Book chapters

This chapter provides a critical review of Australasian research in the affective domain in mathematics education from 2020 to 2023. We first locate the chapter in relation to broader discussions of the affective domain and previous developments in this area, and then discuss the recent developments in affective research related to students, mathematics teachers, and academics. We then conclude the chapter with a broad discussion and indicate potential future research directions in affective domain in mathematics education.

In 2020 Colombia’s Constitutional Court handed down a decision disallowing a writ of habeas corpus originally brought by a law professor to protect the individual freedom from captivity of a spectacled bear named Chucho. This paper explores the background to the case and the legal opinions expressed by members of the Constitutional Court regarding the possibility of assigning the status of ‘subject of rights’ to a non-human animal. It discusses a recent attempt to theorise non-human legal personhood and makes the invitation for a shift of emphasis: away from the ‘subject of rights’ and toward a jurisprudence that pays attention to the ways in which species of animal such as bears feature as active participants in legal thought.

In this paper, the authors consider a novel eudaemonic approach to spatial design, proposed by Mikus et al., and examine how researchers and practitioners can co-design with participants to achieve a flourishing interpretation of Aristotle’s concept of eudaemonia (i.e., being one’s best self). The approach was tested in doctoral research conducted during 2021 at a time when many areas were under lockdown, necessitating a virtual approach. The research engaged nine older adults, aged 65–80 and living alone in Australia, and nine design professionals via creative methods including interviews, cultural probes, and co-design workshops. Combining these methods in concert with respectful engagement was found to produce not only the aimed-for principles to guide eudaemonic home design but also unintended yet beneficial consequences resulting from meaningful inclusive praxis. Here, the authors reflect on the importance of recognising eudaemonic design as a means of careful methodological praxis to precipitate promising participant outcomes, ranging from individual intrinsic motivation to collective mutual inspiration, to enhance the research experience, and to promote flourishing.

This paper considers the social, cultural, and structural processes and practices, that are manifested in the built environment and mediated spatially, that create and maintain experiences of exclusion, otherwise known as spatial injustice. Expanding on two decades of case study research and empirical data collected in spatial justice across Canada and Australia, this paper interrogates perspectives of power and spatial injustices that still exist today. These case studies are based in institutions like malls, museums, urban precincts, and universities to usher in a new understanding of universal design through the lens of spatial justice and include creative practice (films), (dis)-audits, co-design processes, and disability allyship. This paper expands on the first comprehensive set of studies across spatial typologies, and how power and spatial justice are manifested and designed into architecture and interior environments—and their fields of knowledge. Key takeaways are new ways of knowing, teaching, and doing in architecture and design to create spatial justice and cultures of inclusion.

Dryland social-ecological systems in Australia are characterized by a water-limited climate, vulnerable terrestrial ecosystems, advanced ecosystem management, and the highest average wealth. Dryland social-ecological systems in Australia have been facing the accelerated warming and rapid socioeconomic developments since the twenty-first century, including GDP increases and urban development, but with great diversity. Ecosystem structures and ecosystem services are highly influenced by extreme climate events. According to the number of extreme high daily precipitation events, droughts and floods have increased rapidly since the 1970s. Australia has achieved successful grazing, fire, biodiversity, and water resource management; climate change mitigation; and ecosystem manage-ment methods of community engagement. Non-indigenous population ageing is a social threat of dryland social-ecological systems in Australia in recent decades. The integration of policy makers, funding agencies, and the general public is essential for Australia’s dryland social-ecological systems.

Organisations intentionally seek to initiate change through intervention programmes, targeting various outcomes, including improved employee wellbeing, attitudes, and productivity. Organisational interventions often involve a substantial investment of time and resources but do not always produce expected sustainable and positive changes in targeted outcomes. A renewed interest in organisational interventions has emerged in recent years, in response to calls to more rigorously examine factors that contribute to organisational intervention effectiveness. This chapter will discuss the topic of designing, implementing, and evaluating organisational interventions. Furthermore, it will specifically discuss emerging approaches to evaluating organisational interventions, including improved research methodology, to assess intervention impact, application of multi- or mixed methods to assess the influence of context and process factors on intervention effectiveness, and the value of closely examining derailed interventions to garner important lessons learned from intervention failures.

This chapter discusses the necessity of designing our research projects to have an impact for end users and describes the five key research design principles central to the applied scientific method which high-quality research is recommended to adopt. These five principles are (a) the inclusion of reliable and valid measures; (b) the inclusion of sufficient and generalisable research samples; (c) the inclusion of the evidence of theoretical sophistication; (d) the inclusion of research designs that promote causal generalisations; and (e) the inclusion of research implications for end users. The chapter argues that the inclusion of these five principles maximises the opportunities of research to achieve an external impact and that this should be one of the key aims of conducting research at all levels. This chapter also discusses the process of research evaluation and the importance of planning this evaluation process within the research design stage.

This overview chapter summarises the aims and intentions of the book: namely, a one-stop shop informing applied researchers in psychology and related social science and business and management fields about 21 key topics to be considered when conducting research projects primarily for their theses, including information about new topics such as using artificial intelligence (AI) in research. The four sections of this book are summarised: Getting started, data collection, data analysis, and research dissemination. This chapter also briefly describes each of the 21 chapters in this book. Finally, I warmly thank the contributors from all over the world, and from multiple disciplines both within and external to applied psychology, who so generously submitted their pertinent expertise about conducting research.

With technological advancements offering new research opportunities, this chapter explores how artificial intelligence (AI) platforms such as Elicit.com, ResearchRabbit.ai, ChatPDF, and ChatGPT can be used for facilitating research. We investigate their potential for exploring and synthesising literature and data analysis (specifically with the use of R statistical software). Using examples, we discuss these platforms’ key features that may allow researchers to efficiently collect and organise literature and complement software like R for data analysis. We also discuss some of these platforms’ key limitations, to provide a holistic picture of the extent to which AI can facilitate the research process.

This chapter explores the idea of a “Tasmanian jazz identity”, providing a detailed account of how the demographic differences within Tasmania have resulted in a regional Australian jazz scene that is distinct from the cases of Sydney and Melbourne jazz that dominate the historiography. Two factors have largely influenced Tasmania’s jazz culture. First, the north/south demographic divide has resulted in jazz styles and characteristics particular to those areas. Second, bands rather than individuals have been significant drivers in the local scenes. This chapter nuances standardized ideas of the Australian jazz identity within the broader cultural landscape of Australia.

The Palgrave Handbook of Sovereign Wealth Funds aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of SWFs from a multidimensional perspective. It spans the gamut from theoretical to practical while offering the right balance of detailed and user-friendly coverage. Discussion of relevant research permeates the handbook. This volume helps fill the gap by showing how SWFs are a growing and dynamic force in international finance. This chapter discusses the book’s distinguishing features, intended audience, and structure. It provides an overview of each section and chapter.

Creative Ethnographic Toolkit: Group songwriting, poetry, sensory ethnography.

Neonatal palliative care is an essential component of healthcare services aimed at supporting infants with life-limiting conditions and their families. While physical and emotional aspects of care receive significant attention, the spiritual well-being of neonates and their families is often overlooked. The chapter is based on research highlighting how the end-of-life is strongly connected to parenthood transition and the beginning-of-life in neonatal palliative care. We discuss the role of spiritual care in neonatal palliative care, highlighting its significance, challenges, and potential approaches. By exploring the interplay between spirituality, neonatal palliative care, and ethical considerations, this chapter emphasises the importance of a holistic approach to care, acknowledging the spiritual needs of infants and their families during this vulnerable and sensitive period.

The beach has long been considered a geographically and symbolically liminal space, strongly associated with relaxation, escapism, and hedonism. Entire cities, islands, and regions have been intensively developed as beachside resorts that facilitate these experiences via ‘sun, sand, and sex’ mass tourism. In recent years, many resorts have been diversifying their branding and infrastructure to include more cultural and heritage experiences. This chapter explores this shift through an examination of how histories related to tourism and beach culture are being mobilized as heritage. Drawing on the case study of the Gold Coast, Australia, the chapter discusses in situ and ex situ examples of tourism heritage, including in the city’s local heritage register, heritage walks, and museums and galleries. The chapter explores how this heritage speaks to a sense of place and lifestyle for residents at the same time that it evokes a sense of continuity for visitors. The chapter also questions how the heritage of mass tourism variously disrupts and reinforces traditional heritage values.

This chapter considers the affective potential through material circulation and reuse in the second-hand book market of College Street in Kolkata, India or the boipara. The boipara is a kilometre and a half long stretch of College Street in the northern part of the city of Calcutta (now known as Kolkata). This precinct is comprised of an extensive series of makeshift book stalls and book shops stretching in different directions. However, it is the sustained material attachment for second-hand books between booksellers and book buyers that provides a sense of well-being through care and kinship in the space. This chapter uses an example of material and affective interaction to demonstrate the multiple, circulatory relationship between second-hand book sellers, book buyers, book shops and book stalls that create forms of bonds, knots, and entangled attachments. I consider the ways in which the sensorial aesthetics of materiality of these interactions such as smells texture, musty tons of paper and personal notes on the books, facilitates a process of holding on and letting go of ‘books in motion'. I argue that these interactions provide a unique sense of resilience in relation to the space of the market through affective intensities of intimate love, collective care and attachment.

This chapter examines the concept of, and the literature, on everyday peace. It regards everyday peace as the actions, activities, interactions, and communications of those living in violence-affected and deeply divided societies, which are oriented towards safety, security, building collective responses, and navigating insecurity. The chapter conceptualises everyday peace, examines its interdisciplinary roots, and notes the proliferation of academic literature on the concept. It also notes how this upsurge in the literature has also prompted a critique of the concept and practices associated with it. A key critique revolves around the need to guard against romanticising the everyday. The chapter ends with a defence of the everyday as a unit of analysis given the dominance of top-down and state-centric viewpoints and programming.

Traditional health promotion efforts focus on reducing factors that contribute to ill-health, such as sedentary behavior or smoking. Yet, this focus on negative or deficit behaviors overlooks those who engage in positive health activities and their reasons for doing so, as well as the positive health assets they gain as a result. Focusing on the absence of health promoting attitudes does little to shed light on why and how individuals successfully build states of good health and wellbeing. However, this information is useful for the development of health promotion initiatives. Consequently, this study investigates the experiences of ten physically active Emirati nationals and the psychosocial assets they have developed through their various activities. We also explore the relevancy of positive psychology and of positive health in particular, for health promotion efforts.

This chapter explores the role of agency within the “narratives of good wifeliness” presented by women who migrated by partner visa to Australia. Through an analysis of four in-depth case studies, we highlight how these women use their narratives agentically to demonstrate their legal and social deservingness to remain in Australia. These narratives, we contend, do not occur in isolation but are powerfully shaped by migration law, engaging with understandings of the “genuine,” and thus “good,” wife. While understandings of agency usually center around ideas of direct and explicit resistance to external systems or pressures, we find that apparent compliance with ideas of good wifeliness can be re-signified by the women, making it another form of agency. Compliance and resistance thus appear in the women’s narratives as agentic in form, revealing that, even within situations of perceivably full or absolute compliance, there is always room for resistance to emerge.

A national survey was undertaken of US law enforcement personnel to capture the contemporary critical issues faced by law enforcement officers and their agencies. A specific focus of the survey was on stress and well-being. The survey was deployed in the summer of 2021 to members of the US National Fraternal Order of Police (NFOP). Over 5,800 survey responses were received from active and retired officers. The research provides valuable insights into the workplace (organizational and operational stress) and community factors, beyond traditional critical traumatic events, that are causing significant harm to police. In this chapter, drawing on the empirical evidence provided by the survey, we will discuss practical, actionable strategies that can be used by police agencies and their leaders to reform police organizations to create healthier workplaces.

This chapter examines the range of political and institutional barriers that combined have constrained historically the role of ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence agencies in supporting the management of health security threats risks and hazards from 9/11 up to and including COVID 19. Some of the barriers identified and discussed in this chapter are: inconsistent governance and investment by political leadership in ‘Five Eyes’ countries and IC leadership with varying degrees of attention and capability efforts to better manage health security threats, risks and hazards. The discussion in this chapters provides a foundation for exploration in subsequent chapters about how governments and the IC that support them can overcome or mitigate some of the political and institutional barriers raised here.