A Few People, a Brief Moment in Time: Architectural Education Experiments 1987-91

This essay draws together an account of pedagogic experiments in architectural education that took place at the Polytechnic of the South Bank School of Architecture, Postgraduate Diploma (RIBA Part 2) between 1987 and 1991. Revisiting this period of holacratic autonomy and student-led collaborative education, the essay aims to shed some light on the value of manifesting transformative creative educational models in the contemporary context of design education. Charting an extraordinary period of student agency, the work considers how the notion of social and individual political resistance, manifested as creative action, can inform a transformative and liberating feminist methodology. Thirty years after these events, amidst the march of the privatisation and commodification of architectural education, the increasing homogenisation of a skills-based, profession-led curriculum, may be a moment to reconsider the potential embedded in an alternative, rebellious, feminist design studio and practice

'"Buttons no bigger than nutmegs": the clothing of country gentlemen, c1660-1715

This article is about the clothing of country gentlemen in late seventeenth and early eighteenth century England. It begins with an exploration of the London-centric depiction in popular literature of country gentlemen as old fashioned in their manners, dress and lifestyle. It then explores the main elements of male fashion and the role of London in creating and disseminating it. Drawing on surviving clothing accounts, it subsequently offers a detailed analysis of what a number of country gentlemen were wearing during this period, exploring the extent to which they participated in London's fashion culture and their preference for London-bought clothing

The H.G. Wells quote on statistics: A question of accuracy

AbstractA widely disseminated quotation by H.G. Wells on the importance of statistics is shown to have been misrepresented

To what extent can the internationalization of non-governamental organizations (NGOS) improve their effectiveness when acheving their missions?

This dissertation investigates how the strategic tool of internationalization can be used by International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) in the advancement of their missions. The purpose of this study is to analyse if this strategy has helped these organizations achieve their long-term missions of eradicating poverty. The literature discusses the changing roles of NGOs in a globalized world alongside the increasing pressures for the Third Sector in terms of competition, accountability and transparency. A case study methodology is adopted referencing Yin (2009) and the advantages that this research method can have for management studies. A case study comparison is utilised when comparing ActionAid International who began its internationalization process at the end of 2003 when moving their headquarters (HQ) to Johannesburg, South Africa. In contrast, Oxfam International plans to relocate HQ to Nairobi, Kenya in 2017. The results of the study illustrate that internationalization is a complex phenomenon and both case studies had different reasons for adopting the strategic tool. This research paper hopes to provide value research for NGO managers who may decide to internationalize in the future. Limitations of the study are due to the results being from the perspective of both the organizations under investigation. Further research is recommended to analyse the effectiveness of Oxfam International after its internationalization has been completed. Alongside the task of developing a universal measure for measuring the effectiveness of INGOs

Prostitution Survivors: Backlash in Australia

This report is a personal account of prostitution survivors facing harassment from representatives of the sex industry in Australia. At events to promote a new collection of stories by survivors of the industry—Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade—speakers were intimidated and insulted. The survivors describe their experiences and their determination to speak-out against prostitution, even in the face of opposition

The Late Cenozoic history and palaeoenvironments of the coastal margin of the south-western Cape Province, South Africa

This thesis examines the Late Cenozoic history and palaeoenvironments of the coastal margin between Elands Bay on the west coast and Die Kelders on the south coast. This study is introduced with a detailed discussion of eustatic sea level oscillation. The history of the existing ice sheets, sea floor spreading, isotopic composition changes of the oceans, and isostatic responses of the crust to varying loads are reviewed with regard to their bearing on sea level changes. A detailed account of the Neogene stratigraphy of the south-western Cape Province is presented. The Middle to early Late Miocene Saldanha Formation is characterised by shallow marine phosphatic sandstone and phosphorite. It is thought to have been deposited in a warm transgressive sea. The Pliocene Varswater Formation was deposited during a secondary transgression induced by.seaward tilting of the coastal margin during a time of worldwide regression. The Varswater Formation is characterised by pelletal phosphorites. It includes marine, estuarine, and fluvial facies. The estuarine sands and peats contain a rich fossil mammal fauna. Depositional environments of the Pelletal Phosphorite Member are examined by means of conventional grain size analysis to show that deposition took place on a shallow sublittoral platform dominated on the outer edge by a breaker-bar. Accretion of the breaker-bar to form a barrier-island allowed the development of an estuarine complex on the leeward side. Post-depositional diagenetic changes were examined by means of scanning electron microscopy. A detailed account of the petrology and geochemistry of the phosphorite and pelletal phosphorite is presented. The apatite mineral is a carbonate fluorapatite. It is concluded that the phosphorite is related to upwelling of phosphorus-rich waters

The Role of Environment in Galaxy Formation

In this thesis we investigate the influence that environment has on the formation and evolution of galaxies in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. The highly complete equatorial regions of GAMA cover 180 square degrees of the sky, providing spectroscopic redshifts for 180,000 galaxies brighter than m_r = 19.8. GAMA is the largest multi-wavelength spectroscopic survey of its kind to date, designed to study aspects of galaxy formation on scales of <1 Mpc. The dependence of the galaxy luminosity function (LF) on local environment is well described by linear relations with overdensity. The faint end slope of the LF is largely independent of environment but steepens in void regions. The environmental dependence shows little evolution over the last 3 Gyrs, and can again be parameterised by a linear relation when split by colour. The dependence of the LF on the cosmic web classification can be predicted from its dependence on overdensity and the distribution of overdensities within each cosmic web structure. Observations from the GAMA survey can be theoretically interpreted by comparing to predictions made by the semi-analytic galaxy formation model of GALFORM through lightcone mock catalogues, which exhibit the same selection criteria as GAMA. Galaxy groups trace the underlying distribution of dark matter haloes in the Universe, and the use of galaxy group properties to infer the properties of dark matter, such as halo mass, is explored. Measurements of the galaxy density profile in galaxy groups in the GAMA survey and in the lightcone mocks suggest that the GALFORM model predicts the galaxy density profile to be too centrally concentrated. Comparisons to galaxy surveys such as GAMA lead to a bright future for the studies of galaxy formation

Spoilers & Sequels; Bifurcated Fandoms in the Age of Adaptation

Spoilers & Sequels; Bifurcated Fandoms in the Age of Adaptation Panel by Joseph Young, Paul Tankard, and Lana Whited. Tech Mod: Joan Marie Verba

'They tell me they were in fashion last year': Samuel and Elizabeth Jeake and clothing fashions in late seventeenth-century London and Rye

This article examines high fashion culture in late seventeenth-century London and Rye, focusing on the ways that Rye merchant, Samuel Jeake (1652-1699) and his wife, Elizabeth (1667-1736), engaged with the London fashion market at a time when the transmission of fashion styles was still primarily by word of mouth. Both Samuel and Elizabeth were intensely concerned to appear fashionable in provincial Rye. Correspondence between Samuel and Elizabeth and their London relatives shows how fashion information was being communicated between London and Rye and the speed with which clothing fashions changed in the capital. The discussion of Samuel and Elizabeth's engagement with fashion is framed by an analysis of contemporary satirical literature which takes the supposed obsession of the English with fashion as its theme