Author Archives: steffgreenswansea

“We need to talk about language” https://www.stopageism.org/society/lets-talk-about-our-generations/ Architect and academic Roland Karthaus discusses the impact of language choice on practice, and questions the use of loaded terms as ‘shorthand for bigger ideas that sometimes get lost in their wider usage’. My blog responds to this sentiment, and drawing on my PhD research, explores the questionContinue reading “The choice of language in intergenerational practice: Does it really matter?”

‘Are you ‘working from home’ or ‘trying to work at home during a crisis’? For those of us fortunate enough to be able to ‘work from home’ during this period of time, I wonder how many of us are feeling the pressure to be ‘productive’. On the surface, it might feel like thers is aContinue reading “Do your best and leave the rest”

‘Stay together by staying apart’. This phrase, at first appears to be an oxymoron. How can we remain ‘together’ when the message is loud and clear to stay apart? If we think about the current situation in which we find ourselves, one of the key things we have all learnt over the past few weeksContinue reading “Stay Together by staying apart: unity in isolation”

This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting started with both my PhD and blogging. I often find that I don’t know what I’m thinking until I put pen to paper, or fingers to a keyboard! This blog will be a series of musings, reflections and explorations around my thoughts, feelings,Continue reading “The Beginnings”

World views; paradigms; ontology; epistemology; realism; positivism; pragmatsim…and more! What do they all mean? I hope I am like most other PhD students at the beginning of this journey scratching my head and wondering what all these words mean, their relevance and where to position them in the thesis? Thankfully I am surrounded by aContinue reading “Theoretical Underpinnings”