"Purpose: This study aims to explore the perspectives of psychiatrists with lived experiences and what their considerations are upon integrating the personal into the professional realm. Design/methodology/approach: As part of a qualitative participatory research approach, participant observations during two years in peer supervision sessions (15 sessions with 8 psychiatrists with lived experiences), additional interviews as part of member feedback and a focus group were thematically analysed. Findings: Although the decision to become a psychiatrist was often related to personal experiences with mental distress and some feel the need to integrate the personal into the professional, the actual use of lived experiences appears still in its early stages of development. Findings reveal three main considerations related to the personal (3.1), professionality (3.2) and clinical relevance (3.3) comprising 11 facilitators and 9 barriers to harness lived experiences. Research limitations/implications: This study was conducted locally and there are no similar comparable studies known. It was small in its size due to its qualitative nature and with a homogeneous group and therefore may lack generalisability. Practical implications: Future directions to further overcome shame and stigma and discover the potential of lived experiences are directed to practice, education and research. Originality/value: Psychiatrists with lived experiences valued the integration of experiential knowledge into the professional realm, even though being still under development. The peer supervision setting in this study was experienced as a safe space to share personal experiences with vulnerability and suffering rather than a technical disclosure. It re-sensitised participants to their personal narratives, unleashing its demystifying, destigmatising and humanising potential."
DOCUMENT
Many mental health professionals have also used mental health services. What role should their personal experience play in their clinical practice - if any? - a commentary
LINK
Poor work-life balance (WLB) has been linked to negative outcomes such as increased stress, anxiety, depression, and a perceived reduction in the overall quality of life. At an institutional level, these may include lowered employee commitment and decreased productivity at work. The advent of COVID-19 has necessitated fundamental alterations to work experience and the ways in which WLB may be perceived. This phenomenological study employed qualitative, in-depth interviews to explore higher education academics’ lived experiences of remote working and how they perceived this had impacted their well-being (WB) and WLB. Using purposive samplings, respondents were drawn from HE sectors in the Netherlands, and the UK. The findings offered an understanding of how remote and hybrid teaching delivery during the pandemic affected academics’ actual experiences of WB and WLB. These findings serve to enhance policymakers’ understandings of significant occupational health and WB issues within a post-pandemic education service paradigm.
DOCUMENT
In de lerarenopleiding wordt aandacht besteed aan het ontwikkelen van pedagogisch handelen waarbij aangesloten wordt bij de ‘bekwaamheidseisen voor leraren basisonderwijs’. Het gaat dan om de ontwikkeling van pedagogische kennis en kunde en het stimuleren van bewustwording van het eigen handelen. Het expliciteren van het pedagogisch handelen van leraren is vaak nog lastig en blijft impliciet. Aanstaande leraren lijken zich wel bewust van het belang van hun pedagogische opdracht, maar kunnen hun pedagogisch handelen soms lastig verwoorden, onderbouwen of expliciteren. Zo ook bij het creëren van een oefenplaats voor burgerschapsvorming. Het ontbreekt hen aan taal om situaties te herkennen en hun pedagogisch handelen te duiden, terwijl ze er wel degelijk vorm aan geven. Dit onderzoeksproject heeft als doel om (aanstaande) leraren te ondersteunen bij het expliciteren van hun pedagogische opdracht bij het creëren van een oefenplaats voor burgerschapsvorming. Met behulp van de centrale vraag: “Op welke wijze kunnen alledaagse ervaringen – gericht op pedagogisch handelen bij het creëren van een oefenplaats voor burgerschapsvorming – benut worden om het handelen van (aanstaande) leraren te verstevigen?” wil de postdoc inzicht creëren in: - de manieren om alledaagse pedagogische ervaringen tot uitdrukking te brengen; en - de manier waarop deze ervaringen gebruikt kunnen worden om (aanstaande) leraren te ondersteunen bij de bewustwording van hun pedagogisch handelen en het zodoende te verstevigen. Het startpunt voor bewustwording is het expliciteren van alledaagse pedagogische ervaringen, zogenaamde lived experiences. Deze zijn de basis voor reflectie, dialoog met anderen en daarmee bewustwording. Het delen van verhalen over praktijkervaringen wordt gezien als een belangrijk startpunt bij het ontwikkelen van pedagogisch handelen . Bovenstaande sluit aan bij het instellingsplan 2017-2022 genaamd ‘Le(ra)ren met Lef’ en het onderzoeksprofiel van het onderzoekscentrum. De hbo-postdoc besteedt 50% van haar tijd aan onderzoek, de andere 50% wordt besteed aan het geven van onderwijs.
We had been involved in the redesign of the 4 Period Rooms of the Marquise Palace, also called the Palace of Secrets, in Bergen op Zoom. This design was based on the biography of a historical figure: Marie Anne van Arenberg, whose dramatic life was marked by secrets. Each of the 4 rooms represents a turning moment in Marie Anne’s story: the official marriage, the secret marriage and the betrayal, the dilemma and choice, with, in a final room, the epilogue. These different episodes are reflected in the way the rooms are furnished: the ballroom, the bedroom, the dining room. The Secret Marquise as design and exhibition has brought more visitors to the museum. As designers and researchers, however, we were interested in understanding more about this success, and, in particular, in understanding the visitors experience, both emotionally and sensorially at different moments/situations during the story-driven experience.In the fall of 2021, the visitors’ lived experience was evaluated using different approaches: a quantitative approach using biometric measurements to register people’s emotions during their visit, and a qualitative one consisting of a combination of observations, visual imagery, and interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).Qualitatively, our aim was to understand how respondents made sense of Marie Anne’s story in the way in which this was presented throughout the exhibition. We specifically looked at the personal context and frame of reference (e.g., previous experiences, connection to the visitor’s own life story, associations with other stories from other sources). In the design of the rooms, we used a combination of digital/interactive elements (such as a talking portrait, an interactive dinner table, an interactive family painting), and traditional physical objects (some 17th century original objects, some reproductions from that time). The second focal point of the study is to understand how these different elements lead the visitors experience.
Digital technologies in public spaces have become more prescient, capable, and invisible. As a result, the need to explain and mediate these technologies has become more urgent. Current processes for designing digital trust interaction protocols, visual languages, and interfaces for the urban environment have been dominated by governing actors: policing, government, and tech-companies. When communities are involved in the design process, their participation is limited to formats these organisations prescribe. By default, these designs exclude the lived technological experiences of communities that use the built environment. The outcome is a lopsided appraisal of digital trust, and designs that are insufficiently transparent and equitable– and as a result, not understood and embraced by the communities who must use them. This design-research aims to develop prototypes that include how urban interactive technologies are ‘lived’ in the spaces where they are implemented. These experiences will be teased-out through site-specific aesthetic and performative actions, which in turn inform the design process. The envisioned contribution includes ways of ’doing’ to the field of situated design, and concrete prototypes for alternative digital trust protocols, visual languages, and interfaces. By flipping the current approach on its head, this research argues that the practical and ethical departure points for addressing digital ‘trust deficits’ are already within the diverse communities who use the built environment.
