scholarly journals Stitching Together: Participatory textile making as an emerging methodological approach to research

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Shercliff ◽  
Amy Twigger Holroyd
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
First Century ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Learning Skills ◽  
History Of ◽  
Set Up

Arising from a recently formed research network, Stitching Together, this article introduces a collection of case studies that critically examine participatory textile making as an emerging methodological approach to research. The twenty-first-century resurgence of interest in textile processes such as knitting, sewing and weaving, whether as individual practice or community-based initiative, builds on a long and culturally diverse history of collaborative textile-making activity. This resurgence, combined with the familiarity, accessibility and flexibility of textile practices, has influenced a recent growth in the use of such activities as a means of inquiry within diverse research contexts. The article considers the ways in which collective textile-making projects privilege social encounter as a format for learning skills, creating friendships and consolidating shared interests. It goes on to discuss how researchers are drawing on these characteristics when devising new projects, highlighting the quality of experience afforded by textile making, the diverse forms of data generated and the variety of ways in which these participatory activities can be set up. Recognizing that this research approach is far from straightforward, three key methodological themes are then considered: the multifaceted nature of the researcher’s role and the complexities of relationships with participants and other stakeholders; the difficulties that can arise when using such familiar textile processes; and the opportunities, and complexities, of co-producing knowledge with participants through collaborative textile activity.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 121-138
Author(s):  
Keisha Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Black Children ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Democratic Polity ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Politics Of Resistance ◽  
Educational Advocacy ◽  
Barber Shops

Participants in the discourse on AMBS are best situated to assess their own and others’ experiential claims within a specific place and as part of a particular process of educational advocacy. The former is comprised of barber shops, laundromats, libraries, and other accessible, decentralized, community-based arenas that have a history of incubating anti-racist and other politics of resistance. The latter emphasizes the importance of public schools while challenging the quality of such schools available to black children. Such advocacy is ultimately successful when it abides by the two-fold norm that good public schools foster black self-determination in the face of intersecting oppression and also prepare black children of all genders to continually evaluate what life in a democratic polity looks like.

Nurturing cognitive competence in preschoolers: A longitudinal study of intergenerational continuity and risk

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Saltaris ◽  
Lisa A. Serbin ◽  
Dale M. Stack ◽  
Jennifer A. Karp ◽  
Alex E. Schwartzman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Social Withdrawal ◽  
Cognitive Stimulation ◽  
Intergenerational Transfer ◽  
Cognitive Competence ◽  
Community Based ◽  
History Of ◽  
Prospective Longitudinal

The current investigation was designed to examine the provision of cognitive stimulation to preschool-aged children from high-risk families. Participants were drawn from the Concordia Longitudinal Risk Project, a prospective, longitudinal investigation of individuals recruited in 1976–77 from lower SES neighbourhoods who were rated by childhood peers on standardised scales of aggression and social withdrawal. Based on a subsample of women followed from childhood to motherhood ( N = 51), we found that childhood behaviour patterns, particularly a history of aggression, negatively predicted cognitive stimulation to preschool-aged offspring, in the context of(1) scaffolding during a structured teaching task, and (2) the quality of the home environment provided for children. In the second part of the study, concurrent analyses focusing on children’s cognitive competence ( N = 80) revealed that parental stimulation predicts the intellectual functioning of preschool-aged offspring within a community-based, high-risk sample. Taken together, the current findings provide evidence for the existence of a pathway of intergenerational transfer of risk operating through cognitive stimulation.

scholarly journals 14C Analysis and Sample Preparation at the New Bern Laboratory for the Analysis of Radiocarbon with AMS (LARA)

Radiocarbon ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (02) ◽  
pp. 561-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sönke Szidat ◽  
Gary A Salazar ◽  
Edith Vogel ◽  
Michael Battaglia ◽  
Lukas Wacker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sample Preparation ◽  
Ion Source ◽  
Carbon Dating ◽  
Climate Research ◽  
Accelerator Mass Spectrometer ◽  
History Of ◽  
Set Up ◽  
University Of Bern ◽  
The University

The University of Bern has set up the new Laboratory for the Analysis of Radiocarbon with AMS (LARA) equipped with an accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) MICADAS (MIni CArbon Dating System) to continue its long history of14C analysis based on conventional counting. The new laboratory is designated to provide routine14C dating for archaeology, climate research, and other disciplines at the University of Bern and to develop new analytical systems coupled to the gas ion source for14C analysis of specific compounds or compound classes with specific physical properties. Measurements of reference standards and wood samples dated by dendrochronology demonstrate the quality of the14C analyses performed at the new laboratory.

Great projects and crude realities

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Ángel Giménez Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Universal Schooling

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the circumstances that have conditioned the development of education in Spain from the enlightenment to the present day. Design/methodology/approach – Multidisciplinary scientific approach that combines the interpretation of the legal texts with the revision of the doctrinal and theoretical contributions made on the issue. Findings – From the beginning of the nineteenth century, the history of education in Spain has been marked by constant fluctuations between the reactionary instincts, principally maintained by the Catholic Church and the conservative social classes, and the progressive experiments, driven by the enlightened and the liberals first, and the republicans and the socialists later. As a consequence of that, the fight for finishing with illiteracy and guaranteeing universal schooling underwent permanent advances and retreats, preventing from an effective modernization of the Spanish educative system. On the one hand, renewal projects promoted by teachers and pedagogues were inevitably criticized by the ecclesiastical hierarchy, obsessed with the idea of preserving the influence of religion on the schools. On the other hand, successive governments were weak in implementing an educational policy which could place Spain at the level of the other European and occidental nations. Originality/value – At the dawn of the twenty-first century, although the country has overcome a good part of its centuries-old backwardness, increasing economic difficulties and old ideological splits keep hampering the quality of teaching, gripped by neoliberal policies which undermine the right to education for all. The reading of this paper offers various historical clues to understand this process.

The implementation of palm oil plantation business licensing

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 770-776
Author(s):  
Zaili Rusli
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Object A ◽  
Subject And Object ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Show

Purpose This study aims to describe and dig deeper into the subject and object, a person, institution or community, based on observations and interviews conducted, and to provide an analysis of what was found in the field and connect it with the concept of relevant theory. Design/methodology/approach An explanatory research method was conducted using qualitative research approaches to explain and explore in depth the subject and object, which are a person, an institution or a community. Findings Results of research show that the implementation of the palm oil plantation business licensing in Siak is not optimal. Factors that affect the implementation of palm oil plantation business licensing in Siak need to be addressed in a stepwise manner, to increase dissemination to the target and transform information that is clear and consistent. Develop SOP clear so that law enforcement can work and improve the quality and quality of the apparatus implementing policies. Originality/value A quality research approach has been used to assess the implementation of palm oil business licensing at the Forest and Land of Forestry and Plantation Office (Dishutbun) of Siak Regency, Riau, Indonesia.

Music Therapy in a General Hospital's Psychiatric Unit — A ‘Pilot’ Evaluation of An Eight Week Programme

1987 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Bunt ◽  
David Pike ◽  
Vanessa Wren
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Short Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Day Hospitals ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Simple Evaluation ◽  
Positive Results

Within Great Britain music therapy is developing a presence in the field of mental health. There is a history of work within the large institutions and there are present moves to develop more work in community based day hospitals and units. This paper charts the setting-up of a short period of eight sessions for a group attending a unit based within a general hospital. Positive results from a simple evaluation from both clients and staff point to the need for further studies to be set up when more detailed questions can be addressed.

Beyond Pluralism and Media Rights: Indigenous Communication for a Decolonizing Transformation of Latin America and Abya Yala

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-192
Author(s):  
Kathryn Lehman
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Latin American ◽  
First Century ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Indigenous Media ◽  
History Of ◽  
Recent Phase ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
History Of Place

In resisting genocidal projects of modernity since the Conquest and their most recent phase, neoliberalism, indigenous peoples have provided leadership in maintaining pluralist societies and protecting the rights of all living beings. This role is little known even to many on the left because of the history of the nation-state and current communications and research practices. Drawing on community-based autonomous alternatives to neoliberalism, indigenous media contribute to twenty-first-century Latin American participatory democracy and plurinational socialism by defending communication as a basic human right. They evoke a long history of place-based narratives whose values are encoded in language, and their epistemologies are strengthened by transnational indigenous communication networks and practices. Moving beyond pluralism and media rights, indigenous communication transforms media practices in order to decolonize relations among humans, other living beings, and the environment that sustains life. Al resistir los proyectos genocidas de la modernidad desde la Conquista y, su más reciente fase, el neoliberalismo, los pueblos indígenas han tomado una posición líder en el acto de mantener sociedades pluralistas y proteger los derechos de todos los seres vivos. Esto es poco sabido, incluso por muchos en la izquierda, debido a la historia del estado-nación y las prácticas actuales de comunicación e investigación. Basados en alternativas autónomas comunales al neoliberalismo, los medios indígenas contribuyen a la democracia participativa latinoamericana del siglo XXI y al socialismo plurinacional, a la vez que defienden la comunicación como un derecho humano básico. Evocan una larga historia de narrativas asentadas en lugares cuyos valores están codificados en el lenguaje, y sus epistemologías se ven reforzadas por las redes y prácticas transnacionales de comunicación indígena. Al ir más allá del pluralismo y los derechos de los medios, la comunicación indígena está transformando las prácticas mediáticas para descolonizar las relaciones entre los seres humanos, otros seres vivos y el medio ambiente que sustenta la vida.

scholarly journals P62 Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the SeaSHeL study

BJS Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikhil Joshi ◽  
Muhammad Ahmed ◽  
Rishi Mandavia ◽  
Nikhil Joshi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Secondary Outcome ◽  
Patient Recruitment ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
National Cohort ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Introduction The SeaSHeL Study is an ongoing national, multi-centre, cohort study investigating Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SSNHL). The study is supported by the INTEGRATE ENT Trainee Research Network and the Audiology NIHR Champions, as well as being adopted onto the NIHR Clinical Research Network. It aims to map the pathway of patients with SSNHL, develop a prognostic model to predict recovery of patients with idiopathic SSNHL and establish the impact on patients’ quality of life. Here we summarise the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the study and highlight methods employed to improve data collection. Methods Data collection commenced in October 2019 and as of August 2020, 227 patients have been recruited from 66 registered sites across England. This interim data was analysed. The primary outcome was the change in monthly patient recruitment and site registration. The secondary outcome was the completeness of the dataset. Results Initially, monthly site registration increased to a peak of 31 in December 2019 and monthly patient recruitment increased to a peak of 34 in February 2020. Both levels decreased during the first wave of Covid-19 with 11 patients recruited and 0 sites registered in April 2020. Both levels have been increasing since, with 21 patients recruited and 5 sites registered in August 2020. The dataset of 227 patients has 113 (49.7%) completed records. Conclusions This study represents the largest national cohort study into SSNHL. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, data collection continued during the first wave and rates are now recovering to pre-Covid-19 levels. Key factors in this recovery are a collaborative research approach involving motivated trainees, an ethics amendment for follow-up data to be collected by telephone and continued engagement of collaborators through regular email correspondence and fortnightly newsletters.

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