Outputs (23)

Gentrification, displacement and the arts: Untangling the relationship between arts industries and place change (2016)
Journal Article
Grodach, C., Foster, N., & Murdoch, J. (2018). Gentrification, displacement and the arts: Untangling the relationship between arts industries and place change. Urban Studies, 55(4), 807-825. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016680169

© 2016, © Urban Studies Journal Limited 2016. The arts have long played a role in debates around gentrification and displacement, yet their roles and impacts as change agents are not clear-cut. According to the standard account, artists facilitate ge... Read More about Gentrification, displacement and the arts: Untangling the relationship between arts industries and place change.

Neighborhood diversity, economic health, and the role of the arts (2016)
Journal Article
Foster, N., Grodach, C., & Murdoch, J. (2016). Neighborhood diversity, economic health, and the role of the arts. Journal of Urban Affairs, 38(5), 623-642. https://doi.org/10.1111/juaf.12278

Copyright © 2016 Urban Affairs Association Policymakers pursue a range of strategies aimed at diversifying neighborhoods despite research indicating the complicated and potentially damaging results of these efforts. One increasingly common approach i... Read More about Neighborhood diversity, economic health, and the role of the arts.

Renewing acquaintance with James Britton (2016)
Journal Article
Hodgson, J. (2016). Renewing acquaintance with James Britton

John Hodgson reports on LATE’s celebration of the work of one of NATE’s founding figures, James Britton, and explains the crucial importance of his work for contemporary English teaching.

Investigating the predictive validity of IELTS for a teacher education program in UAE (2016)
Thesis
Khemakhem, S. (in press). Investigating the predictive validity of IELTS for a teacher education program in UAE. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/914712

This research study investigates the predictive validity of IELTS test scores as a graduation requirement for a Teacher Education Program in the UAE. The argument is that the use of the IELTS cut-off score (band 6) as a predictor of post-graduation p... Read More about Investigating the predictive validity of IELTS for a teacher education program in UAE.

The translation of children's literature: Ideology and cultural adaptations. Captain Underpants as a case study (2016)
Thesis
Asiain, T. The translation of children's literature: Ideology and cultural adaptations. Captain Underpants as a case study. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/907767

The aim of this research is to explore cultural differences in the children’s publishing industry in the USA and Spain and the impact these have on translation, and to develop a case study of the translation of Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants series... Read More about The translation of children's literature: Ideology and cultural adaptations. Captain Underpants as a case study.

'Local site and historical depth': Briggflatts, A Drunk Man, and British Modernist poetics of place (2016)
Journal Article
Rogers, S. (2016). 'Local site and historical depth': Briggflatts, A Drunk Man, and British Modernist poetics of place. English, 65(251), 332-362. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efw049

© The Author 2016. This article aims to present new understandings of how place, identity, and text are configured in British modernist poetry, particularly in the extended poem. Focusing chiefly on Basil Bunting's Briggflatts (1966), the discussion... Read More about 'Local site and historical depth': Briggflatts, A Drunk Man, and British Modernist poetics of place.

‘That Tricky Subject’: The Integration of Contextual Studies in pre-Degree Art and Design Education (2016)
Journal Article
Rintoul, J., & James, D. (2017). ‘That Tricky Subject’: The Integration of Contextual Studies in pre-Degree Art and Design Education. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 36(2), 215-225. https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12077

© 2016 The Authors. iJADE © 2016 NSEAD/John Wiley & Sons Ltd Contextual studies (CS), ‘theory’, ‘visual culture’ or ‘art history’ (amongst other labels) refer to a regular and often compulsory feature in art and design education. However, this take... Read More about ‘That Tricky Subject’: The Integration of Contextual Studies in pre-Degree Art and Design Education.

Brief report: A pilot study of the use of a virtual reality headset in autism populations (2016)
Journal Article
Newbutt, N., Sung, C., Kuo, H. J., Leahy, M. J., Lin, C. C., & Tong, B. (2016). Brief report: A pilot study of the use of a virtual reality headset in autism populations. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46(9), 3166-3176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2830-5

The application of virtual reality technologies (VRTs) for users with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been studied for decades. However, a gap remains in our understanding surrounding VRT head-mounted displays (HMDs). As newly designed HMDs have b... Read More about Brief report: A pilot study of the use of a virtual reality headset in autism populations.

A category "Easy to Liquidate": The League of Nations, Russian refugee children in the 1920s and the history of humanitarianism (2016)
Book Chapter
White, E. (2016). A category "Easy to Liquidate": The League of Nations, Russian refugee children in the 1920s and the history of humanitarianism. In M. Rodriguez Garcia, D. Rodogno, & L. Kozma (Eds.), The League of Nations' Work on Social Issues: Visions, Endeavours and Experiments (201-214). Geneva: United Nations Publications

This chapter examines the work of the High Commission for Russian Refugees of the League of Nations. It analyses their approach to solving the issue of child refugees and places this in debates around the historical development of human rights and hu... Read More about A category "Easy to Liquidate": The League of Nations, Russian refugee children in the 1920s and the history of humanitarianism.

CitySpaceMindSpace: How to read Los Angeles: Banham and McLuhan in the light of Cognitive Neuro-scientific theories of comprehension (2016)
Book Chapter
Flaxton, T. (2016). CitySpaceMindSpace: How to read Los Angeles: Banham and McLuhan in the light of Cognitive Neuro-scientific theories of comprehension. In G. Amayo Caldwell, C. Smith, & E. Clift (Eds.), Digital Futures and the City of Today: New Technologies and Physical Spaces. Bristol, UK: Intellect

In the 1970’s, Rayner Banham (with Marshall McLuhan), set the tone for understanding CyberCity/MindSpace with Banham’s book, Los Angeles: the Architecture of Four Ecologies, which was an examination of the LA cityscape which used the idea of the movi... Read More about CitySpaceMindSpace: How to read Los Angeles: Banham and McLuhan in the light of Cognitive Neuro-scientific theories of comprehension.