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Flatness in Contemporary Art and Poetic Practice (2025)
Thesis
This project develops a critical frame of flatness to understand how intermedial arts and poetic practices engage with and critique the media effects of digital technologies. Flatness is understood here as an aesthetic mode that emphasises mediative... Read More about Flatness in Contemporary Art and Poetic Practice.
Dancing with Douyin: An Exploration of Content Marketing in Douyin’s Fashion Community. (2025)
Thesis
Over the past six years, Douyin has become one of China’s most popular social media platforms (Zheng, 2023) yet academic work on it is still in its relative infancy. Many fashion brands have started marketing on Douyin, but there is a gap in knowledg... Read More about Dancing with Douyin: An Exploration of Content Marketing in Douyin’s Fashion Community..
Rewriting the Irish Mother Figure: Dismantling Stereotypes of Motherhood and Maternity in Contemporary Irish Literature (2025)
Thesis
This thesis will argue that contemporary Irish women’s literature challenges
traditional tropes of motherhood and reframes the Irish mother as a multidimensional
figure who is separate from both the church and state. Drawing upon a range of
theore... Read More about Rewriting the Irish Mother Figure: Dismantling Stereotypes of Motherhood and Maternity in Contemporary Irish Literature.
Intangible Cultural Heritage and New Methodological Frameworks: Media, Performance and the Public Space (2025)
Book
This book examines media, performance, and the public space as sites of intangible cultural heritage—a heritage that moves beyond physical museums and monuments to encompass film and media, performing arts, oral traditions, social practices, rituals,... Read More about Intangible Cultural Heritage and New Methodological Frameworks: Media, Performance and the Public Space.
Analysing The Prospects For The Chinese Console Game Industry Based On The Case Studies Of US European And Japanese Markets (2025)
Thesis
This research focuses on the prospects of the Chinese video game industry by
analysing market analyses from the US, Europe and Japan. It employs a
comprehensive mixed-method approach that integrates both quantitative and
qualitative research metho... Read More about Analysing The Prospects For The Chinese Console Game Industry Based On The Case Studies Of US European And Japanese Markets.
The foundational role of sound quality for understanding demonstratives (2025)
Journal Article
This paper explores the role of sound quality in the interpretation of demonstratives, arguing that their function is deeply connected to acoustic properties and human auditory perception. Drawing on research from psychoacoustics, sound localization,... Read More about The foundational role of sound quality for understanding demonstratives.
MAY DAY (2025)
Book
May Day is the long-awaited new poetry collection from one of our best-loved poets and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay.
These poems cast an eye over several decades of political activism, from the international solidarity of the Glasgow of Ka... Read More about MAY DAY.
Sultanate - Sultan Razia (2025)
Exhibition / Performance
An animation composed by Dr Sabina Shah
Sultanate is a revivalism of Muslim women’s history from the Asian subcontinent, bringing to life an innovative means to capture a 13th century historical moment.
Using puppetry to create an animation inspi... Read More about Sultanate - Sultan Razia.
24/02/2025 - Rossall College (2025)
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Lecture and workshop on Postcolonialism and Feminism looking at Bessie Head's 'Things I don't like' and Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market' by Katie Barnes
Number of students: 19
Student and Teacher Questionnaires + Postcards collected
Data ava... Read More about 24/02/2025 - Rossall College.
28/02/2025 - Altrincham Girls Grammar School (2025)
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Lecture and Workshop to Y10 students on Love under Apartheid
Lecturers: Keren Poliah, Vashti Gbolagun Suwa
Y10 students: 55
Data collected
Student & Teacher Questionnaires and Postcards available via Figshare
Student Learning (2025)
Book Chapter
Addition information - Exhibition poster (2025)
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Poster for the 2024/25 exhibition, the Omnipotence of Dream
‘But not for him. Just by him’: Hungarian landscapes and women’s time in the short fiction of Anna T. Szabó and Krisztina Tóth (2025)
Journal Article
Contemporary Hungarian women writers use the short form as a feminist intervention in current gender politics. Creating space in which to explore alternatives to patriarchal cultures and illiberal political movements, they deploy physical and imagina... Read More about ‘But not for him. Just by him’: Hungarian landscapes and women’s time in the short fiction of Anna T. Szabó and Krisztina Tóth.
30/01/2025 - Nelson and Colne College (2025)
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6th Form Conference Day
Lecture delivered by Jade Munslow Ong on the New Woman mentioning Olive Schreiner + Dracula + A Doll’s House
Students: 15
Student & Teacher Questionnaires collected
Data available via Figshare
28/02/2025 - Altrincham Girls Grammar School (2025)
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Lecture and Workshop to Y12 students on Nature and Colonialism
Lecturers: Keren Poliah, Vashti Gbolagun Suwa
Y12 students: 11
Data collected
Student & Teacher Questionnaires and Postcards available via Figshare
Ebola Syndrome (1996) and the Marginalisation of Popular Taste in Hong Kong Film History (2025)
Book Chapter
This chapter considers the position of popular films within the history of Hong Kong cinema. It takes as its focus the cycle of Category III films that appeared in the 1990s, many of which contained extreme scenes of sex and violence, and were box-of... Read More about Ebola Syndrome (1996) and the Marginalisation of Popular Taste in Hong Kong Film History.
26/02/2025 - Carmel College (2025)
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Lecture on Colonialism and Olive Schreiner [The Story of an African Farm (1883)] by Keren Poliah
Workshop followed by Vashti Gbolagun Suwa
Number of students: 24
Student and Teacher Questionnaires + Postcards collected
Data available via Figsha... Read More about 26/02/2025 - Carmel College.
Healing Tales: Interview transcripts (2025)
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This is a series of 6 interviews, and notes from a further conversation, with 8 people working in Bolton Royal Hospital, about their experiences in the COVID-19 Pandemic. The interviews were recorded and transcribed by Alan Williams, and they went on... Read More about Healing Tales: Interview transcripts.
Healing Tales Collection - Content List (2025)
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Read this document first - it's a content list for the collection Healing Tales.