Out of the frying pan into the fire. Education, counselling and target-driven culture.

I write my review as a conversation between three aspects of my working self - a teacher, lecturer (in counselling skills) and a counsellor, I shall abbreviate these to T L C – I think the world needs more of it

An interview with Judith Weir

Cemil Egeli previously worked as a researcher on the flagship arts TV programme 'The South Bank Show' (then broadcast on ITV), where in 2001 Judith Weir received the prestigious music award for her choral and orchestral work, We Are Shadows. Some 20 years later, Judith Weir has very kindly agreed to him posing some interview questions

Autoethnography: A methodological chat with self.

There is paucity of counselling psychology literature which explores the experience of people coming from a mixed cultural background. The literature available focuses on developmental theories and cultural competencies of practitioners but all too often fails to capture the peculiarities and particularities of the mixed experience. It also has a tendency to focus on ethnic, racial and cultural labels which are not always useful or helpful for people. This paper explores autoethnography as a methodology with which to research the mixed cultural experience. It aims to highlight the importance for the counselling psychology professions of reflexive and subjective research with regards to studying and understanding people’s experiences of mixed culture. It examines the methods and processes used by a researcher in the data gathering, analysis and explication of their own subjective research. It reveals some of the difficulties encountered and ethical decisions which had to be made during the research. In keeping with the ethnographic and creative approach it is written as a self diaologue and hopes to give the reader a sense of how the research was undertaken. It concludes that autoethnography can highlight the complexities of the experience of people operating between or on the edge of cultures and can bring greater understanding and awareness to counselling professionals who will then hopefully be better enabled to help people

Tears from the void: The arts, the spiritual and the therapeutic

Cemil Egeli has an autoethnographic conversation about a night at the theatre, posing questions to himself to challenge and explore his thinking further

I'm Half Turkish - Dancing Bears and Marble Stairs

An autoethnographic exploration of a mixed cultural experience.This article explores some of my life experiences as a person of mixed culture

Editorial: Towards a psychomusicology

Editorial for the 'psychomusicology' special issu

Halkevi temsilleri:Sönmeyen Ateş

Taha Toros Arşivi, Dosya No: 198-Tiyatro Yazıları (Nahit Sırrı)İstanbul Kalkınma Ajansı (TR10/14/YEN/0033) İstanbul Development Agency (TR10/14/YEN/0033

Şişli Camii Şerifi

Taha Toros Arşivi, Dosya No: 102-Camilerİstanbul Kalkınma Ajansı (TR10/14/YEN/0033) İstanbul Development Agency (TR10/14/YEN/0033

Designing high-speed train railway embankments using finite element analysis

Design and construction of high-speed train railway (HSTR) infrastructure is different from that for normal trains, since high geometric standards and material properties are involved. For example, HSTR embankments are designed to limit total-differential settlements to minute amounts. In this study, a typical 'slab-track' type HSTR embankment was used to investigate the replaceability of one fill strata known as 'uncemented-prepared-subgrade layer' (U-PSL), constructed by using a locally obtained medium sand, as opposed to various 'cemented-prepared-subgrade layers' (C-PSL), whose mixes were prepared at two water-to-cement (w/c) ratios and three cement contents (c). Three size cylindrical samples were cast, 7-28 days water cured and were tested to obtain the unconfined compressive stresses, strains, elasticity moduli and Poisson's ratios at failure. Test results were then fed into the Plaxis-FEM program to find the maximum total settlements of individual layers and compared with the requirements. Only three C-PSL mixes having cement contents (c) of 20, 25, 30 % and water-to-cement (w/c) ratios of 0. 4 and 0. 5 met the strict settlement criteria. The study showed that the original (h = 2 m) thick U-PSL can be replaced with 0. 3h-m thick C-PSL at w/c = 0. 5 (i. e. h = 0. 6 m). Likewise, the original (h = 2 m) thick U-PSL can be replaced with 0. 2h-m thick C-PSL at w/c = 0. 4 (i. e. h = 0. 4 m). Also, the extra effort of doing in situ soil compaction and testing in layers is reduced or eliminated. This would give not only alternative ways to HSTR embankment designers/constructors, but also substantial savings in construction time and costs