5,637 research outputs found
To interact or not to interact, that is the question: an analysis of student engagement with on-line learning activities in WOLF
Report of a CELT project on enhancing learning and teaching through innovation and research.Engagement with Wolverhampton On-line Learning Framework (WOLF) by both staff and students is a key strategic priority of the University with the aim to develop the interactive learning environment so that by 2005 the majority of technology-based learning undertaken by learners will involve them in active participation in on-line activities in a media-rich environment. However, current practice within the School of Sports, Performing Arts and Leisure (SSPAL) has demonstrated that even though some students choose to engage with the interactive learning activities the majority decide not to, and are content with downloading module lectures and notes without reciprocating with the on-line activities that have been developed to assist their learning. The aim of this research project is to explore the views, opinions and experiences of students who do and do not engage with on-line learning activities using the University of Wolverhampton On-line Learning Framework (WOLF), and to use this knowledge to develop learning and teaching strategies that enhance student engagement with on-line learning activities
The phenomenon of possession and exorcism in north India and amongst the Punjabi diaspora in Wolverhampton.
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Master of PhilosophyBased upon two years fieldwork in Wolverhampton and Coventry, and several field trips to Punjab, this thesis focuses on the prevalence of possession and exorcism as a manifestation of Punjabi religion amongst the Punjabi diaspora in Wolverhampton. Euro-centric scholarship and reform movements in the 1900s, in India, suppressed religious traditions that did not conform to the textual and institutionalised forms of religion. This thesis proposes that the phenomenon of possession and exorcism observed amongst the Punjabi diaspora in Wolverhampton is in no way novel, rather it is a diasporic reconstruction of a vital tradition found within the religious traditions from the Punjab, and on a larger scale in the Indian sub-continent. Furthermore the Punjabi diaspora in Wolverhampton are in no way unique in the re-construction of this religious tradition in Britain. Various forms of supernatural malaise are prevalent amongst the Punjabi diaspora in Wolverhampton that are utilised by the community to explain the inexplicable diversities they face in daily life. These supernatural afflictions provide the Punjabi diaspora with a useful method of accepting adversity but also various methods to tackle it through the assistance of a baba or bhagat. This thesis explores the underlying cosmological discourses prevalent in the worldview of north Indian religious traditions in an attempt to analyse a relatively untouched phenomenon of religious beliefs and practices of the Punjabi diaspora in Wolverhampton
What does it mean to be well for a person with prostate cancer?
Lecture delivered as part of the University of Wolverhampton Lecture Series on 6th April 2022
A-Wakening
Installation: A-Wakening November 2017 Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton.
A-Wakening: a multi-sensory environmental installation created to respond to the active and immersive relationship between audience and artwork. A collaboration between artist and PhD student Joanne Mills and Dr Chris Foster of the University of Wolverhampton, a dark space is filled with haze, visuals and a ‘dream-like’ soundscape to be experienced and explored
Beyond Futures - Festival of Research & Innovation 2024
© 2024 The Authors. Published by the University of Wolverhampton. This is an open access book available under a Creative Commons licence.Book of abstracts and full paper proceedings for Beyond Futures - Festival of Research and Innovation, Research Student Conference, held on Tuesday 16 – Thursday 18 July 2024
Welcome to the workforce of the future video series: inspiring tomorrow’s talent today
An educational resource created by The University of Wolverhampton Business School and Pertemps
What are the factors which contribute to level one social work students failing to progress or achieving low grades?
This article was first published in the Wolverhampton Intellectual Repository and E-Theses (WIRE). There is no printed version.This study is a preliminary review of the possible reasons for low achievement among some level one social work undergraduates. These may be viewed as challenges to the individual, attempting to study in a particular social context, or as challenges to the institution in raising achievement and accommodating differing needs. Much of the literature is concerned with the experiences of students from particular social groups. In some studies, these concerns are integrated with the identification of individual strategies for success and/or institutional practices which foster or inhibit achievement
Haberdashery for use in dress 1550-1800
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the
requirements of the University of Wolverhampton
for the degree of Doctor of PhilosophyThis study investigates the supply, distribution and use of haberdashery wares in England in the late sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with especial reference to the paired counties of Cumbria and Lancashire, Warwickshire and Leicestershire, Hampshire and West Sussex. A brief comparison is also made with London. Through examination of documentary evidence and extant examples, it aims to set the provision and use of haberdashery for dress into the context of the Early Modern period, and challenges widely held assumptions concerning the availability of wares through the country. The purpose of the argument is firstly to demonstrate that haberdashery, being both a necessity and a luxury, was an important, and historically traceable, part of traded goods in the early modern period, and secondly, with particular reference to the response of retailers to changing needs and demands, to show that the widescale availability of haberdashery for use in dress made it significant in the expression of personal identity and appearance for individuals of all social strata, while its manufacture and distribution provided employment for considerable numbers of people
Book review: The law relating to international banking- Andrew Haynes 2nd Edn, Bloomsbury Professional 2018 (ISBN 978 1 78043 219 9)
© 2019 The Author. Published by Law Research Centre at the University of Wolverhampton. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://www.wlv.ac.uk/media/departments/faculty-of-social-sciences/documents/wolverhampton-law-journal/edition-2/9.-Matthew-Barnes.pd
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