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Failure toolkit (2021)
Data

Supporting our Failure Freedom initiative, this toolkit provides some practical exercises and templates to consider failure and flipping this into a more positive narrative.

Tin mining degradation : autobiographical investigations of home, loss and identity (2021)
Thesis
Suwa Gbolagun, V. Tin mining degradation : autobiographical investigations of home, loss and identity. (Thesis). University of Salford

Tin mining on the Jos Plateau was the major income earner in Nigeria before petroleum was discovered in the Niger Delta region in 1958. The excavation for tin left the Plateau landscape environmentally depleted, with over forty-six per cent of its la... Read More about Tin mining degradation : autobiographical investigations of home, loss and identity.

Images from 'In the Making' (2020)
Digital Artefact
Hurley, U. (2020). Images from 'In the Making'. [Photographs]

A set of images generated as documents of the processes and products of 'In the making': a co-constructed mapping and feasibility study of digital fabrication labs and their potential to catalyse cultural change. ‘In the Making’ is an AHRC Connected... Read More about Images from 'In the Making'.

Online presence for the In the Making Project (2020)
Data

These web pages document the online coverage and presence of the AHRC Connected Communities project In the Making: a co-constructed mapping and feasibility study of digital fabrication labs and their potential to catalyse cultural change. project.

Printing a new story : self-representation, disability, and digital fabrication (2019)
Journal Article
Hurley, U. (2019). Printing a new story : self-representation, disability, and digital fabrication. European journal of life writing, 8(2019), DM171-DM196. https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.8.35555

This essay presents an account of an AHRC Connected Communities Innovation project which used creative writing techniques as a process for generating personally meaningful digitally-fabricated objects, probing the potential
of making practices to ca... Read More about Printing a new story : self-representation, disability, and digital fabrication.

Dismember the past (2019)
Thesis
Gregory, S. (in press). Dismember the past. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis is a creative literary biography, or historiographic metafiction, of the life and works of writer and composer Anthony Burgess (1917-1993). The text consists of two synchronous narratives: a fictionalised account of Burgess’ life as a wri... Read More about Dismember the past.

“The embodiment of pure thought”? Digital fabrication, disability and new possibilities for auto/biography (2018)
Journal Article

This essay draws on findings from a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council project: “In the Making” (AH/M006026/1) to argue that the digital turn in art therapy – particularly 3D printing – makes possible new forms of disability agency, engaging pos... Read More about “The embodiment of pure thought”? Digital fabrication, disability and new possibilities for auto/biography.

Strategies for connecting low income communities to the creative economy through play : two case studies in Northern England (2018)
Journal Article
Symons, J., & Hurley, U. (2018). Strategies for connecting low income communities to the creative economy through play : two case studies in Northern England. Creative Industries Journal, 11(2), 121-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/17510694.2018.1453770

This ground-breaking research defines a new approach for engaging low income and
disenfranchised communities in the creative economy. The authors propose that
demystifying creativity and reframing it as an adaptive productive process can lead to a... Read More about Strategies for connecting low income communities to the creative economy through play : two case studies in Northern England.