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Lyra: blurring the line between the physical and virtual to encourage engagement (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Shand, M. (2016, December). Lyra: blurring the line between the physical and virtual to encourage engagement. Presented at Playful Learning Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University

This project sought to address concerns about student engagement with a previously handbook-based module and its task-based approach. An aesthetic approach to the challenge was adopted, with an extra layer of meaning being added through external play... Read More about Lyra: blurring the line between the physical and virtual to encourage engagement.

Transforming our world: The 2030 agenda & international decade for people of African descent (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Olaiya, H. B. A. (2016, October). Transforming our world: The 2030 agenda & international decade for people of African descent. Presented at International Development, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

This research presentation highlights aims, objectives, methodology, focus and scope of the research, etc; and its relevance to Politics and International relations. The presentation was made to undergraduates on the International Development Course,... Read More about Transforming our world: The 2030 agenda & international decade for people of African descent.

Cyber crime and terrorist financing (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Ryder, N. (2016, September). Cyber crime and terrorist financing. Presented at British Bankers Association 2016 Financial Crime and Sanctions Conference, London, UK

The aim of this presentation was to provide an overview of the emerging threats posed by terrorist financing via the internet and financial crime to the digital economy.

Economy, an introduction (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Rich, K. (2016, September). Economy, an introduction. Presented at The Artist Commoner, Brussels, Belgium

Macroeconomics workshop for artists

Sharing the index: Performance (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Miles, R. (2016, September). Sharing the index: Performance. Presented at Radical Interventions: Politics, Culture, Society, University of Brighton, UK

Who speaks? And who does not? And who is it that listens? The answers to these questions matter. This paper is a performance, a draft of which was given at Knowle West Media Centre in March 2015. In Sharing the Index, the 100 logos and brand iden... Read More about Sharing the index: Performance.

The deprivation indices: Taking stock of the FTSE (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Miles, R. (2016, August). The deprivation indices: Taking stock of the FTSE. Presented at Eleventh International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK

In The deprivation indices: Taking stock of the FTSE, the 100 logos and brand identities of the UK’s top 100 FTSE index companies are presented through a rapid fire game of word association from which a narrative (of sorts) emerges. What is revealed... Read More about The deprivation indices: Taking stock of the FTSE.

Assessing the impact of gamification on students’ engagement and motivation (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Ruizalba, J., Soares, A., & Nato, J. (2016, July). Assessing the impact of gamification on students’ engagement and motivation. Presented at 8th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN16), Barcelona, Spain

Gamification is gaining momentum in Higher Education (HE) as scholars begin to enquire what they can learn from game experiences to improve students’ engagement and motivation (Niman, 2014). Gamification does not mean using games, instead it refers t... Read More about Assessing the impact of gamification on students’ engagement and motivation.

Servitization and co-creation: Customers’ Perspective (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Ruizalba, J., Soares, A., Rodriguez-Molina, M., & Frías, D. (2016, June). Servitization and co-creation: Customers’ Perspective. Presented at 2016 Center for Business & Industrial Marketing (CBIM) Academic Workshop: Extending Value Through Product, Service and Platform Innovations, The Faculty of Economics and Business, University of the Basque Country – UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain

This research aims at investigating the moderating role of co-creation in the implementation of servitization strategies (in a B2B context) in the pharmaceutical industry from the perspective of customers (that is the servitized firms). Servitizati... Read More about Servitization and co-creation: Customers’ Perspective.

Student Capital: The role of students in city transformation (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Willmore, C., Clayton, W., & Tweddell, H. (2016, June). Student Capital: The role of students in city transformation. Presented at Sustainable Earth 2016, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK

Student Capital is a huge and unique collaborative project aimed at creating, promoting, and celebrating student sustainability engagement at Bristol’s two universities – The University of the West of England, Bristol, and the University of Bristol.... Read More about Student Capital: The role of students in city transformation.

Learning from the Avebury landscape in virtual and augmented realities (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Falconer, L., Sumpter, J., Shand, M., & Gil Ortega, M. C. (2016, June). Learning from the Avebury landscape in virtual and augmented realities. Presented at UWE Learning and Teaching Conference 2016, UWE

This workshop will describe and demonstrate the reconstruction of an ancient landscape in a virtual environment as a means to facilitate collaborative learning. The virtual landscape, a reconstruction of Avebury Henge in Wiltshire circa 2,300 BCE, wi... Read More about Learning from the Avebury landscape in virtual and augmented realities.

Editor for an Hour (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Evans, M. (2016, June). Editor for an Hour. Presented at UWE Learning and Teaching Conference 2016: Teaching Excellence, UWE Bristol, UK

The trinity test: Workshop on unified notations for practices and pedagogies in music and programming (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Nash, C. (2016, May). The trinity test: Workshop on unified notations for practices and pedagogies in music and programming. Presented at International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR) 2016, Cambridge, UK

This paper outlines a workshop to explore intersections of programming and music in digital notation. With the aid of the Manhattan music programming and sequencing environment (Nash, 2014), methods for representing both high-level processes and low-... Read More about The trinity test: Workshop on unified notations for practices and pedagogies in music and programming.

Partnerships for ESD: Exploring UWE, Bristol’s integrated approach to engaging audiences in ESD (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Longhurst, J., Bigg, M., Gough, G., Brooks, I., Darwen, J., Hills, S., …Colley, R. (2016, May). Partnerships for ESD: Exploring UWE, Bristol’s integrated approach to engaging audiences in ESD. Presented at EAUC 20th Annual Conference, Bristol, UK

Workshop exploring the various engagement strategies used by UWE to encourage whole institution action in support of sustainability

The Phenomenon that is Whole Earth? Facilitating engagement in sustainability issues for students, school children and the local community (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Agombar, J., Boom, K., Harris, V., Edwards, M., & Longhurst, J. (2016, May). The Phenomenon that is Whole Earth? Facilitating engagement in sustainability issues for students, school children and the local community. Presented at EAUC 20th Annual Conference, Bristol, UK

Workshop exploring the engagement by universities with the Whole Earth exhibition and evaluating the learning resulting from these activities.

PhD-research as a marker of science communication’s development (2016)
Presentation / Conference
van der Sanden, M., Weitkamp, E., Autzen, C., & Trench, B. (2016, April). PhD-research as a marker of science communication’s development. Presented at PCST 2016, Istanbul, Turkey

PhD-research is important in many scientific domains as it represents early development of new ideas and methods. So what does a 15-year record of science communication PhD-theses (2000-2015, N=164) tell us about the development of ideas and methods... Read More about PhD-research as a marker of science communication’s development.

Research press offices as hubs of science communication: Envisioning future roles (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Weitkamp, E., Rebecca, B. C., Autzen, C., & Dorey, J. (2016, April). Research press offices as hubs of science communication: Envisioning future roles. Presented at PCST 2016, Istanbul

This panel session explores the roles, both current and potential, of press offices and science media centres in science communication. There is growing interest in the role that press offices and officers play in the way that research emerges from r... Read More about Research press offices as hubs of science communication: Envisioning future roles.