Social Sciences
http://hdl.handle.net/10454/225
2024-03-26T05:09:10ZRegional economic inequalities; migration and community response, with special reference to Yugoslavia
http://hdl.handle.net/10454/19842
Singleton FB (1979) Regional economic inequalities; migration and community response, with special reference to Yugoslavia. In: Allcock J, Horton J and Walker J (Eds) Bradford Studies on Yugoslavia. Occasional paper. Number 1. The Postgraduate School of Yugoslav Studies. University of Bradford.
After a general introduction to the problems of regional imbalance, this paper proceeds to an analysis of the background and causes of regional economic inequalities in Yugoslavia. Demographic factors are outlined with reference to Yugoslav statistical sources, and the policies being adopted for those areas defined as being in need of special assistance are examined. The author concludes by indicating some lessons to be drawn from Yugoslavia's experience of migration and especially of its workers abroad.
1979-01-01T00:00:00ZGames and Learning: Consolidating and Expanding the Potential of Analogue and Digital Games
http://hdl.handle.net/10454/19843
Pinto Neves P, Sousa C, Fonseca M et al (2023) Games and Learning: Consolidating and Expanding the Potential of Analogue and Digital Games. International Journal of Film and Media Arts. 8(1)
For a long time, Games Research suffered from what Jaakko Stenros and Annika Waern classified as the Digital Fallacy – the tendency to regard analog games as a subset of digital games rather than the other way around. Where boardgames were once associated with the past of games and learning and digital games with the future, there are now fresh insights and applications for boardgames in learning – alongside with their renaissance as games for entertainment. Even as boardgames found new relevance in learning, the already-recognized possibilities in digital games for learning have continued to expand, with more flexible and ubiquitous tools and platforms allowing for a greater variety of avenues of learning research and practice to be explored. Augmented and mixed reality as well as virtual reality are frontiers in learning that beg for further exploration.
2023-06-19T00:00:00ZDying 2 Talk: Generating a more compassion community for young people
http://hdl.handle.net/10454/19848
Booth J, Croucher K, Walters E et al (2023) Dying 2 Talk: Generating a more compassion community for young people. Journal of Applied Youth Studies. 6: 227-249.
People in the Global North often have a problem talking about — and processing — the inevitability of death. This can be because death and care of the dying has been professionalised, with encounters of death within our families and communities no longer being ‘normal and routine’ (Kellehear 2005). Young people are particularly excluded from these conversations, with implications for future mental health and wellbeing (Ainsley-Green 2017). Working in Wolverhampton and Bradford, the Dying 2 Talk (D2T) project aimed to build young people’s future resilience around this challenging topic. We recruited over 20 young people as project ambassadors to co-produce resources that would encourage talk about death, dying and bereavement. The resources were used as the basis of ‘Festivals of the Dead’ which were taken to schools to engage wider audiences of young people (aged 11 +). The project aimed to use alternative ‘ways in’ to open discussion, beginning with archaeology, and ultimately using gaming, dance, creative writing and other creative outputs to facilitate discussion, encourage compassionate relationships and build resilience. The resources succeeded in engaging young people from ages 11–19 years, facilitating a comfortable and supportive environment for these vital conversations. Project evaluations and observations revealed that the Festivals, and the activities co-created by the young ambassadors helped to facilitate spontaneous conversations about death, dying and bereavement amongst young people by providing a comfortable and supportive environment. The project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/V008609/1), building on a pilot project funded by the Higher Education Innovation Fund at the University of Bradford.
2023-12-01T00:00:00ZTeaching the Teachers: Reflections from two Graduate Teaching Assistants
http://hdl.handle.net/10454/19819
Grimaldi A and Selvaraj MS (2022) Teaching the Teachers: Reflections from two Graduate Teaching Assistants. Postgraduate Pedagogies. 2(1): 99-118
This paper offers a critical reflection on the experience of two former Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) - the authors - who were tasked with creating a digital learning program during the first UK national lockdown in 2020. The program drew from an emerging body of literature that seeks to employ Freirian pedagogies in the digital classroom and was designed to equip both new and established members of faculty with the skills needed for online teaching. While taking on this challenge, however, the experienced GTAs found that their pedagogical instincts and practices were challenged by their positionalities as young Early Career Researchers (ECRs) from underrepresented groups in British Academia. The aim of this paper is thus to scrutinise the potential for online learning to democratise and shift perceived hierarchies within academia, not only for students, but for ECRs navigating the structures of university teaching in the current employment climate.
2022-06-01T00:00:00ZA ‘New Gambia’? Managing political crisis and change in an African small state
http://hdl.handle.net/10454/19798
Harris D and Jaw SM (2024) A ‘New Gambia’? Managing political crisis and change in an African small state. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. Accepted for publication.
The Gambia has experienced three significant political crises in its history: the attempted coup of 1981, the successful coup of 1994, and the latest events in 2016-17 when President Yahya Jammeh, having exercised semi-authoritarian power since 1994, was defeated at the ballot box but refused to step down until he was finally forced to do so. Using academic, media, social media and interview material, this article examines all three processes and their aftermaths, in particular the latter, through the lens of ‘small state’ politics. The article demonstrates that the small size of the population, elite, and landmass indeed matters in driving Gambian political processes. In 2023, several post-2017 processes, including constitutional change, transitional justice and elections, are playing out within the confines of the small state. This article then assesses to what extent a ‘New Gambia’, to use current President Adama Barrow’s phrase, has emerged.
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