All Outputs (26)

All the voices: Diversity in the media (2014)
Book

Commentary on the importance of inclusive coverage, representation and employment in the news media

“Take That, Bitches!” Refiguring Lara Croft in Feminist game narratives (2014)
Journal Article

Since Lara first “bust” onto our screens in 1996 in Tomb Raider (Edios Interactive), she has been a focal point for critical debate surrounding the representation of the female protagonist and the gendered body in games. Nearly twenty years after her... Read More about “Take That, Bitches!” Refiguring Lara Croft in Feminist game narratives.

Scaling informal learning at the workplace: A model and four designs from a large-scale design-based research effort (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 British Educational Research Association. Workplace learning happens in the process and context of work, is multi-episodic, often informal, problem based and takes place on a just-in-time basis. While this is a very effective means of delivery... Read More about Scaling informal learning at the workplace: A model and four designs from a large-scale design-based research effort.

Between physics and art: Imaging the un-image-able (2014)
Thesis

This thesis explores the ways in which art practice can engage with science, and more precisely, how my own practice interacts with scientific knowledge. The theoretical underpinning and contextual position of the practice make it particularly suited... Read More about Between physics and art: Imaging the un-image-able.

Producing Noir: Wald, Scott, Hellinger (2014)
Book Chapter

This chapter is the first to be written about the role the producer played in creating 'classic' film noir (1940-1959). It explores the work of three contrasting producers, Jerry Wald (studio-based); Adrian Scott (studio, then blacklisted; and Mark H... Read More about Producing Noir: Wald, Scott, Hellinger.

Gutmann, Amy (2014)
Book Chapter

Writing in the workplace: Variation in the writing practices and formality of eight multinational companies in Greece (2014)
Thesis

Workplace writing is a high stakes activity. It constitutes a permanent record of a company’s transactions and this has implications for both the employees involved in the production of documents and also for the company as a whole. Workplace writing... Read More about Writing in the workplace: Variation in the writing practices and formality of eight multinational companies in Greece.

Playing Puck: A study of performative action in the shaping of a 'Legend Landscape' (2014)
Thesis

This thesis engages, through visual practice and written analysis, with the British tradition of ‘thin’ places that act as thresholds between everyday circumstantial reality and the otherworldly. It does so by focusing on the complex of prehistoric m... Read More about Playing Puck: A study of performative action in the shaping of a 'Legend Landscape'.

Grammatical metaphor in English official documentation: A corpus approach to the Vietnamese translation of nominalisation (2014)
Thesis

This thesis aims to investigate grammatical metaphor in Vietnamese translations of English official documentation. Building on Halliday’s notion of grammatical metaphor and linguistic theories of translation shift, the thesis situates its argument in... Read More about Grammatical metaphor in English official documentation: A corpus approach to the Vietnamese translation of nominalisation.

On the borderland of insanity: Women, dipsomania and inebriety, 1879-1913 (2014)
Thesis

This thesis highlights the complex issues associated with women habitual drunkards and the changing perceptions of such women as sinful, as a social problem, and latterly as a threat to the nation’s health. The national situation is investigated and... Read More about On the borderland of insanity: Women, dipsomania and inebriety, 1879-1913.

The bold agency of making something out of nothing (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

From slave trade tours, music videos, activist documentary and independent journalism, Bristol has a vibrant tradition of DIY culture which links creativity to civic engagement and personal and social impacts. This talk draws on a range of examples... Read More about The bold agency of making something out of nothing.

Refugee performance: Practical encounters (2014)
Journal Article

British Poets and Secret Societies (2014)
Book

This book considers the importance of secret societies to a number of poets, including Christopher Smart, Robert Burns, William Blake, William Butler Yeats and Rudyard Kipling and considers the effectiveness of poetry as a medium for conveying secret... Read More about British Poets and Secret Societies.

Augmenting reality and formality of informal and non-formal settings to enhance blended learning (2014)
Journal Article

Visits to museums and city tours have been part of higher and secondary education curriculum activities for many years. However these activities are typically considered "less formal" when compared to those carried out in the classroom, mainly becaus... Read More about Augmenting reality and formality of informal and non-formal settings to enhance blended learning.

Family names of the United Kingdom (2014)
Other

The after-lives of the bride of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley and Shelley Jackson (2014)
Book Chapter

This chapter traces how the fragmented female monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is reintegrated within later texts. Her after-lives includes the digital reincarnation of Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl and that of the surgically modified body o... Read More about The after-lives of the bride of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley and Shelley Jackson.

She’s Been Away: Ageing, madness and memory (2014)
Book Chapter

She’s Been Away is a television drama written by Stephen Poliakoff and broadcast in the UK on the BBC in 1989. This paper discusses the ways in which the play unusually presents a feminist critique of contemporary patriarchal structures through the m... Read More about She’s Been Away: Ageing, madness and memory.

The location patterns of artistic clusters: A metro- and neighborhood-level analysis (2014)
Journal Article

Analysing census and industry data at the metro and neighbourhood levels, this paper seeks to identify the location characteristics associated with artistic clusters and determine how these characteristics vary across different places. We find that t... Read More about The location patterns of artistic clusters: A metro- and neighborhood-level analysis.

Gilbert Simondon: Causality, ontogenesis & technology (2014)
Thesis

This PhD thesis focuses on the elucidation, development and application of Gilbert Simondon's realist philosophy of individuation. In particular the thesis has three main goals: First, to provide a developed account of Simondon's ontology. Second, t... Read More about Gilbert Simondon: Causality, ontogenesis & technology.

Gentrification and the artistic dividend: The role of the arts in neighborhood change (2014)
Journal Article

Problem, research strategy, and findings: There is a conflict between recent creative placemaking policies intended to promote positive neighborhood development through the arts and the fact that the arts have long been cited as contributing to gentr... Read More about Gentrification and the artistic dividend: The role of the arts in neighborhood change.