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The spatial imaginaries of creative clusters: Examining the role of R&D programmes in creative placemaking (2024)
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Roberts, L., & Lowe, J. (2024). The spatial imaginaries of creative clusters: Examining the role of R&D programmes in creative placemaking. Geoforum, 154, Article 104066. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104066

Creative clusters – geographic concentrations of creative industries sector activity, its skilled individuals, organisations and institutions – have attracted significant investment globally, becoming an important driver of economic growth. In this p... Read More about The spatial imaginaries of creative clusters: Examining the role of R&D programmes in creative placemaking.

Initial teacher education as a dialogic space for agile art curriculum design (2024)
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Grant, W., & Kidwell, A. (2024). Initial teacher education as a dialogic space for agile art curriculum design. International Journal of Education through Art, 20(2), 209-222. https://doi.org/10.1386/eta_00162_1

In this article we draw on our positionality as teacher educator and student teacher to reflect on initial art teacher education as a forum for novel disciplinary curriculum design. We describe how, without new system thinking, much taught school art... Read More about Initial teacher education as a dialogic space for agile art curriculum design.

Textile‐based triboelectric nanogenerators integrated with 2D materials (2024)
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Ali, I., Karim, N., & Afroj, S. (in press). Textile‐based triboelectric nanogenerators integrated with 2D materials. EcoMat, Article e12471. https://doi.org/10.1002/eom2.12471

The human body continuously generates ambient mechanical energy through diverse movements, such as walking and cycling, which can be harvested via various renewable energy harvesting mechanisms. Triboelectric Nanogenerator (TENG) stands out as one of... Read More about Textile‐based triboelectric nanogenerators integrated with 2D materials.

Laying Pluckley’s ghosts: Frederick Sanders and the origins of the “Most Haunted Village in England” 1939 – 1979 (2024)
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Moreton, S. (in press). Laying Pluckley’s ghosts: Frederick Sanders and the origins of the “Most Haunted Village in England” 1939 – 1979. Folklore,

The village of Pluckley in the British county of Kent has enjoyed a reputation for being ‘the most haunted village in England’ for over seventy years. Popular books on ghosts have featured the village and its stories since the late 1960s, and the tot... Read More about Laying Pluckley’s ghosts: Frederick Sanders and the origins of the “Most Haunted Village in England” 1939 – 1979.

Veganism as anti-anthropocentrism: The potential of vegan advocacy discourse (2024)
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Gough, L. A. (2024). Veganism as anti-anthropocentrism: The potential of vegan advocacy discourse. Animal Ethics Review, 4, https://doi.org/10.31009/aer.2024.v4.01

Proceeding from an identification of anthropocentrism as the ideological bedrock of interconnected human to nonhuman animal and intra-human oppressions, and the central role played by discourse in transmitting and normalising anthropocentrism and its... Read More about Veganism as anti-anthropocentrism: The potential of vegan advocacy discourse.

The Torchbearers (2024)
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Bodman, S. (2024). The Torchbearers. Printmaking Today, 33(130), 22-23

Sarah Bodman talks to Natalie Renganeschi at Women’s Studio Workshop about the upcoming anniversary and travelling exhibition.

Postmistresses and the state, 1660–1715 (2024)
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Ward Clavier, S. (in press). Postmistresses and the state, 1660–1715. Women's History Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2024.2344147

Women’s place in the post-Restoration Post Office has been overlooked in the existing literature on the mail, 1660-1715. Historians and historical geographers have explored the bureaucratic and administrative history of the Post; the expansion of pos... Read More about Postmistresses and the state, 1660–1715.

To what extent do children’s expressions of time actually refer to time? An investigation into the temporal and discursive usages of temporal adverbs in family interaction (2024)
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Surakka, M., & Kirjavainen, M. (in press). To what extent do children’s expressions of time actually refer to time? An investigation into the temporal and discursive usages of temporal adverbs in family interaction. Journal of Child Language, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000924000114

Many studies have explored children’s acquisition of temporal adverbs. However, the extent to which children’s early temporal language has discursive instead of solely temporal meanings has been largely ignored. We report two corpus-based studies tha... Read More about To what extent do children’s expressions of time actually refer to time? An investigation into the temporal and discursive usages of temporal adverbs in family interaction.

There’s more to life than the monomyth: multiperspectival approaches to teaching narrative and story in university film and media departments (2024)
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Aston, J. (in press). There’s more to life than the monomyth: multiperspectival approaches to teaching narrative and story in university film and media departments. Media Practice and Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2024.2331342

This article critiques the ongoing dominance of the Hollywood monomyth in the film and television industry, at least in the UK if not more widely. It considers how this is impacting on the teaching of narrative and story in university film and media... Read More about There’s more to life than the monomyth: multiperspectival approaches to teaching narrative and story in university film and media departments.

Towards a ‘spatial writing’: O Complex Mass (2024)
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Lawrence, J. (2024). Towards a ‘spatial writing’: O Complex Mass. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 17(‘Ways of Writing in Art and Design II’ Part 2), 21-31. https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcp_00060_1

The following contribution aims to convey a sense of O Complex Mass, an artwork I developed for Dilston Gallery, Southwark Park, London in 2022. O Complex Mass represents the first significant outcome resulting from a commitment to a new site-respons... Read More about Towards a ‘spatial writing’: O Complex Mass.

Building and sustaining freelance careers in a small nation: The case of Cardiff’s film and television industries (2024)
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Genders, A. (in press). Building and sustaining freelance careers in a small nation: The case of Cardiff’s film and television industries. International Journal of Cultural Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2024.2317332

Often characterised as an occupational group of highly skilled, responsive, resilient and creative individuals, freelancers make a vital contribution to the strength and sustainability of film and television production. Freelancers are both intrinsic... Read More about Building and sustaining freelance careers in a small nation: The case of Cardiff’s film and television industries.

More than a meeting: Performing the workshop in the art institution (2023)
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Cranfield, B., & Mulvey, M. (2023). More than a meeting: Performing the workshop in the art institution. Performance Research, 28(2), 4-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2023.2260685

The workshop has become a ubiquitous cultural form within art institutions, used by curators, artists and pedagogues to create opportunities for audiences to do everything from acquiring creative skills to enacting social change. Yet, despite its gro... Read More about More than a meeting: Performing the workshop in the art institution.

From the execution ballad to the dramatic monologue: Criminal confession reconfigured (2023)
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Martens, B. (in press). From the execution ballad to the dramatic monologue: Criminal confession reconfigured. Victorian Poetry, 62(1),

Victorian dramatic monologues about murder, including such prominent examples as Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover,” “My Last Duchess,” and The Ring and the Book, as well as Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “A Last Confession,” often rely upon readers’ fa... Read More about From the execution ballad to the dramatic monologue: Criminal confession reconfigured.

Family ties (2023)
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Bodman, S. (2023). Family ties. Printmaking Today, 32(128), 22-23

Family Ties - Artist Terrie Reddish explains to Sarah Bodman how book artists in New Zealand are building creative connections and book arts’ networks

The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians (2023)
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Sarfo-Kantankah, K. S., Ngula, R. S., & Nartey, M. (2024). The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians. Journal of Language and Politics, 23(1), 91-112. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22146.sar

Research on issues of women has largely focused attention on, among others, power asymmetries and gender stereotypes, with less emphasis on positive linguistic mechanisms of women. Drawing on a critical discourse analytical approach and using Ghanaia... Read More about The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians.

Loss and survival: The Episcopalian spiritual vocation, 1646-62 (2023)
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Ward Clavier, S. (2023). Loss and survival: The Episcopalian spiritual vocation, 1646-62. Seventeenth Century, 38(6), 1025-1034. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2023.2266301

This article outlines a forthcoming project on the episcopalian spiritual vocation in the period c.1640 to 1662. It explains the rationale for the project and its place within the historiography. The article argues that seventeenth-century clergy may... Read More about Loss and survival: The Episcopalian spiritual vocation, 1646-62.

The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados' prime minister Mia Mottley (2023)
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Nartey, M. (2024). The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados' prime minister Mia Mottley. Journal of Language and Politics, 23(1), 45-66. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22145.nar

Informed by a critical discourse analytical approach to agency, this paper examines the construction of agency in the speeches of Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados. The analysis reveals that she enacts her agency in three main ways: (1) con... Read More about The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados' prime minister Mia Mottley.

Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South (2023)
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Nartey, M. (2024). Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South. Journal of Language and Politics, 23(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22143.nar

This Special Issue expands on the ongoing dialogue on the decolonial project by bringing together thought-provoking papers that examine the communication of female political leaders in the Global South. It draws on data from West Africa, Latin Americ... Read More about Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South.

Digital storytelling: A relational pedagogic approach to rebuilding hybrid places for creativity, equity and community building in a crisis (2023)
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Parker Moon, Z., Palmerini, P., Drayton, J., Noon, R., Gibson, K., Gold, L., & Ochu, E. (2023). Digital storytelling: A relational pedagogic approach to rebuilding hybrid places for creativity, equity and community building in a crisis. Advances in Online Education: A Peer-Reviewed Journal, 2(1), 1-18

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted human flourishing worldwide as in-person teaching and learning provision within universities and schools rapidly shifted online. This exposed challenges as staff and students worked from home. Digital competences in onl... Read More about Digital storytelling: A relational pedagogic approach to rebuilding hybrid places for creativity, equity and community building in a crisis.