporting mechanisms of these relationships highlighted. Finally, the thesis explores the nature of researchers’ relationships with research groups by distinguishing between categorical, collective, and formal, research groups. The mechanisms that support and challenge engagement with these groups are identified and the ethical devices that researchers use to negotiate and manage these relationships are also explored
Gothic television
No full textThis thesis examines forms of Gothic fiction on television, and defines the ways in which television produces Gothic drama which is medium-specific (e.g. formally distinct from versions of the genre in other media). This work employs a textual analysis to explore Gothic television, and combines this with archival research and an examination of the changing climate of television production in a range of national and historical contexts. The thesis is organised into four case studies, each dealing with different national industries during different periods: British anthology drama of the 1960s and 70s (e.g. Mystery and Imagination (ABC/Thames, 1966-70), Ghost Story for Christmas (BBC1, 1971-78)); Danish art television in the mid-nineties (Riget (Danmarks Radio/Zentropa, 1994); British adaptations of female Gothic literature, (e.g. Rebecca (BBC2, 1979), The Wyvern Mystery (BBC1/The Television Production Company, 2000); and big-budget, effects-laden series from North America in the 1990s (e.g. American Gothic (CBS/Renaissance, 1995-96), Millennium (20th Century Fox/10:13, 1996-1999). I argue that Gothic television plays on the genre's inherent fascination with the domestic/familial, to produce television drama with an overt consciousness of the contexts in which the programmes are being viewed, a consciousness which is locatable within the text itself; as such, the thesis defines the Gothic as a genre which is well suited to presentation on television.
Furthermore, an examination is offered of the 'model' viewer as presented within the television text, enabling an understanding of the ways in which conceptions of television viewership are inscribed into television drama at the moment of production. I also interrogate the notion that television is an 'uncanny' medium by locating the precise sources of uncanniness with Gothic television, and delineate the ways in which innovations in television production have been showcased through the representation of the supernatural and the uncanny with Gothic Television
Wrong time to change leaders in WA
No full textThe WA Liberals should stick with Colin Barnett, according to Greg Barns
IF THE Western Australian Liberal Party dumps Colin Barnett as its leader in 2004 then it will ensure that Geoff Gallop wins a second term as premier. Colin Barnett is head and shoulders above his colleagues intellectually and politically and represents the best chance for the WA Liberals to articulate a real alternative to the ALP. The Liberal Party around Australia - and Western Australia appears to be no exception - is obsessed with dumping its leaders when it is in opposition. In Victoria, Dennis Napthine was replaced by Robert Doyle six months before that state’s 2002 election, and Steve Bracks was returned to office with a thumping majority. Same thing happened in New South Wales, where John Brogden replaced Kerry Chickarovski, who in turn replaced Peter Collins. Labor’s Bob Carr thrashed both Chickarovski and Brogden in the 1998 and 2002 elections. It’s not as though Barnett is going to be replaced by a world beater. His ambitious deputy, Dan Sullivan, appears to have meddled in the pre-selection of Vasse MLA, Bernie Masters, prompting the latter to tell the media, on 19 December, that Sullivan ‘is prepared to totally disrupt party loyalty in order to concentrate support for himself so that after the next election, where he may well be encouraging a loss, he can walk into the leader’s position’. And then there’s Matt Birney - he’s been mentioned in dispatches as a possible leader. Mr Birney is a hard-core Kalgoorlie conservative. On 12 December 2001 he issued a media release in which he prophesied, ‘I know that parents across our state are today horrified at the thought of a Government that would wish to “promote or encourage” homosexuality to their children whilst they are at school’. Talk about homophobia! What those who want to replace Mr Barnett don’t understand is that it’s remarkable that the Liberals can even contemplate a return to the Treasury benches after only four years in opposition. State governments in Australia generally serve out at least two terms. In recent years the only exception has been the National Party’s Rob Borbidge in Queensland, who lost office to Labor’s Peter Beattie after the 1998 election. And Labor governments around Australia are now running to a pretty successful formula. They are no longer interested in being genuinely reformist. They have worked out that if they deliver extra funding to health and education that will keep the Labor welfare constituency happy. Labor now wants to be seen as tough on law and order as the Liberals. After all it was Gallop who decided in August this year to place a curfew on kids in central Perth. The Gallop formula is one that is replicated by Mike Rann in South Australia and Bob Carr in New South Wales. But the one difference is this - Gallop appears to have been plagued by Labor’s past. He has banned former Premier Brian Burke and his sidekick Julian Grill from meeting with ministers. And Gallop’s efforts at electoral reform have merely resulted in 11 of his own party’s seats now being classed as marginal. For all these reasons, the Liberals have a real chance of winning the 2005 election. And that’s why they must not divide over leadership - division is death in politics, as all in the political game know. In Barnett the Liberals have a leader who understands the need for good policy, not simply sloganeering and negativity. As someone who has written and read thousands of pages of speeches by political leaders in Australia over the years, Colin Barnett’s address to the State Liberal Party conference in Perth in August last year was one of the more interesting. It provided an insight into a politician who thinks deeply, strategically and who is prepared to take risks for the sake of polices that are not simply compromises between interest groups. In that speech Barnett set out in detail his plans for rural and regional Western Australia. He acknowledged the failures of his own party as well as Labor in dealing with rural decline. ‘In spite of the good intent of successive governments, we have before us a massive failure of policy,’ he told the party faithful. Barnett then spelled out detailed policy prescriptions in areas such as devolution of government, social capital, and innovative use of port authorities, information technology, niche marketing and economic infrastructure - over 3000 words in total. This is the speech of a well educated, thinking political leader who is prepared to adapt and adopt policy prescriptions in a fast changing world. The Western Australian Liberals have a leader with genuine vision and edge - they would be mad to dump him. Hopefully, the party will resist the death wish temptation. Greg Barns is author of What’s Wrong with the Liberal Party? Cambridge University Press, 200
