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South West Creative Technology Network - Final report (2021)
Report

This report highlights the research and development conducted during the 3-year South West Creative Technology Network. It outlines the creative knowledge exchange methodology developed through the programme and provides case studies of our Immersion... Read More about South West Creative Technology Network - Final report.

God's vigilant watchmen: The words of Episcopalian Clergy in Wales, 1646-1660 (2021)
Book Chapter

Genre analysis of movies using a topic model of plot summaries (2021)
Journal Article

Genre plays an important role in the description, navigation, and discovery of movies, but it is rarely studied at large scale using quantitative methods. This allows an analysis of how genre labels are applied, how genres are composed and how these... Read More about Genre analysis of movies using a topic model of plot summaries.

Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um (2021)
Journal Article

The current paper presents three studies that investigated the effect of exposure on the mental representations of filled pauses (um/uh). In Study 1, a corpus analysis identified the frequency of co-occurrence of filled pauses with words located imme... Read More about Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um.

Questioning ‘what makes us human’: How audiences react to an artificial intelligence–driven show (2021)
Journal Article

I am Echoborg is promoted as ‘a show created afresh each time by the audience in conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI)’. The show demonstrates how AI in a creative and performance context can raise questions about the technology’s ethical... Read More about Questioning ‘what makes us human’: How audiences react to an artificial intelligence–driven show.

Divided by Law (2021)
Digital Artefact

Captured just before and during the Coronavirus outbreak and in the lead up to Brexit, 'Divided by Law' bears witness to binational families and couples trying to cope with the UK's hostile immigration environment.

Sir Arthur Hirtzel and the Pax Britannica in the Middle East (2021)
Journal Article

Sir Arthur Hirtzel, the long-serving senior official in the India Office was an old–and a much respected–Middle Eastern hand. Few in Whitehall could rival him in his capacity ‘to get into the mind of the man at the other end of the line.’ Surprisingl... Read More about Sir Arthur Hirtzel and the Pax Britannica in the Middle East.

Bread Winner: an intimate history of the Victorian economy: by Emma Griffin, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2020, xi + 320 pp., £20.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-30023-006-2 (2021)
Journal Article

Keep calm and Cary online: Cary comes home festival and online film culture during the pandemic (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Cary Comes Home festival seeks to celebrate Cary Grant’s Bristol roots, develop new audiences for his work and recreate the golden age of cinema going – but how does that work during a global pandemic?!

In this presentation I will explore the... Read More about Keep calm and Cary online: Cary comes home festival and online film culture during the pandemic.

Yvonne Nelson and the heroic myth of Yaa Asantewaa: a discourse-mythological case study of a Ghanaian celebrity (2021)
Journal Article

This article details a study of mythological storytelling in the Ghanaian media. It analyzes a number of news articles about a Ghanaian celebrity, Yvonne Nelson, in the wake of leading a protest to pressure the government to find a lasting solution t... Read More about Yvonne Nelson and the heroic myth of Yaa Asantewaa: a discourse-mythological case study of a Ghanaian celebrity.

Irish literature in transition: 1980–2020: Edited by Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds (2021)
Journal Article

Irish Literature in Transition 1980–2020, edited by Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds, is the final volume in a series of six, which begin with the year 1700 and conclude in 2020. The series is a monumental feat of scholarship overseen by the general edi... Read More about Irish literature in transition: 1980–2020: Edited by Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds.

Analyzing and interpreting COVID-19-related texts in Chinese: A systemic functional perspective (2021)
Book Chapter

Adapting wives and daughters for television: Reimagining women, travel, natural science, and race (2021)
Journal Article

This essay examines the depiction of women, travel, natural science, and race in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters (1864-66) and Andrew Davies's BBC adaptation of the novel (1999). It argues that the adaptation offers a recognizable transpositi... Read More about Adapting wives and daughters for television: Reimagining women, travel, natural science, and race.

“You feel, in that moment, you are sitting next to them!”: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality nonfiction in the home (2021)
Other

Summary findings from EPSRC Virtual Realities research project Household Study. Peer reviewed article in Convergence Journal - in UWE Research Repository.
‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non... Read More about “You feel, in that moment, you are sitting next to them!”: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality nonfiction in the home.

Unpiecing the jigsaw: Compulsive heterosexuality, sex crime, class and masculinity in early 1960s British cinema (2021)
Journal Article

This article explores the discursive intersections of masculinity, class and heterosexual desire in the still undervalued British police procedural film, Jigsaw. It considers the film both as an example of a new style of cinematic crime narrative and... Read More about Unpiecing the jigsaw: Compulsive heterosexuality, sex crime, class and masculinity in early 1960s British cinema.

A gilded cage? Nnamdi Azikiwe's Pan-Africanism as governor-general of Nigeria, 1960–63 (2021)
Journal Article

Historians have wrongly ignored the period when Nnamdi Azikiwe served as governor-general of Nigeria, just after its independence (1960-63). Archival materials in Britain, the United States, and Azikiwe’s own papers in Nigeria reveal that he played a... Read More about A gilded cage? Nnamdi Azikiwe's Pan-Africanism as governor-general of Nigeria, 1960–63.

Edward Bulwer Lytton and Poisoned Prose (2021)
Book Chapter

Edward Bulwer Lytton was a popular Victorian novelist and leading politician, who experimented with numerous literary genres including Gothic writing, the Newgate novel and early sensation fiction. His novel Lucretia; or, The Children of Night (1846)... Read More about Edward Bulwer Lytton and Poisoned Prose.

Nothing immune: Ludics and laughter in the holy family album (2021)
Book Chapter

Exploring female academic perceptions and practices utilising learning and communication technology in the Languages Faculty at King Khalid University in Saudi Arabia (2021)
Thesis

High-quality education and more effectively supported learning can be achieved through the appropriate use of efficient, effective, and appropriate technology. Indeed, such enhancement of the education system is the primary objective of educational t... Read More about Exploring female academic perceptions and practices utilising learning and communication technology in the Languages Faculty at King Khalid University in Saudi Arabia.

Mark Glancy, ‘Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend,' UK book launch (2021)
Digital Artefact

On what would have been Cary Grant’s 117th birthday, Mark Glancy – whose new book launches in the UK this week – talks about Cary Grant’s experiences growing up in Bristol, England, including startling new revelations about his family history, follow... Read More about Mark Glancy, ‘Cary Grant, The Making of a Hollywood Legend,' UK book launch.