Outputs (456)

Risks and opportunities of the metaverse (2024)
Report

Expert memorandum prepared by Verity McIntosh and Catherine Allen, at the request of the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media, Parliamentary Authority of the Council of Europe.

The ‘metaverse’ represents a new frontier for digital te... Read More about Risks and opportunities of the metaverse.

Misplaced British subjects: Balkan Maltese evacuees in transit 1941 - 1949 (2024)
Thesis

The focus of this thesis is a case study of British overseas evacuation policy during the second World War: the evacuation of Balkan Maltese British subjects from Turkey by the Foreign Office and their subsequent relocations during the post-war perio... Read More about Misplaced British subjects: Balkan Maltese evacuees in transit 1941 - 1949.

Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives - Introduction (2024)
Book Chapter

Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the history of Cusk's literary output is one of experime... Read More about Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives - Introduction.

Being sent to Coventry: Silence, cruelty and Rachel Cusk's discrepant style (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers Cusk’s style across her most recent fiction and non-fiction, examining it as a site of discrepant tensions, torn between silence and expression, passivity and participation, objectivity and subjectivity, or as Cusk puts it, wit... Read More about Being sent to Coventry: Silence, cruelty and Rachel Cusk's discrepant style.

Hollywood remakes of iconic British films: Class, gender and stardom (2024)
Journal Article

Book review of Hollywood Remakes of Iconic British Films: Class, Gender and Stardom, by Agnieszka Rasmus, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, 192 pp., £85.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-4744-4878-9

Exploring the intersection of A.I. and human creativity: Empowering agency in an age of uncertainty (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper 'Exploring the Intersection of A.I. and Human Creativity: Empowering Agency in an Age of Uncertainty' will be presented at the Prisms Education Symposium, a component of ICON12 at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) July 2024. This sympo... Read More about Exploring the intersection of A.I. and human creativity: Empowering agency in an age of uncertainty.

Understanding consumer attitudes towards second-hand robots for the home (2024)
Journal Article

As robot numbers in the home increase, creating a market for second-hand robotic systems is essential to reduce the waste impact of the industry. Via a survey, consumer attitudes of United Kingdom participants towards second-hand robots were investig... Read More about Understanding consumer attitudes towards second-hand robots for the home.

Literacy and the Sustainable Development Goals (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

At a time of climate and ecological emergency, the importance of evaluating approaches to enhancing children’s eco-literacy cannot be overstated. This symposium explores UN’s Sustainable Development Goals 14 and 15 which relate to the protection of l... Read More about Literacy and the Sustainable Development Goals.

The seed of the world: Emerson’s transatlantic transcendentalist first philosophy (2024)
Book Chapter

Taking seriously the ‘deep time’ of American literature and the current importance of the Anthropocene, this chapter investigates an often overlooked transatlantic origin for Emerson’s conceptualisation of nature, which I also argue is a crucial mark... Read More about The seed of the world: Emerson’s transatlantic transcendentalist first philosophy.

Consulting an oracle; repurposing robots for the circular economy (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reports a new process which can be used to re-purpose a robot at the end of its primary life. Repurposing a robot enables it to continue delivering value beyond the point at which it might have been otherwise recycled or scrapped. The repu... Read More about Consulting an oracle; repurposing robots for the circular economy.