Prof Ursula Hurley's Outputs (76)

Café Research Part 1- PGR Pathways.mp4 (2021)
Digital Artefact

In this presentation the head of the University of Salford's Doctoral School, Ursula Hurley, and Davina Whitnell, the University of Salford Researcher Development Manager, discuss the different routes open to completing a PhD at the University of Sal... Read More about Café Research Part 1- PGR Pathways.mp4.

FAIL- Further Attempt In Learning-recording of conference presentation (2021)
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Recording of a presentation to UKCGE Annual Conference 2021.

Abstract: Failure is part of being human, we learn more through failure than through success. We are psychologically and biologically wired to remember the negative, this instinct helps... Read More about FAIL- Further Attempt In Learning-recording of conference presentation.

Failure toolkit (2021)
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Supporting our Failure Freedom initiative, this toolkit provides some practical exercises and templates to consider failure and flipping this into a more positive narrative.

Our Park: A Place of Love, Life and Possibilities (2021)
Book

This graphic novel was inspired by a ‘Common Third’

of residents, staff and students from Salford Loaves and Fishes and the University of Salford. Common Thirds are shared activities, linking individuals, groups and communities; creating space for... Read More about Our Park: A Place of Love, Life and Possibilities.

Tin mining degradation : autobiographical investigations of home, loss and identity (2021)
Thesis
Suwa Gbolagun, V. Tin mining degradation : autobiographical investigations of home, loss and identity. (Thesis). University of Salford

Tin mining on the Jos Plateau was the major income earner in Nigeria before petroleum was discovered in the Niger Delta region in 1958. The excavation for tin left the Plateau landscape environmentally depleted, with over forty-six per cent of its la... Read More about Tin mining degradation : autobiographical investigations of home, loss and identity.

FAIL LIVE: Encouraging failure freedom within PGR communities (2020)
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The presentation addresses the following themes:
* Strategic opportunities and challenges for organisations in creating and sustaining environments where researchers can flourish
* Innovative and practical approaches to the professional and career... Read More about FAIL LIVE: Encouraging failure freedom within PGR communities.

Images from 'In the Making' (2020)
Digital Artefact
Hurley, U. (2020). Images from 'In the Making'. [Photographs]

A set of images generated as documents of the processes and products of 'In the making': a co-constructed mapping and feasibility study of digital fabrication labs and their potential to catalyse cultural change. ‘In the Making’ is an AHRC Connected... Read More about Images from 'In the Making'.

Online presence for the In the Making Project (2020)
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These web pages document the online coverage and presence of the AHRC Connected Communities project In the Making: a co-constructed mapping and feasibility study of digital fabrication labs and their potential to catalyse cultural change. project.

Fail Again, Fail Better: Celebrating Failure as a Wellbeing Intervention for Researchers (2019)
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Blog post relating to 1st International Conference on the Mental Health & Wellbeing of Postgraduate Researchers
16th - 17th May 2019
Jury's Inn Waterfront, Brighton

Failure Freedom: A guide to supporting researchers through developing a failure freedom culture (2019)
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As we work towards better mental health across the researcher community, failure freedom – the ability to feel comfortable with failure – is a critical element to supporting and enabling resilience and positive mental wellness.
Fear of failure is em... Read More about Failure Freedom: A guide to supporting researchers through developing a failure freedom culture.

Failure Freedom: A guide to supporting researchers through developing a failure freedom culture (2019)
Book
Hurley, U., & Whitnall, D. (2019). Failure Freedom: A guide to supporting researchers through developing a failure freedom culture. University of Salford. https://doi.org/10.17866/rd.salford.10510157

Purple reign : A collection of poetry and prose inspired by the life and music of Prince (2019)
Book

This work is presented as a collection of practice-based
research, responding to the academic questions posed by
“Purple Reign: an interdisciplinary conference on the life
and legacy of Prince” (24th - 26th May 2017) organised
by The University o... Read More about Purple reign : A collection of poetry and prose inspired by the life and music of Prince.

SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts (2019)
Book

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2019 SPARC conference. This year we not only celebrate the work of our PGRs but also our first ever Doctoral School Best Supervisor awards, which makes this year’s conference extra special. Once again we have... Read More about SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts.

A space to tell : writing poetry in a second language (2019)
Thesis

Distinct from the increasing interest in Research on L2 creative writing in a pedagogical context, this practice-based PhD research attempts to situate the process of writing poetry in a second language as a creative practice in its own right. This e... Read More about A space to tell : writing poetry in a second language.

Printing a new story : self-representation, disability, and digital fabrication (2019)
Journal Article
Hurley, U. (2019). Printing a new story : self-representation, disability, and digital fabrication. European journal of life writing, 8(2019), DM171-DM196. https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.8.35555

This essay presents an account of an AHRC Connected Communities Innovation project which used creative writing techniques as a process for generating personally meaningful digitally-fabricated objects, probing the potential
of making practices to ca... Read More about Printing a new story : self-representation, disability, and digital fabrication.

Dismember the past (2019)
Thesis
Gregory, S. (in press). Dismember the past. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis is a creative literary biography, or historiographic metafiction, of the life and works of writer and composer Anthony Burgess (1917-1993). The text consists of two synchronous narratives: a fictionalised account of Burgess’ life as a wri... Read More about Dismember the past.

The Velvet Sky – in memory of Stephen Duckhouse (2019)
Thesis

Comprising a gently fictionalised biography of my ancestor, Stephen Duckhouse, and a critical reflection this thesis combines critical and creative processes from archive and field research, family stories and creative writing. It aims to engage tech... Read More about The Velvet Sky – in memory of Stephen Duckhouse.

“The embodiment of pure thought”? Digital fabrication, disability and new possibilities for auto/biography (2018)
Journal Article

This essay draws on findings from a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council project: “In the Making” (AH/M006026/1) to argue that the digital turn in art therapy – particularly 3D printing – makes possible new forms of disability agency, engaging pos... Read More about “The embodiment of pure thought”? Digital fabrication, disability and new possibilities for auto/biography.

Strategies for connecting low income communities to the creative economy through play : two case studies in Northern England (2018)
Journal Article
Symons, J., & Hurley, U. (2018). Strategies for connecting low income communities to the creative economy through play : two case studies in Northern England. Creative Industries Journal, 11(2), 121-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/17510694.2018.1453770

This ground-breaking research defines a new approach for engaging low income and
disenfranchised communities in the creative economy. The authors propose that
demystifying creativity and reframing it as an adaptive productive process can lead to a... Read More about Strategies for connecting low income communities to the creative economy through play : two case studies in Northern England.

The architectures of translation : a magic carpet-ride through space and time (or, the awkward story of how we dis/placed Krisztina Tóth’s short fiction from Hungarian to English) (2018)
Journal Article
Hurley, U., & Naray-Davey, S. (2018). The architectures of translation : a magic carpet-ride through space and time (or, the awkward story of how we dis/placed Krisztina Tóth’s short fiction from Hungarian to English). Cogent Arts and Humanities, 5(1), 1426183. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2018.1426183

This interdisciplinary paper unfolds an account of a collaborative translation project, which draws on Ellen Eve Frank’s concept of “literary architecture” to propose a process of “architectural translation”. Our proposal is illustrated by a detailed... Read More about The architectures of translation : a magic carpet-ride through space and time (or, the awkward story of how we dis/placed Krisztina Tóth’s short fiction from Hungarian to English).