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Changing Images Of Disability: from the 1970s to the Present (2023)
Thesis
Hall, T. (2023). Changing Images Of Disability: from the 1970s to the Present. (Thesis). University of Salford

Changing Images of Disability in British Television Drama: from the 1970s till the Present is a historical overview that works to discover whether representations of disability have changed and what has caused those changes. It establishes the relati... Read More about Changing Images Of Disability: from the 1970s to the Present.

The Emergence of the British ‘Security State’? An Evaluation of the Security Executive, 1940 – 1953 (2023)
Thesis
Duncan, E. (2023). The Emergence of the British ‘Security State’? An Evaluation of the Security Executive, 1940 – 1953. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis explores the origins and development of the Home Defence (Security) Executive (HD(S)E), a body set up in 1940 to address the supposed ‘Fifth Column’ threat present in Britain. Through a detailed examination of this organisation, hitherto... Read More about The Emergence of the British ‘Security State’? An Evaluation of the Security Executive, 1940 – 1953.

‘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.

Nice to meet you (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Fletcher, B. (2005). Nice to meet you. [Photograph / Press release]. 15 October 2023 - 12 November 2005. (Unpublished)

Telematic dreaming at 'borderless reality' (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Sermon, P. Telematic dreaming at 'borderless reality'. [Telematic Art Installation]. 13 October 2023 - 12 November 2010. (Unpublished)

Paul Sermon exhibits Telematic Dreaming at the Nabi Art Centre in Seoul for the Borderless Reality Exhibition. Telematic Dreaming turns a bed into the support of high-resolution images that might show a partner, intimately alive although being thousa... Read More about Telematic dreaming at 'borderless reality'.

Turning : selected poems 1995-2020 (2023)
Book
Thurston, S. (2023). Turning : selected poems 1995-2020. Shearsman Books

A selected poems volume covering 25 years of work

Adaptive Materials and The Role of Design[ers] (Research[ers]) in Shaping Transformative Futures (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Fonseca Braga, M., Blaney, A., Ozkan, D., Pelit, E., & Hardy, J. (2023). Adaptive Materials and The Role of Design[ers] (Research[ers]) in Shaping Transformative Futures.

Imagine if our structures (buildings, cities) or objects (medical prosthetics, clothes) could be grown, self-healed and have multiple properties (shape, textures, composition etc) tuned or adapted to meet fluctuating demands. This could significantly... Read More about Adaptive Materials and The Role of Design[ers] (Research[ers]) in Shaping Transformative Futures.

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.

Shaping Social Design with communities (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Fonseca Braga, M., Perez Ojeda, D., Owen, V., Zhang, L., Kwon, N., Brewster, L., …Summers, S. (2023). Shaping Social Design with communities. . https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.295

This position paper presents key Social Design work being conducted in the Design-led Research Centre, ImaginationLancaster, at Lancaster University in the UK. We position our local and global research in the Social Design landscape, defining the des... Read More about Shaping Social Design with communities.

Community empowerment: lessons learned from a local health programme (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Fonseca Braga, M., Moreno-Rangel, A., & Tsekleves, E. (2023). Community empowerment: lessons learned from a local health programme. . https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.265

The use of complex public health systems to empower communities is often met with challenges and frustrations. Community empowerment programmes focus on improving mental and physical health needs, enabling individuals to become active members of the... Read More about Community empowerment: lessons learned from a local health programme.

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.

Femininity, Madness, and Disability in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature and Film Adaptation: A Study in Textual and Visual Forms (2023)
Thesis
Helm, H. (2023). Femininity, Madness, and Disability in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature and Film Adaptation: A Study in Textual and Visual Forms. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis argues that key works of nineteenth-century children’s literature, fairy tales, and twenty-first-century live-action Disney film mobilise progressive and subversive representations of mad and/or disabled women in order to express agency a... Read More about Femininity, Madness, and Disability in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature and Film Adaptation: A Study in Textual and Visual Forms.

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.

Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum: Redefining ‘Unruliness’ in London’s East End (2023)
Book Chapter
Minor, L. (2023). Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum: Redefining ‘Unruliness’ in London’s East End. In M. Irwin, & J. Marshall (Eds.), UK and Irish Television Comedy: Nation, Region and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter explores Michaela Coel and her original TV sitcom Chewing Gum (E4, 2015-) through two key concepts: 'unruliness' (Rowe, 1995) and 'intersectionality'. The argument established initially by Kathleen Rowe - that female comic performance is... Read More about Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum: Redefining ‘Unruliness’ in London’s East End.

'Limmy-nality':21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond (2023)
Book Chapter
Wilkie, I. (2023). 'Limmy-nality':21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond. In UK and Irish TV Comedy Collection. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23629-7

The global Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-2021 has made the production and dissemination of the comic work of Scottish comedian Brian ‘Limmy’ Limmond (b. Glasgow, 1974) seem innovative to the point of being prophetic. As an established Scottish comic aute... Read More about 'Limmy-nality':21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond.

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.