Outputs (101)

Unpacking the university-creative economy assemblage: The discourses, dynamics and possibilities of creative R&D programmes (2025)
Journal Article

The UK government's Creative Industries Sector Vision identifies the creative industries as a growth engine, supporting the state's ambition for the UK to be a global innovation hub and foregrounding the role of universities ‘to champion spin-outs’ a... Read More about Unpacking the university-creative economy assemblage: The discourses, dynamics and possibilities of creative R&D programmes.

On the road again: Travelling with the artist’s book triennial vilnius (2025)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman speaks with Lithuanian-based artist Kestutis Vasiliunas, curator of the Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius as it celebrates its 30th year with a touring exhibition and events programme for its 10th edition, themed: “To Be”. The aim of the T... Read More about On the road again: Travelling with the artist’s book triennial vilnius.

The ink that glows (2025)
Journal Article

This article for the journal of the Society of Wood Engravers, documents the initial findings of my research into oil-based glazes and the potential for them to be combined with traditional wood engraving. The article is a slightly more in-depth and... Read More about The ink that glows.

Can science comics aid lay audiences' comprehension of forensic science? (2025)
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Forensic science has become a standard feature in criminal investigations and trials. However, it can often be a challenge for experts in courtrooms to communicate scientific evidence clearly to lay audiences through verbal expert witness testimony a... Read More about Can science comics aid lay audiences' comprehension of forensic science?.

Material mimesis (2025)
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This article documents the initial findings of my research into oil-based glazes and the potential for them to be combined with traditional wood engraving. In this project, funded by a UWE Bristol ‘RIS research grant’, I reworked traditional glazing... Read More about Material mimesis.

Convenors’ note – Biotextiles and sustainable textiles (2024)
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The environmental implications of textile practice are a critical consideration for contemporary design and research. As an industry where toxicity, pollution, waste, and resource depletion are devastating problems, alongside exploitative use of reso... Read More about Convenors’ note – Biotextiles and sustainable textiles.

What do policymakers need to know about harassment in the metaverse? (2024)
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As immersive technologies and spatial computing paradigms move into the mainstream, public and political interest in the metaverse is growing. In some respects, the metaverse offers an exciting view of the future, one in which a global community can... Read More about What do policymakers need to know about harassment in the metaverse?.

Capturing and cultivating print & book craft practices in the UK (2024)
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The type of intensive training previously needed for crafts in the printing trade is now redundant, but as craft practices are added biannually to Heritage Craft’s UK Red List of Endangered Crafts, there is a pressing need to preserve skills whilst a... Read More about Capturing and cultivating print & book craft practices in the UK.

The Torchbearers (2024)
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Sarah Bodman talks to Natalie Renganeschi at Women’s Studio Workshop about the upcoming anniversary and travelling exhibition.

An idea-packed guide for scientists teaching communication skills (2024)
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Teaching Science Students to Communicate: A Practical Guide is aimed at scientists who want to teach science students transferrable communication skills. It starts with a rallying cry and is filled with creative ideas for teaching sessions with top t... Read More about An idea-packed guide for scientists teaching communication skills.

Building and sustaining freelance careers in a small nation: The case of Cardiff’s film and television industries (2024)
Journal Article

Often characterised as an occupational group of highly skilled, responsive, resilient and creative individuals, freelancers make a vital contribution to the strength and sustainability of film and television production. Freelancers are both intrinsic... Read More about Building and sustaining freelance careers in a small nation: The case of Cardiff’s film and television industries.

Family ties (2023)
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Family Ties - Artist Terrie Reddish explains to Sarah Bodman how book artists in New Zealand are building creative connections and book arts’ networks

Women in Print I and Women in Print 2 (2023)
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Review of Women in Print I and Women in Print 2. Each book consists of essays written by individual researchers, designers, historians, librarians, curators and artists offering a range of voices exploring women's roles in printing history. These two... Read More about Women in Print I and Women in Print 2.

Cruising the archive: Discovering a queer methodology (2023)
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As an artist researcher I am exploring how I orientate my queer body in an archival space. The focus of this article is how my discursive body negotiates archival relations, conflating ‘cruising’ as a method, seeking through intrigue and desire, maki... Read More about Cruising the archive: Discovering a queer methodology.

Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants (2023)
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Two of the most significant cases of extant 16th-century featherwork from Mexico are the so-called Moctezuma’s headdress and the Ahuizotl shield. While the feathers used in these artworks exhibit lightfast colors, their assembly comprises mainly orga... Read More about Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants.

Twisting clay - Creative research to explore the complex rheology in ceramic extrusion (2023)
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This paper details practice-based research exploring new creative possibilities involving the ceramic extrusion process. The paper begins by providing a short overview of the extrusion technique, its charac-teristics and some contextual coverage of t... Read More about Twisting clay - Creative research to explore the complex rheology in ceramic extrusion.

Signs of the times (2023)
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Sarah Bodman on reading the ongoing, environmentally-focused works encompassing Termómetos Project from Mexican artist Ireri Topete.

Disability rights and robotics: Co-producing futures (2023)
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People with lived experience of disability, family carers, students and academics in robotics and social sciences came together as co-researchers to ask: How can robotics technology support disability rights? How can co-production research be develop... Read More about Disability rights and robotics: Co-producing futures.

World Book Night United Artists - Stories of and strategies for experimental, collaborative publishing (2023)
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Sarah Bodman reflects on 13 years of Bookarts at UWE Bristol's World Book Night (WBN) project; a text and image / artists' books-based event which has evolved from an initial collaboration with the artist and poet Nancy Campbell into an annual, inter... Read More about World Book Night United Artists - Stories of and strategies for experimental, collaborative publishing.

Automated progress measurement using computer vision technology in UK construction (2023)
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A critical concern with the UK's construction project progress monitoring and control techniques is their dependency on data collection, which is time consuming and unproductive and may lead to various circumstances in managing projects. However, col... Read More about Automated progress measurement using computer vision technology in UK construction.