Baron-Cohen, Prof. Simon, (born 15 Aug. 1958), Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, since 2001, and Director, Autism Research Centre, since 1997, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge, since 1995

2011 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Autism Research ◽  
University Of Cambridge

Reification and Modern Drama: an Analysis, a Critique, and a Manifesto

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-268
Author(s):  
Eva Urban
Keyword(s):  
Research Centre ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
Northern Irish ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Irish Studies ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Political Drama ◽  
Irish Drama ◽  
The University ◽  
Postdoctoral Fellowship

Drawing on a close reading of Theodor Adorno's essay, ‘Education after Auschwitz’, in this article Eva Urban develops the argument that an analysis of the reification that reduces human relationships to mere business interactions has been a central concern of modern drama. The article offers an analysis of some of the ways in which this theme continues to be represented, interrogated, and challenged internationally in contemporary political plays and theatre performances across a range of genres and grounded in a variety of dramaturgical principles. It asks how drama, theatre-making, theatre-spectating, and theatre-participating can create dynamics necessary to enable a move from reified consciousness towards the development of critical autonomy and solidarity. A negotiation of the principles of critical consciousness and solidarity is problematic within economic structures that cause social, ethnic, and religious atomization and divisions. Her argument concludes with an outline for a manifesto for political drama and theatre practice to work against reification. Eva Urban is a lecturer and researcher in the English Department and an Associate of the Irish Studies Research Centre, CEI/CRBC, at the University of Rennes 2, France. She recently completed a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge and is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. The author of Community Politics and the Peace Process in Contemporary Northern Irish Drama (Peter Lang, 2011), she has also published articles in New Theatre Quarterly, Etudes Irlandaises, Caleidoscopio, and edited book collections.

scholarly journals Digital exclusion predicts worse mental health among adolescents during COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Metherell ◽  
Sakshi Ghai ◽  
Ethan M. McCormick ◽  
Tamsin J. Ford ◽  
Amy Orben
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Adolescent Mental Health ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Digital Exclusion

AbstractBackgroundSocial isolation is strongly associated with poor mental health. The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing social restrictions disrupted young people’s social interactions and resulted in several periods during which school closures necessitated online learning. We hypothesise that digitally excluded young people would demonstrate greater deterioration in their mental health than their digitally connected peers during this time.MethodsWe analysed representative mental health data from a sample of UK 10–15-year-olds (N = 1387); Understanding Society collected the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in 2017-19 and thrice during the pandemic (July 2020, November 2020 and March 2021). We employed cross-sectional methods and longitudinal latent growth curve modelling to describe trajectories of adolescent mental health for participants with and without access to a computer or a good internet connection for schoolwork.OutcomesAdolescent mental health had a quadratic trajectory during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the highest mean Total Difficulties score around December 2020. The worsening and recovery of mental health during the pandemic was greatly pronounced among those without access to a computer, although we did not find evidence for a similar effect among those without a good internet connection.InterpretationDigital exclusion, as indicated by lack of access to a computer, is a tractable risk factor that likely compounds other adversities facing children and young people during periods of social isolation.FundingBritish Psychological Society; School of the Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge; NIHR Applied Research Centre; Medical Research Council; Economic and Social Research Council; and Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.

Percy Goom, 1865 - 1931

1932 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-64
Keyword(s):  
Trinity College ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
American Students ◽  
The University

Professor Percy Groom was bom in 1865, and was educated at Mason College, Birmingham, and later at the University of Cambridge, where he was an Exhibitioner at Trinity College. He took Botany as his chief subject in the Tripos (part ii) and subsequently was elected to a Frank Smart Studentship at Caius College. He spent some time in Germany, attaching himself to the University of Bonn at the time when the School of Botany there was under the direction of the eminent Professor Strasburger, who was attracting many English and American students to wrork under him. Here he enjoyed the friendship of the keen band of assistants whom Strasburger had gathered round him, and notably that of A. F. W. Schimper who greatly influenced him in his outlook on botanical science.

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