This experimental section includes some parts of the performative event “The materiality of transformations: Listening to objects”, which closed the 14th SIEF conference held in Santiago de Compostela in 2019. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Regina Bendix, Dorothy Noyes, Sharon Roseman and Francisco Cruces conversed on stage about the cultural meani...
Published in Annals of dyslexia
We investigated the contributions of multiple strands of factors-individual characteristics (struggling reader status, working memory, vocabulary, grammatical knowledge, knowledge-based inference, theory of mind, comprehension monitoring), a text feature (narrative vs. expository genre), and question types (literal and inferential)-to one's perform...
Published in BMC Medical Education
BackgroundReflection and various approaches to foster reflection have been regarded as an indispensable element in enhancing professional practice across different disciplines. With its inherent potential to engage learners in reflection and improvement, narrative medicine has been adopted in various settings. However, the relevance and effectivene...
Published in The Journal of medical humanities
The impact of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) is far reaching not least in terms of both the immediate and longer term physical and mental wellbeing of those who have experienced abuse. DVA also exerts a considerable detrimental impact on the wider family including children. While professional perspectives of working with DVA survivors is increas...
Published in Food Ethics
Amidst the recent threat of COVID-19, home gardens have surged in popularity as seed companies and nurseries find it challenging to keep their supplies fully stocked. The victory garden movement that emerged during WWII has today re-emerged as COVID victory gardens. Yet, the global changes and cognitive shifts associated with COVID-19 have differen...
Published in Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik
Wie und warum werden Erzählungen in zeitgenössischen politischen Leserbriefen zur Argumentation verwendet? Um Antworten auf diese Frage zu gewinnen, untersuche ich gut 50 Leserbriefe aus Schweizer und deutschen Tageszeitungen, die alle einen Bezug zu COVID-19 haben. In allen Briefen wird argumentiert, indem erzählt wird. Es zeigt sich, dass die Nar...
Published in Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik
In diesem Beitrag wird das Verhältnis von Argumentation und Narration in sogenannten Verschwörungstheorien näher beleuchtet. Im Anschluss an die in der klassischen Rhetorik beschriebene Funktion der narratio in einer Gerichtsrede wird der Frage nachgegangen, in welcher Weise narrative Elemente bei verschwörungstheoretischen Argumentationen eingeset...
Published in Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis
Twenty-first century technological advancements have the potential to support intersections between social science and geographic information systems (GIS) as well as GIS and emerging geovisual interface technologies. These converging methodologies are enabling researchers to capture and connect audiences in “narratives”, “experiences” or “emotions...
Published in Human Development
We propose an interdisciplinary developmental model of narrative redemption. Although redemption is one of the most thoroughly studied constructs in the narrative identity literature, research to date has not sufficiently addressed the qualitative structures of redemption, which in turn has led to a lack of attention to the developmental functions ...
This project is a collaboration between TUDelft and Sherlocked, one of the stakeholders of BLUE MIRROR. The aim of this project is bringing knowledge and fun together in a sustainability themed portable escape room experience. During the Research phases, the current market of available experiences closely related to the new design was mapped out, l...
