Woody Guthrie, American Radical

Pamphlet produced by the British Association for American Studies, including a case study on Will Kaufman's "Woody Guthrie, American Radical@ (p. 6)

A mixed methods empirical exploration of UK consumer perceptions of trust, risk and usefulness of mobile payments

Exploring UK consumer perceptions of trust, risk and perceived usefulness of mobile payments through the use of sequential mixed methods

Art therapists with experience of mental distress: implications for art therapy training and practice

As part of its ongoing work to support and value the contributions to art therapy from service users, the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) conducted a survey of art therapists with dual experience as professionals and mental health service users. The survey aimed to establish if art therapists disclosed their experiences as service users when applying to train, during their art therapy training and/or when qualified. Participants (N = 20) were also surveyed on their motivation for disclosure or non-disclosure, their experiences of the process and the quality of responses they met. They were additionally asked whether their experiences of mental health services had impacted on the quality of their art therapy practice and if so, how. The findings from this small sample suggest that disclosure was not easy. Reported responses to participants’ disclosures were mixed, with many experiencing both helpful and unhelpful responses. Emotional support appeared to be important for helping people both to normalise and to contain current distress. Another finding concerns self-reported increased empathy for service users. Awareness and management of one’s own limitations was another reported gain, since reflecting on oneself and one’s life was usually enforced through the ‘breakdown’, hospitalisation or disruption of career path

Cross-section slenderness limits for columns with plastic rotations

This paper reports on a study of local inelastic buckling in square hollow section columns with large plastic rotations. The study was conducted as part of the validation of a proposed design method for discontinuous columns in braced frames in which plastic rotations in the columns are used to limit the moments in the columns. The study included both testing of full-scale columns and a parametric study by finite element analysis. The results demonstrate that current codes permit cross section slenderness in plastic sections which are likely to lead to premature buckling in structures using plastic (inelastic) design if the rotations are large. Design limits are proposed for square hollow sections relating cross-section slenderness to column end rotations