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Timbral Metrics for Analysis of Metal Production: Then, Now and What Next? (2023)
Book Chapter
Williams, D. (2023). Timbral Metrics for Analysis of Metal Production: Then, Now and What Next?. In . J.-P. Herbst (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music (70-82). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108991162.006

This chapter presents an overview of timbre in metal production from a psychoacoustic and computational musicology perspective, particularly focusing on the use of acoustic feature extraction. Both performance and recording technology have undoubtedl... Read More about Timbral Metrics for Analysis of Metal Production: Then, Now and What Next?.

'Limmy-nality':21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond (2023)
Book Chapter
Wilkie, I. (2023). 'Limmy-nality':21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond. In UK and Irish TV Comedy Collection. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23629-7

The global Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-2021 has made the production and dissemination of the comic work of Scottish comedian Brian ‘Limmy’ Limmond (b. Glasgow, 1974) seem innovative to the point of being prophetic. As an established Scottish comic aute... Read More about 'Limmy-nality':21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond.

The Role of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria on Arsenic Removal: A Review of Existing Perspectives (2023)
Book Chapter
Laha, A., Sengupta, S., Mandal, J., Bhattacharyya, K., & Bhattacharyya, S. The Role of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria on Arsenic Removal: A Review of Existing Perspectives. In Arsenic Toxicity Remediation: Biotechnological Approaches (241-262). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37561-3_12

Phytobial remediation is a cutting-edge technique that employs bacteria and plants to reduce environmental contamination with arsenic (As). Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) that aids phytoremediation has recently received much attention for the... Read More about The Role of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria on Arsenic Removal: A Review of Existing Perspectives.

Environmental and Invertebrate-Derived DNA: A Powerful Approach for Surveying and Monitoring Biodiversity (2023)
Book Chapter
Guimaraes Sales, N. (2023). Environmental and Invertebrate-Derived DNA: A Powerful Approach for Surveying and Monitoring Biodiversity. In P. M. Galetti Jr. (Ed.), Conservation Genetics in the Neotropics. (1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34854-9

To know the organisms that surround us has always seemed a fascinating idea and a necessity to characterize an area and estimate its natural values. However, performing complete surveys of the organisms is not always an easy task, because some of the... Read More about Environmental and Invertebrate-Derived DNA: A Powerful Approach for Surveying and Monitoring Biodiversity.

Critically exploring public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape and the role of Green Social Prescribing (2023)
Book Chapter
Thompson, J., Howarth, M., Hardman, M., & Cook, P. (2023). Critically exploring public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape and the role of Green Social Prescribing. In Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003355731-9

This chapter explores the concept of, and presents the case for, public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape. We argue that the act of cultivating this landscape is a means by which to offer opportunity for wellness through access and interact... Read More about Critically exploring public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape and the role of Green Social Prescribing.

A poet who climbed or a climber who writes poetry: The Poetry of Cinema and Movement in the Rock-Climbing Documentary (2023)
Book Chapter

This collection aims to give insight to the reader as to how poetic approaches to documentary filmmaking have helped to develop the documentary form into a rich and diverse way of representing the real world in film. As such, it is the aesthetics of... Read More about A poet who climbed or a climber who writes poetry: The Poetry of Cinema and Movement in the Rock-Climbing Documentary.

Critically exploring public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape and the role of Green Social Prescribing (2023)
Book Chapter
Thompson, J., Howarth, M., Hardman, M., & Cook, P. Critically exploring public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape and the role of Green Social Prescribing. In P. Marsh, & A. Williams (Eds.), Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003355731

In this chapter, we conceptualise public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape, and explore its role and potential as a medium for civic environmental nature-based activities that generate health and wellbeing benefits. We outline common approa... Read More about Critically exploring public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape and the role of Green Social Prescribing.

The Classic Slum? Heritage Discourses, Ideologies of Transition and the Remaking of Post-Industrial Salford (1985-2021)’ (2023)
Book Chapter

This paper examines Salford’s attempt to re-invent itself as a culture and media centre with an emphasis on the role of civic identities and cultural dissonance. The spatial turn in historical and cultural studies has provoked a return to the idea of... Read More about The Classic Slum? Heritage Discourses, Ideologies of Transition and the Remaking of Post-Industrial Salford (1985-2021)’.

Working with Protective Behaviours (2023)
Book Chapter
Dubrow-Marshall, L., & Dubrow-Marshall, R. (2023). Working with Protective Behaviours. In J. Roddy (Ed.), Working with Client Experiences of Domestic Abuse (88-100). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003253266-7

Domestic abuse survivors sometimes present in counselling with a series of self-destructive behaviours that at first glance might seem mentally unhealthy and may inhibit understanding, empathy, and compassion from the psychotherapist. These behaviour... Read More about Working with Protective Behaviours.

Enhancing Therapeutic Skills (2023)
Book Chapter
Dubrow-Marshall, L., Roddy, J., Viliardos, L., & Gardner, L. (2023). Enhancing Therapeutic Skills. In J. Roddy (Ed.), Working with Client Experiences of Domestic Abuse (43-49). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003253266-4

Creating the right environment for counselling to take place is vital for any therapy to progress. The nature of domestic abuse, such that it is a relational abuse, requires very strong and clear therapeutic relationships to be built. As counselling... Read More about Enhancing Therapeutic Skills.