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Documentary made sustainable: The Bristol bike project, from grassroots workshop to globalised audience (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Oldham, A. (2012, September). Documentary made sustainable: The Bristol bike project, from grassroots workshop to globalised audience. Paper presented at Documentary & the Environment, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK

The Worldometers website (http://www.worldometers.info/) is based on a live / real time feed of a range of global statistics : its shocking evidence suggests that we are approaching a perfect storm of peak oil, climate change and a rapidly increasing... Read More about Documentary made sustainable: The Bristol bike project, from grassroots workshop to globalised audience.

Professionalism under fire: Whatever happened to teacher autonomy, judgement and intuition? (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Knight, B. (2012, September). Professionalism under fire: Whatever happened to teacher autonomy, judgement and intuition?. Paper presented at NaPTEC, Oxford

The article is an overview of a study examining teacher action in the moment; teachable moments (TMs). Literature on teaching is dominated by the organisation of learning and general principles of classroom management and can easily overlook the det... Read More about Professionalism under fire: Whatever happened to teacher autonomy, judgement and intuition?.

Activist ethnography and social movements: Opportunities and potentialities (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Sutherland, N. (2012, August). Activist ethnography and social movements: Opportunities and potentialities. Paper presented at 7th Ethnography Symposium, Liverpool

A criticism recently directed at social movement literature is that movement activists are often disappointed by what they find in social movement theory (Howley, 2008; Plows, 2008; Jasper, 2010; DeFilippis et al, 2010). It fails to address practical... Read More about Activist ethnography and social movements: Opportunities and potentialities.

Printmaking: art and industry, from lithography to stereo lithography (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Hoskins, S. (2012, August). Printmaking: art and industry, from lithography to stereo lithography

Professor Stephen Hoskins will give an invited lecture on Printmaking: Art and Industry, From Lithography to Stereo Lithography at The 2nd European Lithography Days 2012, initiated by the Steindruck München Lithography Workshop at the Münchner Künstl... Read More about Printmaking: art and industry, from lithography to stereo lithography.

Bratislava regions in motion: Breaking the path (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., & Rauhut, D. (2012, August). Bratislava regions in motion: Breaking the path. Paper presented at 52nd European Congress of the RSAI and 4th Central European Regional Science Conference, Bratislava, Slovakia, 21-25 August, 2012, Bratislava, Slovakia

Manipulating objects with gliders in cellular automata (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Georgilas, I., Adamatzky, A., & Melhuish, C. (2012, August). Manipulating objects with gliders in cellular automata. Paper presented at Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2012 IEEE International Conference on, Seoul, Korea

Micro-scale manipulation of objects is a growing requirement in specialised industries, especially those related to assembly of fragile micro-components. Widely implemented techniques in robotics and automation do not always cope with the delicate na... Read More about Manipulating objects with gliders in cellular automata.

Predictive prey pursuit in a whiskered robot (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Mitchinson, B., Pearson, M., Pipe, A. G., & Prescott, T. J. (2012, August). Predictive prey pursuit in a whiskered robot. Paper presented at FIRA-TAROS congress, Bristol, UK

Highly active small mammals need to capture prey rapidly and with a high success rate if they are to survive. We consider the case of the Etruscan shrew, which hunts prey including crickets almost as large as itself, and relies on its whiskers (vibri... Read More about Predictive prey pursuit in a whiskered robot.

Analysing the introduction of new hybrid imaging technology within the nuclear medicine workforce (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Griffiths, M. (2012, July). Analysing the introduction of new hybrid imaging technology within the nuclear medicine workforce. Paper presented at United Kingdom Radiological Congress, Manchester

Objectives & Relationship to Conference Theme: This research focuses on the cultural changes, development of new professional identities and emerging education and training requirements, following the introduction of hybrid imaging technology within... Read More about Analysing the introduction of new hybrid imaging technology within the nuclear medicine workforce.

Transportation carbon emission information: the effect of format on behavioural intention (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Waygood, E., & Avineri, E. (2012, July). Transportation carbon emission information: the effect of format on behavioural intention. Paper presented at 2012 IATBR Conference, Toronto, Canada

Climate change is a global problem and transportation contributes to it. In response, CO2 information on transport is being provided to the public to aid with informed decision-making. Including CO2 mass in choice experiments has found that it could... Read More about Transportation carbon emission information: the effect of format on behavioural intention.

An exploration of the importance of social influence in the decisions to start bicycling in England. Travel behaviour research: Current foundations, future prospects (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Sherwin, H., Chatterjee, K., & Jain, J. (2012, July). An exploration of the importance of social influence in the decisions to start bicycling in England. Travel behaviour research: Current foundations, future prospects. Paper presented at 13th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, Toronto, Canada

Learning from project management implementation journeys (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Thomas, J., Cicmil, S., & George, S. (2012, July). Learning from project management implementation journeys. Paper presented at PMI International Research and Education Conference 2012, Limerick, Ireland

An unwelcome colonial penal experiment: How the trial of Alexander Maconochie’s “Mark System” on Norfolk Island penal settlement between 1840 and 1844 was viewed from New South Wales (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Moore, J. (2012, July). An unwelcome colonial penal experiment: How the trial of Alexander Maconochie’s “Mark System” on Norfolk Island penal settlement between 1840 and 1844 was viewed from New South Wales. Paper presented at International Centre for the History of Crime, Policing and Justice, Research Symposium, Open University