University Of Derby Research Articles

An Evaluation of Practitioners’ Views of Consultancy and Applied Research at the University of Derby

An Evaluation of Practitioners’ Views of Consultancy and Applied Research at the University of Derby The aim of this research has two objectives; firstly, to evaluate the development of cognitive, transferable and intellectual skills in Higher Education students, secondly, to transfer that knowledge by means of collaboration with community organisations. Experiential learning and regeneration/diversification project work is needed by all communities. The collaboration is built upon our ability to provide graduates and a community with portfolios of independent evidence of achievement obtained from working with a partner organisation..

Preface for a special issue on “Smart environments and collective computational intelligence for disaster management”

Stakeholders in disaster management settings often find the effective and efficient utilisation of emerging technologies quite a challenging process but very frequently a critical computational inclusion to the intelligence required for protecting individuals, communities, their environment and critical infrastructures. The special issue is dedicated to the dissemination of original contributions that are related to the theories, practices and concepts of smart environments and emerging collective computational and collaborative technologies for the specific purpose of improving intelligence when managing natural or man-made disasters. In particular, the special issue is focused on the applicability—for the purpose of managing disasters—of technologies that can support autonomous adaptation to complex and messy situations caused from these, highly dynamic contexts. Various methods and technologies including simulations, multi-dimensional decision modeling, data mining, swarm intelligence, smart spaces and sensors, contextaware, situated and pervasive computing, geographical information systems, ad-hoc mobile networks, wireless communications, grid and cloud computing, social networks and crowd sourcing are a smart technology means to enable a more informed decision making to mitigate and prepare for, respond to and recover from growing occurrences of disasters. This special issue comprises six articles, which have been selected after a careful review process. Specifically, this is a collection of extended versions of papers presented either at the Smart Environments for Disaster Management (SEDM-2011) workshop which run in conjunction with the 6th 3PGCIC-2011, held on October 26–28, 2011 in Barcelona, Spain or at the Computational Intelligence for Disaster Management (CIDM-2011) workshop which run in conjunction with the 3rd INCoS 2011, held on November 30–December 2, 2011 in Fukuoka, Japan. In the first article, Li explains that mobility is an important issue that deters people living in remote areas and elderlies to visit health clinics on a regular basis; this is also the case for individuals with disabilities. Advances in information and telecommunication technologies have been made telemedicine possible. By using the latest sensor technologies, a person’s vital data can be collected in a smart home environment. The bio-information can then be transferred wirelessly or via the Internet to medical databases and the healthcare professionals. The article surveys and compiles the state-of-the-art smart home technologies and telemedicine systems. In the second article, Sakanushi et al. discuss concerns with triage tags, which are widely used at disaster scenes. Some of these concerns include the inability to show the current priorities of casualties and a failure to collect the physiological conditions of the casualties. In their article, authors propose an electronic triage which continuously monitor the vital signs of casualties and transmit them to an electronic triage server. Experimental results show that their proposed electronic triage system can save more lives than the paper triage tags version. In the third article, Furey et al. explain that the use of Wi-Fi signals is an attractive and reasonably affordable option to deal with the currently unsolved problem of widespread tracking in an indoor environment. In their article, authors present a system which aims at overcoming N. Bessis (&) E. Asimakopoulou School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby DE22 1GB, UK e-mail: n.bessis@derby.ac.uk

Experiment in blended career development: The University of Derby’s social media internship programme

It is possible to describe the capability of an individual to use the online environment to pursue their career as their digital career literacy. It is comprised of a range of different skills including the ability to: search; evaluate resources; communicate; network with other people; develop your reputation; and utilise an ever growing range of tools and environments as part of your career building. In another article in this edition of the NICEC journal Hooley (2012) has defined digital career literacy as encompassing changing, collecting, critiquing, connecting, communicating, creating and curating. This requires both the translation of offline skills and the development of new online ones. This article sets out the experience of running the social media internship programme (SMIP), an intervention to develop students’ digital career literacy at the University of Derby.

Studying First Year Forensic Computing: Managing the Student Experience

The experiences of students studying Computer Forensics at the University of Derby, together with the views of the teaching and technical support staff, strongly suggests a growing mismatch between...

Beyond IndividualismReconsidered

Research Article| January 01 2011 Beyond Individualism Reconsidered Beyond Individualism: Toward a New Understanding of Self, Relationship, and Experience (2000), by Gordon Malcolm Parlett, Ph.D. Malcolm Parlett, Ph.D. malcolm.parlett@virgin.net Malcolm Parlett, Ph.D., researched perception and memory at Cambridge University. Subsequently he was a lecturer in educational sciences at Edinburgh University and visiting associate professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His Gestalt training was at Cleveland in the 1970s. Later he co-founded the Gestalt Psychotherapy and Training Institute in the UK, served 15 years as editor of the British Gestalt Journal, was appointed visiting professor of Gestalt psychotherapy at the University of Derby, and trained internationally. Now retired, he continues to write, and has an international coaching practice. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Gestalt Review (2011) 15 (3): 271–280. https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.15.3.0271 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Malcolm Parlett; Beyond Individualism Reconsidered. Gestalt Review 1 January 2011; 15 (3): 271–280. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.15.3.0271 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressGestalt Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2011 The Pennsylvania State University2011The Pennsylvania State University Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstracts of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the United Kingdom Environmental Mutagen society, 12th-14th July 2010 at the University of Derby, UK

Abstracts of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the United Kingdom Environmental Mutagen society, 12th-14th July 2010 at the University of Derby, UK

Defining advanced professional practice in telephone guidance

This paper is co-written by a team of five Quality Coaches from the Careers Advice Service (CAS) and a tutor from the University of Derby. Its purpose is to examine CAS processes and determine how these contribute to defining Advanced Professional Practice (APP) in telephone guidance. Quality coaches, together with CAS coordinators and managers, support the use of quality tools and approaches to recognise and enhance good practice in the CAS. This paper considers these.

The Development of a Diagnostic Tool for the Process of Critical Thinking Training: The CTDQ Questionnaire

Critical Thinking has been defined by Thayer-Bacon (2000) as an unbiased, neutral, objective, universal activity which relies mainly on the superior tool of reason. In the course of training managers Critical Thinking is seen as a strategy employed by decision makers designed to improve the quality (effectiveness and efficiency) of their decisions with the expressed goal of gaining a significant comparative personal and/or professional advantage (Oliver, 2001). Critical Thinking has been given a preeminent role in the gallery of learning outcomes by the University of Derby. Out of the need to continually improve the professional practice of lecturers at the U. of D. a tool was developed that permits the diagnosis and evaluation of critical thinking among students. The evaluative tool was administered in the form of a two part mixed design Critical Thinking Diagnostic Questionnaire (CTDQ) with 29 questions of which 23 were closed end quantitative questions and 6 were open ended qualitative questions. The CTDQ was administered to 34 undergraduate students enrolled in an Independent Study Course (ISC) at the U of D in a before and after research design. The ISC (Independent Study Course) was designed to put special emphasis on the development of both affective and cognitive elements of Critical Thinking skills.

Creating an Enterprise Culture in a University

The ‘entrepreneurial university’ is considered a desirable and achievable goal, but how do universities become entrepreneurial? The role of the enterprising academic in stimulating cultural change is often overlooked. This article presents as a case study the teaching team at the University of Derby, UK, who ‘acted as entrepreneurs’ for five years to stimulate enterprising learning across the university. The analysis provides insights into cultural change in a modern regional university. The authors explore three questions: how can a university develop an entrepreneurial culture, how can entrepreneurial teachers stimulate cultural change, and are there general learning points to be gained from the experience at the University of Derby? The process of developing an enterprising culture in a university is examined by tracing the organizational, pedagogical, systemic and behavioural changes and conflicts that arose. The authors examine the impact on a higher education institution of five years of significant growth in enterprise learning from a zero base, including the development of an enterprise curriculum, innovative learning methods, funded projects for student and community entrepreneurship, practice-based research and the formation of networks of educators, practitioners and influencers. They conclude with an account of the ‘Energizing Enterprise Education’ staff development event for the team and the university. The paper highlights the significance of the values, skills and methods of an entrepreneurial teaching team as crucial factors in the cultural change process and in addressing the inevitable conflict with the ‘base culture’.

Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia. Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories, 9 by Susan K. Morrissey (review)

362 SEER, 87, 2, APRIL 200g and the insufficient referencing of a smallnumberof factsand statements (see,forinstance, 'dominant faith oftheempire', p. 125orabsenceofmilitary planning during the1860sAsiancampaigns, p. 564). Thisbookhas beenpublished at a timewheninterest in theRussianstate and itssocietyis highly likelyto growowingto therecentseriesof events relating to Russia'smoreindependent standin theinternational arena.The volumewill,no doubt,meetthedemandsofthenextgeneration ofscholars forup-to-date viewsand interpretations of imperialRussia. I recommend thisbook without reservation, to both academicsand students of Russian history. Department ofHistory A. A. Fedorov University ofDerby Morrissey,Susan K. Suicideand theBodyPoliticin Imperial Russia. Cambridge SocialandCultural Histories, 9. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and NewYork,2006.xv + 384pp. Illustrations. Figures. Notes.Selected bibliography. Index.£55.00:$99.00. Suicide is the prerogative of no one singlesocial stratum, much less of one nationaltype,and itremainsrelatively rarethough, forall that,deeply unsettling and upsetting forthosedirectly affected byeach incidenceofthis 'strange determination to die' (p. 204). It is,perhaps,smallwonderthatits verystrangeness has increasingly attracted theattention ofsocialand cultural historians as theyanalysethe complexities surrounding modernity and its dynamics. Thus therehas developedan extensive European literature on suicide which Susan Morrisseyfrequently cites in her densely-textured monograph, itself an important contribution tothefield, offering original and highly suggestive insights intothecultural and socialsignificance ofsuicidein lateImperialRussia'sautocratic regime. The bookdoesnot,however, seektopresent a comprehensive review ofall suicidein Russia.Rather,itsfocusis on shifting medical,legal,politicaland social attitudes towardssuicideand towardsthosewho survived attempted suicide,particularly in thesecondhalfofthenineteenth and theearlytwentieth century, and on whattheseevolving viewsand policiescan tellus about therapidly changing stateofthebodypolitic oftheera.It explores thecauses forthecentral position suicideoccupiedinRussiansociety bytheearlytwentieth century and 'tellsa specific story ofsuicidethatcentres uponitscomplex nexuswithsovereignty' (p. 8). The bookis organized inthreeroughly chronologicalparts :from theseventeenth century to theend ofNicholasFs reign; thereigns ofAlexander II andAlexander III; and,finally, thereignofNicholas II. It is a structured approachwhichsucceedsin combining a distinct narrative linewithsometimes provocative butalwayscogentinterpretation of whatthestudy ofmodernRussiathrough theprismofsuicidecan reveal. Morrissey makesjudicioususe of a prodigious numberof sources,both archivaland printed(thereis an eighteen-page bibliography of these): evidently no stonehas been leftunturned. In additionto adducingmaterial from statearchives in Moscowand St Petersburg, including thebeleaguered HistoricalArchive,the authorhas tapped into the rich resourcesof the REVIEWS 363 NizhniiNovgorodprovincial archivewhichincreasing numbersofWestern scholars(including the writer of thisreview)are exploring to considerable advantage. In allthree partsofthebook,Morrissey explores thelinks (or'nexus'- her preferred term)betweensuicideand manyothersocialphenomena.These includesuchdiversethemesas theduel as ritualized suicide,thegenderof suicides, thepolitics ofsocialorder,the'foreignness' ofsuicideas an 'English disease' (p. 71), churchattitudes, vodka and drunkenness, gamblingand indebtedness, domestic violence, despotism atschoolandsuicideamongschool children, and boredom(skuka). Some consideration ofNicholasFs paternalisticruleunexpectedly highlights thetsar'spersonalinterest in suicideamong armyofficers, sharedalso by his son,AlexanderII. In addition,Morrissey traces andilluminates: thecriminal regulation andlegalcodification ofsuicide; thedevelopment of itsstatistical studywhich,in 1882,revealedthat,while suicidein Russiashowedan upwardtrend, ratesremained amongthelowest inEurope;thegrowth ofmedicalintervention and ofpsychological interest in suicidein the nineteenth century which,fromthe 1880sonward,became firmly established as an objectofmedicalstudy. Somewritten representations of suicide are also fruitfully considered,among them the suicide note, thesentimental suicideofKaramzin'sPoorLiza, Gogol''s Nevskii Prospect as a parody of romanticsuicide,Tostoi's AnnaKarenina, and Ostrovskii'sThe Storm. Here the idea of suicide as a pathwayfromsin to insanity, or from crimeto socialproblemis rejectedin favourofthecultural politicsof selfdestruction . Thisemphasis emerges with particular clarity inPartThreewhere suicideislinked withrevolution through thesuggestion thattheprisonsuicide 'enactedtherevolutionary struggle in microcosm' (p. 276),typically affirming 'dignity in thefaceofrepression' (p. 279),and theprisoners' 'ultimate expressionoftheir ownautonomy and as an indictment ofthepolitics ofautocracy' (p. 281).Morrissey finds thatthesuiciderateincreasedafter1905,especially amongtheyoung;itbecamein theearlytwentieth century a highly political act and bythelate 1920san anti-Soviet act. This eruditeand penetrating studyrepresents an excellentcontribution bothto Russiansocialhistory and to thegrowing literature on thehistory of suicidein Europeas a whole. Department ofRussian Patrick O'Meara Durham University Gammer,Moshe. TheLoneWolf andthe Bear:Three Centuries ofChechen Défiance of Russian Rule.C. Hurst& Company.London.2006.xviii+ 252pp.Map. Glossary. Notes.Bibliography. Index.£16.95(paperback). Moshe Gammer's research on theCaucasus is wellknown.He has authored a numberofbooksand articles on thesubject,each ofwhichhas been pioneering in focusand substance, and thisbook is no lessso. Gammercovers in strongprose the threecenturiesof adversarialrelationsbetweenthe Chechen 'wolf and the Russian 'bear' over the 220 pages herein.From ...

News Media and Power in Russia. BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies, 24 by Olessia Koltsova (review)

392 SEER, 87, 2, APRIL 2OO9 sectorsas well as banking, themajorprivateand statecorporations, small businessand itsprospects, and theshadoweconomy,organizedcrimeand corruption. He also identifies thewealthiest individuals and the mostprominentmanagersand discussestherelations betweenthesetwoelites- a question thathasalwaysbeenofspecialinterest tohim.IfI maybe permitted one complaint, itis thathe paysno attention whatsoever to agriculture. Menshikov concludeswitha seriesofpolicyrecommendations formoving towarda morebalancedand competitive economicstructure. He does not explain,however, whatmight inducethegovernment to takedecisiveaction againsttheinterests oftheoligarchy withwhichit is so closelyintertwined. That,ofcourse,is a matter ofpolitics rather thaneconomics. It is mostunfortunate thatthisimportant study shouldhavebeenbrought outnotby a reputable academicpublishing housebutby an affiliate ofthe grouprunbyLyndonH. LaRouche (see,forexample,). Not onlyis thebook saddled witha prefacein whichLaRouche expoundshis own confusedeconomic theories,but in his introduction to the EnglisheditionMenshikovpays obeisanceto LaRouche,whose'inspiring ideas' allegedly 'servedas methodological pointsof departureforwriting thisbook'. Notwithstanding this highly implausible assertion, itshouldbe emphasizedthatthemaintexthas notbeentampered with.Itwillbe a greatpityifthestudy failstoreceivethe seriousattention itdeserves solelyas a result oftheauthor'sunwisedecision to getmixedup withLaRouche. Providence, RI StephenD. Shenfield Koltsova,Olessia.NewsMediaandPower inRussia. BASEES/RoutledgeSeries on Russian and East European Studies,24. Routledge,London and New York,2006. xiv + 271pp. Tables. Appendices.Glossary.Notes. Bibliography. Index.£75.00. This book offers a comprehensive account of the rise and development of media systems in theRussianFederation, coveringtheperiodfromthe emergence oftheearlyindependent mediainthemid-1980s totheconsolidationoftheFederalStatefrom theyear2000 onwards. Koltsova'ssociological methodology deploysthe schematics of the complexrelationship between power,violenceand affected interest groupsset againstthe peculiarities of Russian politicsand societyto introduceand defendthe innovative terminology ofherstudy. Consisting ofthirteen chapters organizedin threeparts,thebook begins withan extensive theoretical introduction followed bya brief historical insight intotheSovietmediasystem. The section pinpoints commonWestern perceptionsoftheRussianmedia ,identifies commonclichésand summarizes key research byacademicson thegeneralunderstanding ofpowerin thecontext ofthebook'stitle, witha focuson theworkofMichelFoucault.A classificationofthemain agentsparticipating in thestudyis also given,alongwith an explanation of thephenomenon of 'cross-institutional groups'which,in reviews 393 conjunction withthemainbodyofagents, constitutes one ofthebasesofthis study. In turn, thesecondsectionassessesthechangesin theRussianmedia during thelateSovietperiod,including adjustments to medialegislation and therelationships betweenthemainpowergroupsand agents. The formation ofRussianstateinstitutions and thechangesto theSoviet statesystem following thecollapseoftheSovietUnion constitute themain focusofchapterthree.Special attention is givento interactions betweenthe stateand themediaundertheconditions ofthedemocratic transition in the early1990s,withrelevantexampleshighlighting goals pursuedby Russian powerlobbiesduring theperiod,as wellas themethods usedtoachievethem. Specifics ofthecompetitive relationship between stateand non-state agentsof violenceand largemediaentities are presented in chapterfour, followed by a classification of Russianmedia ownership in chapterfive,whichfeatures detailsonjointmedia-state ownership ofmediaorganizations. Chaptersixdifferentiates between'legal' and 'hidden'advertising, underlining thesupporting functions provided bycommercial and political product promotion to keyplayers in theRussianmedia.This material is followed by a chapteron media sources, whichhighlights and elaborateson thealleged emergenceof censorshipin post-SovietRussia, providinga numberof examplesof commondifficulties encountered byjournalists in the area of information access. Chaptereight,by farthemostimportant in thisstudy, drawsthe generalimage of a 'frontline' journalistwithinRussian media structures, providing insights intoseveralmajorjournalistic practices, with news as itsprimary focus.The characteristics of media executives in the Russianmassmedia environment, withan emphasison methodsofcontrol and pressure used forpersonnelmanagement, are givenin the concluding chapter ofthissection. The bookalso includesthreespecialinvestigations on a number ofrelated topics:an assessment of the emergenceand competition betweenregional media formations; a descriptive analysisof the partitionof the local St Petersburg television establishment; thefamousstory oftheclosureofNTV by statestructures, and a comparative studyofRussianmediabroadcasting during thefirst and secondChechenwarsof1994and 1999. This workcan be commendedforitsinnovative approachto itssubject matter and itsbroaduse ofinterview materials, drawndirectly from contact withRussian media representatives. That Kolstovawithholds the original identities and names of periodicalsfor ethicalpurposeseffectively raises questionsabout thecredibility of some of thematerialfromthesesources, however. Although sheattempts tomaintain neutrality inhercommentary, it is nevertheless relatively easyto be influenced byherevident justification of severaltypes ofjournalistic activity thatcouldreadily be listedas illegal(such as, forinstance, disclosing classified information). Without a doubt,however, thisbookmakesa valuablecontribution to the limitednumberofpublications availableon theRussianmedia outsidethe CIS, providing a seriesofmuchneedednewviewson thetopic. Department ofHistory A. A. Fedorov University ofDerby ...

Managing e‐books at the University of Derby: a case study

PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to describe the practical experience of managing e‐books in an academic library.Design/methodology/approachAn overview of the three main e‐book collections used (netLibrary, Taylor & Francis, and Ebook Library via Dawson) is provided, along with details such as the acquisition, cataloguing and maintenance of e‐books; funding, licensing and authentication; varying interfaces; publicity, promotion and user education; subject coverage, statistics and usage.FindingsVariations in approach and services by the suppliers of e‐books can provide challenges for those managing e‐books.Originality/valueThe paper provides practical details of managing e‐books in an academic library that might be of relevance to others.

Book Reviews

Health & Social Care in the CommunityVolume 5, Issue 1 p. 63-70 Book Reviews First published: 08 June 2007 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2524.1997.tb00100.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstract Disability Politics. Understanding Our Past, Changing Our Future, by Rosamund Bryar, by Jane Campbell, by Michael Oliver, by Ruth Northway, MSc(Econ), RNMH, CertEd(FE) Routledge, London, 1996, £11.99, 223pp. ISBN 0-415-07999-3 Lecturer in Nursing Studies, School of Nursing Studies, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff Men's Health and Illness: Gender, Power and the Body, by D. Sabo, by D.F. Gordon, by Robin A. Kearns BA, MA(Hons), PhD SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, 1995, £19.95, 324 pp. ISBN 0-8039-5275-9 Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Values and Visions, by Terry Philpot, by Linda Ward, by Nigel Malin, BA(Hons), Dip (Adv Studs) Soc Admin, MPhil, PhD Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 1995, £16.99, 398 pp. ISBN 0-7506-2248-2 Professor of Community Care, School of Health and Community, University of Derby, Derby Evaluating for Good Practice, by Angela Everitt, by Pauline Hardiker, by Jane Griffiths, PhD, BNurs, RGN, DN Macmillan Press Ltd, London, 1996, £10.99, 233 pp. ISBN 0-333-59967-5 Cert Lecturer in Community Heathcare Nursing Practice, School of Health, University of Hull, Hull Rethinking Public Policy—Making Questioning Assumptions Challenging Beliefs, by Margaret Blunden, by Malcolm Dando, by Ruth Northway MSc(Econ), RNMH, CertEd(FE) SAGE Publications, London, 1995. £28.50. 233 pp. ISBN 0-8039-7602-X Lecturer in Nursing Studies, School of Nursing Studies, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff Counselling People with Disfigurement, by Eileen Bradbury., by Robert Newell BSc RGN RMN Dip N Ed RNT BPS Books, Leicester, 1996, £9.99, 131 pp. ISBN 1-85433-176-0 Lecturer in Nursing, School of Health, University of Hull, Hull The Emotional Needs Of Young Children and Their Families: Using Psychoanalytic Ideas in the Community, by Judith Trowell, by Marion Bower, by Barbara Hatfield MA, MA (Econ) Routledge, London, 1995. £14.99, 299 pp. ISBN 0-415-11613-9 Lecturer in Psychiatric Social Work, Department of Psychiatry, University of Manchester Research Made Simple. A Handbook for Social Workers, by Raymond Mark SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, 1996. £23.00, 413 pp. ISBN 0-8039-7427-2 The Research Process in Nursing (third edition), by Desmond F. S. Cormack, by Karen Cox, BSc(Hons), RGN, Oncology Cert, DipHE, DN Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, 1996. £15.99, 448 pp. ISBN 0-632-04019-X Cancer Research Campaign Research Fellow, Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Nottingham, Nottingham Qualitative Research for Nurses, by Immy Holloway, by Stephanie Wheeler, by Carmen de la Cuesta, PhD, MSc, DEM, RHV, RGN, DUE Blackwell Science, Oxford, 1996, £13.99, 214 pp. ISBN 0-632-03765-2 Associate Professor, Faculty of Public Health, University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia Quality of Life in Health Promotion and Rehabilitation; Conceptual Approaches, Issues and Applications, by Rebecca Renwick, by Ivan Brown, by Mark Nagler, by Andrew Newens, PhD, BSc, RGN SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, 1996. £19.95, 437 pp. ISBN 08039-5941-1 Senior Lecturer, School of Health, University of Hull, Hull Volume5, Issue1January 1997Pages 63-70 RelatedInformation

Talking About Health and Well-Being in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Russia

Residents of Ukraine and Russia perceive their living conditions and health as very poor. This is coupled with concerns over access to social services and health care. There is a strong interaction between the poor quality of life after the economic and political collapse and the views of individual citizens about their ability to take responsibility for their health. The collapse of the former supportive system was a ‘cultural trauma’ that affected citizens' capacity for looking after their own health and well-being. In such a context of transition economies, the concept of agency is of limited explanatory value. This article is based on work produced as part of the ‘Living Conditions, Lifestyles and Health Project’ (LLH) funded by the EU under INCO-Copernicus (contract ICA 20000-10031). Professor Christian Haerpfer, University of Aberdeen, UK, who at the time worked at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria, directed the project. Professor David Rotman (Belarus State University, Minsk), Professor Valeriy Nikolayevskiy (Kharkov, Ukraine) and Professor Sergei Tumanov (Moscow State University, Russian Federation) coordinated the research, which was supervised by the authors of this article. We are grateful to the members of the LLH research team who participated in the collection and charting of data and the medical experts and citizens in Russia and Ukraine who participated in interviews and focus groups. The Ethics Committee of the University of Derby approved the qualitative study, and oral informed consent was obtained from all study participants at the beginning of the interviews. The authors alone remain responsible for the views expressed in this article and they do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.

“Slim Now! Ask Me How?” Gestalt Theory and Method in Wanted Weight-Loss Processes: A Phenomenological Exploration

Book Review| January 01 2005 “Slim Now! Ask Me How?” Gestalt Theory and Method in Wanted Weight-Loss Processes: A Phenomenological Exploration “Slim Now! Ask Me How?” Gestalt Theory and Method in Wanted Weight-Loss Processes: A Phenomenological Exploration, by KnutMoskaug, M.Sc., Unpublished master's thesis in Gestalt Psychotherapy. Norsk Gestalt Institutt and University of Derby, United Kingdom, 2004. Ansel Woldt Ansel Woldt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Gestalt Review (2005) 9 (3): 333–337. https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.9.3.0333 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ansel Woldt; “Slim Now! Ask Me How?” Gestalt Theory and Method in Wanted Weight-Loss Processes: A Phenomenological Exploration. Gestalt Review 1 January 2005; 9 (3): 333–337. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.9.3.0333 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressGestalt Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2005 The Pennsylvania State University2005The Pennsylvania State University Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

University of Derby integrates for e-resource gateway

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Exploring Facilities Management

Dr. Benedict Dozie Ilozor is Management Discipline Coordinator for Architecture and Construction Management, and heads up Facilities Management for Built Environment Research Group, Deakin University, Australia. His areas of interest include facilities space planning, design and management, as well as practice management in architecture, design, and construction. His professional, research, and teaching emphasis is on cutting edge stratagems for efficient, cost-effective, sustainable, and harmonious built environments, from individual buildings to the greater urban environments. Dr. Michael Okoroh is Director of the Built Environment Research Group, and Program Leader MBA in Construction Management, at the School of Computing and Technology, Division of Design, Technology and Built Environment, University of Derby, United Kingdom. His professional, teaching, and research areas include facilities management, risk management, building refurbishment, and sustainable innovative developments. Victoria Hardy, CFM, CFMJ is Associate Professor of Facilities Management in the College of Technology at Ferris State University in the United States, one of the six IFMA Recognized Programs. Hardy is also Chair of the IFMA Foundation Board of Trustees. The Foundation supports professional development, research, and education in the discipline. Prior to joining the faculty at Ferris, Hardy managed cultural facilities and services for major institutions including Stanford University. Her primary research interests include emergency planning and recovery. This special issue addresses the subject of facilities management and its interface with built environment design and construction. This exploration serves to extend the debate on where facilities management fits within the design and construction process. The main theme seeks to better understand where facilities management impacts the design and construction process; how facilities management contributes to the derivation of value by users and/or occupants of constructed facilities; how consideration of facilities management during the programming, design and construction phases contributes to the reduction of failures in completed facilities; the role facilities management plays in the long-term successful performance of the built environment; how facilities management promotes or retards emerging building design and construction technologies; how facilities management promotes sustainability in the design and construction process; and the part facilities management plays in the change process of design and construction. Papers variously addressing this theme, covering recent research and developments that are both academically rigorous and relevant to practitioners, were peer-reviewed, and the best selected for this issue. Included are the following: • ‘‘Linking programming and design with facilities management’’ by Eren Erdener;

The use of C&IT to support fieldwork teaching and assessment at the University of Derby

C & IT is used at Derby in a variety of modes including pre-fieldwork training, post-fieldwork assessment and field-related courseware development as part of student project work. With respect to pre-fieldwork training, all students are required to undertake the UK Earth Science Courseware Consortium (UKESCC) ‘Field Safety Tutorial’ and to register their medical conditions on line using a Field Course Registration package. For field mapping, both the Field Safety Tutorial and the UKESCC ‘Using the Compass-clinometer’ courseware module are integrated into a programme of pre-course preparation sessions, involving the use of ‘in-house’ courseware, that must be completed by all students. Computer-based assessment of recent field experience is used on a number of modules to substitute for, or to supplement data obtained from, field assessments, and students are now able to submit field-related courseware modules as final-year projects. Future developments include integrated computer-based assessment of...

An Analysis of the use of Oral Presentations within the Religious and Philosophical Subject Area at the University of Derby 1996-2002

An Analysis of the use of Oral Presentations within the Religious and Philosophical Subject Area at the University of Derby 1996-2002

Student attendance at dental checkups: An application of the Transtheoretical Model

Objective To examine the application of key constructs of the Transtheoretical Model (stages of change and decisional balance) to attendance at dental checkups with a student sample. Method A questionnaire was completed by 224 students from the University of Derby. They were asked to report their intention and behaviour in relation to dental checkups (reflecting the stage framework) as well as rating 31 statements representing the Pros and Cons of dental checkups. Results Thirty (13.7 per cent) participants were classified into precontemplation, 69 (31.5 per cent) contemplation, 18 (8.2 per cent) preparation, 86 (39.3 per cent) action and 16 (7.3 per cent) maintenance. Support for the application of the stages of change model to dental checkups was found. The decisional balance measure (Pros and Cons) reflected hypothesised differences across the stages of change. Conclusion The findings suggest that applying the stages of change construct to dental checkup attendance can assist us in designing interventions that are more appropriately targeted by stage of change. For the large proportion of students not attending, we suggest minimising the Cons and maximising the Pros of dental checkups.