All Outputs (173)

Neurath's whale (2011)
Book Chapter

Taking a brief passage by Otto Neurath about a whale exhibit, I raise questions about how we interpret exhibits, using phenomenological and social-historical approaches, and I use Bruno Latour’s notion of objects as actants and imbroglios to reconsid... Read More about Neurath's whale.

Peace education; identifying possible lines of enquiries for research (2011)
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The question of War and Peace has been essential for mankind, and how we relate to and understand the question, has also related to the question of how we understand ourselves, our identity and to the ruling values of our present time.
We hope the b... Read More about Peace education; identifying possible lines of enquiries for research.

An eagle whose wings are not always easy to clip: Walter Burton Harris (2011)
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The character of similarities and differences in perceptions of architectural representations (2011)
Book Chapter

A studio between: Positioning the design-build studio as educational praxis (2011)
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The basis for this chapter is embodied in the ‘Porte’ photograph by Marcel Duchamp. The proposition is that the design-build studio sits between the academy and the everyday. It sits between the binaries of Theory/Practice, University/Community, Draw... Read More about A studio between: Positioning the design-build studio as educational praxis.

‘Through a different lens: Exploring Reggio Emilia in a Welsh context’ (2011)
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3D printing in colour: technical evaluation and creative applications (2011)
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In this paper we report on an ongoing interdisciplinary investigation into the capabilities of colour 3D printing technologies, and present examples of the application of these technologies within art and design practice. The paper demonstrates that... Read More about 3D printing in colour: technical evaluation and creative applications.

Object localisation using active whiskers on underwater autonomous walking robot (2011)
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A low-cost, biologically inspired underwater walking robot (see Fig. 1) has been designed and built to covertly explore the seabed and to determine properties of submerged objects in obscure and inaccessible underwater locations. This paper focuses o... Read More about Object localisation using active whiskers on underwater autonomous walking robot.

Parish history of Kelmscott (2011)
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Parish histories of Broadwell, Filkins and Holwell (2011)
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Introduction: Parish histories of Marston Meysey and Purton (2011)
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Public trust and public bodies: The regulation of the use of human tissue for research in the United Kingdom (2011)
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A primary purpose of regulation is to secure public trust. In the United Kingdom in the 1990s public trust in those who procured, stored and used human tissues for research or other purposes was severely damaged following controversies about the rete... Read More about Public trust and public bodies: The regulation of the use of human tissue for research in the United Kingdom.

Technologies of seeing the past: The Curzon Memories App (2011)
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This paper presents a practice research project based at The Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, UK. Working closely with the cinema to develop a locative or context-aware heritage application for the iPhone, the project aims to enhance the Curzon’s... Read More about Technologies of seeing the past: The Curzon Memories App.

Violence and the Post-Conflict State in Historical Perspective: Spain 1936-1948 (2011)
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A feminist critique of the postsecular city: God and gender (2011)
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Towards a core integrative framework for complex engineering service systems (2011)
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Complex Engineering Service provision is a developing area for both practitioners and academics. Delivery requires an integrated offering, drawing upon company, customer and supplier resources to deliver value that is an integration
of complex engin... Read More about Towards a core integrative framework for complex engineering service systems.

Understanding the clients aspirations and fears (2011)
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This chapter focuses on the translation of public sector client aspirations and fears into a specification of the services necessary for a complex, long-term service availability contract. The contract is complex in many senses including that many in... Read More about Understanding the clients aspirations and fears.

David Greig's conflict spaces (2011)
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Failing the challenge of institutional evaluation: How and why managerialism flourishes (2011)
Book Chapter

Governments spending billions and individuals spending thousands of pounds on higher education (HE) rightly expect accountability for how the money is used. But pressure for accountability has accelerated the spread of managerialism, jeopardising rat... Read More about Failing the challenge of institutional evaluation: How and why managerialism flourishes.

Welfare to work: training, benefits, un/employment and social justice (2011)
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This chapter explores a specific aspect of lifelong learning, of 'skills and training', of lifelong learning linked to economic participation through the employment market - or more accurately, to the underbelly of the employment market, to the 'unem... Read More about Welfare to work: training, benefits, un/employment and social justice.