The Importance of Education in Self-Care in Social Care Work Programmes for the Professionalisation of Social Care Work

This article outlines approaches to self-care in a third level social care programme in Ireland with a view to establishing and maintaining a social care worker’s well-being in line with requirements by CORU, as part of the professionalisation of social care work. It explores the importance of self-care for social care work practice, the challenges which can impact a worker’s wellbeing, the CORU Standards of Proficiency for Social Care Workers (SCWRB 2017b) related to the self and self-care and the functions and theories associated with experiential group work. It then further considers how group work approaches can prepare a student for professional practice, especially in relation to common difficulties, such as burnout, lack of support and workplace violence. Helpful educational supports for self-care and resilience are also outlined

Updating a Research Tradition by Examining the Effect of New High Tech Channels on Consumer Search and Integrated Marketing: A Framework for Teaching

As computers became more powerful in the late 80s and early 90s, large marketers began to try to push what became known as customer relationship management . Specifically, they began to evaluate various channels and how consumers navigated among them when making purchase decisions. Most of the examples at that time were anecdotal, and obviously considered traditional channels, both retail and direct. These included retail, direct mail, print, television, radio, telephone, early email, and a small amount of Internet. The impact of the Internet on new ways consumers navigate among the channels to collect information and make purchase decisions was studied in a number of key papers, including “The Impact of the Internet and consumer motivation on evaluation of prices” (Suri, Long and Monroe, 2003). Direct (now integrated) marketing was particularly affected by the new web-oriented channels, and has been affected even more by the latest social and mobile entries. Now that the Internet and email have matured, and print is waning as a channel, the social media including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and mobile have become the primary channels for at least the younger consumer to search for information and make purchase decisions. If academia is to remain relevant and continue to evaluate consumer shopping behavior of the twenty-first century, it would be useful to revisit these channel navigation issues. The biggest change is that the new channels are internet-integrated so the entire process has changed

The Clothing Swap: Social, Sustainable, and Sacred

While there is much focus on recycling household waste such as paper, plastic, and metal, there is less focused attention on the waste produced by clothing and textiles. As noted by Joung (2013), consumers dispose of clothes by recycling, donating to charities, or giving to friends and family. But when individuals are not motivated to do this or are unaware of recycling options, they simply discard unwanted clothing where it ends up in landfill sites. Motives for recycling clothes can range from altruistic (e.g., donating to a clothing drive for the poor or victims of a natural disaster) to economic (e.g., selling clothes online, at a consignment shop or donating to obtain a tax deduction). Yet other individuals might be motivated by concern for the environment. Patagonia, an outdoor clothing retailer, appeals to this motivation with its reuse and recycling initiatives. Consumers are encouraged to send in their worn out Patagonia clothing for repurposing or recycling and to buy used Patagonia clothes. In an unusual twist, Patagonia’s Black Friday advertisement in the New York Times in 2012 proclaimed “Don’t buy this jacket” with an explanation of the natural resources and environmental costs of manufacturing one of their jackets (Patagonia 2015)

Sheila Long and Camille Bishop in a Junior Recital

This is the program for the junior voice recital of mezzo-soprano, Sheila Long, accompanied by Bill Borland on piano, and mezzo-soprano, Camille Bishop, accompanied by Deborah Mashburn on piano. The recital was held on March 22, 1968

From Structural Inequalities to Speaking Out: Youth Participatory Action Research in College Access Collaborations

In recent years, participatory action research projects aimed at addressing local social issues have gained interest in academic settings. These projects can contribute to university-community partnerships, but communication about such projects remains somewhat limited. This article contributes to these developing discussions by describing how a youth participatory action research project (YPAR) supported an ongoing university-community partnership between South University, a mid-sized private liberal arts school, and the local public school community. This educational partnership led to the Anchor Academy, a college access and success program for high school youth with limited financial resources and little or no family history of college. In 2010-2011, Anchor initiated a YPAR project to study the challenges limited-income, first-generation, and minority students faced on their path to college. This article describes how the project deepened university-community relationships, shaped broader awareness and local programming, and inspired a ripple effect of new partnerships that help to sustain the work of supporting marginalized students in their journeys toward college futures. It addresses the struggles faced by the project as well as the positive outcomes, ultimately arguing for the potential for critical, participatory research methodologies to serve as a particularly meaningful platform for collaboration between universities and their communities

Power and Expertise: Student-Faculty Collaboration in Course Design and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

This essay describes the process of using a team of faculty and undergraduate students to redesign a university course, and outlines the research we conducted on student and faculty learning from the redesign process. We focus particular attention on power relations and issues of expertise, raising questions with implications for faculty who wish to engage students in similar course design projects, regardless of academic discipline, and who partner with undergraduates in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning research

A negative effect of a pathogen on its vector? A plant pathogen increases the vulnerability of its vector to attack by natural enemies

Plant pathogens that are dependent on arthropod vectors for transmission from host to host may enhance their own success by promoting vector survival and/or performance. The effect of pathogens on vectors may be direct or indirect, with indirect effects mediated by increases in host quality or reductions in the vulnerability of vectors to natural enemies. We investigated whether the bird cherry-oat aphid Rhopalosiphum padi, a vector of cereal yellow dwarf virus (CYDV) in wheat, experiences a reduction in rates of attack by the parasitoid wasp Aphidius colemani when actively harboring the plant pathogen. We manipulated the vector status of aphids (virus carrying or virus free) and evaluated the impact on the rate of attack by wasps. We found that vector status did not influence the survival or fecundity of aphids in the absence of parasitoids. However, virus-carrying aphids experienced higher rates of parasitism and greater overall population suppression by parasitoid wasps than virus-free aphids. Moreover, virus-carrying aphids were accepted as hosts by wasps more often than virus-free aphids, with a greater number of wasps stinging virus-carrying aphids following assessment by antennal palpations than virus-free aphids. Therefore, counter to the prevailing idea that persistent vector-borne pathogens enhance the performance of their vectors, we found that infectious aphids actively carrying a plant pathogen experience greater vulnerability to natural enemies. Our results suggest that parasitoids may contribute to the successful biological control of CYDV by disproportionately impacting virus-carrying vectors, and thus reducing the proportion of vectors in the population that are infectious