All Outputs (392)

On writing instability (2024)
Book Chapter

Abba examines the specific manners by which Ambient Literature is composed and experienced by a reader. Looking back to the canon of works produced under the project banner to date, and developing the Ambient Poetics proposed in 2016-18, he addresses... Read More about On writing instability.

50 years - Artists' books exhibitions in the UK & EIRE compiled for Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books (2024)
Book Chapter

Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books accompanies the exhibition of the same name, celebrating Center for Book Arts’ 50th Anniversary.

The publication features an introduction by Robbin Ami Silverberg, essays by Carole Naggar and Kinohi N... Read More about 50 years - Artists' books exhibitions in the UK & EIRE compiled for Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books.

Everyone has a tale to tell: Family history, family historians and working-class histories (2024)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, Laura Harrison considers the multiple decade-long boom of family history and how it connects to the research and practice of working-class history. Family history, the chapter argues, has much to offer the historian both in terms of... Read More about Everyone has a tale to tell: Family history, family historians and working-class histories.

Doing Working Class History: Research, Heritage and Engagement (2024)
Book

Perhaps the most difficult aspect of researching, interpreting, and engaging with working-class history is how broad the terms of reference can be. Rarely a week seems to go by without the working-class, however defined (or undefined), being the subj... Read More about Doing Working Class History: Research, Heritage and Engagement.

Representations of working-class lives at criminal justice heritage sites (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter is based on Wallis and Johnson’s practical, collaborative work with a number of British criminal justice heritage sites, where the majority of the personal stories interpreted for public audiences might be considered as ‘working-class’ l... Read More about Representations of working-class lives at criminal justice heritage sites.

Street Life: The leisure spaces and places of working-class youth in Britain, c.1870-1960 (2024)
Book Chapter

One Sunday in early January 1954, the Rev. Peter Stanley, senior curate of St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church in Darlington, County Durham, pronounced in his weekly sermon that the young people parading in the Darlington main streets on the ‘monke... Read More about Street Life: The leisure spaces and places of working-class youth in Britain, c.1870-1960.

FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA is a response to crises and ongoing global conflicts humanity is facing today. Artists were invited to speak up on issues related to human rights, war, violence, social and racial injustice. The mission of this important and t... Read More about FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA.

A new vision for city centres: Lessons from the Sparks project (2024)
Report

This interim evaluation report delves into the innovative ‘meanwhile use’ of urban spaces, a critical response to the revitalisation challenges faced by high streets, amidst financial austerity and the changing landscape of retail and cultural consum... Read More about A new vision for city centres: Lessons from the Sparks project.

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944): Three perspectives on Preston Sturges and the production code (2024)
Journal Article

In this hybrid article, the authors examine Preston Sturges’s ability to outmanoeuvre the Production Code Administration (PCA), specifically in relation to the handling of sex, pregnancy and childbirth in The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek. Our approach i... Read More about The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944): Three perspectives on Preston Sturges and the production code.

“Sacred intimacies”: Sexual ambiguity and performance in My Favorite Wife (1940) (2024)
Journal Article

My Favorite Wife (1940) exemplifies the more “sex suggestive” style of screwball comedy in the late 1930s, posing significant problems for the Production Code Administration (PCA). Strategies for handling taboo content onscreen depended on ambiguity,... Read More about “Sacred intimacies”: Sexual ambiguity and performance in My Favorite Wife (1940).

The language of assessment: Identifying challenging terminology for students and exploring implications for practice (2024)
Journal Article

Many interventions have been developed by staff to support students in understanding assessment task requirements and summative and formative feedback. However, to various extents, these approaches assume a shared understanding of the, often indeterm... Read More about The language of assessment: Identifying challenging terminology for students and exploring implications for practice.

Sacred Space and Anglo-Turkish Relations (2024)
Book

This work investigates how various sacred spaces in Ottoman and Republican Turkey interfaced with British foreign policy. It considers how these spaces impacted upon British prestige in the context of its dealings with Turkey chiefly, as well as othe... Read More about Sacred Space and Anglo-Turkish Relations.

Exercises for all (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

Sarah Bodman: For UWE Bristol’s Postgraduate Symposium Proof! 2024, I made a short video presentation inviting students, staff and interested parties to join me in making small artworks for an exhibition EXERCISES FOR ALL at Bower Ashton Library, UWE... Read More about Exercises for all.

The language of assessment: Identifying challenging terminology for students and exploring implications for practice (2024)
Journal Article

Many interventions have been developed by staff to support students in understanding assessment task requirements and summative and formative feedback. However, to various extents these approaches assume a shared understanding of the, often indetermi... Read More about The language of assessment: Identifying challenging terminology for students and exploring implications for practice.

Will I ever learn Chinese (2024)
Digital Artefact

This is an auto-ethnographic podcast, following the author's processes of learning Mandarin Chinese and linking to 'traditional' research. It has 30 episodes, first published September - October 2024 (a new episode is published every 2 days). The pod... Read More about Will I ever learn Chinese.

Let’s Talk | Vamos Conversar (2024)
Physical Artefact

For UWE Bristol’s Postgraduate Symposium Proof! 2024, I made a short video presentation inviting students, staff and interested parties to join me in making small artworks for an exhibition EXERCISES FOR ALL at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol this... Read More about Let’s Talk | Vamos Conversar.

Reading his way to royalism? Sir Thomas Myddelton, side-changing and loyalty in England and Wales, 1639-1666 (2024)
Journal Article

Civil War allegiance has long been a preoccupation of early modern British historians. They have weighed geographical, religious, political, and pragmatic reasons for British people to choose sides in 1642. Just as important is a change of allegiance... Read More about Reading his way to royalism? Sir Thomas Myddelton, side-changing and loyalty in England and Wales, 1639-1666.

Reading slowly together: Facilitated climate literature book clubs and their potential for engaging young people with climate crisis (2024)
Journal Article

Engaging young people with the effects and potential future impacts of climate crisis is essential for facilitating the changes required. These topics and their consequences can be overwhelming, and the emotional responses equally diverse, from anxie... Read More about Reading slowly together: Facilitated climate literature book clubs and their potential for engaging young people with climate crisis.

An uncomfortable truth? Rethinking the relationship between neoliberalism and the creative and cultural industries (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the profound interconnection between the creative and cultural industries (CCI) and neoliberal economic policies, highlighting the influence of such policies on the sector’s development, structural characteristics, and the chall... Read More about An uncomfortable truth? Rethinking the relationship between neoliberalism and the creative and cultural industries.

Ulises: Assembly (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

“Ulises: Assembly,” a residency and exhibition engaging the labor of bookworkers, asking: “what do you do?” as a means of delving into the printed matters of art publishing today. The result is a sprawling, multi-tiered physical manifestation of labo... Read More about Ulises: Assembly.