scholarly journals Working at Pleasure in Young Women's Alcohol Consumption: A Participatory Visual Ethnography

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 65-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angus Bancroft ◽  
Mariah Jade Zimpfer ◽  
Orla Murray ◽  
Martina Karels
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Visual Ethnography ◽  
Night Time ◽  
The Public ◽  
Narrow Framing ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Liberal Concept

This paper reports on a participatory ethnography conducted with undergraduate students. It examined the rituals and habits through which they constructed their intoxication culture. Students used video recording devices such as smartphones to collect data about aspects of their intoxication experiences. They were then interviewed about emerging analytical themes. In this paper we focus on one aspect of intoxication culture, the place of pleasure in women's accounts. We build on previous research that showed that pleasure was present but not always dominant in women's accounts of leisure focused drinking. They experienced the predominant, neo-liberal concept of pleasure as a demand which had to be navigated alongside their own desires which could include a preference for a more situated, intimate, sociability. Pre-drinking occasions were especially significant as places where bonds could be built up and body and self prepared to enter the public night-time economy. For many, this preparation became the main, enjoyable event in contrast to sometimes fraught and demanding public drinking spaces, where women could find themselves subject to various critical judgements about their femininity. Their activities on these occasions focused on achieving a ‘good drunk’, a manageable state of group intoxication. We use these findings to comment critically on the gendering of the night-time economy, the narrow framing of ‘pleasure’ in it, and the commodification of student experience in the UK.

scholarly journals Working at Pleasure in Young Women’s Alcohol Consumption: A Participatory Visual Ethnography

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angus Bancroft ◽  
Mariah Jade Zimpfer ◽  
Órla Meadhbh Murray ◽  
Martina Karels
Keyword(s):  
Video Data ◽  
The Body ◽  
Night Time ◽  
The Public ◽  
Narrow Framing ◽  
Body Self ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Uk Higher Education ◽  
Academic Discourses ◽  
Liberal Concept

The ‘student experience’ is commodified in UK higher education. It meshes with the commodified intoxication culture around alcohol that has been promoted in the UK by central and local government. Central to this culture is a concept of pleasure as purposeful, unrestrained sociability. It invokes gendered norms of interaction that drinkers both engage with and distance themselves from. Focusing mainly on women, this paper examines that culture critically through the habits, performances, rituals and experiences recounted by student drinkers. For the research, student researcher-participants used smartphones to collect video data about aspects of their intoxication experiences. Pleasure was present but not always dominant in their accounts of leisure focused drinking. They experienced the predominant, neo-liberal concept of pleasure as one mode, which could be engaged alongside others that emphasised a situated, intimate, sociability. Pre-drinking occasions were especially significant as places where bonds could be built up, and the body self-prepared to enter the public night- time economy. For many, preparation became the main, enjoyable event in contrast to the sometimes fraught and demanding public drinking spaces, where women could find themselves subject to various critical judgements about their femininity. Their activities on these occasions focused on achieving a ‘good drunk’, a manageable state of group intoxication. We use these findings to comment on the gendering of the night-time economy and the narrow framing of ‘pleasure’ in public and academic discourses around it.

scholarly journals Alcohol consumption among university students in the night-time economy in the UK: A three-wave longitudinal study

2019 ◽  
Vol 204 ◽  
pp. 107522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Tarrant ◽  
Joanne Smith ◽  
Susan Ball ◽  
Crawford Winlove ◽  
Sahil Gul ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
University Students ◽  
Night Time ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals The Consumption, Production and Regulation of Alcohol in the UK: The Relevance of the Ambivalence of the Carnivalesque

Sociology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 1056-1071 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Haydock
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
21St Century ◽  
British Society ◽  
Night Time ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Significant Interest ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Culture Of Intoxication ◽  
Society Today

Alcohol consumption in 21st-century Britain is of significant interest to government, media and academics. Some have referred to a ‘new culture of intoxication’ or ‘calculated hedonism’, fostered by the drinks industry, and enabled by a neoliberal policymaking context. This article argues that the ‘carnivalesque’ is a better concept through which to understand alcohol’s place in British society today. The concept of the carnivalesque conveys an earthy yet extraordinary culture of drinking, as well as ritual elements with a lack of comfort and security that characterise the night-time economy for many people. This night-time carnival, as well as being something experienced by participants, is also a spectacle, with gendered and classed dynamics. It is suggested that this concept is helpful in making sense of common understandings of alcohol that run through the spheres not only of alcohol consumption but also production and regulation.

‘Binge’ drinking devils and moral marginality: young people’s calculated hedonism in the Canterbury night-time economy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert McPherson
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Young People ◽  
Binge Drinking ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Night Time ◽  
Media Construction ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk

Robert McPherson presents data from an ethnographic study focused upon young people within the Canterbury night-time economy. He gained access and subsequent immersion into groups of different groups of marginalised young people’s leisure practices. He critically examines the media construction as of ‘binge’ alcohol consumption, and how negative media representations produced what he describes as a discriminatory moral marginality impacting on young people in the UK. His data suggest that young people intentionally manage their levels of intoxication to counter moral marginality, which incorporate aspects of risk, agency and resistance.

scholarly journals Student Surveys: Measuring the Relationship between Satisfaction and Engagement

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 297
Author(s):  
Camille Kandiko Howson ◽  
Frederico Matos
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Education Student ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Student Surveys ◽  
Outcome Goals ◽  
Experience Survey ◽  
Learning And Change ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

This study explores the relationship between satisfaction and engagement survey items through an institutionally based survey, drawing on the two largest higher education student experience surveys in the world. The UK-based National Student Survey (NSS) was designed to inform student choice and drive competition and the US-based National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) was developed to provide actionable data for institutional enhancement. Comparing these surveys leads to a critical review of how such data can be used for policy decisions and institutional enhancement. The Institutional Experience Survey thus draws on findings from a survey of 1480 non-final year undergraduate students in a research-intensive UK university. Those who reported higher levels of engagement, measured across 17 engagement benchmarks, also reported significantly higher levels of satisfaction. Results are used to discuss the application of engagement-based surveys in the UK, compared to satisfaction-based surveys, and the benefits and challenges of both approaches. Conclusions are made about the usefulness of nationally standardised experience surveys, the different outcome goals of engagement and satisfaction, such as responsibility for learning and change, audience and results and lessons for other countries looking to measure the student experience. The paper highlights the need for a shift in perspective in relation to the role of student surveys in determining national and institutional policy from a student-as-customer approach to one that sees students and institutions as co-responsible for learning and engagement.

Editorial: Antisemitism in the UK Labour Party

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Klaff
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Research Note ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Exciting Development

I am pleased to publish an open-access online preprint of two articles and a research note that will appear in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism 3, no. 2 (Fall 2020). This preprint is a new and exciting development for the Journal. It has been made possible by the generous donations from sponsors, including BICOM's co-chairman, David Cohen, whose support for the work of the Journal allows for timely scholarly analysis to be put into the public sphere.

An Expert Ranked List of Pro-nature Conservation Behaviours for Public Use

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea Barbett ◽  
Edward Stupple ◽  
Michael Sweet ◽  
Miles Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
General Population ◽  
Mass Extinction ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Ecological Impact ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Ranked List

The planet is facing an anthropogenic mass extinction of wildlife, which will have a grave impact on the environment and humans. Widespread human action is needed to minimize the negative impact of humans on biodiversity and support the restoration of wildlife. In order to find effective ways to promote pro-nature conservation behaviours to the general population, there is a need to provide a list of behaviours which will have worthwhile ecological impact and are worth encouraging. In a novel collaboration between psychologists and ecologists, 70 experts from practical and academic conservation backgrounds were asked to review and rate 48 conservation related behaviours. According to their judgement, this short paper presents a ranked list of pro-nature conservation behaviours for the public in the UK and similar landscapes. This includes behaviours people can engage in in their homes, their gardens, on their land, and in their roles as citizens.

Participating in an international project on readers’ response to Lord of the Flies: insights into undergraduate students’ responses

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Ghazal Kazim Syed ◽  
Manzoor-ul-Mustafa Panhwar
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
International Study ◽  
Literature Circles ◽  
Collaborative Teaching ◽  
International Project ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Lord Of The Flies ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Teaching Pedagogies

<p>This paper presents the findings of a study based on students’ response to participating in an international project. This international project was a collaboration between Pakistan, the UK and Norway. Collaborative teaching techniques of using literature circles within each class and google circles across the three contexts (online) were used. Twelve participating students from Pakistan were interviewed to explore their reactions to the international study. Students felt that they learnt new things from the use of these innovative methods, were able to learn from foreigners and felt a sense of connectivity to their groups. It is recommended that students from Pakistan be given such exposure to overcome their hesitation. It is recommended that further research be carried out in other contexts as well to determine if the use of such teaching pedagogies can benefit other teachers of literature.</p>

Archaeologists and the Dead

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
International Context ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Experience Effect

This volume addresses the relationship between archaeologists and the dead, through the many dimensions of their relationships: in the field (through practical and legal issues), in the lab (through their analysis and interpretation), and in their written, visual and exhibitionary practice--disseminated to a variety of academic and public audiences. Written from a variety of perspectives, its authors address the experience, effect, ethical considerations, and cultural politics of working with mortuary archaeology. Whilst some papers reflect institutional or organizational approaches, others are more personal in their view: creating exciting and frank insights into contemporary issues that have hitherto often remained "unspoken" among the discipline. Reframing funerary archaeologists as "death-workers" of a kind, the contributors reflect on their own experience to provide both guidance and inspiration to future practitioners, arguing strongly that we have a central role to play in engaging the public with themes of mortality and commemoration, through the lens of the past. Spurred by the recent debates in the UK, papers from Scandinavia, Austria, Italy, the US, and the mid-Atlantic, frame these issues within a much wider international context that highlights the importance of cultural and historical context in which this work takes place.

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