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The roots of alternative comedy? – the alternative story of 20th century coyote and eighties comedy (2013)
Journal Article
Peters, L. (2013). The roots of alternative comedy? – the alternative story of 20th century coyote and eighties comedy. Comedy Studies, 4(1), 5-21. https://doi.org/10.1386/cost.4.1.5_1

There have been many articles but too few rigorous critiques detailing the naissance and flowering of alternative comedy – a rather loose and undefined term for the brand of ‘non-racist, non-sexist’ comedy of the 1980s. The descriptions that do exist... Read More about The roots of alternative comedy? – the alternative story of 20th century coyote and eighties comedy.

Jamieson’s dictionary of Scots : the story of the first historical dictionary of the Scots language by Susan Rennie (2013)
Journal Article

The Reverend John Jamieson's contribution to Scottish lexicography is central to the historiography of the study of Scots as a distinct variety of language. Furthermore, his methodologies have proven extremely influential for subsequent major Scottis... Read More about Jamieson’s dictionary of Scots : the story of the first historical dictionary of the Scots language by Susan Rennie.

The tower (2013)
Book

Kaleem has given up the love of his life in order to protect her. He now lives and works on Zandra.
A sudden landquake, not known on the planet for many years, destroys many of the forests his father has planted to bring life back to the planet. Th... Read More about The tower.

Rave sucks : hoovers and housework (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Cookney, D. (2013, April). Rave sucks : hoovers and housework. Presented at Noisy Places, Noisy Music: Theories, Practices and Spaces of Noisemaking Panel, University of Salford, MediaCity

The warehouse (a blanket term used to describe a number of disused industrial buildings that would also include mills and factories) has long been associated with the UK’s rave subculture. These have become more than just physical places that situate... Read More about Rave sucks : hoovers and housework.

'The trumpet of the night': Interwar communists on BBC radio (2013)
Journal Article
Harker, B. (2013). 'The trumpet of the night': Interwar communists on BBC radio. History Workshop Journal, 75, 81-101. https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbs035

This article revisits the relationship between the Communist Party and the BBC in the interwar period, arguing that Communism was a spectre that haunted the early BBC, inhabiting the vision that shaped its formation. More particularly, it argues tha... Read More about 'The trumpet of the night': Interwar communists on BBC radio.

Stations of the Clyde (2013)
Other
Davismoon, S. (2013). Stations of the Clyde. [Stereo Soundfile and Accompanying CD to issue of The Drouth]

A sound installation to accompany an exhibition re-visiting Douglas Gordon’s work, in collaboration with the Glasgow School of Art, The Drouth and the New Glasgow Society Gallery – April and May 2013.

Context is half the work : the live brief in fine art education (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Randall, J. (2013, March). Context is half the work : the live brief in fine art education. Presented at National Association for Fine Art Education (NAFAE) AGM and National Seminar, Challenging Fine Art Pedagogies, London, UK

Jill Randall would like to use two case studies at two different sites of student projects to
investigate the use of the Live Brief within teaching, and how staff research projects can
introduce new ways of delivering Fine Art education, with benef... Read More about Context is half the work : the live brief in fine art education.

'The Open Brief' 1 (2013)
Exhibition / Performance

Project and Exhibition at Flat Time House, London, collaborating with undergraduate students from B.A. Visual Arts Course at the University of Salford, to re-stage APG ideas from the Tate Residency, and to generate new work related to the John Latham... Read More about 'The Open Brief' 1.

The aesthetic experience of the city: A practice-based research project created to illustrate the collective creative dynamic of a place (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Rooney, J. (2013, March). The aesthetic experience of the city: A practice-based research project created to illustrate the collective creative dynamic of a place. Presented at 7th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, Chiba University, Japan

The research project is designed to create new ways of looking at the story of a city, to present the creative city as an art gallery space. Mapping technologies are used to present information as an aesthetic image. This project will add the emotion... Read More about The aesthetic experience of the city: A practice-based research project created to illustrate the collective creative dynamic of a place.

Le débat sur la diglossie en France : aspects scientifiques et politiques (2013)
Journal Article
Massot, B., & Rowlett, P. (2013). Le débat sur la diglossie en France : aspects scientifiques et politiques. Journal of French Language Studies, 23(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269512000336

This article outlines the diglossic approach to intra-speaker grammatical variation (Ferguson 1959), wherein speaker—hearers acquire two grammars which are socio-stylistically distinct – one H(igh), the other L(ow) – but linguistically related (to th... Read More about Le débat sur la diglossie en France : aspects scientifiques et politiques.

Computer assisted language learning (CALL): Asian learners and users going beyond traditional frameworks (2013)
Journal Article
Jarvis, H. (2013). Computer assisted language learning (CALL): Asian learners and users going beyond traditional frameworks. Asian EFL journal (Busan), 15(1), 190-201

Traditional frameworks for understanding Computer Assisted Language Learning
(CALL), whilst still useful, are today nevertheless somewhat limited for a variety of
reasons, and in many respects, it is the practices of Asian learners and users that a... Read More about Computer assisted language learning (CALL): Asian learners and users going beyond traditional frameworks.

From computer assisted language learning (CALL) to mobile assisted language use (2013)
Journal Article
Jarvis, H., & Achilleos, M. (2013). From computer assisted language learning (CALL) to mobile assisted language use. TESL-EJ (Berkeley, Calif.), 16(4), 1-18

This article begins by critiquing the long-established acronym CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning). We then go on to report on a small-scale study which examines how student non-native speakers of English use a range of digital devices beyond... Read More about From computer assisted language learning (CALL) to mobile assisted language use.

The europeanisation of national institutions reassessed : a comparison of regional policies in Germany and Italy (2013)
Journal Article
Baudner, J., & Bull, M. (2013). The europeanisation of national institutions reassessed : a comparison of regional policies in Germany and Italy. Comparative European Politics, 11, 201-221. https://doi.org/10.1057/cep.2012.17

This article explores an aspect of Europeanisation which notions of ‘adaptive pressure’ and ‘usage’ of European policies have tended to neglect: in a complex policy field such as regional policy it is the evolving nature and heterogeneity of (differe... Read More about The europeanisation of national institutions reassessed : a comparison of regional policies in Germany and Italy.

A tale of torture? Alexander Scotland, the London Cage and post-war British secrecy (2013)
Book Chapter
Lomas, D. (2013). A tale of torture? Alexander Scotland, the London Cage and post-war British secrecy. In C. Moran, & C. Murphy (Eds.), Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US : historiography since 1945 (251-262). Edinburgh University Press

The immediate post-war period saw the publication of a number of secret service accounts recounting wartime exploits, giving the impression that, with the end of hostilities, these could now be revealed. In fact, as has been clearly demonstrated by R... Read More about A tale of torture? Alexander Scotland, the London Cage and post-war British secrecy.

Inheriting slavery : making sense of a difficult heritage (2013)
Journal Article
Catalani, A., & Ackroyd, T. (2013). Inheriting slavery : making sense of a difficult heritage. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 8(4), 337-346. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2013.766199

In 1807 the British parliament decreed the abolition of the slave trade: since then, the places connected with the slave trade have physically ‘inherited’ its material
traces and have become emotionally-charged with historical memory. This paper loo... Read More about Inheriting slavery : making sense of a difficult heritage.