An award-winning passion for the role of the cancer nurse researcher

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 5-5
Keyword(s):  
Award Winning

A Shiny Surface and a Tainted Past

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Öhrström
Keyword(s):  
Close Contact ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Therapeutic Window ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Do No Harm ◽  
The Us ◽  
Main Component ◽  
The Right

The day Erin Brockovich was driving in Reno and got hit by another driver, brought her in close contact not only with the bumper of the other car, but eventually also with the US legal system, and this would change her life completely. The day Steven Soderbergh asked Julia Roberts to play the part of Erin Brockovich in the film with the same name didn’t really change her life, one presumes, but it would show the world’s moviegoers and critics that the star and Academy Award winning actress of 1990 was really back on the right track. What is the link between these events? The answer is the element chromium. It was chromium that made law-firm clerk Brockovich start a David-against-Goliath struggle with the California energy conglomerate Pacific Gas and Electric Company, that made director Soderbergh make the blockbuster movie that gave Roberts an Oscar for best female actress in 2000 and revitalized her career. I will try not to spoil the picture for those who have not seen it, because it is well worth watching, but the fact that the good guys win in the end is probably not a surprise anyway. However, the role of chromium in this play is not at all evident. And are the good guys really the good guys? There is usually a proper amount of, and a proper place for, everything, and this includes the elements of the periodic table. The main component in steel, a material which has a role to play in this story, is iron, and while we sometimes have too low a level of this element in our bodies, too much of it will kill us. The same goes for chromium: we can’t live without it. Or so it was thought until very recently. It was supposed to help us to break down and metabolize sugars, and thus ‘chromium deficiency’ could possibly be related to diabetes. Now, while low levels seems to do no harm, there are still possibilities of a therapeutic window—that is, concentrations where it may do some good—but it does not any longer seem to be considered an essential element, although official consensus on this has not yet been proclaimed.

scholarly journals Working in partnership to embed Information & Digital Literacy Skills into TeenTech events and Awards to empower pupils, teachers and librarians

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Jones
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
New Information ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
The Uk

This paper discusses the partnership that Cilip’s Information Literacy Group (ILG) in the UK has been developing over the last 18 months with TeenTech, an award winning, industry led initiative that focuses on helping teenagers understand the career opportunities available within Science, Education and Technology. It focuses on the role of the ILG’s School Representative as co-ordinator of a team of school librarians and university specialists who were tasked with; supporting the group’s new Information Literacy Award creating resources and opportunities to encourage teacher and pupil use of libraries, and with supporting pupil development of information and digital literacy skills within the area of science, engineering and technology across all of the award categories.

Knowledge transfer in a start-up craft brewery

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Cardoni ◽  
John Dumay ◽  
Matteo Palmaccio ◽  
Domenico Celenza
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Development Phase ◽  
General Description ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of the entrepreneur in the knowledge transfer (KT) process of a start-up enterprise and the ways that role should change during the development phase to ensure mid-term business survival and growth. Design/methodology/approach An in-depth, qualitative case study of Birra Flea, an Italian Craft Brewery, is presented and analysed using Liyanage et al.’s (2009) framework to identify the key components of the KT process, including relevant knowledge, key actors, transfer steps and the criteria for assessing its effectiveness and success. Findings The entrepreneur played a fundamental and crucial role in the start-up process, acting as a selective and passionate broker for the KT process. As Birra Flea matures and moves into the development phase, the role of the entrepreneur as KT’s champion needs to be integrated and distributed throughout the organisation, with the entrepreneur serving as a performance controller. Research limitations/implications This study enriches the knowledge management literature by applying a framework designed to provide a general description of KT, with some modifications, to a single case study to demonstrate its effectiveness in differentiating types of knowledge and outlining how KT can be configured to support essential business functions in an SME. Practical implications The analysis systematises the KT mechanisms that govern the start-up phase of an award-winning SME, with suggestions for how to manage KT during the development phase. Seldom are practitioners given insight into the mechanics of a successful SME start-up; this analysis serves as a practical guide for those wishing to implement effective KT strategies to emulate Birra Flea’s success. Originality/value The world’s economy thrives on SMEs, yet many fail as start-ups before they even have a chance to reach the development phase, presenting a motivation to study the early stages of SMEs. This study addresses that gap with an in-depth theoretical analysis of successful, effective KT processes in an SME, along with practical implications to enhance the knowledge, experience and skills of the actors that sustain these vital economic enterprises.

A case study, Eric Hebborn, Rome Scholar 1959‐61: The art and craft of forging a drawing

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-83
Author(s):  
Stephen Farthing
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Royal Academy ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Art Curriculum ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
British School ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Contemporary Artist

An exploration of forgery and drawing that focuses on a twentieth-century practitioner, his art education, motivation and methodology, this critical article was inspired by a meeting that took place in a village near Rome during the autumn of 1976 between the author and Eric Hebborn (1934‐96). Written some forty years later, this article has two goals; first to contribute to the debate that now circles the role of drawing within the contemporary fine art curriculum and then to question the nature of the biographical information Ruskin suggested was embedded in artists drawings. Hebborn, a skilful draftsman and award-winning alumnus of the Royal Academy Schools and British School at Rome is unusual in that he left no significant trace of himself as a contemporary artist. Using his memoire Drawn to Trouble, a once misattributed drawing The Lamentation of the Three Mary’s and my recollections of the meeting, as entry points. This article portrays Hebborn as a victim of his art education, who in the final analysis was neither a fine artist nor copyist but instead an art school trained illusionist who openly admited to creating a modus operandi that was designed to trick experts into uttering false instruments.

Notes from Notes on Blindness: The challenges of the in-house1 film production model in independent cinema

Scene ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dusan Petkovic
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Independent Film ◽  
Independent Cinema ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Sales Pitch

This article, derived from a larger ethnographic research created around the production of the award-winning independent film Notes on Blindness (2016) and conducted by a researcher active as a film professional, explores the deeper consequences of choosing to pursue a production ‘in-house’. Through participant observation, Actor-Network Theory and negotiation between film practice and research, the researcher finds independent filmmakers caught between the opposing trends of high-end industry and the digital economies. The organization forms observed in this article stand opposite to the prevalent globalized creative labour trends motivated by the internet and new technologies, and can best be described as a revival of Richard Sennett’s craft workshop in the digital era. These are ultra-dense creative spaces where craftspersons nurture their creative impulses and shield them from the negative aspects of the technological and economic upheaval. In the hope that the findings will inform future filmmakers in the role of this specific type of organization in delivering the intended output, this article offers insights beyond the industry self-avowal and sales pitch.

scholarly journals Towards an Economic Sociology of Race

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Hirschman ◽  
Laura Garbes
Keyword(s):  
Economic Sociology ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Colorblind Racism ◽  
Contemporary Sociology ◽  
Award Winning

Race is central to economic life, but race is not central to economic sociology. We argue that economic sociologists should treat racism as a constitutive, structuring force, analytically co-equal with capitalism, patriarchy, and nationalism. Our article has three aims. First, we document how canonical and award-winning works of economic sociology do not discuss race and racism, and do not engage with the contemporary sociology of race. Second, we identify six key insights from the sociology of race and suggest how they could influence economic sociology: the emergence of race out of racism, an understanding of racism as structural, the role of whiteness, the intersections between racism and other systems of oppression, the ideology of colorblind racism, and the fundamental connections between racism and capitalism. Third, we conclude by discussing recent research that bridges the two subfields and lays the groundwork for an understanding of "racialized markets" and "racialized economies".

scholarly journals Dialectic aspects between periphery and center: the translations of Aeschylus’ tragedies into French by Olivier Py

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
Maria Baïraktari
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
First Century ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Cultural Variations ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Translation Strategy ◽  
Cultural Mediator ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Spatio Temporal

“Periphery” and “centre” are two concepts which could be examined in terms of geographic, linguistic, or cultural variations and constants at different periods of human history. If world literature is a united system, with an unequal center and periphery, the interlinguistic translation of Aeschylusʼ tragedies into French by Olivier Py in the twenty-first century will serve as an example in order to highlight the various facets of this multidimensional relationship. Olivier Py, an award-winning prose and theatre writer, poet, director, actor, translator, director of the Avignon Festival since 2013, translated and directed all seven surviving Aeschylean tragedies between 2008 and 2017. He thus played the role of a cultural mediator who ensured the transition from the source language to the target language by creating texts designed to be presented on stage, and following the priorities of the codified theatrical discourse of tragedy. Based on this process, the author exam-ines the various spatio-temporal and cultural relationships between periphery and centre in order to present the main points of Olivier Py’s translation strategy.

scholarly journals Alleen in woorden kan de aarde averechts rillen

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-212
Author(s):  
Coen Peppelenbos
Keyword(s):  
Award Winning

Abstract This article discusses the role of the narrator in Erwin Mortier’s award-winning book Godenslaap. The poetical statements made by the narrator (who is a writer) seem at first sight to be overtly formalistic, but it is precisely this artificial form of fiction that makes it possible to describe the gruesome reality of a war. The criticism in a review that this novel is ‘empty’ does not hold up. Nederlandstalig abstract Dit artikel bespreekt de rol van de verteller in Erwin Mortiers bekroonde boek Godenslaap. De poëticale uitspraken die de vertelster (die schrijfster is) doet, lijken op het eerste oog heel erg over de vorm te gaan, maar juist door die gekunstelde vorm van fictie is het mogelijk om de gruwelijke werkelijkheid van een oorlog te beschrijven. De kritiek in een recensie dat deze roman ‘leeg’ zou zijn, houdt dan ook geen stand.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL: Journalism with integrity

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Wendy Bacon
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Investigative Reporting ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Identity Cards

This is the third issue Pacific Journalism Review has published on the theme of investigative journalism in recent years. Our first issue (PJR, 2011) followed the first regional Investigative Journalism conference held at the Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology in December 2010. In that issue, we argued that universities and academic journalists have an important role to play in building a culture of investigative reporting in the region. This issue follows up on that suggestion by focusing particularly on investigative journalism produced in an academic context. The second edition followed the ‘Back to the Source’ conference hosted by the Australian Centre for Investigative Journalism (ACIJ) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in September 2011 (PJR, 2012). Since our 2011 issue, pressures on the business model that once sustained high quality investigative journalism have continued to increase. As we go to press, photographers’ jobs at Fairfax media are threatened. Journalists have mobilised to focus public attention on the role of photographers as newsgatherers. Walkley Award-winning Fairfax photographer Kate Geraghty’s picture of asylum seekers holding up their identity cards as they are transported in buses into the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea in 2013 is a reminder of how images recorded by journalists courageous enough to defy official restrictions on media have both humanised and publicised the plight of asylum seekers in our region.

scholarly journals Behind the Scenes: Costume Design for Television: There are Many Things you Don't Know About the League of Gentlemen

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Gamze Toylan
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Costume Design ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Shed Light

Focusing on the award winning costume designer Yves Barre’s work for The League of Gentlemen (BBC, 1999-2002), this article explores the role of the costume designer in television production. Using an anthropological method that combines original interviews with Barre, Steve Pemberton (one of the writer/performers) and Jon Plowman (the executive producer) as well as second hand material such as DVD extras, the article provides insight into the show’s creative process. The underlying objective is to shed light on the costume design process – an understudied stage of television production.

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