21 research outputs found
Improvising bags choreographies: Disturbing normative ways of doing research
Post-qualitative research-creation improvisations offer new possibilities to explore method/ology. In this article we question how bags, as seemingly mundane objects, work as ontologically lively matter â as active agencies â to choreograph human-nonhuman relations and heterogeneous materialities. Working from three questions â How might a bag become? What do bags do? What do bags enable and enact? â we discuss four research-creation improvisations and the insights they generated. The article maps how bags choreographies put affects, bodies and materialities into co-motional relations in order to disturb normative approaches to research both within conference sessions and through writing articles
Disturbing the AcademicConferenceMachine: Post-qualitative re-turnings
Author 1: They say they want to disturb the AcademicConferenceMachine.
Author 34: What is an AcademicConferenceMachine?
Author 2: Please do not go in that direction. Ask, for example, what does an AcademicConferenceMachine do?
Author 51: Ok, so what does it do?
Author 6: AcademicConferenceMachines are becoming so regulated and standardized that they might lose the possibility to produce different knowledge and to produce knowledge differently.
Author 227: Do you think they succeeded?
Author 9999: I do not know
Tags, tagging, tagged, # - undisciplining organ-ization of [academic] bodies
We write as a collaborative mode of embodied writing that moves, tags, and re-sites us elsewhere, that mis/dis/aligns self-other, and permeates various stable body(boundaries). We write as a group of (un)bounded (virtual) bodies who aim to collectively create and tag arguments. We write as a collective body where materialities, ideas, discussions and writing become in the doing. Different relational collective practices shared here disturb, disperse, question, undo and undermine sole authorship and consider how tags work and what tags might produce when these objects/things shape our academic lives. While engaged in tagging we also considered how tags tug, how tags shape the ways we think, feel and experience our academic lives. How are we produced by tags? What do tags produce (in/on) us and in our embodied lives?
Doing time and motion diffractively: Academic life everywhere and all the time
This article offers a diffractive methodological intervention into workplace studies of academic life. In its engagement of a playful, performative research and writing practice the article speaks back to technocratic organisational and sociological workplace âtime and motionâ studies which centre on the human and rational, and presume a linear teleology of cause and effect. As a counterpoint, we deploy posthumanist new materialist research practices which refuse human-centric approaches and aim to give matter its due. As a means to analyse what comes out of our joint workspaces photo project we produce two âpassesâ through data â two diffractive experiments which destabilise what normally counts as âfindingsâ and their academic presentation. The article deploys the motif of âstarting somewhere elseâ to signal both our intention to keep data animated, alive and interactive, and to utilise visual and written modes of seriality as enabling constraints which produce a more generative focus on the mundane, emergent, unforeseen, and happenstance in studies of daily working life
Conferencing Otherwise : A Feminist New Materialist Writing Experiment
This article attempts to reconfigure hegemonic framings of "the academic conference" and thereby offer a means to (re-)encounter the spatial, temporal, and affective forces that conferences generate, differently. We are a geographically dispersed but multiply entangled group of academic researchers united by theoretical fault lines within our work that seek to ask what if and what else. This "what if" and "what else" thinking has manifested in experimental and subversive doings otherwise at a series of academic conferences. The storying practices presented in this article were made possible by the vital materialism of a shared google.doc. It was within this virtual environment that we attempted to weave diffractive accounts of what conferencing otherwise produces. This writing experiment offers a series of speculative provocations and counter-provocations to ask what else does conferencing make possible. This article is an invitation to the reader to plunge in and wallow within the speculative accounts which ensue and to contemplate the possibilities of breaking free from sedimented ways of neoliberal conferencing.Peer reviewe
Conferencing Otherwise: A Feminist New Materialist Writing Experiment
This article attempts to reconfigure hegemonic framings of âthe academic conferenceâ and thereby offer a means to (re-)encounter the spatial, temporal, and affective forces that conferences generate, differently. We are a geographically dispersed but multiply entangled group of academic researchers united by theoretical fault lines within our work that seek to ask what if and what else. This âwhat ifâ and âwhat elseâ thinking has manifested in experimental and subversive doings otherwise at a series of academic conferences. The storying practices presented in this article were made possible by the vital materialism of a shared google.doc. It was within this virtual environment that we attempted to weave diffractive accounts of what conferencing otherwise produces. This writing experiment offers a series of speculative provocations and counter-provocations to ask what else does conferencing make possible. This article is an invitation to the reader to plunge in and wallow within the speculative accounts which ensue and to contemplate the possibilities of breaking free from sedimented ways of neoliberal conferencing.</p
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Characterization of chronic and acute ESA hyporesponse: a retrospective cohort study of hemodialysis patients
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High coverage and adherence to dose intervals of the national school-based HPV vaccination program in Sweden during 2012â2019
Background: Close monitoring of vaccination coverage is important for cervical cancer prevention efforts. The study aims to describe the HPV vaccination coverage by dose in girls eligible for HPV vaccination within Swedenâs childhood immunization program and provide an estimate on dose timing compliance. Methods: Vaccination records between 2012 and March 2019 were obtained for girls born in 2000â2006 from the vaccination registers in Sweden. The mid-time population counts for the respective birth cohorts were taken as the denominator. Full-dose coverage and coverage with at least one dose of the vaccine were calculated within the two-dose and three-dose regimen, by region. Dose compliance was calculated within the two-dose regimen. Results: Vaccination coverage with at least one dose of the vaccine was >80% within birth cohorts 2001â2006. Full-dose coverage within a two-dose and three-dose regimen were 73.4% in birth cohorts 2004â2005, and 56.3% in birth cohorts 2000â2001, respectively. Little variation was observed in vaccination coverage between regions. Dose completion was 91.8%, and 72.8% in girls that initiated a two-dose and three-dose regimen, respectively. Among girls receiving a two-dose regimen, 93.0% received the second dose 6â12 months after dose one. Discussion: In conclusion, high levels of HPV vaccination coverage were observed with little variation between regions. Dose timing compliance was particularly high in the two-dose regimen. To fully benefit from the impact of HPV vaccination, it will be important to further push the vaccination coverage and reach the girls that do not or partially engage with HPV vaccination