All Outputs (352)

Edward Bulwer Lytton and Poisoned Prose (2021)
Book Chapter

Edward Bulwer Lytton was a popular Victorian novelist and leading politician, who experimented with numerous literary genres including Gothic writing, the Newgate novel and early sensation fiction. His novel Lucretia; or, The Children of Night (1846)... Read More about Edward Bulwer Lytton and Poisoned Prose.

Nothing immune: Ludics and laughter in the holy family album (2021)
Book Chapter

Exploring female academic perceptions and practices utilising learning and communication technology in the Languages Faculty at King Khalid University in Saudi Arabia (2021)
Thesis

High-quality education and more effectively supported learning can be achieved through the appropriate use of efficient, effective, and appropriate technology. Indeed, such enhancement of the education system is the primary objective of educational t... Read More about Exploring female academic perceptions and practices utilising learning and communication technology in the Languages Faculty at King Khalid University in Saudi Arabia.

Mark Glancy, ‘Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend,' UK book launch (2021)
Digital Artefact

On what would have been Cary Grant’s 117th birthday, Mark Glancy – whose new book launches in the UK this week – talks about Cary Grant’s experiences growing up in Bristol, England, including startling new revelations about his family history, follow... Read More about Mark Glancy, ‘Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend,' UK book launch.

Discourses of Care: Enactments of relational work in two dementia care settings (2021)
Thesis

Care practices and relational work are marginalised, unrecognised and unrewarded. Yet it can also be argued that care work is ‘skilful’, requires competence, is complex and ‘fundamental to the human condition’. This study based on the private spoken... Read More about Discourses of Care: Enactments of relational work in two dementia care settings.

Constructing undesirables: A critical discourse analysis of othering of Fulani nomads in the Ghanaian news media (2021)
Journal Article

The activities of Fulani nomads in Ghana have gained considerable media attention and engendered continuing public debate. In this paper, we analyze the prejudiced portrayals of the nomads in the Ghanaian news media, and how these contribute to an ex... Read More about Constructing undesirables: A critical discourse analysis of othering of Fulani nomads in the Ghanaian news media.

Navigating the doctorate: A reflection on the journey of ‘becoming’ a PhD in applied language sciences (2021)
Journal Article

In the last two decades, academic reflections on the PhD experience and studies on various aspects of doctoral research education have attracted scholarly attention in the higher education and advanced academic literacy literature. In this article, I... Read More about Navigating the doctorate: A reflection on the journey of ‘becoming’ a PhD in applied language sciences.

Making it real: A policy programme for UK documentary film (2021)
Report

This report outlines a new policy programme for the UK documentary film sector. Based on the extensive consultation that followed our previous report, Keeping It Real: Towards a Documentary Film Policy for the UK (2020) – itself based on the largest... Read More about Making it real: A policy programme for UK documentary film.

3 Public objects of remembering and forgetting in contemporary Spain (2020)
Journal Article

Richards’s article is a reflection on comparative history inspired by the pulling down of the statue of the slave-trader Edward Colston in Bristol in June 2020. It explores the evolution in Spain of state policies and civil society activism to do wit... Read More about 3 Public objects of remembering and forgetting in contemporary Spain.

Re-examining the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning (2020)
Book Chapter

This study investigated the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning by comparing three conditions in which there was (a) limited time to write words, (b) unlimited time to write words, and (c) a non-writing word- picture pairs comparison. Non-... Read More about Re-examining the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning.

Two leagues, one front? The India league and the league against imperialism in the British left, 1927-1937 (2020)
Book Chapter

V.K. Krishna Menon always made people angry. When he left southern India in 1924, coming to England under the auspices of his mentor Annie Besant’s Theosophist and Indian Home Rule movement, Menon disappointed his father by not becoming a lawyer and... Read More about Two leagues, one front? The India league and the league against imperialism in the British left, 1927-1937.

‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home (2020)
Journal Article

Consumer virtual reality (VR) headsets (e.g. Oculus Go) have brought VR non-fiction (VRNF) within reach of at-home audiences. However, despite increase in VR hardware sales and enthusiasm for the platform among niche audiences at festivals, mainstrea... Read More about ‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home.

Intro to finding coherence across journals: Guidelines and criteria for making, curating, and publishing video essays (2020)
Digital Artefact

The Introductory Guide to Video Essays was officially launched on 14 December 2020 at an online event organised by Learning on Screen in collaboration with SOAS, University of London. The launch event brought together pioneering scholars and educator... Read More about Intro to finding coherence across journals: Guidelines and criteria for making, curating, and publishing video essays.

What is entrepreneurship? How entrepreneurship education may influence creative writing and how creative writing may change approaches to entrepreneurship in the university setting (2020)
Journal Article

Entrepreneurship education is a growing part of all universities’ portfolio of subjects. As well as developing as a specialism which can be studied in isolation, all academic disciplines are being encouraged to include entrepreneurial ideas in their... Read More about What is entrepreneurship? How entrepreneurship education may influence creative writing and how creative writing may change approaches to entrepreneurship in the university setting.

An evening without Cary Grant (2020)
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‘An Evening Without Cary Grant’, commemorating the anniversary of Cary Grant’s death with Douglas J Miller who was there when he died, 29 Nov.

On 29 November 1986, Cary Grant died in Davenport Iowa on tour with his A Conversation With Cary Grant... Read More about An evening without Cary Grant.

"Truly it felt like year one": A tour of Angela Carter's 1960s Bristol (2020)
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A Tour of Angela Carter's 1960s Bristol’ virtual tour by Angela Carter Society at Being Human Festival of the Humanities, 14 Nov.

Join author Dr Stephen Hunt (Angela Carter’s Provincial Bohemia) on a virtual tour of Angela Carter’s 1960s Bristol,... Read More about "Truly it felt like year one": A tour of Angela Carter's 1960s Bristol.

A plaque for the writer Angela Carter (1940-1992) (2020)
Digital Artefact

A critical metaphor analysis of heroic myth in the discourse of Kwame Nkrumah (2020)
Journal Article

This paper examines how Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-African leader, utilizes metaphor to simultaneously construct heroes and villains, protagonists and antagonists, forming part of an ideological mechanism that portrays him as a valiant leader an... Read More about A critical metaphor analysis of heroic myth in the discourse of Kwame Nkrumah.

A feminist critical discourse analysis of Ghanaian feminist blogs (2020)
Journal Article

Even though one of the aims of critical discourse analysis (CDA) is to demonstrate how social inequality, power abuse and discriminatory practices can be resisted, most studies have centered on the deconstruction of oppression and ideologically drive... Read More about A feminist critical discourse analysis of Ghanaian feminist blogs.

"Where the creaking of chains told the murderer's lot": The Harnham Hill gibbet and exemplary punishment in Georgian Wiltshire (2020)
Journal Article