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Panzerkampfwagen V Panther (2020)
Journal Article
Searle, D. (2020). Panzerkampfwagen V Panther. Desperta ferro. Especial, 4(XXIV), 20-27

Who's in charge? Changing character agency in early Doctor Who (2020)
Journal Article
Hewett, R. (2020). Who's in charge? Changing character agency in early Doctor Who. Series: International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, 6(1), 5-15. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2421-454X/9805

This article investigates the impact of production process upon character agency in early Doctor Who, focusing on the period between 1963 and 1966, during which time William Hartnell starred as the Doctor. As originally conceived by Sydney Newman, Ve... Read More about Who's in charge? Changing character agency in early Doctor Who.

Songs I Want To Play 11 - Everybody Wants To Rule The World (2020)
Digital Artefact
Robinson, P., & Court, A. (2020). Songs I Want To Play 11 - Everybody Wants To Rule The World. [Music Video]

Front and back idents produced for a cover of Tears For Fears' 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World' (1985) performed by SIWTP. The idents are a mix of 2D assets created in Procreate for the iPad, Photoshop, then composited in After Effects. Vocals... Read More about Songs I Want To Play 11 - Everybody Wants To Rule The World.

Re-reading Alan Moore's "lost" essay on Stan Lee and Marvel Comics (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Flanagan, M. (2020, July). Re-reading Alan Moore's "lost" essay on Stan Lee and Marvel Comics. Presented at International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference (IGNCC 2020), UAL - London and online

When Marvel UK’s The Daredevils anthology began publication under editor Bernie Jaye in the early 1980s, Alan Moore was a central contributor for several issues. Presenting its flagship character Captain Britain with art by Alan Davis, (alongside rep... Read More about Re-reading Alan Moore's "lost" essay on Stan Lee and Marvel Comics.

Playing with things : representing medieval material culture through video-games (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Hiriart, J. (2020, June). Playing with things : representing medieval material culture through video-games. Presented at The Middle Ages in Modern Games Twitter Conference, Online (Twitter)

In the same way that an empty room deprived of any objects to relate to becomes uninhabitable, an empty desert does not allow life to take place (Gibson, 1979). It is only through the perception and everyday use of the things of the world (i.e. build... Read More about Playing with things : representing medieval material culture through video-games.

Songs I Want To Play 10 – Michael McDonald Special (2020)
Digital Artefact
Court, A., & Robinson, P. (2020). Songs I Want To Play 10 – Michael McDonald Special. [Music Video]

This video is a creative re-imagination and segueing of three Michael McDonald/Doobie Brothers tracks: 'Minute by Minute', 'Sweet Freedom', and 'What a Fool Believes'. The idents were produced in 2D using frame-by-frame animation and are the author's... Read More about Songs I Want To Play 10 – Michael McDonald Special.

Strangled at birth : the One Nation ideology of Theresa May (2020)
Journal Article
Hickson, K., Page, R., & Williams, B. (2020). Strangled at birth : the One Nation ideology of Theresa May. Journal of Political Ideologies, 25(3), 334-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2020.1773074

Contemporary and retrospective evaluation of Theresa May’s premiership inevitably focuses on the division, drift and indecision which characterized it. However, this article argues that although such narratives have considerable validity, they miss a... Read More about Strangled at birth : the One Nation ideology of Theresa May.

Picturing resistance and resilience : South Asian identities in the work of Chila Kumari Burman (2020)
Journal Article
Correia, A. (2020). Picturing resistance and resilience : South Asian identities in the work of Chila Kumari Burman. Visual Culture in Britain, 21(2), 199-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2020.1760128

The issues of migration and the allocation of passports is a contentious issue in twenty-first-century Britain. This paper offers a timely assessment of Chila Kumari Burman’s diptych, Convenience, Not Love, 1986–7, which uses the passport motif to pr... Read More about Picturing resistance and resilience : South Asian identities in the work of Chila Kumari Burman.

Rich kids : a history of shopping malls in Tehran and the believers are but brothers - digital lack and excess in a postdigital age (2020)
Journal Article
Scott, J. (2020). Rich kids : a history of shopping malls in Tehran and the believers are but brothers - digital lack and excess in a postdigital age. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 16(2), 134-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2020.1761680

This article addresses two recent performances by Javaad Alipoor and Kirsty Housley - Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran (2019) and The Believers are but Brothers (2017). It argues that they represent a fresh, stripped back and interrog... Read More about Rich kids : a history of shopping malls in Tehran and the believers are but brothers - digital lack and excess in a postdigital age.

On the completeness of interface descriptions and the consistency of blocked forces obtained in-situ (2020)
Journal Article
Meggitt, J., & Moorhouse, A. (2020). On the completeness of interface descriptions and the consistency of blocked forces obtained in-situ. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 145, 106850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2020.106850

Blocked forces can be used to describe, independently, the operational characteristics of a vibratory source. Their use within a computational model avoids the need to represent explicitly the complex mechanisms that lead to vibratory excitation. T... Read More about On the completeness of interface descriptions and the consistency of blocked forces obtained in-situ.

Allen Fisher : reading 'Mummers’ Strut' (2020)
Book Chapter
Thurston, S. (2020). Allen Fisher : reading 'Mummers’ Strut'. In C. Cheek, & R. Hampson (Eds.), The Allen Fisher Companion (134-162). Swindon: Shearsman Books

In 1995, Allen Fisher published a poem entitled ‘Mummers’ Strut’ in an issue of the magazine West Coast Line, accompanied by a statement of poetics. This essay offers a close reading of the poem by investigating its multiple sources alongside Fisher... Read More about Allen Fisher : reading 'Mummers’ Strut'.

Security, scandal and the security commission report, 1981 (2020)
Journal Article
Lomas, D. (2020). Security, scandal and the security commission report, 1981. Intelligence and National Security, 35(5), 734-750. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2020.1740387

This research note introduces the December 1981 report of the Security Commission. This report was never released with the main conclusions forming the basis of a statement by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, published in May 1982. But the 1981 repo... Read More about Security, scandal and the security commission report, 1981.

Technology in sports organizations (2020)
Book Chapter
Slack, T., & Miah, A. (2021). Technology in sports organizations. In T. Slack, T. Byers, & A. Thurston (Eds.), Understanding sport organizations : applications for sport managers (3rd edition) (377-394). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics

Turds, traitors and tossers : the abuse of UK MPs via Twitter (2020)
Journal Article
Ward, S., & Mcloughlin, L. (2020). Turds, traitors and tossers : the abuse of UK MPs via Twitter. Journal of Legislative Studies, 26(1), 47-73. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2020.1730502

There has been growing public attention around the abuse of MPs online including criminal convictions for violent threats, regular coverage of racist and misogynistic language directed at representatives. Yet, the extent of the problem and patterns o... Read More about Turds, traitors and tossers : the abuse of UK MPs via Twitter.

Drones : the brilliant, the bad and the beautiful (2020)
Book
Miah, A. (2020). Drones : the brilliant, the bad and the beautiful. Bingley: Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781838679859

Against the backdrop of an increasingly dynamic world, driven by rapid digital innovation and technological advances, drones are becoming prolific within society. In this book, Andy Miah delivers a comprehensive analysis of the wide-reaching applicat... Read More about Drones : the brilliant, the bad and the beautiful.

Scaling up the UK personal lending CDFI sector : from £20m to £200m in lending by 2027 (2020)
Report
Dayson, K., Vik, P., & Curtis, J. (2020). Scaling up the UK personal lending CDFI sector : from £20m to £200m in lending by 2027

This report analysed the social and financial performance of the UK personal lending CDFI sector using data for 2014-17. It also discussed the levers and potential for the sector to significantly scale up to provide £200m in annual lending in a ten-y... Read More about Scaling up the UK personal lending CDFI sector : from £20m to £200m in lending by 2027.