In-situ EPR Studies of Reaction Pathways in Titania Photocatalyst-Promoted Alkylation of Alkenes

Acknowledgments This work was supported by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Grant EP/I00372X/1. The EPR spectrometer was purchased under EPSRC Grant EP/F032560/1. We thank Andrew Mills for use of the spectroradiometric measurement system.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Constructing a flexible model of integrated professional practice part: 3 - the model in practice

This is the third in a series of papers exploring the Constructionist Model of Informed Reasoned Action (COMOIRA). The first two papers articulated the theoretical and conceptual issues underpinning the model and explored some important process and practice issues associated with it. Initially, this paper discusses two important concepts that contextualise the model. Firstly, that the model is in an ongoing process of development, and, secondly, that the model is a heuristic, providing a template to guide the professional work of an applied psychologist, rather than a prescriptive process in which actions must follow in a particular, unchanging order. This paper then illustrates applications of the model in working with individuals and groups within the Cardiff University training programme for educational psychologists (EPs) and also in the work of the authors with service users, including joint work at an organisational level with two Educational Psychology Services (EPSs). Moving from a theoretical perspective to a practical, day‐to‐day application of any model, or even simply contemplating such a move, inevitably generates challenges for individuals and organisations and these are discussed from a constructionist perspective. This paper also addresses the issue of providing detailed worked examples of the model in practice, especially when there are expectations and assumptions that doing so will inevitably be positive and helpful. Whilst the model has been exported from the training programme and has been taken up in a variety of ways by some individual EPs and some EPSs, there is a need to explore more systematically its impact and value beyond the training programme. The next phase of development needs to involve some structured monitoring and evaluation of the model in the field. However, it will be critical also to explore the contextual and systemic factors that might encourage, enable and support the use of a new model, as well as those that might discourage, oppose and/or inhibit its application and development

Hearing Voices, Telling Tales: An exploration of the move from page to stage in the work of Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch 1998 - 2018

The creative component of this submission of a PhD by Published Works consists of six poetry publications of which I am the sole author: my first pamphlet, Stranded on Ithaca (Bradford: Redbeck, 1998) which was winner of the Redbeck Press 1997 Pamphlet Competition, my first full-length collection, Rockclimbing in Silk (Bridgend: Seren, 2001) for which I was awarded an Arts Council Bursary, my second collection Not in These Shoes (London: Picador, 2008) which was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year, Banjo (London: Picador, 2012) which was shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Poetry Prize, a pamphlet Lime & Winter (Presteigne: Rack Press, 2014) shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award and my newest sequence Ling Di Long (Rack Press, 2018). Also included is a performance piece Tango in Stanzas written after winning an Arts Council Creative Wales Award 2015. The critical component consists of an overview that demonstrates how my twenty years of creative work have both coherence and progression, comprising a substantial and original contribution to contemporary poetry. The essay locates part of this originality in a distinctive approach to embodying presence on the page as well as on the stage, and is in part a response to the way discussions around voice sometimes view the poet’s voice on the page and the poet’s voice on the stage as separate entities. The approach of voice coach Kristin Linklater is used as the lens through which to show how becoming a performer, rather than a reciter of my work, has changed not only the way I give readings, but the way I write. Twenty years ago when my work was first published I composed on the page, now I start from the stage in that I allow my body to have a say in the direction any new poem of mine is taking. One of the questions addressed in this thesis is the relationship of body to voice and how, through inhabiting their body the poet can inhabit the poem, which in turn enables the audience to inhabit the moment of the poem. The role played by space and memory in enabling me to inhabit both places and characters is considered in this discussion. Recent debates behind voice in poetry are analysed so as to identify where my work sits along the spectrum of performance poetry. Examining the work of the theatre director who was one of the influences on Linklater, Konstantin Stanislavsky, and specifically his concern to make something real happen on the stage through speaking with our full range of emotions, I ask how being emotionally open on the stage enables me to be in a place of both vulnerability and power. I argue it is this dynamic between vulnerability and power that allows the audience to empathise with me and the characters I portray, and that it is this which creates presence on the stage. I demonstrate how I have learned to make this dynamic alive back on the page and conclude that the voice on the page has to be as convincing as the voice on the stage in order for audience and reader to experience the presence of a character

Models for Foresight Use in International Development

This article sets out the components of the foresight approach that has been adopted by many governments in the developed world, and identifies elements of this ‘dominant’ approach that may hinder its uptake in developing countries. Instead, it suggests that a less rigid, more exploratory and normative approach may be better suited to many developing country contexts. With reference to the writings and practice of the creator of ‘la prospective’, Gaston Berger, it argues for an attitude that combines bold and inclusive thinking about how to create better futures with the pragmatic engagement with political and administrative systems that can help bring these about