All Outputs (121)

She wants you to kiss her : negotiating risk in the immersive theatre contract (2016)
Book Chapter
Talbot, R. (2016). She wants you to kiss her : negotiating risk in the immersive theatre contract. In J. Frieze (Ed.), Reframing immersive theatre : the politics and pragmatics of participatory performance (171-191). London: Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36604-7_13

The four performances discussed in this chapter were presented together as part of the InOnTheAct festival produced by The Lowry Theatre, Salford, in Autumn 2012. Advertised (in the festival flyer) as ‘intimate’ and ‘risk-taking’, they can be broadly... Read More about She wants you to kiss her : negotiating risk in the immersive theatre contract.

Microtonal tunings in electronic dance music : a survey of precedent and potential (2016)
Journal Article
Hart, A. (2016). Microtonal tunings in electronic dance music : a survey of precedent and potential. Contemporary Music Review, 35(2), 242-262. https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2016.1221635

While numerous contemporary composers have explored the endless possibilities afforded by microtonal tuning systems, Western popular music has hitherto rarely ventured from the harmonic comfort zone of 12-tone equal temperament. This article highligh... Read More about Microtonal tunings in electronic dance music : a survey of precedent and potential.

Phonological adaptation of English loanwords in Ammani Arabic (2016)
Thesis
Abu Guba, M. Phonological adaptation of English loanwords in Ammani Arabic. (Thesis). Salford University

This thesis investigates the phonological adaptation of English loanwords in Ammani Arabic (AA) in order to enhance our understanding of phonological theory and of AA phonology. The thesis also serves as documentation of the dialect in a state of flu... Read More about Phonological adaptation of English loanwords in Ammani Arabic.

Intervention, net neutrality and European Union media policy (2016)
Journal Article
Simpson, S. (2016). Intervention, net neutrality and European Union media policy. International Journal of Digital Television, 7(3), 331-346. https://doi.org/10.1386/jdtv.7.3.331_1

Net Neutrality was once in Europe thought to be a technically arcane subject with little policy relevance beyond the USA. However, its dominant articulation as the idea that Internet Service Providers should treat equally communication traffic of a b... Read More about Intervention, net neutrality and European Union media policy.

International students, gender and group work : the case of Saudi students in an MA TESOL class (2016)
Book Chapter
Etherington, S. (2016). International students, gender and group work : the case of Saudi students in an MA TESOL class. In J. Whatley, & C. Nerantzi (Eds.), Teaching with Team Projects in Higher Education (183-192). Informing Science Press

This case study looks at a particular issue which may arise when using group work in classes with high numbers of international students; namely the segregation of groups along gender lines. A recent article (May 2013) in The Guardian Education sect... Read More about International students, gender and group work : the case of Saudi students in an MA TESOL class.

The Roma in new millennium Italian fiction films : dissensus, liminality, emancipation. (2016)
Journal Article
Hope, W. (2016). The Roma in new millennium Italian fiction films : dissensus, liminality, emancipation. Italianist, 36(2), 266-286. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2016.1178889

The Roma endow films with a strong political resonance through their exposure to micro- and macro-level discrimination and reactionary populism in contemporary Italy. A socio-political evolution can be traced in the way new millennium Italian fiction... Read More about The Roma in new millennium Italian fiction films : dissensus, liminality, emancipation..

Die unheilbare Wunde: Der 20. Juli 1944 im kollektiven Gedaechtnis der Wehrmachtsgeneralitaet (1949-1969) (2016)
Book Chapter
Searle, D. (2016). Die unheilbare Wunde: Der 20. Juli 1944 im kollektiven Gedaechtnis der Wehrmachtsgeneralitaet (1949-1969). In Haus der Geschichte Baden-Wuerttemberg (Ed.), Verraetter? Vorbilder? Verbrecher? Kontroverse Deutungen des 20. Juli 1944 nach 1945 (97-128). Berlin, FRG: Frank & Thimme

Can we build it? Using experimental prototyping and iterative development for historical game design (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Hiriart, J. (2016, August). Can we build it? Using experimental prototyping and iterative development for historical game design. Presented at DIGRA and FDG First Joint International Conference, Dundee, Scotland

The experimental development of game prototypes has been gaining attention in academic circles as a valid research method to understand this medium and its potential for historical representation and learning. In spite that in recent years advances i... Read More about Can we build it? Using experimental prototyping and iterative development for historical game design.

Panopticonicity : sites of control and the failure of forgetting in Willie Doherty’s Re-Run (2002) and Drive (2003) (2016)
Book Chapter
Blair, P. (2016). Panopticonicity : sites of control and the failure of forgetting in Willie Doherty’s Re-Run (2002) and Drive (2003). In D. O'Rawe, & M. Phelan (Eds.), Post-conflict performance, film and visual arts (193-209). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43955-0_11

Mobile, wearable and ingestible health technologies : towards a critical research agenda (2016)
Journal Article
Rich, E., & Miah, A. (2017). Mobile, wearable and ingestible health technologies : towards a critical research agenda. Health Sociology Review, 26(1), 84-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2016.1211486

In this article, we review critical research on mobile and wearable health technologies focused on the promotion of ‘healthy lifestyles’. We begin by discussing key governmental and policy interests which indicate a shift towards greater digital inte... Read More about Mobile, wearable and ingestible health technologies : towards a critical research agenda.

Invisible text (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Isherwood, T. (2016, July). Invisible text. Presented at XXI Congress - International Comparative Literature Association, University of Vienna, Austria

Typography, specifically typefaces themselves, are an ever present in our society, a vital tool in our means of communication, and a seemingly invisible partner in conveying and understanding written texts. All typefaces are designed to have a uniqu... Read More about Invisible text.

Integrating crime prevention into urban design and planning (2016)
Journal Article
Davey, C., & Wootton, A. (2016). Integrating crime prevention into urban design and planning. Journal of Place Management and Development, 9(2), 153-165. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPMD-09-2015-0043

Purpose: This paper aims to understand the delivery of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) across Europe—from European-wide procedures, through national schemes to effective local strategies. Methodology: The findings come from a... Read More about Integrating crime prevention into urban design and planning.

Italian democracy the day after the local elections (2016)
Journal Article
Newell, J. (2016). Italian democracy the day after the local elections. Contemporary Italian Politics, 8(2), 113-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/23248823.2016.1206718

Insights from psychology about the design and implementation of energy interventions using the behaviour change wheel (2016)
Journal Article
Wilson, C., & Marselle, M. (2016). Insights from psychology about the design and implementation of energy interventions using the behaviour change wheel. Energy Research and Social Science, 19, 177-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2016.06.015

Improving the design and implementation of interventions to encourage end-use energy efficiency has the potential to contribute a substantive reduction in carbon emissions. A plethora of behaviour change frameworks is available to guide policymakers... Read More about Insights from psychology about the design and implementation of energy interventions using the behaviour change wheel.

Empowering disabled people with digital fabrication : insights from the In the Making Project - submission to All Party Parliamentary Group on Disability (2016)
Other
Project - submission to All Party Parliamentary Group on Disability

In this report, based on the findings of the AHRC-funded In the Making project, we offer evidence that digital fabrication can support the government in closing the disability employment gap in the following ways: • Digital fabrication technol... Read More about Empowering disabled people with digital fabrication : insights from the In the Making Project - submission to All Party Parliamentary Group on Disability.

'Affective encounters' : live intermedial spaces in sites of trauma (2016)
Journal Article
Scott, J. (2016). 'Affective encounters' : live intermedial spaces in sites of trauma. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 21(3), 332-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2016.1191337

This article addresses live intermediality as a tool for creative learning in the context of workshops carried out with young people in the town of Terezin, in the Czech Republic, site of the Nazi concentration camp, Theresienstadt. Live intermediali... Read More about 'Affective encounters' : live intermedial spaces in sites of trauma.

Siobhán O'Gorman and Charlotte McIvor, ed. Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and Contemporary PracticeDublin: Carysfort Press, 2015. 288 p. £19.00. ISBN: 978-1-909325-78-4. (2016)
Journal Article
Daly, D. (2016). Siobhán O'Gorman and Charlotte McIvor, ed. Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and Contemporary PracticeDublin: Carysfort Press, 2015. 288 p. £19.00. ISBN: 978-1-909325-78-4. New Theatre Quarterly, 32(3), 301-302. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X16000324

Book review

Daft Punk as Anti-Celebrity Celebrity (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Cookney, D. (2016, June). Daft Punk as Anti-Celebrity Celebrity. Presented at Celebrity Studies Journal Conference, University of Amsterdam

While Western rockist notions of authenticity within music will negate electronic dance music (EDM) due to assumptions regarding its inherent artificiality, French EDM duo Daft Punk has negotiated fame through an alternative approach to the authentic... Read More about Daft Punk as Anti-Celebrity Celebrity.

The construction of crisis : the ‘internal‑identitarian’ nexus in Russian‑European relations and its significance beyond the Ukraine crisis (2016)
Journal Article
beyond the Ukraine crisis. Politics in Central Europe (Print), 12(1), 95-110. https://doi.org/10.1515/pce-2016-0006

Since 2012 and with Putin’s return to the presidency, Russian politics underwent a process of securitization of domestic politics. This laid the groundwork for the crisis in European‑Russian relations that culminated in the ‘Ukraine crisis’ from late... Read More about The construction of crisis : the ‘internal‑identitarian’ nexus in Russian‑European relations and its significance beyond the Ukraine crisis.

Tragicomic presentations of self : starring Phil Silvers as Bilko : the incomplete comic human (2016)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I. (2016). Tragicomic presentations of self : starring Phil Silvers as Bilko : the incomplete comic human. Comedy Studies, 7(2), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2016.1197663

When a performer becomes over-associated with a particular, celebrated comic character can this lead to problems, not merely in terms of type-casting, but in creating confusions for the actor’s own perception of self? In instances where a comic crea... Read More about Tragicomic presentations of self : starring Phil Silvers as Bilko : the incomplete comic human.