Talk by members of executive hospital boards influences the organizational positioning of nurses. Talk is a relational leadership practice. Using a qualitative‐ interpretive design we organized focus group meetings wherein members of executive hospital boards (7), nurses (14), physicians (7), and managers (6), from 15 Dutch hospitals, discussed the organizational positioning of nursing during COVID crisis. We found that members of executive hospital boards consider the positioning of nursing in crisis a task of nurses themselves and not as a collective, interdependent, and/or specific board responsibility. Furthermore, members of executive hospital boards talk about the nursing profession as (1) more practical than strategic, (2) ambiguous in positioning, and (3) distinctive from the medical profession. Such talk seemingly contrasts with the notion of interdependence that highlights how actors depend on each other in interaction. Interdependence is central to collaboration in hospital crises. In this paper, therefore, we depart from the members of executive hospital boards as leader and “positioner,” and focus on talk— as a discursive leadership practice—to illuminate leadership and governance in hospitals in crisis, as social, interdependent processes.
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This is a serious game called Re-Organise. It is a cooperativeboard game about creating closed loops in the circular economy. The game represents an agro-industrial park in which different types of companies aim to use each other's waste streams as a material and/or energy resource. To do so, the players need to collaborate and (often need to) invest in processing technologies. The game is licenced CC-BY. To use it, the supplementary materials can be downloaded for printing. We kindly ask you to cite this game according to the pure reference.
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Mensen met autisme redden het vaker niet dan wel op school en op de arbeidsmarkt. Niet kunnen omgaan met stress, bijvoorbeeld door veranderingen in het werk, is de belangrijkste oorzaak. Het zelf kunnen herkennen van stress en nadenken over de oorzaken daarvan is weinig mensen met ASS gegeven, en ook voor mensen in de omgeving (coaches, docenten, collega’s) wordt het vaak pas duidelijk als het te laat is. Vroegtijdige signalering van stress om uitval te voorkomen is derhalve wenselijk. Doel van dit project is het ontwikkelen van een digitale stress duidings- en coachingstool, waarbij zowel het perspectief van begeleiders/coaches als dat van de persoon met autisme zelf wordt ondersteund. Daarbij maken we gebruik van de wetenschappelijk voldoende bewezen technologie van huidweerstand-analyse. Zoals bij alle technologieën die ontwikkeld worden voor stresssignalering geldt ook hier dat menselijke duiding nodig blijft. Centraal in deze aanvraag staan technologische ontwikkelingen die in gang gezet zijn binnen Fontys Hogeschool ICT en Game Solutions Lab om stress-indicatoren te meten en te communiceren, gecombineerd met de domeinkennis van Leo Kanner, Leermakers Zorggroep, de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Autisme (NVA) en Student+. De innovatie kracht van dit project ligt in de combinatie van menselijke kracht én technologische ondersteuning in lijn met het probleemgebied Enabling Adaptation binnen de Roadmap Design for Change. Deze combinatie maakt het mogelijk om op grond van objectieve data sneller en effectiever stressoren in kaart te brengen en zelfduiding te stimuleren op het juiste moment. Hiermee worden niet alleen actuele risico’s beperkt, maar zal ook voor de lange termijn leiden tot betere zelfkennis en meer zelfregie. Hierdoor kan de doelgroep door juiste aanpassingen wel duurzaam onderwijs volgen of aan het werk blijven.
GAMING HORIZONS is a multidisciplinary project that aims to expand the research and innovation agenda on serious gaming and gamification. The project is particularly interested in the use of games for learning and cultural development. Gamification - and gaming more broadly – are very important from a socio-economic point of view, but over the past few years they have been at the centre of critical and challenging debates, which highlighted issues such as gender and minority representation, and exploitative game mechanics. Our project’s key contention is that it is important for the European ICT community to engage with design trends and social themes that have affected profoundly the mainstream and ‘independent’ game development cultures over the past few years, especially because the boundaries between leisure and serious games are increasingly blurred. GAMING HORIZONS is a direct response to the official recognition by the H2020 programme of work that multidisciplinary research can help to advance the integration between Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH). The project’s objective is to enable a higher uptake of socially responsible ICT-related research in relation to gaming. This objective will be achieved through a research-based exchange between communities of developers, policy makers, users and researchers. The methodology will involve innovative data collection activities and consultations with a range of stakeholders over a period of 14 months. We will interrogate the official ‘H2020 discourse’ on gamification – with a particular focus on ‘gamified learning’ - whilst engaging with experts, developers and critical commentators through interviews, events, workshops and systematic dialogue with an Advisory Board. Ultimately, GAMING HORIZONS will help identify future directions at the intersection of ethics, social research, and both the digital entertainment and serious games industries.EU FundingThe 14-month research project 'Gaming Horizons' was funded by the European Commission through the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
