The meaning of medications:another look at compliance

Most research on compliance with medical regimens takes a doctor-centered perspective and proceeds from certain assumptions. This paper presents an alternative, patient-centered approach to managing medications, using data from 80 in-depth interviews of people with epilepsy. This approach focuses on the meanings of medication in people's everyday lives and looks at why people take their medications as well as why they do not. I argue that from a patient's perspective the issue is more one of self-regulation than compliance. When we examine 'noncompliance' beyond difficulties with 'side effects' an drug efficacy, the meanings of self-regulation include testing, controlling dependence destigmatization and creating a practical practice. What appears to be noncompliance from a medical perspective may actually be a form of asserting control over one's disorder.

Frontline Leisure::Securitizing tourism in the War on Terror

This article argues that the terrorist bombings of hotels, pubs and nightclubs in Bali in October 2002, and in Mombasa one month later, were inaugural moments in the post-9/11 securitization of the tourism industry. Although practices of tourism and terrorism seem antithetical – one devoted to travel and leisure, the other to political violence – this article argues that their entanglement is revealed most clearly in the counter-terrorism responses that brought the everyday lives of tourists and tourism workers, as well as the material infrastructure of the tourism industry, within the orbit of a global security apparatus waging a ‘war on terror’. Drawing on critical work in international relations and geography, this article understands the securitization of tourism as part of a much wider logic in which the liberal order enacts pernicious modes of governance by producing a terrorist threat that is exceptional. It explores how this logic is reproduced through a cosmopolitan community symbolized by global travellers, and examines the measures taken by the tourism industry to secure this community (e.g. the physical transformations of hotel infrastructure and the provision of counter-terrorism training).

The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation

Outlining sociology’s distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, The Sociology of Children provides a thought provoking and comprehensive account of the connections between the macro worlds of childhood and the micro worlds of children’s everyday lives.

Examining children’s involvement in areas such as the labour market, family life, education, play and leisure, the book provides an effective balance between understanding childhood as a structural phenomenon, and recognising children as meaning makers actively involved in constructing, co-constructing and reconstructing their everyday lives.

Through the concept of 'generagency' Madeleine Leonard offers a model for examining and illuminating how structure and agency are activated within interdependent relationships influenced by generational positioning. This framework provides a conceptual tool for thinking about the continuities, challenges and changes that impact on how childhood is lived and experienced.

Teenagers' Perceptions and Experiences of Belfast as a Divided City

In this ‘research project’ case study, we provide an empirical example of how quantitative and qualitative methods were combined within a single study and discuss some of the strengths and weaknesses of our combined methodology which included questionnaires, photo-prompts and focus-group interviews. Our intention in using mixed methods was to enhance understandings of the meanings of space, place and territory on the everyday lives of young people growing up in Belfast. How do young people negotiate space in politically divided cities such as Belfast? Is territory important, and if so, why is it important? How do we construct an appropriate and relevant study design that can not only describe, but explain what place, space and territory mean to young people, and more importantly, how it impacts on their everyday lives? How useful is it to apply a mixed-methods approach to finding answers to these questions? We explain why and how we used a mixed-methods approach and illuminate some of the issues we encountered. We demonstrate how mixed methods can provide not just complementary but also new insights into the topic under investigation. We hope that the case study encourages you to experiment, or at least consider, the potential of using mixed methods.

Making Ireland Modern

Making Ireland Modern is a cross-disciplinary, inter-institutional, inter-media design and research project which emerged from an open competition (won by Boyd and McLaughlin) to commission/curate the Irish pavilion for the Venice biennale 2014. It explores the relationship between architecture, infrastructure and technology in the building of a new nation. Constructed as a demountable, open matrix of drawings, photographs, models and other artefacts, the exhibition (12 x 5 x 6 metres) presents ten infrastructural episodes – Negation, Electricity, Health, Transportation, Television, Aviation, Education, Telecommunications, Motorways, Data – spanning a period of one hundred years from 1916-2016. Exploring a range of scales from the detail design of objects to entire landscapes and other territories, Making Ireland Modern describes architecture’s role in transforming the physical and cultural identity of the new state through its intersession in the everyday lives of its population. In 2015, we were commissioned by the Arts Council of Ireland to expand and develop the pavilion for a three cities tour of Ireland as one of the five major strands of the Arts Council’s Art2016 programme of Irish State’s 1916-2016 centennial celebrations (2016).

Biotecnologia: concepção e validação de trabalhos práticos

É hoje geralmente aceite que a educação em ciências, além da aprendizagem de conhecimento conceptual e procedimental, deve promover nos alunos o desenvolvimento de competências investigativas, ou seja, competências para identificar, formular e resolver problemas. Porém, o desenvolvimento de actividades práticas de natureza investigativa é difícil, pela carência, ou mesmo ausência, de vivências dos professores em investigações, sobretudo em projectos aplicáveis nas práticas lectivas. A frequente falta de formação inicial e contínua dos professores de ciências, relativamente ao desenvolvimento de competências indispensáveis à implementação desta perspectiva de trabalho prático, constitui um obstáculo à concretização de inovações educativas preconizadas para a educação em ciências, referidas em documentos aprovados e publicados pelo Ministério da Educação, em particular, orientações curriculares e programas disciplinares. A abordagem de temáticas em biotecnologia configura-se como uma necessidade das sociedades actuais, de modo que, atendendo aos avanços que se têm vindo a verificar nesta área, deverá integrar-se em educação científica formal, relacionando-a com a vida quotidiana dos cidadãos. Além de componentes científicas inovadoras, os seus desenvolvimentos têm diversas implicações, designadamente éticas, políticas, económicas e sociais. A investigação apresentada nesta dissertação insere-se neste quadro, a qual se baseou no seguinte problema: “Partindo de temáticas em biotecnologia, como estimular o desenvolvimento de trabalho prático numa perspectiva investigativa por professores de Biologia e/ou Geologia?”. Definiram-se dois objectivos gerais: 1) testar, conceber e optimizar actividades laboratoriais e experimentais em biotecnologia, transponíveis para contextos educativos dos ensinos básico e secundário, desmistificando a complexidade associada ao trabalho prático nesta área; 2) conceber, implementar e avaliar uma acção de formação para professores de Biologia e/ou Geologia, na modalidade de Oficina de Formação, visando em contextos escolares e em temáticas de biotecnologia, desenvolver percursos investigativos. A acção de formação “Desenvolvimento de actividades práticas em biotecnologia numa perspectiva investigativa: um contributo na (re)orientação de ensino e aprendizagem de ciências” estimulou os professores-formandos a participarem activamente num programa que integrava abordagens inovadoras de trabalho prático, e criou condições para, com orientação e apoio, desenvolverem percursos investigativos a partir de situações-problema em temáticas de biotecnologia. Na generalidade, as reflexões dos professores-formandos sobre os percursos investigativos planeados e implementados, e os ganhos a nível profissional e/ou pessoal, além de referências elogiosas à estrutura e sequência das actividades propostas na formação, realçaram os seguintes aspectos positivos: a) o enriquecimento de conhecimentos científico-tecnológicos em biotecnologia; b) a oportunidade de reflexão sobre as suas práticas e a necessidade de uma nova forma de olhar para o trabalho laboratorial e experimental e para o seu papel nas aulas de ciências; c) as potencialidades de trabalho prático numa perspectiva investigativa em termos de mobilização de competências de natureza conceptual e processual; d) o desenvolvimento de competências técnicas e processuais necessárias à implementação de percursos investigativos com recurso a procedimentos em biotecnologia. Do presente estudo decorrem implicações educacionais que se esperam pertinentes para a formação de professores de ciências e elaboração de recursos didácticos, designadamente manuais escolares, assim como, para a gestão dos programas disciplinares. Este estudo permitiu, ainda, apresentar propostas para futuras investigações.

Artefactos tangíveis e adaptáveis no ambiente doméstico

Recentemente assistimos a uma evolução da relação do Homem com a tecnologia, em larga medida acompanhada por novos modelos de interacção que modificam a forma de conceber os artefactos e constroem novos contextos de uso. Procuramos investigar, na presente tese, uma das abordagens emergentes, o universo dos media tangíveis, articulando a perspectiva do design da tecnologia orientada para a Human-Computer Interation (HCI), com a dimensão social, cultural e estética no uso da tecnologia. Os media tangíveis, ao contrário do que sucede com os conteúdos digitais convencionais, têm espessura e expressão física e, porque são dotados de um corpo que habita o espaço das disposições físicas, estão sujeitos à acção do mundo cultural e das práticas sociais que regem os demais objectos físicos que podemos encontrar no nosso quotidiano. Esta nova relação com a tecnologia digital obrigará as disciplinas que se encontram mais próximas do desenvolvimento tecnológico, tais como o Design de Interacção e a HCI, a abrirem-se aos contributos e abordagens das ciências humanas. Admitindo que a natureza subjacente ao processo da adaptabilidade no ambiente doméstico altera o equilíbrio da relação entre o design e o uso da tecnologia, julgamos ser essencial o desenvolvimento de uma fenomenologia da interação. Por outro lado, a adaptabilidade dos media tangíveis apresenta um conjunto de dificuldades, não apenas de ordem técnica, mas também de natureza conceptual, que têm dificultado o desenvolvimento e a implementação no terreno de tecnologias personalizáveis. Um dos objectivos da presente tese consiste em investigar um quadro conceptual capaz de enquadrar o fenómeno da adaptabilidade dos media tangíveis, e desenvolver uma tecnologia que possa servir de objecto a um estudo empírico com base numa abordagem etnográfica.

Arte e educação : o papel das equipas criativas na mediação cultural

Relatório de estágio de mestrado, Ciências da Educação (Educação Intercultural), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educação, 2011

Museus (in)capacitantes : deficiência, acessibilidades e inclusão em museus de arte

Tese de doutoramento, Belas-Artes (Ciências da Arte), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, 2015

Rhetorical Topographies of Post-Earthquake L'Aquila: Locality, Activism, and Citizenship Engagement

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2014

Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British in South Africa

This timely text explores the lives, histories and identities of white British-born immigrants in South Africa, twenty years after the post-apartheid Government took office. Drawing on over sixty in depth biographical interviews and ethnographic work in Johannesburg, Pietermaritzburg and Cape Town, Daniel Conway and Pauline Leonard analyse how British immigrants' relate to, participate in and embody South Africa's complex racial and political history. Through their everyday lives, political and social attitudes, relationships with the places and spaces of South Africa, as well as their expectations of the future, the complexities of their transnational, raced and classed identities and senses of belonging are revealed. Migration, Space and Transnational Identities makes an important contribution to sociological, geographical, political and anthropological debates on transnational migration, whiteness, Britishness and lifestyle, tourism and labour migration.

Projecto de conceito e estrutura de uma aplicação mobile para a marca NIVEA

Trabalho de projecto apresentado à Escola Superior de Comunicação Social como parte dos requisitos para obtenção de grau de mestre em Publicidade e Marketing.

Reconceptualising public spaces of (IN)equality: sensing and creating layers of visibility

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Doutor em Geografia e Planeamento Territorial - Especialidade: Geografia Humana

The encounter with the real and post-Soviet trauma : fantasy construction in Russian popular cinema /

This thesis examines the impact of the Soviet Union's collapse on the Russian Symbolic as represented through popular cinema of the post-Soviet period. The disintegration of the USSR in 1991 became one of the most traumatic experiences for many Russian people. The trauma of the collapse of the Soviet Union penetrated the everyday reality of the Russian Symbolic, leaving the traces-symptoms in different cultural fonns like literature, arts, television and cinema. Because popular culture usually reacts very quickly to any social, political and economical shifts in society, it is an excellent barometer for deeper changes in society. Focusing on postSoviet popular cinema, this thesis analyzes the symptoms of cultural and individual trauma occasioned by the momentous changes of the 1990's. This study is grounded in post-analytic theory of Jacques Lacan and its interpretation by Slavoj Zizek, which emphases the traumatic encounter with the Real as a "hard core" of our reality. According to this paradigm, a new chain of signifiers is structured around the traumatic breach in the Symbolic, initiating a process of fantasy construction to deal with consequences of trauma and, thus, to support our Symbolic order. This thesis examines three major fantasy constructions - drinking, traveling to a "happy land" and family reunion and money - in popular films by Alexander Rogozhkin, Yurij Mamin, Georgij Shengelia, Dmitrij Astrakhan, Valerij Todorovskij, Alexej Balabanov, Sergej Bodrov Jr. and Petr Buslov. According to Zizek, enjoyment underlies any fantasy constructions, and that is why after the intrusion of the Real every individual and culture should go through the process of fantasizing about some substitutes which can help to minimize the traumatic effect and which can lead to a partial enjoyment. By analyzing the fantasies about drinking, "happy land", reconstruction of the family bonds and money in Russian popular cinema since 1991, this thesis demonstrates how the traumatic engagement with the Real affected the everyday lives of Russian people, and how individuals tried to fill the gap, the lack, in the post-Soviet Symbolic and "return" the lost feeling of unity and plenitude.

L'expérience esthétique et quotidienne du parc en ville : le cas d'étude du parc La Fontaine à Montréal

Ce mémoire s’inscrit dans le domaine de l’architecture du paysage et du design urbain. La recherche se construit autour d’un questionnement sur le sens pouvant être attribué au parc La Fontaine par ses usagers en tant que cadre de vie urbain montréalais. Ce parc est un lieu emblématique de la ville par le caractère historique de son aménagement. Il est aussi un lieu populaire par sa situation géographique centrale au sein de l’arrondissement du Plateau-Mont-Royal. Par l’analyse de ce parc, nous cherchons à porter un regard sur la manière dont se construit l’expérience d’un parc urbain dans les particularités de son aménagement, de son contexte social et culturel. Notre étude semble pertinente dans la mesure où cet espace n’a jamais été abordé selon l’analyse de l’expérience paysagère. Notre réflexion se construit à partir d’un modèle socioculturel soutenu par une revue de littérature en architecture de paysage. Les travaux menés à la Chaire en paysage et environnement de l’Université de Montréal ont particulièrement été sollicités. Ce modèle considère le paysage comme une qualification sociale et culturelle d’un territoire. Il engage l’analyse vers des perspectives pluridimensionnelle, expérientielle et polysensorielle, tout en considérant le caractère formel (attributs physiques) du paysage. Nous avons également joint à ce cadre théorique les recherches menées en design et en anthropologie des sens. Ces axes de recherche éclairent les notions de l’expérience esthétique et sensorielle particulièrement en regard de la compréhension du vécu d’un espace ordinaire et quotidien. Selon ce cadre conceptuel, notre recherche fait appel à une approche compréhensive. Ainsi, nous abordons l’expérience du parc par un modèle d’analyse mettant l’emphase sur les usages, l’interprétation et la représentation de l’aménagement du parc La Fontaine. La méthodologie s’appuie sur une démarche de recherche qualitative. Elle se fonde sur une observation non participante des usagers du parc, sur des entretiens semi-dirigés et sur une étude physico-spatiale du lieu. Ce mémoire a pour finalité de conduire une première lecture du parc La Fontaine en abordant les dimensions composant le vécu de ses usagers. Nous espérons pouvoir contribuer à notre échelle à l’avancée des connaissances de cet espace du point de vue expérientiel et de la perspective paysagère sur la compréhension des parcs urbains.