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‘But not for him. Just by him’: Hungarian landscapes and women’s time in the short fiction of Anna T. Szabó and Krisztina Tóth (2025)
Journal Article

Contemporary Hungarian women writers use the short form as a feminist intervention in current gender politics. Creating space in which to explore alternatives to patriarchal cultures and illiberal political movements, they deploy physical and imagina... Read More about ‘But not for him. Just by him’: Hungarian landscapes and women’s time in the short fiction of Anna T. Szabó and Krisztina Tóth.

Words from World Watchers: experiences of the occult in Mauritius (2024)
Thesis

This study investigates the occult experiences of Mauritians through an experimental novel- length narrative including elements of the roman-à-clef, short story, poetry, and script, accompanied by complementary discourses. This research has been carr... Read More about Words from World Watchers: experiences of the occult in Mauritius.

Dolly: A Voice from the Asylum (2024)
Thesis

During my initial visit to the abandoned building of Lancaster Moor Asylum, I stood peering
through the padlocked railings steadying my hands to take photographs that captured a lost
world. Further research led me to the black-and-white photograph... Read More about Dolly: A Voice from the Asylum.

Flipping Failure: A case study on building resilience and confidence through 'Failureship Strategies' in theory and practice at the University of Salford. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents the Flipping Failure project, which aims to challenge the negative perception of failure and promote its benefits for building resilience, insight, and action. The project involved students and staff who participated in failure-fo... Read More about Flipping Failure: A case study on building resilience and confidence through 'Failureship Strategies' in theory and practice at the University of Salford..

Flipping Failure: A case study on building resilience and confidence through 'Failureship Strategies' in theory and practiceat the University of Salford (2024)
Journal Article
Whitnall, D., & Hurley, U. (2024). Flipping Failure: A case study on building resilience and confidence through 'Failureship Strategies' in theory and practiceat the University of Salford. Innovative practice in higher education, 5(3), 1-23

This paper presents the Flipping Failure project, which aims to challenge the negative perception of failure and promote its benefits for building resilience, insight, and action. The project involved students and staff who participated in failure-fo... Read More about Flipping Failure: A case study on building resilience and confidence through 'Failureship Strategies' in theory and practiceat the University of Salford.

What happens next: radical creative writing symposium list of abstracts (2023)
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What Happens Next: Radical Creative Writing as an Act of Research

10 – 4 Wednesday 21 June 2023

The University of Salford (online and in-person)

This event considered effective ways of framing radical creative writing as an act of resear... Read More about What happens next: radical creative writing symposium list of abstracts.

“WindVision: in conversation about a PhD journey from film theory to experimental essay (with PhD supervisor, Ursula Hurley)” (2023)
Digital Artefact
Hurley, U., & Neis, D. (2023). “WindVision: in conversation about a PhD journey from film theory to experimental essay (with PhD supervisor, Ursula Hurley)”. [Video]

Former candidate and supervisor hold a reflective conversation in which they consider their PhD journey from a conventional film theory thesis towards a spiralling constellation of unfilmable scripts, circular poems, and personal essay, with a casset... Read More about “WindVision: in conversation about a PhD journey from film theory to experimental essay (with PhD supervisor, Ursula Hurley)”.

It is for pleasure, not for my English: Insights into Indonesian adolescent online story readers (2023)
Journal Article
Setia Sari, W., Faruk, K., & Hurley, U. (2023). It is for pleasure, not for my English: Insights into Indonesian adolescent online story readers. #Journal not on list, 13(2), 430-442. https://doi.org/10.17509/ijal.v13i2.63076

Reading motivation has been extensively studied in online reading settings. However, not much is known about what makes people want to read fiction online, especially in a foreign-language setting. As part of the growth of digital literature and cybe... Read More about It is for pleasure, not for my English: Insights into Indonesian adolescent online story readers.

Writing-As-Shadow-Work: An Aesthetics of Jungian Psychoanalysis (2023)
Thesis

Taking a personal experience of Jungian psychoanalysis as a starting point, Writing-As-Shadow-Work: An Aesthetics of Jungian Psychoanalysis shows how I integrated the concepts and practice of Jungian psychoanalysis with creative life writing to devel... Read More about Writing-As-Shadow-Work: An Aesthetics of Jungian Psychoanalysis.

Session 1: Experience Decolonising across disciplines in postgraduate research and supervision (April 2023) (2023)
Digital Artefact

Title: South African Literature, Decolonisation, and the English Literature A-Level

Summary: In this lecture and Q+A, Jade will discuss what 'decolonising the curriculum' might mean for the discipline of English Studies. Drawing on examples from h... Read More about Session 1: Experience Decolonising across disciplines in postgraduate research and supervision (April 2023).

“Goulash socialism” vs feminism? Beauvoir in Hungary (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter seeks to illuminate the ways in which cultural and historical conditions in Hungary have made aspects of Beauvoir’s thought less legible in the socialist and post-socialist context. Setting out these conditions, the chapter goes on to in... Read More about “Goulash socialism” vs feminism? Beauvoir in Hungary.

Reframing crusading discourses in seventeenth-century English drama (2022)
Thesis
Hussain, A. Reframing crusading discourses in seventeenth-century English drama. (Thesis). University of Salford

Portrayals of Turks in early modern cultural discourses resisted historical accuracy: Turks are represented as violent, lustful, barbaric, and despotic despite the existence of numerous seventeenth-century Anglo-Ottoman correspondence documents, in w... Read More about Reframing crusading discourses in seventeenth-century English drama.

FAIL – Focussed Action Innovative Leadership : Using 'leadership failure lens' to support leadership development approaches (2022)
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FAIL – Focussed Action Innovative Leadership : Using 'leadership failure lens' to support leadership development approaches


Failure is part of being human, it’s often a considered a negative but looking at it differently can open unexpected rout... Read More about FAIL – Focussed Action Innovative Leadership : Using 'leadership failure lens' to support leadership development approaches.

Diving to The Cinema Beneath the Lake: a novel as immersive, synthetic-magical exploration of the surrealist prose of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington (2022)
Thesis

This practice-led PhD explores the role of mimicry (simulation, impersonation, imitation) in the surrealist prose of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington. It evaluates mimicry both as a feminist critical technique and as a form of ca... Read More about Diving to The Cinema Beneath the Lake: a novel as immersive, synthetic-magical exploration of the surrealist prose of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington.

Apropos of everything: navigating life with genre (2022)
Thesis

Apropos of Everything: Navigating Life with Genre (AoE) is a hybrid critical/creative portfolio which proposes a new theory of Genre, Creativity and Consciousness, named The Social Consciousness Theory (SoCo). By reclaiming and recalibrating the conc... Read More about Apropos of everything: navigating life with genre.

Effective factual TV content for young audiences : exploring new approaches to creating history documentaries for 6 - 12 -year - olds in digital UK television (2022)
Thesis

This interdisciplinary original research engages with the fields of TV documentary production, children’s television, historiography, and the pedagogy of history teaching. From this large field, I am taking what is necessary for my research as a prac... Read More about Effective factual TV content for young audiences : exploring new approaches to creating history documentaries for 6 - 12 -year - olds in digital UK television.

Salt in winter : a fictionalized biography with critical reflections (2021)
Thesis

This practice-based thesis comprises a novel exploring the life and legacy of 16th century philanthropist Henry Smith, with critical reflections on the research foundational to the creative text. The novel is a biographical work that argues for ficti... Read More about Salt in winter : a fictionalized biography with critical reflections.

Comedian autobiographies - an examination of the publishing phenomenon (2021)
Thesis

Simon Amstell, Kevin Bridges, Billy Connolly, Adam Hills, Michael McIntyre, and Sarah Millican are not only well-known stand-up comedians in the United Kingdom, but they have also all written autobiographies, with the majority becoming bestsellers. C... Read More about Comedian autobiographies - an examination of the publishing phenomenon.

Failure Friday 02/07/2021 (2021)
Digital Artefact

Café Research Part 1- PGR Pathways.mp4 (2021)
Digital Artefact

In this presentation the head of the University of Salford's Doctoral School, Ursula Hurley, and Davina Whitnell, the University of Salford Researcher Development Manager, discuss the different routes open to completing a PhD at the University of Sal... Read More about Café Research Part 1- PGR Pathways.mp4.