“Open science" as a practise became increasing widespread in Europe during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It represented a departure from the previously dominant ethos of secrecy in the pursuit of Nature’s Secrets, and its emergence was a distinctive and vital organisational aspect of the Scientific Revolution. The development of norms of disclosure and demonstration, and t...

During the last forty years of United States’ fight for woman suffrage, a handful suffragists wrote cookbooks sponsored by suffrage organisations. These created rhetorical space and ethos within through kitchen. Because their activism was grounded in expected feminine actions, this home-bound allowed primarily white, middle-class to simultaneously advocate women's public maintain adherence Cult...

Part I – Introduction and Background Unlike merely two decades ago, early childhood education (ECE) is currently regarded as a magical panacea that prepares young children for school and life, equalizes opportunity, and prevents welfare dependence, incarceration, teenage pregnancy and school dropout. While a veritable aura of success encases contemporary early childhood education, few analyses ...

This article draws on an extensive corpus of broadcast material to examine the performed aspects of a media personality’s talk—the host of a long-standing audience participation debate in the United Kingdom. The context of interaction in which this host engages in rapport and impression management work plays a crucial role in the analysis. It is a context that resembles some of the patterns of ...

Alcohol misuse poses a serious public health challenge in Wales. The Public Health Wales alcohol team is working across Wales to reduce alcohol related harm, both acute and chronic, in the Welsh population. In order to achieve this aim, Pubic Health Wales has trained over 3000 people to deliver alcohol brief interventions. The team has diversified its target audience to encompass anyone who has...

In 1986, the Ottawa Charter alerted a new generation of health promotion practitioners to the benefits of working with the non-health sectors, including the commercial sector. Since then, the establishment of partnerships with government and non-government bodies has been advanced as a positive way of fostering policies that enhance health and well-being. The food and nutrition field has enthus...

The management of project work is an increasing challenge to most organisations. Projects are becoming the fundamental internal building blocks that organisation and business entities use to satisfy their missions, strategies and outputs. Project management, as a management discipline, is not generally understood nor is it commonly practised at strategic level by public sector organisations tha...

BACKGROUND Public health guidelines emphasise the value of vigorous intensity physical activity, but participation levels are low. PURPOSE This study was aimed at identifying factors contributing to initial and sustained engagement in parkrun in the UK, to inform the design of community-based interventions promoting health-enhancing physical activity. METHODS Semi-structured interviews were...

Medical school curricula and postgraduate education programmes expend considerable resources teaching medical ethics. Simultaneously, whistleblowers’ agitation continues, at great personal cost, to prompt major intrainstitutional and public inquiries that reveal problems with the application of medical ethics at particular clinical ‘‘coalfaces’’. Virtue ethics, emphasising techniques promoting ...