The practice of cultural ecology: network connectivity in the creative economy

ABSTRACT

This paper reflects on approaches to collaborative knowledge exchange projects between UK universities and the creative economy. It develops a preliminary account of cultural ecology as a systematic approach to producing impact in the creative economy. It argues that such an approach is a powerful way to aggregate micro-businesses and small and medium sized enterprises in a meaningful network of new relationships. The paper uses social network analysis software to begin to visualise the pattern of relationships that constitute the ecosystem. The paper reports on the work of the Research and Enterprise for Arts and Creative Technologies Hub, one of four Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy established by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.     

篮球那些事儿

比尔·西蒙斯的《The Book of Basketball》于今年出版后,立刻登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜首位,美国球迷将其奉为篮球书籍中的经典之作。从本期开始,《扣篮》将对其进行连载,给所有读者呈现原汁原味的美国篮球风貌。     

More morphostasis than morphogenesis? The ‘dual professionalism’ of English Further Education workshop tutors

An international repositioning of vocational teachers in relation to knowledge and the workplace is reflected in English Further Education through the terminology of ‘dual professionalism’. Particularly in settings most closely linked to specific occupations, this discourse privileges occupational expertise that vocational educators bring from their former employment alongside pedagogic expectations of the teaching role. In a qualitative study of recently qualified teachers employed substantially in workshop settings, using the analytical framework of Margaret Archer, workplace skills and generic attributes provided a basis for claims to expertise, extending to a custodianship of former occupations. Further augmentation of educator roles, however, appeared constrained by market approaches to development and employment insecurity in the sector and beyond. In Archer’s terms, the current environment appears to cast ‘dual professionalism’ as morphostasis, drawing on former practice at the expense of teacher identity in the face of insecurity. Morphogenesis into enhanced professional teacher identities, for example, developing coherent vocational pedagogies informed by research into advances in knowledge, appears the less likely outcome in the current and emerging sector.     

漫谈美国培训产业的现状

(Bill Crampton,现任美国波斯顿培训技术公司-中国公司总裁,该公司的业务是面向各行各业,提供专业的英语培训。例如管理、I T、M B A、旅游等。 Bill Crampton在中国已经学习,生活和工作了十五年。他曾担任世界上最大的计算机培训中心--新地平线(New Horizons Computer Learning Center)的亚太地区经理,上海总经理,以及它的中国地区副总裁。Bill Crampton也是上海美国商会教育和培训委员会的创建者之一。工作中他致力于培训和人力资源管理的实践和研究,积累了丰富的经验。     

Researching Telemedicine: Capturing Complex Clinical Interactions with a Simple Interface Design

Telemedicine has been shown to be an effective means of managing follow-up care in chronic diseases such as depression. Exactly why telemedicine calls work, however, remains largely unknown because there are no adequate research tools to describe the complex communicative interactions in these encounters. We report here an ongoing project to investigate the efficacy of telemedicine in depression care, arguing that technical communication specialists have unique contributions to make to this kind of research.