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The language of mental illness: corpus linguistics and the construction of mental illness in the press (2022)
Book
Price, H. (2022). The language of mental illness: corpus linguistics and the construction of mental illness in the press. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Mental health is a matter of vital importance in today's society, with the news media reporting on the topic on an almost daily basis. Despite this, the language associated with mental health has to date been relatively under-explored. Using methods... Read More about The language of mental illness: corpus linguistics and the construction of mental illness in the press.

Critiquing neo-colonial conceptions of ‘vulnerability’ through Kaona in Mary Kawena Pūku’i’s “The Pounded Water of Kekela” (2022)
Journal Article
Barnes, E. (2022). Critiquing neo-colonial conceptions of ‘vulnerability’ through Kaona in Mary Kawena Pūku’i’s “The Pounded Water of Kekela”. Transmotion, 8(1), 98-128

Recent scholarship outlines in no uncertain terms that the Pacific Island regions are already experiencing the effects of climate change (George 113; Bryant-Tokalau 3; Showalter, Lόpez-Carr and Ervin 50; McLeod et al, 5). It is Indigenous women in th... Read More about Critiquing neo-colonial conceptions of ‘vulnerability’ through Kaona in Mary Kawena Pūku’i’s “The Pounded Water of Kekela”.

‘Too uncompromising a figure to be so disposed of’ : Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner (2022)
Journal Article
Munslow Ong, J. (2022). ‘Too uncompromising a figure to be so disposed of’ : Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner. English Studies in Africa, 65(1), 31-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2022.2055855

In her 1925 review of an edited collection of Olive Schreiner’s letters, Virginia Woolf described Schreiner as ‘too uncompromising a figure to be so disposed of’. Prompted by this intriguing comment, this article brings Woolf’s late-1920s writings in... Read More about ‘Too uncompromising a figure to be so disposed of’ : Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner.

Digital Society (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Miah, A. (2022, April). Digital Society. Presented at Connected North, Manchester

Podcast 2 with Alaric Searle; Ukraine - Day 58 (2022)
Digital Artefact
Searle, D. (2022). Podcast 2 with Alaric Searle; Ukraine - Day 58. [YouTube (online)]

Ed Nash discussion with Alaric Searle on the first weeks of the war in Ukraine, the significant military developments and the wider politics of the conflict.

The Future of Esports (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Miah, A. (2022, April). The Future of Esports. Presented at ESIC Global Esports Summit, London

Esports and Education (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Miah, A. (2022, March). Esports and Education. Presented at BETT, London

Municipal matters : local government reporting and news values in England’s provincial press, 1900-1950 (2022)
Journal Article
O'Reilly, C. (2022). Municipal matters : local government reporting and news values in England’s provincial press, 1900-1950. Media History, https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2022.2051461

This study examines local government reporting in the English provincial press from 1900 to 1950. It has two main findings – firstly, that the press moved from verbatim council reports in the early part of the century to selective news stories that... Read More about Municipal matters : local government reporting and news values in England’s provincial press, 1900-1950.

Word norms and measures of linguistic reclamation for LGBTQ+ slurs (2022)
Journal Article
Edmondson, D. (2022). Word norms and measures of linguistic reclamation for LGBTQ+ slurs. Pragmatics and Cognition, 28(1), 193-221. https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.00023.edm

While databases of taboo language word norms exist, none focus specifically on slurs as a category of taboo language. Furthermore, no existing databases include measures of linguistic reclamation, a phenomenon which may specifically affect the proces... Read More about Word norms and measures of linguistic reclamation for LGBTQ+ slurs.

GameLab (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Miah, A. GameLab. Exhibited at Manchester. 11 March 2022 - 13 March 2022. (Unpublished)

Demonstration of research into virtual reality

Esports and Our Phygital Future (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Miah, A. (2022, March). Esports and Our Phygital Future. Presented at Digital City Festival, Manchester

The Digital City Festival was a fantastic array of conversations about all things digital. My talk covered esports and where the technology is taking us

Celebrating women in global cinema: curating a year-long programming initiative at HOME, Manchester (2022)
Book Chapter
Willis, A., & Hayward, R. (2022). Celebrating women in global cinema: curating a year-long programming initiative at HOME, Manchester. In L. Tsitsou, H. Rana, & B. Wessels (Eds.), The Formation of Film Audiences: Conference Proceedings. University of Sheffield: The Digital Humanities Institute

This paper will discuss our curation of Celebrating Women in Global Cinema (CWinGC), a unique year-long programming initiative that took place across 2019 (and into 2020) at HOME, Manchester. It begins by outlining HOME’s cinema offer, identifying ho... Read More about Celebrating women in global cinema: curating a year-long programming initiative at HOME, Manchester.

The baritone horn : an exploration of historical and contemporary repertoire (2022)
Thesis
Richardson, R. The baritone horn : an exploration of historical and contemporary repertoire. (Dissertation). University of Salford

The title of this portfolio, ‘The Baritone Horn: An exploration of historical and contemporary repertoire’, represents the mission behind the three projects that make up my course of study. The aim behind these is to enhance the status of the barit... Read More about The baritone horn : an exploration of historical and contemporary repertoire.

Ed Nash interview with Prof Alaric Searle on Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022)
Digital Artefact
Searle, D. (2022). Ed Nash interview with Prof Alaric Searle on Russian invasion of Ukraine. [YouTube (online)]

A discussion with Ed Nash on the likely course of the conflict recorded on Thursday, 24 February 2022, the first day of combat operations at the start of the Russian Federation's "Special Military Operation." Podcast format broadcast on Ed Nash YouTu... Read More about Ed Nash interview with Prof Alaric Searle on Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Affective space : a conceptual and practical approach to cinematography (2022)
Journal Article
Prokopic, P. (2022). Affective space : a conceptual and practical approach to cinematography

This article seeks to provide a theoretical justification and context to the understanding of cinematography as affective space, both in the aesthetic effects in the film image and in how this understanding can inform a specific approach to cinematog... Read More about Affective space : a conceptual and practical approach to cinematography.

'Coming Home to "Legacy"': Marvel's Problem with History (2022)
Book Chapter
Flanagan, M. (2022). 'Coming Home to "Legacy"': Marvel's Problem with History. In D. L. Alexander, M. Goodrum, & P. Smith (Eds.), Drawing the Past: Comics and the Historical Imagination, Vol. 1. (1). Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi

The pro-business effects of paramilitary terror in Colombia : appreciating different types of political violence and their economic impacts (2021)
Book Chapter
Colombia : appreciating different types of political violence and their economic impacts. In J. Hristov, J. Sprague-Silgado, & A. Tauss (Eds.), Paramilitary Groups and the State under Globalization : political violence, elites, and security (35-52). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429279430-4

Scholarly investigations into conflict and development have typically highlighted the acutely negative economic effects of political violence. This includes terrorism, which, according to the relevant literature, can have deeply inimical effects on e... Read More about The pro-business effects of paramilitary terror in Colombia : appreciating different types of political violence and their economic impacts.

Decolonising the English Literature GCE A-Level via the South African ex-centric (2021)
Journal Article
Munslow Ong, J. (2021). Decolonising the English Literature GCE A-Level via the South African ex-centric. English, 70(270), 244-252. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efab009

In this snapshot article, I outline the background and context for the development of research-led teaching activities aimed at students pursuing the WJEC Eduqas GCE A-Level English Literature qualification. The aims of these activities are threefold... Read More about Decolonising the English Literature GCE A-Level via the South African ex-centric.