Does God want female entrepreneurs to have it all?

There is a dizzying array of career and life advice available for women. Whether being told to ‘lean in’ or ‘let go of balance’ women are commonly encouraged to ‘have it all’: be devoted, glamorous, passionate wives and mothers while climbing the career ladder. In our recent study, we explored how this postfeminist call to ‘have it all’ intersects with Evangelical Christian teachings of prosperity in a network marketing organisation. The ‘prosperity gospel’ as this movement is often called assures followers that God will bless the faithful with a financially prosperous life in exchange for a positive attitude and unflappable belief

Public Health SoTL: From Anecdote to Data

Challenges related to teaching and learning are often discussed among faculty. Student input is often sparse and subject to volunteer bias, resulting in feedback that is likely not representative. Furthermore, there is also anecdotal evidence that public health faculty have strong views regarding teaching and learning topics, particularly when it comes to online instruction for courses with rigorous methodologic or analytic content, and there are concerns student performance may differ based on course modality. In an effort to draw evidence-based conclusions based on non-anecdotal data, a public health student and faculty dataset creation and analysis model is explored

The liminality of branding:interweaving discourses 'making up' a cultural intermediary occupation

This article explores how the occupation of branding and the work it encompasses are discursively constituted and ‘made up’. It starts with the premise that branding is a cultural intermediary occupation about whose norms and practices we cannot assume certainty, stability or homogeneity. The study illustrates how branding is comprised of multiple social and occupational discourses, namely, ‘creativity’, ‘discovery’, ‘business’ and ‘morality’. Rather than stand alone, these discourses dynamically interweave and intersect. Consequently, branding emerges as an occupation with distinct liminal conditions, being simultaneously about art, science, business and social relational work. Instead of moving towards stability, our findings suggest that branding is an intermediary occupation that sustains rather than discontinues liminality and that enduring liminality lends itself to the non-distinctiveness of the occupation. For branders, occupying a liminal occupational position implies various challenges but similarly scopes for flexibility and autonomy

Hindu Views on the Environment

Poster explores five views that influence Hindu views on sustainability and the environment, the first of which is that the ecological consciousness is the way of living in which it respects the environment and the ecological world. A Hindu’s ecological consciousness is well constructed, as a main aspect of the religion is care for the Earth and respect for creation.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/roesch_symposium_content/1024/thumbnail.jp

Mimicry and artistry: : Place branders’ construction of “good” branding

Many public organizations think of themselves as brands and engage in branding to increase their attractiveness. Often this is seen as a good practice, but this paper takes a more skeptical view and interrogates the value of place branding expertise for public organizations. Through observation of a place branding conference, drawing on some principles from ethnomethodology, this paper provides clues to what the place branding profession constructs as “good” and legitimate expertise and the norms that guide their work. We identified two levels of legitimate place branding expertise: Mimicry and Artistry. Mimicry signifies imitation of already institutionalized ideas and practices, and proficiency in supplying beautiful yet detached and superficial representations of cities. Artistry refers to place branding that stands out as brilliant and inventive, encompassing unexpected play with symbols and creative combination of branding models. We argue that both these levels of expertise may be at odds with civic values of city government such as inclusion and representativeness. Our study concludes that the ways in which the branders construct expertise risks deflecting attention from the core problems of a place or a city and separating place branding from city management practice

Utilization of Pressure Injury Prevention Team in Long-Term Care Settings

In addressing the role that pressure injury prevention (PIP) teams can have in prevention and reduction of pressure ulcers for older adult patients in long-term care settings, this PICOT question is asked: In adults aged 65 and over in long-term care settings with a diagnosis of Type II Diabetes, does implementing weekly skin assessments performed by a pressure injury prevention (PIP) team to standard PIP strategies, compared to just standard PIP strategies, prevent or reduce pressure injury development over 6 months? Pressure injuries are a preventable complication that can lead to detrimental outcomes, including patients being “2.8 times more likely to die during their hospital stay, [and] 1.69 times more likely to die within 30 days after discharge,” (Tschannen & Anderson, 2019, p. 1399). Along with standard interventions, an interdisciplinary approach has become increasingly utilized. The search for research articles was conducted within PubMed and CINAHL using the terms pressure injury, pressure injury prevention, diabetes, and wound care team. Search inclusion criteria required articles to have been published between 2017 and 2022, address all three keyword phrases, and included peer-reviewed, full-text articles published within the past five years. Exclusion criteria involved evidence-based articles that were irrelevant to pressure injuries in the older adult population. Eleven key articles were reviewed. Research suggests continued skin assessment and prevention strategies in combination with standard PIP decrease the mortality, morbidity, and cost associated with pressure injuries

Maybe We’re Creative: What I Learned about Co-creation in Design by Dancing with My Dad

In the realm of creativity, the challenge of collaboration without sacrificing individual integrity remains significant, with some individuals and groups historically compromising more than others. This study investigates whether co-design practitioners can derive valuable insights from creative processes, such as dance, to enhance efforts. This autoethnographic research is written from the ‘I’ perspective, chronicling the making of a documentary using interviews, dance classes, personal journals and reflections from the researcher and her dad, a main participant. It explores the research process as a site for healing and embodied learning. This study explores influences on creative practices, extending choreographer Twyla Tharp’s insights on lived experience and expression into a conceptual systems model for reflection on evolving dynamics affecting the self in relation to others. The study advocates for broader recognition of reflective, embodied practices alongside community engagement as pivotal in design and especially in co-design work

Stress, eating, and weight change : the moderating role of self-compassion.

Rising obesity rates are putting strain on public health systems worldwide. It is therefore important to identify and target high risk periods for weight gain. One such period is the first year of university, where students often gain weight at a significantly higher rate than nonstudents of the same age. Stress is commonly experience by students and has been associated with both weight gain and weight loss in the literature, as well as an unhealthy change in eating behaviours. This thesis used a longitudinal design to examine stress as a risk factor for weight change and eating behaviour change in students during their first year of university and at follow-up two years later. The role of self-compassion was investigated as a potential moderator in this relationship. Results showed that students on average gained 1.61kg across their first year, and an additional 2.58kg from the end of their first year to the end of their third year. Stress was not directly associated with changes in body mass index (BMI), nor with changes in eating behaviour. As predicted, self-compassion significantly moderated the relationship between stress and BMI change: those with low self-compassion and high average stress during their first year gained weight. This moderation effect was not observed for follow-up BMI change, and was not observed for stress and eating behaviour change. These results suggest self-compassion moderates the stress-BMI change relationship while stress is being experienced, thus interventions aimed at reducing weight gain and stress should involve concurrent self-compassion training. Future research should employ experimental designs and self-compassion interventions to further investigate relationships between stress, self-compassion, BMI change, and eating behaviour