Something for the weekend: Fitness gurus and ‘muscular Christianity’: how Victorian Britain anticipated today’s keep fit crazeTheorizing work in the contemporary platform economyHealth and health care in Europe: between inequalities and new opportunities conferenceTowards the creative university: Five forms of creativity and beyondInterdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and practiceContracting with students: Re‐thinking Higher Education as invitation to treatEducational leadership: Producing docile bodies? A Foucauldian perspective on Higher Education2020 International Health Conference Gymnastic robotsThe phenomenological heart of teaching and learningPrecarious employment, … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #71
Qualitative health research 101
Part 2 - Criticality Last week I offered an all too brief potted history of qualitative health research (QHR), in the hope that what follows makes more sense.There are a lot of misconceptions about QHR. Hopefully these blogposts will help clarify some core principles, and inspire people to see how incredibly powerful and useful good quality QHR can be. Now you could say the first principle I want to tackle today’s is so important that it almost defines the difference between what is true qualitative health research and what is a pale imitation. And that is criticality. More than any other principle, good QHR has always been critical. It has challenged convention; held a mirror held … [Read more...] about Qualitative health research 101
Intersectionality: Challenges for Critical Feminist Research, Practice and Policy
An international conference at the Australian National University Signature Event, 2020, ANU Gender Institute. Also supported by: Development Policy Centre, ANU 3-4 November 2020 Molonglo Theatre, J.G. Crawford Building, Liversidge Road, ACTON 2601, Canberra, Australia Call for Papers Liberal feminists imagined a universal category of ‘women’ as a basis for solidarity, but also believed it as homogeneous. Today, feminist politics recognises multiple forms of social stratification, such as class, race, indigneity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, religion and disability as well as gender. 'Intersectionality' was introduced as a name for the ways they combine to create … [Read more...] about Intersectionality: Challenges for Critical Feminist Research, Practice and Policy
CPN Digest #69
Something for the weekend: A practice theory approach to primary school physical activityHow designing hospitals for Indigenous people might benefit everyoneWhy Australian road rules should be rewritten to put walking first10 countries closest to achieving gender equalityMedia renderings of brain injury and Aaron Hernandez as a medical and sporting subjectThe (Agri-)Cultural origins of obesityHealth status changes with transitory disability over time”Physiotherapists therefore seem to have a more important role than doctors in fostering patients' motivation and adherence towards rehabilitation”The punch-drunk boxer and the battered wife: Gender and brain injury researchThe association of … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #69
CPN Digest #70
Something for the weekend: Review of Foucault’s political work on critical thinkingYou'll soon be able to scoot around town—at 24 mph—without even having to stand upScience conference are stuck in the dark agesFrom Geoff Dyer to Nietzsche: the best books to inspire wanderlustNietzsche and the Burbs review – deadpan philosophical comedyPatty Thille: The determination to be thinner and fitter this year will not save youNew issue of Foucault StudiesHow the garage created white (segregated) suburbiaDisability//Body//History of TechnologyCFP - Living with Disabilities in New England, 1600-1900Research productivity in OT and PT in four Western countries and five Asian countries/regionsLenses on … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #70
Qualitative Health Research – a guide for the perplexed
Part 1 The changes now taking place in healthcare should provide great material for really thoughtful, well-conduced qualitative health research (QHR). But sadly little of it is being produced, especially in physiotherapy, where the amount and quality of much of the qualitative research we have available is really quite poor. So over the course of the next few weeks, I thought I’d try to tackle some of this in a similar way to the way I hacked at the biomedical model last year (see here). My hope is that in doing this, people will understand more about QHR, and that might, in turn, lead to some new and exciting research. Before I begin, I should acknowledge that there are literally … [Read more...] about Qualitative Health Research – a guide for the perplexed
CPN Digest #68
Something for the weekend: The doomed idea of gender-less leadershipDonna Haraway: Kin and kindnessThe Reinvention of Humanity: How women created anthropologyTaint tanning and heliotherapyHow smart home tech helps me live independentlyWork is a fundamental part of being human. Robots won’t stop us doing itCan Sci-Fi Writers Prepare Us for an Uncertain Future?Final call: International Conference on Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise abstractsWCPT global country profile mapsLife experienced within and through the body after the age of 85When the researcher becomes the vulnerable oneBlack feminist reflections on power in the research relationshipAI might make healthcare more … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #68
