FluxZayn is a practice-led, auto-ethnographic case study documents the creation of FluxZayn, a Python-based extension for the Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge platform that enables one-click transparent PNG generation. Motivated by a persistent challenge... Read More about FluxZayn: An Auto-Ethnographic Case Study in Vibe Coding a Generative AI Extension for Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge.
11. PhDForum: An online quiet study room providing a public space that nurtures the personal experience of being part of a global community (2025)
Book Chapter
This chapter explores the significance of collaborative power dynamics in academia, emphasising the alignment of words and actions to foster genuine solidarity within the neo-liberal educational landscape. It advocates for creating spaces, particular... Read More about 11. PhDForum: An online quiet study room providing a public space that nurtures the personal experience of being part of a global community.
Delivering Journal Clubs in Higher Education: A Roadmap for Success (2025)
Other
Within the Biomedicine Department at the University of Salford, we have been delivering extracurricular and Curriculum-embedded journal clubs for a number of years to support students' understanding of academic writing and journal article structure.... Read More about Delivering Journal Clubs in Higher Education: A Roadmap for Success.
Enhancing Career Development for Biomedical Sciences Students: Leveraging Simulations to Support Patient-Facing Careers (2025)
Journal Article
Simulations have become integral to medical education for professions such as nursing and medicine but are still a rare opportunity for students undertaking basic science courses including Biomedical Sciences. Many students undertak... Read More about Enhancing Career Development for Biomedical Sciences Students: Leveraging Simulations to Support Patient-Facing Careers.
Digital educational escape rooms to enhance knowledge acquisition and student experience: An interdisciplinary series of case studies (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Digital educational escape rooms have gained significant traction as pedagogical tools in recent years, especially during the rapid digital transition resulting from the recent COVID-19 pandemic where physical educational escape rooms were unable to... Read More about Digital educational escape rooms to enhance knowledge acquisition and student experience: An interdisciplinary series of case studies.
The Can We Talk About Death? Adaptation of Autobiographical Performance and Participant Response in the Development of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying project happened in 2023 at the University of Salford with a test perfo... Read More about Can We Talk About Death? Adaptation of Autobiographical Performance and Participant Response in the Development of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying.
Enhancing Laboratory Education through Collaborative Online International Learning: A Case Study between USA and UK Students (2025)
Journal Article
Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) has emerged in recent years as an effective and viable alternative to increase the international opportunities within taught curricula. Through recent innovations in online collaboration tools, and e... Read More about Enhancing Laboratory Education through Collaborative Online International Learning: A Case Study between USA and UK Students.
Mini-capstone projects to develop active laboratory collaboration in first-year biomedicine students (2025)
Other
Studies have shown an increase in loneliness within the student population, causing an increase in mental health conditions on commencing higher education (Diehl et al., 2018, McIntyre et al., 2018). Increased psychological distress is associated wit... Read More about Mini-capstone projects to develop active laboratory collaboration in first-year biomedicine students.
‘But not for him. Just by him’: Hungarian landscapes and women’s time in the short fiction of Anna T. Szabó and Krisztina Tóth (2025)
Journal Article
Contemporary Hungarian women writers use the short form as a feminist intervention in current gender politics. Creating space in which to explore alternatives to patriarchal cultures and illiberal political movements, they deploy physical and imagina... Read More about ‘But not for him. Just by him’: Hungarian landscapes and women’s time in the short fiction of Anna T. Szabó and Krisztina Tóth.
Editorial - LTEC Post-Festival Publication (2025)
Journal Article
The third annual Festival of Learning and Teaching (2-3rd September 2024) was held in Salford’s New Adelphi Building. It provided an opportunity for Salford’s learning and teaching community (L&T) community to come together to share best practice, ne... Read More about Editorial - LTEC Post-Festival Publication.
Hegel's Dialectic of Determinism in the Neolithic Sonorous (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Through the framing of drawing as a form of extraction and home as an assumed space of connection that is permanently influx. This proposal reflects on my own research regarding the sonorous animism of Neolithic stone circle sites across the UK. The... Read More about Hegel's Dialectic of Determinism in the Neolithic Sonorous.
Socially Engaged Practice within the Gallery (2024)
Book Chapter
Terms of Engagement reflects on the language of collaboration and participation in socially engaged practice, with critical consideration of the usages of these terms. For the second iteration of the publication I focused on the role of co-curation a... Read More about Socially Engaged Practice within the Gallery.
Crafting Equitable Pathways: Co-Creating Inclusive Assessment & Feedback Principles (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The presentation provides a synthesis of our approach to co-create inclusive assessment and feedback principles to support equitable and fair learning environments. The principles were derived from internal enhancement initiatives designed to improve... Read More about Crafting Equitable Pathways: Co-Creating Inclusive Assessment & Feedback Principles.
Gaming the Industrial Revolution. Participatory design with historical data for classroom learning (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Industrial Re:evolution is an educational game developed by a collaborative team of educators, historians, game designers, and developers. The game allows students to hypothesise about the underlying causal mechanisms of the Industrial Revolution whi... Read More about Gaming the Industrial Revolution. Participatory design with historical data for classroom learning.
Ventriloquism : The Lost Voice Spoken by Others (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
VENTRILOQUISM: The Lost Voice Spoken by Others…
Curated by Artist Curator, Mike Chavez-Dawson
This group show will explore the idea of ‘Ventriloquism’ both directly and indirectly, drawing upon topical thematics including data harvesting, hyperreal... Read More about Ventriloquism : The Lost Voice Spoken by Others.
Accounting Information Quality, Free Cash Flow, and Over-Investment: Evidence from an Emerging Market -a Study in Iran (2024)
Journal Article
This paper investigates the relationship between accounting information quality (AIQ) and over-investment based on data from 110 companies in the Tehran Stock Exchange from 2008 to 2014 and also compares the relationship between AIQ and over-investme... Read More about Accounting Information Quality, Free Cash Flow, and Over-Investment: Evidence from an Emerging Market -a Study in Iran.
The student evaluation of a Research-informed Teaching activity using simulation (2024)
Journal Article
Higgins, R. (2024). The student evaluation of a Research-informed Teaching activity using simulation. Innovative practice in higher education, 5(3), Article 5Our Research-informed Teaching experience (RiTe) activity has been embedded within the Diagnostic Radiography curriculum since 2013 as part of a Level 5 (Year 2) Research Methods module. Outcomes are linked to research skill development and self-effi... Read More about The student evaluation of a Research-informed Teaching activity using simulation.
Flipping Failure: A case study on building resilience and confidence through 'Failureship Strategies' in theory and practiceat the University of Salford (2024)
Journal Article
Whitnall, D., & Hurley, U. (2024). Flipping Failure: A case study on building resilience and confidence through 'Failureship Strategies' in theory and practiceat the University of Salford. Innovative practice in higher education, 5(3), 1-23This paper presents the Flipping Failure project, which aims to challenge the negative perception of failure and promote its benefits for building resilience, insight, and action. The project involved students and staff who participated in failure-fo... Read More about Flipping Failure: A case study on building resilience and confidence through 'Failureship Strategies' in theory and practiceat the University of Salford.
Analysing Wikidata For Artistic Creation (2023)
Thesis
As an open database, Wikidata can be used freely for artistic exploration. It is not always easy to extract useful knowledge from the structured data held in Wikidata. SPARQL query language enables such extraction, to extract information and visualis... Read More about Analysing Wikidata For Artistic Creation.