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 Borders, risk and belonging: Challenges for arts-based research in understanding the lives of women asylum seekers and migrants ‘at the borders of humanity’

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maggie O’Neill ◽  
Umut Erel ◽  
Erene Kaptani ◽  
Tracey Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Participatory Arts ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Civil Death

This article critically discusses the experiences of women who are seeking asylum in the North East of England and women who are mothers with no recourse to public funds living in London to address the questions posed by the special issue. It argues both epistemologically and methodologically for the benefits of undertaking participatory arts-based, ethno-mimetic, performative methods with women and communities to better understand women’s lives, build local capacity in seeking policy change, as well as contribute to theorizing necropolitics through praxis. Drawing upon artistic outcomes of research funded by the Leverhulme Trust on borders, risk and belonging, and collaborative research funded by the ESRC/NCRM using participatory theatre and walking methods, the article addresses the questions posed by the special issue: how is statelessness experienced by women seeking asylum and mothers with no recourse to public funds? To what extent are their lived experiences marked by precarity, social and civil death? What does it mean to be a woman and a mother in these precarious times, ‘at the borders of humanity’? Where are the spaces for resistance and how might we as artists and researchers – across the arts, humanities and social sciences – contribute and activate?

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.

To dictate or collaborate? A phenomenological exploration of physiotherapists’ leadership styles

BMJ Leader ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. leader-2020-000403
Author(s):  
Victoria Smith ◽  
Claire Maxwell ◽  
Lisa Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Semistructured Interview ◽  
Team Leaders ◽  
Framework Analysis ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Health And Social Care

ObjectivesSelection of effective leadership styles within healthcare is linked to high quality, safe care for patients. Within the literature attention has been given to medical and nursing professions, failing to acknowledge the contribution made by physiotherapy leaders. This study aims to consider the leadership styles used by physiotherapists in a designated leadership role, specifically exploring the barriers they face and the strategies employed to overcome current leadership dilemmas.DesignA qualitative, phenomenological design was used. Consent was obtained from each participant for one semistructured interview which was audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Framework analysis was used to analyse the data.SettingA large National Health Service Foundation Trust within the North East of England.ParticipantsA purposive sample of ten physiotherapy team leaders.ResultsThe theoretical leadership framework that emerged demonstrated the daily tensions experienced by physiotherapy team leaders in regard to being a transactional or transformational leader. Within this, three superordinate themes exist: the individual, the team and the organisation and beyond. Each theme contained barriers and enablers which related to transactional and transformational leadership styles, respectively.ConclusionsThe framework identified gives insight into a group of clinical leaders not yet explored and provides a foundation for the development of leadership behaviours throughout physiotherapy. These clinicians should be supported by senior leaders to develop more transformational styles which have the potential to impact on staff well-being and patient care. Future research should compare these findings with studies involving larger sample sizes that span the health and social care system.

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 Macro level Determinants of Poverty: Investigation Through Poverty Mapping of Districts of Pakistan.

2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (4II) ◽  
pp. 895-911 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farah Said ◽  
Tareena Musaddiq ◽  
Mahreen Mahmud
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
District Level ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Asset Accumulation ◽  
Household Level ◽  
North East ◽  
The North

The study explores the spatial patterns of poverty in Pakistan through two dimensions: asset accumulation and basic needs. For this purpose Pakistan Standard of Living Measurement 08-09 is employed to construct an Asset Index and a Basic Needs index, at a district level, through the use of household level indicators. The study finds a clear north south divide, with particular concentration of better off districts in the north east of the country. Additionally, regression analysis is carried out to help identify the macro level factors contributing towards the observed pattern. Results reveal infrastructural and industrial development to be significant factors behind a district‘s well-being. This indicates that public policy directed towards developing deprived districts should be cantered on these factors, specifically expanding road networks, and incentives for industrial development in those districts. JEL classifications: I32, O53 Keywords: Measurement and Analysis of Poverty, District Level Analysis, Pakistan

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 Human–Equine Tourism and Nature-Based Solutions: Exploring Psychological Well-Being Through Transformational Experiences

2020 ◽  
pp. 109634802097855
Author(s):  
Paula Danby ◽  
Dasha Grajfoner
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Interventions ◽  
Psychological Benefits ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Natural Landscapes ◽  
Transformational Experiences ◽  
Equine Assisted ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article critically explores insights into human–equine touristic experiences and acknowledges how such interconnectivity underline nature-based solutions (NBS) to mutually enhance psychological well-being. Despite the growing interest in NBS limited accounts have explored human–animal relations within the realm of touristic encounters. Drawing upon multispecies ethnographic accounts, participant observations, diaries, and in-depth interviews were held with 21 participants, with topics themed around human–equine experiences, relational encounters, and well-being. The sample was taken from participants located in the North East of England who engaged in equestrian tourism. Findings revealed life-changing transformations as a result of multispecies encounters. Deep emotional elements were experienced through intersubjectivity where participants spoke of the psychological benefits of being immersed in natural landscapes with their equine companions. This article demonstrates human–equine experiences as a positive NBS and illustrates that for the two species to effectively interact in equine-assisted psychological interventions requires mutual trust, empathy, and effective communication.

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.

Sustainability Assessment Method of GRIHA for Sustainable Built Environment: A Review Based on a Design Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-164
Author(s):  
Shiva Ji ◽  
◽  
Ravi Mokashi Punekar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
World Energy ◽  
Design Perspective ◽  
Definition Of

Building industry is the largest world energy consumer at 40% of total world energy. Various agencies across the world have formulated Sustainability Assessment (SA) methods for its assessment. In India, TERI and Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Govt. of India, have established GRIHA as the assessment guideline for the built environment. SA methods recommend a pre-design check list and post completion assessment of the projects. The major parameters of evaluation aim to address environmental, social and economic impact on well- being of society. A comparison is drawn on the broader definition of sustainability which has been adopted world over and it is felt by local practitioners that the parameters need to be adapted to deal with local situations and conditions for effective results. This paper attempts to review the various assessment parameters considered under the GRIHA model in the design evaluation of the built environment considering local conditions in specific locations in the north east. The paper infers to devise a normalization factor to help achieve equalized balance in achieving sustainability.

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