Post-Conviction Review : Questions of Innocence, Independence, and Necessity

STETSON LAW REVIEW, VOLUME 47, FALL 2017, NUMBER 1Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Hearing the student voice : promoting and encouraging the effective use of the student voice to enhance professional development in learning, teaching and assessment within higher education

This is an ESCalate development project led by Fiona Campbell of Napier University that was completed in 2007. The Hearing the Student Voice project aimed to promote and encourage the use of the student voice to enhance the effectiveness of academic professional development and ultimately the learning experience of students. Students can have a powerful impact on academic professional development aimed at enhancing learning, teaching and assessment practice. By providing qualitative insights about the nature of their learning experience, students can bring both valid and valuable viewpoints and motivate staff who are engaged by the students' perspective and often admire their perspicacity. This report records the progress and achievements of the Hearing the Student Voice project, funded by ESCalate to promote and encourage the use of the student voice to enhance the effectiveness of academic professional development in learning, teaching and assessment practice and ultimately the learning experience of students. The report has been written by the team representing the four universities who collaborated on the projec

[HER]

“For a long time I was a girl. Then I got my period and grew tits. So I was a virgin. Then I had sex but didn’t get married first so I was a whore. I think next is supposed to come “Woman”, but I don’t like that word so I think I’ll stick with whore for a while.” [HER] is a full-length play that follows a cast of archetypal characters as they navigate puberty, gender roles, marriage, and family. It is the search for love, purpose, personal fulfillment, and security in the midst of a world that tells them there is only one right way of doing things. As the character Her resists moving into the next phase of her story, the other characters begin to question the roles they have become so accustomed to playing, simply because a Voice told them so. No one wants to be lonely, but can you stand the threat of being alone, against all social pressures

Peggy Glanville-Hicks\u27 Opera Sappho, A Critical Examination

Over the past ten years there has been a considerable amount of renewed interest in the life and work of Australian-born composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks who wrote five operas and a substantial body of chamber music. Although most of her career as a composer was accomplished abroad, her works were a significant contribution to the development of Australian opera. There is a growing body of literature written about Peggy Glanville-Hicks, but nothing substantial has been written about her last great work, Sappho. The purpose of this minor thesis, therefore, is to examine this last grand, yet unperformed opera. This thesis will present the composer’s background, musical training and her philosophies on music and give an overview of her musical style. It will include a descriptive analysis of Sappho paying particular attention to the use of instrumentation, vocal writing and dramatic content. Transcripts of correspondence between the composer and her contemporaries will expose the reasons for the opera never having been performed. Sappho will be placed in the context of her other works, particularly the operas The Transposed Heads and Nausicaa. This will serve to show Glanville-Hicks’ maturity and ability as an opera composer who was able to integrate her own unique style with the traditions of grand opera. Perhaps most importantly, it is hoped that this research will assist with the regeneration of interest in this fascinating composer’s last major work, which in turn may lead to a performing edition of Sappho and ultimately public performances

Human Factors: The Impact on Industry and the Environment

New technology is evolving rapidly, creating new environmental and industrial challenges that must be considered. Technology continues to focus on the demands of industry to increase efficiency and production output. At the same time, industry must quickly adapt to new technologies in order to compete and grow and also face the increased awareness for the need to evaluate and mitigate environmental impact. Recent studies indicate that the use of automation in the workplace will nearly double in the next few years. If we look at the control room as being the core of the industrial environment, the focus was previously on the physical and automated components. Little focus has been on the humans that control this rapidly evolving technology, and there is still not enough focus on the most critical component that can not only impact production and output but also create a negative impact on the environment as a result of human error that could have been avoided. It is time to take a step back and look at what impact the humans are having on the environment as a result of the rapidly changing technology

Crippin’ the Flâneur: Cosmopolitanism, and landscapes of tolerance

Cosmopolitanism, desire and the contracting of social relationships areenduring themes in both philosophy and social theory. In this paper I seek toexplore these themes in order to ascertain what they might mean to disabled people and the ethos of ableism more generally. Modern Westernized life hassince the Industrial Revolution been sited in cities fostering the growth ofurban culture and an ethos of cosmopolitanism (Agamben, 2009; Beck, 2002; Cheah, 2006). The cosmopolitan outlook has become the signifier of thatwhich is developed, advanced and civilized in society. The liberal project of the melting pot, of social tolerance is cast against the backdrop of city life(Brown, 2006). The paper will first examine the trope of cosmopolitanism anddisability including the place of ‘spaces’ for marginal peoples. Second, it will provide a perspective on the disabled flâneur (Campbell, 2009; Simmel, 1908; Young, 2005) who ambivalently claims ‘outsider-insidedness’ and finally thepaper moves to consider the significant question of social inclusion and the government of aversion through the deployment of discourses of tolerance

States of Exceptionality::Provisional Disability, its Mitigation and Citizenship

Arts, Education & Law Group, School of LawNo Full Tex

The analysis of environmental information: a study of the dissemination, mediation and interpretation of news.

The project arose out of the fact that information changes as journalists gather, interpret and disseminate environmental information. A model was developed describing the flow of environmental information in the media, which shows that journalists retrieve information from a complex range of sources before repackaging it into an apparently simplified format. The preliminary stage of this model was enhanced to a secondary level by the data elicited from interviewing journalists, media librarians and scientific personnel. This depicted the news process within a specific reporting context, showing the sources (e.g. specialists, libraries, environmental groups) that journalists consult, and the methods that they use to construct the news. A case study of the Braer oil spill (Appendix VI) has been included, in which an in-depth examination of the newspaper coverage was carried out. Qualitative methods used at this stage (the macro level) include semi-structured interviewing, observation and various content analysis techniques. From this work, it emerged that journalists use "taken-for-granted", routinised procedures in the news process. The research aimed to investigate the news process, i.e. at a micro level, implicit in which are the constructional and interpretive methods that Scottish journalists use to create environmental news. It was the primary intention of the work to reveal the ways in which reporters routinise their work procedures and how they apply the "rules" implicit in them. During the course of the research, the sources of these rules were identified as: academic training, on-site experience and professional roles. The project has examined the techniques used by journalists to evaluate news potential in environmental issues, the practices used to gather information, the sources that journalists select, and the storage of information in libraries. The method implemented in the micro analysis evolved from the work on the Braer case study and was conducted using techniques of ethnomethodology. These were tailored specifically to Scottish journalism and the environment. Tri-lateral discourse sessions (i.e. the researcher and respondents interact in and through the text) were carried out, where respondents analysed five different environmental cases. Respondents revealed the step-by-step procedures involved in the approach to, researching of and construction of news. From these data, the researcher identified a core of rules or procedures that journalists use. Working within the model of the news process, the research aimed to demonstrate how journalists actually undertake the construction of news by examining their "taken-for-granted" assumptions. The work aims to make a valid contribution to knowledge in that it extends previous research carried out in the field, and both the context and method are original in their development