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Cultural Studies | Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross-Cultural Studies | Consumption And Everyday Life | Globalisation and Culture | Screen and Media Culture | Communication And Media Studies | Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies | Cultural Theory | Consumption and Everyday Life | Community Planning | Cultural Policy Studies | Urban and Regional Planning | Social Policy | Policy and Administration | Crafts
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An Updated Subsequent Injury Categorisation Model (SIC-2.0): Data-Driven Categorisation of Subsequent Injuries in Sport
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-03-2018
Establishing the incidence and prevalence of injury and illness in Australian sailing athletes over a full year of training and competition to help determine prevention priorities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Gis, ethnography, and cultural research: Putting maps back into ethnographic mapping
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-02-2010
Craft entrepreneurialism and sustainable scale: resistance to and disavowal of the creative industries as champions of capitalist growth
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-10-2018
Fire, pestilence and the extractive economy: cultural policy after cultural policy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-10-2020
Collection introduction: the ‘new normal’ of working lives
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 07-12-2018
Online selling and the growth of home-based craft microenterprise: the 'new normal' of women's self-(under)employment
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 07-12-2018
Mosquitoes in the mix: How transferable is creative city thinking?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-02-2009
Introduction: Cultural reorientations and comparative colonialities special issue
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-12-2013
Epidemiology of injuries sustained in professional Australian netball: A three season cohort study
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2022
Tropical cosmopolitanism and outdoor food markets in (post)colonial Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2011
A 2-Year Prospective Study of Injury Epidemiology in Elite Australian Rugby Sevens: Exploration of Incidence Rates, Severity, Injury Type, and Subsequent Injury in Men and Women
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-02-2019
Abstract: Injuries are common in rugby sevens, but studies to date have been limited to short, noncontinuous periods and reporting of match injuries only. To report the injury incidence rate (IIR), severity, and burden of injuries sustained by men and women in the Australian rugby sevens program and to provide the first longitudinal investigation of subsequent injury occurrence in rugby sevens looking beyond tournament injuries only. Descriptive epidemiology study. Ninety international rugby sevens players (55 men and 35 women) were prospectively followed over 2 consecutive seasons (2015-2016 and 2016-2017). All medical attention injuries were reported irrespective of time loss. In idual exposure in terms of minutes, distance, and high-speed distance was captured for each player for matches and on-field training, with the use of global positioning system devices. The IIR and injury burden (IIR × days lost to injury) were calculated per 1000 player-hours, and descriptive analyses were performed. Seventy-three players (81.1%) sustained 365 injuries at an IIR of 43.2 per 1000 player-hours (95% CI, 38.8-47.8). As compared with male players, female players experienced a lower but nonsignificant IIR (incidence rate ratio, 0.91 95% CI, 0.73-1.12). Female players also sustained a higher proportion of injuries to the trunk region (relative risk, 1.75 95% CI, 1.28-2.40) but a lower number to the head/neck region (relative risk, 0.58 95% CI, 0.37-0.93 P = .011). The majority (80.7%) of subsequent injuries were of a different site and nature than previous injuries. A trend toward a reduced number of days, participation time, distance, and high-speed distance completed before the next injury was observed after successive injury occurrence. A trend for a lower IIR was observed for female players compared with male players, with variation of injury profiles observed between sexes. With a surveillance period of 2 years, subsequent injuries account for the majority of injuries sustained in rugby sevens, and they are typically different from previous types of sustained injuries. After each successive injury, the risk profile for future injury occurrence appears to be altered, which warrants further investigation to inform injury prevention strategies in rugby sevens.
The validity and reliability of the sphygmomanometer for hip strength assessment in Australian football players
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-09-2018
DOI: 10.1080/09593985.2017.1374492
Abstract: To investigate the intra-rater and inter-rater reliability of the sphygmomanometer for the assessment of the adductor squeeze test and isometric hip abduction strength and to investigate the concurrent validity of the sphygmomanometer for the assessment of hip muscular strength. Thirty-two healthy adult male community Australian football players (age 23.9 ± 4.5 years) were assessed by two blinded raters that measured the strength of the adductor squeeze test and isometric hip abduction, using a commercially available sphygmomanometer. Concurrent validity was calculated using handheld dynamometry as the reference standard. Moderate to high intra-rater reliability (ICC = 0.61 to 0.92) and high inter-rater reliability (ICC = 0.77 to 0.91) were found. High concurrent validity (Pearson's r = 0.77 to 0.91) was established. Sixteen of the participants reached the maximal reading of the sphygmomanometer, demonstrating a ceiling effect. A sphygmomanometer is a cost-efficient device that appears to be both reliable and valid for the assessment of hip strength, offering clinicians an alternate and easily accessible option to obtain objective strength data. A ceiling effect may limit the application of the sphygmomanometer as a strength measurement device in stronger in iduals.
Making bodies, craft skills and the legacies of policy ‘blokeism’
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-06-2023
Wagging the long tail: digital distribution and peripheral screen production industries'
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.5334/CSCI.17
Comparison of subsequent injury categorisation (SIC) models and their application in a sporting population
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-03-2019
Alternative reimbursement models for health providers in high performance sport: stakeholder experiences and perceptions
Publisher: Research Square Platform LLC
Date: 07-03-2023
DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-2481765/V1
Abstract: Background Value-based healthcare provider reimbursement models have been proposed as an alternative to traditional fee-for-service arrangements that can align financial reimbursement more closely to the outcomes of value to patients and society. This study aimed to investigate stakeholder perceptions and experiences of different reimbursement systems for healthcare providers in high performance sport, with a focus on fee-for-service versus salaried provider models. Results Three in-depth semi-structured focus group discussions and one in idual interview were conducted with key stakeholders across the Australian high performance sport system. Participants included healthcare providers, health managers, sports managers and executive personnel. An interview guide was developed using the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment (EPIS) framework, with key themes deductively mapped to the innovation, inner context and outer context domains. A total of 16 stakeholders participated in a focus group discussion or interview. Participants identified several key advantages of salaried provider models over fee-for-service arrangements, including: the potential for more proactive and preventive models of care enhanced inter-disciplinary collaboration and the ability for providers to have a deeper understanding of context and how their role aligns with a broader set of priorities for an athlete and the organisation. Noted challenges of salaried provider models included the potential for providers to revert to reactive care delivery when not afforded adequate capacity to provide services, and difficulties for providers in demonstrating and quantifying the value of their work. Conclusions Our findings suggest that high performance sporting organisations seeking to improve primary prevention and multidisciplinary care should consider salaried provider arrangements. Further research to confirm these findings using prospective, experimental study designs remains a priority.
The Aura of the Analogue in a Digital Age: Women’s Crafts, Creative Markets and Home-Based Labour After Etsy
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 06-02-2013
Abstract: This article examines the renewed popularity of the handmade by examining the current renaissance in the street credibility of previously disparaged women's craft practices, particularly those employing yarn (for ex le knitting, crochet, needlepoint and weaving) and fabric (sewing, felting). The author historically locates current debates around craft production and creative work by drawing upon the British Arts and Crafts movement, with its own longstanding association with women's' labour in the home and desire to realise sustainable ethical labour practices. Notably, both the periods under discussion mark profound shifts in the economic organisation of society – then, the Industrial Revolution now the de-industrialisation of much of the 'industrialised' world and the rise of the (digitised) knowledge economy – and see a concurrent increase in the popularity of the handmade original as a desirable aesthetic object.
Vicarious expertise: Locating skilled knowing in craft reality competition television
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-05-2022
DOI: 10.1177/13678779221102505
Abstract: This article examines how qualities of expertise are constructed and sustained within the televisual world of craft reality competition television. We suggest that part of the appeal of this relatively recent media typology beyond any didactic or instructional interest, is a desire to observe expertise and thus gain perceived but highly circumscribed access to the community of practice that is presented by these television shows. We identify three principal expertise positions as common to the contemporary mediation of expertise presented by craft reality competition television: ‘keystone’, ‘relative’ and ‘vicarious’ expertise. It is argued that these different forms of expertise are mobilized as roles across a variety of craft reality competition television programs to enable entertaining access to craft practice-specific expertise which enables the audience to become experts of spectating expertise, masking the real time, effort, and access to hands-on training involved in becoming proficient in crafts practice.
Health Systems in High-Performance Sport: Key Functions to Protect Health and Optimize Performance in Elite Athletes
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-06-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S40279-023-01855-8
Abstract: Enabling athletes to achieve peak performances while also maintaining high levels of health is contextually complex. We aim to describe what a ‘health system’ is and apply the essential functions of stewardship, financing, provision of services and resource generation to an Australian high-performance sport context. We introduce a fifth function that health systems should not detract from athletes’ ability to achieve their sports goals. We describe how these functions aim to achieve four overall outcomes of safeguarding the health of the athletes, responding to expectations, providing financial and social protection against the costs of ill health, and efficient use of resources. Lastly, we conclude with key challenges and potential solutions for developing an integrated health system within the overall performance system in high-performance sport.
Alternative Reimbursement Models for Health Providers in High-Performance Sport: Stakeholder Experiences and Perceptions
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-07-2023
DOI: 10.1186/S40798-023-00600-9
Abstract: Value-based healthcare provider reimbursement models have been proposed as an alternative to traditional fee-for-service arrangements that can align financial reimbursement more closely to the outcomes of value to patients and society . This study aimed to investigate stakeholder perceptions and experiences of different reimbursement systems for healthcare providers in high-performance sport, with a focus on fee-for-service versus salaried provider models. Three in-depth semi-structured focus group discussions and one in idual interview were conducted with key stakeholders across the Australian high-performance sport system. Participants included healthcare providers, health managers, sports managers and executive personnel. An interview guide was developed using the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment framework, with key themes deductively mapped to the innovation, inner context and outer context domains. A total of 16 stakeholders participated in a focus group discussion or interview. Participants identified several key advantages of salaried provider models over fee-for-service arrangements, including: the potential for more proactive and preventive models of care enhanced inter-disciplinary collaboration and the ability for providers to have a deeper understanding of context and how their role aligns with a broader set of priorities for an athlete and the organisation. Noted challenges of salaried provider models included the potential for providers to revert to reactive care delivery when not afforded adequate capacity to provide services, and difficulties for providers in demonstrating and quantifying the value of their work. Our findings suggest that high-performance sporting organisations seeking to improve primary prevention and multidisciplinary care should consider salaried provider arrangements. Further research to confirm these findings using prospective, experimental study designs remains a priority.
Is a sphygmomanometer a valid and reliable tool to measure the isometric strength of hip muscles? A systematic review
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-10-2015
DOI: 10.3109/09593985.2014.963905
Abstract: Muscle strength measurement is a key component of physiotherapists' assessment and is frequently used as an outcome measure. A sphygmomanometer is an instrument commonly used to measure blood pressure that can be potentially used as a tool to assess isometric muscle strength. To systematically review the evidence on the reliability and validity of a sphygmomanometer for measuring isometric strength of hip muscles. A literature search was conducted across four databases. Studies were eligible if they presented data on reliability and/or validity, used a sphygmomanometer to measure isometric muscle strength of the hip region, and were peer reviewed. The in idual studies were evaluated for quality using a standardized critical appraisal tool. A total of 644 articles were screened for eligibility, with five articles chosen for inclusion. The use of a sphygmomanometer to objectively assess isometric muscle strength of the hip muscles appears to be reliable with intraclass correlation coefficient values ranging from 0.66 to 0.94 in elderly and young populations. No studies were identified that have assessed the validity of a sphygmomanometer. The sphygmomanometer appears to be reliable for assessment of isometric muscle strength around the hip joint, but further research is warranted to establish its validity.
Introduction: Bazaar encounters: Food, markets, belonging and citizenship in the cosmopolitan city
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2011
Musculoskeletal decline and mortality: prospective data from the Geelong Osteoporosis Study
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-12-2016
DOI: 10.1002/JCSM.12177
Epidemiology of elite sprint kayak injuries: A 3-year prospective study
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2019
Subsequent Injury Risk Is Elevated Above Baseline After Return to Play: A 5-Year Prospective Study in Elite Australian Football
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 14-06-2019
Abstract: The risk of sustaining a subsequent injury is elevated in the weeks after return to play (RTP) from an index injury. However, little is known about the magnitude, duration, and nature by which subsequent injury risk is increased. To quantify and describe the risk of injury in a 12-week period after RTP from an index injury in Australian football players. Cohort study Level of evidence, 2. Injury data were collected from 79 players over 5 years at 1 Australian Football League club. Injuries were classified with the Orchard Sports Injury Classification System and by side of the body. Furthermore, injury severity was classified as time loss (resulting in ≥1 matches being missed) or non–time loss (no matches missed). Subsequent injury was categorized with the SIC-2.0 model and applied to the data set via an automated script. The probability of a time loss subsequent injury was calculated for in-season index injuries for each week of a 12-week period after RTP via a mixed effect logistic regression model. Subsequent injury risk was found to be highest in the week of RTP for both time loss injuries (9.4%) and non–time loss injuries (6.9%). Risk decreased with each week survived after RTP however, it did not return to baseline risk of participation (3.6%). These findings demonstrate that athletes returning to play are at an increased risk of injury for a number of weeks, thus indicating the requirement for tertiary prevention strategies to ensure that they survive this period.
‘The devil is in the level’: understanding inequality in Australia’s Film, TV and Radio industries
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-12-2019
Abstract: This article applies a quantitative analysis of gender ersity variables to custom data sets of 2011 and 2016 Australian Bureau of Statistics Census data for Film, TV and Radio employment. Prima facie, employment figures across a whole sector or employment segment can appear to be broadly representative of the Australian population, but looking more closely, it becomes apparent that the ‘devil is in the level’. Although there is often parity at the macro level, drilling down into specific roles and their differential levels of seniority and power reveals inequalities between those in key and more secure gatekeeping positions and those further down the organisational hierarchy. Focusing on gender, this article will argue that the lack of ersity at senior levels of employment is a key contributing factor to lack of ersity within cultural and creative industries, reinforcing power imbalances and social and economic inequity.
Micro-enterprise as work–life ‘magical solution’
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
'Craftsperson', 'artist', 'designer': problematising the 'art versus commerce' divide within Australian creative fields today
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 25-05-2020
Organising the home as making space: crafting scale, identity, and boundary contestation
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 06-08-2018
Musculoskeletal Complaint Epidemiology in Australian Special Operation Forces Trainees
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 13-06-2023
Abstract: Elite military trainees are burdened by high numbers of musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries and are a priority military population for injury prevention. This research aims to describe the MSK complaint epidemiology of trainees undertaking special forces (SF) training in the Australian Defence Force (ADF). One barrier to accurate injury surveillance in military populations is that traditional surveillance methods rely on personnel engaging with the military healthcare system to collect injury data. This approach is likely to underestimate the injury burden as it is known that many military personnel, particularly trainees, avoid reporting their injuries because of various motives. Subsequently, the insights from surveillance systems may underestimate the injury burden and limit the ability to inform prevention requirements. This research aims to actively seek MSK complaint information directly from trainees in a sensitive manner to mediate injury-reporting behaviors. This descriptive epidemiology study included two consecutive cohorts of ADF SF trainees from 2019 to 2021. Musculoskeletal data items and their respective recording methods were based on international sports injury surveillance guidelines and adapted to a military context. Our case definition encompassed all injuries or physical discomforts as recordable cases. A unit-embedded physiotherapist retrospectively collected MSK complaint data from selection courses and collected prospective data over the training continuum. Data collection processes were external to the military health care system to mediate reporting avoidance and encourage injury reporting. Injury proportions, complaint incidence rates, and incidence rate ratios were calculated and compared between training courses and cohorts. In total, 334 MSK complaints were reported by 103 trainees (90.4%), with a complaint incidence rate of 58.9 per 1,000 training weeks (95% CI, 53.0-65.5). Of these MSK complaints, 6.4% (n = 22) resulted in time loss from work. The lumbar spine (20.6%, n = 71) and the knee (18.9%, n = 65) were the most frequently affected body parts. Most of the MSK complaints were reported during selection courses (41.9%), followed by field survival and team tactics (23.0%) and urban operations courses (21.9%). Physical training accounted for 16.5% of complaints. Fast-roping training was associated with more severe MSK complaints. Musculoskeletal complaints are highly prevalent in ADF SF trainees. Complaints are more frequently reported in selection and qualification training courses than in physical training. These activities are priorities for focused research to understand injury circumstances in ADF elite training programs to inform injury prevention strategies. A strength of our study is the data collection methods which have provided greater MSK complaint information than past research however, much work remains in conducting consistent and accurate surveillance. Another strength is the use of an embedded physiotherapist to overcome injury-reporting avoidance. Embedded health professionals are recommended as continued practice for ongoing surveillance and early intervention.
Is subsequent lower limb injury associated with previous injury? A systematic review and meta-analysis
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 07-08-2017
Sonic synergies: Music, technology, community, identity
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-07-2017
What Contributes to Athlete Performance Health? A Concept Mapping Approach
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 24-12-2023
Abstract: Background: In high-performance sport, athlete performance health encompasses a state of optimal physical, mental, and social wellbeing related to an athlete’s sporting success. The aim of this study was to identify the priority areas for achieving athlete performance health in Australia’s high-performance sport system (HPSS). Methods: Participants across five socioecological levels of Australia’s HPSS were invited to contribute to this study. Concept mapping, a mixed-methods approach incorporating qualitative and quantitative data collection, was used. Participants brainstormed ideas for what athlete performance health requires, sorted the ideas into groups based on similar meaning and rated the importance, and ease of achieving each idea on a scale from 1 (not important/easiest to overcome) to 5 (extremely important/hardest to overcome). Results: Forty-nine participants generated 97 unique statements that were grouped into 12 clusters following multidimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster analysis. The three clusters with highest mean importance rating were (mean importance rating (1–5), mean ease of overcoming (1–5)): ‘Behavioral competency’ (4.37, 2.30) ‘Collaboration and teamwork’ (4.19, 2.65) ‘Valuing athlete wellbeing’ (4.17, 2.77). The 12 clusters were grouped into five overarching domains: Domain one—Performance health culture Domain two—Integrated strategy Domain three—Operational effectiveness Domain four—Skilled people Domain five—Leadership. Conclusion: A erse s le of key stakeholders from Australia’s HPSS identified five overarching domains that contribute to athlete performance health. The themes that need to be addressed in a strategy to achieve athlete performance health in Australia’s HPSS are ‘Leadership’, ‘Skilled people’, ‘Performance health culture’, ‘Operational effectiveness’, and ‘Integrated strategy’.
Precarious labour then and now: The british arts and crafts movement and cultural work revisited
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-04-2014
The use of a sphygmomanometer to measure shoulder isometric strength: a validity and reliability study
Publisher: FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Date: 09-2017
DOI: 10.1590/1980-5918.030.003.AO17
Abstract: Abstract Introduction: A sphygmomanometer is an instrument commonly used to measure blood pressure that can potentially be used to objectively assess shoulder isometric muscle strength. Objective: To establish the criterion validity and the intra-rater reliability of the sphygmomanometer for the assessment of shoulder isometric muscular strength compared to the handheld dynamometer. To determine if there is a statistically significant difference for shoulder strength between dominant and non-dominant sides. Methods: A test-retest study design was developed, where a rater assessed shoulder flexion and abduction isometric strength of 13 healthy university students, using a commercially available sphygmomanometer and a handheld dynamometer. Results: The criterion validity of the sphygmomanometer was found to be good for both right and left shoulder flexion and abduction strength assessment (Pearson’s r = 0.90-0.97). The intra-rater reliability of the sphygmomanometer was calculated to be good for both right and left flexion and abduction (ICC = 0.96-0.99). The handheld dynamometer also showed good intra-rater reliability for each of the strength measures assessed (ICC = 0.94-0.98). Significant differences (p 0.01) were identified between dominant and non-dominant sides for shoulder strength. Conclusion: A sphygmomanometer is a simple and easily accessible tool that provides clinicians with accurate objective values for isometric shoulder strength assessment.
Mobile Technology and Place
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-05-2013
Going Bush and Finding One's 'Tribe': Raving, escape and the bush doof
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2003
‘I’d (still) rather be a cyborg’: The artisanal dispositif and the return of the (domestic) goddess
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-01-2020
Abstract: This article identifies the rise of a series of tropes around authenticity, retreat and celebration of the artisanal as they manifest around the growing popularity of cooking and craft as activities that have become vehicles for a larger reimagining of ideal middle-class modes of living across much of the Global North. Through media ex les of cooking and craft that valorise nostalgia and ‘dropping out’, and following McRobbie’s work on the creativity dispositif, we argue that these cultural practices are united by an artisanal dispositif that fetishises the ‘traditional’ in a context of intensified mediatisation. We revisit Haraway’s iconic text – ‘A cyborg manifesto’ – to identify what is at stake in the ‘return’ of the artisanal and its ongoing tensions between the technological and the traditional. We argue that rather than retreat, to quote more recent work by Haraway we need to ‘stay with the trouble’ in all its complexity.
Life in a northern (Australian) town: Darwin's mercurial music scene
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2008
Who counts, and is counted, in craft?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-04-2022
DOI: 10.1177/13675494211060352
Abstract: Drawing upon customised Census data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, this Cultural Commons article argues cultural studies researchers need to remain attentive to the absences and erasures within craft, and cultural and creative practice more generally. It offers a numbers-driven insight into the exclusions of craft work, critically exploring the limits of the quantitative capturing of craft making practices and of the biases of statistical data. But it further contends that to effect change requires not just that we identify the problem - it is important, too, to be on the look-out for the presence of possibility. It thus demonstrates how statistics also have the potential to make visible activity not immediately evident, especially to researchers working empirically from within their own often mostly white middle-class networks. In the Australian context, what the census data do reveal is the ongoing strength of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander visual arts, but not so much craft practice. With Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Australians representing 3.3% of the total Australian population, that 9.17% of all Australians employed as Visual Artists identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander is indeed significant – and worth looking to as a source of insights into how crafts practice can become more erse and inclusive. This short article forms part of the special issue ‘Craft Economies and Inequalities’.
'Unalienated labour' and creative industries: situating micro-entrepreneurial dance music subcultures in the new economy
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-07-2008
'Gather 'round and I'll tell you a tale': a 'kiss 'n' tell' history of cultural studies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2003
New pathways into creative work?
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-38246-9_15
Abstract: The experience of aspiring creative workers contrasts sharply with Paul Willis’s classic account of entry to working life from almost half a century ago, in his book, Learning to labour (1977). Creative work entails intellectual rather than physical effort. Unlike secure mid-twentieth-century manufacturing jobs, creative employment tends to be precarious, badly paid and in idualised, without either the support or constraints of a collective workplace culture. The long hours of creative work, the pressure to be flexible and mobile, and the high level of personal investment sit uneasily with the claims of workers’ partners and dependents. However, the emotional labour involved in creative work and the pressure to be continuously positive, disclaiming difficulties, may involve a similar denial of self to that described by Willis, despite the much celebrated association of creativity with self-actualisation or its appeal to middle-class aspirants. This concluding chapter considers the pathways that are implied in accounts of contemporary creative work. This chapter questions the promise in the aspirational creative discourses of higher education and creative workplaces, but also notes the agency of workers in negotiating the ups and downs of creative employment. Finally, it considers the significance of a worker viewpoint of a creative pathway.
Creative aspiration and the betrayal of promise? The experience of new creative workers
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-38246-9_1
Abstract: The promise of ‘doing what you love’ continues to attract new aspirants to creative work, yet most creative industries are so characterised by low investment, shifting foci and ongoing technological innovation that all promises must be unreliable. Some would-be creative workers negotiate their own pathways from the outset, ‘following their dream’ as they attempt to convert personal enthusiasms and amateur activities into income-earning careers. Others look to the proliferation of available training and education options, including higher education courses, as possible pathways into creative work. This chapter reviews recent research from the USA, Australia and the UK on the effectiveness—or otherwise—of higher education as preparation for a creative career. The chapter discusses the obstacles that many creative workers, including graduates, encounter on their creative pathways, for instance, as a result of informal work practices and self-employment. The chapter also looks at sources of advantage and disadvantage, such as those associated with particular geographic locations or personal identities. The chapter concludes by introducing the subsequent chapters in the collection. These critically explore the experience of new creative workers in a wide range of national contexts including Australia, Belgium, China, Ireland, Italy, Finland, the Netherlands, Russia and the UK.
Despite maintaining a high daily training availability, a quarter of athletes start the season injured and three quarters experience injury in an Australian State Academy of Sport
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2022
Crafting economies: contemporary cultural economies of the handmade
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Date: 2018
Editor's introduction to the 'sustaining culture' papers
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2008
Craftspeople and designer makers in the contemporary creative economy
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
New information literacies: Helping university students critically evaluate information online
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Date: 2009
Craft and the Creative Economy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2015
GIS mapping technologies and media discourse analysis: Feedback from creative industries and social inequality project trials
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Date: 2009
Sleep Quality in Elite Athletes: Normative Values, Reliability and Understanding Contributors to Poor Sleep
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-09-2022
Pathways into creative working lives
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Locating cultural work: The politics and poetics of rural, regional and remote creativity
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2012
Creativity without borders? Rethinking remoteness and proximity
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2010
Anterior cruciate ligament injury occurrence, return to sport and subsequent injury in the Australian High Performance Sports System: A 5-year retrospective analysis
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2023
Mapping the regulation of dance parties
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2000
People, places, and processes: crafting authenticity through situating the local in the global
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 11-09-2020
Precariously mobile: Tensions between the local and the global in higher education approaches to cultural work
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2013
Women’s Micro-Entrepreneurial Homeworking: A ‘Magical Solution’ to the Work–Life Relationship?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2015
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Start Date: 05-2006
End Date: 02-2010
Amount: $229,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityResearch Networks - Grant ID: RN0459928
Start Date: 09-2004
End Date: 12-2010
Amount: $1,750,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivitySpecial Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354670
Start Date: 2004
End Date: 12-2004
Amount: $40,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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