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This chapter describes how photography and mural methods help promote cross-disciplinary and community collaboration, enhance the experience of individual participants as well as that of the community, document university–community projects, and assess outcomes through constituent voices (film), photographs, and mural painting processes. Arts-based research methods and their applications for social work are exemplified by a project of an urban research university’s community engagement program: ArtsCorps.

Bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) is a primary agent of pneumonia in calves that causes damage to pulmonary epithelium and results in respiratory distress. This retrospective cumulative analysis of data from 681 calves experimentally infected with BRSV was undertaken to determine if there was an association of both the partial pressure of oxygen in arterial blood (PaO₂) and the lactate concentration in arterial blood with lung lesion severity, as well as to estimate the potential predictive value of these 2 parameters in assessing disease progression. The PaO₂ was highly significantly associated with the extent of lung lesions and was considered highly predictive of lesion severity. Although the arterial blood lactate concentration was also significantly associated with lung disease, the results were not consistent for all days after challenge. Also, the lactate level was usually within the reference interval. Thus, the usefulness of the arterial blood lactate concentration in predicting the course of BRSV-associated pneumonia is limited in the clinical setting.Le virus respiratoire syncitial bovin (BRSV) est un agent primaire de pneumonie chez les veaux qui cause des dommages à l’épithélium pulmonaire résultant en une détresse respiratoire. Cette analyse cumulative rétrospective des données provenant de 681 veaux infectés expérimentalement avec le BRSV a été entreprise afin de déterminer s’il y avait une association entre la pression partielle en oxygène dans le sang artériel (PaO

After the completion of a higher degree,1 the next step in building a research career is to develop your personal research agenda through taking an appropriate research job. The direct research route into academia is to seek a postdoctoral research fellowship but, in fact, almost all academics in lecturing posts in universities also engage in research, as chapter 5 indicates. Alternatively, there are opportunities to work as a professional researcher in the private, public or voluntary sectors. Many researchers move between the academic and non-academic worlds in the course of their careers, but this chapter focuses on the development of a research agenda while working within universities. This chapter presents the professional and personal implications of some of these alternatives from the perspective of two women academics with differing experiences and training. These arise from their respective academic disciplines - one a sociologist and one an economist - and differing levels of experience, family responsibilities, work histories, social class and age (one in her thirties the other in her fifties).