Poster Session
Oxford Brookes University (Gipsy Lane Campus)
Sustainable Viability In Shrimp Farming In Sinaloa, Mexico
Poster Session Irma Maldonado Hernández
Aquaculture has increased its social and economic impact in the world through food production, income generation, as well as the provision of offspring for the repopulation of threatened or overexploited aquatic species. In Mexico, Sinaloa is the leader in national farmed shrimp production. Thus, the purpose of the research is to analyze the economic viability of the Representative Production Units (RPU) of shrimp in the municipality of Ahome, Sinaloa. The information was obtained in the period of the year 2022 in the municipality of Ahome, Sinaloa, through the producer panel technique. This technique allowed obtaining the economic, financial and net cash flow or disbursed costs. A 70-hectare URP was built for shrimp farming. Detailed information was collected on costs, classified as disbursed, financial and economic, prices, income and performance. Taking as a point of reference the most likely sale price ($62 kg) in the study region, the income from the sale of shrimp at the farm is sufficient to cover the disbursed, financial and economic costs, therefore, the modeled RPU is economically viable.
Exploring the Experiences of Healthcare Assistants/workers within Mental Health Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic View Digital Media
Poster Session Naomi Mclellan Edwards
My study explores the experiences of healthcare assistants working within mental health settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research project aims to understand the experiences of a healthcare assistants (HCA’s) within the healthcare sector in order to suggest recommendations for delivering practical/resource support to employees in the future. COVID-19 has put healthcare under pressure in ways the UK has not seen for almost a hundred years. The pressures came from constant changing government guidance and subsequent workplace changes and increased pressures surrounding workload and changing workplace practice. Due to COVID-19 being a recent phenomenon, the available literature on the effect of the pandemic within healthcare is sparse, especially concerning the experience of HCA’s within mental health. This study looks to fill the gap and make sure HCA’s views are recorded. The study is exploring the personal experiences of HCA’s within their workplace, during the pandemic which often involved conflicts of conscience. The existing literature on COVID-19 and previous research on other respiratory diseases will help shape the study and demonstrate why qualitative research is vital to understanding frontline workers' perspectives, compared to the majority of quantitative studies available. I use the data from this study to explore the thematic similarities and differences of HCA’s experiences in the hope that it may then be used to help deliver recommendations, resources, and training for future similar outbreaks or emergencies that arise - as well as giving a basis for other researchers to use.
Women with Disabilities Who Experience Gender Violence: Strategies for Change View Digital Media
Poster Session María José Bagnato, Eugenia Barbosa, Magdalena Cardozo, Marcela González Olmedo
This proposal presents the data of an intervention process in a public center (Intendencia de Montevideo in agreement with the Faculty of Psychology, Universidad de la República) and its results. The beneficiary population is women with disabilities, inhabitants of Montevideo, who suffer gender violence from their partners or ex-partners. The framework is the interactionist ecological model. This perspective understands the phenomenon's complexity, incorporating into its paradigm the multiplicity of factors that interact in the origin and maintenance of violent behaviors (Bronfenbrenner, 1986; Monreal-Gimeno, Povedano-Díaz and Martínez-Ferrer, 2014). The proposal describes the care protocol offered by an interdisciplinary team: psychosocial and legal. The protocol guides the intervention according to the current risk level of the woman from the Risk Index (RVD-BCN, 2015) application. The attention is weekly and can include between one and 20 appointments. The first interview is interdisciplinary. From the first interview, the intervention to follow is planned. The protocol also establishes the signing of the informed consent. All intervention is recorded in Clinical Histories and respects ethical and confidentiality rules. The study is based on a sample of 100 women who attended in one year. We describe the women´s sociodemographic characteristics and the main barriers to access to care services. Reflections on interdisciplinary teams and the importance of community networks in gender violence are presented.
Integrating Social and Emotional Learning into the English Language Classroom
Poster Session Yueh Nu Hung, Shih Chieh Liao
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) receives great attention in education because of migration, epidemics, war, refugees, cyberbullying, and many others. Although not a new concept, its importance has been well recognized recently and promoted globally at all levels of education. Teachers of all disciplinary areas can integrate SEL into their teaching to create a supportive learning environment and help students achieve better learning results. This presentation shares how SEL has integrated into university English classes in an English-as-a-foreign-language context in Taiwan. The integration strategies are divided into three categories: (1) classroom management, (2) community building, and (3) curriculum integration. I will provide activity examples and talk about them. The presentation will help language teachers to learn some practical strategies to make their classrooms a more socially and emotionally supportive place for students to learn not just the language but also develop social and emotional competencies.
