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Under Construction (2019)
Journal Article
Cherniwchan, C. (2019). Under Construction. #Journal not on list, 28(112),

Silence on Loan (2019)
Journal Article
Cherniwchan, C. (2019). Silence on Loan. #Journal not on list, 28(112),

Otaku tourists out of Japan : fictionality, shared memories, and the role of national branding in the Japanese pilgrimages of anime fans in the United Kingdom (2019)
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Hernandez Perez, M. (2019). Otaku tourists out of Japan : fictionality, shared memories, and the role of national branding in the Japanese pilgrimages of anime fans in the United Kingdom. Journal of Popular Culture, 52(6), 1512-1535. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.12871

The article explores the reasons and narratives behind the anime pilgrimage experiences of Japanese tourists in the UK. Anime or otaku (fan) pilgrimages are a phenomenon widely studied by Japanese and foreign academics in relation to seichi junrei (“... Read More about Otaku tourists out of Japan : fictionality, shared memories, and the role of national branding in the Japanese pilgrimages of anime fans in the United Kingdom.

The Shared Agency of Photography in Gallery Education: Open Eye Gallery Discusses Its Rethinking of Gallery Education, through the Role of Photography as a Tool for Co‐Authorship and Co‐Production (2019)
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Wewiora, E. (2019). The Shared Agency of Photography in Gallery Education: Open Eye Gallery Discusses Its Rethinking of Gallery Education, through the Role of Photography as a Tool for Co‐Authorship and Co‐Production. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 38(4), 747-756. https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12257

This article describes a current project by Liverpool organisations Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool), Whitby High School (Ellesmere Port), recent partners Liverpool Hope University and Curious Minds. The school is in an area of high socio-economic depriv... Read More about The Shared Agency of Photography in Gallery Education: Open Eye Gallery Discusses Its Rethinking of Gallery Education, through the Role of Photography as a Tool for Co‐Authorship and Co‐Production.

Making myself visible : self-portraiture and representations of blackness in the work of Donald Rodney (2019)
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Correia, A. (2019). Making myself visible : self-portraiture and representations of blackness in the work of Donald Rodney. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 45, 74-86

This article considers the role of self-portraiture within the work of British artist Donald Rodney (1961–98). The text investigates the ways in which Rodney used the self-portrait, not to visualize himself, but to animate issues associated with the... Read More about Making myself visible : self-portraiture and representations of blackness in the work of Donald Rodney.

The Big Society : ten years on (2019)
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Williams, B. (2019). The Big Society : ten years on. Political Insight, 10(4), 22-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041905819891369

David Cameron attempted to make a more caring, socially-conscious Conservatism his flagship policy. But did the ‘Big Society’ ever really come to pass? Ben Williams examines the evidence a decade on.

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the ghosts of West European communism live on (2019)
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Bull, M. (2019). Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the ghosts of West European communism live on

Germany marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 2019. This article argues that alongside the sweeping changes that occurred in central and eastern Europe, the end of the Cold War also had a lasting legacy for western... Read More about Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the ghosts of West European communism live on.

Researching exhibitions of South Asian women artists in Britain in the 1980s (2019)
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Correia, A. (2019). Researching exhibitions of South Asian women artists in Britain in the 1980s. British Art Studies, https://doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-13/acorreia/000

This paper narrates the author’s research methodologies and findings relating to her ongoing project, Articulating British Asian Art Histories. With a specific focus on four exhibitions of South Asian women artists during the 1980s and early 1990s, i... Read More about Researching exhibitions of South Asian women artists in Britain in the 1980s.

Dark night of the soul : applicability of theory in comics and radio through the scripted podcast drama (2019)
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McMurtry, L. (2019). Dark night of the soul : applicability of theory in comics and radio through the scripted podcast drama. Studies in Comics, 10(2), 235-254. https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00004_1

This article responds to McCloud’s theoretical framework for comics and applies this framework to audio drama, which I argue is, like comics, a mono-sensory medium (one can only be seen in static image and the other can only be heard); both require a... Read More about Dark night of the soul : applicability of theory in comics and radio through the scripted podcast drama.

Parliament has breached the spirit and intent of the Fixed-Term Parliament Act, rendering it meaningless (2019)
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Bull, M. (2019). Parliament has breached the spirit and intent of the Fixed-Term Parliament Act, rendering it meaningless

By calling an early election, government and parliament have effectively breached both the spirit and intent of the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act. The implications of this outcome are significant and suggest that the act is unlikely to survive another l... Read More about Parliament has breached the spirit and intent of the Fixed-Term Parliament Act, rendering it meaningless.

Grappling with Grappelli : contemporary jazz violin pedagogy and the legacy of gypsy jazz (2019)
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Sykes, T., & Poutiainen, A. (2020). Grappling with Grappelli : contemporary jazz violin pedagogy and the legacy of gypsy jazz. Jazz Research Journal, 13(1-2), 151-177. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.37944

The violin has been played in jazz from the beginning of the music's history, and yet ithas, until relatively recently, been somewhat neglected as a significant jazz instrumentin terms of both performance and education. One style of jazz in which the... Read More about Grappling with Grappelli : contemporary jazz violin pedagogy and the legacy of gypsy jazz.

Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017 (2019)
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Rich, E., Miah, A., & Lewis, S. (2019). Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017. Sociology of Health and Illness, 41(S1), 31-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12980

Informed by a discourse analysis, this article examines the framing of equity within the UK's digital health policies between 2010 and 2017, focusing on England's development of NHS Digital and its situation within the UK Government's wider digital s... Read More about Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017.

Whatever happened to the Westminster Model? The 'Italianisation' of British politics (2019)
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Bull, M. (2019). Whatever happened to the Westminster Model? The 'Italianisation' of British politics

The UK was once viewed by political scientists as embodying a distinct majoritarian form of politics – the ‘Westminster Model’ – that stood in contrast to the ‘consensus’ democracies found elsewhere in Europe. Several of the countries in the latter g... Read More about Whatever happened to the Westminster Model? The 'Italianisation' of British politics.

A tale of three tribes : UK MPs, Twitter and the EU Referendum (2019)
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Ward, S., McLoughlin, L., Southern, R., & Gibson, R. (2020). A tale of three tribes : UK MPs, Twitter and the EU Referendum. Information Polity, 25(1), 49-66. https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-190140

This paper examines the structure of Twitter communication networks between MPs during the 2016 EU Referendum campaign. In particular, the research examines the impact of Twitter in two dimensions: (1) how far social media might facilitate inter-part... Read More about A tale of three tribes : UK MPs, Twitter and the EU Referendum.

The struggle for co-existence : communication policy by private technical standards making and its limits in unlicensed spectrum (2019)
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Rashid, I., & Simpson, S. (2021). The struggle for co-existence : communication policy by private technical standards making and its limits in unlicensed spectrum. Information, Communication and Society, 24(4), 576-593. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1662072

Huge increase in the demand by the wireless sector to use the airwaves has trained focus on the classic policy problem of resource scarcity in the field. This article illuminates a part of wireless communication – unlicensed spectrum – where a parti... Read More about The struggle for co-existence : communication policy by private technical standards making and its limits in unlicensed spectrum.