The professional and personal values and their revelation through professional doctorates

This paper discusses the relationship between individual practitioners’ personal values and their developing professional agentic values. It considers how the former might be in tension with the prescribed forms of practice held to be ‘professional’ by professional bodies, warranting membership and, indeed, any licence to practice. These practices and their underpinning values have a functionality that may be at odds with the personal values of new professionals as their careers develop and they learn more, both propositionally and tacitly, within the profession. Becoming a professional within the cocoon of the profession is a career-long engagement and commitment. The cocoon and its values may be challenged by practice at the periphery of the professional domain—for instance multi-disciplinary lawyers’ and accountants’ practice—or by critical reflection on individuals’ own practice and the hidden values that sustain it. Through the lens of an ‘I’ and ‘we’ framework introduced in the paper and the use of a professional doctorate, we discuss how a practitioner’s and profession’s values may be in tension. An example might be found by turning to the field of law, where justice and human rights may be lost beneath weighty procedure and expensive entry costs. The paper seeks an understanding of the different personal and collective ontological stances and tensions that practitioners may experience as they progress through their careers, attempting to align their own values with those of the collective values within their profession. We explore this through a Heideggerian reading of transdisciplinarity

The progenitor mass of the Type IIP supernova SN 2004et from late-time spectral modeling

SN 2004et is one of the nearest and best-observed Type IIP supernovae, with a progenitor detection as well as good photometric and spectroscopic observational coverage well into the nebular phase. Based on nucleosynthesis from stellar evolution/explosion models we apply spectral modeling to analyze its 140-700 day evolution from ultraviolet to mid-infrared. We find a M_ZAMS= 15 Msun progenitor star (with an oxygen mass of 0.8 Msun) to satisfactorily reproduce [O I] 6300, 6364 {\AA} and other emission lines of carbon, sodium, magnesium, and silicon, while 12 Msun and 19 Msun models under- and overproduce most of these lines, respectively. This result is in fair agreement with the mass derived from the progenitor detection, but in disagreement with hydrodynamical modeling of the early-time light curve. From modeling of the mid-infrared iron-group emission lines, we determine the density of the "Ni-bubble" to rho(t) = 7E-14*(t/100d)^-3 g cm^-3, corresponding to a filling factor of f = 0.15 in the metal core region (V = 1800 km/s). We also confirm that silicate dust, CO, and SiO emission are all present in the spectra.Comment: 21 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in A&

Responding to Per.Art's Dis_Sylphide:Six Voices from IFTR's Performance and Disability Working Group

This submission by IFTR's Performance and Disability working group features responses by six participants – voices projected from Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Wales, England and Australia – to Per.Art's production Dis_Sylphide, which was presented on 7 July 2018 at the Cultural Institution Vuk Karadžić as part of IFTR's conference in Belgrade at the invitation of the Performance and Disability working group. Per.Art is an independent theatre company founded in 1999 in Novi Sad, Serbia, by the internationally recognized choreographer and performer Saša Asentić, the company's artistic director. The company brings together people with learning disabilities, artists (theatre, dance and visual arts), special educators, representatives of cultural institutions, philosophers, architects and students to make work. This co-authored submission examines how the production responds to three important dance works of the twentieth century – Mary Wigman's Hexentanz (1928), Pina Bausch's Kontakthof (1978) and Xavier Le Roy's Self Unfinished (1998) – to explore normalizing and normative body concepts in dance theatre and in society, and how they have been migrating over the course of dance histories. The shared experience of witnessing the performance provoked discussion on the migration of dance forms across time and cultures, as well issues of access and (im)mobility, which are especially pertinent to a disability studies context

Criteria and Scrutiny in Computing Education Research

In 2020, a working group was convened at the Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE) conference, led by Marian Petre, Kate Sanders and Robert McCartney on Mapping the Landscape of Peer Review in Computing Education Research (CER). The working group considered 17 venues, including CER conferences and journals, as well as overlapping conferences in Software Engineering and Human Factors. In this presentation, we consider some of the common review criteria observed across venues as well as some of the ethical concerns that emerge in peer-review and the process itself. These elements are considered through the lens of excerpts and vignettes drawn from conference chairs and journal editors interviewed by the working group that reflect aspects of the conversations and debates that have happened during the week at the present seminar

Multivoxel pattern analysis reveals 3D place information in the human hippocampus

The spatial world is three dimensional (3D) and humans and other animals move both horizontally and vertically within it. Extant neuroscientific studies have typically investigated spatial navigation on a horizontal 2D plane, leaving much unknown about how 3D spatial information is represented in the brain. Specifically, horizontal and vertical information may be encoded in the same or different neural structures with equal or unequal sensitivity. Here, we investigated these possibilities using fMRI while participants were passively moved within a 3D lattice structure as if riding a rollercoaster. Multivoxel pattern analysis was used to test for the existence of information relating to where and in which direction participants were heading in this virtual environment. Behaviorally, participants had similarly accurate memory for vertical and horizontal locations and the right anterior hippocampus (HC) expressed place information that was sensitive to changes along both horizontal and vertical axes. This is suggestive of isotropic 3D place encoding. In contrast, participants indicated their heading direction faster and more accurately when they were heading in a tilted-up or tilted-down direction. This direction information was expressed in the right retrosplenial cortex and posterior HC and was only sensitive to vertical pitch, which could reflect the importance of the vertical (gravity) axis as a reference frame. Overall, our findings extend previous knowledge of how we represent the spatial world and navigate within it by taking into account the important third dimension