Interview with a Celebrity Cartographer: Jim Meacham

2015 ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
Lauren Tierney ◽  
Jim Meacham
Keyword(s):  
Data Visualization ◽  
Executive Director ◽  
Mongolian Altai ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
Wildlife Migration ◽  
The University

James E. Meacham is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oregon, and Executive Director and co-founder of the InfoGraphics Lab in the University’s Department of Geography. He received his MA in Geography from the UO in 1992, and has served as the president of NACIS. His interests include map and atlas design, and data visualization. He is a co-creator of the Atlas of Yellowstone (2012), Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai: An Atlas (2010), and the Atlas of Oregon (2001). He teaches cartography courses at the University of Oregon. His current projects include the development of the Atlas of Wildlife Migration: Wyoming’s Ungulates.

Actors as Signposts: a Model for Site-based and Ambulatory Performances

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Smith
Keyword(s):  
Site Specific ◽  
Core Member ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The University ◽  
Subject Performance

In this paper Phil Smith examines the proposal of Simon Persighetti of Wrights & Sites for actors to behave ‘as signposts’. It describes the circumstances from which the proposal arose, a particular moment in the work of site-specific artists/performers Wrights & Sites, and argues for the wider application of the proposal to the making of site-based theatre and performance. The paper describes four main features of the proposal for ‘actors as signposts’ – pointing to specificity, movement from anti-character to collective subject, performance as trajectory, and the restoration of corporeality – illustrating these with reference to the work of Punchdrunk, Francis Alÿs, and geographer Michael Zinganel, among others. Phil Smith is a Senior Research Associate at the School of Art and Media, University of Plymouth and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Exeter and Dartington College of Arts. Author and co-deviser of over a hundred plays or performances for companies including St Petersburg State Comedy Theatre, Tams Theater (Munich), and New Perspectives (Nottingham), he is company dramaturg for TNT (Munich) and a core member of Wrights & Sites. His solo walking-based performances include The Crab Walks and Crab Steps Aside (texts published by Intellect, 2009).

scholarly journals A day in the life of a Research Scientist

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-47
Keyword(s):  
Protein Engineering ◽  
Natural Product ◽  
Animal Feed ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Research Scientist ◽  
Feed Industry ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
The University ◽  
First Job

Melissa Salmon received a BSc in Biochemistry with first class honours at the University of East Anglia in 2006, followed by a PhD in Biochemistry, which she completed in 2010. Her first job was as a Research Scientist at the John Innes Centre, Norwich where Melissa worked for 5 years researching natural product biochemistry. She became passionate about protein engineering and enzyme biochemistry and in 2015 she returned to the University of East Anglia. Melissa is now a Senior Research Associate working on engineering enzymes for the animal feed industry. Lorenza Giannella (Training Manager, Biochemical Society) spoke to her about her work.

scholarly journals Book Review: The Encyclopedia of Central Banking

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Stacey Marien
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Monetary Economics ◽  
Central Banking ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Full Professor ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
Policy Institute ◽  
The University

Rochon is an Associate Professor of Economics, at Laurentian University, in Ontario, Canada, where he is Director of the International Economic Policy Institute. His areas of research include monetary theory and policy, financialization, and post-Keynesian economics. Rossi, is a Full Professor of Economics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where he holds the Chair of Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, and Senior Research Associate at the International Economic Policy Institute at Laurentian University in Canada. The two editors have co-authored several articles together and now have edited this reference work.

Archaeology at the University of Ghana, Legon

1968 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 314-315
Author(s):  
Merrick Posnansky
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Guinea Coast ◽  
The Past ◽  
Volta Basin ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
Extensive Program ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Ghana ◽  
Source Of Information

In October 1968, the University of Ghana commenced an extensive program in African archaeology. Graduate students from overseas are eligible to enroll for courses at the University, though no scholarships are presently available for non-Ghanaians. The Department of Archaeology of the University of Ghana was established in 1951 under the professorship of A. W. Lawrence. It presently has a senior teaching establishment of four together with a curator and two senior research fellows under the chairmanship of Professor Merrick Posnansky. The Department has a small specialist library, a museum, laboratory, dark room, workshops, and a team of trained technical staff. Most of the Department's research work is normally conducted in the dry season from November to May each year. In the past Professor Oliver Davies, author of the Quaternary of the Guinea Coast (1964) and West Africa before the Europeans (1967), conducted extensive fieldwork relating to the Stone Age and neolithic periods of Ghana's past and made large surface collections from all parts of Ghana which provide a rich topographical source of information on archaeology in Ghana. The Department has conducted extensive excavations in Ghana and its research fellows are presently engaged in writing up the results of the Volta Basin Research Project, in which more than thirty sites have been excavated since 1963 in advance of the formation of a large lake consequent upon the construction of the Volta Dam. The majority of the excavated sites have been of Iron Age date. In September 1968, Mr. C. Flight commenced a new season of excavations at “Neolithic” rock shelter sites at Kintampo, where occupations and burials dated to the middle of the second millennium B.C. were uncovered in 1967. Other excavations conducted during 1968 included work by Mr. D. Calvocoressi at the funerary terracotta site of Ahinsan and by Mr. Duncan Mathewson at the seventeenth-century A.D. Gonja site of Jakpasere. In 1969 a training excavation will be conducted at Elmina on the sixteenth- to eighteenth-century A.D. town in the vicinity of the Portuguese castle.

Using Statewide Electronic Health Record and Influenza Vaccination Data to Plan and Prioritize COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach and Communications in Wisconsin Communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 (12) ◽  
pp. 2111-2114
Author(s):  
Jessica Bonham-Werling ◽  
Allie J. DeLonay ◽  
Kristina Stephenson ◽  
Korina A. Hendricks ◽  
Lauren Bednarz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Health Record ◽  
Influenza Vaccination ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Health Record ◽  
Health Departments ◽  
Potential Barriers ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Electronic Health ◽  
The University ◽  
Zip Code

The University of Wisconsin Neighborhood Health Partnerships Program used electronic health record and influenza vaccination data to estimate COVID-19 relative mortality risk and potential barriers to vaccination in Wisconsin ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. Data visualization revealed four groupings to use in planning and prioritizing vaccine outreach and communication based on ZIP Code Tabulation Area characteristics. The program provided data, visualization, and guidance to health systems, health departments, nonprofits, and others to support planning targeted outreach approaches to increase COVID-19 vaccination uptake. (Am J Public Health. 2021;111(12):2111–2114. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306524 )

scholarly journals An Editor's Wish List

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 303-305
Author(s):  
Maria Shevtsova
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Theatre Arts ◽  
Robert Wilson ◽  
Jacobean Drama ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Senior Research Fellow ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The University

The co-editors of New Theatre Quarterly take time out here to reflect on the milestone of the journal reaching its hundredth consecutive issue, in succession to the forty of the original Theatre Quarterly. Simon Trussler was one of the founding editors of the ‘old’ Theatre Quarterly in 1971. He is the author of numerous books on drama and theatre, including New Theatre Voices of the Seventies (1981), Shakespearean Concepts (1989), the award-winning Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre (1993), The Faber Guide to Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (2006), and Will's Will (2007). Formerly Reader in Drama in the University of London, he is now Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Rose Bruford College. Maria Shevtsova, who has been co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly since 2003, is Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts and Director of Graduate Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. The author of more than one hundred articles and chapters in collected volumes, her books include Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre: Process to Performance (2004), Fifty Key Theatre Directors (co-edited with Shomit Mitter, 2005), Robert Wilson (2007), Directors/Directing: Conversations on Theatre (with Christopher Innes, 2009), and Sociology of Theatre and Performance (2009).

scholarly journals First person – Katie Lloyd and Stamatia Papoutsopoulou

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. dmm047506
Keyword(s):  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Transcriptional Responses ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Experimental Approaches ◽  
Postdoctoral Research ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Katie Lloyd and Stamatia Papoutsopoulou are co-first authors on ‘Using systems medicine to identify a therapeutic agent with potential for repurposing in inflammatory bowel disease’, published in DMM. Katie conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral research associate in Prof. Chris Probert's lab at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. She is now a lecturer in pharmacology at the University of Chester, Chester, UK. Her research focuses on personalising medicine by combining innovative experimental approaches to identify biomarkers of inflammatory disease, drug response and mechanisms of drug resistance, which consider complex factors such as inter-patient variability and co-morbidities. Stamatia conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral research associate in Werner Muller's lab at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. She is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Mark Pritchard at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, investigating the regulation of transcriptional responses during inflammation and the impact of environmental factors on them, and has just accepted the position of assistant professor at the University of Thessaly, Greece.

scholarly journals Tecnologia e novos agentes da mudança social: “Os movimentos sociais de hoje comunicam muito e sabem como gerenciar emoções”

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 267
Author(s):  
Amanda Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
New Media ◽  
Global South ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Critical Perspectives

Com passagens e pesquisas em universidades ao redor do mundo – como na América Latina e na África, o professor Thomas Tufte, natural da Dinamarca, mas estabelecido na Inglaterra, traz a análise de experiências recentes em comunicação e mudança social no seu novo livro, intitulado “Communication and Social Change: a Citizen Perspective”, publicado pela Polity, sem tradução em Português. Em comum entre estas experiências está o fato de serem orquestradas por novos agentes – os movimentos sociais e os usos que eles fazem das tecnologias para comunicar, informar e produzir conhecimento.            Nessa entrevista, realizada na cidade de Leicester, Inglaterra, em setembro de 2017, Tufte resume alguns dos principais conceitos dispersos na obra, conectada ao pensamento de estudiosos latinos, cuja tradição, segundo ele, é baseada na comunicação participativa, e não no modelo norte-americano, mais funcionalista. Entre tais conceitos, Tufte destaca o de Cibercultur@, proposta pelo mexicano Jorge Alejandro Gonzalez como uma forma de enfrentar a comunicação enquanto prática transformadora – a ser realizada “de baixo para cima”, enfatizando os sistemas de informação, as praticas de comunicação e a produção de conhecimento que surge em pequenas e grandes comunidades.            Tufte também fala sobre movimentos sociais que emergem com novas experiências comunicativas, provocada pela ascensão e popularização das novas tecnologias, e lembra que os espaços institucionalizados têm muito a aprender com esses movimentos, tanto na gestão da tecnologia, como na gestão das emoções – um outro componente reconhecidamente “em jogo” nos processos de mudança.            Com pesquisas relacionadas ao Brasil já publicadas, o professor também propõe alguns eixos reflexivos acerca de fenômenos sociais recentes no país, como as jornadas de junho de 2013 e a chegada de novos grupos sociais conservadores – que, repete ele, não são o foco dos seus estudos, cuja abordagem para novos fenômenos e práticas é mais otimista, embora consciente de que a crise de representação vivenciada no mundo também é uma crise de comunicação.            Thomas Tufte é atualmente diretor de pesquisa da University of Leicester, além de ser fundador do Orecomm, Centro para a Comunicação e Mudança Glocal.  O Professor também atua como Senior Research Associate na University de Johannesburg, na África do Sul, e dirige o projeto internacional intitulado “Critical Perspectives on New Media and Processes of Social Change in the Global South”, com foco no Quênia.

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