The Return of the Empire: Representations of Race, Ethnicity and Culture in Disney's Tarzan and The Jungle Book, and in the Burroughs and Kipling pre-texts

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Volunteering for Wellbeing: Improving Access and Social Inclusion by Increasing the Diversity of Museum Volunteer Training for Public-facing Roles

This article reports outcomes from a 15-month (2018-19) study led by UCL on behalf of the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance in partnership with three London museums of differing sizes with natural or local history collections. The study aimed to address mental health inequalities by diversifying volunteer populations through reforming recruitment procedures to overcome perceived barriers, and enriching training programmes to improve wellbeing. A mixed methods approach was used to assess wellbeing and mechanisms by which key benefits were derived, such as social interaction and forming connections. The article considers how increasing the diversity of volunteer training in museums can improve wellbeing, widen access and promote social inclusion. Policy and practice implications are discussed in relation to embedding wellbeing training strategies into heritage organizations

DRY DEPOSITION MODELLING IN A LAGRANGIAN DISPERSION MODEL

Revisions to the dry deposition scheme in the Lagrangian dispersion model, NAME are described. Improvements are made for situations where material is not well mixed within the boundary layer and for sedimenting heavy particles. The revised scheme overcomes computational noise, common in Lagrangian dispersion models, with a manageable or no increase to the computational cost. The result is a scheme which is well suited to all situations and which has better interaction between the advection (mean and turbulent), deposition and sedimentation

The role of museums, collections, and objects in supporting higher education student mental well-being and quality of learning

This chapter focuses on the potential role of museums and cultural collections in facilitating student well-being. In order to investigate the potential relationship between object engagement and student well-being, several groups of students undertaking modules that involved engaging with museum objects were asked to participate in an anonymous online survey. The UCL students who participated in the survey seemed to recognise the need to cope more effectively with stress manifested in the fact that over three-quarters of respondents thought that well-being activities should be incorporated into taught modules, with 30% of them proposing extra curricula relaxation techniques such as yoga, meditation, and mindfulness. Workshops and visits also enhance student engagement and interest, though to a slightly lesser extent than that of well-being. The fact that object-based learning activities, especially when performed outside the regular classroom environment, such as in a museum or collection space, appear to meet the expressed needs of the students is encouraging

Dora's Antipodean Inheritors: psychiatric Therapy in Poppy, Julia Paradise, and Still Murder,

A discussion of recent fiction that incorporates Freud's case study of Dora

Katharine Brisbane, Not Wrong - Just Different: Observations on the Rise of Contemporary Australian Theatre

Katharine Brisbane, Not Wrong - Just Different: Observations on the Rise of Contemporary Australian Theatr