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Marvel's agents of S.T.E.M: Representations of scientists in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Between 2008 and 2019, the Marvel Cinematic Universe produced 23 blockbuster films in their “Infinity Saga”. These films spanned themes of superheroes, magic and science and many major characters in the franchise are scientists. With collective box o... Read More about Marvel's agents of S.T.E.M: Representations of scientists in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

I’m not a “woman engineer”, I’m an engineer: Representations of women coders in the golden age of television (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Historically, there has been a stigma around the presence and capabilities of women in computer science, as well as a lack of women coders as role models both in fiction and in the real world. With the growing information age and the “golden age of... Read More about I’m not a “woman engineer”, I’m an engineer: Representations of women coders in the golden age of television.

“We had to be very clear that they weren't going to try to break into any of the cases”: What potential do ‘escape rooms’ offer as a science communication technique? (2021)
Journal Article

‘Escape rooms’ are a recent cultural phenomena, whereby a group of ‘players’, often friends or colleagues, are ‘locked’ in a room and must solve a series of clues, puzzles, or mysteries in order to ‘escape’. Escape rooms are increasingly appearing in... Read More about “We had to be very clear that they weren't going to try to break into any of the cases”: What potential do ‘escape rooms’ offer as a science communication technique?.

Robots in Smart Cities (2020)
Book Chapter

Robots and Smart Cities seem like natural partners. They both gather data and process it, and could provide added value to each other in a variety of ways. In this chapter, we briefly explore some potential use cases featuring the smart city as an in... Read More about Robots in Smart Cities.

Iconicity in signed and spoken vocabulary: A comparison between American Sign Language, British Sign Language, English, and Spanish (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Perlman, Little, Thompson and Thompson. Considerable evidence now shows that all languages, signed and spoken, exhibit a significant amount of iconicity. We examined how the visual-gestural modality of signed languages facilitates iconicity fo... Read More about Iconicity in signed and spoken vocabulary: A comparison between American Sign Language, British Sign Language, English, and Spanish.

Conventionalisation and discrimination as competing pressures on continuous speech-like signals (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© John Benjamins Publishing Company. Arbitrary communication systems can emerge from iconic beginnings through processes of conventionalisation via interaction. Here, we explore whether this process of conventionalisation occurs with continuous, audi... Read More about Conventionalisation and discrimination as competing pressures on continuous speech-like signals.