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Parasocial Relationships and Their Impact on the Psychological and Sociocultural Adjustment of Educational Tourists: An Autoethnography (2024)
Journal Article
Maloney Yorganci, K., & Coen, S. (in press). Parasocial Relationships and Their Impact on the Psychological and Sociocultural Adjustment of Educational Tourists: An Autoethnography. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, https://doi.org/10.1108/whatt-12-2023-0143

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to investigate whether relationships with media figures can impact the
psychological and sociocultural adjustment of educational tourists.

Design/methodology/approach – The article uses the qualitative met... Read More about Parasocial Relationships and Their Impact on the Psychological and Sociocultural Adjustment of Educational Tourists: An Autoethnography.

Conference Report: Poetry & Care (2024)
Journal Article
Nissel, J., Thurston, S., Fitzsimons, M., & Spence, S. (in press). Conference Report: Poetry & Care. Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.16995/bip.11688

The following multi-authored report provides an account of the Poetry & Care conference held at the University of Plymouth, 7-8 September 2023. Many thanks to the organisers: Anthony Caleshu, Mandy Bloomfield, and Russell Evans

Developing a strategy to scale up place-based arts initiatives that support mental health and wellbeing: A realist evaluation of ‘Arts for the Blues’ (2024)
Journal Article
Karkou, V., Omylinska-Thurston, J., Thurston, S., Clark, R., Perris, E., Kaehne, A., & Pearson, M. (2024). Developing a strategy to scale up place-based arts initiatives that support mental health and wellbeing: A realist evaluation of ‘Arts for the Blues’. PLoS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296178

Place-based arts initiatives are regarded as rooted in local need and as having capacity to engage local assets. However, many place-based arts initiatives remain poorly funded and short-lived, receiving little attention on how to scale up and sustai... Read More about Developing a strategy to scale up place-based arts initiatives that support mental health and wellbeing: A realist evaluation of ‘Arts for the Blues’.

‘The painful aftermath’: reactions to the publication of SOE in France (2023)
Journal Article
Murphy, C. J. (in press). ‘The painful aftermath’: reactions to the publication of SOE in France. Intelligence and National Security, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2023.2291873

This article considers the aftermath of the publication of SOE in France. A groundbreaking official account of a secret wartime organisation, publication was followed by complaints and legal action. It examines how Whitehall responded to the negative... Read More about ‘The painful aftermath’: reactions to the publication of SOE in France.

Social media and culture clash: Examining cultural influence on Facebook crisis communication in Botswana (2023)
Journal Article
Simon, C. (2023). Social media and culture clash: Examining cultural influence on Facebook crisis communication in Botswana. ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies, 42(2), 30-42. https://doi.org/10.36615/jcsa.v42i2.2468

Multicultural crisis communication in Botswana has become complex due to the country’s various ethnicities and cultures. Facebook remains a dominant communication platform, but traditional media is also used to cover organisational exigencies. Howeve... Read More about Social media and culture clash: Examining cultural influence on Facebook crisis communication in Botswana.

What can we learn from play? A comparative analysis of creative play and ‘playing along’ in dementia care environments (2023)
Journal Article
McCormick, S. (2023). What can we learn from play? A comparative analysis of creative play and ‘playing along’ in dementia care environments. Applied Theatre Research, 11(2), 103-117. https://doi.org/10.1386/atr_00079_1

In this article, I explore play in dementia care settings, specifically two types: creative play (play that engages creativity and imagination) and ‘playing along’. Acknowledging debates on truth-telling in dementia care, I consider how engagement-fo... Read More about What can we learn from play? A comparative analysis of creative play and ‘playing along’ in dementia care environments.

Timbre and the "Zone of Entanglement" in Electronic Dance Music: Re-Thinking Musico-Social Ontologies with the Mycelial Turn (2023)
Journal Article

This article weaves together relational tendencies in recent scholarship spanning philosophy, mycology, psychopharmacology and timbre studies in order to argue that timbre's unbounded ontology and cyclical re-use across electronic dance music (EDM) h... Read More about Timbre and the "Zone of Entanglement" in Electronic Dance Music: Re-Thinking Musico-Social Ontologies with the Mycelial Turn.

Conversations on death and dying: exploring performance as a prompt. (2023)
Journal Article
McCormick, S. (2023). Conversations on death and dying: exploring performance as a prompt. Palliative Care and Social Practice, 17, 26323524231209059. https://doi.org/10.1177/26323524231209059

BackgroundDeath is inevitable, yet for some, conversations around death remain difficult. The stigmatisation of death amongst some cultures has a negative impact with studies showing societies least likely to discuss end of life openly remain the low... Read More about Conversations on death and dying: exploring performance as a prompt..

‘An inferior technician’? African American signallers in the First World War (2023)
Journal Article
Hall, B. N. (2023). ‘An inferior technician’? African American signallers in the First World War. Historical Research, https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htad022

In the literature on the struggles of African Americans during the First World War, there has been a failure to examine the experiences of the 325th Field Signal Battalion, the first Black signal unit in the U.S. Army. Drawing upon a range of archiva... Read More about ‘An inferior technician’? African American signallers in the First World War.

Lydgate, Chaucer, and Lady Margaret Beaufort (2023)
Journal Article
Powell, S. (2023). Lydgate, Chaucer, and Lady Margaret Beaufort. #Journal not on list, 58(3-4), 506-522. https://doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.58.3-4.0506

In an early book on Lydgate, Derek Pearsall was dismissive of Lydgate’s verse legend of Saint Margaret of Antioch. While perhaps of limited literary interest, the poem merits some claim to attention in its occurrence in the Devonshire Chaucer (New Ha... Read More about Lydgate, Chaucer, and Lady Margaret Beaufort.

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.

Neither Centre nor Periphery: Rethinking Postcoloniality through the Perspective of Eastern Europe (2023)
Journal Article
Gáti, D. (2023). Neither Centre nor Periphery: Rethinking Postcoloniality through the Perspective of Eastern Europe. Critical Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12746

Is Eastern Europe part of “the West?” Left out of the interpretative frameworks of the postcolony, yet also failing to qualify as “properly” European, Eastern Europe troubles the neat directionality of West-centric history but also the critical respo... Read More about Neither Centre nor Periphery: Rethinking Postcoloniality through the Perspective of Eastern Europe.

Behind the scenes: A critical discourse analysis of Botswana government power plays on Facebook during two post-millennial state-owned organizational crises (2023)
Journal Article
Simon, C., Rees, S., & Thomas, R. (2023). Behind the scenes: A critical discourse analysis of Botswana government power plays on Facebook during two post-millennial state-owned organizational crises. Public Relations Inquiry, 12(3), 321-341. https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147x231200891

This article examines Facebook posts in Botswana to determine how government public relations (PR) practitioners used language to help protect the reputation of two state-owned agencies during times of crisis. For insufficiently prepared PR practitio... Read More about Behind the scenes: A critical discourse analysis of Botswana government power plays on Facebook during two post-millennial state-owned organizational crises.

Naked data: curating Wikidata as an artistic medium to interpret prehistoric figurines (2023)
Journal Article
Sant, T., & Tabone, E. (2023). Naked data: curating Wikidata as an artistic medium to interpret prehistoric figurines. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 19(3), 445-462. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2023.2253335

In 2019, Digital Curation Lab Director Toni Sant and the artist Enrique Tabone started collaborating on a research project exploring the visualization of specific data sets through Wikidata for artistic practice. An art installation called Naked Data... Read More about Naked data: curating Wikidata as an artistic medium to interpret prehistoric figurines.

The Fifth Order of Design: The Value of Design in Times of Transition (2023)
Journal Article
Fonseca Braga, M. (in press). The Fifth Order of Design: The Value of Design in Times of Transition. Cubic Journal, 6(6), 98-115. https://doi.org/10.31182/cubic.2023.6.63

Failures in achieving sustainability are being recognised worldwide. Approaches to tackling sustainability challenges often fail to address the roots of these challenges. This paper contributes to a necessary discussion of an emerging necessity, a re... Read More about The Fifth Order of Design: The Value of Design in Times of Transition.

"The Great Doctrine Disaster": Reform, Reaction, and Mechanization in the British Army, 1919-1939 (2023)
Journal Article
Searle, D. (2023). "The Great Doctrine Disaster": Reform, Reaction, and Mechanization in the British Army, 1919-1939. Journal of Military History, 87(3), 599–632

Historians have argued that Britain lost its early lead in developing mechanized formations in the interwar period due to financial pressures, inter-arm rivalry, poor tank design, and the misjudgments of tank enthusiasts. A systematic examination of... Read More about "The Great Doctrine Disaster": Reform, Reaction, and Mechanization in the British Army, 1919-1939.