http://hdl.handle.net/10453/52271 2026-04-22T09:11:34Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/157846 Title: Practices, not perceptions or percentages – Arguing for ethnographic methods in Higher Education gender research Authors: Waite, K; Anderson, T; Bawa, M Abstract: In Australia, the Gender Pay Gap – 15.3% - is surprisingly high for a developed country, and is decreasing very slowly. Within our university, there are a number of initiatives aimed at decreasing inequality, but many of these focus on staff career progression, and are focused on disciplines where there is a significant gender imbalance. Statistics on these initiatives are reported, and the university has been recognised as an Employer of Choice for Women. However, our ethnographic based research indicates that gender discrimination is embedded in everyday higher education teaching and learning practices, regardless of discipline, and that this unconscious discriminatory behaviour goes unnoticed by students and teachers, regardless of gender. This paper will show how ethnographic methods have uncovered behaviours that were surprising to the researchers, and would never have been uncovered in surveys, interviews or statistics. Most importantly, our results were shared with our student participants, who were as surprised as we were. One of the findings has had significant impact on both students and staff in demonstrating – in the parlance of students - that unconscious bias “is a thing” and has allowed them to recognise their own unconscious biases in a way that is persuasive, rather than antagonistic. When students recognised their biases, they were receptive to learning new inclusive practices, and eliminating practices which were self-sabotaging. This paper will argue that the most prevalent gender research methods may blur the nature of the gender discrimination in the higher education context, and that ethnographic methods will give us better visibility of unconscious gendered behaviours, which may contribute to discriminatory outcomes, both within the university and the workplace. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/145991 Title: Animation and the remediation of school physics–a social semiotic approach Authors: He, Y; van Leeuwen, T Abstract: © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper opens by proposing a model for the holistic study of design software that emphasises user operations. It then examines the affordances of Explain Everything, a popular interactive whiteboard software, for animating concepts that play a crucial role in the Australian Year 7–10 physics curriculum. Building on earlier work on animation by Leão [(2012a). “Movement in Film Titles: An Analytical Approach.” Unpublished PhD, University of Technology, Sydney], the meaning-making resources of animation, in general, are presented as a stratified system (of choices), which is then deployed to explore the animation operations that Explain Everything facilitates. It is found that Explain Everything can animate some of the Year 7–10 physics concepts but has limitations with respect to others and is not able to realise all the options which the animation system generalises. In this way, the paper seeks to contribute to the growing body of social semiotic studies of multimodal semiotic technologies. 2020-10-19T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/144353 Title: COVID-19 in babies: Knowledge for neonatal care. Authors: Green, J; Petty, J; Bromley, P; Walker, K; Jones, L Abstract: Infection is a leading cause of death worldwide in babies under one month of age who are more susceptible to sepsis due to immature host defence mechanisms. Usually, babies may become acutely unwell from infective pathogens due to specific differences in their respiratory and immune systems. However, with the COVID-19 virus, the focus of this paper, it appears that the neonatal population is not significantly affected in the same way as adults. That said, knowledge about this novel virus is rapidly emerging. Therefore, it is vital that neonatal nurses, midwives and other healthcare professionals are adequately informed and educated about the potential impact on neonatal practice. This review paper draws upon key findings and themes from a selection of recent literature to provide an overview of current knowledge on COVID-19 and the implications for care within the neonatal field. The discussion focuses on the nature of COVID-19, its pathophysiology and transmission relevant to maternal and neonatal care. This is followed by implications for practice; namely, maternal issues, the importance of human breast milk, neonatal care relating to parenting and specific management before a final review of the current World Health Organization guidance. 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/142468 Title: The New Visuality of Writing Authors: van Leeuwen, T Abstract: This chapter seeks to widen perspectives and research approaches on intratextual practices in image-centric communication to produce a trans-textual view that is closely linked to the concepts of discourse and intertextuality. The aim is to demonstrate that an image can constitute the nucleus of an entire discourse, here understood as a transtextual semantic unit. The hypothesis that a discourse can unfold in an image-centric fashion is validated by the fact that images are often located at the center of a dense network of intertextual references. This chapter provides an analytical framework and a typology of major ways in which such intertextual references to a nuclear/centric image can be established in discourse. It is based on a case study of images that went around the world: the photos of the dead refugee boy Aylan Kurdi at a beach in Bodrum, taken by the Turkish photographer Nilüfer Demir in September 2015. 2019-11-14T00:00:00Z