71 research outputs found
Photo-elicitation and time-lining to enhance the research interview: Exploring the quarterlife crisis of young adults in India and the UK
The aim of this article is to convey our experience of using photo-elicitation along with time-lining to enhance the research interview. We reflect on a study on the âquarterlife crisisâ in India and the UK. Participants were aged 22-30 years and self-defined as having experienced difficulties âfinding their place in the world.â There were 16 British (8 women, 8 men) and 8 Indian participants (4 women; 4 men). First, we consider how photo-elicitation proved highly compatible with our method of analysis â interpretative phenomenological analysis â through affording a deep connection with participant experience. Second, we explore how participants engaged with photo-elicitation and time-lining, providing examples of image content (events and feelings), image form (literal and symbolic), and creative use of timelines. Third, we reflect on how photo-elicitation and time-lining appeared to enhance participant agency, and to have a therapeutic value for participants, as well as providing particularly rich material for analysis
Team-taught versus individually taught undergraduate education: A qualitative study of student experiences and preferences
Team teaching is becoming more common in undergraduate programmes of study although the relative merits to the more traditional individually taught courses have not been determined for best practice. For this study, 15 final year undergraduate students were interviewed to gain insight into their learning experiences. A thematic analysis of the interview data identified the perceived advantages and disadvantages of each mode of teaching. The advantages of individually taught courses included: Consistency of content delivery and advice, Familiarity with the lecturerâs teaching style and better Continuity of the subject content. The disadvantage of individually taught modules included Missing knowledge, compared to a team approach. Advantages of team taught modules included: Greater insight into a topic delivered by multiple team members. Disadvantages included: Content overlap, Conflicting messages relating to assessment, team members not taking Ownership of their roles and responsibilities and a belief that overall Team failure is worse than individual failure to deliver a module well. The results revealed that individually taught modules were generally preferred to team taught modules. A set of best practice recommendations are proposed to address the challenges when delivering team-taught teaching and become more student focused
Put It in Your Shoe It Will Make You Limp: British Menâs Online Responses to a Male Pill
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.This article analyzes online interactions between British men and other online readersâ comments in response to two news articles focused on a male contraceptive pill. The aim of the study was to explore how British menâs online accounts construct a male pill as a potential contraceptive option for family planning. The two online articles reported the scientific innovations, as well as the production and marketing, of a nonhormonal, plant-based pill for men. Discourse analysis was used to analyze the online comments, from which two discourses emerged: (a) âMen as responsible health consumersâ and (b) ââKilling spermâ and other side effects on semen.â When provided with the opportunity to take future responsibility for family planning, male readers were found to be unlikely to use a contraceptive pill. The men expressed the need for new options of contraception but, overall, felt a male pill was not the solution
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2D versus 3D human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cultures for neurodegenerative disease modelling
Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), Huntington's disease (HD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), affect millions of people every year and so far, there are no therapeutic cures available. Even though animal and histological models have been of great aid in understanding disease mechanisms and identifying possible therapeutic strategies, in order to find disease-modifying solutions there is still a critical need for systems that can provide more predictive and physiologically relevant results. One possible avenue is the development of patient-derived models, e.g. by reprogramming patient somatic cells into human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), which can then be differentiated into any cell type for modelling. These systems contain key genetic information from the donors, and therefore have enormous potential as tools in the investigation of pathological mechanisms underlying disease phenotype, and progression, as well as in drug testing platforms. hiPSCs have been widely cultured in 2D systems, but in order to mimic human brain complexity, 3D models have been proposed as a more advanced alternative. This review will focus on the use of patient-derived hiPSCs to model AD, PD, HD and ALS. In brief, we will cover the available stem cells, types of 2D and 3D culture systems, existing models for neurodegenerative diseases, obstacles to model these diseases in vitro, and current perspectives in the field
Learning to Use Discourse Analysis on a Professional Psychology Training Programme: Accounts of Supervisees and a Supervisor
The effects of dissection-room experiences and related coping strategies among Hungarian medical students
Background:
Students get their first experiences of dissecting human cadavers in the practical classes of anatomy
and pathology courses, core components of medical education. These experiences form an important part of the
process of becoming a doctor, but bring with them a special set of problems.
Methods:
Quantitative, national survey (n = 733) among medical students, measured reactions to dissection
experiences and used a new measuring instrument to determine the possible factors of coping.
Results:
Fifty per cent of students stated that the dissection experience
does not affect them
. Negative effects were
significantly more frequently reported by women and students in clinical training (years 3,4,5,6). The predominant
factor in the various coping strategies for dissection practicals is
cognitive coping
(rationalisation, intellectualisation).
Physical
and
emotional
coping strategies followed, with similar mean scores. Marked gender differences also
showed up in the application of coping strategies: there was a clear dominance of emotional-based coping among
women. Among female students, there was a characteristic decrease in the physical repulsion factor in reactions to
dissection in the later stages of study.
Conclusions:
The experience of dissection had an emotional impact on about half of the students. In general,
students considered these experiences to be an important part of becoming a doctor. Our study found that
students chiefly employed cognitive coping strategies to deal with their experiences.
Dissection-room sessions are important for learning emotional as well as technical skills. Successful coping is
achieved not by repressing emotions but by accepting and understanding the negative emotions caused by the
experience and developing effective strategies to deal with them.
Medical training could make better use of the learning potential of these experiences
Toward a Unified Framework of Perceived Negative Leader Behaviors Insights from French and British Educational Sectors
In this paper, we challenge the commonly held assumption that actors in the education sector are largely ethical, and that there is therefore little need to scrutinize leader behaviors in this sector. We also overcome past scholarsâ tendencies to either focus selectively on positive leader behaviors, or to stay content with categorizing leader behaviors into effective and ineffective (if at all they do focus on negative leader behaviors). Using data (Critical Incidents) from three case studies previously conducted in eight British and French academic establishments, we show that not only do negative leader behaviors abound in the education sector, but they can also be differentiated into three types: (1) behaviors emanating from leadersâ lack of functional skills i.e., ineffective behaviors, (2) behaviors emanating from leadersâ insouciance toward harming the organization and its members i.e., dysfunctional behaviors, and (3) behaviors emanating from leadersâ lack of honesty, integrity, ethicality, and transparency i.e., unauthentic behaviors. We enrich current understanding on ineffective, dysfunctional, and unauthentic leader behaviors, and offer a unified (yet differentiated) framework of negative leader behaviors in the academic sector. Since each type of negative behavior emanates from different motivational drivers, different measures are required to curb them. These are also discussed. A comparison of our findings with those from leadership studies in other sectors reveals that negative leader behaviors in the education sector are quite similar to those in other sectors
Values, Salience, and Job Satisfaction: Male and Female Occupational Therapists' Responses
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