Queens consort, gender and diplomacy : Catherine of Aragon, Claude of France and the Field of Cloth of Gold

In 1520, two queens consort, Catherine of Aragon and Claude of France, attended the event now known as the Field of Cloth of Gold. This article analyses representations of their involvement across three sources; contemporary diplomatic correspondence and two later sources, Edward Hall's Chronicle (1548 and 1550) and the Hampton Court Palace painting of the Field (c. 1545). It examines how the producers of these sources shaped the function of the consort according to their own motivations, genre and the context of their own time. It argues that each source acknowledges the consorts as important to the event's success, but that while contemporary letters represent Catherine and Claude as individuals, the later sources exhibit shifting narratives to focus on the trope of ideal queenship. A similar shift was not apparent for kingship. This comparison of contemporary and later depictions of the consorts reveals a gendered reshaping of their role at the Field across time according to the needs of the creators which, in turn, sheds light on understandings of queenship and diplomatic engagement in early modern England

Self-employment among the Armed Forces Community

The Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick, QinetiQ and X-Forces Enterprise were commissioned by Forces in Mind Trust to understand what more could be done to support the Armed Forces Community in pursuing self-employment and thereby help to maximise their chances of a successful and sustainable transition. This research seeks to fill the current gap in knowledge and contribute to policy-making and service delivery

NACBO Research Plan

The National Alliance of Capacity Building Organisations (NACBO) is a national network of six not-for-profit, values-based organisations. The six independent organisations operate on a mix of fee for service and government funding, in most cases operating for many years. More recently, the six NACBO organisations have received funding by the Department of Social Services (DSS) to continue to build the capacity of people with disability and their informal supporters, to enable fuller social and economic participation of people with disabilit

Interrogating Whiteness, Complicating Blackness, Remapping The American Culture

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Supported accommodation evaluation framework (SAEF) guide

High hopes for the NDIS are that people with disability will be able to live as independently as they choose, with the housing of their choice, and with the paid support that suits their preferences and life goals. Research conducted by the Social Policy Research Centre for the NSW government about disability housing support that is like the NDIS found that most people did achieve some positive outcomes. Least change was evident in people’s interpersonal relationships and employment, and some people did not live in housing that met their needs.&nbsp

Project to decrease medical student refusal in the Obstetric and Gynecology Clinic at the University of Iowa

Purpose: To describe the frequency at which students are refused from patient care, and to evaluate the impact of interventions designed to reduce medical student refusal. Background: Medical student refusal from patient care is perceived to be a common problem during the Ob-Gyn clerkship at the University of Iowa. Review of the literature shows that medical student refusal is common in a variety of clerkships1-4. Few studies have evaluated interventions to reduce the rate of refusal. Methods: Beginning in 2016, surveys measuring medical students’ perception of refusal were administered upon completion of the Ob-Gyn clerkship. Interventions to reduce refusal of medical student participation were implemented and/or modified with each subsequent clerkship block starting in 2017. Results: Over the 2017 calendar year, 86% (85% among females and 88% among males) of students reported being refused from patient interaction in any clerkship because they are a medical student, 88% reported being refused in their Ob-Gyn clerkship because they are a medical student, and 85% percent of male students reported being refused in their Ob-Gyn clerkship because of their gender. The data show no clear correlations with refusal and gender nor with the interventions put in place. Multiple qualitative responses describe patient discomfort with the presence of male students. Discussion: The data suggest that exclusion from patient care in the Ob-Gyn clerkship occurs for the majority of medical students queried. Further, gender based exclusion may be a related problem. So far, the data have not shown a clear improvement following interventions. Possible explanations are explored and future interventions are discussed

Recasting ‘harm’ in support: Misrecognition between people with intellectual disability and paid workers

Policy efforts addressing abuse of people with disability tend to focus on more extreme forms of violence, sometimes at the expense of attending to everyday indignities and insults experienced when receiving support. Recognition theory provides a lens for identifying actions and attitudes of misrecognition that can cause hurt, humiliation or degradation, and have a negative effect on identity formation. Honneth’s concept of misrecognition is used to analyse qualitative data from 42 pairs of young people with intellectual disability and support workers. Many of the casual interactions that signalled misrecognition highlight the everyday harms that people receiving or giving support are exposed to in their paired relationship. Systems must respond to the high likelihood of these risks of misrecognition. Supervision, training, reflective practice and support activities can expose the problems and demonstrate practices more likely to positively impact the identity formation and wellbeing for both people with disability and support workers. Points of interest Everyday harms are things that happen often in services which upset people, but which do not get treated as violence or abuse. They are things like having unkind jokes made about you, being ignored, or being disrespected. In our project, we called this misrecognition. We looked at when misrecognition happened between young people with disability and their paid support workers. A.. lot of the time, people did not intend to cause harm. The other person was still hurt by the things they did or said. We can improve the way that people with disability and support workers work together if people understand how their actions affect other people