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Social network innovation in the Internet’s global coffee houses: designing a mobile Help Seeking tool in Learning Layers (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, © 2014 International Council for Educational Media. In this paper, we argue that there is much that we can learn from the past as we explore the issues raised when designing innovative social media and mobile technologies for learning. Like t... Read More about Social network innovation in the Internet’s global coffee houses: designing a mobile Help Seeking tool in Learning Layers.

The effect of a bilingual learning mode on the establishment of lexical semantic representations in the L2 (2014)
Journal Article

Deliberate vocabulary learning is common in the L2, however, questions remain about most efficient and effective forms of this learning approach. Bilingual models of L2 word learning and processing can be used to make predictions about outcomes of le... Read More about The effect of a bilingual learning mode on the establishment of lexical semantic representations in the L2.

Navigating uncommon ground: Engaging and articulating the places and connectivity of older adults in rural contexts through creative practice (2013)
Thesis

This thesis is an explication of the interrelations between three components - the lived worlds of older adults in a specific rural context; the academic context of doctoral research; and an ongoing art practice. The rural context is that encountered... Read More about Navigating uncommon ground: Engaging and articulating the places and connectivity of older adults in rural contexts through creative practice.

Modelling the demand for higher education by local authority area in England using academic, economic and social data (2013)
Journal Article

Managing the demand for higher education has been a major concern of successive UK governments over the last 30 years. While initially they sought to increase demand, latterly the emphasis has been on widening participation to include demographic gro... Read More about Modelling the demand for higher education by local authority area in England using academic, economic and social data.

Isotypes and elephants: Picture language as visual writing in the work and correspondence of Otto Neurath (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter describes the Isotype method of pictorial statistics, invented in 1920s Vienna by the Vienna Circle philosopher and sociologist Otto Neurath, and compares it to Neurath’s own signature drawings of a cartoon elephant. Isotype was among th... Read More about Isotypes and elephants: Picture language as visual writing in the work and correspondence of Otto Neurath.

Exploration of alternative print methodology for colour printing through the multi‐layering of ink (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper explores the application of artist driven colour mixing and multi-layering of pigments using inkjet printing. A standardised colour managment workflow is essential for predicable and repeatable colour for inkjet printing. With the correct... Read More about Exploration of alternative print methodology for colour printing through the multi‐layering of ink.

A Companion to Film Noir (2013)
Book

This edited collection contains 29 essays specially commissioned for this volume by leading scholars in the field. The volume is organised into 7 parts. Part 1, 'Conceptualising Film Noir', contains four essays that explore the ways in which this cat... Read More about A Companion to Film Noir.