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What they think in Worktown : using photography to create a participatory archive (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Edge, C. (2014, May). What they think in Worktown : using photography to create a participatory archive. Presented at Anthropology and Photography Conference, Royal Anthropological Institute, British Museum

In 1937 Mass Observation went to Bolton to study ‘the cannibals of the north’. Photographers and artists worked alongside trained and untrained participant observers to create an ‘anthropology of ourselves’. Whilst artists were accorded the status o... Read More about What they think in Worktown : using photography to create a participatory archive.

What they photograph in Worktown : participatory photography and Saturday afternoons in Bolton (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Edge, C. (2014, April). What they photograph in Worktown : participatory photography and Saturday afternoons in Bolton. Presented at Recording Leisure Lives 2014, University of Bolton

In 1937 Humphrey Spender photographed leisure in Bolton for Mass Observation’s Worktown study. MO recruited local people as participant observers but community involvement was fairly limited and the project has been subsequently characterised as a po... Read More about What they photograph in Worktown : participatory photography and Saturday afternoons in Bolton.

Comedy live – creativity in stand up (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Moore, L. (2013, December). Comedy live – creativity in stand up. Presented at Writing Funny - language, creativity and comedy Seminar 3 Comedy Live – creativity in stand up, Senate House, University of London

Stand-up is a special form of comedy as it involves the audience perhaps more than any other genre. In this session we will explore the nature of stand-up versus other forms of comedy. Questions will also focus on the role of writing in stand-up, how... Read More about Comedy live – creativity in stand up.

Context is half the work : The live brief in fine art education (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Randall, J. (2013, September). Context is half the work : The live brief in fine art education. Presented at 'Paradox' Fine Art European Forum Biennial Conference: The Inheritance: Contesting Legacies in Fine Art Practice, Research and Education, Granada, Spain

Jill Randall, Senior Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Visual Arts Course in the School of Arts & Media, has just returned from presenting a paper at “Paradox”- the Fine Art European Forum Conference, “The Inheritance: Contesting Legacies in Fine Art Practic... Read More about Context is half the work : The live brief in fine art education.

The language-specific nature of phonological categories: evidence from the interaction of laryngographic closed quotient values with manner of articulation (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Heselwood, B., Watson, J. C., Al-Azraqi, M., Naim, S., & Maghrabi, R. (2013, July). The language-specific nature of phonological categories: evidence from the interaction of laryngographic closed quotient values with manner of articulation. Poster presented at LabPhon 13, Stuttgart

We present laryngographic data from four speakers of English English (EE), four speakers of Western Libyan Arabic (WLA), and four speakers of South-West Saudi-Arabian Arabic (SWSA) producing words ending in VC. They were recorded to capture synchroni... Read More about The language-specific nature of phonological categories: evidence from the interaction of laryngographic closed quotient values with manner of articulation.

Ruskin, geology and mountains : the future of game design (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ali, U. (2013, June). Ruskin, geology and mountains : the future of game design. Presented at Research, Innovation and Enterprise Exchange, Manchester, England

Dr Umran Ali of the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford presented a PechaKucha-style session at the Research, Innovation and Enterprise Exchange on 28 March 2013

Presentation on research residency : Tate Britain archive (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Randall, J. (2013, June). Presentation on research residency : Tate Britain archive. Presented at Sabattical Presentation, University of Salford, Allerton Lecture Theatre, University of Salford

Jill Randall has recently undertaken a research project at Tate Britain, studying the APG (Artist Placement Group) Archive during a 3-month Sabbatical from the University of Salford, where she is Senior Lecturer on the B.A. Visual Arts Course and L... Read More about Presentation on research residency : Tate Britain archive.