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title: Critical realism and constructivism: merging research paradigms for a deeper qualitative study
abstract: Traditional approaches in qualitative research have adopted one research paradigm linked to an established typology. This paper addresses the unconventional application of two research paradigms in one study. A critical realist approach was used to augment a constructivist analysis of data in a research project seeking to explore the meaning that managers in small to medium enterprises (SMEs) attach to hazard identification, the construction of a hazard profile reflective of the business and its use in assisting to manage hazards within the SME's safety management system framework. Critical realism offered a complementary but essential framework to explore causal mechanisms that led to a deeper understanding of the findings by searching for the processes and causality that lay beneath the social and organizational phenomena observed.,This paper compares the two research paradigms in order to seek junctures and apply them to a research project. Analytical tools applied to each research paradigm within the project are presented, followed by a new multiparadigm conceptual model that integrates critical realism and constructivism, providing an original contribution of knowledge to this field of qualitative research.,The adoption of a multiparadigm model enabled not only the interpretation of social phenomena but also the determination of its causality, enabling a more insightful answering of the research question and leading to a deeper insight into the phenomenology that was studied. This research approach widens the boundaries of qualitative inquiry within organizational research by promoting strategies that challenge more traditionally anchored research typologies, and consequently contributes to better research outcomes.,This study was conducted across four organizations. Similar research is encouraged across a greater number of case studies to validate the process of using a constructivist and critical realist paradigm to gain a more insightful understanding of events and their causality.,The comparison of two research paradigms and consequent provision of a conceptual model  provides potential for the development of further multiparadigm models for research projects within the field of organizational management.,This paper has the potential to promote engagement and collaboration between research scholars seeking to explore the use of multiple research paradigms.,Such an approach has not previously been widely discussed or adopted to examine qualitative data, and advances theory in qualitative research. The application of two research paradigms using such an approach can be applied to businesses in a number of different contexts to gain a more insightful understanding of research participant perspectives, observable events arising from those perspectives and their associated causality.

title: The Melbourne Recital Centre Spotlight Series presents Southern Cross Soloists Microcosms
abstract: Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre and Southern Cross Soloists, Microcosms explores the musical worlds of Beethoven's magnificent 2nd Symphony (arranged by Beethoven himself for chamber ensemble) Schumann's solo piano works, Saint Saens virtuosic Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso reinvented for the wind soloists of SXS, and the World Premiere of Entr'acte, a new work for clarinet and cello by Perth based composer, Chris Tonkin.

title: Behavioural risk at outdoor music festivals
abstract: 'Safety is not an intellectual exercise to keep us in work. It is a matter of life and death. It is the sum of our contributions to safety management that determines whether the people we work with live or die. Sir Brian Appleton, after Piper Alpha (1988) Outdoor music festivals are increasingly common events on the summer entertainment landscape for youth in many countries around the world. Evidence indicates that attendance is associated with an increased risk of injury and death. Crowds are the principal hazard that needs to be dealt with, and without effective management, can become a significant problem with serious consequences. A considerable proportion of the safety risks associated with outdoor music festivals can be attributed to anti social, irrational and unsafe behaviour by patrons. Encouragement of such behaviour has, to some extent, been a deliberate strategy on the part of music promoters and press agents, resulting in patrons attending music events becoming more aggressive and violent. While there is endorsement in the literature for a risk management approach, risk assessments for music festivals and mass gatherings generally tend to deal with the traditional hazards and risks, without taking into account the dynamics of the crowd or those factors that influence its behaviour. Influences on crowd behaviour are little understood and generally ignored, leaving a significant source of risk at this type of event unaccounted for. When managing risks at outdoor music festivals it is important, therefore, to understand the nature of the crowd demographic attending the event and the factors that impact on and shape the behaviour of the crowd. A number of attempts have been made to develop an appropriate method for assessing crowd safety at mass gatherings. While these approaches provide traditional (albeit contextualised) and contemporary approaches, none address the issue of behavioural risk. This dissertation outlines a model which draws together the various influences on individual behaviour which, mediated by theories of social psychology are translated into collective crowd behaviour and uses the model to ground the development of an instrument to monitor and assess behavioural risk at outdoor music festivals.

title: Southern Cross Soloists 2017 Concert Season
abstract: Ensemble in Residence at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, the Southern Cross Soloists present three concerts with guest performers Damien Beaumont (presenter) and Alexandra Flood (soprano) Featuring music of all periods from the history of Western art music up to today, with new works by Australian composers Elena Kats Chernin and John Rotar.

title: Contemporary approaches to planning for the safe management of crowds at mass gatherings

title: Performance of new work: I Rose Up, Paul Stanhope Southern Cross Soloists in Bella Espana

title: Performance of new arrangement of Falla's 'Noches en los jardines de esapana' (Nights of the Garden of Spain) Southern Cross Soloists in Bella Espana

title: Outline of the development of a model to facilitate the assessment of crowd safety at outdoor music festivals

title: Maurice Ravel's La Valse and George Gerswhin's Rhapsody in Blue for the Bangalow Music Festival 2015

title: Camille Saint Saens Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 22