scholarly journals “Following the SWP Uniform”: A Play with ‘Bleeding’ Humans

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Claire Forster
Keyword(s):  
Community Service ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
Sensory Ethnography ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Police Interactions ◽  
Phd Thesis ◽  
Live Action

“Following the SWP Uniform” is a PhD thesis in the form of a Live-Action Role-Play (LARP). It manifests a multimedia digital Sensory Ethnography with the South Wales Police (SWP) in an engaging, playful invitation to ‘Explorers’ to join the research process: In pursuit of the Researcher’s research trajectory of patrolling along with SWP in the streets and following SWP uniforms on social media, Explorers co-experience ethnographic ‘places’ that emerge. Conceptualising place as experiential, contingent and interactive expresses the thesis’ more-than-representational methodological embeddedness and aligns with how LARPs function through (rule-based) improvisation. The thesis also materialises an aesthetic, experimental appeal to being ‘effective’ by being ‘affective’: What Explorers know through their experience of “Following the SWP Uniform” is equivalent but uniquely embodied and unpredictable. The same is true for what the Researcher learns from SWP, and what SWP know. Orientation is provided by focusing the LARP on ‘making Swansea a safe place’. Thus, this play empirically highlights notions of safe-place-making through online and offline police interactions, in the urban, devolved setting of Swansea whose policy-agenda changes the police’s ‘professional responsibilities’ and lived realities. By highlighting the emotional labour involved in policing as a ‘friendly Welsh community service’, this play elucidates contesting interpretations and feelings of ‘safety’, ‘belonging’, ‘responsibility’ and ‘community’. Most importantly, “Following the SWP Uniform” shares the SWP’s take on what it means to be (and act as a) Human, and why such is a valuable resource that needs protection.

A kiskorú páciensek jogainak helyzete az erdélyi egészségügyi ellátásban

2018 ◽  
Vol 159 (11) ◽  
pp. 423-429
Author(s):  
Csanád Albert-Lőrincz
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Pediatric Patients ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Vulnerable Children ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Communication Difficulties ◽  
The Right ◽  
Phd Thesis

Abstract: This study summarizes the results of the author’s PhD thesis presenting the research process and the most important findings regarding the situation of Transylvanian healthcare. Our data are based on the knowledge and compliance of pediatric patients’ rights as they are seen by healthcare specialists, parents and children. A number of 751 persons were involved in the research: 200 healthcare specialists, 200 parents, 200 children aged from 7 to 17 years who have been experiencing health services at least three times over the past year and a control group of 151 children who did not have this kind of experience. Based on our data, it was possible to highlight the major problems encountered in children’s healthcare. We found that children are treated by obsolete principles of medical practice despite the fact that the rights of pediatric patients are well known to doctors. Neither the parents nor the children themselves are sufficiently aware of their rights. Healthcare professionals are not prepared to overcome communication difficulties due to the age-specific characteristics of children, so the fundamental rights of children are just partially enforced: children are usually heard, but not properly informed, their medical decisions are usually not taken into account violating the right to self-determination. The chances to access adequate health services are lower for vulnerable children living in poverty. Orv Hetil. 2018; 159(11): 423–429.

An Experimental Autoethnography of Mobile Freelancing

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-248
Author(s):  
Nadia Hakim Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Application ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Emerging Topics

Abstract This piece discusses an experimental ongoing research that began with my experience as an academic freelancer. It focuses on my experience of moving frequently within and between cities under specific work/ life conditions. An autoethnography provides insights not observable in quantitative research designs; and allows for access to embodied experience, along with reflections on emerging topics going beyond the purely personal, namely, mobility, advantage, and (work)place-making. This strategy allowed me to delineate the boundaries of the fieldsite across online and offline settings, including the digital technologies I share with other research participants. Personal maps of geolocalised trajectories overlapped with experiential accounts (photos, audionotes, interviews, and hand-drawn maps) are included. An interpretational thickness emerges from this association of materials. The research process has inspired the development of a smartphone mobile application for documenting such experiences of mobile freelancing, yet to be created with developers, who are, in turn, participants in this research.

scholarly journals TRANSPORTED TO BOTANY BAY: IMAGINING AUSTRALIA IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY CONVICT BROADSIDES

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-259
Author(s):  
Dorice Williams Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
New South ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
South Wales ◽  
British Colonies ◽  
Convicted Felons

The speaker of this ballad(circa 1828) laments the fact that, though he was born of “honest parents,” he became “a roving blade” and has been convicted of an unspecified crime for which he has been sentenced to “Botany Bay,” a popular name for Australia. Although he addresses his audience as “young men of learning,” the rest of the ballad implies that he, as is conventional in the broadside form, is a working-class apprentice gone astray. Like this fictional speaker, approximately 160,000 men and women convicted of crimes ranging from poaching hares to murder – but mostly theft – were transported to one of the new British colonies in Australia between the years 1787 and 1867. Minor crimes such as shoplifting, which today would merit some community service and a fine, yielded a sentence of seven years, while other felons were sentenced for fourteen years to life for more serious crimes. While non-fictional accounts of the young colony of New South Wales were published in Britain almost as soon as the First Fleet arrived there in 1788, these were written by people with at least a middle-class education, whereas the vast majority of the convicted felons who were transported came from the working classes. Since books and newspapers were expensive and the level of literacy among working-class people varied considerably, few of them would have had access to such accounts of the new colonies. Several descriptions, mostly borrowed from the writings of the officers who accompanied the First Fleet, were published in cheap chapbook form, while occasional letters from convicts to their families were printed and distributed, and of course there were unpublished letters plus word-of-mouth reports from convicts or soldiers who did return. But none of these were broadly disseminated among working-class people.

Searching for Rich Narratives of Tourism and Leisure Experience: How Oral History Could Provide an Answer

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 297-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Trapp-Fallon
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Ongoing Study ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Leisure Experience

This paper suggests that oral history offers a potentially insightful methodological approach to those engaged in tourism and leisure research. The paper begins by defining oral history, discussing its origins and outlining its development. It is suggested that the oral history technique offers opportunities for more researcher/researched interaction and participation since it is a ‘shared’ and reflexive process. It also provides greater transparency in the research process since it acknowledges the role of the interviewer. In order to illustrate the value and application of the oral history technique in tourism and leisure research, the paper then presents a brief indication of how it is being applied in an ongoing study of the leisure uses of canals in South Wales during the 20th century. The paper concludes by suggesting how oral history could be applied in future tourism and leisure research projects.

scholarly journals Implementation Of Health Protocol In Preventing The Spread Of The Covid 19 Virus

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-157
Author(s):  
Rahmadhani Fitri ◽  
Hendra Fahruddin Siregar ◽  
Adi Sastra Pengalaman Tarigan
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Rna Virus ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Children With Special Needs ◽  
Special Needs Children ◽  
Single Strain ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Approach Method

Covid-19 is a positive single strain RNA virus that infects the respiratory tract. This virus spreads quickly, the only way is to prevent it. As time progressed, the conditions of transmission became more widespread and took many victims, ranging from adults, teenagers to children. This virus can attack anyone, this virus can also attack children with special needs. Children with special needs are children with special characteristics that are different from children in general without always showing mental, emotional, or physical disabilities. One of them is mental retardation. The more widespread the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the application and knowledge of health protocols must also touch the mentally retarded. This obstacle will affect them to adjust to the implementation of health protocols every day and homework for SLB C Muzdalifah to provide a safe place for students. Prepare students and teaching units in the implementation of New Normal Education. And Educate students so that they apply health protocols at all times. The approach method used in this community service is socialization through posters of health protocols and placement of hand sanitizers. Information on preventing the spread of covid 19 through posters and placing hand sanitisers in the SLB C Muzdalifah area as a reminder and teaching regularity in implementing health protocols. This information is expected to become a habit in the New Normal.

Death cafe in the Welsh valleys–an appraisal

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 188-194
Author(s):  
Maria Parry ◽  
Mark Taubert ◽  
Sam Clements ◽  
Clare Churcher ◽  
Alex James ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Death And Dying ◽  
Simple Synthesis ◽  
The South ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Track Record ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Future Events ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
The Uk

Background: A death cafe is an event where people drink, eat and discuss death. Death cafes do not follow a set structure and the events are held for free. The mission of death cafes is ‘to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives’. Death cafes have a proven track record in providing a safe place for people to have conversations about dying, death and grief. Aim: This study aims to contribute to the literature by providing a simple synthesis of comments made on the day of a death cafe in Wales by the attendees, and to allow the identification of further research questions. Method: A death cafe event was organised in the South Wales valleys, to encourage discussions about death during Dying Matters Awareness week in the UK, 10 May to 16 May 2019. Result: The event was well attended, and attendees recorded their thoughts about the event. Conclusion: Emerging themes were categorised into the following themes: communication, digital legacy, stigma, humour and a request for future events. Feedback showed that the death cafe had encouraged a greater dialogue about death and dying and facilitated conversations.

scholarly journals Integrating community service learning into a master’s program

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjolein Zweekhorst ◽  
Dirk Essink
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Community Service Learning ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Content Type

Purpose In order to address the complex problems of society, the innovation research process should incorporate technical, social, economic and ethical factors, but also actively involve a diverse group of non-scientific actors. One way to prepare students for this type of research is to create “Citizen Scholars,” students who want to work for the betterment of society. Arvanitakis and Hornsby (2016) argue that we need to change how we teach and train students in specific proficiencies. The purpose of this paper is to assess how the pedagogical approach applied within the program contributes to building the proficiencies and attributes as described by Arvanitakis and Hornsby (2016). Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a total of 12 interviews with alumni who started their program in 2014, one focus group discussion with lecturers and 132 questionnaires with alumni to discuss to what extend the proficiencies are trained in the program and whether these are used in their current jobs. The authors also included data of an earlier study conducted in 2014. These data contain 26 interviews with students during the first year of the program. These students graduated in 2017 and are thus from the same cohort as the alumni. Findings The results show that the pedagogical approach in the management policy analysis program trains all the attributes. Important elements in the program are: the inquiry-based approach intertwined with community service learning (CSL) throughout the program; gradually increased complexity of the real-world problems addressed; students working in teams; and gradually reducing support of the lecturer. Research limitations/implications The authors conclude that our pedagogical approach applied in the program contributes to learning the proficiencies. The authors argue that for the training of inter- and transdisciplinary, the proficiency knowledge integration should be added. Practical implications The result show that more inquiry-based approaches and CSL programs can stimulate the four clusters of proficiencies, which should hold a central place in universities if we want to create citizen scholars. Social implications With the approach, students contribute to research issues of local communities. Originality/value Despite the increasing interest of higher education to involve civic activities in the curricula, few pedagogical approaches are described. The research shows that theoretical insights in the adaption of a model to realize a citizen scholar.

scholarly journals Pilot Study, Does It Really Matter? Learning Lessons from Conducting a Pilot Study for a Qualitative PhD Thesis

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nashwa Ismail ◽  
Gary Kinchin ◽  
Julie-Ann Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Professional Issues ◽  
Final Version ◽  
Final Study ◽  
Formal Framework ◽  
Phd Thesis

A Pilot Study (PS) is a small-scale research project conducted before the final full-scale study. A PS helps researchers to test in reality how likely the research process is to work, in order to help them decide how best to conduct the final research study. In piloting a study, a researcher can identify or refine a research question, discover what methods are best for pursuing it, and estimate how much time and what resources will be necessary to complete the larger final version of the study. There is, however, a paucity in literature that focuses on using, reading and representing PSs. This article discusses the importance of a PS to test and identify how methods and ideas would work in practice when undertaking a qualitative PhD thesis. The proposed PS in this paper addressed many challenges, and the researcher reflected on different perspectives of their work including ethical, cultural, social and professional issues. By the end of the PhD thesis, undertaken with the guidance of the PS, it was found that a well-conducted PS, giving a clear list of aims and objectives within a formal framework, can encourage methodological rigour and ensure the validity of both the study itself and the methodology applied. The objectives of this paper are thus threefold: first, to identify the issues within a specific qualitative PS prior to conducting the final study; second, to address the researcher’s reflections on these findings and finally, to share the experiences and knowledge that a PS can be expected to bring.

scholarly journals Perancangan Aplikasi Pengajuan Reward atas Publikasi Ilmiah dan Hki di Universitas Terbuka Berbasis Website

JURNAL PETIK ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Erman Arif ◽  
Dedy Juniadi ◽  
Yosi Mardoni
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Management Information Systems ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Manual Methods ◽  
To Receive

Abstract - Lecturers are now expected to become experts in the field of scientific studies from the research process then conveyed to students through teaching and besides being distributed to the community through community service, the outputs of research and service activities are Books, Articles, IPRs, applications and others. In accordance with the rules of the Open University Chancellor Number: 162 of 2019 concerning awards for publication works and Intellectual Property Rights within the Universitas Terbuka environment, the letter explains that each lecturer is entitled to receive an award for each publication that has been made, It's just that currently the awarding process is still using manual methods, lecturers fill out the forms provided by the faculty. Based on the slow process, the research team considers that Universitas Terbuka needs to develop a website based application in order to become an information system for lecturers to update the process of pro-posing awards for publication works and Intellectual Property Rights within the Universitas Terbuka. The study uses a two year assignment and multi year scheme. The outputs of this assignment research are articles, IPRs, and application prototypes. Keywords- e-reward; management information systems; Website Application Abstract — Dosen saat ini diharapkan menjadi pakar dalam bidang kajian ilmunya melalui proses penelitian, kemudian disampaikan ke mahasiswa melalui pengajaran, dan selain itu dibagikan ke masyarakat lewat pengabdian kepada masyarakat. Keluaran dari kegiatan penelitian dan pengabdian adalah Buku, Artikel, HKI, aplikasi dan lain-lain. Sesuai dengan peraturan Rektor Universitas Terbuka Nomor : 162 Tahun 2019 tentang perhargaan atas karya publikasi dan Hak Kekayaan Intelektual (HKI) di lingkungan Universitas Terbuka, dalam surat tersebut dijelaskan setiap dosen berhak mendapatkan penghargaan untuk setiap publikasi yang telah dilakukan, hanya saja saat ini proses pemberian penghargaan masih menggunakan cara manual, dosen mengisi form yang disediakan fakultas. Atas dasar proses yang lambat tersebut maka Tim peneliti menganggap Universitas Terbuka perlu mengembangkan sebuah aplikasi berbasis web, agar dapat menjadi sistem informasi bagi dosen untuk mengupdate proses pengusulan penghargaan atas karya publikasi dan Hak Kekayaan Intelektual (HKI) di lingkungan Universitas Terbuka.  Penelitian menggunakan skema penugasan dan multi years selama dua tahun. Keluaran dari penelitian penugasan ini adalah artikel, HKI, dan prototipe aplikasi. Keywords— e-reward; sistem informasi manajemen; Aplikasi Website

scholarly journals Improving the Prosperity of Jatirejo Village Community in Pasuruan Regency Through Optimizing the Development of Social Networking MSMEs

SOEROPATI ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Mochamad Mas’ud
Keyword(s):  
Community Service ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Online Marketing ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Waste Products ◽  
Village Community ◽  
Marketing Systems ◽  
Marine Waste

In one of the community service study activities, mentoring students of KKN (Lectures for Real Work) in Jatirejo Village has the potential of marine fisheries in the area of Pasuruan Regency. The condition of the problems faced so far, namely the lack of utilization of marine waste products that have not been managed properly into handicrafts so as to increase the selling value of marine waste that is optimal, lack of knowledge of processing plastic waste products as a craft bag, tissue place, making paving etc., lack of understanding the community to manage the business, both in terms of marketing and finance from the owners of MSMEs in Jatirejo Village, so that the work of the Jatirejo village community is only sold around the Lekok subdistrict. The method of using Participatory Action Research (PAR) is assisting community participation in carrying out activities to improve welfare, especially business management and marketing training, shellfish craft training and the manufacture of plastic packaging water bags, training in the manufacture of plastic paving. The results achieved by the Harmony and RARA Store UMKM online marketing systems have a positive impact, namely an increase in monthly turnover of 33% for each UMKM.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document