Climate and the Feeling of [Momentarily] Drier Feet: Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty

As is oft the case, I recovered a newspaper cutting (or ripping) that made my feet feel drier, for several moments at any rate ...

Reading this really gave me a lift, given the ongoing state of world events then and now:

Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty

The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty was signed on 9 November 2023 and entered into force on 28 August 2024.

As part of the Falepili Union treaty, Australia has:

• recognised for the first time in a legally binding treaty, Tuvalu's continuing statehood and sovereignty, notwithstanding the impact of climate-change related sea-level rise
• committed to assist Tuvalu in response to a major natural disaster, health pandemic or military aggression
• created a special visa pathway to support mobility with dignity, which will enable citizens of Tuvalu to come to Australia to live, work and study.

There are also obligations under the Treaty to ensure Australian interests are protected and to facilitate the smooth operation of the migration pathway and increased security cooperation:

• Tuvalu is obliged to ensure its immigration, passport, citizenship and border controls are robust and meet international standards for integrity and security
• Tuvalu will mutually agree with Australia any partnership, arrangement or engagement with any other State or entity on security and defence-related matters in Tuvalu.

Continued ...

My source: Nic Fildes, Migration: Australia offers Tuvalu residents visa to escape climate change. FTWeekend, 11-12 November 2023, p.4.

Social Inclusion: Transnational Organization of Labour, Mobility, and Senior Care in Central and Eastern Europe

Dear colleagues,

Social Inclusion has just released a new issue, fully open access, and all articles are free for you and others to read, download and share.

Transnational Organization of Labour, Mobility, and Senior Care in Central and Eastern Europe (2026, Volume 14)

Edited by Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck, Dóra Gábriel, Olena Fedyuk and Kristine Krause

Complete issue: https://doi.org/10.17645/si.i533

Table of Contents:

Transnational Organization of Labour, Mobility, and Senior Care in Central and Eastern Europe
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.13078
By Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck, Dóra Gábriel, Olena Fedyuk and Kristine Krause

Migrant Live‐In Care Workers in the Global Care Chain: Results From an Online Survey
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.11728
By Silvia Wojczewski, Simona Ďurišová, Sabine Pleschberger, Anna Ernst, Rojin Bagheri, Kathryn Hoffmann and Viktoria Adler

Selling Care Skills? The Multiple Meanings of Training for Polish Live‐In Care Workers in Germany
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.11909
By Roxana Fiebig-Spindler

The Invisible Hand of Care: A Typology of Brokerage Actors in Migrant Care Labour
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.11953
By Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck, Ivanna Kyliushyk and Roxana Fiebig-Spindler

Care Extractivism Beyond Households: Migration and Care for Older People in the Post‐Yugoslav Semi‐Periphery
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.11975
By Majda Hrženjak

Caring Communities in Urban Hungary: A Civil Society Perspective
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12023
By Dóra Gábriel, Bettina Török and Noémi Katona

Care Under Constraint: Unmet Care Needs Among Older Adults in Romania
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12028
By Mihaela Hărăguș and Ionuț Földes

Skill Construction and Challenges of Professionalization in the Hungarian Home Care Market
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12029
By Noemi Katona and Dóra Gábriel

The Right to Care and Support: From Care Theory to Human Rights Law
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12056
By Maroš Matiaško

Senior Care in Wartime Ukraine: A Fragmented Continuum of Arrangements Inside an “Unpromising Sector”
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12060
By Oksana Dutchak, Olena Fedyuk and Anna Oksiutovych

Bounded Transport, Mobility Justice, and Claims for Recognition Among Live‐in Care Workers
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12191
By Petra Ezzedine

In Times of the Market and Community Shift: On Live‐In Care and Caring Communities
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12295
By Brigitte Aulenbacher, Klaus Wegleitner, Jonas Hagedorn and Bernhard Emunds

Care Outsourcing From Germany to Central and Eastern Europe
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12319
By Kristine Krause, Veronika Prieler, Hanna Horváth, Matouš Jelínek, Mariusz Sapieha, Zuzana Sekeráková Búriková, Petra Ezzeddine and Luise Schurian‐Dąbrowska

Imagining Care: Transnational Inequality and Older Age Prospects for Ukrainian Caregivers in Italy
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12324
By Oksana Dutchak, Olena Fedyuk and Anna Oksiutovych

The Winding Road to Professionalisation: Care Work in Romanian Nursing Homes
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12326
By Neda Deneva, Ionuț Földes, Denisa Ursu and Mihaela Hărăguş

The Limits of State Control in Regulating Live‐In Care Work in The Netherlands
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12375
By Siënna Hernandez, Kristína Bartošová and Franca van Hooren

Home Care for Sale: Marketisation and Social Change
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.12737
By Attila Melegh

Kind regards,

Mariana Pires
Cogitatio Press, Portugal
si AT cogitatiopress.com
Social Inclusion
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion

My source: COMPLEXITY-PRIMARY-CARE list

Mathematical terms: domain, plane, 'field' ...

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Such is the innocence of youth, of all children, that should they be ensnared by the new-age 'scrolls' ...	... they will miss out on the life-affirming experience of the playing field.
This is a great shame, a tragedy no less, of missed opportunities to learn social and life-skills, to know joy, and make friends, who might just be lifelong ...	... as they prepare to make their way in the [un-] level playing field.

Call for Abstracts: Prototypes for Humanity - Submission Deadline 22 May 2026

Dear Colleagues, 

I am pleased to invite the submission of abstracts to the Prototypes for Humanity 2026 Short Papers Platform. 

Abstract Submission Deadline: 22nd May 2026
Invitations to Successful Authors: 8th July 2026
Conference Dates: 15th - 19th November, Dubai, UAE 

** Description **

The Short Papers Platform provides a forum for professors to share their research and engage in interdisciplinary dialogue, fostering global collaboration and knowledge exchange, with a focus on driving real-world impact through academic research.

For 2026, Prototypes for Humanity is delighted to announce the launch of a strategic partnership with the Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD), for the Short Papers Platform. This joint effort reinforces the programme’s commitment to advancing impactful innovation through collaboration between academia and industry, focusing on the key sectors and themes that reflect international research priorities and that are relevant to the city and to the fund. 

Themes 

• Wellbeing and Human Performance
• Infrastructures and Cities
• Autonomous Systems and Advanced Manufacturing
• Environment, Sustainability and Energy
• Mobility and Logistics
• Socio-Economic Empowerment, Digital Economies and Future Markets
• Open and Speculative

Awards

As part of the programme’s ongoing commitment to research translation, ICD will award a $50,000 prize to one of the short papers presented at the conference. The award recognises academic work with strong potential for practical application, identified through engagement with ICD industry experts, and will support the winning project’s next stage of development towards implementation.

Submissions

Full details can be found at: https://www.prototypesforhumanity.com/press-releases/stories/Call_For_Abstracts_2026

Apply here: https://form.jotform.com/260705028532451?source=https://www.jisc.ac.uk

Deadline for abstract submission: 22 May, 2026

We strongly encourage you to apply where your interests and research aligns with the programme’s thematic areas.

If you have any questions, please contact us at professors AT prototypesforhumanity.com

Sarah Ward
University Relations Manager
Prototypes for Humanity

E: sarah.ward AT prototypesforhumanity.com

My source: Email - https://www.bcs-sgai.org/

RCN Older People's Forum “Frailty & Falls – A holistic approach to safer mobility and reablement"

Dear Colleagues,

The Royal College of Nursing Older People's Forum is hosting an online webinar, “Frailty & Falls – A holistic approach to safer mobility and reablement,” on 12th November 2025, 12:30–14:00.

This webinar explores frailty, ageing, and falls from a multidisciplinary perspective, with speakers from occupational therapy, older-people nursing, and orthopaedic care. It’s a great opportunity to update knowledge and share good practice in fall prevention and reablement.

You can find full details and register here:
https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/events/frailty-and-falls

Kind regards,

Steph Craig
RCN OPF Chair

Apologies for short-notice. PJ

Jackanory: Parity of Esteem 'read' c/o Mr Rosen

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Michael Rosen's 'SAD BOOK'	Michael Rosen's 'STICKY McSTICKSTICK'

Michael Rosen

'Jackanory'

My source: 

Shop window of The Addyman Annexe - bookshop, Castle St, Hay-on-Wye, 12th August 2025.

Images: 

'STICKY McSTICKSTICK' - https://www.walker.co.uk/

Illustration - https://www.walker.co.uk/author/tony-ross/

'SAD BOOK' - https://www.walker.co.uk/

Illustration - https://www.walker.co.uk/author/quentin-blake/

Previously: 'parity'

ERCIM News No. 138 Special theme: "Sustainable Cities"

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A new ERCIM News issue (Number 138) is online with a special theme on sustainable cities. This ERCIM News special theme reports on research addressing technologies, systems, applications, and services for sustainable smart cities, showcasing Europe's research ecosystem.
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This special theme was coordinated by our guest editors German Castignani (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology) and Georgios Mylonas (Industrial Systems Institute, Athena Research Center).

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Special Theme: "Software Security". Submissions are welcome! See call for contributions.

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*My source via email - many thanks.

n.b. A search did not find 'health', 'well-', 'care', or 'pollution' in this issue.

 
Contrast with (and other previous issues):

ERCIM News No. 98 Special theme: "Smart Cities"

Occupational therapist Joël inspires elderly to get in motion ...

Or, "Excuse me. How many movements are there in that watch?"*

"Joël Kruisselbrink’s creativity in designing exercises and games inspires elderly people to keep moving and live life to the fullest.

Nursing home residents are often understimulated and have little motivation to exercise. As an exercise instructor, Joël Kruisselbrink knows better than anyone how important exercise is for the elderly. His passion for creating exercises and games enables older people to continue enjoying life while keeping them moving."

Brightvibes: Exercise is life: Joel’s exercises and games inspire older people to keep moving

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What do you think the impact is upon the resident's mental health and emotional well-being? Psycho-
-Social?	Standards & Quality of Care Policy

*Hodges' model: A tool to watch the complications of Care

My source: https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1802268229361967404

Re. 'Lagoonscapes' - previous post ...

It was the title of the journal in the previous post that caught my attention:

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	'Lagoonscapes' made me think of the periplus, used by ancient explorers - sailors to 'map' coastlines and their features. I also realised that people living with: more advanced stage dementias reduced mobility / balance partial sightedness stroke - may negotiate their immediate surroundings (living room ...) using 'furniture walking'. The first explorers did likewise by analogy?
Is a lagoon - a resting place/space - an offering of respite (care)? In 2018 the Oceania exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/oceania - highlighted knowledge of the peoples who could read the currents, winds - perhaps in as differentiated manner similar to the Inuit and their environment and cultural beliefs?

Previously 'landscape'

'Super/man'

‘Super/Man’ Review:
Christopher Reeve’s Life and Activism Are Beautifully Laid Bare in New Doc

Sundance 2024:
The actor’s journey from playing Superman
to becoming disabled gets explored
 in this inspirational tearjerker

See the 'Super/person' ...?

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dreams imagination	A still from "Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story" Photo by Herb Ritts / AUGUST (Courtesy of Sundance Institute)
Image: https://www.timesunion.com	activism

Review of the documentary 'Super/Man' at Sundance 2024: Christopher Reeve's life and activism showed beautifully. From playing Superman to his disability, a life journey that brings tears. https://t.co/V8pkd3hqNO #Disability #Accessibility #axschat@JudgeWren @kurtyaeger pic.twitter.com/KrUZkAai3l

— Antonio Vieira Santos (@AkwyZ) January 22, 2024

My source:
https://x.com/AkwyZ/status/1749379978519576654?s=20

#Identity !

Tower blocks: Challenge young and older - Courtesy the Artist © Stephen Willats (Revisited)

LIVING WITH PRACTICAL REALITIES, 1978

"Stephen Willats aimed to explore the realities of living in a British tower block. The work centres on Mrs Moran, an elderly woman who lived at Skeffington Court in Hayes, West London. Willats photographed and interviewed Mrs Moran over the course of six months. The text in the work is based on these interviews. In his composition, Willats highlights the physical, social and economic constraints that she faced. Each panel also features a question. These invite the viewer to participate directly in Mrs Moran’s lived experiences."

Gallery label, September 2023

Tower blocks are an integral, defining structure in urban and city life. Governance, effective policy, accountability, high standards, public safety and duty of care must not be an after-thought. 

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© Stephen Willats	© Stephen Willats
© Stephen Willats	Grenfell Tower Inquiry Housing policy Housing provision Housing market 'Mobility' Ownership Private, rented Housing Assoc. ... Tower Blocks Life chances - 'Health career'

Stephen Willats

My source: notebook, as with -

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2023/08/rational-concepts-dilworth-1977.html

Plus, a previous post:

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2014/03/living-with-practical-realities-1978.html

5th March at Tate Liverpool, the exhibition: "Keywords. Art, Society and Culture in 1980s Britain" from 28 Feb 2014 to 11 May 2014.

See also (listed in the bibliography):
Iris Lohja, Yves Demazeau, Christine Verdier. A multi-agent system approach to dynamic ridesharing for older people: State-of-the-art work and preliminary design. 18èmes Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Intelligence Artificielle, RJCIA’20, Jun 2020, Angers, France. pp.52-59. ⟨hal-02897446⟩

"163 Days"

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	163 Days - Hannah Hodgson
Poetry in [not in] motion

“Hannah Hodgson takes us to the paradoxical heart of poetry itself: to be held inside a pain both intensified and soothed by the sheer brilliant presence of the poet’s mind.” – Caroline Bird

Hannah Hodgon is an award-winning poet and a palliative care patient. In her compelling debut collection 163 Days, she uses a panoply of medical, legal, and personal vocabularies to explore what illness, death and dying does to a person as both patient and witness.  

163 Days is the length of Hannah’s longest period of hospitalisation to date. In this long poem, she probes various truths, personal and medical; truths which clash like a tray of dropped instruments in a silent operating theatre.

The speaker is a teenager on the cusp of adulthood. Doctors struggle to diagnose her complex conditions. Through daily, diary-like poems we see the children’s ward through Hannah’s eyes. It is decked out in primary colours. Volunteer clowns visit. At seventeen she is ‘too old’ to be here, ‘too young’ to move to the adult ward.

The mundanity of hospital life is marbled by a changing landscape of mood, hope and loss. Her symptoms are painful. She has numerous tests and procedures to keep her alive long enough to figure out what’s wrong. A gap yawns between the person she is, and the person in her medical notes.

In ‘Aftercare’, Hannah navigates the worlds of both nightclubs and hospice care as she embarks on a new version of her life as a disabled adult. 163 Days is an important collection, in which Hodgson’s true voice takes poetry into difficult places.

Listen to the BBC radio play adaptation of 163 Days on the New Creatives website here.

163 Days by Hannah Hodgson, Seren Books ISBN-13: 9781781726471
Publication Date: Monday, March 28, 2022

My source:
Hannah's book in Kirkby Lonsdale, The Book Lounge 17th February 2023.

CfP: '(Responsible) Standardisation for (the Digital) Society'

Session at STS Conference Graz

Folks,

The deadline for this CfP is approaching (30 January). 

We only ask for an abstract of about 500 words. 

 

You will find the Call at https://stsconf.tugraz.at/calls/sessions-in-digitalisation

The abstract should be submitted via

<https://www.conftool.com/sts-conference-graz-2023/index.php?page=submissions&cthaspasswd=yes×tamp=1668063380>

(you will first need to log-in or register).

Thematic Fields

The conference will be held on 8 - 10 May, in Graz (Austria). 

 

For further information about the event please visit https://stsconf.tugraz.at/

Hope to see many of you there.

Cheers,

Kai.

_________

Kai Jakobs

RWTH Aachen University

Computer Science Department

Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems)

Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany

Kai.Jakobs AT comsys.rwth-aachen.de

http://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/team/kai-jakobs/

EURAS - The European Academy for Standardisation.

http://www.euras.org

My source:
This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/SOCIOTECH, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk

Kirigami: Engineering in a World of Friction

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Bioinspired kirigami metasurfaces as assistive shoe grips Abstract Falls and subsequent complications are major contributors to morbidity and mortality, especially in older adults. Here, by taking inspiration from claws and scales found in nature, we show that buckling kirigami structures applied to footwear outsoles generate higher friction forces in the forefoot and transversally to the direction of movement. We identified optimal kirigami designs capable of modulating friction for a range of surfaces, including ice, by evaluating the performance of the dynamic kirigami outsoles through numerical simulations and in vitro friction testing, as well as via human-gait force-plate measurements. We anticipate that lightweight kirigami metasurfaces applied to footwear outsoles could help mitigate the risk of slips and falls in a range of environments. Babaee, S., Pajovic, S., Rafsanjani, A. et al. Bioinspired kirigami metasurfaces as assistive shoe grips. Nat Biomed Eng (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-020-0564-3

See also on W2tQ:
RA of Eng - Healthcare challenges needing engineering expertise


My source:
Kirigami keeps your feet on the ground. The Times, News, 2 June, 2020, p.16 and 27.

Physico-Political: as realised by Tony Heaton

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	Great Britain from a Wheelchair: Tony Heaton

My source:
Steps, Championing Disability Arts, Lancaster Alumni Magazine 2019, pp.17-18.
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/alumni/


Image:
https://www.1418now.org.uk/commissions/does-it-matter/great-britain-from-wheelchair-tony-heaton/

Under the SSKIN

Since W2tQ started almost 15 years ago a collection of 250 draft posts have gathered (virtual dust). Many are probably empty - half-baked ideas - with no clear title (reminder - of the contents).

In nursing there are (thankfully) constant reminders, one being: the need to strike a balance between the person, being least restrictive, assumed mental capacity, best interests and high quality care delivery.

Revisiting the threshold concepts, h2cm and deprivation of liberty safeguarding draft paper brings recollection of a draft post and the lesson:

In many nursing situations you cannot assess what you cannot see.

In Nursing Times 29.11.11 a Nursing Practice comment item was titled:

“Compulsory training would help every HCA spot moisture lesions” 

Denise Elson, points to the SKIN (Surface, Keep moving, Incontinence and Nutrition) bundle as a set of very useful principles, and further refined to SSKIN:

SSKIN - Surface: Skin inspection: Keep moving: Incontinence: Nutrition

The Tissue Viability use the principle of SSKIN:

• Surface: make sure you're on a supportive surface 
• Skin inspection: check it isn't discoloured or sore 
• Keep moving: change your position often 
• Incontinence: keep clean and dry 
• Nutrition: eat healthily and drink frequently ( https://www.plymouthhospitals.nhs.uk/tv-sskin )

As a reflective exercise, if needed, think about SSKIN within h2cm - Hodges' model. Not just the physical (SCIENCES) focus but how these relate to the INTRA-INTERPERSONAL, SOCIAL, POLITICAL and the SPIRITUAL. We will revisit this using h2cm.

On the blog's 15th anniversary 20th April, I'll also try and put some numbers together.

Whitlock, J., et al. (2011) Using the skin bundle to prevent pressure ulcers. Nursing Times; 107: 35, 20-23.

See also:
Tissue Viability Society

Medicine and Art: (Steady) Eye & Hand

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Barbara Hepworth, Reconstruction, 1947 © BownessHepworth Estate / Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London

"In 2012, the NHS is threatened, its future uncertain. ... Hepworth was a Labour voter - of course she was. In these drawings, she reveals her egalitarian values. Work is goodness: she sees her own work as a sculptor reflected in the steady eye and hand of the surgeon. In one drawing he even seems to wield a hammer and chisel. But this is not mere artistic self-consciousness. The work being done in these pictures saves lives; Hepworth believes her art, too, can heal souls." p.18.

My source:
Jonathan Jones (2012) A cut above, The Guardian, Arts. 25.10.12, p.18.

Hammers and chisels are found in operating theatres and wielded by female surgeons too. The exhibition long finished, I can't believe* that I have held onto to this page from The Guardian for almost six years. I must visit Wakefield.

*others can...

#EndPJparalysis - NHS 70

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For people who are agitated and living with dementia their carers may learn to remove such cues as hat, coat and shoes. Seeing these may cause increased agitation as a need to be elsewhere. For #EndPJparalysis perhaps we can reverse this and use the sight clothes and footwear as a cue for 'get up & try to go'.	Required: decent research on hypoactive delirium and sleep (need to engage Prof Anita Simonds at the Brompton for this), and how to #endPJParalysis70 in hypoactive delirium. — shibley rahman (@dr_shibley) April 16, 2018

My source:

Please retweet
One week to go and the #endPJparalysis70 challenge begins. Right now, we need as many clinicians to download the #endPJparalysis app as possible so we can reach 14,286 patients a day for 70 days to reach our goal.
Here, the inimitable @Sonia_Sparkles shows us how pic.twitter.com/U8D5R663ui

— Brian Dolan RMN, RGN (@BrianwDolan) April 10, 2018

Borders & Boundaries 2018: Debating the limits and possibilities of Education

The Department of Educational Research invite international speakers every summer, and this year we are opening the event up to invite critical interdisciplinary scholars to engage in a range of events which bring together our three research centres: Higher Education Research and Evaluation; Technology Enhanced Learning; and Social Justice and Wellbeing in Education.

This year’s theme is Borders and Boundaries, which will be unpacked by our internationally renowned speakers and a programme of conference presentations on 3rd and 4th of July in the historic city of Lancaster.

Borders and Boundaries: Debating the limits and possibilities of Education

Borders and boundaries is an important theme in educational research and practice, having multiple meanings and interpretations. At one level, this notion reflects critical conceptualisations of place, territories and educational (im)mobilities which have come to the surface in recent years as a response to political and policy changes that seek to limit the movement of people and ideas. Alternatively, borders and boundaries may be taken to refer to theoretical demarcations and interactions, and the increasing emphasis on interdisciplinarity within research, and the associated instability of categories such as academic, practitioner, researcher and educator in the context of efficiency and structural changes within schools, universities and other institutions. This theme also has analytical value for framing debates about the perceived fluidity of formal and informal educational space in the digital age, simultaneously democratising knowledge and blurring the boundaries between professional and personal identities for many educators and academics. Finally, we envisage the theme of borders and boundaries as providing a way into discussions about social distinctions and emotional separations, which shape educational experiences, transitions, and outcomes in a broad range of ways.

Read more...

I have placed the conference themes within Hodges' model:

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This theme also has analytical value for framing debates about the perceived fluidity of formal and informal educational space in the digital age, simultaneously democratising knowledge and blurring the boundaries between professional and personal identities for many educators and academics.	... critical conceptualisations of place,  territories ... ... borders and boundaries may be taken to refer to theoretical demarcations and interactions, and the increasing emphasis on interdisciplinarity within research, and -
Borders and boundaries is an important theme in educational research and practice, having multiple meanings and interpretations. Finally, we envisage the theme of borders and boundaries as providing a way into discussions about social distinctions and emotional separations, which shape educational experiences, transitions, and outcomes in a broad range of ways.	- the associated instability of categories such as academic, practitioner, researcher and educator in the context of efficiency and structural changes within schools, universities and other institutions.   factor immobility occupational immobility academic / educational (im)mobilities

My source: Jill Anderson, Lancaster University.

A Space for Reflection (fully-boxed in?)

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

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SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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	Total parking charges £174 million in a year
	Parking Bays

BBC News - NHS parking charges: Hospitals made £174m in a year
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