Ethical challenges in researching and telling the stories of recently deceased people

This paper explores ethical challenges encountered when conducting research about, and telling, the stories of individuals who had died before the research began. Cases were explored where individuals who lived alone had died alone at home and where their bodies had been undiscovered for an extended period. The ethical review process had not had anything significant to say about the deceased ‘participants’. As social researchers we considered whether it was ethical to involve deceased people in research when they had no opportunity to decline, and we were concerned about how to report such research. The idea that the dead can be harmed did not help our decision-making processes, but the notion of the dead having limited human rights conferred upon them was useful and aided us in clarifying how to conduct our research and disseminate our findings.Peer reviewe

Historical geography II: traces remain

The second report in this series turns to focus on the trace in relation to life-writing and biography in historical geography and beyond. Through attention to tracing journeys, located moments and listening to the presence of ghosts (Ogborn, 2005), this report seeks to highlight the range of different ways in which historical geographers have explored lives, deaths, and their transient traces through varied biographical terrains. Continuing to draw attention in historical geography to the darkest of histories, this piece will pivot on moments of discovering the dead to showcase the nuanced ways in which historical geography is opening doors into uncharted lives and unspoken histories

TRACKING ELEPHANT FLOWS IN INTERNET BACKBONE TRAFFIC WITH AN FPGA-BASED CACHE

This paper presents an FPGA-friendly approach to tracking elephant flows in network traffic. Our approach, Single Step Segmented Least Recently Used (S 3-LRU) policy, is a network traffic-friendly replacement policy for maintaining flow states in a Naïve Hash Table (NHT). We demonstrate that our S 3-LRU approach preserves elephant flows: conservatively promoting potential elephants and evicting lowrate flows in LRU manner. Our approach keeps flow-state of any elephant since start-of-day and provides a significant improvement over filtering approaches proposed in previous work. Our FPGA-based implementation of the S 3-LRU in combination with an NHT suites well the parallel access to block memories while capitalising on the retuning of parameters through dynamic-reprogramming. 1

Archival Fieldwork and Children’s Geographies

This chapter is in closed access.This chapter outlines how children’s geographers have used archival fieldwork and engaged with historical material as a research method. The chapter considers several questions: What is an archive? What are the central ways children’s geographers have engaged with archival fieldwork? What are some of the ethical and methodological challenges of archival research? How do wider practices of collection and display represent past childhoods? And what possibilities do digital technologies and social media afford children’s geographers seeking to research the ‘past’? Overall, the chapter uses a number of examples to showcase the potential for diverse archival engagements and encounters that can stimulate current debates in children’s geographies