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Thomas Hardy’s tragic vision: Writing towards proto-modernist modes of fiction (2016)
Thesis
Prentice, N. (in press). Thomas Hardy’s tragic vision: Writing towards proto-modernist modes of fiction. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/914817

This thesis offers a narratorial and textual examination of the tragic in Hardy’s fiction and uncovers how his tragic vision of a changing world led him into proto-modernist forms of writing. By first positing Hardy within his milieu and exploring th... Read More about Thomas Hardy’s tragic vision: Writing towards proto-modernist modes of fiction.

An Imperialist at bay: Leo Amery at the India Office, 1940 - 1945 (2016)
Thesis
Whittington, D. An Imperialist at bay: Leo Amery at the India Office, 1940 - 1945. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/914353

Pressure for Indian independence had been building up throughout the early decades of the twentieth century, initially through the efforts of the Indian National Congress, but also later, when matters were complicated by an increasingly vocal Muslim... Read More about An Imperialist at bay: Leo Amery at the India Office, 1940 - 1945.

Art, aesthetics and supplementarity: Re-evaluating the distinctions between the work of art and supporting material (2016)
Thesis
Walton, J. S. Art, aesthetics and supplementarity: Re-evaluating the distinctions between the work of art and supporting material. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/914340

This thesis analyses the importance of supplementary material for art history and philosophy by addressing its shifting and problematic relationship to the ‘work of art’. Through the use of philosophical and critical theories, including Heidegger, Be... Read More about Art, aesthetics and supplementarity: Re-evaluating the distinctions between the work of art and supporting material.

Social recognition provision patterns in professional Q&A forums in Healthcare and Construction (2016)
Journal Article
Pata, K., Santos, P., & Burchert, J. (2016). Social recognition provision patterns in professional Q&A forums in Healthcare and Construction. Computers in Human Behavior, 55(A), 571-583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.06.046

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. For some decades, professional Q&A forums have been used as a mainstream way of sharing practices between novices and experts. Several forums have had time to develop their own communities and habits, which m... Read More about Social recognition provision patterns in professional Q&A forums in Healthcare and Construction.

Language and resistance: Memories of transatlantic slavery, and its continuing afterlives in the use of Rastafari language and terminology (2016)
Book Chapter
Sobers, S. (2016). Language and resistance: Memories of transatlantic slavery, and its continuing afterlives in the use of Rastafari language and terminology. In J. Gill, & J. O'Connell Davidson (Eds.), Slavery: Memory and Afterlives (60-63). Open Democracy

This article discusses how language within the Rastafari culture, known as Iyaric, or Word Sound, has been formed in resistance to the effects of white supremacist domination in the forms of slavery and colonialization. It explores how Rastafari ter... Read More about Language and resistance: Memories of transatlantic slavery, and its continuing afterlives in the use of Rastafari language and terminology.

Predicting IELTS ratings using vocabulary measures (2016)
Thesis
Demetriou, T. Predicting IELTS ratings using vocabulary measures. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/918329

This thesis addresses the relationship between vocabulary measures and IELTS ratings. The research questions focus on the relationship between measures of lexical richness and teacher ratings. The specific question the thesis seeks to address is: Whi... Read More about Predicting IELTS ratings using vocabulary measures.

Three phases of mobile learning state-of-the-art and case of mobile Help Seeking tool for the Healthcare sector (2016)
Book Chapter
Cook, J., & Santos, P. (2016). Three phases of mobile learning state-of-the-art and case of mobile Help Seeking tool for the Healthcare sector. In B. Fox, T. K. F. Chiu, J. Lu, & D. Churchill (Eds.), Mobile Learning Design: Theories and Applications. Springer

The Internet-mobile device enabled social networks of today stand accused of being so called 'weapons of mass distraction' or worse. However, we point out that modern fears about the dangers of social networking are overdone. The paper goes on to pre... Read More about Three phases of mobile learning state-of-the-art and case of mobile Help Seeking tool for the Healthcare sector.

Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal (2016)
Book
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2016). Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press

Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, this book reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation, opera... Read More about Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal.

Aesthetica Art Prize 2016 (2016)
Digital Artefact
Chamberlain, I. (2016). Aesthetica Art Prize 2016

I was long listed for Aesthetica Art Prize 2016. There is also a publication 'Future Now', My work is on page 128-129. Future Now Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology 2016 A celebration of innovation and originality, the Aesthetica Art Prize ant... Read More about Aesthetica Art Prize 2016.

Towards an understanding of contextual features that influence the linguistic formality of British Sign Language users (2015)
Journal Article
Rudge, L. (2015). Towards an understanding of contextual features that influence the linguistic formality of British Sign Language users. Functional Linguistics, 2(11), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40554-015-0023-8

This paper seeks to understand linguistic formality through the identification and measurement of contextual features. Using an adapted sociometric methodology to combine systemic functional linguistics and sign linguistics, a survey identifies the e... Read More about Towards an understanding of contextual features that influence the linguistic formality of British Sign Language users.

EDITORIAL: Ideas in mobile learning (2015)
Journal Article
Cook, J., Mor, Y., & Santos, P. (2015). EDITORIAL: Ideas in mobile learning. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 1(18), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.5334/jime.aw

The contributions for this Special Collection on ‘Ideas in Mobile Learning’ expand on the trends explored in the successful ‘Bristol Ideas in Mobile Learning Symposium’ which ran on the 6th and 7th March, 2014 (see Cloudworks, 2014; BIML, 2014). Four... Read More about EDITORIAL: Ideas in mobile learning.

Investigating social presence in the voice-based chat room and the text-based forum in the Chinese online learning context (2015)
Thesis
Investigating social presence in the voice-based chat room and the text-based forum in the Chinese online learning context. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/804666

Social presence has long been considered to be a key factor in enhancing learning in online contexts (Garrison, Anderson & Archer, 2000; Gunawardena & Zittle, 1997; Kehrwald, 2010; Ko, 2012; Tu, 2002b). New modes of online interaction, however, requi... Read More about Investigating social presence in the voice-based chat room and the text-based forum in the Chinese online learning context.

The zone of possibility in citizen led ‘hybrid cities’ (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Cook, J., Lander, R., & Flaxton, T. (2015, September). The zone of possibility in citizen led ‘hybrid cities’. Paper presented at Workshop on Smart Learning Ecosystems in Smart Regions and Cities, Toledo, Spain

The work reported in this position paper explores the development of citizen led ‘hybrid cities’ in which augmented and social web technologies mediate learning and innovation in what we term the Zone of Possibility. An example of a Hybrid Stokes Cro... Read More about The zone of possibility in citizen led ‘hybrid cities’.

Primary pre-service teachers and engineering students learning to teach science - A match made in heaven or hell? (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Lewis, F., Edmonds, J., & Fogg-Rogers, L. A. (2015, September). Primary pre-service teachers and engineering students learning to teach science - A match made in heaven or hell?. Paper presented at European Conference on Educational Research - Education and Transition, Budapest, Hungary

The ‘Children as Engineers’ project brought together 10 primary Initial Teacher Training students and 10 Under-Graduate Engineering students to teach one of ten design challenges to 300 children in classrooms using the European ‘Engineer’ materials.... Read More about Primary pre-service teachers and engineering students learning to teach science - A match made in heaven or hell?.

Growth of conventions shows geeks have always wanted to meet up IRL (2015)
Journal Article
MacCallum-Stewart, E. (2015). Growth of conventions shows geeks have always wanted to meet up IRL

A discussion of the rise of fan conventions, and the positive connections these build between fandom, academia and gaming / science fiction and fantasy gaming professionals

Questioning preconceived notions about organized crime: an interview with Petrus C. van Duyne (2015)
Journal Article
Woodiwiss, M. (2015). Questioning preconceived notions about organized crime: an interview with Petrus C. van Duyne. Trends in Organized Crime, 18(1-2), 118-127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-015-9244-1

© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This email interview with Petrus C. van Duyne was conducted during 2014. It discusses van Duyne’s background, influences, career and current thinking and activities from his graduate and postgraduate... Read More about Questioning preconceived notions about organized crime: an interview with Petrus C. van Duyne.

Fifty years investigating institutional corruption and organized crime: an interview with Selwyn Raab (2015)
Journal Article
Woodiwiss, M. (2015). Fifty years investigating institutional corruption and organized crime: an interview with Selwyn Raab. Trends in Organized Crime, 18(1-2), 74-85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-015-9248-x

© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This email interview with Selwyn Raab was conducted during 2014. It discusses Raab’s background, influences, career and current thinking and activities from his experiences as a student journalist dur... Read More about Fifty years investigating institutional corruption and organized crime: an interview with Selwyn Raab.