YPORN? intimate conversations with young people

Recent years have seen a resurgence of public discussions and (moral) panics about a range of pornography-related topics, the expansion of pornography across the internet, its putative links to rape and sexual violence, and erotic life-styling or the oft-cited ‘sexualization’ of culture. Horvath (2013) makes the point that access to pornography is frequently done by young people on their own, or in peer groups away from adults, making supervision difficult and regulation of the images impossible. This is in keeping with other recently published and frequently cited work which highlights the potentially negative consequences of this unrestricted access, arguing that it results in increases of sexual bullying, harassment and sexting. (Horvath et al, 2013,Ringrose, et al and 2012, Phippen 2012). There is clearly a worry that this unfettered access poses risks to young people, most notably in terms of the detrimental impact on their ability to develop a healthy sexual identity and form healthy relationships. This paper will share our preliminary research findings from an ongoing project, which involves young people as active participants and captures their experiences as consumers of porn. Initial findings suggest that young people are not simply passive consumers of everything they view. They are adept and use a critical range of skills and perspectives to interpret sexual content. Overwhelming agreement seemed to be that young people were using porn to gain a wider understanding of their sexual identity and fill in gaps about sex education. (246 words) Bibliography Horvath, M., Alys, L., Massey, K., Pina, A., Scally, M. and Adler, A. 2013 “Basically... porn is everywhere” A Rapid Evidence Assessment on the Effects that Access and Exposure to Pornography has on Children and Young People Education Journal, 164 Phippen, A. (2012) Sexting: An Exploration of Practices, Attitudes and Influences NSPCC/John Wiley and Sons Ringrose, J. Gill, R. Livingstone, S. & Harvey, L. 2012 A Qualitative Study of Children Young People and ‘Sexting’ : A report prepared for the NSPCC/John Wiley and Sons Dr. Erika Laredo Youth and Community Development at Leeds Beckett Universit

What the Flip? How to embed flipped learning into your teaching and learning practice

This poster will reflect our experience of flipped learning and the way it can enhance student engagement and performance within an HE Health and Social Care programme. Our aim is to share the positive learning gained from this experience, demystify the process involved and encourage others to consider using a flipped approach as part of their teaching. The objectives are to produce a visual narrative that captures our motive, explains the technical process involved in producing materials and identifies the student’s experience of flipped learning through feedback and evaluation. Finally, the poster will offer a pedagogical reflection on what makes this approach innovative, performance enhancing and highly relevant to a new generation of learners and health and social care practitioners

The Joanna Project:a faith based project supporting street sex workers in Leeds

This case study focusses on the work of the Joanna Project (JP); a small, faith-based project, which supports street sex workers in Leeds. This study will explore some of the challenges arising when working with this service user group and some of the ways in which the values of community development contribute towards tackling the systemic disadvantage and disempowerment experienced by women who sell sex. The workers at JP have an explicit commitment to work with the marginalized and dispossessed, and it is their Christian beliefs that in turn feedback into the project and has helped to create a strong and consciously realised identity which forms the core of its philosophy and identity. These ideas have helped the project to identify that for a group of marginalised, stigmatised women simply valuing that person for themselves is an important act of humanity and helps, in that moment, to give back some dignity or love that life on the streets may have stripped away. The fundamental nature of the work is relational, with an emphasis on building positive relationships based on unconditional positive regard for another human bein

First and last and always: Streetwork as a methodology for radical community social work practice.

This conceptual paper aims to introduce and explore the practice of social streetwork. Streetwork is located as a historical professional discourse that has contemporary relevance fora rapidly changing and globalised world. Streetwork as a practice discourse occurs across a range of community based helping professions including social work, youth work and community work. The social work profession is increasingly becoming clinical and situated within statutory organisations placing a greater emphasis on outcome based targets, rather than building relationships; and as a result of austerity, traditional youth workers are becoming invisible, often moving into statutory education settings and complex needs welfare agencies. This paper will argue that for the broad helping professions to remain relevant we must engage with vulnerable and complex populations where we find them: at a street level - promoting a direct practice of social justice at a micro level. Within this discussion, we will define and explore a streetwork approach by examining the methodologies and objectives of street work practice. We will argue that by keeping to its origins of using informal and non-formal education as its primary tools, street work as an intervention works to combat poverty, social exclusion and discrimination. The paper articulates a foundation for practice based on the promotion of low threshold interventions with complex and hard to reach social populations. One of the key themes we will explore is how to locate streetwork practice as a form of social support, accompaniment and as a tool for promoting social inclusion and social democracy

Leeds Beckett Inaugaral Gender Research Conference

This paper will address a number of issues that have arisen from our joint volunteering/research in the Managed Area in Holbeck, Leeds. In October 2014, in response to safety concerns for street sex workers and the increasing need to promote community cohesion between local residents and the key stakeholders, the Leeds Strategic Prostitution Working group introduced the non-enforcement of soliciting legislation in a small area of Holbeck. Prostitution and in particular street based sex work is at the centre of a powerful ideological debate which is polarised, frequently vitriolic and in reality doesn’t address the practicalities of the lives of these street connected women. In this paper we will outline the background against which debates around sex work occur, before exploring two local intervention strategies, which foreground the women who work on the streets of Holbeck. Despite divergent starting points, both projects are motivated by a desire to deliver the best services and as a long-term goal promote transformative systemic change. Street sex workers are affected by a range of health-related issues, not least because the majority of the women we encounter are intravenous heroin users, but also a combination of complex issues revolving around stigma, shame and chaotic housing prevent women from accessing healthcare

L’épaississement tendineux de l’arthropathie liée à la dialyse correspond à des dépôts amyloïdes

International audiencel’amylose à la bêta2-microglobuline (β2 M) liée à la dialyse (ALD) est une arthropathie invalidante initialement observée chez des patients traités par dialyse au long cours. Son incidence et sa prévalence ont fortement diminué parallèlement à l’amélioration des techniques de dialyse. Nous tentons ici de définir les caractéristiques cliniques et de l’IRM de cette affection pour en améliorer le diagnostic.MéthodesNous avons examiné de manière rétrospective les dossiers de 19 patients dialysés chez lesquels une ALD à β2 M était suspectée. Le diagnostic reposait sur les critères d’IRM (Hyposignal dans les séquences pondérées en T1 et T2). Lors de l’analyse IRM, des scores ont été attribués aux différentes lésions articulaires selon leur sévérité (de 0 à 3).RésultatsL’âge moyen des patients était de 66,0 ± 10,5 ans et la durée moyenne de la dialyse de 23,7 ± 10,5 ans. L’ALD touchait essentiellement les grosses articulations (épaule 73,7 % des cas, hanche 47,3 %) et le rachis (36,8 %). Les images IRM de huit épaules, huit hanches et trois rachis ont été analysées. Toutes ont révélé une synovite amyloïde avec un score moyen élevé sur les trois sites. Les lésions les plus fréquentes dans toutes les articulations étaient un épaississement tendineux (68,4 %) et des érosions osseuses (68,4 %). Le score moyen de l’épaississement des tendons était particulièrement élevé dans les épaules, mais également au rachis. Les érosions osseuses étaient plus fréquentes aux épaules et au bassin.ConclusionChez les patients traités par dialyse au long cours, l’ALD à β2M touche les grosses articulations et le rachis. L’épaississement tendineux doit faire l’objet d’une attention particulière. Le recours à l’IRM est nécessaire pour caractériser le profil des lésions et établir le diagnostic

Mean score of cartilage lesion of the tibial plateaus in knees with/without meniscal calcifications, hyaline cartilage calcifications and CT-assessed osteoarthritis.

<p>Mean score of cartilage lesion of the tibial plateaus in knees with/without meniscal calcifications (MC+/MC<b>−</b>), hyaline cartilage calcifications (HCC+/HCC<b>−</b>) and CT-assessed osteoarthritis (CT-OA+/CT-OA<b>−</b>). The percentage of knees is calculated out of the 29 left knees analyzed after dissection and ink staining.</p