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Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders
Background: In an experiment in which clinicians were asked to identify formal thought disorder (... more Background: In an experiment in which clinicians were asked to identify formal thought disorder (FTD) in schizophrenia based on writing samples, the mania and creative writing samples received more FTD diagnoses than the FTD samples. We conducted a systematic review to see whether figuration, associated with both schizophrenia and creative uses of language, could contextualize these findings. Methods: This was a systematic review only (PROSPERO ID:116255). We searched AMED, Child Development and Adolescent Studies, CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycARTICLES, and PsycINFO. Results. Many studies used figuration tasks to test creativity and vice versa, and key factors affecting figurative language output and processing were positive and negative symptom ratios, IQ, and schizophrenia subtype. Discussion/conclusion: Our review suggests that the clinicians in the experiment mentioned above perceived FTD as characterized by linguistic markers of verbal and figural creativity that are impacted by FTD it...
Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Module leading can be challenging at the best of times, more so during a pandemic. In this essay,... more Module leading can be challenging at the best of times, more so during a pandemic. In this essay, we reflect on our professional experience as module leaders and academics. More specifically, we reflect on the role of emotional regulation, coaching and group work in learning and teaching at university, as well as the balance between offering students support and helping them become independent learners and take responsibility for their studies.
Ideas for Active Learning
Equinox Publishing, Mar 24, 2021
Manchester Metropolitan University: University Teaching Academy, May 17, 2021
Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2021
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
A qualitative analysis of relatives’, health professionals ’ and service users ’ views on
Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 2018
Introduction: Although there is evidence for language abnormality in schizophrenia, few studies h... more Introduction: Although there is evidence for language abnormality in schizophrenia, few studies have examined sign language in deaf patients with the disorder. This is of potential interest because a hallmark of sign languages is their use of classifiers (semantic or entity classifiers), a reference-tracking device with few if any parallels in spoken languages. This study aimed to examine classifier production and comprehension in deaf signing adults with schizophrenia. Method: Fourteen profoundly deaf signing adults with schizophrenia and 35 age-and IQ-matched deaf healthy controls completed a battery of tests assessing classifier and noun comprehension and production. Results: The patients showed poorer performance than the healthy controls on comprehension and production of both nouns and entity classifiers, with the deficit being most marked in the production of classifiers. Classifier production errors affected handshape rather than other parameters such as movement and location. Conclusions: The findings suggest that schizophrenia affects language production in deaf patients with schizophrenia in a unique way not seen in hearing patients.
BMC psychiatry, Jan 24, 2015
Relatives of people with bipolar disorder report that services do not meet their own needs, despi... more Relatives of people with bipolar disorder report that services do not meet their own needs, despite clinical recommendations for the development of care plans for relatives, provision of information regarding their statutory entitlements, and formal involvement in decision making meetings. Further, there is now conclusive evidence highlighting the benefits of relatives' involvement in improving outcomes for service users, relatives, and the health system as a whole. This qualitative study explored the views of relatives of people with bipolar disorder, service users and healthcare professionals regarding the barriers and the facilitators to relatives' involvement in care. Thirty five people were interviewed (12 relatives, 11 service users and 12 healthcare professionals). Audio recordings were transcribed verbatim and common themes in participants' narratives emerged using framework analysis. Participants' accounts confirmed the existence of opportunities for relativ...
Applied Corpus Linguistics
The ways that language is understood and produced by people experiencing psychosis has been the f... more The ways that language is understood and produced by people experiencing psychosis has been the focus of numerous investigations ever since Bleuler in 1911 firstly considered ‘association disturbance’ as one of the fundamental symptoms of schizophrenia is hearing adults that led to the investigation of formal thought disorder. With the explosion of sign psycholinguistics the last couple of decades, researchers have been unravelling the implications of the absence of audition on the development, comprehension and production of language. Not many studies, however, explore how language manifests itself in Deaf adults with psychosis. In the first experimental group psycholinguistic investigation with profoundly prelingually British Deaf adults with psychosis we found a disproportionate increase of handshape errors in classifier production when compared to nouns and lexicalised responses. This finding emphasises the uniquely complicated and cognitively demanding morpho-phonological proce...
Imagine your partner experiences extreme mood swings: you’ve seen them at their lowest, you’ve se... more Imagine your partner experiences extreme mood swings: you’ve seen them at their lowest, you’ve seen them at their highest, you’ve seen them when they are well. You’ve “monitored” their mood, checked they’ve taken their medication, that they eat well, sleep enough. You’ve taken them to hospital and looked after them after discharge. You’ve done the lot. You’re their carer when they are unwell, their partner when alright, their confidant, significant other, next of kin, better half. You’re there day and night.
The European health psychologist, 2015
An increasing number of people are living with at least one long term health condition or chronic... more An increasing number of people are living with at least one long term health condition or chronic illness (Ham, 2006). One concept within chronic illness research increasingly regarded as important is psychological adjustment. In this study this is understood as the result of a series of adaptations to maintain a positive view of the self and the world in the face of a health problem’ (Sharpe & Curran, 2006, p. 1161). One example of when successful psychological adjustment to a long term condition faces a number of additional challenges is when it is experienced in a different social context – for example as an expatriate or migrant living in a different country from that of birth and early life. One area of migration which is of particular interest given its increase and relative lack of research is ‘lifestyle’ migration (Benson & O'Reilly, 2009). This type of migration is ‘the very antithesis of being economically motivated, and [is] undertaken by those who prioritise quality-...
Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders
Background: In an experiment in which clinicians were asked to identify formal thought disorder (... more Background: In an experiment in which clinicians were asked to identify formal thought disorder (FTD) in schizophrenia based on writing samples, the mania and creative writing samples received more FTD diagnoses than the FTD samples. We conducted a systematic review to see whether figuration, associated with both schizophrenia and creative uses of language, could contextualize these findings. Methods: This was a systematic review only (PROSPERO ID:116255). We searched AMED, Child Development and Adolescent Studies, CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycARTICLES, and PsycINFO. Results. Many studies used figuration tasks to test creativity and vice versa, and key factors affecting figurative language output and processing were positive and negative symptom ratios, IQ, and schizophrenia subtype. Discussion/conclusion: Our review suggests that the clinicians in the experiment mentioned above perceived FTD as characterized by linguistic markers of verbal and figural creativity that are impacted by FTD it...
Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Module leading can be challenging at the best of times, more so during a pandemic. In this essay,... more Module leading can be challenging at the best of times, more so during a pandemic. In this essay, we reflect on our professional experience as module leaders and academics. More specifically, we reflect on the role of emotional regulation, coaching and group work in learning and teaching at university, as well as the balance between offering students support and helping them become independent learners and take responsibility for their studies.
Ideas for Active Learning
Equinox Publishing, Mar 24, 2021
Manchester Metropolitan University: University Teaching Academy, May 17, 2021
Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2021
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
A qualitative analysis of relatives’, health professionals ’ and service users ’ views on
Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 2018
Introduction: Although there is evidence for language abnormality in schizophrenia, few studies h... more Introduction: Although there is evidence for language abnormality in schizophrenia, few studies have examined sign language in deaf patients with the disorder. This is of potential interest because a hallmark of sign languages is their use of classifiers (semantic or entity classifiers), a reference-tracking device with few if any parallels in spoken languages. This study aimed to examine classifier production and comprehension in deaf signing adults with schizophrenia. Method: Fourteen profoundly deaf signing adults with schizophrenia and 35 age-and IQ-matched deaf healthy controls completed a battery of tests assessing classifier and noun comprehension and production. Results: The patients showed poorer performance than the healthy controls on comprehension and production of both nouns and entity classifiers, with the deficit being most marked in the production of classifiers. Classifier production errors affected handshape rather than other parameters such as movement and location. Conclusions: The findings suggest that schizophrenia affects language production in deaf patients with schizophrenia in a unique way not seen in hearing patients.
BMC psychiatry, Jan 24, 2015
Relatives of people with bipolar disorder report that services do not meet their own needs, despi... more Relatives of people with bipolar disorder report that services do not meet their own needs, despite clinical recommendations for the development of care plans for relatives, provision of information regarding their statutory entitlements, and formal involvement in decision making meetings. Further, there is now conclusive evidence highlighting the benefits of relatives' involvement in improving outcomes for service users, relatives, and the health system as a whole. This qualitative study explored the views of relatives of people with bipolar disorder, service users and healthcare professionals regarding the barriers and the facilitators to relatives' involvement in care. Thirty five people were interviewed (12 relatives, 11 service users and 12 healthcare professionals). Audio recordings were transcribed verbatim and common themes in participants' narratives emerged using framework analysis. Participants' accounts confirmed the existence of opportunities for relativ...
Applied Corpus Linguistics
The ways that language is understood and produced by people experiencing psychosis has been the f... more The ways that language is understood and produced by people experiencing psychosis has been the focus of numerous investigations ever since Bleuler in 1911 firstly considered ‘association disturbance’ as one of the fundamental symptoms of schizophrenia is hearing adults that led to the investigation of formal thought disorder. With the explosion of sign psycholinguistics the last couple of decades, researchers have been unravelling the implications of the absence of audition on the development, comprehension and production of language. Not many studies, however, explore how language manifests itself in Deaf adults with psychosis. In the first experimental group psycholinguistic investigation with profoundly prelingually British Deaf adults with psychosis we found a disproportionate increase of handshape errors in classifier production when compared to nouns and lexicalised responses. This finding emphasises the uniquely complicated and cognitively demanding morpho-phonological proce...
Imagine your partner experiences extreme mood swings: you’ve seen them at their lowest, you’ve se... more Imagine your partner experiences extreme mood swings: you’ve seen them at their lowest, you’ve seen them at their highest, you’ve seen them when they are well. You’ve “monitored” their mood, checked they’ve taken their medication, that they eat well, sleep enough. You’ve taken them to hospital and looked after them after discharge. You’ve done the lot. You’re their carer when they are unwell, their partner when alright, their confidant, significant other, next of kin, better half. You’re there day and night.
The European health psychologist, 2015
An increasing number of people are living with at least one long term health condition or chronic... more An increasing number of people are living with at least one long term health condition or chronic illness (Ham, 2006). One concept within chronic illness research increasingly regarded as important is psychological adjustment. In this study this is understood as the result of a series of adaptations to maintain a positive view of the self and the world in the face of a health problem’ (Sharpe & Curran, 2006, p. 1161). One example of when successful psychological adjustment to a long term condition faces a number of additional challenges is when it is experienced in a different social context – for example as an expatriate or migrant living in a different country from that of birth and early life. One area of migration which is of particular interest given its increase and relative lack of research is ‘lifestyle’ migration (Benson & O'Reilly, 2009). This type of migration is ‘the very antithesis of being economically motivated, and [is] undertaken by those who prioritise quality-...
International Journal of Management and Applied Research, 2018
Academic development has become a core element across many higher education institutions around t... more Academic development has become a core element across many higher education institutions around the globe, supported by management strategic plans and educational agendas. It has been linked with job satisfaction, student retention and teaching quality. However, it is important for academic development to harness the needs and aspirations of academic staff more fully, meet these and drive innovation in learning and teaching. To address this gap, this article introduces the FLEX initiative, developed at Manchester Metropolitan University in early 2014 and offered since then. This discussion and associated reflections are timely as the FLEX initiative is currently being reviewed.. The article is based on an invited webinar offered by the authors on the 11 th of April 2018 for the Higher Education Academy/AdvanceHE and specifically for the Flexible Learning Group to share with the wider community what FLEX is and how it works. The aim is to present a reflective narrative and tell the story of the designer of FLEX and an academic from the same institution who engaged with FLEX. This reflective dialogue informs specific recommendations that can support academic developers in managing relevant programmes of study in higher education.
Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2021
We educators may have been obsessed with perfection, expertise, polished experiences and performa... more We educators may have been obsessed with perfection, expertise, polished experiences and performances too much for too long. Where is the human? Ironed out? This provocative opinion paper is a collection of the authors' reflections based on experiences, observations, ideas and readings. We invite educators to consider and explore what may help them (re-) connect with their inner selves and others socially, emotionally and cognitively in the context of learning and teaching in HE during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. With reference to a collaborative creative initiative that was implemented under the auspices of the Global OER Graduate Network, the paper aims to instigate a discussion around the importance of building and sustaining effective relationships in HE. These are perceived as the drivers that potentially boost participation and student success using collaboration, creativity and openness. Working in partnership with students, recognising and accepting individuality as well as creating opportunities for connection can support the operationalisation of these reflections in practice.