A5054545435- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Technology Use by Older Adults
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Ophthalmology and Visual Health Research
- Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies
- Digital Storytelling and Education
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Magnetic confinement fusion research
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Astro and Planetary Science
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
Swansea University
2019-2024
Cardiff University
2022
Abstract Part 2 of Encountering Berlant amplifies the promise Lauren Berlant's influential concept ‘cruel optimism’. Cruel optimism names a double‐bind in which attachment to an ‘object’ holds out sustaining/flourishing, whilst simultaneously harming. The lines between harming, sustaining, damaging and flourishing blur, sometimes collapsing entirely. By holding together opposites exemplifies performs centrality ambivalence thought, as well their orientation overdetermination incoherence....
This paper explores the possibilities of using alternative forms analysis when thinking about "dementia friendly communities," a recent if not by now historic phenomenon. Using ethnographic methods, I ask question: what remains beyond, in excess of, and is never quite captured discourses around such communities, they exist? Dementia an elusive concept, often appearing as personal disruption, threatening ways that contemporary lives are ordered. whether there value questioning fragmentary...
Objectives To explore the impact of eye clinic liaison officers (ECLOs, also known as sight loss advisors) on processes, functions and quality ophthalmology clinics through experiences staff in UK. Design Qualitative study. Setting UK hospital clinics. Participants Health social care professionals Results ECLOs who had a presence were seen valuable streamlining processes within clinic, particularly relation to certification visual impairment process, providing continuity for patients when...
The places where people live, work and spend leisure time are essential to their health wellbeing. However, with climate change, these environments changing. It is paramount that we understand older younger people’s change perspectives, behaviours visions for the future so matter them can be shaped managed effectively health, wellbeing sustainability. This article presents case using comic books explore diverse intergenerational groups. bilingual (Welsh/English) Climate Comic was created in...
Abstract Since the onset of Covid 19, there has been a shift towards moving essential services online. This potential to further exclude sub-sections population from accessing services. is particularly case for older people who lack basic digital skills or are not confident using technology, amplifying risk exclusion, and increasing social loneliness isolation among digitally excluded people. Research suggests that barriers engagement with technologies include cost, support, technology being...
Abstract: This piece and accompanying interview delve into the realms of memory, emotion, supernatural, presented here as a haunting personal journey . It offers fusion short ghostly story an enlightening with artist Sheree Murphy, whose work serves poignant testament to experience witnessing loved one’s decline dementia. Remembrance, depicted multifaceted phenomenon, transcends mere recollection encompass feelings, emotions, thoughts, sounds, smells, all heartfelt The narrative unfolds...