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This article presents a case study of BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic) student advocacy and its impact upon the curriculum of a large business school within a post-92 UK university. Learning from the University of Birmingham's (2017) ‘BME Ambassador Scheme’ and the ‘Curriculum Consultants’ model at Kingston University (2017), a programme of BAME Student Advocates was established in 2018 across this university, to raise issues of race equity with staff in positions of power. The scheme has grown from 10 BAME Student Advocates in 2018 to 14 in 2020, offering student advocacy on many aspects of university life, including employability services, the learning environment, academic skills workshops, student community and belonging, and the undergraduate curriculum. The role-holder is employed by the central Student Success Team, and partners with a senior member of staff in each academic school (and several other business functions) to collaborate on specific race equity objectives each year. One recurring aspect of the role involves offering diverse student perspectives on module content, delivery and assessment to achieve a more inclusive curriculum design for programmes with the largest awarding gaps. This article reflects upon the outcomes and lessons learned through conducting 24 such module reviews over a three-year period within a business school and proposes potential future developments.

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The Anscombe-Lewis Debate: New Archival Sources Considered

Journal of Inklings Studies ◽

10.3366/ink.2021.0094 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 35-57

Author(s):

Jim Stockton ◽

Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb

Keyword(s):

Women Students ◽

Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽

Early Years ◽

Intellectual Life ◽

Senior Member ◽

Oxford University ◽

Undergraduate Women ◽

Critical Literature

Meeting from 26 January 1942 through 26 May 1972, the Oxford University Socratic Club was a fixture of Oxford intellectual life for three decades. Founded by Miss Stella Aldwinckle, chaplain to undergraduate women students for the Oxford Pastorate, the club was an immediate success and quickly became a favoured venue for students and faculty alike, with C.S. Lewis serving as club president and senior member (advisor) from its inception to December 1954. One of the club's most famous papers was delivered 2 February 1948, when twenty-eight-year-old Somerville philosopher G.E.M. Anscombe presented a critique of a key argument in Lewis's recently published Miracles (1947). Most of the critical literature on the event has come from Lewis biographers. Less has been written about Anscombe's perspective, one reason being a lack of primary evidence. Following a framing discussion of the Socratic Club's early years, Lewis's persona and role in the club, and Anscombe's early biography, this article presents three unpublished pieces of primary evidence – a letter by Anscombe, a remark about Lewis by Ludwig Wittgenstein, and a full transcription of the meeting minutes – before briefly considering the light they shed on the exchange between Anscombe and Lewis.

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Relating Enterprise, Application, and Infrastructure Architects

Aligning Enterprise, System, and Software Architectures ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2199-2.ch001 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 1-22

Author(s):

Eoin Woods ◽

Nick Rozanski

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Academic Community ◽

Senior Member ◽

High Profile ◽

Enterprise Application ◽

Business Goals ◽

Job Title ◽

The Many ◽

It Departments ◽

Tools And Techniques

The architect takes a high-profile role in many IT departments today. In fact, it can be quite difficult in some organizations to find a senior member of IT technical staff whose job title does not include the word “architect.” However there is little consensus in the academic community or amongst practitioners as to the responsibilities of the many different types of architect we encounter – or indeed, what they should even be called. In this chapter, the authors propose a simple, widely applicable taxonomy of architects, namely enterprise architects, application architects, and infrastructure architects. The authors define distinguishing characteristics, their responsibilities, the stakeholders with whom they engage, and the tools and techniques they use. The chapter shows how this taxonomy can be applied to most, if not all, practicing architects in the information systems domain, and explains how it helps us understand how such architects work together to help deliver the organization’s business goals.

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High Jack

Soccer Diplomacy ◽

10.5810/kentucky/9780813179513.003.0010 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 178-197

Author(s):

Roy McCree

Keyword(s):

Trinidad And Tobago ◽

Vice President ◽

The State ◽

World Cup ◽

Senior Member ◽

Senior Vice President ◽

State Actors ◽

The Government ◽

Rules Of The Game ◽

Dark Form

This chapter examines the operations of FIFA in the CONCACAF zone. In this regard, it examines three main areas: (i) the use of public or celebrity type diplomacy, courtesy of David Beckham, as part of the English bid to host the 2018 World Cup; (ii) the blurred nature of the distinction between state and non-state actors in the context of Caribbean soccer, given the fact that a former senior vice president of FIFA was also a senior member of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago; and (iii) the implications of this overlap for the workings of the state and the governance of the game. In addition, it is argued that FIFA has practiced a dark form of soccer diplomacy in this area, be it in relation to state or non-state actors, which has been marked by adherence to its “own rules of the game” to the general detriment of the sport.

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Introduction

Mental Health Services and Community Care ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447350590.003.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-4

Author(s):

Ian Cummins

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Prime Minister ◽

Hostile Environment ◽

Home Office ◽

The Real ◽

Senior Member ◽

Mental Health Act ◽

Theresa May

When Theresa May became Prime Minister in July 2016, she made a speech on the steps of Downing Street in which she outlined a series of ‘burning injustices’ her administration would seek to tackle. Many were struck by the irony of this commitment to tackling inequality and disadvantages coming, as it did, from a senior member of the coalition and Conservative governments that since 2010 had introduced a series of policies which had targeted those living in poverty and the most vulnerable. The scandals of the revelation of the real impact of the ‘hostile environment’ created by May’s Home Office and the appalling treatment of the Windrush generation lay ahead. In May 2017, May announced that a review would be undertaken of the ‘flawed’ Mental Health Act (MHA). In making the announcement she stated:...

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Leadership, recognition awards, and publication by men and women in the American Academy of Neurology

Neurology ◽

10.1212/wnl.0000000000010810 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 95 (24) ◽

pp. e3313-e3320

Author(s):

Janis M. Miyasaki ◽

Emily Maplethorpe ◽

Yan Yuan ◽

Chris Keran ◽

Robert A. Gross

Keyword(s):

American Academy ◽

Men And Women ◽

Senior Member ◽

Study Committee ◽

Education Data ◽

Medical School Graduation ◽

Committee Membership ◽

School Graduation ◽

American Academy Of Neurology ◽

To Receive

ObjectiveTo study sex differences with respect to publications, leadership, and recognition awards in the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) in light of recent research highlighting inequities in these domains.MethodsWe examined medical school graduation, neurology residency (using American Medical Association and American Council for Graduate Medical Education data), membership in the AAN, first and last authorship in Neurology®, membership on AAN committees, and AAN recognition awards by sex for 1997, 2007, and 2017.ResultsFemale medical students were less likely to enter neurology residency in 1997 only. In 2007 and 2017, there was no proportionate difference between men and women as last author, a surrogate for senior member of the author panel. In 2017, women were proportionately more likely to be first authors than men, a surrogate for principal investigator of the study. Committee membership was less for women in 1997 and 2007 (p < 0.001) but was not proportionately different in 2017 (p = 0.534). Women were proportionately more likely to receive recognition awards in all years studied (1997 p = 0.008, 2007 p < 0.001, 2017 p < 0.001), although absolute numbers of women were lower.ConclusionsFemale membership, leadership (through committee membership), and publications as last author were lower in 1997 in the AAN. These same metrics demonstrated substantial proportionate changes, with no differences in last authorship in 2007 and 2017, greater likelihood for women to be first author in 2017, no differences in committee membership in 2017, and greater likelihood of receiving awards determined by merit in all 3 years.

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Banias and the British: the Role of Indigenous Credit in the Process of Imperial Expansion in Western India in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century

Modern Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s0026749x00009173 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 473-510 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Lakshmi Subramanian

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

State Building ◽

East India Company ◽

Western India ◽

Senior Member ◽

Imperial Expansion ◽

Trade And Exchange ◽

English East India Company ◽

Service Groups

The pressing preoccupation of the British administration in the early decades of the nineteenth century to clip the wings of the malicious Indian shroffs (Bankers) and their manoeuvres and secret dealings was in sharp and in a sense valid contrast to their earlierperceptions of the Indian shroffs and their Hundi empire. By 1807, Mr Rickards, senior member of the Bombay establishment, was urging the Governor-General in Council to establisha General Bank whose operations would extend throughout India, facilitate remittances andcredit transfers from one part of the country to another, and above all ‘free the mercantile body from losses and inconveniences suffered in the exchange and from the artifices of shroffs’. Their ‘undue and pernicious influence over the course of trade and exchange’ could no longer be treated with forbearance, and the urgency of remedy was stressed. It was both strange and ironical that such advice should stem from a quarter where in the crucial years of political change and transition in the second half of the eighteenth century, the cooperation and intervention of the indigenous banking fraternity and their credit support had proved vital to the success of the Imperial strategy. The experience was admittedly not unique to Bombay and the English East India Company (hence-forth E.E.I.C) and in a sense the guarantee of local credit and the support of service groups for a variety of reasons, was clearly envisagedas a basic ingredient to state building in the eighteenth century.

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Obituary notices

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character ◽

10.1098/rspa.1930.0024 ◽

1930 ◽

Vol 126 (803) ◽

Keyword(s):

Great Britain ◽

Royal Society ◽

Trinity College ◽

London Mathematical Society ◽

Mathematical Society ◽

Astronomical Society ◽

Senior Member ◽

Royal Astronomical Society

Dr. Glaisher died on December 7, 1928, at the age of eighty years. At the time of his death he was the senior of the actual Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, was the senior member of the London Mathematical Society, and was almost the senior in standing among the Fellows of the Royal Society and among the Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society. Throughout all his years he was devoted to astronomy, chiefly in its mathematical developments. In his prime he ranked as one of the recognised English pure mathematicians of his generation, pursuing mainly well-established subjects by methods that were uninfluenced by the current developments of analysis then effected in France and in Germany. Towards the end of his life he had attained high station as an authority on pottery, of which he had diligently amassed a famous collection. Glaisher was the elder son of James Glaisher, F. R. S., himself an astronomer, a mathematician specially occupied with the calculation of numerical tables, and a pioneer in meteorology, not without risk to his life. For the father, one of the founders of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, was an aeronaut of note; with Coxwell, in 1862, he made the famous balloon ascent which reached the greatest height (about seven miles) ever recorded by survivors.

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News Notes

Mathematics Teacher ◽

10.5951/mt.33.4.0185 ◽

1940 ◽

Vol 33 (4) ◽

pp. 185-187

Keyword(s):

Harvard University ◽

Emeritus Professor ◽

Senior Member

Professor Julian L. Coolidge, senior member of the Department of Mathematics at Harvard University, will retire on September 1, 1940, with the titles Professor of Mathematics Emeritus and Master of Lowell House Emeritus. Professor Coolidge has been a member of the Department of Mathematics for forty years and Master of Lowell House for ten.

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