This project aims to widen out the current debates on students’ attitudes to university culture and look at the other crucial players in this field: the tutors themselves.
The project builds on previous research in the faculty into students’ assu...
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A report of the first international WT1 meeting, university of manchester UK, 2008
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pigs, eels and insects: Re-assessing the legacy of Shohei Imamura. 15 October - 8 November 2009.
Other
This retrospective festival took place in October and November, 2009 at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol. It was co-curated by Patrick Crogan, Jasper Sharp and Alastair Cameron. 8 Films by the dual Palme d'Or winning Japanese filmmaker were screened.... Read More about Pigs, eels and insects: Re-assessing the legacy of Shohei Imamura. 15 October - 8 November 2009..
Judgement and decision-making
Book Chapter
The purpose of this Executive Summary is not to provide a comprehensive summation of all the observations and conclusions identified during this study but rather provide a synopsis of the main findings of this independent review. The points raised in... Read More about An independent review of monitoring measures undertaken in Neath Port Talbot in respect of particulate matter (PM10).
Function over form: A basic dilema in the evolution of social robots
Presentation / Conference Contribution
In the near future, robots and automations are expected to enter into our daily lives for service and assistance to humans. But the question is, are these systems actually designed to interact with people in every day setting? In this paper, we focus... Read More about Function over form: A basic dilema in the evolution of social robots.
Evolving science communication: learn, adapt, collaborate
Preprint / Working Paper
In March 2009 the Science Communication Unit (SCU) at the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE) hosted a symposium to investigate key issues around transferability and sustainability in science communication and public engagement. The symp... Read More about Evolving science communication: learn, adapt, collaborate.
Implementation of an IR approach for autonomous docking in a self-configurable robotics system
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper presents an IR approach to the development of a sensor system which enables robots to autonomously dock with each other to form complex morphologies.
The system includes three sub-units with different operational ranges: a short range pro... Read More about Implementation of an IR approach for autonomous docking in a self-configurable robotics system.
Integrated children’s services: Evaluating practice to support learning for new roles
Report
The Every Child Matters agenda is leading to significant change for the children’s workforce. Higher Education can play a significant role in this process, appropriately aligning student learning with the new ways of working. However, it has been not... Read More about Integrated children’s services: Evaluating practice to support learning for new roles.
Personal services: Debating the wisdom of personalisation
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Personalisation has been seen as the answer to the vast quantity of information now available digitally. Information is tailored to meet each user’s apparent needs, whether making use of Web-based learning materials, purchasing from online sites, acc... Read More about Personal services: Debating the wisdom of personalisation.
Nietzsche contra Caillois: Beyond play and games
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Roger Caillois' Man, Play and Games is a seminal book in Game Studies and his taxonomy of play and games has framed much of the debate while the field has been active. However this book was published half a century ago and does not provide much help... Read More about Nietzsche contra Caillois: Beyond play and games.
Preparatory study for a seminar on rural-urban linkages fostering social cohesion
Preprint / Working Paper
Paper discusses the ways in which urban-rural linkages can be conceptualised, can be supported through public policy and can support the policy outcome of both social and territorial cohesion.
Evaluating description and reference strategies in a cooperative human-robot dialogue system
Presentation / Conference Contribution
We present a human-robot dialogue system that enables a robot to work together with a human user to build wooden construction toys. We then describe a study which assessed the responses of na¨ıve users to output that varied along two dimensions: the... Read More about Evaluating description and reference strategies in a cooperative human-robot dialogue system.
Place, leadership and community empowerment in a globalising world
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Place, leadership and community empowerment in a globalising world
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Non-rigid elastic registration of retinal images using local window mutual information
Presentation / Conference Contribution
In this paper we consider the problem of non-rigid retinal image registration between colour fundus photographs and Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope (SLO) images. Registration would allow for cross-comparison between modalities, giving both appearence a... Read More about Non-rigid elastic registration of retinal images using local window mutual information.
'Girls into physics - action research' research briefing
Preprint / Working Paper