B Cro
Biographic Data
| ID | 13166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Cro |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Cro |
| SIGNATURE | CRO B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of Scotland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2356-2757 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Visual reasoning: The Role of Abduction Within Qualitative Research on Interprofessional Working
Whilst visual methods have increasing research use, visual reasoning has received less attention. Integration of health and social services require professionals to work with increasing coordination. Visual reasoning plays an important role in these complex skill sets and is under-theorized. This article focuses on visual reasoning within qualitative research in this professional context. Visual languages and the reasoning done with them often re…
UDL for inclusive higher education—What makes group work effective for diverse international students in UK
International students face many challenges transitioning to post-graduate study in UK institutions. Students often need to adapt to a range of cultural practices and curricular norms, often without the differences between UK and their home countries being made explicit. Building on Vygotskian concepts of scaffolded learning and the importance that group interaction plays within learning, this research reports on an initiative to embed Universal …
Way Markers in the Practice of Shambling: A Method for Communal Discernment
This article traces the development of a place-based approach that contributes to exploration of post-qualitative methods. Working with the question, how can our understanding of embodied learning lead to habits of embodied inquiry that shift our relation to what socio-ecological justice means in this time? we embarked on a writing/making/sensing time in a series of different academic workspaces. The reflections and poems recount our developing a…
Making waves: A cross-study analysis of young people's participation arenas in Scotland's schools
This article compares democratic participation research in Scottish schools over a 10-year period. The comparison reveals how 'organic' aspects of decision-making arise in arenas of school activity. We argue that research heretofore has focussed on pupil councils to the exclusion of more everyday embedded and embodied choices. Primary researchers in the studies revisited data, drawing on their respective theoretical frameworks, to consider how ne…
Risk and Decision Making in Adult Support and Protection Practice: User Views from Participant Research
This paper describes a study that was undertaken against the backdrop of the introduction of the 2007 Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act. This collaborative and participatory research project used Forum Theatre as a method for gathering the views of disabled people about risk and decision making. The aim was to provide information for practitioners about the issues they should take into account when making decisions about risk. Forty-two…
The experience of being protected
Purpose The purpose of the paper is to discuss how adult support and protection (ASP) work might support or further damage an adult's strengths, skills and sense of self. There is a particular focus on adults who require some support with decision‐making. Design/methodology/approach Forum theatre and other creative techniques were used to discuss ASP with 42 people who access support. A range of advice for practitioners was generated, a portion o…
Platforms, Plateaus, and String: A Disability Diverse Research Team’s Account of Spatial Challenges and Strategies Within Research Dissemination Spaces
This article documents the process of attempting to challenge barriers that prevent disabled people with high levels of institutional intervention from taking part in research dissemination and its more elevated spaces of presentation, debate, and influence. We have sought to keep the disabled researchers on our team in the conversation throughout article production. Thus, the article is a series of dialogues conducted across the production proce…
Consumption, Production and Online Identities: Amateur Spoofs on YouTube
The imagination makes unique models of the world, some of which lead us to anticipate useful changes, and some of which provide freedom in their mockery of the constraints of the ordinary world. ... The flexibility of the imagination, of play, and of the playful is the ultimate guarantor of our survival
Negotiating the Multiple Meanings of Participation within Multi-Agency Working: Children's Participation at Policies' Crossroads
Over the last decade, the term ‘participation’ has gained prominence within children's services and policy formation. However, this term is used in variable ways and there remains a lack of consensus within policy circles about its employment. As a consequence, young people encounter a variety of practices to which this term is ascribed. This article explores the understandings of participation as they varied across settings with a cohort of uppe…
How does community matter? Misrecognition and the participation agenda for children in socially disadvantaged communities
Participatory research with young people has enjoyed a decade of sustained development including the development of a range of embodied and visual methodologies. Much of this has been in the service of a participatory citizenship agenda, as articulated in the Every Child Matters agenda in England, in the work of the UK's Children's Commissioners and through service provider commitment to consultation with young people more generally. However thro…
Becoming, Being and Having Been: Practitioner Perspectives on Temporal Stances and Participation across Children’s Services
This article is based on a study of the changing meanings and experiences of citizenship and participation for young people in transition from primary to secondary school. One of the primary concerns of the study is to better understand how different professional practices impact upon young people’s uptake of participation and adoption of civic identity. To gain some insight into this area the article first looks at the contexts in which particip…
The Interface Work of Narrative
The article explores further Lyra (1999) and Hermans’ (1999, 2001a, 2001b) glossing of complexity terminology within analysis of identity formation, taking a particular interest in differing uses of narrative within identity negotiations. Lyra (1999) draws attention to the importance of using an extended time frame to assess the power dynamics involved within any communicative exchange. The fragments of speech often under consideration in academi…
Hearing Out Children's Narrative Pathways To Adulthood: Young people as interpreters of their own childhoods in diverging working-class Scottish communities
Participatory research with children in the main focuses on short-term interactions. As this practice develops, questions about longer-term consequences for participants have arisen, examining the empowering claims for this research approach. This article reports the findings from continued contact with participants of an ethnographic participatory research project. Longitudinal interviews emphasize the lasting influence of their experience of ad…
Split Frame Thinking and Multiple Scenario Awareness: How boys' game expertise reshapes possible structures of sense in a digital world
This article takes a detailed look at how a group of 10-year-old boys mutually construct an evolving multilinear scenario whilst playing a storytelling game in class, borrowing from a number of genres and forms of engagement in ICT-mediated popular culture to perform for each other in patterns which defy linear description or analysis. Their playful production challenges standard means of representing and analysing transcript, necessitating a par…
PhD Abstract—Children’s stories and negotiated identities: Bakhtin and complexity in upper primary classrooms in Jamaica and Scotland
Watch mi eyes: The predicament of visual and scribal literacy choices, as explored with rural Jamaican adolescent boys
This paper examines the theme of oral cultures in a world of literacy, assessment and certification. In particular, the paper explores the oral youth culture of adolescent males in rural Jamaica at the pivotal point of their educational careers in the school term preceding their Grade Six Achievement Tests, which will determine their placement, if any, in secondary education. Using an Interactional Sociolinguistical approach (Rampton, 2001), incl…
The experience of being protected
Purpose The purpose of the paper is to discuss how adult support and protection (ASP) work might support or further damage an adult's strengths, skills and sense of self. There is a particular focus on adults who require some support with decision‐making. Design/methodology/approach Forum theatre and other creative techniques were used to discuss ASP with 42 people who access support. A range of advice for practitioners was generated, a portion o…
Split Frame Thinking and Multiple Scenario Awareness: How boys' game expertise reshapes possible structures of sense in a digital world
This article takes a detailed look at how a group of 10-year-old boys mutually construct an evolving multilinear scenario whilst playing a storytelling game in class, borrowing from a number of genres and forms of engagement in ICT-mediated popular culture to perform for each other in patterns which defy linear description or analysis. Their playful production challenges standard means of representing and analysing transcript, necessitating a par…
Making waves: A cross-study analysis of young people's participation arenas in Scotland's schools
This article compares democratic participation research in Scottish schools over a 10-year period. The comparison reveals how 'organic' aspects of decision-making arise in arenas of school activity. We argue that research heretofore has focussed on pupil councils to the exclusion of more everyday embedded and embodied choices. Primary researchers in the studies revisited data, drawing on their respective theoretical frameworks, to consider how ne…
Platforms, Plateaus, and String: A Disability Diverse Research Team’s Account of Spatial Challenges and Strategies Within Research Dissemination Spaces
This article documents the process of attempting to challenge barriers that prevent disabled people with high levels of institutional intervention from taking part in research dissemination and its more elevated spaces of presentation, debate, and influence. We have sought to keep the disabled researchers on our team in the conversation throughout article production. Thus, the article is a series of dialogues conducted across the production proce…
How does community matter? Misrecognition and the participation agenda for children in socially disadvantaged communities
Participatory research with young people has enjoyed a decade of sustained development including the development of a range of embodied and visual methodologies. Much of this has been in the service of a participatory citizenship agenda, as articulated in the Every Child Matters agenda in England, in the work of the UK's Children's Commissioners and through service provider commitment to consultation with young people more generally. However thro…
Hearing Out Children's Narrative Pathways To Adulthood: Young people as interpreters of their own childhoods in diverging working-class Scottish communities
Participatory research with children in the main focuses on short-term interactions. As this practice develops, questions about longer-term consequences for participants have arisen, examining the empowering claims for this research approach. This article reports the findings from continued contact with participants of an ethnographic participatory research project. Longitudinal interviews emphasize the lasting influence of their experience of ad…
Way Markers in the Practice of Shambling: A Method for Communal Discernment
This article traces the development of a place-based approach that contributes to exploration of post-qualitative methods. Working with the question, how can our understanding of embodied learning lead to habits of embodied inquiry that shift our relation to what socio-ecological justice means in this time? we embarked on a writing/making/sensing time in a series of different academic workspaces. The reflections and poems recount our developing a…
Risk and Decision Making in Adult Support and Protection Practice: User Views from Participant Research
This paper describes a study that was undertaken against the backdrop of the introduction of the 2007 Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act. This collaborative and participatory research project used Forum Theatre as a method for gathering the views of disabled people about risk and decision making. The aim was to provide information for practitioners about the issues they should take into account when making decisions about risk. Forty-two…
PhD Abstract—Children’s stories and negotiated identities: Bakhtin and complexity in upper primary classrooms in Jamaica and Scotland
Watch mi eyes: The predicament of visual and scribal literacy choices, as explored with rural Jamaican adolescent boys
This paper examines the theme of oral cultures in a world of literacy, assessment and certification. In particular, the paper explores the oral youth culture of adolescent males in rural Jamaica at the pivotal point of their educational careers in the school term preceding their Grade Six Achievement Tests, which will determine their placement, if any, in secondary education. Using an Interactional Sociolinguistical approach (Rampton, 2001), incl…
Split Frame Thinking and Multiple Scenario Awareness: How boys' game expertise reshapes possible structures of sense in a digital world
This article takes a detailed look at how a group of 10-year-old boys mutually construct an evolving multilinear scenario whilst playing a storytelling game in class, borrowing from a number of genres and forms of engagement in ICT-mediated popular culture to perform for each other in patterns which defy linear description or analysis. Their playful production challenges standard means of representing and analysing transcript, necessitating a par…
Hearing Out Children's Narrative Pathways To Adulthood: Young people as interpreters of their own childhoods in diverging working-class Scottish communities
Participatory research with children in the main focuses on short-term interactions. As this practice develops, questions about longer-term consequences for participants have arisen, examining the empowering claims for this research approach. This article reports the findings from continued contact with participants of an ethnographic participatory research project. Longitudinal interviews emphasize the lasting influence of their experience of ad…
The Interface Work of Narrative
The article explores further Lyra (1999) and Hermans’ (1999, 2001a, 2001b) glossing of complexity terminology within analysis of identity formation, taking a particular interest in differing uses of narrative within identity negotiations. Lyra (1999) draws attention to the importance of using an extended time frame to assess the power dynamics involved within any communicative exchange. The fragments of speech often under consideration in academi…
Becoming, Being and Having Been: Practitioner Perspectives on Temporal Stances and Participation across Children’s Services
This article is based on a study of the changing meanings and experiences of citizenship and participation for young people in transition from primary to secondary school. One of the primary concerns of the study is to better understand how different professional practices impact upon young people’s uptake of participation and adoption of civic identity. To gain some insight into this area the article first looks at the contexts in which particip…
Consumption, Production and Online Identities: Amateur Spoofs on YouTube
The imagination makes unique models of the world, some of which lead us to anticipate useful changes, and some of which provide freedom in their mockery of the constraints of the ordinary world. ... The flexibility of the imagination, of play, and of the playful is the ultimate guarantor of our survival
Negotiating the Multiple Meanings of Participation within Multi-Agency Working: Children's Participation at Policies' Crossroads
Over the last decade, the term ‘participation’ has gained prominence within children's services and policy formation. However, this term is used in variable ways and there remains a lack of consensus within policy circles about its employment. As a consequence, young people encounter a variety of practices to which this term is ascribed. This article explores the understandings of participation as they varied across settings with a cohort of uppe…
How does community matter? Misrecognition and the participation agenda for children in socially disadvantaged communities
Participatory research with young people has enjoyed a decade of sustained development including the development of a range of embodied and visual methodologies. Much of this has been in the service of a participatory citizenship agenda, as articulated in the Every Child Matters agenda in England, in the work of the UK's Children's Commissioners and through service provider commitment to consultation with young people more generally. However thro…
The experience of being protected
Purpose The purpose of the paper is to discuss how adult support and protection (ASP) work might support or further damage an adult's strengths, skills and sense of self. There is a particular focus on adults who require some support with decision‐making. Design/methodology/approach Forum theatre and other creative techniques were used to discuss ASP with 42 people who access support. A range of advice for practitioners was generated, a portion o…
Platforms, Plateaus, and String: A Disability Diverse Research Team’s Account of Spatial Challenges and Strategies Within Research Dissemination Spaces
This article documents the process of attempting to challenge barriers that prevent disabled people with high levels of institutional intervention from taking part in research dissemination and its more elevated spaces of presentation, debate, and influence. We have sought to keep the disabled researchers on our team in the conversation throughout article production. Thus, the article is a series of dialogues conducted across the production proce…
Risk and Decision Making in Adult Support and Protection Practice: User Views from Participant Research
This paper describes a study that was undertaken against the backdrop of the introduction of the 2007 Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act. This collaborative and participatory research project used Forum Theatre as a method for gathering the views of disabled people about risk and decision making. The aim was to provide information for practitioners about the issues they should take into account when making decisions about risk. Forty-two…
Making waves: A cross-study analysis of young people's participation arenas in Scotland's schools
This article compares democratic participation research in Scottish schools over a 10-year period. The comparison reveals how 'organic' aspects of decision-making arise in arenas of school activity. We argue that research heretofore has focussed on pupil councils to the exclusion of more everyday embedded and embodied choices. Primary researchers in the studies revisited data, drawing on their respective theoretical frameworks, to consider how ne…
UDL for inclusive higher education—What makes group work effective for diverse international students in UK
International students face many challenges transitioning to post-graduate study in UK institutions. Students often need to adapt to a range of cultural practices and curricular norms, often without the differences between UK and their home countries being made explicit. Building on Vygotskian concepts of scaffolded learning and the importance that group interaction plays within learning, this research reports on an initiative to embed Universal …
Way Markers in the Practice of Shambling: A Method for Communal Discernment
This article traces the development of a place-based approach that contributes to exploration of post-qualitative methods. Working with the question, how can our understanding of embodied learning lead to habits of embodied inquiry that shift our relation to what socio-ecological justice means in this time? we embarked on a writing/making/sensing time in a series of different academic workspaces. The reflections and poems recount our developing a…
Visual reasoning: The Role of Abduction Within Qualitative Research on Interprofessional Working
Whilst visual methods have increasing research use, visual reasoning has received less attention. Integration of health and social services require professionals to work with increasing coordination. Visual reasoning plays an important role in these complex skill sets and is under-theorized. This article focuses on visual reasoning within qualitative research in this professional context. Visual languages and the reasoning done with them often re…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Social science (8 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Negotiation (4 works)