Whose Voices Speak With Whom?

1 Whose Reform ? – Teachers ’ Voices from

This paper explores school reforms as a moral voice, which speaks in a different language in each context. We used the comprehensive school reform in Finland as an example and asked how teachers talk about it. Five discourses were identified: the silence, the irony, the submission, the active resistance and the opportunities. The sixth discourse, ‘the commitment’, was used when teachers talked ...

Whose Voices are Heard in Patient Safety Incident Reports?

Patient safety incident reporting systems are used to monitor adverse events, generate information for risk management and to improve patient safety. A number of electronic reporting systems have been developed, but their data elements appear relatively similar. An inductive data analysis was carried out to find out especially what is the content of descriptions of contributing factors of adver...

Whose Meanings? Resignifying Voices and Their Social Locations

Whose voices? Patient and public involvement in clinical commissioning

AIM This paper aims to explore patient and public representation in a NHS clinical commissioning group and how this is experienced by staff and lay members involved. BACKGROUND Patient and public involvement is believed to foster greater public representativeness in the development and delivery of health care services. However, there is widespread debate about what representation is or what i...

Do colourless green voices speak furiously? Linkages between phonetic and visual perception in synaesthesia

Synaesthesia is an unusual phenomenon, in which additional sensory perceptions are triggered by apparently unrelated sensory or conceptual stimuli. The main foci of this presentation lie in vowel sound colour and voice-induced synaesthesia. While grapheme-colour synaesthesia has been intensively researched using various methodologies (neurological studies, extensive interviews, and behavioural ...