Understanding Women’s Experience in Graduate Mathematics Through a Focused Identity Lens

Patients Emotions during Meal Experience: Understanding through Critical Incident Technique

Background and Objectives: It was established that eating experience may affect patients emotionally. Acknowledging the role and understanding the basis of patients’ emotions in their food consumption may assist in identifying their nutritional status as well as their satisfaction with foodservice. To date, there are limited studies focusing on patients’ food-related emotional ...

Investigation Into Researcher Identity in Qualitative Research Articles in Applied Linguistics Journals Through Lens of CDA

Recently, constructing professional identity has received an increasing attention. By adopting and adapting analytical tools of critical discourse analysis (CDA), this study explored the ways through which identities of the qualitative researchers had been projected in 4 applied linguistics articles. This study intended to find out whether the authors of qualitative research articles in applied...

Graduate Texts in Mathematics

Us and Them: Understanding Upwards Bullying through the lens of Social Identity Theory

As the nature of managerial work is changing and becoming ever more demanding it is argued that managers are increasingly vulnerable to becoming the recipients of workplace bullying from their staff. The possibility of a manager being bullied by their staff has been under explored within the bullying literature. This phenomenon is referred to as ‘upwards bullying’. It is argued that due to the ...

Understanding eating interventions through an evolutionary lens.

Health psychologists aim to improve eating behaviour to achieve health. Yet the effectiveness of healthy eating interventions is often minimal. This ineffectiveness may be in part because many healthy eating interventions are in a battle against evolved mechanisms (e.g., hedonic and related systems) that promote the consumption of energy-dense foods. Such foods, once rare, are now abundant in o...