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“Where’s the dead sheep?” Making virtual landscapes real (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Houghton, J. J., University of Leeds, Gordon, C. E., Robinson, A., Craven, B., Morgan, D. J., & Lloyd, G. E. (2017). “Where’s the dead sheep?” Making virtual landscapes real. . https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2017am-301334

We are using screen-based virtual reality landscapes, created using the Unity 3D game engine, to enhance the training geoscience students receive in preparation for fieldwork. This presentation focuses on how we have tried to create realistic, engagi... Read More about “Where’s the dead sheep?” Making virtual landscapes real.

Already seen, already heard, already visited : constructing the experience of déjà states within live intermedial performance (2017)
Book Chapter
constructing the experience of déjà states within live intermedial performance. In P. Hansen, & B. Bläsing (Eds.), Performing the Remembered Present : The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music. Bloomsbury, Methuen Drama

This chapter considers our collaborative Practice-as-Research in performance as a mode of memory-making and specifically as a way of activating and exploring the subjective experience of déjà vu associated with temporal lobe epilepsy. Utilising const... Read More about Already seen, already heard, already visited : constructing the experience of déjà states within live intermedial performance.

“Things are complicated” : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC (2017)
Journal Article
Flanagan, M. (2017). “Things are complicated” : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC. Authorship (Gent), 6(2), https://doi.org/10.21825/aj.v6i2.7701

Paul Cornell’s work for the ‘Big Two’ U.S. comic publishers transfers a distinctly British (mostly English) sensibility into a field where cues normally revolve around American cultural iconography and values. The key to his authorship is Cornell’s h... Read More about “Things are complicated” : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC.

Social media use by public relations departments in Saudi Arabia (2017)
Thesis
Almfleah, A. Social media use by public relations departments in Saudi Arabia. (Thesis). University of Salford

The aim of this research is to study and compare the use of social media by public relations departments in the Saudi Telecommunications Company (STC) and The Saudi Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Saudi MCI). An integration of cross-sectional and... Read More about Social media use by public relations departments in Saudi Arabia.

‘Thinking of Spain in a flat way’ : Spanish tangible and intangible heritage through contemporary Japanese anime (2017)
Journal Article
Hernandez Perez, M. (2017). ‘Thinking of Spain in a flat way’ : Spanish tangible and intangible heritage through contemporary Japanese anime. Mutual images, 3, 43-69. https://doi.org/10.32926/2017.3.her.think

This paper contextualises the mutual perceptions between Spain and Japan through the historical background and some examples within several creative industries. Subsequently, the paper reviews the ways in which transnational popular culture has been... Read More about ‘Thinking of Spain in a flat way’ : Spanish tangible and intangible heritage through contemporary Japanese anime.

Structured reciprocity for musical performance with swarm agents as a generative mechanism (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Choi, I. (2017, December). Structured reciprocity for musical performance with swarm agents as a generative mechanism. Presented at 14th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACE 2017, The Shard, London, UK

A creative inquiry introduces a swarm simulation as a generative mechanism, providing a third agency in music creation alongside agency of composition and performance. When applying an evolutionary model such as swarms to music the challenge is to... Read More about Structured reciprocity for musical performance with swarm agents as a generative mechanism.

virtual : Performance and digital (2017)
Book Chapter
Scott, J. (2018). virtual : Performance and digital. In E. Bryon (Ed.), Performing Interdisciplinarity : Working Across Disciplinary Boundaries Through an Active Aesthetic (59-73). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315558639-5

As my fingers hover above the laptop keyboard, I am aware of a number of things – the people watching my actions, the choice I have to make and what that will do to this moment we are experiencing, the technical requirements of interacting with a dig... Read More about virtual : Performance and digital.

A penny for your thoughts : the practice of rewarding research participants with shopping vouchers (2017)
Other
Mann, G., Dayson, K., & Bagnall, G. (2017). A penny for your thoughts : the practice of rewarding research participants with shopping vouchers

This briefing addresses whether giving shopping vouchers to research participants in receipt of government welfare benefits will be harmful if they have to declare it to benefit entitlement officials or if it causes them to exceed the amount they are... Read More about A penny for your thoughts : the practice of rewarding research participants with shopping vouchers.

Experiments to create ontology-based disease models for diabetic retinopathy from different biomedical resources (2017)
Presentation / Conference
diabetic retinopathy from different biomedical resources. Presented at Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Sciences (SWAT4LS 2017), Rome, Italy

According to the World Health Organisation diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a high priority eye disease. This paper investigates a method for creating disease models for DR using the ontologies BioTopLite2 and SNOMED CT and different biomedical resources... Read More about Experiments to create ontology-based disease models for diabetic retinopathy from different biomedical resources.

Renzi removed : the 2016 Italian constitutional referendum and its outcome (2017)
Book Chapter
Bull, M. (2017). Renzi removed : the 2016 Italian constitutional referendum and its outcome. In A. Chiaramonte, & A. Wilson (Eds.), Italian Politics: The Great Reform that Never Was (131-153). Oxford: Berghahn

The 2016 Constitutional referendum in Italy was only the third constitutional referendum held in the Italian Republic, and was on a constitutional reform proposal which would have re-written about a third of the Italian Constitution. Its chief protag... Read More about Renzi removed : the 2016 Italian constitutional referendum and its outcome.

Mysteries of Raúl Ruiz’s Portugal : territory, littoral and memory bridge (2017)
Book Chapter
Goddard, M. (2017). Mysteries of Raúl Ruiz’s Portugal : territory, littoral and memory bridge. In M. Liz (Ed.), Portugal's Global Cinema : Industry, History and Culture. I. B. Tauris

Raúl Ruiz’s 2010 film Mistérios de Lisboa/Mysteries of Lisbon may have been his first (and last) film in Portuguese, but it was far from being his first film in Portugal. In fact Portugal, beyond being an inexpensive and convenient film location, hel... Read More about Mysteries of Raúl Ruiz’s Portugal : territory, littoral and memory bridge.

A torture-free cyber space : a human right (2017)
Journal Article
Newbery, S., & Dehghantanha, A. (2017). A torture-free cyber space : a human right. Computer Fraud and Security, 2017(11), 14-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1361-3723%2817%2930083-0

Definitions of torture range from the emotive to the legal. The media sometimes uses the term in a loose or informal sense – for example, to refer to the pain felt when one's sports team loses a crucial game. This dangerous practice detracts from the... Read More about A torture-free cyber space : a human right.

Gender, institutions and political representation : reproducing male dominance in Europe’s new democracies (2017)
Book
Chiva, M. (2017). Gender, institutions and political representation : reproducing male dominance in Europe’s new democracies. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-01177-0

This book traces the struggles over the institutions of political representation in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the factors that have held women back over the post-communist period, as well as on the growing evidence for change throughout... Read More about Gender, institutions and political representation : reproducing male dominance in Europe’s new democracies.

Towards an effective freeware resource for music composition in the primary classroom (2017)
Journal Article
Hart, A. (2017). Towards an effective freeware resource for music composition in the primary classroom. London Review of Education, 15(3), 407-424. https://doi.org/10.18546/LRE.15.3.06

This paper presents an ongoing project to develop a freeware resource for music composition in the primary classroom. The national curriculum for music at Key Stages 1 and 2 calls for students to 'compose music for a range of purposes using the inter... Read More about Towards an effective freeware resource for music composition in the primary classroom.

Diasporic returns : reading partition in contemporary art (2017)
Journal Article
Correia, A. (2017). Diasporic returns : reading partition in contemporary art. Third Text, 31(2-3), 321-340. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2017.1371917

This paper proposes an expansion of the field of South Asian Partition Studies to include the work of globally dispersed diasporic artists. Undertaking a detailed study of the work of three contemporary artists, Nilofar Akmut, Zarina Bhimji, and Navi... Read More about Diasporic returns : reading partition in contemporary art.

'It blows my mind' : intoxicated performances by Ridiculusmus (2017)
Journal Article
Talbot, R. (2017). 'It blows my mind' : intoxicated performances by Ridiculusmus. Performance Research, 22(6), 83-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2017.1412654

Give Me Your Love by Jon Haynes and David Woods, Artistic Directors of Ridiculusmus, is the second in a trilogy Dialogue As The Embodiment of Love, to be presented in 2018, a series of plays investigating innovative mental health therapies. Give Me Y... Read More about 'It blows my mind' : intoxicated performances by Ridiculusmus.

The International context : end of an era (2017)
Book Chapter
Callaghan, J. (2017). The International context : end of an era. In J. Davis, & R. McWilliam (Eds.), Labour and the Left in the 1980s (132-149). Manchester: Manchester University Press

The 1980s was in many ways the most creative, exciting era for the left in decades. It has had an impact on British politics and culture ever since. Many of its once trail-blazing radical ideas are the now mainstream consensus; especially around issu... Read More about The International context : end of an era.