I examine how working-class backgrounds shape experiences of success when working as a socially engaged artist in the UK. This research is important because until experiences of class inequality are better understood in relation to the working condit... Read More about Caring to listen: Developing listening practices to better understand experiences of socially engaged artists from working class backgrounds.
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Recent cumulative narratives indicate university cultures and learning environments are becoming less compassionate spaces and important relational characteristics eroded. This has important implications for nurse education where compassion is fundam... Read More about Specialist community public health nursing students’ experiences of receiving compassion from educators in higher education and on placement.
This work challenges the consistent application by historians of the term’s militant to the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and constitutional to the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). The continuous links with militancy... Read More about Women’s suffrage societies and the gendering of power: The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) as pioneers of women-led organisations.
Learning collocations through interaction: The effects of the quality and quantity of encounters (2020)
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This study examined how short-term and long-term retention of two types of collocations (verb-noun and adjective-noun) was affected by the learning context. The experimental research design of the study involved two major experiments. In Experiment 1... Read More about Learning collocations through interaction: The effects of the quality and quantity of encounters.
Woman centred care is a concept frequently promoted as a core aspect of midwifery practice, policy and education. However, woman centred care often remains ill-defined and an elusive feature of clinical practice. The impact of woman centred care as p... Read More about A case study exploring the definition and application of the concept of woman centred care in a pre-registration midwifery education programme.
From DotA to MOBA: The emergence and crisis of playful co-creativity in multiplayer online battle arena games (2019)
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The Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) genre represents one of the most popular, dynamic and influential spaces of digital play. Since the genres first commercial release in 2009 with the title League of Legends (2009 – present, Riot Games), MOBA... Read More about From DotA to MOBA: The emergence and crisis of playful co-creativity in multiplayer online battle arena games.
The critical commentary for this DPhil by publication explains and analyses the relationships between over 150 research outputs comprising artefacts and artworks, journal articles, book chapters and online resources produced between September 2007 an... Read More about On the production and consumption of moving images: An exploration of the experience of emerging digital technologies, 2007-2016.
Of ligament and ligature: A practice-led investigation of letterpress printed artists’ books in the UK (2019)
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This thesis examines the practice of the contemporary maker of letterpress printed artists’ books in the UK. It focuses on individual and collaborative production of artists’ books with specific reference to utilisation of the letterpress process.... Read More about Of ligament and ligature: A practice-led investigation of letterpress printed artists’ books in the UK.
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The primary aim of this research was to investigate how Further Education (FE) Sports Lecturers defined their sense of professionalism with reference to the jobs they did and the environments in which they worked. Individual narratives we... Read More about FE sports lecturer professionalism: 'Freedom To Play, Or 'Do As I Say?' Narrative accounts of further education (FE) sports lecturer professionalism from FE institutions in the South West Of England.
The overarching aim of this thesis is to investigate readers’ perceptions of the understandability of three translations of the Qur’an. Despite a long debate among translation theorists as to whether translations should be word-for-word or sense-for... Read More about Lexical selection and archaisms in three English translations of the Sūrat Yūsuf (the Chapter of Joseph): A comparative linguistic and empirical investigation.
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Towards a community of artists’ books: extending international knowledge and debate in the field of artists’ books through practice-research
The field of activity in artists’ books – artworks in the form of a book - has evolved over the... Read More about Towards a community of artists’ books: Extending international knowledge and debate in the field of artists’ books through practice-research.
Analysing British sign language through the lens of systemic functional linguistics (2018)
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Approaches to understanding language via Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) have resulted in a compendium of literature focussing on language as a ‘social semiotic.’ One such area of this literature comprises systemic functional grammars: descript... Read More about Analysing British sign language through the lens of systemic functional linguistics.
Metaphor in media discourse: Representations of ‘Arabs’ and ‘Americans' in American and Arab news media (2018)
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The present study explores the representations of ‘Arabs’ and ‘Americans’ in American and in Arab news media discourse between 2001 and 2011 through an evaluation of the metaphors used to describe each group. The study chiefly argues that metaphors i... Read More about Metaphor in media discourse: Representations of ‘Arabs’ and ‘Americans' in American and Arab news media.
In 1981, a group of women from Wales formed a protest march against the positioning of 96 nuclear weapons at an RAF base at Greenham Common. This protest subsequently developed into several women-only protest camps situated around the perimeter fence... Read More about Yr ymgyrch yn parhau! (The struggle continues!): An exploration of the narratives from Wales, emerging from the Greenham Common women’s peace camps 1981-2000.
Phonological awareness and word reading development in Acehnese-Indonesian bilinguals learning English as a third language (2018)
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This study investigates the phonological awareness and multi-literacy acquisitions of Indonesian-speaking children with a varied level of Acehnese spoken language experience. The study specifically looks for the possibility of metalinguistic awarenes... Read More about Phonological awareness and word reading development in Acehnese-Indonesian bilinguals learning English as a third language.
"Slight dub-con but they both wanted it hardcore": Erotic fanfiction as a form of cultural activism around sexual consent (2018)
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In this thesis I argue that the treatment of issues of sexual consent in erotic fanfiction can be viewed as a form of cultural activism.
Using a combination of traditional, digital and autoethnography, as well as discourse analysis, I trace engag... Read More about "Slight dub-con but they both wanted it hardcore": Erotic fanfiction as a form of cultural activism around sexual consent.
3D printed, self-glazed ceramics: An investigation inspired by Egyptian faience (2018)
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This thesis investigates the potential for developing 3D printable ceramic materials inspired by an ancient Egyptian ware known as faience. Faience was produced in Egypt and the near east from the 4th millennium BC and was the first glazed ceramic ma... Read More about 3D printed, self-glazed ceramics: An investigation inspired by Egyptian faience.
The development of methods for the reproduction in continuous tone of digitally printed colour artworks (2017)
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Advances in printing technologies in the late 19th century led to the development of half-toning techniques enabling the economical reproduction of photographic images in print. Whilst undoubtedly successful in low cost high volume image reproduction... Read More about The development of methods for the reproduction in continuous tone of digitally printed colour artworks.
Culture, creativity and the arts: Building resilience in Northern Ontario (2017)
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This thesis investigates the contribution of the arts to resilience within the context of Northern Ontario, a vast, sparsely populated geographical region dotted with isolated, remote, rural and smaller urban communities whose economies... Read More about Culture, creativity and the arts: Building resilience in Northern Ontario.
Normalising the Japanese child: Imagined childhood in institutional photographs since the Second World War (2017)
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This thesis examines the role of photographs of childhood and children in regulating the Japanese postwar ‘imagined community’. Such representations, especially photographs, with the exception of images of young girls within Japanese pop culture, hav... Read More about Normalising the Japanese child: Imagined childhood in institutional photographs since the Second World War.