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The role of urban green spaces in improving social inclusion
Presentation / Conference
Kazmierczak, A., & James, P. The role of urban green spaces in improving social inclusion. Presented at 7th International Postgraduate Research Conference in the Built and Human Environment., University of Salford, Greater Manchester

Call for conference papers
Presentation / Conference
Procter, C., & Leighton, D. Call for conference papers. Presented at Education in a Changing Environment 6th International Conference, Creativity and Engagement in Higher Education, The University of Salford, UK

The University of Salford’s 6th Education in a Changing Environment Conference, Creativity and Engagement in Higher Education, will explore and discuss international best practice in teaching and educational research in higher education. Through them... Read More about Call for conference papers.

Women’s experiences of wearing therapeutic footwear in three European countries
Journal Article
Williams, A., Nester, C., Ravey, M., Kottink, A., & Morey-Klapsing, G. Women’s experiences of wearing therapeutic footwear in three European countries. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 3(23), https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-1146-3-23

Background: Therapeutic footwear is recommended for those people with severe foot problems associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, it is known that many do not wear them. Although previous European studies have recommended service and f... Read More about Women’s experiences of wearing therapeutic footwear in three European countries.

The archaeology of industrialisation and the textile industry: the example of Manchester and the south-western pennine uplands during the 18th century (part 1)
Journal Article
Nevell, M. The archaeology of industrialisation and the textile industry: the example of Manchester and the south-western pennine uplands during the 18th century (part 1). Industrial Archaeology Review, 30(1), 33-48. https://doi.org/10.1179/174581908X285110

Between the early 18th century and the mid-19th century the north-west of England was turned from a relatively impoverished backwater to one of the major industrialisation zones in the world. This is thus a key region fopr understanding the archaeolo... Read More about The archaeology of industrialisation and the textile industry: the example of Manchester and the south-western pennine uplands during the 18th century (part 1).

Resilient homes : reward-based methods to motivate householders to address dangerous climate change
Report
Bichard, E., & Kazmierczack, A. Resilient homes : reward-based methods to motivate householders to address dangerous climate change

The Resilient Homes project is a national initiative promoted and funded by the Environment Agency. This summary describes an aspect of the project carried out between January and June 2009 by a research team from Salford University under the directi... Read More about Resilient homes : reward-based methods to motivate householders to address dangerous climate change.

Electronic literacy, reading skills and non-native speakers: issues for EAP
Journal Article
Jarvis, H., & Pastuszka, L. Electronic literacy, reading skills and non-native speakers: issues for EAP. CALL-EJ on-line, 10(1),

Competent reading skills in an electronic environment are vital elements to successful academic study at many Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). For non-native speakers of English (NNS) this necessitates not only a command of the English languag... Read More about Electronic literacy, reading skills and non-native speakers: issues for EAP.

Bell in the ball
Digital Artefact
Peters, L., & Brown, G. Bell in the ball. [CD]

Danny was blinded in a fight on New Year's Eve 2008. He's angry about it - in fact he's angry about everything. So his long suffering girlfriend suggests he joins a blind cricket team. It's surprisingly competitive and skilful. There's only one probl... Read More about Bell in the ball.

People versus machines or people and machines? Current research directions within British post-medieval and industrial archaeology
Book Chapter
Nevell, M. People versus machines or people and machines? Current research directions within British post-medieval and industrial archaeology. In Crossing Paths or Sharing Tracks? Future directions in the archaeological study of post-1550 Britian and Ireland (31-40). Boydell & Brewer Ltd

This chapter reviews the continuing debate about the scope and role of industrial archaeology that was sparked by the publication of Understanding the Workplace, a research framework published by the Association for Industrial Archaeology in 2005. Si... Read More about People versus machines or people and machines? Current research directions within British post-medieval and industrial archaeology.

Visual management – A general overview
Presentation / Conference
Tezel, B., Koskela, L., & Tzortzopoulos, P. Visual management – A general overview. Presented at 5th International Conference on Construction in the 21st Century (CITC-V), Istanbul, Turkey

Visual Management has been evolving and effectively employed in some manufacturing and service organizations for a long time. It is an essential element of the lean production system that can be approached from different scientific disciplines as wel... Read More about Visual management – A general overview.

Liberate your avatar
Presentation / Conference
Sermon, P. Liberate your avatar. Presented at Creating Second Lives Conference, Bangor University, Wales, UK

The merged realities of 'All Saints Gardens' on Oxford Road, and its online three-dimensional counterpart in 'Second Life' will, for the first time, allow 'first life' visitors and 'second life' avatars to coexist and share the same park bench in a l... Read More about Liberate your avatar.

Puppeteers, performers or avatars - A perceptual difference in telematic space
Presentation / Conference
Sermon, P. Puppeteers, performers or avatars - A perceptual difference in telematic space. Presented at Object and Identity in a Digital Age (CHArt 2009), CHArt COMPUTERS AND THE HISTORY OF ART Seeing, Vision and Perception in a Digital Culture CHArt twenty-fourth Annual Conference, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom

My work in the field of telematic arts explores the emergence of a user-determined narrative by bringing remote participants together in a shared telepresent environment. Through the use of live chroma-keying and videoconferencing technology, two pub... Read More about Puppeteers, performers or avatars - A perceptual difference in telematic space.

Liberate your avatar; the revolution will be social networked
Presentation / Conference
Sermon, P., & Gould, C. Liberate your avatar; the revolution will be social networked. Presented at Digital Art & Culture 2009, University of California Irvine

This paper brings together the practice-based creative research of artists Charlotte Gould and Paul Sermon, culminating in a collaborative interactive installation that investigates new forms of social and political narrative in multi-user virtual en... Read More about Liberate your avatar; the revolution will be social networked.

Urban picnic
Exhibition / Performance
Sermon, P., & Gould, C. Urban picnic. [Interactive Media Art Installation]. (Unpublished)

Following the success of ‘Picnic on the Screen’, presented at the Glastonbury Festival 2009, Paul and Charlotte were recently invited to develop a new version of this interactive public video installation for the MOVES10 Media Arts Festival at venues... Read More about Urban picnic.

Avatarium - A consumer paradox
Exhibition / Performance
Sermon, P. Avatarium - A consumer paradox. [Interactive Second Life Installation]. (Unpublished)

The British artist Paul Sermon, who is visiting Istanbul as a guest of Istanbul Digital Culture and Art Foundation, will exhibit his new interactive public art installation, AVATARIUM - A Consumer Paradox in City's shopping mall between 11 to 16 Nove... Read More about Avatarium - A consumer paradox.

Telematic vision - Permanent installation exhibit for Experimenta Science Museum
Exhibition / Performance
Sermon, P. Telematic vision - Permanent installation exhibit for Experimenta Science Museum. [Interactive Art Installation]. (Unpublished)

Two identical blue sofas are located in dispersed remote locations. In front of each sofa stands a video monitor and camera. The video camera in each location sends a live video image to the other location. The two images are mixed together, via a vi... Read More about Telematic vision - Permanent installation exhibit for Experimenta Science Museum.

Determination of hyperfine field distributions in amorphous magnets
Journal Article
amorphous magnets. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 18, 7751-7759. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/18/32/022

We present an overview of two leading methods of determining probability distributions from M¨ossbauer spectra, using the model amorphous magnet Fe80B20. A comparison is made between the maximum-entropy method, which permits analysis using truly a... Read More about Determination of hyperfine field distributions in amorphous magnets.

Temperature dependent crystallization of amorphous Y67Fe33 studied using kinetic small angle neutron scattering
Journal Article
Al-Jawad, M., & Kilcoyne, S. Temperature dependent crystallization of amorphous Y67Fe33 studied using kinetic small angle neutron scattering. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 20, 395230-395234. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/20/39/395230

Temperature-resolved small angle neutron scattering (SANS) has been used to study the nucleation, growth kinetics and crystallite morphology in the Y–Fe system. Crystallization from amorphous Y67Fe33 to the YFe2 Laves phase via a novel ‘YFe’ interm... Read More about Temperature dependent crystallization of amorphous Y67Fe33 studied using kinetic small angle neutron scattering.