All Outputs (18)

Ageing by design: The role of the art school in creating a sustainable future (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2018, September). Ageing by design: The role of the art school in creating a sustainable future. Paper presented at Aging & Society: Eighth Interdisciplinary Conference, Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan

Many designers in the UK - including graphic designers, communication designers, textile designers, interior designers and fashion designers, to name but a few - all start their professional training in an Art School. The educating of designers along... Read More about Ageing by design: The role of the art school in creating a sustainable future.

Relational ethics and the institution as 'intimate other' (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2018, July). Relational ethics and the institution as 'intimate other'. Paper presented at British Autoethnography Conference, Bristol, England

This paper will explore the responsibilities and risks attendant to engaging in autoethnographic research wherein the researcher’s gaze is turned on the context in which they are operating and their employing institution becomes an identifiable other... Read More about Relational ethics and the institution as 'intimate other'.

Unravelling Miss Marple: Knitting, intuition and ageing femininity (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2018, July). Unravelling Miss Marple: Knitting, intuition and ageing femininity. Paper presented at In the Loop at 10, Winchester School of Art, Southampton, England

'I envisage you knitting more jackets, head scarves and a good many other things of which I do not know the name. If you prefer to continue knitting, that is your decision. If you prefer to serve the cause of justice, I hope that you may at least fin... Read More about Unravelling Miss Marple: Knitting, intuition and ageing femininity.

Auditing creativity? The UK Art School in the age of neoliberalism (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2018, June). Auditing creativity? The UK Art School in the age of neoliberalism. Paper presented at Art, Materiality and Representation, The British Museum & SOAS, London

Short abstract This paper will examine the role that the HEI Art School plays in both normalising and resisting the standardisation of the artist/designer in the UK and reflect on the growing influence of systems of 'coercive accountability' (Shor... Read More about Auditing creativity? The UK Art School in the age of neoliberalism.

Othering the elderly: Autoethnography as counteractive methodological strategy (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2017, October). Othering the elderly: Autoethnography as counteractive methodological strategy. Paper presented at Aging and Society, International Interdisciplinary Conference, Gdańsk, Poland

This paper will first establish that 'the elderly' are habitually othered in the texts that endeavour to describe 'them' and their 'needs'. It will then argue that an intersectional conceptualising of identity construction aids a researcher who is en... Read More about Othering the elderly: Autoethnography as counteractive methodological strategy.

Age-appropriate dress? (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2017, October). Age-appropriate dress?. Paper presented at Aging and Society, International Interdisciplinary Conference, Gdańsk, Poland

This paper aims to contribute to the developing body of literature spanning dress, fashion and sociological theory which is concerned with unpicking the way in which the category of ‘old age’ is enacted within a symbolic economy of difference. More s... Read More about Age-appropriate dress?.

Widening participation: Rethinking the role of the HEI (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Thomson, S., & Franklin, A. (2017, July). Widening participation: Rethinking the role of the HEI. Paper presented at HEA Annual Conference 2017 Generation TEF: Teaching in the spotlight, Manchester, UK

This presentation will outline some of the key findings of the ‘Entry Level Employment in Bristol’s Creative Industries Sectors’ [ELEBCIS] research project; a study commissioned by Bristol City Council’s [BCC] Economy Team and funded by BCC, the Univ... Read More about Widening participation: Rethinking the role of the HEI.

Bristol Parkhive: An interdisciplinary approach to employability for arts, humanities and education students in a supercomplex world (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A., & Thomson, S. (2017, July). Bristol Parkhive: An interdisciplinary approach to employability for arts, humanities and education students in a supercomplex world. Paper presented at HEA Annual Conference 2017 Generation TEF: Teaching in the spotlight, Manchester, UK

This paper will present the Bristol Parkhive project as a model for sustainable and mutually beneficial collaboration between universities, local governments and local community organisations. Bristol Parkhive is an innovative collaborative project d... Read More about Bristol Parkhive: An interdisciplinary approach to employability for arts, humanities and education students in a supercomplex world.

Spirit of ’68: The ‘next’ role of the art/design school? (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Turney, J., & Franklin, A. (2017, April). Spirit of ’68: The ‘next’ role of the art/design school?. Presented at 12th European Academy of Design Conference [EAD12]: Design for Next..., Rome, Italy

The Warwick Commission Report (2015)[i] concluded that the arts in the UK were in crisis and, regardless of political rhetoric[ii], continual cuts in government subsidy[iii] plus cuts in arts subjects in schools had created a two-tiered predominantly... Read More about Spirit of ’68: The ‘next’ role of the art/design school?.

Visibly aging: On aspiring to be an old woman (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2016, October). Visibly aging: On aspiring to be an old woman. Paper presented at Aging & Society 2016: Sixth Interdisciplinary Conference, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden

This paper will outline the methodological rationale behind the use of an analytic autoethnographic (Anderson 2006) approach to the study of aging when the researcher is not a full member of the (age) group being studied. In this instance the aut... Read More about Visibly aging: On aspiring to be an old woman.

Visibly ageing: Online clothing consumption and the older woman (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2016, July). Visibly ageing: Online clothing consumption and the older woman. Paper presented at The Asian Conference on Aging & Gerontology 2016 [AGen2016], Kobe, Japan

This paper will outline the findings of the author's 2016 study examining the online clothes shopping practices of female consumers aged 65+ in the UK; this age group is one which is growing significantly in the UK [1] but remains at best largely ove... Read More about Visibly ageing: Online clothing consumption and the older woman.

The play's the thing: A [mini-]phenomenology of fashion (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2013, March). The play's the thing: A [mini-]phenomenology of fashion. Paper presented at Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association [PCA/ACA] National Conference, Washington D.C

Drawing on literature from play studies, developmental psychology, gender studies and phenomenology, this paper will argue for a conception of fashion as an extension of the play behaviours key to a child's psychosocial development and mental health.... Read More about The play's the thing: A [mini-]phenomenology of fashion.

Cole’s from Newcastle (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2012, April). Cole’s from Newcastle. Paper presented at The 2012 National Confernce of the National Popular Culture & American Culture Association, Boston, US

In this paper the complex interweaving of beauty, class, power and powerlessness that is Cheryl Cole will be explored. Cole - UK TV’s The X-Factor judge, ex-WAG of Chelsea and England footballer Ashley Cole, celebrated Geordie, sometime singer, fullt... Read More about Cole’s from Newcastle.

Plastic fantastic? Self-objectification and the Bratz doll (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2011, April). Plastic fantastic? Self-objectification and the Bratz doll. Paper presented at Construct - The Body in Flux, Southampton

This paper employ Heideggarian phenomenology to argue that the postmodern, post-industrial being’s relationship with their ‘bodily nature’ is fundamentally ‘unnatural’ in character and that the mediation responsible for this disruption begins in chil... Read More about Plastic fantastic? Self-objectification and the Bratz doll.

“There’s no b’ness like ho b’ness”: Considering the hip-hop ‘ho’ (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2011, March). “There’s no b’ness like ho b’ness”: Considering the hip-hop ‘ho’. Paper presented at 1st Global Conference: Urban Popcultures, Prague, Czech Republic

Fashion has long been used to differentiate between prostitutes and ‘respectable’ members of society. Whether through state enforced sumptuary laws or less formally imposed but equally codified visual markers, the identity category of ‘prostitute’ ha... Read More about “There’s no b’ness like ho b’ness”: Considering the hip-hop ‘ho’.

Plastic bodies: Beings-not-of-the-world (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2010, November). Plastic bodies: Beings-not-of-the-world. Paper presented at II International Conference: The Texts of the Body - Generating Bodies: Discursive Sexed Productions, Barcelona, Spain

Employing a Heideggerian phenomenology of Being, this paper will argue that toys such as Bratz dolls, Barbie, and Disney Princesses contribute to an environment that fosters an ‘unnatural’ relationship between pre-adults and their ‘bodily nature’; ar... Read More about Plastic bodies: Beings-not-of-the-world.

Be-Bratz.com: Beings-not-of-the-world (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2010, July). Be-Bratz.com: Beings-not-of-the-world. Paper presented at Theorising the Popular, Liverpool, UK

This paper will explore the impact of a gendered ‘thing’ – the Bratz doll - on the postmodern, post-industrial individual’s relationship with their ‘bodily nature’. It will argue, employing a Heideggerian phenomenology of Being, that this relationshi... Read More about Be-Bratz.com: Beings-not-of-the-world.

First space: On 'being' a researcher (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2009, April). First space: On 'being' a researcher. Paper presented at Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth, ASA09: Anthropological and archaeological imaginations: past, present and future, Bristol

All anthropological and archaeological knowledges or ‘facts’ are mediated by at least one researcher before their dissemination to an audience, and the impact of this mediation on the resultant texts must be understood if the potentially solipsistic... Read More about First space: On 'being' a researcher.