A more considered sense of the embodied nature of encounter is called for in the scholarship of ethnography. This paper argues for an ethnographic practice that accordingly moves beyond simplistic recounts of ‘highly personalised styles and their self-absorbed mandates’ (Van Maanen, 2011: 73), to more fully position an understanding of the ethnographer’s Self as an also encountered ‘site’. Taking cues from Heideggar’s (2008/1927) formulation of Dasein and the realisation of the Self through the encountered Other, this paper argues that attempts to make sense of the Other in ethnography – ultimately the raison d’etre of ethnographic practice – concomitantly require an accounting-for of the Self. This paper takes aim at the nature of embodiment as central to the experience of encounter, but will argue that this encounter of the Self functions as an aporia: a site of unknowing, but equally, of generative possibility. It is with the effects that embodiment has and the inflections it provides for the ethnography that particular attention is given.

Andrew is also Coordinator of Research and Research Training in the School of Arts and Communication and Immediate Past President of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia. Carly Smith's professional background lies predominantly in secondary state school education in Queensland and she is currently teaching in the areas of pre-service teacher education and communication studies at the University of Southern Queensland. Her research interests include the relationships between 'official' institutions and individual and collective identities.

Seasonal changes and the impact on public health ''Whoever would study medicine aright must learn of the following subjects. First he must consider the effect of each of the seasons of the year and the differences between them. Secondly he must study the warm and the cold winds, both those which are common to every country and those peculiar to a particular locality....'' Hippocrates, ''Airs, Waters, Places'' , 400 bc 1 ''As important as the overall tendency toward global warming may be to human health, the effects of the extreme and anomalous weather that accompany it be even more profound''

Purpose -The purpose o f this paper is to analyse the reflective journals kept by 62 students researching and interviewing people with learning disabilities. The aim was to explore the content and discover any themes that were generated throughout the journals as a result o f the pre-, during-and post-interview process. Design/methodology/approach -The m ethod used to analyse the journals was InterpretativePhenomenological Analysis (Smith and Osborn, 2008). Findings -The results showed that there was a shift from negative to positive reflections as the frequency o f contact with people with learning disabilities increased and that the majority o f students reported a change in attitude towards this group o f individuals after experiencing direct contact (two to three meetings over a period o f two months). Research limitations/implications -Implications o f the findings are for government policies, prom oting social inclusion through education, to offer the opportunity for direct contact with people with learning disabilities, (in keeping with All port's, 1954 Contact Theory) a t an earlier stage in education, fostering an environment for earlier attitude change and increased social inclusion.Social implications -Changing society' s attitude through our education system may decrease marginalisation by the public as well as discriminatory and abusive behaviour found in some social and community care settings. Originality/value -This piece o f research may add value to social, government and educational policies.Finding an evidence base to continue to build policies for decreasing marginalisation and prom oting social inclusion for people with learning disabilities. Paper type Research paperThe authors wish to acknowledge (Forrester-Jones et at., 2002), communities have not always been accepting of people with the students and people with learning disabilities (Cambridge and Forrester-Jones, 2003). This may be due to a deep participated in this study rooted fear of the "unknown (Barnes, 1991) and the abnormal , fostered through the negative P A G E