Undergraduate Research as an Institutional Ethos-A Case Study Examining a Faculty Sponsored Research Symposium

This article describes a high-impact, institutional approach of embedding undergraduate research. Using a regional, teaching-focused state university as a case study, the article documents the formation of a campus-wide annual undergraduate research symposium (URS) and examines changes in the institution’s culture toward student research. The URS has played the dual role of increasing undergraduate involvement with research and increasing faculty involvement in collaborative research. Key to the effectiveness of the URS is its openness to a wide variety of disciplines and promotion of faculty-student research mentoring. This case study provides background and direction to those wishing to replicate the transformative impact of integrating undergraduate research at their own institutions by forming a high-impact, campus-wide undergraduate research symposium.

Why Critical Epidemiology?

The exponential growth of a discriminatory and rapacious market economy in the 21st century, nurtured and reproduced by an unhealthy civilization, is analyzed in this chapter. Global problems that make critical epidemiology an imperative tool are condensed to provide a synthesis of the impacts of 21st-century health inequity. The chapter provides an epidemiological profile of socio-environmental contradictions that cause the failing results of big business applications of new fourth industrial revolution technologies. It illustrates how unparalleled wealth concentration is not only destroying the fundaments of wellness and healthy living but also causing the downfall of common good and the derailment of institutional ethos. As a call to reason for public and collective health advocates, it highlights the myths of “progressive” technocracy (aberration of health governance) and the “sins” of a regressive expertness. Planetary life and health are hanging by a thread in a civilization in which producing fast, living fast, and dying fast is the ruling logic.

Police Functional Adaptation to the Digital or Post Digital Age: Discussions with Cybercrime Experts

This article examines the challenges of functional adaptation faced by the police in response to technologically driven changes in the nature of crime. It also recounts how research under the auspices of a ‘dark web’ research project resulted in a search for an effective approach to engaging with investigators dealing with cybercrime. In doing so it tested, as a research methodology, a standard change implementation tool (problem tree analysis) from the Disaster Management and Sustainable Development (DMSD) discipline. This in turn resulted in significant consideration being given to the physical space in which that methodology is used. It presents the results of a workshop held with cybercrime investigators (not all were police officers) in terms of the importance of four key organisational and cultural issues (management, leadership and institutional ethos within the police; the risks of over-complication and exaggerated distinctions between cyber and real world policing; ethics; and knowledge, training and development) alongside the development and acquisition of new technical capabilities.

Education in Safe and Unsafe Spaces

Recent student demands within the academy for "safe space" have aroused concern about the constraints they might impose on free speech and academic freedom. There are as many kinds of safety as there are threats to the things that human beings might care about. That is why we need to be very clear about the specific threats of which the intended beneficiaries of safe space are supposed to be relieved. Much of the controversy can be dissolved by distinguishing between "dignity safety," to which everyone has a right, and "intellectual safety" of a kind that is repugnant to the education worth having. Psychological literature on stereotype threat and the interventions that alleviate its adverse effects shed light on how students’ equal dignity can be made safe in institutions without compromising liberty. But "intellectual safety" in education can only be conferred at the cost of indulging close-mindedness and allied vices. Tension between securing dignity safety and creating a fittingly unsafe intellectual environment can be eased when teaching and institutional ethos promote the virtue of civility. Race is used throughout the article as the example of a social category that can spur legitimate demands for "dignity safe space."

Hacia los primeros cincuenta años

ResumenEl presente texto es una revisión del camino institucional recorrido por la Universidad Ricardo Palma en sus primeros 50 años desde su creación en 1969. Se describe, además, las principales facultades, escuelas profesionales y programas de postgrado que brinda la universidad, prestando atención a logros y proyecciones hacia el futuro de cada una. Finalmente, se vincula el progreso y las perspectivas de mejora con el espíritu institucional que rige a nuestra casa de estudios. Palabras clave: Universidad Ricardo Palma, escuelas profesionales, postgrado, Gerardo Ramos, formación profesional AbstractThis paper is the review of the institutional path followed by the Ricardo Palma University in these 50 years since its creation in 1969. Furthermore, there is a description of the main faculties, vocational schools and postgraduate programs provided by the university, while focusing on the achievements and future prospects of each of them. Finally, progress and improving outlooks are both linked to the institutional ethos that rules our education center.Keywords: Ricardo Palma university, vocational schools, postgraduate, Gerardo Ramos, vocational training

A dialética entre o capital e o Estado no desenvolvimento da rede de transporte aéreo regular no Brasil

O objetivo do presente artigo foi o de analisar alguns aspectos da gestão do ambiente regulatório da aviação civil brasileira, contemplando a transição ocorrida na regulação estatal, que estava a cargo do Departamento de Aviação Civil – DAC, para a Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil – Anac, em 2006, considerada a principal alteração sucedida no setor. O estudo nos levou ainda a identificar um traço marcante da condução dos rumos da aviação civil do país, que foi a presença de uma relação dialética entre o capital e o Estado (com variações de intensidade), durante o período no qual a aviação comercial esteve submetida à autoridade da Aeronáutica, via DAC (entre 1941 e 2006). Com apoio nessa constatação, chegamos à conclusão de que a forma de atuação do Estado brasileiro no âmbito da aviação civil no referido período foi o reflexo do que podemos chamar de um “etos institucional de caráter tutelar”, lastreado num arcabouço regulatório específico que resultou num modelo peculiar de intervenção estatal no setor. Abstract THE DIALECTIC BETWEEN CAPITAL AND THE STATE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGULAR AIR TRANSPORT NETWORK IN BRAZIL The purpose of this article was to analyze some aspects of the management of the Brazilian civil aviation regulatory environment, considering the transition occurred in the state regulation, from the Civil Aviation Department - DAC, to the National Civil Aviation Agency - ANAC in 2006, which was considered the main change in the sector. The study also led us to identify a striking feature of the conduction of the civil aviation sector in the country, which was the presence of a dialectic relation between capital and the State (with variations of intensity) during the period in which comercial aviation was ruled by the Air Force authority via DAC (between 1941 and 2006). In support of this finding, we came to the conclusion that the Brazilian State’s role regarding the civil aviation sector in that period was a reflection of what we can call an “institutional ethos of tutelary character”, based on a specific regulatory framework that resulted in a peculiar model of State intervention in the sector.

The moral significance of capturing micro-inequities in hospital settings

This paper illustrates and reflects on subtle micro-level events and practices that sustain and reproduce unequal relationships in healthcare encounters, and draws attention to their moral significance in two hospitals in the south Indian city of Chennai. Based on observational data and in-depth interviews with 16 surgeons, 11 nurses, and 36 patients and their family members between February 2016 and July 2017, it reveals how both victims and perpetrators normalize instances of micro-inequities, often failing to recognize or acknowledge them. The findings illustrate how the prevalence of micro-inequities varies between different medical institutions, and suggest that while subtle in nature, their effect raises concerns regarding dignity and respect for patients and family members. Drawing on existing philosophical analyses of micro-inequities, the study concludes that their production in hospital settings creates an institutional ethos that disdains and marginalizes patients and their family members. Further, it negatively influences the patient/family-doctor relationship and functions as a barrier to reflective patient-centered care.

Setting up a ‘Special Relationship’: Students as Co-Creators of a Research-based Curriculum

The idea of student/staff partnership has become ubiquitous in the way universities market their institutional ethos and enshrines an idealised 'dialogic structure' within curriculum design. Which universitities are actually putting this into practice and allowing their students a significant role in the machinations of curriculum design and enhancement?This case study investigates the emerging co-operation between the University of Leeds Library, a team of Special Collections interns and the academic and student communities they reach out to. It suggests, in microcosm, a model for the co-creation of the curriculum which positions the student as co-creator, certainly, but also as mediator, tutor, mentor and communicator.The project case study adds insight into the fascinating hybrid identity that students can occupy within the contested territory of university-wide curriculum design, and explores the complex status and authority of students and tutors as they explore fresh relationships of opportunity and expertise.