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Simulation games (2013)
Book Chapter
Giddings, S. (2013). Simulation games. In B. Perron, & M. J. Wolf (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies (259-266). New York: Routledge

This chapter outlines the conventions and pleasures of simulation games as a category, and explores the complicated and contested term simulation. This concept goes to the heart of what computer games and video games are, and the ways in which they a... Read More about Simulation games.

Artificial heartbeat: Design and fabrication of a biologically inspired pump (2013)
Journal Article
Walters, P., Lewis, A., Stinchcombe, A., Stephenson, R., & Ieropoulos, I. (2013). Artificial heartbeat: Design and fabrication of a biologically inspired pump. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, 8(4), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3182/8/4/046012

We present a biologically inspired actuator exhibiting a novel pumping action. The design of the 'artificial heartbeat' actuator is inspired by physical principles derived from the structure and function of the human heart. The actuator employs NiTi... Read More about Artificial heartbeat: Design and fabrication of a biologically inspired pump.

Comparing terracotta and earthenware for multiple functionalities in microbial fuel cells (2013)
Journal Article
Winfield, J., Greenman, J., Huson, D., & Ieropoulos, I. (2013). Comparing terracotta and earthenware for multiple functionalities in microbial fuel cells. Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, 36(12), 1913-1921. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00449-013-0967-6

The properties of earthenware and terracotta were investigated in terms of structural integrity and ion conductivity, in two microbial fuel cell (MFC) designs. Parameters such as wall thickness (4, 8, 18 mm), porosity and cathode hydration were analy... Read More about Comparing terracotta and earthenware for multiple functionalities in microbial fuel cells.

Invited lecture by Paul Laidler (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Laidler, P. (2013, October). Invited lecture by Paul Laidler. Presented at Edinburgh Printmakers Lecture Series, Edinburgh Printmakers

Paul Laidler will talk about the development of a digital print publishing practice entitled CFPR Editions (www.cfpreditions.co.uk) and the recent exhibition that he curated entitled "just press print". This title was chosen to highlight that althoug... Read More about Invited lecture by Paul Laidler.

Everything we do begins with a conversation (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Bodman, S. L. (2013, October). Everything we do begins with a conversation. Paper presented at Perspectivas do Livro de Artista - O livro de artista na universidade (Perspectives of the artist's book - The Artist's Book and the University), Centro Cultural UFMG, Brazil

Sarah Bodman was invited to give this presentation as part of the panel The Artist’s Book as a Tool for Research at the seminar Perspectivas do Livro de Artista - O livro de artista na universidade (Perspectives of the artist's book - The Artist's Bo... Read More about Everything we do begins with a conversation.

The social vocabulary of Hidden Presence: British History and the need to talk through the silence and acknowledge true stories of African presence (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S. (2013, October). The social vocabulary of Hidden Presence: British History and the need to talk through the silence and acknowledge true stories of African presence

When British spaces, rural and otherwise, are full of celebrated and re-told myths and legends – from sites such as Stonehenge through to character based fables such as Robin Hood – why do some resist to allow true stories, which are no less fantasti... Read More about The social vocabulary of Hidden Presence: British History and the need to talk through the silence and acknowledge true stories of African presence.

Judith Dean - Phase 4 (2013)
Exhibition / Performance
Dean, J. (2013). Judith Dean - Phase 4. 11 October 2013 - 30 November 2013. (Unpublished)

Judith Dean was commissioned by the directors of Beaconsfield, London, to undertake a 6 month public facing residency, culminating in a venue-wide one-person exhibition. This was funded by the Arts Council. Dean began the residency employing past... Read More about Judith Dean - Phase 4.

Editorial (2013)
Journal Article
Franklin, A., & Turney, J. (2013). Editorial. Clothing Cultures, 1(1), 3-5. https://doi.org/10.1386/cc.1.1.3_2

Welcome to the first issue of Clothing Cultures. The aim of this new journal is to carve out ‘clothing culture’ as a discipline in its own right, distinct from but complimentary to the work currently being developed in fashion theory, material cultur... Read More about Editorial.

Dowagers, debs, nuns and babies: The politics of Nostalgia and the older woman in the British sunday night television serial (2013)
Journal Article
Tincknell, E. (2013). Dowagers, debs, nuns and babies: The politics of Nostalgia and the older woman in the British sunday night television serial. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 10(4), 769-784. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2013.0174

The extensive commercial success of two well-made popular television drama serials screened in the UK at prime time on Sunday evenings during the winter of 2011-12, Downton Abbey (ITV, 2010-) and Call the Midwife (BBC, 2012-), has appeared to consoli... Read More about Dowagers, debs, nuns and babies: The politics of Nostalgia and the older woman in the British sunday night television serial.

Chair of discussion panel: The role of the sketchbook in contemporary fine art practice (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Bodman, S. L. (2013, September). Chair of discussion panel: The role of the sketchbook in contemporary fine art practice. Presented at The Role of the Sketchbook in Contemporary Fine Art Practice, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough, Wiltshire' UK

The Role of the Sketchbook in Contemporary Fine Art Practice Seminar.

Photographed space and the (no)body (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Lovett, G. (2013, September). Photographed space and the (no)body. Paper presented at Interior 2013, Slovakia, Bratislava

Architecture journals present to us new buildings, pioneering ideas and triumphs of creative innovation... yet they are largely deserted. This paper argues against the negative impact of this on design culture and a resultant aspiration to design spa... Read More about Photographed space and the (no)body.

Hidden Presence: British history and the need to acknowledge true stories with African descendent casts (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S. (2013, September). Hidden Presence: British history and the need to acknowledge true stories with African descendent casts. Paper presented at Black History in Wiltshire Symposium, East Tytherton

British culture is full of legend and folklore, yet true stories about the Black presence in pre-20th century UK, which on the surface are even more fantastical than fiction, struggles to find a place in the historical British narrative. The functi... Read More about Hidden Presence: British history and the need to acknowledge true stories with African descendent casts.

Walking interconnections: Researching the lived experience of disabled people for a sustainable society (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S., Adams, S., & Heddon, D. (2013, September). Walking interconnections: Researching the lived experience of disabled people for a sustainable society. Paper presented at Walking in the City: Mapping Borders Symposium, The Parlour Rooms, Bristol

‘Walking Interconnections’ is the name of a collaborative research project. As the name suggests, the project’s focus is on the ways in which walking, as an activity, can prompt the sharing of experiences between people. The interconnections we expl... Read More about Walking interconnections: Researching the lived experience of disabled people for a sustainable society.

Drawing without light (2013)
Book Chapter
Giddings, S. (2013). Drawing without light. In M. Lister (Ed.), The Photographic Image in Digital Culture (41-55). London: Routledge

Numerous videogames offer their players opportunities for the production and collection of images displayed and understood as photographs. For some the production of photograph-like images is central to the gameplay, for others it is an add-on activi... Read More about Drawing without light.

Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s: The challenge to public service (2013)
Book
Holland, P., Chgnell, H., & Wilson, S. (2013). Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s: The challenge to public service. UK: Palgrave MacMillan

The very idea of 'public service' came under fierce attack in the Thatcherite 1980s. Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s takes the two key services, broadcasting and the NHS, and traces the heated debates and political pressures which... Read More about Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s: The challenge to public service.

Isotypes and elephants: Picture language as visual writing in the work and correspondence of Otto Neurath (2013)
Book Chapter
Henning, M. (2013). Isotypes and elephants: Picture language as visual writing in the work and correspondence of Otto Neurath. In S. Harrow (Ed.), The Art of the Text (129-150). University of Wales Press

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.