All Outputs (55)

'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology (2015)
Book Chapter

The interwar period is commonly figured as a period of cultural pessimism and uncertainty, as the traumatic wound to hope brought about by of the Great War was translated into an intellectual climate characterized by Richard Overy as a ‘morbid age’.... Read More about 'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology.

Variability in native and non-native use of pragmatic markers: The example of well in role-play data (2015)
Book Chapter

Austen writing Bristol: The city and signification in Northanger Abbey and Emma (2015)
Journal Article

This essay suggests that Austen’s portrayal of Bristol in her fiction has two specific functions. First, it underscores her topographical realism: the references to the city and its immediate environs show how her novels are set in the recognizably r... Read More about Austen writing Bristol: The city and signification in Northanger Abbey and Emma.

Music, value, and networks in the digital world (2015)
Report

Extract:

In music as in life, nothing is more important than people. Professional music-makers need audiences, and to reach those audiences, they need the support of many other people, from promoters and agents to fans who will rave about them to... Read More about Music, value, and networks in the digital world.

Travel writing: Reception and readership (2015)
Book Chapter

'For the benefit of example': Crime scene executions in England, 1720-1830 (2015)
Book Chapter

Progressive accounts of the English encounter between capital punishment and modernity have made much of the abandonment c. 1783-1800 of lengthy processions to customary sites on urban peripheries and their replacement with drop systems on elevated p... Read More about 'For the benefit of example': Crime scene executions in England, 1720-1830.

Nosejob (2015)
Digital Artefact

Ink, digital prints, ply, 42 x 29.7cm, 2015.
Exhibited in '25', University of Westminster, London, 2015

The Sensory War 1914-2014 (2015)
Digital Artefact

This major exhibition marking the Centenary of the First World War explored how artists have communicated the impact of military conflict on the body, mind, environment and human senses between 1914 and 2014.

The show examined how artists from 191... Read More about The Sensory War 1914-2014.

Researching Sociopragmatic Variability: Perspectives from Variational, Interlanguage and Contrastive Pragmatics (2015)
Book

Researching Sociopragmatic Variability showcases a range of research approaches and brings together new findings from three key areas: variational pragmatics, interlanguage pragmatics and contrastive pragmatics. The volume investigates sociopragmati... Read More about Researching Sociopragmatic Variability: Perspectives from Variational, Interlanguage and Contrastive Pragmatics.

Introduction to the 1930 sonorised German cut of Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (2015)
Other

An introduction to the 1930 sonorised German cut of Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin

Theory as Method in Research On Bourdieu, social theory and education (2015)
Book

While education researchers have drawn on the work of a wide diversity of theorists over the years, much contemporary theory building in these areas has revolved around the work of Pierre Bourdieu. Theory as Method in Research develops the capacity o... Read More about Theory as Method in Research On Bourdieu, social theory and education.

Method as theory: (re)exploring the intellectual context of education research (2015)
Book Chapter

While education researchers have drawn on the work of a wide diversity of theorists over the years, much contemporary theory building in these areas has revolved around the work of Pierre Bourdieu. Theory as Method in Research develops the capacity o... Read More about Method as theory: (re)exploring the intellectual context of education research.

Digital scholarship: Exploring doxic approaches to educational change (2015)
Book Chapter

Doxa, digital scholarship and the academy (Cristina Costa and Mark Murphy)

Psychology and literature (2015)
Book Chapter

Psychology and literature

Video nasties (2015)
Other

Member of panel discussion before UK premiere of Joe D’Amato’s uncut Anthropophagus at The Cube

Linguistic Capital and Development Capital in a Network of Cultural Producers: Mutually Valuing Peer Groups in the ‘Interactive Fiction’ Retrogaming Scene (2015)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2015. This article reports on a mixed-methods study of the cultural valuing of ‘interactive fiction’ or ‘text adventure games’: a formerly commercial videogame genre sometimes associated with electronic literature but here argued to b... Read More about Linguistic Capital and Development Capital in a Network of Cultural Producers: Mutually Valuing Peer Groups in the ‘Interactive Fiction’ Retrogaming Scene.

to be (2015)
Journal Article

One poem.

Hydromania: Perspectives on Romantic Swimming (2015)
Journal Article

The author explores the origins and context of the Romantic generation’s passion for swimming, considers some of the literary meanings and uses of swimming in writing of that period, and looks in particular at the way swimming features in the lives a... Read More about Hydromania: Perspectives on Romantic Swimming.

Bristol's romantic poets: Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015)
Book Chapter

The battles of Mortimer’s Cross and Second St. Albans: The regional dimension (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses two battles during the 15th-century Wars of the Roses from the point of view of strategy in the west of England and Anglo-Welsh Marches, and suggests that their outcome was crucial - and hitherto unappreciated - to the politica... Read More about The battles of Mortimer’s Cross and Second St. Albans: The regional dimension.