Compelling Story Research Articles

Ironies of History and the Dissidence of Memory

Located at the heart of Ankara, Turkey’s national capital, Middle East Technical University (METU) is among the largest public universities in Turkey, with an international reputation in education and research excellence. Its history, however, offers a compelling story concerning the ironies of history and the urgency of dissident memory to inform contemporary social justice struggles across the globe. This dissident memory is rooted in political struggles and revolutionary dreams of a passionate generation of university students for social justice and freedom.

Book Review of Frisbie's A Therapist’s Guide to Treating Eating Disorders in a Social Media Age.

Eating disorders and other “sub-clinical” problems such as disordered eating and body shame/dissatisfaction grow more prevalent in our society. This is particularly true since the advent of COVID-19 changed our social landscape, leading to increases in isolation and anxiety and in the use of technology to work, to connect, and to live. Social media in this age present both barriers and possibilities for mental health and identity development, particularly for individuals who suffer from eating disorders and related problems. In her seminal first book, Shauna Frisbie deftly weaves through each of these topics, creating a tapestry for both novice and expert clinicians to view and understand how social media consumption can be assessed, dismantled, and harnessed to help clients who struggle with disordered eating. Guided by the central topics of selfhood and identity development and by the techniques of phototherapy, Dr. Frisbie creates a compelling story that draws on both research and case studies from her practice.

How to tell a compelling story in scientific presentations

State your main finding in your title, and don’t forget to use the word ‘but’, says Bruce Kirchoff. State your main finding in your title, and don’t forget to use the word ‘but’, says Bruce Kirchoff.

How Diverse are State Medical Boards?

How Diverse are State Medical Boards?

Introduction: The Civic Reconstruction of Higher Education and the Future of the Good Society

Introduction: The Civic Reconstruction of Higher Education and the Future of the Good Society

Gender Representation of 20 years Malaysian Films based on Andy Kirk Dynamic Visualization Framework

The role of visualization in journalism evolved when dynamic visualization was introduced. Previously, data visualization in media were constrained with the static nature of the media itself. Nowadays, front-end technology advancement allows for dynamic visualization included in journalism or as a standalone itself. Dynamic visualization ables to provide a compelling story and also effective in summarizing large amounts of data into useful insights. Using Andy Kirk’s framework of creating effective visualization, this paper aims to provide insightful and dynamic visualization on the evolution of Malaysian films in terms of its gender representation, box office success, budget, and genre. About 809 movies produced from the year 2000 until 2020 were sampled and processed prior to being visualized. The visualization shows that while male centric movies have higher box office earnings, female centric movies perform better in relation to their budget, implying that female centric movies can potentially earn better in box office sales if given a higher budget. The paper demonstrates the design, exploration, and implementation processes for an effective dynamic visualization.

Three principles for writing an effective qualitative results section

Writing an effective qualitative results section can be a daunting task. How do you report the findings of the study and tell a compelling story? It is this delicate balance that we strive to navigate in this paper. We offer three principles—storytelling, authenticity and argument—to help writers envision the story they will tell, select the data as evidence for that story and integrate quotations to guide the reader’s interpretation. Practical advice and concrete illustrations make the principles easy to apply to your own writing. Finally, by reflecting on how historical, methodological and disciplinary elements shape their application, you will be able to use these principles to enhance the persuasiveness of your qualitative results section.

Abstract 11896: Building Capacity for a Patient-Centered Research Agenda on Racial and Sex-Specific Cardiovascular Disease Disparities in COVID-19

Introduction: African Americans (AA) and women are under-represented in clinical research. Barriers to including AA’s and women as research partners include fear, distrust, and a poor understanding of the research process. COVID-19 could be an opportunity to engage under-represented minorities and women in the research process. Objectives: The goal of this project was to build stakeholder capacity for patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and incorporate the perspectives of AA and female patients in developing a research agenda and questions suitable for use in the AHA COVID-19 CVD Quality Improvement Registry (AHA-R). The final research agenda will address the racial/sex-specific CVD disparities in COVID-19. Methods: Using community participatory principles, we established a network of stakeholders (AA patients, women, and researchers). Stakeholders were recruited to participate in focus group (FG) interviews and Town Hall (TH) meetings. All activities were held virtually and recorded. Videos and transcripts were independently reviewed. A Research advisory council (RAC, n=8) was recruited from a subset of stakeholders. RAC members received monthly research training using the PCOR Institute’s resources. RAC members attended a training workshop on narrative medicine principles and were encouraged to share their own experiences. The program sponsored 2 Facebook live events and conducted a survey to acquire and share compelling real-life COVID health stories. The questions generated from the FG, TH and RAC were prioritized by the RAC to create a research agenda and questions suitable for inquiry using AHA-R. Results: The program educated participants on CVD complications related to COVID (TH =51, 84% AA, 78% women), (FG =28, 93% AA, 82% women). There were 53 questions and 7 compelling narratives generated covering 7 topics. Topics included: COVID with and w/o heart disease, research, COVID and pregnancy, stress, racism, and general heart disease. In both groups, feedback on research results was cited as an important factor for participation in research activities. Conclusions: The project developed a research ready stakeholder network, and a prioritized research agenda about CVD disparities in COVID-19 suitable for inquiry using AHA-R.

Teacher support for metacognition and self-regulated learning: a compelling story and a prototypical model

Teacher support for metacognition and self-regulated learning: a compelling story and a prototypical model

Sample Letter to Employees About Their Benefits

Written communications to employees can be a powerful tool during a union organizing campaign. The topics can vary greatly. An employer with a track record of excellent benefits and efforts to improve them periodically can have a compelling story to tell, particularly when combined with the realities of union contract negotiations and the results unions may have obtained in contracts elsewhere. Quick research on the success (or failure) of a petitioning union at other companies can result in information that draws a striking contrast to the benefits employees receive on a union‐free basis, and which they risk in the course of collective bargaining negotiations. The following is a sample letter that demonstrates an approach that can be taken in conveying such information to employees. Of course, the facts cited in such a letter should also be accurate, relevant and verifiable.

Exploring smart city atmospheres: The case of Milton Keynes

Smart cities are rapidly becoming the main form of urban development initiated in response to calls to address certain ills such as unsustainable cities. Often presented as rational responses to such challenges, there are affective dimensions which are political and impact their development in various places. We investigate these affective dimensions by using the concept of atmospheres -collective affects arising from encounters between places, actors, materialities and (hi)stories. Our work builds on the premise that acceptance of smart city initiatives relies on their supporter’s ability to disseminate compelling stories about smart urban futures. Atmospheres matter here because the stories that can be credibly told are not arbitrary – to be believed, urban stories must be embedded in and coupled to the materialities and affects of their environment.The aim of this paper is to investigate the deliberate cultivation of atmospheres by actors with urban remits, revealing how such atmospheres can become impactful mechanisms for selectively rendering cities amenable or refractory to different stories about smart urban futures. An in-depth case study of the English new town of Milton Keynes is presented to illustrate how atmospheres have been cultivated to selectively resist or reinforce the stories through which the smart city agenda is advanced. Narratives about rationality and data-driven efficiency were translated into specific versions of the future. The resulting encounters gave rise to atmospheres of reception, anticipation, innovation and progress through which urban spaces were rendered selectively receptive to specific forms of smart development in pursuit of local, contextually defined goals.

Narrative, Storytelling, and Qualitative Due Diligence

Despite the overwhelming focus of researchers on quantitative analysis to measure manager skill or alpha generation, managers and investors still employ qualitative information and narrative as key decision support tools for investment manager selection. Both parties allocate significant time and effort reviewing and explaining investment processes through pitchbooks, meetings, and nonquantitative communication. This article explores the use of qualitative information linked to narrative, the description and interpretation of facts to tell a compelling story on manager skill, as a key forward-looking signal mechanism that supports asset management allocation decisions. We focus on how and why narrative is an important part of the due diligence process for transmitting and receiving unobservable information outside of performance track records and a means for providing skill explanation.

A window into youth and family policy: State policymaker views on polarization and research utilization.

Psychologists are known for using science to influence public policymaking on criminal justice, education, health, and other specific policies. Little is known, however, about what commonalities exist across youth and family policies and, in particular, how prevalent polarization and research utilization are in political decisions. In response, this article examines how youth and family policies are positioned on the decision-making agenda and who advances them from an overlooked point of view, that of state legislators. Semistructured qualitative interviews inquired about research use, partisan polarization, and strategies for effectively advancing youth/family policies with 123 legislators; 24 legislators nominated by colleagues as exemplar champions of youth and family issues; and 13 key informants. Policymakers report youth and families are a population deserving of support. This widely shared value premise makes some policies to support youth and families less partisan. In addition, policymakers report that research can sometimes be more important for youth and family issues, particularly evidence on economic feasibility. Despite the importance of research, policymakers express concerns about its objectivity, conflicting results, and source credibility. Compared with colleagues, Youth and Family Champions are committed to a higher purpose; knowledgeable on policy issues and political maneuvers; and skilled in listening, earning colleagues' trust, and building relationships with colleagues and external stakeholders. For connecting research and policy, the article suggests that researchers could attract the attention of policymakers by illustrating their studies with a compelling story that places a human face on the issue and portrays the pragmatic significance of the findings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Co-designing engaging and accessible data visualisations: a case study of the IPCC reports

Creating scientifically rigorous and user-friendly data visualisations can play a critical role in making complex information more accessible to wider audiences and supporting informed decision-making. ‘Co-design’ encapsulates a way of approaching data visualisation that ensures a deep and shared understanding between those creating the visuals (e.g. information designers, content experts, cognitive scientists) and the audience/users. This essay describes co-designing data visualisations with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). A multidisciplinary design team made up of information designers and cognitive and social scientists worked closely with IPCC authors and staff to develop data visualisations for the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C and the Special Report on Climate Change and Land. In this essay, the authors consider the three crucial elements that underpin a successful co-design process—practical tools and a flexible method; cognitive science and psychology to better understand the needs of users; and the importance of trust and leadership. The authors reflect on the application of the co-design approach in an IPCC context, noting specific challenges and including recommendations for future IPCC reports. The mutual learning experience of the special reports indicates a shift towards a design culture within parts of the IPCC that recognises the value of telling a compelling visual story while retaining scientific integrity—an approach that has been retained for the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report.

Structuring Content in the Façade Interactive Drama Architecture

The process of building Façade, a first-person, real-time, one-act interactive drama, has involved three major research efforts: designing ways to deconstruct a dramatic narrative into a hierarchy of story and behavior pieces; engineering an AI system that responds to and integrates the player's moment-by-moment interactions to reconstruct a real-time dramatic performance from those pieces; and understanding how to write an engaging, compelling story within this new organizational framework. This paper provides an overview of the process of bringing our interactive drama to life as a coherent, engaging, high agency experience, including the design and programming of thousands of joint dialog behaviors in the reactive planning language ABL, and their higher level organization into a collection of story beats sequenced by a drama manager. The process of iteratively developing the architecture, its languages, authorial idioms, and varieties of story content structures are described. These content structures are designed to intermix to offer players a high degree of responsiveness and narrative agency. We conclude with design and implementation lessons learned and future directions for creating more generative architectures.

Compelling Stories and Storytelling: An Time-Honored Approach from Civilization's Historical Roots: Practical Frameworks, Tips, and Examples for Entrepreneurs and New Ventures

Stories and storytelling date back to humankind's earliest times. Stories have served as a primary avenue for sharing knowledge, history, culture, and information across civilizations. They present an essential mechanism for promoting new ideas and persuading points of view. Successful TED talks highlight how critical stories are in opening a presentation, engaging the audience, and taking participants on the storyteller's journey. Such an approach is essential not only for business executives but also for entrepreneurs and new ventures to engage stakeholders such as customers, partners, and investors.
 This discussion delves into understanding the value and structure of compelling stories and storytelling related to the business, institutional, and entrepreneurial settings. It highlights the importance of the story as an opening and using other setup approaches such as SCQR (situation, complication, question, and recommendation). This article provides insights into Freytag's three-act play structure and the role of the hero or heroine (hero(ine)) along with the Minto pyramid structure for making compelling arguments. It offers practical tips for applying storytelling techniques to help stories and storytelling resonate. Throughout this piece offers relevant examples to illustrate the why, how, and what. The discussion closes by connecting storytelling to organizational learning concepts. These include Crossan's 4Is "feed-forward" and Roger's diffusion of innovation theory, both of which embrace the importance of shared language and symbols that stories offer to allow for ideas, knowledge, and innovation to transcend and embed within an institution, ecosystem, or a broader universe of participants and stakeholders.

Children’s documentaries: distance and ethics in European storytelling about the wider world

ABSTRACT The material challenges of funding, commissioning and distribution that are well known to inhibit production of children’s factual content about other countries and cultures operate in parallel with challenges arising from the moral responsibilities inherent in what Roger Silverstone called “the problem of proper distance”. By that he signified a “moral category” requiring filmmakers to provide “context as well as imagination” and be willing to “recognise the other in her sameness and difference”. “Distance” and “difference” have become at once more significant but also more ambiguous at a time of mass forced migration, in which traditions, religions and cultures from distant places are brought together in physical proximity. Based on input from cross-cultural dialogues, screenings and interviews involving European producers of children’s documentaries, this article explores dilemmas and experiences faced in representing the backgrounds and stories of children who arrived in Europe from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the mid-2010s. It shows the resonance of Silverstone’s thinking by revealing that many practitioners themselves apply notions of closeness and distance, both physically and metaphorically, in their choices about combining the familiar and unfamiliar and co-creating content with child participants. IMPACT SUMMARY a. Prior State of Knowledge: Existing power imbalances between filmmaker and subject/participant are accentuated when documentaries are made about vulnerable children. Studies have pinpointed competing pressures to tell a compelling story, respect privacy and provide background, while avoiding exoticism, didacticism and cultural preconceptions. b. Novel Contributions: Practitioners’ spontaneous references to “distance” when discussing their filming of refugee children demonstrate that Silverstone’s concept of “proper distance” as a “moral category” can be operationalised in co-creating content with documentary participants and evaluating the merits of such documentaries. c. Practical Implications: Creatives and commissioning editors responsible for children’s factual content about other cultures can use the findings to calibrate how they convey children’s “sameness” and “difference” with empathy and respect. Such content’s relevance for promoting social cohesion also matters to policymakers.

A narrative review of research on healthcare staff’s burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic

BackgroundDuring the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, burnout emerges as a critical health problem that might involve workers in many occupations, particularly healthcare personnel. Although burnout syndrome is not necessarily proved to be nosologic, it yields serious physical, mental, and social outcomes. However, it is essential to provide practical strategies and effective instruments for people so that they can adapt to such highly stressful conditions.ObjectivesThe present review was conducted to explore preliminary evidence for nature, treatment, and prevention of burnout among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsRelated English literatures published from the beginning of January 2020 to the end of September 2020 were searched in PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Google scholar databases. “Burnout,” “COVID-19,” “healthcare workers,” “medical staff,” and “pandemic” constituted the search terms. A narrative technique was implemented for material synthesis and creating a compelling and cohesive story.ResultsFinal results provided the burnout history and its major effects, causes, and prevalence among healthcare workers. Also, some strategies were listed to be employed by hospital medical staff and organizations to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.ConclusionsRecent evidence demonstrated that healthcare staff could gain significant benefits from interventions to modify burnout syndrome, especially from organization-directed interventions. So, health policymakers and practitioners should adopt such interventions and develop context-specific approaches promoting a healthy workplace and averting burnout during the COVID-19 crisis.

Storytelling in Review Articles: Exemplars and Guidelines

Review papers are some of the most challenging, but also some of the most impactful and highly cited types of papers published in academic and practitioner-oriented outlets. Despite the popularity of such papers, guidance on how to execute an impactful, rigorous review is scattered across different outlets due to the variety of review types that can be conducted. We sought to provide a methodological process (i.e., a six-step flowchart) for writing reviews that have a critical impact on the advancement of the field. First, we highlight the need to align the choice of review type and the review’s purpose to maximize the theoretical, practical, or methodological contribution of the work. We discuss how a good review is very much like a good story and thus should employ the same elements to present a compelling review story (narrative conflict, characters, setting, plot, sequence, and narrative arc). Second, we identify several important methodological issues that authors must take into consideration when executing their review. Together, these contributions provide a methodological process for the development of rigorous and impactful reviews.

Reading For a Change

Nurse practitioners (NPs) and other advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), regardless of practice setting, years of experience, or current level of policy engagement, are in a prime position—physically and metaphorically—to excel in the role of advocate. Our problem-solving orientation, use of compelling stories, and skill at building and sustaining relationships are just some of the reasons we are a good fit for the advocacy space. Gale Adcock, MSN, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, is serving her fourth term in the NC House of Representatives. Representative Adcock can be reached at [email protected] .