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Nested Cinema: An Immersive Fiction-film Experience (2024)
Journal Article
Prokopic, P. (2024). Nested Cinema: An Immersive Fiction-film Experience. Leonardo, 57(5), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02538

Nested Cinema is an original immersive experience that complicates the boundaries between the physical and the virtual, between the real and the imaginary. Nested Cinema reimagines film through the orchestration of technology across three distinct la... Read More about Nested Cinema: An Immersive Fiction-film Experience.

“The souls of the children … Give me strength”: 1980s Horror Movie Marketing and the Life and Death of the “Brand Boogeymen” (2024)
Journal Article
Mellor, N. (2024). “The souls of the children … Give me strength”: 1980s Horror Movie Marketing and the Life and Death of the “Brand Boogeymen”. #Journal not on list, 7(1), 41–63

This article examines the socio-economic landscape of the 1980s and how brand marketing was used to take advantage of high concepts, home video and audience appetites to help establish some of the most enduring horror films of all time. It will discu... Read More about “The souls of the children … Give me strength”: 1980s Horror Movie Marketing and the Life and Death of the “Brand Boogeymen”.

“The souls of the children… Give me strength”: 1980s Horror Movie Marketing and the Life and Death of the Brand Boogeymen (2024)
Journal Article

Rooted in replicable concepts and bold visuals, horror cinema of the 1980s is as rich a vein for brand marketing case studies as you could hope to find. From the genre-inspired family blockbusters that set box office tills ringing to lower budget sla... Read More about “The souls of the children… Give me strength”: 1980s Horror Movie Marketing and the Life and Death of the Brand Boogeymen.

Finding agency in the imagined body through Unreal Engine’s Live Link performance capture (2024)
Journal Article
Daly, D. (2024). Finding agency in the imagined body through Unreal Engine’s Live Link performance capture. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2024.2366115

This article explores the agency of the actor in training with Performance/Motion capture (Pe/MoCap) technologies. It examines a series of characterization workshops exploring Michael Chekhov’s (2002) Imaginary Body techniques through live interactio... Read More about Finding agency in the imagined body through Unreal Engine’s Live Link performance capture.

'Addressing Barriers in the Student Pipeline to Improve Access to Research Careers: A Widening Participation Case Study at the University of Salford' (2024)
Journal Article

There is great inequality between the individuals who are successful in their pursuit of research and academic careers and those who are not. In this article, we explore a recent widening participation (WP) intervention at the University of Salford i... Read More about 'Addressing Barriers in the Student Pipeline to Improve Access to Research Careers: A Widening Participation Case Study at the University of Salford'.

Living Activism - Critical Social Policy introduction (2024)
Journal Article
Smith, O., & Nayak, S. (2024). Living Activism - Critical Social Policy introduction. Critical Social Policy, 44(3), 509-522. https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183241255474

Critical Social Policy (CSP) proudly launches the Journal’s Living Activism Section. This co-produced introduction to the Living Activism section of CSP, includes the ongoing impact of the CSP Solidarity Fund, lessons from the 2023 CSP gathering ‘Lea... Read More about Living Activism - Critical Social Policy introduction.

Solidarity and gender in protest novels: Bessie Head’s 'The Cardinals' and Miriam Tlali’s 'Muriel at Metropolitan' (2024)
Journal Article
Nivesjö, S. (2024). Solidarity and gender in protest novels: Bessie Head’s 'The Cardinals' and Miriam Tlali’s 'Muriel at Metropolitan'. #Journal not on list, 50(3), 31-47. https://doi.org/10.4314/eia.v50i3.3

This article analyses the critical role of gender within racial solidarity in anti-apartheid protest writing by comparing Bessie Head’s The Cardinals and Miriam Tlali’s Muriel at Metropolitan. Both novels depict the protagonist’s experience of being... Read More about Solidarity and gender in protest novels: Bessie Head’s 'The Cardinals' and Miriam Tlali’s 'Muriel at Metropolitan'.

Creative approaches to landscape research: Using multisensory and multispecies research perspectives with marginalised groups (2024)
Journal Article
Satchwell, C., Mills, B., Parkinson, C., Herring, L., & Parathian, H. (in press). Creative approaches to landscape research: Using multisensory and multispecies research perspectives with marginalised groups. Landscape Research, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2024.2336544

The research project discussed here used artist-led workshops to enable people from marginalised groups to explore and communicate their relationships with nature and landscapes. Aligning with multisensory and multispecies methodologies, five worksho... Read More about Creative approaches to landscape research: Using multisensory and multispecies research perspectives with marginalised groups.

Perspectives on citizen data privacy in a smart city – An empirical case study (2024)
Journal Article
Lucas, E., Simpson, S., & Lucas, E. (in press). Perspectives on citizen data privacy in a smart city – An empirical case study. Convergence, https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565241247413

Digitisation is arguably an inevitable feature of contemporary urban development, yet privacy issues arising from the mass data collection, transmission and processing it entails continue to be a poorly understood and contentious issue for people liv... Read More about Perspectives on citizen data privacy in a smart city – An empirical case study.

“Our air, our water, our Earth”: Trans-corporeality and Toxic Bodies in Twin Peaks: The Return (2024)
Journal Article

This article offers an ecocritical reading of David Lynch’s and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks: The Return (2017). Within The Return, Lawrence Jacoby (Russ Tamblyn) claims that “our air, our water, our Earth—the very soil itself—our food, [and] our bodies [... Read More about “Our air, our water, our Earth”: Trans-corporeality and Toxic Bodies in Twin Peaks: The Return.

An Act of Love: Three Experiences of Self- Decolonization in the Academic Community of the United Kingdom (2024)
Journal Article
Poliah, K., Suwa Gbolagun, V., Ka Keung, J. Y., Helm, H., & Gilbert, D. J. (2024). An Act of Love: Three Experiences of Self- Decolonization in the Academic Community of the United Kingdom. #Journal not on list, 03, 88-103. https://doi.org/10.35074/FJ.2024.40.20.007

This narrative essay presents testimonies that uncover the fragmented identity of members of minoritized ethnic groups in the academic context of the United Kingdom. It discusses outcomes of a project which, as part of an Equality, Diversity, and Inc... Read More about An Act of Love: Three Experiences of Self- Decolonization in the Academic Community of the United Kingdom.

Exegesis and Authorial Agency through Judeo-Christian Iconography in Japanese anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-97) as an Open Work (2024)
Journal Article
Selles de Lucas, V., & Hernandez Perez, M. (2024). Exegesis and Authorial Agency through Judeo-Christian Iconography in Japanese anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-97) as an Open Work. Imafronte, https://doi.org/10.6018/imafronte.569471

Exegesis is a common practice when discussing religious texts. It has also been employed in the analysis of cultural production to elucidate the author's intentions. Japanese animation (anime) is a transnational industry with cases such as Neon Genes... Read More about Exegesis and Authorial Agency through Judeo-Christian Iconography in Japanese anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-97) as an Open Work.

Shaping movement improviser’s experiences: document(ing) embodied and extended sculptural qualities within motion capture environments <sup>1</sup> (2024)
Journal Article
Sykes, L. (in press). Shaping movement improviser’s experiences: document(ing) embodied and extended sculptural qualities within motion capture environments 1. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2024.2324399

This audio-visual essay is a methodological approach to a document of my current doctoral practice as research investigating the embodied dance improvisatory approaches within motion capture environments. The research explores the emergence of sculpt... Read More about Shaping movement improviser’s experiences: document(ing) embodied and extended sculptural qualities within motion capture environments <sup>1</sup>.

‘“Make them roll in their graves”: South African Writing, Decolonisation, and the English Literature A-Level’ (2024)
Journal Article

This article analyses the activities and early outcomes of an ongoing co-designed and co-delivered research impact project entitled ‘Decolonising the English Literature A-Level’. It draws on examples from three case studies, classroom experiences, an... Read More about ‘“Make them roll in their graves”: South African Writing, Decolonisation, and the English Literature A-Level’.

Flipping Failure: A case study on building resilience and confidence through 'Failureship Strategies' in theory and practiceat the University of Salford (2024)
Journal Article
Whitnall, D., & Hurley, U. (2024). Flipping Failure: A case study on building resilience and confidence through 'Failureship Strategies' in theory and practiceat the University of Salford. Innovative practice in higher education, 5(3), 1-23

This paper presents the Flipping Failure project, which aims to challenge the negative perception of failure and promote its benefits for building resilience, insight, and action. The project involved students and staff who participated in failure-fo... Read More about Flipping Failure: A case study on building resilience and confidence through 'Failureship Strategies' in theory and practiceat the University of Salford.

Audit Committees and their role in Academic Audit and Risk Practices in English Higher Education Institutions (2024)
Journal Article

This paper explores contemporary practices of Audit Committees (ACs) in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in England. The objectives are: (1) to evaluate the current transparency of public reporting by ACs; (2) to understand the roles of these Comm... Read More about Audit Committees and their role in Academic Audit and Risk Practices in English Higher Education Institutions.