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{"title":"Newspaper discourse: Constructing representations of terrorist groups (IRA and ISIS)","authors":"G. Holt, J. McAuley","doi":"10.5920/fields.984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/fields.984","url":null,"abstract":"Terrorism is a phenomenon which is constantly transforming and evolving, resulting in a plethora of research aiming to better understand it. More recently, as media has become globalised, there has been a surge of research into the relationship between terrorism and the media. However, there is a lack of studies comparing media representations of terrorist groups from two separate eras and ‘waves of terrorism’ (Rapoport, 2013). This research aims to fill this gap by examining the discourse used in newspapers to construct representations of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). This research used a qualitative methodology, discourse analysis to look at words and their meaning. Data was collected, for the analysis from both The Guardian and the Daily Mail newspapers. The articles were analysed using NVIVO. Differences were identified in the discourse used to represent terrorist groups in 2017 from those used in 1975. In 2017, newspapers were more likely to label the perpetrators as ‘sick’ and the attack as a ‘terrorist’ attack, discussing the victim’s injuries using more violent terminology. While 1975 newspapers were more likely to comment on political reasoning and ideology. An increased presence of sensationalisation, in the 2017 newspapers, seems to suggest a possible shift towards sensationalising terrorist events. More research is now needed on a larger scale, to consider if these changes in discourse occur more widely, and to examine what impact they have on public perception. ","PeriodicalId":239976,"journal":{"name":"Fields: journal of Huddersfield student research","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129278621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"Blurred lines\" - Male experiences of work from home policy whilst raising children during COVID-19 (0-11) an interpretative phenomenological analysis","authors":"J. Barker","doi":"10.5920/fields.987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/fields.987","url":null,"abstract":"The workforce of the UK is under unprecedented strain because of the COVID-19 pandemic where many are forced to work from home. Whilst work from home has been a longstanding part of flexible working arrangements and a key part of the CIPD push for ‘good work’, it was never intended to be the only way that many work. The research suggests that there is a difference between male and female experiences and the existing literature focuses on female experiences of working from home especially when having the additional responsibility of parenthood. The lack of research into the male perspective can be largely attributed to the lack of working from home in this demographic before the pandemic. Therefore, this paper seeks to start and address this fundamental gap in the literature at a time when far more within this demographic are working from home. The objective of the paper is to provide understanding of the lived experiences of this key demographic, fathers, and despite it being under phenomena circumstances, the research aims to begin an important discussion around how work from home affects fathers as well as mothers. We find ourselves in unprecedented times and so the method used was semi-structured, video conference facilitated, interviews which allowed for in-depth qualitative data collection following an interpretative phenomenological approach. Therefore, the method of data analysis was an interpretative phenomenological analysis which, due to the focus on lived experiences, allowed the voice of the participants to remain and for their interpretation of their experience to be the findings of the study. A broad theme, superordinate and subordinate themes were developed through this analysis technique. The central theme of challenging work-life balance was developed as well as 6 superordinate themes and 9 subordinate themes. This paper brings together five fathers experiences of working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. It shows that these men found it hard to find balance in a world of blurred lines; this impacted them physically and mentally and put unique strain on their relationships. This study is a base for further research and an ongoing discussion around how the pandemic has changed the way the economy works and therefore begins to plug some key gaps within the existing literature. ","PeriodicalId":239976,"journal":{"name":"Fields: journal of Huddersfield student research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114256216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Race, Fitness-to-Practice and the Experience of Trainee Educators","authors":"Celia Clarke","doi":"10.5920/fields.990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/fields.990","url":null,"abstract":"A study in response to findings the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students enrolled on education courses at a Northern University, are over-represented in Fitness-to-Practice (FTP) investigations. Referrals to FTP are intended to rectify the underperformance of students. As a phenomenon, it replicates trends across education and the workplace, explained by capital, racial discomfort and structural inequality. In this study, the experiences BAME students on placement, in education settings, are applied to provide insights into the disparity in FTP referrals. To capture data relating to this, a phenomenological approach was taken, using semi-structured interviews to capture subjective first-person accounts from the target sample. These were evaluated using thematic analysis, with the finding considered using Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a lens.The findings demonstrated two opposing accounts that were united by their conception of racial identity. The research found that BAME students’ placement experiences may be in response to an intersectional coherence of race and the status of the role they occupy within the placement. A clear link between FTP and placement experiences could not be established, but the CRT perspective points to issues with the conception of racism, white neutrality and supremacy active in BAME students’ placement settings.","PeriodicalId":239976,"journal":{"name":"Fields: journal of Huddersfield student research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129249310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"High resolution analysis of anti-migratory inhibitors in high grade glioma treatment","authors":"E. Burns","doi":"10.5920/fields.986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/fields.986","url":null,"abstract":"IntroductionGlioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is an extremely aggressive form of glioma tumour. The characteristically invasive properties of GBM contribute to the poor prognosis in suffers. This study focuses on the therapeutic potential of four anti-migratory drugs - 6-bromo- indirubin-3’oxime (BIO), CCG-1423, Latrunculin A (LAT A) and Lithium Chloride (LiCl), in vitro. The migration distances of migrating GBM cells and cell circularity for each treatment and an untreated control were measured and statistically analysed.MethodsGBM spheroids of the U251 cell line were treated with BIO, CCG-1423, LAT A or LiCl plus an untreated control in preparation for this study. These were sectioned using immunohistochemical techniques and scanned prior to the study using QuPath. Cell migration was measured from the perimeter of the tumour spheroid to the edge of the migrating cell. Cell circularity was obtained using the ‘cell circularity index’ function. The cell circularity of the migrating cells was obtained separately to the cell circularity of the cells within the spheroid. This repeated for each section for each spheroid for each study. The data obtained was analysed in SPSS.ResultsEach of the treatments showed significant statistical differences compared the control spheroid for the migration distance measurements. LAT A was shown to have the greatest effect in decreasing the migration distances. The analysis of the cell circularity indicated that the migrated cells were significantly more rounded than the tumour cells for each treatment. The ‘cell circularity index’ indicated the migrated cells were more rounded than those within the tumour spheroid across each of the treatments.ConclusionThe cell migration distance study suggests further study, to analyse the effects of these drugs in vivo, as they each demonstrated anti-migratory effects on the GBM cells. The ‘cell circularity index’ study should be amended to more accurately represent the changes in morphology during GBM cell migration.","PeriodicalId":239976,"journal":{"name":"Fields: journal of Huddersfield student research","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126774680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Food culture and nostalgia in the Sannong video","authors":"Xiaolu Xu","doi":"10.5920/fields.991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/fields.991","url":null,"abstract":"This research reviews the rural nature of Chinese society and analyses the elements that engage viewers in the Sannong videos from this perspective. Urban dwellers, rural dwellers and rural migrants have all been greatly affected by the rapid urbanisation. The hukou system has led to a dichotomy between urban and rural China and a stigmatised image of peasants and the countryside. In this environment , people lost their sense of belonging and became nostalgic. For the first time since the spread of social media to rural dwellers and rural migrants, peasant groups have had the opportunity to reconstruct the image of peasants and the countryside as the protagonists of a narrative. In this study, 10 videos were selected from each of the two distinctive video accounts to compare and analyse their content. The common features of the two accounts can be considered as the reason for the popularity of the Sannong videos. In addition to the fact that a large number of viewers like the Sannong videos, this phenomenon may reflect the plight of urbanisation in China.","PeriodicalId":239976,"journal":{"name":"Fields: journal of Huddersfield student research","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128635409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining perceptions of anorexia nervosa Should people with anorexia nervosa receive health-related welfare benefits?","authors":"C. Walton","doi":"10.5920/fields.988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/fields.988","url":null,"abstract":"Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a mental illness with multiple serious physical health complications. Despite this, evidence suggests that AN is commonly conceptualised as a choice, and sufferers are regarded as vain, selfish, and to blame for their condition. No previous studies appear to have explored the link between these stigmatising views and attitudes towards sickness and disability benefits for people with AN, though general attitudes towards benefits claimants are often negative.This quantitative study aimed to investigate if people with AN are widely viewed as undeserving of benefits, and to explore if and how stigma and perceptions of personal choice may affect this, using the example of Personal Independence Payment (PIP). The final sample consisted of 20 female undergraduate students from a university in the North of England. Main findings were that most students (80%) believed that people with AN should be eligible to apply for PIP, though higher levels of stigma were associated with disagreement for PIP. Results showed that levels of stigma towards AN were generally low, but beliefs that AN is a choice and sufferers are to blame were present nonetheless. However, the study found no conclusive evidence of perceptions of choice being associated with attitudes towards PIP.","PeriodicalId":239976,"journal":{"name":"Fields: journal of Huddersfield student research","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130161818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Danger, Dirt & Degenerates: The Rebellious Act of Creativity","authors":"A. Morris","doi":"10.5920/fields.913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/fields.913","url":null,"abstract":"Creativity: a word often associated with fun, colour and play, a sentiment reflected in companies attempting to recreate it for profit. Exhibitions like the Wondr Experience litter their spaces with similar childlike aesthetics, with the superficial goal of fostering creativity, but resulting in the true aim of an endless stream of identical Instagram posts and more ticket sales. This paper reveals a darker and more authentic side to creativity, proposing that discomfort is an essential ingredient. Juxtaposing the cute spaces for 'plandids' and the bean bags and beer fridges of office spaces jumping on the hype, the study reveals that to engage in creative thought you have to be in a state of apprehension. Graphic designers often follow the security of grids designed by the likes of Josef Müller-Brockman, however the piece suggests that this kind of work is within the realms of comfort. This tendency for playing it safe is possibly because of the consumerist society we live in – not many designers can afford to take risks because failure means no paycheck. In this way, the paper ends with the suggestion that due to the culture we are in, creativity is observed as an act of rebellion.","PeriodicalId":239976,"journal":{"name":"Fields: journal of Huddersfield student research","volume":"516 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133036223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Exploration of Attitudes Towards Spiritual Care for Recovery from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder","authors":"Georgi Marshall","doi":"10.5920/fields.977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/fields.977","url":null,"abstract":"Spiritual-based care has been increasingly explored and investigated for its effectiveness for assisting mental illness, such as PTSD in the United States of America (Harris et al., 2018). Although research studies have attempted to explore attitudes towards spiritual care and the effectiveness of spiritual-based care for PTSD, few have explored attitudes regarding spiritual care for recovery from PTSD, especially from undergraduate allied health students. This paper explores the attitudes towards spiritual care for recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder, from undergraduate allied health students. The study adopted an interpretivist approach that deployed qualitative methods. The data collection method used for the study were semi-structured interviews. In total, four participants participated in the interviews. A thematic analysis was utilised to examine the datasets from the interviews.The research revealed that majority of participants had negative opinions regarding traditional medical treatment for PTSD and mental illness recovery. This led to the identification of barriers, such as stigma and cultural barriers, for seeking treatment for mental illness. Participants had positive opinions regarding spiritual care for assisting PTSD recovery, with recommendations that religious and spiritual needs must be assessed before the allocation of spiritual-based care to prevent conflict with patient’s religious or cultural beliefs.  ","PeriodicalId":239976,"journal":{"name":"Fields: journal of Huddersfield student research","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116197275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Portrayals of gender and identity in the soundtrack of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt","authors":"Cerys Elizabeth Eckersley","doi":"10.5920/fields.980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/fields.980","url":null,"abstract":"The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red, 2019) is an award-winning role-playing video game (RPG); the third instalment of The Witcher game series inspired by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski’s fantasy novels. Centring upon the protagonist Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher 3 has been praised for developing a complex, authentic, and immersive game environment that combines magic and fantasy elements within a broadly medieval setting. A central aspect of the game’s success is its soundtrack – the fusion of music, sound, and voice – which further contributes to building the game’s overall narrative and the complex construction of its central characters. This paper explores how The Witcher 3’s soundtrack constructs identity, focusing in particular on its use of neo-medievalist signifiers and its contrasting representations of masculinity and femininity. Neo-medievalist sounds are a central concept in building the game’s identity; these sounds draw on folkloristic elements surrounding the choice of instrumentation and the recurrence of folk music throughout the game’s narrative, thus increasing the player’s immersion within The Witcher 3’s world. Regarding gender, female vocalisations are used within the soundtrack to add depth and emotion to male characters – particularly Geralt of Rivia, who due to his mutations lacks in conventional emotional capabilities. Despite the inclusion and emphasis of female voices on the soundtrack, the placement of women in influential roles is limited through other musical scoring techniques, which effectively reduces the agency of these characters, thus suggesting an imbalanced treatment towards gender. Through exploring these aspects, I argue that the soundtrack is a crucial part of how gender and identity are constructed throughout The Witcher 3, further exploring how these elements affect the player’s overall in-game immersion.","PeriodicalId":239976,"journal":{"name":"Fields: journal of Huddersfield student research","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117168806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sylvia Plath and the Containment of Women's Domestic Identity","authors":"Eleanor Catherine Slater","doi":"10.5920/fields.979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/fields.979","url":null,"abstract":"Within the unstable sphere of 1950s Cold War political tensions, American women became the 'bastion of safety in an insecure world' (Tyler May 2008: p.9). For politicians such as Richard Nixon, women's loyalty to the home served as a commitment to America, negotiating a settlement which secured women within the confinements of domestic duties. This ideal, advertised through compelling magazine articles, manipulatively enabled a universal identity for women based within the home. Pages packed with the latest consumer products and laced with 'smooth artificiality... cool glamour, and the apple-pie happy domesticity' (Bronfen 2004: p.115) birthed a rich propaganda for domestic containment. Examining the political climate of Cold War America through the lens of domestic containment, this article argues that American poet Sylvia Plath tackled the illusions of consumerism to fuel her writing, challenging outright gender inequality which defined the nation.Using Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique alongside genuine articles from the era, this article assesses the ideological conflict of the 1950s domesticated woman against Plath's personal battle between writing and domestic life. Through her raw depictions of realism in literature and intense poetry, it becomes impossible to 'contain' Plath, not only within the domestic sphere, but in her own writing.","PeriodicalId":239976,"journal":{"name":"Fields: journal of Huddersfield student research","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114626672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}