Building Community, Researching Community II

  • Time: 15:45-17:00
  • Location: G.10 LT
  • Chair/Discussant: TBD

Developing co-researching framework with Adivasi community: Exploring the research collaboration landscape, barriers, and possibilities – Deepti R. Bhat, School of Education

Abstract: This research conducted with an Adivasi (Indigenous people of India) community in India highlights the barriers and possibilities for development of a co-researching framework. It sheds light on the Adivasi experiences and perceptions of research. It shows the importance of understanding the community’s perceptions of research as it lays the foundations for building a long-lasting trusting relationship with the community and in creating opportunities for co-researching and co-production of knowledge. As qualitative researchers increasing seek decolonial and participatory ways of conducting research, this research contribute towards this and the growing scholarship on decolonising research. The presentation will highlight the perceptions of research as well as expectations of research from the members of the community organisation.

Distant encounters: emotional capital and emotional management in service works. – Carlos Andres Pineda Ramos, School of Management (Online)

Abstract: This research analyses the links between emotional capital (embodied emotional skills and knowledge) and the strategies involved in emotional management at the workplace. For doing so, emotional capital will be understood as a trans-situational skill acquired before the job, modified at the workplace, and used for commercial, organisational and social purposes. However, possessing this capital would not be the same for all the workers. Indeed, the research argues that class differences imply variations in acquiring emotional capital, which can also result in different emotional strategies. Therefore, emotional capital is used as an analytical device to address not only how this capital is used at the workplace and in the previous stages of capital acquisition, where class distinctions play a fundamental role. To analyse how the capital is managed in the workplace, my work refers to Bolton and Boyd’s emotional management typology as it enables to identify the specific uses, motivations and norms that workers follow in their jobs. For carrying on with this research, the emotional dynamics of emotional capital acquisition and use will be studied in one of the biggest contact centres in Colombia since it could enlighten the links between socio-economic distributions and emotional skills in organisational/commercial contexts.

Parental information needs about complementary feeding of infants - a qualitative evidence synthesis – Kelly Spurlock, School for Policy Studies

Abstract: Introduction - Complementary feeding (commonly known as weaning) is a process of transitioning infants from milk diets to eating solid foods. UK guidelines mirror the World Health Organisation’s recommendations of introducing solid foods from around 6 months of age with foods suitable for the infants age range. The introduction of solid foods is a key milestone in an infant’s life and can influence future health through both metabolic and behavioural processes (Pearce and Langley-Evans, 2013, Nicklaus and Remy, 2013). Parents within the UK often do not follow complimentary feeding guidelines and may introduce solid foods earlier than 6 months or provide foods that are nutritionally unsuitable for infants (McAndrew et al., 2010).

Aim – to investigate how parents engage with sources of information on introducing solid foods and explore the influences on their feeding behaviours. Methods & Results - searches were conducted in March 2022 to identify qualitative papers that described parents of infants aged 0-24 months attitudes or experiences of engaging with sources of information on complementary feeding. 17,356 papers were identified, after deduplication 9242 were screened in EPPI-reviewer. 73 papers were eligible for full text screening resulting in 14 studies for review using thematic synthesis. Results TBC.