Prof Ursula Hurley's Outputs (71)

Breadth, depth and height : early findings on engaging disabled people with digital fabrication (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Taylor, N., Connolly, P., Hurley, U., & Macleod-Iredale, J. (2016, May). Breadth, depth and height : early findings on engaging disabled people with digital fabrication. Presented at CHI 2016 Workshop: Fabrication & HCI: Hobbyist Making, Industrial Production, and Beyond, Salzburg

In this paper we describe early findings from a series of
digital fabrication workshops run with disabled people as part of the In the Making project. These workshops aimed to engage more disabled people with digital fabrication and explore how the... Read More about Breadth, depth and height : early findings on engaging disabled people with digital fabrication.

Heartwood, a story (2016)
Book

This novella length text is the first volume in the Heartwood trilogy. It stages a praxical enquiry in which the creative texts perform a triple function: as original literature, as documents of process, and as critical enquiry. In so doing the texts... Read More about Heartwood, a story.

Fail again, fail better : the case for formative assessment in first year undergraduate creative practice-based modules (2014)
Journal Article

This article identifies an intrinsic paradox in creative practice-based degree programmes that use outcome-led curricula and summative assessment in their first year undergraduate practical modules. Offering a personal reflection by two teachers-pra... Read More about Fail again, fail better : the case for formative assessment in first year undergraduate creative practice-based modules.

Durable goods, issue 83 (2013)
Other
Hurley, U. (2013). Durable goods, issue 83. U.S.A

Poetry microzine. Contains three commissioned poems: 'After A Long Walk Above Hebden Bridge', 'Farewell' and Sunrise Sunset' presented with commissioned art work.

'The Delicate One - With Sugar' (2012)
Other
Hurley, U. (2012). 'The Delicate One - With Sugar'

A collection of visual poems, produced in response to Jo Langton's 'Poetea' project and published on the Zimzalla website.

Standing on deep shale : the problem of originality (2012)
Book Chapter

Writers are often plagued by the apparent impossibility of saying something new, finding a unique voice; how to add something worthwhile to the almost infinite body of pre-existing literature? We stand at the edge of a vast uncharted sea – the unform... Read More about Standing on deep shale : the problem of originality.

Truths and their telling : a novel with complementary discourses (2011)
Thesis

Comprising a novel and complementary discourses, this thesis blurs the traditional distinctions between critical theory and creative practice, and contributes new insights into the practice, craft, and theory of the contemporary novel. It stages a pr... Read More about Truths and their telling : a novel with complementary discourses.

Walking in the world of ruins : explorations in the processes and products of autobiographical fiction (2011)
Journal Article
Hurley, U. (2011). Walking in the world of ruins : explorations in the processes and products of autobiographical fiction. International Journal of the Arts in Society, 5(6), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.18848/1833-1866/CGP/v05i06/35941

I continue his [Sebald's] walks in the world of ruins, of what is dead. I continue his contact with a stimulating tendency of the contemporary novel, a tendency that opens new ground in between essay, fiction and autobiography...


So writes Enr... Read More about Walking in the world of ruins : explorations in the processes and products of autobiographical fiction.

'Upper Derwent Water' (2011)
Exhibition / Performance

An experimental audio-visual treatment of a poem, performed as part of the 'Word Musicians' show at the Chorlton Festival.

Look back in wonder : how the endings of short stories can be their most powerful and effective distinguishing features (2011)
Journal Article

Drawing on her experiences as a writer and teacher of short fiction, the author offers an interrogation of the defining qualities of short stories, with a particular focus on how the ending of a narrative can be one of the most useful ways of teasing... Read More about Look back in wonder : how the endings of short stories can be their most powerful and effective distinguishing features.

All the love in the world (2011)
Book Chapter

This poem was commended in the Leaf Books poetry competition 2011, and published in the winners' anthology, entitled Balancing Act and Other Poems.

Two poems : 'In her sunporch' and 'Her garden, my lure' (2010)
Book Chapter

Selected for publication in the Shearsman poetry anthology themed around painters and St Ives.

Heartwood (2010)
Book Chapter

The creative text that I wrote as part of my PhD thesis won first prize for the best first chapter in the international writing prize, non-fiction category, run by Unbound Press in 2010.

Belong (2010)
Book Chapter

1000 word 'flash' memoir, commended in the Leaf Books Memoir Competition.

Tree (2009)
Other
Hurley, U. (2009). Tree. Liverpool

Tree is a collection of poetry, described by one reviewer as:
'Rich, passionate and intelligent, Tree explores the city/nature interface where most of us live. Playfully inventive, wide-ranging in mood and tone, this delightful collection succeeds i... Read More about Tree.

Seven Haiku from Queille (2008)
Journal Article
Hurley, U. (2008). Seven Haiku from Queille. ˜The œFrench literary review, 39-39

Hurling up (that wall) (2008)
Book Chapter

Poem within an anthology containing the work of 33 Liverpudlian poets.

A floating flower (2008)
Book Chapter

Poem within an anthology containing the work of 33 Liverpudlian poets.

Realisation (2008)
Book Chapter

Poem within an anthology containing the work of 33 Liverpudlian poets.

When the mind is quiet (2008)
Book Chapter

Poem within an anthology containing the work of 33 Liverpudlian poets.