Beverley Ann Simmons
Biographic Data
| ID | 6661997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beverley Ann Simmons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beverley Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Simmons |
| SIGNATURE | SIMMONS B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From rupture to resonance
This article focuses on the phenomenon of ‘rupture’ identified in student narratives of uncertainty and scholarship experienced during the course of Fine Art research degrees in two Australian universities. Rupture captures the phenomenon of severe disruption or discontinuity in existing knowledge and typically signifies epistemological rift for the students. On one level candidates become anxious and directionless; on another they adapt and reso…
Women's Retirement, Work and Life Paths
In this qualitative study we examine women's perceptions and interpretations of the impact of retirement on their life experience, whether retirement was encountered from unexpected workplace redundancies, through their own decisions, or those of their partner. In the first instance we examine traditional definitions and meanings of retirement and their relevance to women's experience. Any theoretical explanation that work is central to defining …
Tracing Travel Talk in the Popular Magazine Text
By tracing distinct travel discourses in travel articles in popular magazines this paper seeks to reveal how travel journalists, as mediators of travel messages, construct and inscribe particular positions for tourists, places and host communities through specific narratives, images and commonly used codes. Sightseeing, the idea of the privileged tourist and the aesthetic beauty of a place are dominant and recurring themes in the magazine texts e…
Dismantling health and leisure boundaries
In this paper we show how culture embodies taken-for-granted epistemologies about social life and how specific discourses may define and inhibit our lives in culturally expected ways. To discover how this constriction occurs within western cultural meanings of health and of leisure, we identify three distinct stages in western theory development: traditional, social and socio-cultural discourses and apply them to the notions of health and leisure…
Tracing Travel Talk in the Popular Magazine Text
By tracing distinct travel discourses in travel articles in popular magazines this paper seeks to reveal how travel journalists, as mediators of travel messages, construct and inscribe particular positions for tourists, places and host communities through specific narratives, images and commonly used codes. Sightseeing, the idea of the privileged tourist and the aesthetic beauty of a place are dominant and recurring themes in the magazine texts e…
Dismantling health and leisure boundaries
In this paper we show how culture embodies taken-for-granted epistemologies about social life and how specific discourses may define and inhibit our lives in culturally expected ways. To discover how this constriction occurs within western cultural meanings of health and of leisure, we identify three distinct stages in western theory development: traditional, social and socio-cultural discourses and apply them to the notions of health and leisure…
Women's Retirement, Work and Life Paths
In this qualitative study we examine women's perceptions and interpretations of the impact of retirement on their life experience, whether retirement was encountered from unexpected workplace redundancies, through their own decisions, or those of their partner. In the first instance we examine traditional definitions and meanings of retirement and their relevance to women's experience. Any theoretical explanation that work is central to defining …
Tracing Travel Talk in the Popular Magazine Text
By tracing distinct travel discourses in travel articles in popular magazines this paper seeks to reveal how travel journalists, as mediators of travel messages, construct and inscribe particular positions for tourists, places and host communities through specific narratives, images and commonly used codes. Sightseeing, the idea of the privileged tourist and the aesthetic beauty of a place are dominant and recurring themes in the magazine texts e…
From rupture to resonance
This article focuses on the phenomenon of ‘rupture’ identified in student narratives of uncertainty and scholarship experienced during the course of Fine Art research degrees in two Australian universities. Rupture captures the phenomenon of severe disruption or discontinuity in existing knowledge and typically signifies epistemological rift for the students. On one level candidates become anxious and directionless; on another they adapt and reso…
Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (1 works) · Advertising (1 works)