scholarly journals Using CCTV to study visitors in The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (2/3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ela Beaumont
Keyword(s):  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Observational Research ◽  
Video Observation ◽  
Visitor Studies ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Observation Methods ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Uk

The routine use of CCTV surveillance in new art galleries in the UK presents an opportunity for researchers to harness its potential as a powerful observational tool in visitor studies, and recent developments in video technology have created new possibilities for observational research. Recent studies using video observation methods in the UK, France and the US have demonstrated how powerful film data can be, but have also shown the difficulties in operationalising studies that use these techniques. The analysis of video data is in its infancy in the field of art gallery visitor studies, and this paper contributes to the theoretical, ethical and practical debate by discussing a recent observational visitor study using in-house CCTV cameras in the New Art Gallery, Walsall. The study demonstrates significant advances on previous observational visitor studies that have gathered 'covert observational data'. It show how CCTV footage can be used to gather naturally occurring visitor activities in a highly structured way, without disrupting the gallery with extra cameras or microphones and yielding increasingly detailed, useful information. It opens up the prospect of a wider ideological debate about the use of CCTV in art galleries, and contributes to work in progress on a code of ethics for video observation in visitor studies.

Contemporary publishing by national museums and art galleries in the UK and its future

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Anne Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Art Gallery ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
Book Sales ◽  
Contextual Understanding ◽  
National Museums ◽  
Museum Staff ◽  
Academic Register ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Diverse Audience

Changes in the format, design and content of museum and art gallery exhibition catalogues can be traced to the visibility and popularity of these souvenirs for the block-buster exhibitions of the 1970s. The increased museum revenue from these book sales and the need, perceived by the publishers recruited to museum staff from a trade background, to address the interests of a more diverse audience are identified as the two main instigators of these changes. The resulting exhibition catalogues play down the scholarly apparatus, offer more images particularly to enhance the reader’s contextual understanding and, in some cases, ameliorate the academic register of the writing. The uses made of exhibition books by institutions, their associated sponsors and museum visitors is commented on.

Recent Developments and Future Changes to Internet Privacy Rules in the EU, the UK and the U.S.

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bender ◽  
Joseph Jones ◽  
Mark Young ◽  
Hendrike Wulfert-Markert
Keyword(s):  
Internet Privacy ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Eu

scholarly journals Comparison of Genotypic and Phenotypic Correlations: Cheverud’s Conjecture in Humans

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian M. Sodini ◽  
Kathryn E. Kemper ◽  
Naomi R. Wray ◽  
Maciej Trzaskowski
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Genetic Correlations ◽  
Accurate Estimation ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Phenotypic Correlations ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Genotypic And Phenotypic Correlations ◽  
Genetic And Phenotypic Correlations ◽  
Selected Traits ◽  
The Uk

AbstractAccurate estimation of genetic correlation requires large sample sizes and access to genetically informative data, which are not always available. Accordingly, phenotypic correlations are often assumed to reflect genotypic correlations in evolutionary biology. Cheverud’s conjecture asserts that the use of phenotypic correlations as proxies for genetic correlations is appropriate. Empirical evidence of the conjecture has been found across plant and animal species, with results suggesting that there is indeed a robust relationship between the two. Here, we investigate the conjecture in human populations, an analysis made possible by recent developments in availability of human genomic data and computing resources. A sample of 108,035 British European individuals from the UK Biobank was split equally into discovery and replication datasets. 17 traits were selected based on sample size, distribution and heritability. Genetic correlations were calculated using linkage disequilibrium score regression applied to the genome-wide association summary statistics of pairs of traits, and compared within and across datasets. Strong and significant correlations were found for the between-dataset comparison, suggesting that the genetic correlations from one independent sample were able to predict the phenotypic correlations from another independent sample within the same population. Designating the selected traits as morphological or non-morphological indicated little difference in correlation. The results of this study support the existence of a relationship between genetic and phenotypic correlations in humans. This finding is of specific interest in anthropological studies, which use measured phenotypic correlations to make inferences about the genetics of ancient human populations.

Beyond evidence-based policy and practice

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-36
Author(s):  
Mike Fisher
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This paper concerns the impact of social work research, particularly on practice and practitioners. It explores the politics of research and how this affects practice, the way that university-based research understands practice, and some recent developments in establishing practice research as an integral and permanent part of the research landscape. While focusing on implications for the UK, it draws on developments in research across Europe, North America and Australasia to explore how we can improve the relationship between research and practice.

Prolonged disorders of consciousness: a critical evaluation of the new UK guidelines

Brain ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Scolding ◽  
Adrian M. Owen ◽  
John Keown
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Disorders Of Consciousness ◽  
National Guidelines ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Nutrition And Hydration ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The Uk ◽  
American Academy Of Neurology ◽  
Neuroimaging Techniques

Abstract Earlier this year, the Royal College of Physicians in the UK published national guidelines on the management of patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness, updating their 2013 guidance ‘particularly in relation to recent developments in assessment and management and … changes in the law governing … the withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration’. The report’s primary focus is on patients who could live for many years with treatment and care. This update, by a neurologist, an imaging neuroscientist, and a lawyer-ethicist, questions the document’s rejection of any significant role for neuroimaging techniques including functional MRI and/or bedside EEG to detect covert consciousness in such patients. We find the reasons for this rejection unconvincing, given (i) the significant advances made in the use of this technology in recent years; and (ii) the wider scope for its use envisaged by the earlier (2018) guidelines issued by the American Academy of Neurology. We suggest that, since around one in five patients diagnosed with prolonged disorders of consciousness are in fact conscious enough to follow commands in a neuroimaging context (i.e. those who are ‘covertly conscious’ or those with ‘cognitive motor dissociation’), and given the clinical, ethical and legal importance of determining whether patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness are legally competent or at least able to express their views and feelings, the guidance from the Royal College of Physicians requires urgent review.

From Compliance to Concordance and Beyond

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Daz Greenop ◽  
Katherine Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Self Care ◽  
Patient Experiences ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Concordance Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Health Research ◽  
Healthcare It ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Descriptive Framework

This commentary begins with a brief overview of recent developments in healthcare policy and practice in the UK. Particular attention is paid to the demise of the concept (and practice) of compliance along with and rise of the concept (and practice) of concordance. Analysis suggests that despite considerable changes in the organisation and delivery of healthcare there remains a clear gap between rhetoric and reality. Drawing on insights from qualitative health research issues of identity, embodiment and self-care are explored and synthesised in a single descriptive framework. Neither compliance nor concordance alone adequately captures the reality of patient experiences in everyday life. The framework of understanding proposed here contextualises compliance and concordance and their corollaries within distinct horizons of expectation. For a truly user-driven healthcare it is not a question of either/or but both and more and asking, in reality, what can a body do?

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