This article examines findings from ethnographic research with the ReVoice choir project in NorthWest England. ReVoice was a community choir that consisted of members from two charitable organizations and the author of this article. A number of ReVoice's members were adults with learning disabilities and part of the choir's remit was to produce music that would feature in a film about hate crime perpetuated against people with disabilities. In the light of debates regarding the politics of identity for people with disabilities, this article illustrates how the formation of the choir, the rehearsal process and the choir performances constituted a distinctive cultural context that afforded people significant opportunities to develop an alternative, empowered sense of self in concert with others.

The extent to which university departments foster learning literacies that equip students with the diverse skills required for employment in a digital world is an issue that is under increased scrutiny in British higher education. The Learning Literacies in the Digital Age report (LLiDA by Beetham et al. 2009) offers a framework of learning literacies, which encompasses a range of literacies including academic, information, digital and media literacies. Building on the LLiDA framework, this article outlines and discusses an approach that aimed to extend the development of information literacies of first-year undergraduate students along with digital and media literacies. The central characteristics of this approach involved students working collaboratively, in teams, on an enquiry-based learning task using the institutional virtual learning environment’s wiki tool. The task involved developing and creating a wiki on exactly the kind of learning literacies that students were meant to acquire during this enquiry. This dual development was underpinned by the collaborative input of staff from academic and central services departments. Student survey feedback and observation were used to map the various gains in the areas of 1) collaboration and communication skills, 2) information literacy (IL), academic practice (study skills) and employability skills, 3) media and digital/computer literacies and, finally, 4) disciplinary skills. The findings confirm the usefulness of the LLiDA framework as well as point to its potential for further development to map literacies specific to the discipline.

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Accessible summary• Essential Lifestyle Plans are a good way for people with learning disabilities and their support workers to tell people about things they like to do, such as listening to music.• These plans also tell people about the things that they need, like what medicine they may need to take.• Sometimes it is not easy to put the things we like to do at home into these plans because there are lots of things we do every day.• People need to think carefully about how the things we choose to do at home can be put into Essential Lifestyle Plans that are written for us and with us. AbstractBackground: Person-centred planning, which commonly becomes formalised within services for people with learning disabilities through an Essential Lifestyle Plan (ELP), was intended to help place the choices of individuals at the forefront of service provision. However, beyond UK government policy rhetoric, scholars have raised issues regarding the capacity of person-centred planning to empower people with learning disabilities to make choices about various aspects of their lives. This article assesses these debates, paying attention to the relationship between ELPs and choices made in relation to leisure activities. Materials and Methods:To examine leisure activities and choice-making in depth, the article draws upon ethnographic research conducted with four adults living in a supported living scheme. It focuses upon their domestic musical activities, connecting data derived from participant observation with the contents of ELPs.Results:This study found that person-centred planning underplayed processes involved with articulations of musical choice and also the peculiarities of the settings in which choices were made. It also found that leisure preferences expressed in ELPs did not effectively convey the richness and sociocultural significance of everyday domestic musical activities within the supported living scheme.Conclusions:Person-centred planning should not be divorced from social context, relationships and differing degrees of dependency. Domestic leisure activities such ª

Supplier selection is perceived as important decision-making process in any supply chain management. In this study, the best supplier for a company is being determined based on five main criteria chosen which are delivery, capacity, warranty, cost, and quality. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Entropy Measurement (EM) methods are integrated with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was applied to set ranking and choose the best supplier as conventional DEA is not able to provide complete ranking among inefficient units. The mathematical modelling is executed using LINGO software. Supplier 3 has obtained efficient result of score 1 for both hybrid method and in Super Efficiency method as the most efficient supplier. Then, the results are validated using Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient (SRCC) which shows positive correlation between both integrated methods. Finally, findings of this study indicate the feasibility of integrated AHP-DEA and EM-DEA for supplier selection with multiple criteria.