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Teaching Media Forensics (2022)
Journal Article
Smith, P. B., & Burchell, K. (2022). Teaching Media Forensics. #Journal not on list, 61(9),

Embedding Socially Engaged Pedagogies for The Future of Art and Design Practice (2022)
Journal Article
Wewiora, E., & Colclough, N. (2022). Embedding Socially Engaged Pedagogies for The Future of Art and Design Practice

This paper describes the shifting approaches to student and teaching experience on the MA Art and Design programmes at the University of Salford, (North West of England), in the wake of the global covid19 pandemic. The paper offers a series of case s... Read More about Embedding Socially Engaged Pedagogies for The Future of Art and Design Practice.

‘U OK hun’? Classed femininities, meme culture and locating humour in the celebrity ‘hun’ (2022)
Journal Article
Minor, L. (2022). ‘U OK hun’? Classed femininities, meme culture and locating humour in the celebrity ‘hun’. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 26(6), 840-862. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494221134344

This article examines ‘huns’ – specifically celebrity huns in the public spotlight – as memetic ‘figures’ who are defined by their loud, tongue-in-cheek and humorous display of British femininities coded as working class. Unlike other female figures... Read More about ‘U OK hun’? Classed femininities, meme culture and locating humour in the celebrity ‘hun’.

Vegan celebrity activism: an analysis of the critical reception of Joaquin Phoenix’s awards speech activism (2022)
Journal Article
Herring, L., & Parkinson, C. (2023). Vegan celebrity activism: an analysis of the critical reception of Joaquin Phoenix’s awards speech activism. Celebrity Studies, 14(4), 584-601. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2154684

Acceptance speeches have long been used by celebrity activists as platforms from which to promote their personal, political or ethical agendas. The actor Joaquin Phoenix, an outspoken proponent for animal rights and veganism, dominated the Hollywood... Read More about Vegan celebrity activism: an analysis of the critical reception of Joaquin Phoenix’s awards speech activism.

Order vs chaos (2022)
Journal Article
Cherniwchan, C. (2022). Order vs chaos. #Journal not on list, 31(124),

Participation and Strategic Communication of Saudi Food Banks through Twitter to Enhance Food Waste Awareness among Saudi Arabian Citizens (2022)
Journal Article
Alkorbi, N., Hernandez-Perez, M., & Simpson, S. (2022). Participation and Strategic Communication of Saudi Food Banks through Twitter to Enhance Food Waste Awareness among Saudi Arabian Citizens. World academy of engineering and technology, 16(12),

Twitter is a platform service that has quickly risen to prominence as the social media platform most preferred for strategic communication campaigns. It is used by most of the Non-Profit Organizations (NPO) in Saudi Arabia, making it the most popular... Read More about Participation and Strategic Communication of Saudi Food Banks through Twitter to Enhance Food Waste Awareness among Saudi Arabian Citizens.

Naming and blaming: civic shame and slum journalism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Manchester and Birmingham (2022)
Journal Article
O'Reilly, C. (2023). Naming and blaming: civic shame and slum journalism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Manchester and Birmingham. Journal of Urban History, https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442221127055

This study analyses slum journalism in the British provincial press and reveals that it continued to be a major theme until well into the twentieth century. Instead of the rather moralising reporting of the earlier nineteenth century, this journalism... Read More about Naming and blaming: civic shame and slum journalism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Manchester and Birmingham.

‘Performed Poetics: a two-day event celebrating the work of Eric Mottram and Jerome Rothenberg’, King’s College London, 12th-13th March 2022 (2022)
Journal Article
Cook, R. (2022). ‘Performed Poetics: a two-day event celebrating the work of Eric Mottram and Jerome Rothenberg’, King’s College London, 12th-13th March 2022. Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.16995/bip.9212

‘Performed Poetics’ was a two-day conference celebrating the work of Eric Mottram and Jerome Rothenberg through a series of readings, performances, panel discussions, and film screenings. Organised by Valerie Soar and taking place at King’s College L... Read More about ‘Performed Poetics: a two-day event celebrating the work of Eric Mottram and Jerome Rothenberg’, King’s College London, 12th-13th March 2022.

Accommodating prisoners of war: a survey of the Weston Hostel (2022)
Journal Article
Wild, C. (2022). Accommodating prisoners of war: a survey of the Weston Hostel. Industrial Archaeology Review, 44(2), 149-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/03090728.2022.2122680

Prisoner-of-war camps were one of the most numerous types of military sites to be established in Britain during the Second World War and yet are one of the least studied. Most comprised a series of temporary huts that were erected from prefabricated... Read More about Accommodating prisoners of war: a survey of the Weston Hostel.

Investigating the ‘curious’ case of civil war and foreign direct investment: evidence from Sudan (2022)
Journal Article
Maher, D. (2023). Investigating the ‘curious’ case of civil war and foreign direct investment: evidence from Sudan. Review of International Political Economy, 30(4), 1510-1534. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2022.2107045

It is typically argued that civil war acutely inhibits inward flows of foreign direct investment (FDI). However, the evidence is inconsistent and does not support the assumed negative relationship between civil war and FDI. Some studies suggest that... Read More about Investigating the ‘curious’ case of civil war and foreign direct investment: evidence from Sudan.

Affective atmosphere: embodiment and the film frame (2022)
Journal Article
Prokopic, P. (2022). Affective atmosphere: embodiment and the film frame. Journal of Embodied Research, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.8315

The affective atmosphere approach to filmmaking emerged from a practice-as-research project entitled Affective Cinema, which seeks to explore the unique expressive potential of film by offsetting its function as a vehicle for coherent communication o... Read More about Affective atmosphere: embodiment and the film frame.

Shaping China’s Engagement with the Arctic: Nationalist Narratives and Geopolitical Reality (2022)
Journal Article
Wu, F. (2023). Shaping China’s Engagement with the Arctic: Nationalist Narratives and Geopolitical Reality. Journal of Contemporary China, 32(143), 828-843. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2022.2124353

Nationalist narratives and geopolitical reality have played an opposite role in shaping China’s engagement with the Arctic, with the former pushing it forward while the latter pushing it back. Specifically, Chinese nationalist narratives on strong fe... Read More about Shaping China’s Engagement with the Arctic: Nationalist Narratives and Geopolitical Reality.

Black Wednesday: thirty years on (2022)
Journal Article
Williams, B. (in press). Black Wednesday: thirty years on. Political Insight, 13(3), 22-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/20419058221127468

When the definitive history of recent decades in British politics comes to be written, Wednesday, 16 September 1992 will likely be a standout date. That day – dubbed ‘Black Wednesday’ – Britain was forced to withdraw from the Exchange Rate Mechanism... Read More about Black Wednesday: thirty years on.