This article considers some of the methodological issues faced by a team working in the emerging field of participatory arts and health research. It argues that, in order to optimize research rigour, there is a need to address four fundamental…

Proposes some fundamental differences in assumptions between old and new paradigms and argues that the preoccupation with growth
characteristic of a materialist view is what has
brought about our current crisis.

A topical article based on current (2011) publications on Tennyson, giving an overview of his reputation and its rise since the centenary of his death in 1992. The publications for the bicentenary of the birth shows that he is in…

It is clear that we are at a point of crisis
and transformation. In her introduction
to the articles of this issue, Bronwen Rees
suggests that not only will we need to
challenge basic assumptions in science,
but that the…

The authors propose how, in the New Society
that the UK government is creating,
we may need to draw on the
principles of cultural traditions
to bridge the gap between the old and the new paradigm.

Reports and reflections from the Interconnections Panel discussion, 19 November 2011, and the
Interconnections and Hive workshop, 9 December 2011. The two meetings were held
to bring together key people from many different
contexts and disciplines and discuss new…

The authors show how networked community-based
organisations build in their own educational pathways, which at the same time meet the requirements for sustainability and Sufficiency
Economy as recommended by the UN.
They liken this to a movement from
hierarchic to…

Bronwen Rees interviews Professor Apichai Puntasen
about the attempts to introduce the King’s ideas
of Sufficiency Economy into Thailand. The core of this philosophy is developing compassion and co-operation rather than competition.