Measurement of AΓA_{\Gamma}

The measurement of the charm CP violation observable $A_{\Gamma}$ using 1 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV recorded by the LHCb detector in 2011 is presented. This new result is the most accurate to date.Comment: to appear in the proceedings of The 6th International Workshop on Charm Physics (CHARM 2013

Social pedagogy and its relevance for Scottish social welfare

• Social pedagogy is an academic and professional discipline, which seeks to effect individual and social change through broadly educational means.• It does not offer a discrete approach or set of tools for practice but is a way of thinking, under which a range of different approaches might be situated• Across Europe, some form of social pedagogy or social education provides the theoretical and disciplinary basis for direct work with people across the life course• There is growing interest in social pedagogy in the UK; while initial interest focused on residential child care, its principles are increasingly recognised as being relevant across health,social care and education settings• Social pedagogy has a particular resonance for Scottish social welfare, where it chimes with Kilbrandon’s conception of social education, but also offers a suggestive framework within which to locate current policies• Evaluations of social pedagogy projects suggest that social pedagogic ideas can boost practitioners’ confidence and give them a language through which to better describe what they d

Close enough? professional closeness and safe caring

In countries around the world, residential child care has been rocked by scandals of abuse of children and young people by the people who were supposed to be caring for them. In the UK, in particular, the reaction to these revelations has been to implement a raft of measures that seek to ensure that nothing of the same nature or scale might happen again. However, there can be tensions between the implementation of such measures and the developmental and emotional needs of children and young people in residential care. In this paper, we outline recent policy and legislative developments and address some of the issues which we see as important in attempting to strike a balance between safe caring and quality caring, between professional closeness and abusive practice

Safe environments for innovation: developing a new multidisciplinary masters programme

This paper outlines the research and resulting curriculum design activities conducted as a collaborative venture between Northumbria University’s School of Design, School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences and Newcastle Business School undertaken in the creation of a new postgraduate programme in Multidisciplinary Design Innovation. With the area of multidisciplinary innovation education practice being comparatively new, the research conducted in support of the programme development was undertaken through a series of industry-linked pilot-study projects conducted with Philips, Hasbro, Lego and Unilever. The key finding from this research was an understanding of the importance of freeing students from different disciplines of the inhibitions that limit creativity in collaborative settings. This paper gives an account of the pilot studies and the associated learning derived from them, the collaborative development of the programme and approaches in curriculum and assessment design adopted in order to create what we call ‘safe environments for innovation’; environments designed to free students of these evident inhibitions

The Lay Summary in Medical Research Proposals - is it becoming more important?

One of the skills every researcher must learn is how to present complex ideas and medical or scientific terms to a “lay” audience, for example members of the public, carers, long-term users of services, organisations representing consumers’ interests, members of the public who are the potential receipients of health promotion programmes or those from a different clinical or academic background to their own. This poster will examine: 1. What is a lay summary? A brief summary of a research project or a research proposal ... written for a lay audience , rather than researchers or professionals ... written in plain English ... avoiding the use of jargon ... explaining any technical terms. 2. The three purposes of a lay summary: • Grant and Ethical review, in particular to ensure a project is accessible by laypersons who are becoming more involved in the peer review process in some funders e.g. National Institute for Health Research – Research for Patient Benefit scheme • Public understanding of science, particularly important for fundraising charities • Raising and justifying funds from government for science to underpin improvements in healthcare 3. What should a lay summary contain? The role of the lay summary is changing, and for many funders it is clearly becoming more important, for example the Arthritis Research Campaign are putting projects to a lay audience for assessment before scientific peer review

Tutor roles in collaborative group work

Collaborative assessed group work can create challenges for both students and tutors. Both the benefits and challenges of assessed group work are discussed with particular reference to the context of teacher education. The relevance of action research, the concept of living theory and the ethical nature of tutor practice in relation to group work are considered. The concept of 'role' is used to analyse aspects of tutor practice based on outcomes from an extended process of action research. A description of one role system of different tutor roles is given as a prompt for reflection and self-study

Product placement

The exhibition brought together a range of artists and product designers who share an interest in how objects are made, displayed / marketed and sold in contemporary culture. The exhibition questioned issues surrounding the production, technology and marketing of commodities, but on a wider scale, how (and by whom) participation in consumer activity is structured or framed. Each artist and product designer was ‘paired’ in order to produce a new object, multiple or edition for exhibition. Via this cross-disciplinary collaboration, new working processes were to be found and explored, as well as allowing a re-appraisal of the conceptual elements of their practices. The resulting polymorphic objects (often neither product or artwork) were placed in an installation developed for the exhibition. Through an architectural re-working of the gallery, the space becomes a parody of 'catalogue' stores - mimicking their structure of experience with catalogue kiosks, service point (with uniformed assistant) and market hall/storage space. Merging this structure into the space intended to amplify the functional similarities and behavioral prompts of gallery, retail and warehouse spaces

Countering CBW Proliferation

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