Marshall University Choral Union Presents a Guest Artist, Jane Hobson, Mezzo-Soprano

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Concert of Sacred Music

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Marshall University Music Department Presents Jane Hobson, Mezzo-Soprano

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The Summer Institute of Musical Art Presents Paul Balshaw and Jane Hobson

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The research-teaching nexus : what do national teaching awards tells us?

This article addresses two questions that are part of a broader debate about the relationship between teaching and research: are outstanding university teachers engaged in research and are they disseminating their teaching expertise to other university teachers? We address these questions through an analysis of the research and publications of the 2005 winners of the competitive, national awards for university teaching in Australia. The analysis indicates that outstanding university teachers are active researchers, but are unlikely to publish about their teaching or improving teaching practice in universities. The findings have policy implications for the separation of teaching and research within and between universities, and raise questions about the contribution of teaching awards to the wider improvement of university teaching. As such, the article issues a caution to policy makers and university administrators against making pre‐emptive decisions about the relationship between teaching and research based on questionable assumptions.<br /

Planning ahead with children with life-limiting conditions and their families : development, implementation and evaluation of ‘My Choices’

Background: The United Kingdom has led the world in the development of children’s palliative care. Over the past two decades, the illness trajectories of children with life-limiting conditions have extended with new treatments and better home-based care. Future planning is a critically under-researched aspect of children’s palliative care globally. This paper describes the development, implementation and evaluation of innovative child and parent-held palliative care planning resources. The resources were designed to facilitate parent and child thinking and engagement in future planning, and to determine care preferences and preferred locations of care for children with life-limiting conditions from diagnosis onwards. These resources fill a significant gap in palliative care planning before the end-of-life phase. Methods: Drawing on contemporaneous research on producing evidence-based children’s health information, we collaborated with leading children’s not-for-profit organisations, parents, children, and professionals. A set of resources (My Choices booklets) were developed for parents and children and evaluated using interviews (parents, children, professionals) and questionnaires (professionals) and an open web-based consultation. Results: Parents and children responded in three ways: Some used the booklets to produce detailed written plans with clear outcomes and ideas about how best to achieve desired outcomes. Others preferred to use the booklet to help them think about potential options. Remaining parents found it difficult to think about the future and felt there was no point because they perceived there to be no suitable local services. Professionals varied in confidence in their ability to engage with families to plan ahead and identified many challenges that prevented them from doing so. Few families shared their plans with professionals. Parents and children have far stronger preferences for home-care than professionals. Conclusion: The My Choices booklets were revised in light of findings, have been endorsed by Together for Short Lives, and are free to download in English and Welsh for use by parents and young people globally. More work needs to be done to support families who are not yet receptive to planning ahead. Professionals would benefit from more training in person-centred approaches to future planning and additional communications skills to increase confidence and ability to engage with families to deliver sensitive palliative care planning

Marshall University Music Department Presents the Symphonic Choir, Symphonic Wind Ensemble

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Interests, beliefs, experience, and perceptions shape tolerance towards impacts of recovering predators

Open Access via the Wiley/JISC agreement ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are grateful to all the respondents who participated in this study and the organisations that shared information about the research and questionnaire with their members: British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), Confederation of Forest Industries (CONFOR), Forestry England, Forestry and Land Scotland, National Gamekeepers' Organisation (NGO), Red Squirrels Northern England (RSNE) and local squirrel groups, Royal Forestry Society (RFS), Scottish Gamekeepers' Association (SGA), Scottish Land and Estates (SLE), Scottish Wildlife Trust, Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels Project (SSRS), Small Woods and UK Squirrel Accord and partners. Thanks to J. Spencer for input at the early stages of the research, M. Dunn, M. Marzano, J. Wilson and K. August, for comments on the questionnaire, and D. Hare, M. Nuttall, P. García-Díaz, K. Ives, K. Thompson and E. Sheehy for comments on the draft manuscript. We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers and editors for their comments and suggestions that have improved the quality of the manuscript. FUNDING INFORMATION Keziah Hobson was supported by a NERC studentship grant (NE/N008960/1) at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, in partnership with Forestry England, Vincent Wildlife Trust, Forest Research, RSNE and CONFOR.Peer reviewe