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Film genre prediction and analysis using multimodal embeddings from large models: The case of noir (2025)
Journal Article

We used embeddings (numerical representations) from open-sourced language and image models to compare and contrast films in the “noir” and “neo-noir” genres with each other and with those in other genres, using as proxy sources the available plot sum... Read More about Film genre prediction and analysis using multimodal embeddings from large models: The case of noir.

Sex and the social order: Creative approaches to teaching the history of gender and sexuality in modern Britain (2025)
Journal Article

‘Sex and the Social Order: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Britain’ is a second‐year optional module for history students at the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE). The module examines histories of gender and sexuality from the mid‐ninet... Read More about Sex and the social order: Creative approaches to teaching the history of gender and sexuality in modern Britain.

Rivermaids: Participatory pedagogies, potencia and polyphonic voices in applied theatre practice (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Abstract:
Rivermaids (UWE, Bristol, 2024), emerged from a cross-college pilot research collaboration within the University of the West of England (UWE: Geography, Drama and Climate Science), acta community theatre (Bristol) and the Roses Theatre (Te... Read More about Rivermaids: Participatory pedagogies, potencia and polyphonic voices in applied theatre practice.

Technology preoccupation of product design students: How data-driven approaches lead to abandonment of human connection (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Why do cameras exist? While investigating possible futures with product design students in the ‘Design Futures’ module, staff witnesses arising challenges deriving from an all-encompassing excitement for technology.
Students increasingly favour ‘tec... Read More about Technology preoccupation of product design students: How data-driven approaches lead to abandonment of human connection.

FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA (2025)
Exhibition / Performance

FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA is a response to crises and ongoing global conflicts humanity is facing today. Artists were invited to speak up on issues related to human rights, war, violence, social and racial injustice. The mission of this important and t... Read More about FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA.

Between autonomy and automation: How cultural individualism shapes engagement with home energy management systems in the United Kingdom (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents empirical findings from the United Kingdom (UK) component of a broader cross-cultural study comparing smart home energy system (HEMS) use in the UK and India, contrasting individualistic and collectivist cultural contexts. Situate... Read More about Between autonomy and automation: How cultural individualism shapes engagement with home energy management systems in the United Kingdom.

The Global Cold War, Détente and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1978-1989 (2025)
Journal Article

This article examines the historical circumstances in which the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child arose in the 1970s. I argue that it was an outcome of Poland’s commitment to détente and desire for good relationships with the Unite... Read More about The Global Cold War, Détente and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1978-1989.

New Wave: Driving equity in professional practice learning (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Adapting Pedagogies to the Dominant Challenges of Today:

Poster presentation and single 7min podcast sharing learnings from New Wave creative agency pilot within the School of Arts at UWE.

Intent to include: The problematic process of moving beyond progressive intent to create inclusive curricula in English art classrooms (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In 2024 we undertook a small-scale survey of art teachers in English secondary schools, primarily to assess, illustratively, how curricula conventions may have changed over the preceding twenty years. One noticeable thematic progression that we ident... Read More about Intent to include: The problematic process of moving beyond progressive intent to create inclusive curricula in English art classrooms.

Clouded Yellow (2025)
Physical Artefact

Clouded Yellow - Field Study emanation, edition of 100 for Field Study International's Field Report 2025, Friday 18th July 2025.

Computational polyphony and diffractive ethnography: An emergent set of methods for futures-centred work in visual anthropology (2025)
Journal Article

This paper proposes an emergent set of methods for Visual Anthropology through which to generate new encounters with and knowledge in possible and uncertain futures. These methods are grounded in ‘computational polyphony’, a mode of practice that the... Read More about Computational polyphony and diffractive ethnography: An emergent set of methods for futures-centred work in visual anthropology.