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Sports (2015)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2015). Sports. In H. Have (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics (1-11). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_399-1

This chapter explores the relationship between bioethics and sport ethics, which changed dramatically in the early 2000 when the genetics era generated a series of new questions about the ends of sport and how they would interface more widely with a... Read More about Sports.

The ballad of Isosceles (Fix 15 biennale of live art, catalyst arts, Belfast) (2015)
Exhibition / Performance
Matthews, A. The ballad of Isosceles (Fix 15 biennale of live art, catalyst arts, Belfast). [Performance and Artist's Talk]. 6 December 2015 - 7 December 2015. (Unpublished)

A three-hour durational performance and artist's talk around this project. The Ballad of Isosceles is a one-to-one performance for two people at a time exploring voyeurism, the Lynchian iconography of the chanteuse, and the strange rhythms of v... Read More about The ballad of Isosceles (Fix 15 biennale of live art, catalyst arts, Belfast).

J.F.C. Fuller's assessment of Winston Churchill as grand strategist, 1939-1945 (2015)
Journal Article
Searle, D. (2015). J.F.C. Fuller's assessment of Winston Churchill as grand strategist, 1939-1945. Global war studies (Online), 12(3), 46-81. https://doi.org/10.5893/19498489.120302

It is generally well known that Major-General J.F.C. Fuller was a strong critic of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's grand strategy and strategic decision-making during the Second World War. Historian's of Fuller's life, military theories an... Read More about J.F.C. Fuller's assessment of Winston Churchill as grand strategist, 1939-1945.

Derives (2015)
Other
Davismoon, S. (2015). Derives. [Score]

A work composed for Piano Duo marking the 90th birthday of Pierre Boulez. The work is a computer assisted composition, which, by way of Markovian techniques, re-models the series that lies at the heart of Boulez' 2nd Piano Sonata creating textures... Read More about Derives.

More great women : re-imagining a pageant of great women for the present day (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Neylon, C. (2015, November). More great women : re-imagining a pageant of great women for the present day. Presented at Sibeal, Limerick, Ireland

Due to the historical, and continued, invisibility of women in ‘typically’ male positions and careers, today’s girls and young women are offered few visible female role models to aspire to and this may have a strong impact on their choice of careers... Read More about More great women : re-imagining a pageant of great women for the present day.

The Virtual Worlds Project: geological mapping and field skills (2015)
Journal Article
Houghton, J. J., Lloyd, G. E., Robinson, A., Gordon, C. E., & Morgan, D. J. (2015). The Virtual Worlds Project: geological mapping and field skills. Geology Today, 31(6), 227-231. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12117

The Virtual Worlds Project is a UK collaboration between the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, and the Leeds College of Art, to build a virtual environment in which to learn and practice basic geological mapping skills. Using the... Read More about The Virtual Worlds Project: geological mapping and field skills.

ArcGIS to Unity: a design pipeline for creation of 3D terrain in serious egames for geology (2015)
Journal Article
Robinson, A., Gordon, C. E., Houghton, J., Lloyd, G. E., & Morgan, D. J. (2015). ArcGIS to Unity: a design pipeline for creation of 3D terrain in serious egames for geology. Geology Today, 31(6), 237-240. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12121

One of the key challenges during the development of the Virtual World Project ‘egame environment’ discussed in this issue was the creation of the digital virtual landscape from an original 2002 base map of a field area. In this [online] paper we will... Read More about ArcGIS to Unity: a design pipeline for creation of 3D terrain in serious egames for geology.

Intimate live girls (2015)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2015). Intimate live girls. In B. Halligan, N. Spelman, R. Edgar, & K. Fairclough-Isaacs (Eds.), The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic

The arena concert requires a particular type of liveness of performance in order to transcend impersonal mass entertainment. Liveness here looks to authenticity and happenstance, privileges personal communications and seeks to live in the moment, and... Read More about Intimate live girls.

The arena concert : music, media and mass entertainment (2015)
Book
(2015). B. Halligan, K. Fairclough, R. Edgar, & N. Spelman (Eds.), The arena concert : music, media and mass entertainment. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic

The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might be said to be - in its melding of concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital and social media, in its delivery of event, ex... Read More about The arena concert : music, media and mass entertainment.

Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert (2015)
Book Chapter
Fairclough, K. (2015). Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert. In B. Halligan, K. Fairclough, R. Edgar, & N. Spelman (Eds.), The Arena Concert : Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. London: Bloombsury

Through her live arena performances, pop/R and B artist Beyoncé Knowles appears to promote a shiny, depthless feminism that mass audiences can embrace. This chapter will provide a critical analysis of her 2013-2014 arena concert tour, The Mrs Carter... Read More about Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert.

"Sing it with me now” : audience participation in arena concerts (2015)
Book Chapter
Spelman, N. (2015). "Sing it with me now” : audience participation in arena concerts. In R. Edgar, K. Fairclough, B. Halligan, & N. Spelman (Eds.), The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment (231-246). London & New York: Bloomsbury

Trying to be good : lessons in oral history and performance (2015)
Book Chapter
Rouverol, A. (2015). Trying to be good : lessons in oral history and performance. In R. Perks, & A. Thomson (Eds.), The oral history reader (636-655). London: Routledge

In this essay, Alicia Rouverol assesses an oral history performance event based on life review interviews in a US prison. She explores how life review helped inmates to make new sense of their lives, the challenges of sharing authority in a prison se... Read More about Trying to be good : lessons in oral history and performance.

Sampling Salford : ‘musical quotation’ and the female voice (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Scott, J. (2015, November). Sampling Salford : ‘musical quotation’ and the female voice. Presented at Women in Sound/Women on Sound symposium, Lancaster University

This presentation arises from an on-going project, exploring the activation of popular music from Salford, through a series of live intermedial events. Live intermedial practice involves the real time mixing of sound, image, object and text and can m... Read More about Sampling Salford : ‘musical quotation’ and the female voice.

Strong investiture rules and minority governments in Romania (2015)
Book Chapter
Chiva, C. (2015). Strong investiture rules and minority governments in Romania. In B. Rasch, S. Martin, & J. Cheibub (Eds.), Parliaments and Government Formation: Unpacking Investiture Rules (197-216). Oxford: Oxford University Press

The chapter examines the process of government formation in post-communist Romania by seeking to explain the combination of a high incidence of minority cabinets, on the one hand, and the strong investiture rules characteristic of positive parliament... Read More about Strong investiture rules and minority governments in Romania.

La classe dirigente (2015)
Book Chapter
Newell, J. (2015). La classe dirigente. In The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics (3-15). Oxford University Press