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- Previously Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES)
- The Global Labour Research Centre (GLRC) engages in the study of work, employment and labour in the context of a constantly changing global economy.
- Lives Outside the Lines: a Symposium in Honour of Marlene Kadar
- Used only for SWORD Deposit by Adminstrator
- Welcome to WILAA, a gathering place for materials related to research projects that explore work-integrated learning and disability-related accessibility and accommodations.
Recent Submissions
Using participatory video for co-production and collaborative research with refugees: critical reflections from the Digital Place-makers program
(Learning, Media and Technology, 2023-01-14) Sarria-Sanz, Camila; Alencar, Amanda; Verhoeven, Emma
This article critically reflects on the implementation of participatory video (PV) to explore the perspectives of 14 refugee participants regarding their place-making strategies in the Netherlands. The insights here derive from the experience of co-designing and implementing the Digital Place-makers program: a filmmaking course that relies on basic editing training and story-telling. PV has been strongly criticized for its attendance to researchers’ output requirements during the production process. We address this issue by focusing on our role as facilitators in acquiring editing skills and capacities that allow participants to produce their films as autonomously as possible. In doing so, we found that engaging in editing techniques during PV had multiple benefits for the refugees, such as enabling a pathway for regaining confidence and highlighting social injustice in their communities. We also argue that knowledge co-production in refugee research must question labels of vulnerability that prevent participants from enjoying authorship of their productions.
If One has the Floor, does One also need to Dance? Topology, Choreology, and the Structure of Digital Space
(University of Alberta Library, 2024-07-01) Vučković, Marko
Marcello Vitali-Rosati, in the essay “The Writer is the Architect” complimented by other works, provides a two-part thesis. The first argues that space is a chiasmic structure (as inside-outside); and the second argues that this structure reveals the productive role of the subject in constructing digital space (as architect). The essay here seeks to elucidate this logic and to expose it to a Lacanian critique: that it is a hysterical discourse unable in principle to emancipate digital spaces because it entails a purely immanent subject—in short, a subject which is solely product, not producer, of digital space
Clinical thresholds in pain-related facial activity linked to differences in cortical network activation in neonates
(2023-05) Bucsea, Oana; Rupawala, Mohammed; Shiff, Ilana; Wang, Xiaogang; Meek, Judith; Fitzgerald, Maria; Fabrizi, Lorenzo; Pillai Riddell, Rebecca; Jones, Laura
In neonates, a noxious stimulus elicits pain-related facial expression changes and distinct brain activity as measured by
electroencephalography, but past research has revealed an inconsistent relationship between these responses. Facial activity is the
most commonly used index of neonatal pain in clinical settings, with clinical thresholds determining if analgesia should be provided;
however, we do not know of these thresholds are associated with differences in how the neonatal brain processes a noxious
stimulus. The objective of this study was to examine whether subclinical vs clinically significant levels of pain-related facial activity are
related to differences in the pattern of nociceptive brain activity in preterm and term neonates. We recorded whole-head
electroencephalography and video in 78 neonates (0-14 days postnatal age) after a clinically required heel lance. Using an optimal
constellation of Neonatal Facial Coding System actions (brow bulge, eye squeeze, and nasolabial furrow), we compared the serial
network engagement (microstates) between neonates with and without clinically significant pain behaviour. Results revealed a
sequence of nociceptive cortical network activation that was independent of pain-related behavior; however, a separate but
interleaved sequence of early activity was related to the magnitude of the immediate behavioural response. Importantly, the degree
of pain-related behavior is related to how the brain processes a stimulus and not simply the degree of cortical activation. This
suggests that neonates who exhibit clinically significant pain behaviours process the stimulus differently and that neonatal painrelated behaviours reflect just a portion of the overall cortical pain response.
Data physicalization library co-curricular workshop: Crochet Your Way to Data Fundamentals
(2024) Wong, Alexandra; Carmini, Priscilla
Workshop lesson plan and handout to run the Crochet Your Way to Data Fundaments co-curricular workshop. During this workshop, participants bring temperature data to life through crochet to reveal temperature changes. Participants learn how to crochet their own coaster or potholder to keep! This act of data physicalization aims to help people explore, understand, and communicate data using a physical data representation.
Data physicalization library co-curricular workshop: Creative Collaging to Visualize Data on Homelessness
(2024) Wong, Alexandra; Carmini, Priscilla
Workshop handout to run the Creative Collaging to Visualize Data on Homelessness library co-curricular workshop. Participants are invited to drop-in anytime during this workshop to bring data to life through the creative act of paper collaging. Participants use research data and archival materials from the York University’s Archives and Special Collections to collaboratively create an infographic poster that discusses the historical and contemporary situation of homelessness in the York Region and in Ontario. This workshop uses data physicalization, which is the act of using physical artifacts to display data, to help participants explore, understand, and communicate complex issues around homelessness.