Challenges, opportunities and legacies: experiencing the internationalising of UK planning curricula across space and time

Drawing on interviews with selected UK planning academics and survey results from current planning practitioners, this article provides valuable and timely perspectives on how internationalisation is experienced by those within and beyond the immediate institutional context. Although internationally focused planning education helps planners tackle the manifold urban challenges in the global South, the article goes on to argue that relational approaches hold much promise for planners working in so-called developed countries, including the UK, to understand the diverse needs of different diasporic communities. Such knowledge is crucial to develop sustainable planning solutions in the face of uneven processes of urban development.

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Go South, Young Planner, Go South!

Journal of Planning Education and Research ◽

10.1177/0739456x18754317 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 10-15 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Gabriella Y. Carolini

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Urban Development ◽

International Development ◽

Case Studies ◽

Global South ◽

Development Planning ◽

Planning Education ◽

Global Planning ◽

International Planning ◽

Critical Resistance

This commentary calls for the deeper institutionalization of urban experiences in the global South into PAB-accredited planning programs in North America. While international “development” planning has been effectively questioned by the rise of the BRICS, transnational planning practice, and recent research emphasizing a relational accounting of international urban development, I urge that development studies—and critiques therein—remain an important backdrop to international planning education for one key reason. Knowledge of development’s trajectory as an idea and as a problematized practice in the global South facilitates a critical resistance to the (re-)technocratization of global planning education and practice. Three approaches to incorporating voices and experiences from the global South into North American planning curricula are suggested: harnessing case studies, practitioner networks, and examples of thought-leaders from the global South to enrich the diversity of references on which our students can call.

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Making a Right Tit of Myself: Subverting the Trajectory of Mastectomy: Soma, Psyche, Techné

Somatechnics ◽

10.3366/soma.2013.0076 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 9-30

Author(s):

Fiona K. O'Neill

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

Cancer Survivors ◽

Breast Cancer Survivors ◽

Personal Narrative ◽

Abrupt Transition ◽

The Face ◽

Rapid Transition ◽

Return Journey ◽

The Uk

In the UK, when one is suspected of having breast cancer there is usually a rapid transition from being diagnosed, to being told you require treatment, to this being effected. Hence, there is a sense of an abrupt transition from ‘normal’ embodiment through somatechnic engagement; from normality, to failure and otherness. The return journey to ‘embodied normality’, if indeed there can be one, is the focus of this paper; specifically the durée and trajectory of such normalisation. I offer a personal narrative from encountering these ‘normalising interventions’, supported by the narratives of other ‘breast cancer survivors’. Indeed, I havechosento become acquainted with my altered/novel embodiment, rather than the symmetrisation of prosthetication, to ‘wear my scars’,and thus subvert the trajectory of mastectomy. I broach and brook various encounters with failure by having, being and doing a body otherwise; exploring, mastering and re-capacitating my embodiment, finding the virtuosity of failure and subversion. To challenge the durée of ‘normalisation’ I have engaged in somatic movement practices which allow actual capacities of embodiment to be realised; thorough kinaesthetic praxis and expression. This paper asks is it soma, psyche or techné that has failed me, or have I failed them? What mimetic chimera ‘should’ I become? What choices do we have in the face of failure? What subversions can be allowed? How subtle must one be? What referent shall I choose? What might one assimilate? Will mimesis get me in the end? What capacities can one find? How shall I belong? Where / wear is my fidelity? The hope here is to address the intra-personal phenomenological character and the inter-corporeal socio-ethico-political aspects that this body of failure engenders, as one amongst many.

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Risk allocation in implementation of urban development projects - comparison of Finland, the Netherlands, and the UK

10.15396/eres2015_145 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Kauko Viitanen ◽

Erwin van der Krabben ◽

Eero Valtonen ◽

Heidi Falkenbach

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Urban Development ◽

Development Projects ◽

Risk Allocation ◽

The Uk

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ATTITUDE TO OPEN ACCESS IN RUSSIAN SCHOLARLY COMMUNITY: 2018. SURVEY RESULTS AND ANALYSIS

Scholarly Research and Information ◽

10.24108/2658-3143-2018-1-1-6-21 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 6-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

I. K. Razumova ◽

N. N. Litvinova ◽

M. E. Shvartsman ◽

A. Yu. Kuznetsov

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Open Access Publishing ◽

Scholarly Community ◽

Research Areas ◽

Survey Results ◽

The Difference ◽

Policies And Programs ◽

The Uk ◽

High Level ◽

Access Policies

Introduction. The paper presents survey results on the awareness towards and practice of Open Access scholarly publishing among Russian academics.Materials and Methods. We employed methods of statistical analysis of survey results. Materials comprise results of data processing of Russian survey conducted in 2018 and published results of the latest international surveys. The survey comprised 1383 respondents from 182 organizations. We performed comparative studies of the responses from academics and research institutions as well as different research areas. The study compares results obtained in Russia with the recently published results of surveys conducted in the United Kingdom and Europe.Results. Our findings show that 95% of Russian respondents support open access, 94% agree to post their publications in open repositories and 75% have experience in open access publishing. We did not find any difference in the awareness and attitude towards open access among seven reference groups. Our analysis revealed the difference in the structure of open access publications of the authors from universities and research institutes. Discussion andConclusions. Results reveal a high level of awareness and support to open access and succeful practice in the open access publications in the Russian scholarly community. The results for Russia demonstrate close similarity with the results of the UK academics. The governmental open access policies and programs would foster the practical realization of the open access in Russia.

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Protocol for a qualitative study to identify strategies to optimise hospital ePrescribing systems

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-044622 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. e044622

Author(s):

Catherine Heeney ◽

Stephen Malden ◽

Aziz Sheikh

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Interviews ◽

Geographical Area ◽

Health Resources ◽

Round Table ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Care Quality ◽

Electronic Prescribing ◽

Study Results ◽

Electronic Health ◽

The Uk

IntroductionElectronic prescribing (ePrescribing) is a key area of development and investment in the UK and across the developed world. ePrescribing is widely understood as a vehicle for tackling medication-related safety concerns, improving care quality and making more efficient use of health resources. Nevertheless, implementation of an electronic health record does not itself ensure benefits for prescribing are maximised. We examine the process of optimisation of ePrescribing systems using case studies to provide policy recommendations based on the experiences of digitally mature hospital sites.Methods and analysisQualitative interviews within six digitally mature sites will be carried out. The aim is to capture successful optimisation of electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) in particular health systems and hospitals. We have identified hospital sites in the UK and in three other developed countries. We used a combination of literature reviews and advice from experts at Optimising ePrescribing in Hospitals (eP Opt) Project round-table events. Sites were purposively selected based on geographical area, innovative work in ePrescribing/electronic health (eHealth) and potential transferability of practices to the UK setting. Interviews will be recorded and transcribed and transcripts coded thematically using NVivo software. Relevant policy and governance documents will be analysed, where available. Planned site visits were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Ethics and disseminationThe Usher Research Ethics Group granted approval for this study. Results will be disseminated via peer-reviewed journals in medical informatics and expert round-table events, lay member meetings and the ePrescribing Toolkit (http://www.eprescribingtoolkit.com/)—an online resource supporting National Health Service (NHS) hospitals through the ePrescribing process.

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Indicators, security and sovereignty during COVID-19 in the Global South

International Journal of Law in Context ◽

10.1017/s1744552321000318 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 249-260

Author(s):

John Harrington

Keyword(s):

Global Governance ◽

Third World ◽

Global South ◽

Governance Mechanisms ◽

Health Governance ◽

The Face ◽

Global North ◽

The Government

AbstractThe spread of COVID-19 has seen a contest over health governance and sovereignty in Global South states, with a focus on two radically distinct modes: (1) indicators and metrics and (2) securitisation. Indicators have been a vehicle for the government of states through the external imposition and internal self-application of standards and benchmarks. Securitisation refers to the calling-into-being of emergencies in the face of existential threats to the nation. This paper contextualises both historically with reference to the trajectory of Global South states in the decades after decolonisation, which saw the rise and decline of Third-World solidarity and its replacement by neoliberalism and global governance mechanisms in health, as in other sectors. The interaction between these modes and their relative prominence during COVID-19 is studied through a brief case-study of developments in Kenya during the early months of the pandemic. The paper closes with suggestions for further research and a reflection on parallel trends within Global North states.

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Reframing refugee crisis: A “European crisis of migration” or a “crisis of protection”?

Environment and Planning C Politics and Space ◽

10.1177/2399654421989705 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 239965442198970

Author(s):

Maissaa Almustafa

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Global South ◽

Global Media ◽

Developing Regions ◽

International Protection ◽

High Commissioner ◽

The Face ◽

Global North ◽

Displaced People ◽

Resettlement Programs

The end of 2015 witnessed a global record in the number of forcibly displaced people fleeing because of wars and persecution. The unprecedented total of 65.3 million displaced individuals, out of which 21.3 million were refugees, was the highest number that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has recorded since its establishment in 1950. During the same year and in the face of this large-scale crisis, only 107,100 refugees were admitted for resettlement through official resettlement programs, whereas 3.2 million people applied for asylum globally. And in spite of the fact that the majority of the world refugees are hosted in ten developing regions, the dominant narrative in the global media was about the “unauthorized” arrival of more than one million asylum seekers in Europe by sea during 2015. This paper argues that the unexpected nature of refugees’ arrivals has proven that refugees were supposed to be contained in their camps in the Global South, deterred from reaching the territories of the Global North, represented here by Europe. Thus, the paper proposes that these arrivals are rather reflections of a crisis of protection that developed in the Global South where containment and deterrence strategies against refugees from the Global South exacerbate their inhumane displacement conditions in home regions. In the same context, the paper discusses how international protection structures have been reconstructed to serve the same goals of containment and deterrence, with the ultimate aim of putting people ‘back in place’ with minimal access to protection and rights.

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Assessment of the Wearability of Facemasks against Air Pollution in Primary School-Aged Children in London

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17113935 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (11) ◽

pp. 3935 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Naomi R Smart ◽

Claire J Horwell ◽

Trevor S Smart ◽

Karen S Galea

Keyword(s):

Air Pollution ◽

Primary School ◽

Primary School Children ◽

Perceived Fit ◽

Major Health Problem ◽

Airborne Pollutants ◽

Main Complaint ◽

Running Activity ◽

The Face ◽

The Uk

Air pollution is a major health problem and children are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects. Facemasks are one form of protection but, to be effective, they need to filter out airborne pollutants, fit the face well and be wearable. In this pilot study, we assess the perceived wearability of three facemasks (Vogmask, TuHao and ReSpimask) marketed in the UK as being designed to protect children against exposure to air pollution. Twenty-four primary school children wore each facemask during a standardised walking and running activity. After each activity, the children were asked to rate facemask wearability in terms of parameters, such as perceived comfort, hotness, breathability and fit. At the end of the trial, the children compared and identified their preferred facemask. The main complaint about the facemasks was the children’s faces being too hot. The ReSpimask was most frequently reported as being perceived to be the hardest to breathe through. The TuHao facemask was the only adjustable strap mask assessed but was reported to be difficult to adjust. Facemasks with a nose clip were frequently rated highest for fit (TuHao and Vogmask). The patterned, cloth fabric Vogmask had significantly higher ratings for appearance and perceived fit. The results show children’s perceptions of facemasks are highly affected by the facemask’s design, hotness and perceived breathability. By making children’s facemasks more appealing, breathable, cooler and improving their fit, wearability may be improved.

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