Palliative and End of Life Care for Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic Groups in the UK

This report marks the start of a programme of work by many partners. A better understanding of the nation's changing demographics, of the needs of individual ethnic and cultural groups and of the types of services which will best meet their end of life care needs must be early outputs from the partnership. There are many areas which researchers will investigate further and many opportunities for service providers to work together with local communities to develop care which is sensitive and responsive to their needs as well as on a scale which will be needed for the large numbers of people who could benefi

Local Preferences and Place of Death in Regions within England 2010

This report shows public preferences for place of death in the nine English Government Office Regions (GORs), obtained from a population-based telephone survey in 2010. It compares the results with a similar survey carried out in 2003 to understand how preferences are evolving over time. It goes on to contrast these preferences with actual place of death (as reported for that region) in order to shed light on how people's wishes relate to reality and to aid care planning so that preferences are more frequently met

Promoting sustainable Indian textiles: final report to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), London, UK

In 2009, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), through the Sustainable Development Dialogue (SDD) fund, backed the Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) at London College of Fashion and Pearl Academy of Fashion (PAF), New Delhi to run a project to promote Indian sustainable textiles. Improving patterns of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) in India and the UK is one of the agreed areas for collaboration under the UK-India Sustainable Development Dialogue. The project is also part of a body of work taking place under the Defra Sustainable Clothing Roadmap, which aims to improve the sustainability of clothing. Defra has identified that ‘while an economic success story (globally worth over £500 billion) the industry has a significant environmental and social footprint across its supply chain.’ The Roadmap aims to improve the sustainability of clothing by gathering a robust evidence base of impacts and working with a wide range of stakeholders, to build on existing interventions. For more details on the roadmap see: http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/business/products/roadmaps/clothing/index.htm This report is only one of the dissemination tools associated with the project. The project film, images and website should be viewed in conjunction with this report

"Making short work of tradition": popular rural protest and the state of emergency in Bophutatswana, Marico and Rustenburg, as perceived by TRC witnesses, 1977-1993

Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: The TRC; Commissioning the Past, 11-14 June, 199

Tortured Bodies, Loved Bodies: Gendering African Popular Fiction

This essay examines the gendering of the crime novel in an African context. Specifically, it proposes that Malian Author Aida Diallo\u27s novel Kouty, memoire de sang uses the gendered body to critique the West\u27s delight in pornographies of sub-Saharan African violence while challenging the masculinist tendencies of African male authors of crime fiction. Most powerfully, the protagonist abides by and disturbs the continuity between gender and genre. By introducing recognizable tropes from the romance novel, Diallo productively challenges the persistent hegemonic strains residing latently within this popular literary tradition. In so doing, she finally, and this through a strategic manipulation and blending of popular forms proposes an inaugural African writing free to represent increasingly global, and yet resolutely local subjectivities

Towards Intercultural Understanding and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Building an Internationally Minded School

As an International Baccalaureate school in a diverse Canadian city, Welton Academy’s (pseudonym) vision is to be a world-class, academic school with a focus on shaping students into globally minded, engaged citizens. The demographics of the school are changing, as the student body is becoming increasingly more ethnically diverse. Currently, one of the school’s strategic missions is focused on international mindedness. Although the school’s vision to promote international mindedness includes global engagement and multilingualism, the area of intercultural understanding is not identified. This Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP) explores a Problem of Practice (PoP) that highlights the need to develop intercultural understanding within the high school context. This OIP incorporates transformational leadership and instructional leadership approaches, as key leadership practices for stakeholders, such as the leadership team and teachers, to employ while identifying the potential for promoting social justice and inclusion. With a global focus, the values Welton Academy shares in the school community should reflect the diverse student population. The goal of this OIP is to provide stakeholders with recommendations to develop intercultural understanding within the school. The solutions in this OIP address all three interrelated dimensions of culturally responsive pedagogy: institutional, personal, and instructional. If implemented, this OIP could result in a more inclusive community at Welton Academ

The Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of A Concussion-Education Protocol

In 2011, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) legislated that all NCAA institutions have a concussion management plan for their student-athletes. This new legislation only requires that member institutions ensure student-athletes are educated about signs and symptoms of concussions, but provides no guidelines as to how this education should be delivered. Despite this initiative, researchers have shown that student-athletes still do not report all concussions to team personnel. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the NCAA\u27s concussion-education protocol. This study was cross-sectional and retrospective in design, and used a paper-and-pencil questionnaire to gather data. One hundred and sixty NCAA division 1 student-athletes participated in this study. Of these 160 participants, 60 reported that they had suffered at least one concussion before becoming an NCAA athlete, and 54 reported that they had suffered at least one concussion since becoming an NCAA athlete. Of the 54 participants who reported suffering a concussion during their time as an NCAA athlete, 34 failed to report the injury. Results of the statistical analysis of the difference in concussion knowledge between athletes who reported and failed to report concussions was non-significant [(t(52) = 0.18, p = 0.86]. Similarly, analysis of the difference in level of perceived effectiveness of the current protocols between athletes who reported and failed to report concussions was also non-significant [(t(5) = -0.19, p = 0.85]. It appeared that the greatest deficit in participants\u27 knowledge and understanding of concussions was the ability to recognize when a concussion had occurred. Based on these findings, future research should focus on developing methods of improving participants\u27 abilities to recognize concussions. Additionally, it is recommended that the NCAA develop guidelines as to how their concussion education program should be delivered to help ensure that student athletes have read and understand the concussion management plan. For example, a required online module and subsequent knowledge test could be completed before participation is allowed