Understanding the ‘bigger picture’: Lessons learned from participatory visual arts-based research with individuals seeking asylum in the United Kingdom

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelli Stavropoulou
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Meaningful Participation

This article presents reflections from a participatory visual arts-based research study with individuals seeking asylum in the north-east of England. This study invited participants to represent their lived experiences through biographical and visual methods. In doing so, they engaged in a process of ethno-mimesis, accomplished through the production of images that function as sites for meaning making, self-representation and social critique. This article demonstrates how an arts-based approach can stimulate change and transformation in individuals’ lives by supporting meaningful participation in the knowledge production process and providing a safe space where participants are empowered by sharing stories that challenge, subvert and reimagine what it feels like to be an asylum seeker. Furthermore it suggests that in contrast to interview settings, through the process of ethno-mimesis participants were offered the time and space to consciously engage with their experiences and invest in their creativity and storytelling capacities in order to render their worldviews visible. Although the findings from this study reinforce an existing rich body of ethnographic work on lived experiences of asylum seekers, this study recognizes that the identified themes highlight the enduring impact of immigration policies on individuals asylum-seeking trajectories and focuses instead on how such experiences are creatively negotiated by participants.

Women's Lives, Well-Being, and Community

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maggie O'Neill ◽  
Susan Mansaray ◽  
Janice Haaken
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Support Organization ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Participatory Arts ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge

This paper discusses a participatory arts-based research project undertaken with a refugee support organization in the United Kingdom, the Regional Refugee Forum North East (RRFNE), and a local women's group. The project used photography, storytelling, and walking methods to explore ways of seeing women's lived experiences, well-being, and sense of community in the context of their lives in the North East of England. Arts-based biographical methods, predominantly photo-walks, were undertaken within a participatory action research frame. Together the women cocreated a collective story that involved collaborative knowledge production as well as corporeal attunement and empathic witnessing through walking their stories of living in the North East of England.

scholarly journals Psychiatry in Ireland

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahid Latif
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Republic Of Ireland ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Republic

Ireland is the third largest island in Europe and the twentieth largest island in the world, with an area of 86 576 km2; it has a total population of slightly under 6 million. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and to the west of Great Britain. The Republic of Ireland covers five-sixths of the island; Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, is in the north-east. Twenty-six of the 32 counties are in the Republic of Ireland, which has a population of 4.2 million, and its capital is Dublin. The other six counties are in Northern Ireland, which has a population of 1.75 million, and its capital is Belfast. In 1973 both parts of Ireland joined the European Economic Community. This article looks at psychiatry in the Republic of Ireland.

scholarly journals Empowering podiatrists to perform pulse checks for opportunistic atrial fibrillation detection during annual diabetes foot checks

Open Heart ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. e000795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Hicks ◽  
Julia Newton ◽  
Rahul Nayar ◽  
Kate Mackay
Keyword(s):  
Atrial Fibrillation ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Case Finding ◽  
Opportunistic Screening ◽  
Potential Cost ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Patients With Diabetes

ObjectiveTo determine whether training podiatrists to provide opportunistic screening for atrial fibrillation (AF) during the local diabetes foot check was feasible and whether it detects previously unknown AF.MethodDuring the initiative, 45 podiatrists from across North Durham, Darlington and Durham Dales Easington and Sedgefield Clinical Commissioning Groups were trained to recognise heart irregularities when taking pulse readings of feet of patients with diabetes during their annual foot screening reviews.ResultsOver the course of the 3-month pilot, 5000 patients with diabetes had their feet pulse-tested. The project uncovered that for every 500 patients who had their feet checked, one new case of AF could be identified.ConclusionA report following the Podiatry and Atrial Fibrillation Case Finding scheme revealed that the National Health Service in the United Kingdom North East and North Cumbria area could benefit from potential cost savings in excess of £500 000. In 2013, the National Diabetes Information Service, Yorkshire and Humber Public Health Observatory estimated 231 777 people in the North East, North Cumbria, Hambleton and Richmondshire area with diabetes. Therefore 463 patients could be found with AF, preventing 23 strokes and saving £539 742 or in excess of £0.5 M.

scholarly journals Angels, warriors, and beacons: Totemic law, territorial coding, and monumental sculpture in post-industrial landscapes

Semiotica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (216) ◽  
pp. 225-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronnie Lippens
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Deprivation ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Monumental Sculpture ◽  
Massive Scale ◽  
Industrial Landscapes ◽  
Post Industrial

AbstractNational or local authorities regularly commission artists to build or construct sculptures and artworks destined for a place in a public space. Some of those sculptures and artworks are monumentally huge. Positioned in the open landscape, they are visible from a considerable distance. This contribution focuses on three such sculptures in the United Kingdom. The first, “Angel of the North,” was completed in 1998 and is standing at Gateshead in the North East of England. The second, “Anglo Saxon Warrior,” has not yet been built to a massive scale – although smaller, life-size versions were – but some debate has taken place in Stoke-on-Trent in North Staffordshire in the West Midlands about the possibility and remote likelihood of its construction. The third, “Golden,” is, however, at the time of writing, in the process of being assembled with an eye on erecting it, in 2014, at the very same location, Stoke-on-Trent. Proposals for all aforementioned artworks emerged against the backdrop of regional de-industrialization and were, at least partly, devised as an answer to economic and social deprivation in both regional localities. In this contribution an effort is made to tease out the symbolic intricacies embedded in all three artworks. Although all include references to what could be called the eternal origins of a mythical common law universe, each suggests, projects, and attempts to encode a moral and legal order in quite distinctly different ways.

scholarly journals Through Their Lens: Using Visual Methods to Illuminate the Lived Experiences of Diverse Older Adults

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 727-727
Author(s):  
Jarmin Yeh ◽  
Tam Perry
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Visual Methods

Abstract Visual methods, like photovoice and photo-elicitation, have attracted modest attention in gerontological inquiry with diverse and vulnerable community-dwelling older adults. Visual methods are based on the idea of inserting images, produced by informants or not, into research interviews, allowing informants to be the experts of knowledge and meaning-making while the researcher becomes the student. The empowerment of informants as subject-collaborators in the research process is a distinctive feature of visual methods. Benefits include revealing unique insights into diverse phenomena by evoking elements of human consciousness, feelings, and memories that words may not easily express and surveys may not easily capture. This symposium presents qualitative research using visual methods to illuminate the lived experiences, voices, and perspectives of diverse and vulnerable older adults living in New Jersey, Connecticut, and California. Reyes’ research critiques how the operationalization of mainstream notions of civic participation becomes exclusionary and provides a more inclusive understanding of how civic participation is enacted and performed through the practices of Latinx and African American older adults living in New Jersey. Versey’s research with homeless older adults subverts the attention often focused within cities by interrogating the meaning of place with informants whose needs and desires are often overlooked or obscured by residing in a small, rural town in central Connecticut. Yeh’s research on aging in place inequalities chronicles the everyday lives of housed and unhoused older San Franciscans to reveal their tactics for negotiating a moving tension between the daily interiority of identity and contingencies of a changing environment. Qualitative Research Interest Group Sponsored Symposium.

scholarly journals Perceptions of ‘Home Cooking’: A Qualitative Analysis from the United Kingdom and United States

Nutrients ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna D.H. Mills ◽  
Julia A. Wolfson ◽  
Wendy L. Wrieden ◽  
Heather Brown ◽  
Martin White ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Home Cooking ◽  
Specific Concept ◽  
The Uk ◽  
At Home

Cooking at home is likely to be associated with benefits to diet and health. However, the nuanced perceptions and practices linked to different types of cooking are not yet fully understood. This research aimed to explore the specific concept of ‘home cooking’, using qualitative research from the UK and US. Data from two previously completed studies exploring cooking at home were combined and a new secondary analysis was undertaken using the Framework Method. Data in the first study were drawn from participants in the North East of the UK who were interviewed. Data in the second study were drawn from participants in Baltimore, US, who took part in focus groups. Data from a total of 71 adults (18 UK and 53 US), with diverse sociodemographic characteristics and experiences of cooking, were analysed. In both countries, participants distinguished ‘home cooking’ as a distinct subtype of cooking at home. ‘Home cooking’ was defined in terms of preparing a meal from scratch, cooking with love and care, and nostalgia. Cooking at home had a range of dimensions, and perceptions of ‘home cooking’ tended to focus on social and emotional associations. In future, public health initiatives might, therefore, highlight the potential social and emotional benefits of ‘home cooking’, rather than emphasising implications for physical health.

scholarly journals Towards an ‘information technocracy’: discourses of London’s post-referendum real estate markets

2019 ◽  
pp. 103-114
Author(s):  
Nicola Livingstone
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
Property Development ◽  
Real Estate Markets ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Technologies Of Representation

This chapter is a study of the ways in which property development elites use particular techniques and technologies of representation to create development real estate markets in the United Kingdom. It compares the construction of post-Brexit vote narratives of investment landscapes and opportunities in London and the North-East. London's real estate market is considered the leading destination for global capital flows into commercial real estate in the United Kingdom, and therefore it becomes the centrepiece of an evolving socio-technical system. The chapter specifically looks at the media narratives disseminated by real estate market agents in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum in London. It does so in order to question the role of media exposure and private consultancy firms and reflects on the way specialist expert knowledge is publicly disseminated to directly shape public opinion and, indirectly, real estate decision-making.

Framing Complexity

2014 ◽  
pp. 327-338
Author(s):  
Douglas J. Loveless ◽  
Aaron Bodle
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Digital Animation

This chapter introduces digital animation as an arts-based research medium by laying a theoretical foundation for its use and describing how it can become a participatory methodology. The authors link research through digital animation to performance, ethnodrama, film, photography, and visual arts traditions leading to a rationale for using animation as a qualitative research tool. A vignette of an ongoing ethnography contextualizes animation as a process and as a product. In this chapter, the authors argue that digital animation (1) facilitates the use of metaphorical imagery to vividly and emotively capture lived experiences and (2) invites a unique audience into the research discourse.

Challenges of Deepwater Developments

2011 ◽  
Vol 367 ◽  
pp. 367-373
Author(s):  
Babs Mufutau Oyeneyin
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Gulf Of Guinea ◽  
The North ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Keynote Paper ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Technical Issues

This keynote paper attempts to catalogue the key business drivers for deepwater developments especially for the Mediterranean, Gulf of Guinea, Gulf of Mexico and other deepwater environments and the challenges arising thereof. The paper goes further to provide some in-depth analysis of the key technical issues such as subsea production systems integrity, multiphase flow assurance management, lessons learned from the shallow water as well as the deepwater areas like the North Sea before addressing some of the technology developments and competency required to take the new regions forward. . The paper ends with a presentation of what the new National Subsea Research Institute [NSRI] in the United Kingdom is doing and can do to support future deepwater developments.

Making Lemonade From Lemons: Lessons Learned in Reducing the Economic and Environmental Impact and Negotiating the Post-2005 Service Agreements on Behalf of the 23 NESWC Communities

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn Worster ◽  
Andrew Brydges
Keyword(s):  
Solid Waste ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Solid Wastes ◽  
Municipal Solid Wastes ◽  
The Past ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Regional Basis ◽  
Service Agreement ◽  
The Cost

The twenty-three communities that comprise the North East Solid Waste Committee have labored under what may well be the worst municipal solid waste service agreement in the country. In FY 2004, the disposal fee is $140 per ton. Over the past eighteen years, the communities have paid more for disposal, as much as two to three times what the neighboring communities have paid. The NESWC Board of Directors has, over the course of the past ten years, implemented a multifaceted program to reduce the environmental and economic burden associated with managing the municipal solid wastes generated in the 23 member communities. The program has included a series of innovative approaches to obtaining negotiating leverage and support from diverse stakeholders to reduce the cost and implementing innovative programs to help reduce the amount and toxicity of waste requiring disposal. What makes this particularly significant is that it was done on a regional basis, involved interaction with a broad, diverse group of stakeholders at the local, state and federal level and required the use of a wide array of change inducing tools, including arbitration and litigation, to achieve the results. Most recently, the communities and the vendor, Wheelabrator North Andover, completed negotiations regarding service post termination of the existing Service Agreement in September, 2005. This paper updates key lessons learned over the past decade.

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