I regret to post that Krysia Kocjan-Haber died on Wednesday, February 21st, 2007. She gracefully fought lung cancer for 2 and a half years but finally succumbed. 25 February, 2007 01:57 Anonymous said... In her presentation, Rhiannon reflects on what she, with her specific biographical and social characteristics, brings to her fellowship and her research with this particularly marginalised group of gang-involved young people. Specifically, she considers how her positionality affects her credibility and subsequently her access to and ability to engage young people. Rhiannon’s observation that different agendas and perspectives will lead to different outcomes is a particularly important one, emphasising the need to avoid conflating difference with value or quality.

Krysia and I, born two days apart, were solid girlhood friends. Her vision,voice and visual artistry were beyond radiant- setting her apart from eveyone at school. She strode forth with absolute determination- I spent many evenings at her home in Milngavie where she lived with her loving, sometimes non-plussed parents. Later, on her solo album 'Krysia Kristianne' she sang of her father ' you should have been a painter daddy, a preacher and a poet too, but lately I've been watching you as the time goes slipping by and I try to reach the crying thing in you'. Only those who have heard her sing can imagine those heart felt worded perceptions cresting the curve of her inimitable singing. She saw that her father had never expressed the fullness of his soul, and she went out into the world to do otherwise- and how she did. Now Krysia's time has slipped by..her voice was like none I had ever heard, nor believe I ever will again. It feels bizarre to have been describing our time together in LA today- only to find news of her death a few moments later. She was a grand lass, trully undersung on the world stage in terms of her deep wisdom, voice and poetry of being. To you, Krysia, a whole song gone too soon, deepest love and thanks x x x 29 May, 2007 02:40 Anonymous said... Hellawell, D., 2006. Inside–out: analysis of the insider–outsider concept as a heuristic device to develop reflexivity in students doing qualitative research. Teaching in higher education, 11(4), pp.483-494. So... if anyone has any ideas about where/how I could post a couple of MP3 files for people, that would be a good start. I have some MP3 versions of songs from the Krysia album, which I would like to make available for free to whoever is interested. My stepbrother found a copy of the LP on the internet. He played it on a turntable and digitized the output. In other words, you will hear a lot of the pops, etc. from the record on these versions, but Krysia's voice shines through. Krysia's PhD explores the experiences autistic people have, and how this intersects with their belief systems from a critical autism studies perspective, notably in reference to inclusion and belonging. Krysia has been a research assistant on various projects, building on her expertise of qualitative methods. She then disappeared for a bit suggesting she was going to get the key during which time he called me and the police.His recordings include DVDs of Prokofiev’s "The Love of three Oranges", Tchaikovsky’s "Tcherevichki", Shostakovitch’s "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" and more. He initiated the first ever recording of Rudi Stephan’s complete songs that was released in 2012. Krysia Dziedzic is a Professor of Musculoskeletal Therapies and Director of the Impact Accelerator Unit, School of Medicine, Keele University, UK. An NIHR Senior Investigator, Krysia is also a Visiting Professor at the University of the West of England and a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. She is a member of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research and the NIHR West Midlands Applied Health Research Collaboration. Krysia has led research and knowledge mobilisation in primary care for the uptake of NICE guidelines and quality standards for the care and management of osteoarthritis. She has a passion for patient and public involvement and engagement in research and implementation and is a member of the NIHR Race Equality Public Action Group (NIHR). Currently, Krysia is the Chair of the Implementation Subgroup for the Joint Effort Initiative (JEI) for Osteoarthritis as part of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI), and convenor of the network JIGSAW-E (Joint Implementation of Guidelines for osteoarthritis in Western Europe). IMPACT ACCELERATOR UNIT (IAU) Krysia: A Polish Girl’s Stolen Childhood during World War II is about Mihulka’s strikingly sweet memories of the years before the war; of her family’s years of forced labor on a kolkhoz, or collective farm, in a remote part of Kazakhstan; and of numerous hardships before they somehow escaped to Africa to wait out the end of the war.

As long as I live I am sure I will never forget being touched by her presence. 14 March, 2011 18:41 Tartan Phantom said... The Mihulka family, father Andrzej, mother Zofia, Krysia, and younger brother Antek, 5, had lived a quiet, happy life surrounded by extended family and friends before the invasions. But her father, a respected lawyer, had been part of the Polish Army defending his country against the Nazis, so that when the Soviets came, he was forced into hiding, as all lawyers and judges were being summarily executed. Later, the Soviets arrived at the Mihulka home in the middle of the night looking for him, and proceeded to arrest Krysia, Antek, and their mother. The Soviets, they said, wanted to get rid the world of the “bourgeois rich” aka capitalists, like the Mihulkas. I remember her playing with Tom Hoy and Robin Thyne as the Natural Acustic Band. They nade two albums for RCA in 1972, and Krysia made a solo album, again for RCA, called Krysia in 1974. I saw them at some of the Folk Clubs around Glasgow in the early 70s. I remember Krysia playing one gig with her leg in plaster from toe to thigh. Mark McGough, Visual Creativity, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2nd edition (November 26, 2012), p.13. ISBN 9781481096454Krysia and Robin Williamson were both on Al Stewart's 24 Carrots if memory serves me right. Also try to find a copy of the Shot in the Dark record (no cd as of yet). She had some very good songs on it. 15 May, 2008 14:09 Dave White said... What is next for the group? Albums are off the table, says Thomas (“I think we’ve recorded everything we want to record”). Now it’s all about live performances, particularly of Shostakovich, whose 50th anniversary falls in 2025 and whose “unique” and “confessional” cycle has been at the core of the quartet’s repertoire since the start.