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Neo-gemstones Lecture (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

With crystal growing techniques having been around since the 19th century, man-made crystals now drive innovations in various industries. This has, however, not fully translated into the jewellery industry, where they continue to be the subject of gr... Read More about Neo-gemstones Lecture.

A ham carved by the sword of European imperialism: African views on the Berlin Conference from 1885 to the present (2025)
Book Chapter

This chapter introduces the trope of the 1884-5 Berlin Conference as a 'carve-up' of Africa -- whether as a cake or a ham -- especially in the writing of Nigerian pan-Africanist and anti-colonialist Nnamdi Azikiwe. The chapter also discusses early pa... Read More about A ham carved by the sword of European imperialism: African views on the Berlin Conference from 1885 to the present.

Artists' protest: In words & images! (2025)
Exhibition / Performance

Dunoon MOCA starts the New Year 2025 with Protest
Artists' Protest: in Words & Images!
Protest art - words and images - We believe art has the power to change society. It can influence the way we think and act as individuals and as a society. We mu... Read More about Artists' protest: In words & images!.

Prototypes for belonging: Creatively cultivating belonging in processes of public placemaking (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

That there are community contributors who feel they don’t belong within processes of place-based change is arguably the biggest barrier to meaningfully democratic development of our shared public realm.
This paper, rooted in my own practice, is situ... Read More about Prototypes for belonging: Creatively cultivating belonging in processes of public placemaking.

“Sacred intimacies”: Sexual ambiguity and performance in My Favorite Wife (1940) (2025)
Journal Article

My Favorite Wife (1940) exemplifies the more “sex suggestive” style of screwball comedy in the late 1930s, posing significant problems for the Production Code Administration (PCA). Strategies for handling taboo content onscreen depended on ambiguity,... Read More about “Sacred intimacies”: Sexual ambiguity and performance in My Favorite Wife (1940).

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944): Three perspectives on Preston Sturges and the Production Code (2025)
Journal Article

In this hybrid article, the authors examine Preston Sturges’s ability to outmanoeuvre the Production Code Administration (PCA), specifically in relation to the handling of sex, pregnancy and childbirth in The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek. Our approach i... Read More about The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944): Three perspectives on Preston Sturges and the Production Code.

Convenors’ note – Biotextiles and sustainable textiles (2024)
Journal Article

The environmental implications of textile practice are a critical consideration for contemporary design and research. As an industry where toxicity, pollution, waste, and resource depletion are devastating problems, alongside exploitative use of reso... Read More about Convenors’ note – Biotextiles and sustainable textiles.

From logwood to lasers: Bio-digital textile dyeing and design (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The textile industry is a global giant whose environmental consequences are severe. Textile processing accounts for 51% of a textile's overall carbon footprint (WRAP, 2022) and is estimated to contribute up to 20% of global industrial water pollution... Read More about From logwood to lasers: Bio-digital textile dyeing and design.

Investigating grammatical borrowing in Moseten through historical sources (2024)
Book Chapter

Using historical sources (1804-1913), this paper investigates the influence of Span-ish on the grammar of modern Mosetén, an indigenous language spoken in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes and the adjoining Amazon basin. Focusing on the categories... Read More about Investigating grammatical borrowing in Moseten through historical sources.

Consulting an oracle; repurposing robots for the circular economy (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reports a new process which can be used to re-purpose a robot at the end of its primary life. Repurposing a robot enables it to continue delivering value beyond the point at which it might have been otherwise recycled or scrapped. The repu... Read More about Consulting an oracle; repurposing robots for the circular economy.

History-enhanced ICT For Sustainability education: Learning together with Business Computing students (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

his research explores the use of History to enhance education in the field of ICT For Sustainability (ICT4S) in response to a challenge from the ICT4S 2023 conference. No previous studies were found in ICT4S but the literature on History and Educatio... Read More about History-enhanced ICT For Sustainability education: Learning together with Business Computing students.

A virtual gallery of international illustration research (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

https://www.illustrationacademics.com/2024

Into the 21st century, a criticality in the framing of illustration as a unique discipline with its own research methods and approaches is required for the field to transcend professional practice. Whethe... Read More about A virtual gallery of international illustration research.

School art: Where is it? (Re)exploring visual arts in secondary schools (2024)
Report

In this innovative research study, Joanna Fursman, Will Grant, and Carol Wild begin by revisiting the work undertaken by Dick Downing and Ruth Watson in their Tate-sponsored 2004 School Art: What Is It? report. Twenty years later, they replicate the... Read More about School art: Where is it? (Re)exploring visual arts in secondary schools.

The journal era: Style and twenty-first century Irish literary magazines (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the roles that literary journals play in twenty-first century Irish literature, by considering the styles of writing they facilitate, the wider cultural and publishing environment, and the reflections of publishers, editors and... Read More about The journal era: Style and twenty-first century Irish literary magazines.

Sustainable, wearable, and eco-friendly electronic textiles (2024)
Journal Article

Wearable electronic textiles (e‐textiles) with embedded electronics offer promising solutions for unobtrusive, real‐time health monitoring, enhancing healthcare efficiency. However, their adoption is limited by performance and sustainability challeng... Read More about Sustainable, wearable, and eco-friendly electronic textiles.

On writing instability (2024)
Book Chapter

Abba examines the specific manners by which Ambient Literature is composed and experienced by a reader. Looking back to the canon of works produced under the project banner to date, and developing the Ambient Poetics proposed in 2016-18, he addresses... Read More about On writing instability.

What do policymakers need to know about harassment in the metaverse? (2024)
Journal Article

As immersive technologies and spatial computing paradigms move into the mainstream, public and political interest in the metaverse is growing. In some respects, the metaverse offers an exciting view of the future, one in which a global community can... Read More about What do policymakers need to know about harassment in the metaverse?.

Toward sustainable wearable electronic textiles (2024)
Thesis

Smart wearable electronic textiles (e-textiles) that can detect and differentiate multiple stimuli whilst also collecting and storing the diverse array of data signals using highly innovative, multifunctional, and smart garments are of great value fo... Read More about Toward sustainable wearable electronic textiles.

Read with me - A psychometric collaboration (2024)
Book Chapter

Sarah Bodman discusses her artist's book Read With Me and the experiments that were made towards its making.

Carbon data mining (2024)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman talks to Caroline Saltzwedel of Hirundo Press, Hamburg about her new works exploring the histories of coal.