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Using virtual reality head-mounted displays with autistic children: Views, experiences and future directions (2019)
Journal Article

This article seeks to place children on the autism spectrum at the centre of a study examining the potential of virtual reality head-mounted displays used in classrooms. In doing so we provide data that addresses three important and often overlooked... Read More about Using virtual reality head-mounted displays with autistic children: Views, experiences and future directions.

Elite multilingualism (2019)
Book Chapter

A chapter on Elite Multilingualism

Non-literal understanding and psychosis: Metaphor comprehension in individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (2019)
Journal Article

Previous studies suggest that understanding of non-literal expressions, and in particular metaphors, can be impaired in people with schizophrenia; although it is not clear why. We explored metaphor comprehension capacity using a novel picture selecti... Read More about Non-literal understanding and psychosis: Metaphor comprehension in individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.

Whitehall War Graves (2019)
Exhibition / Performance

Our Man in Fez: James MacIver Macleod (2019)
Journal Article

This article will illustrate several facets of MacLeod’s career. First, it will consider his appointment and the years immediately afterwards, when he struggled to gain recognition of his status from the Makhzen, the Moroccan government. Second, it w... Read More about Our Man in Fez: James MacIver Macleod.

The Arts of Angela Carter: A Cabinet of Curiosities (2019)
Book

This book aims to give new insights into the multifarious worlds of Angela Carter and to re-assess her impact and importance for the twenty-first century. It brings together leading Carter scholars with some emerging academics, in a new approach to h... Read More about The Arts of Angela Carter: A Cabinet of Curiosities.

Angela Carter’s ‘rigorous system of disbelief’: Religion, misogyny, myth and the cult (2019)
Book Chapter

Angela Carter professed her atheism as a rigorous system of disbelief and demythologized religion throughout her work. This included her surrealist art film, The Holy Family Album (1991), and her satire of medieval Catholicism in The Infernal Desire... Read More about Angela Carter’s ‘rigorous system of disbelief’: Religion, misogyny, myth and the cult.

A regional company? RED Production and the cultural politics of place (2019)
Journal Article

This article explores the significance of RED Production’s location in the north-west of England, analysing the complexities of its positioning as a ‘regional’ company contextualised within the broader issues surrounding regional television productio... Read More about A regional company? RED Production and the cultural politics of place.

Book review of Emily Steinlight's Populating the novel: Literary form and the politics of surplus life (2019)
Journal Article

Book review

Bernard Stiegler on algorithmic governmentality: A new regimen of truth? (2019)
Journal Article

This essay examines philosopher of technology and media Bernard Stiegler’s propositions concerning the nature and effects of the automation of social existence through computational processes deployed in online media. It argues for the critical perti... Read More about Bernard Stiegler on algorithmic governmentality: A new regimen of truth?.

Heritage empath: Of home and each other (2019)
Digital Artefact

Interactive audio story experienced in the real world, where the audience gets the opportunity to follow the story of Kelechi, a migrant from Nigeria, as she negotiates the process of leaving family and home in one country to forge a new one in anoth... Read More about Heritage empath: Of home and each other.

Accounting for lives: Autobiography and biography in the accounts of Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1642–1666 (2019)
Journal Article

This article significantly adds to the literature on the value of financial accounts, demonstrating their worth as both an autobiographical and biographical source. It argues that elite accounts can be seen both as a biography of the master, and an a... Read More about Accounting for lives: Autobiography and biography in the accounts of Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1642–1666.

Afrofuturism and the archive: Robots of Brixton and crumbs (2019)
Journal Article

© Liverpool University Press. This article is concerned with questions of history, memory and meaning, and with the construction of Afrofuturism as both an archive and a living tradition. It will begin by outlining the origins of the term, and consid... Read More about Afrofuturism and the archive: Robots of Brixton and crumbs.

Neo-Victorianism, settler (post)colonialism and domesticity in Patrick White’s Voss (2019)
Journal Article

This article reads Patrick White’s 1957 novel Voss as an early example of Neo-Victorian fiction, a relatively recent but critically well-established category of postwar and contemporary fiction that has not yet been deployed with reference to Voss. I... Read More about Neo-Victorianism, settler (post)colonialism and domesticity in Patrick White’s Voss.

Continuing the contradictions: A multimodal investigation into the front covers of real-life magazines (2019)
Journal Article

Studies analysing women’s magazines note contradiction as a common theme, whether it be the content of the magazines and the ideological values presented therein, or at broader, political levels. This paper empirically investigates to what extent con... Read More about Continuing the contradictions: A multimodal investigation into the front covers of real-life magazines.

Case studies of users with neurodevelopmental disabilities: Showcasing their roles in early stages of VR training development (2019)
Book Chapter

In this chapter we will reflect on two projects that have enabled disabled groups to be involved in designing and influencing technology that will be used by them. In addition, we will reflect on the process, limitations, barriers and actual involve... Read More about Case studies of users with neurodevelopmental disabilities: Showcasing their roles in early stages of VR training development.

“When something is wrong we write it”: The portrayal of female genital mutilation in children’s literature (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 BY BOOKBIRD, INC. Focusing on Williams-Garcia’s No Laughter Here (2004) and Craigie’s What Was Never Said (2015), this article questions their representation of female genital mutilation (FGM). It considers the use of voice, writing, and siste... Read More about “When something is wrong we write it”: The portrayal of female genital mutilation in children’s literature.

The colour orange (2019)
Exhibition / Performance

One person exhibition. Paintings, sculptures, prints and world premier of "Orangeness". Original music composed by Alexandra Harwood for the series of paintings, sculptures and prints.

BBC arts programming: a service for citizens or a product for consumers? (2019)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2019. The British Broadcasting Corporation occupies what is often considered to be a unique position within UK culture as both a respected national institution that is a pillar of enlightenment values and, increasingly, an agile, entr... Read More about BBC arts programming: a service for citizens or a product for consumers?.

“I cut it and I… well now what?”: (Un)collaborative language in timed puzzle games (2019)
Book Chapter

Language, in its production and reception, allows us to perform collaborative tasks. These tasks may involve language solely, such as the sentencing of a criminal by a judge, or by using language alongside physical actions. In the world of video gami... Read More about “I cut it and I… well now what?”: (Un)collaborative language in timed puzzle games.