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Otaku tourists out of Japan : fictionality, shared memories, and the role of national branding in the Japanese pilgrimages of anime fans in the United Kingdom (2019)
Journal Article
Hernandez Perez, M. (2019). Otaku tourists out of Japan : fictionality, shared memories, and the role of national branding in the Japanese pilgrimages of anime fans in the United Kingdom. Journal of Popular Culture, 52(6), 1512-1535. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.12871

The article explores the reasons and narratives behind the anime pilgrimage experiences of Japanese tourists in the UK. Anime or otaku (fan) pilgrimages are a phenomenon widely studied by Japanese and foreign academics in relation to seichi junrei (“... Read More about Otaku tourists out of Japan : fictionality, shared memories, and the role of national branding in the Japanese pilgrimages of anime fans in the United Kingdom.

Conservatism (2019)
Book Chapter
Williams, B. (2019). Conservatism. In S. Pollock, K. Parkinson, & I. Cummins (Eds.), Social Work and Society: Political and Ideological Perspectives (34-50). UK: Policy Press

When focusing on the subject matter of ideology, Conservatism is generally viewed to be one of the older and most-established types, along with liberalism and socialism. However, on a very fundamental level, there has been some significant academic d... Read More about Conservatism.

Satire and the city : visual representation and satirical journalism in nineteenth century satirical periodicals (2019)
Book Chapter
O'Reilly, C. (2019). Satire and the city : visual representation and satirical journalism in nineteenth century satirical periodicals. In N. Kaminski, A. Beck, V. Mergenthaler, & J. Ruchatz (Eds.), Visual Design : The Periodical Page as a Designed Surface (235-257). Hannover, Germany: Wehrhahn

This paper examines the dynamics of the visual representations in a range of British
nineteenth century satirical periodicals. These publications were a common feature of
the urban publishing landscape during this period. Their focus was various as... Read More about Satire and the city : visual representation and satirical journalism in nineteenth century satirical periodicals.

Making myself visible : self-portraiture and representations of blackness in the work of Donald Rodney (2019)
Journal Article
Correia, A. (2019). Making myself visible : self-portraiture and representations of blackness in the work of Donald Rodney. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 45, 74-86

This article considers the role of self-portraiture within the work of British artist Donald Rodney (1961–98). The text investigates the ways in which Rodney used the self-portrait, not to visualize himself, but to animate issues associated with the... Read More about Making myself visible : self-portraiture and representations of blackness in the work of Donald Rodney.

The Big Society : ten years on (2019)
Journal Article
Williams, B. (2019). The Big Society : ten years on. Political Insight, 10(4), 22-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041905819891369

David Cameron attempted to make a more caring, socially-conscious Conservatism his flagship policy. But did the ‘Big Society’ ever really come to pass? Ben Williams examines the evidence a decade on.

Northern Willow (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Tait, A., & Clegg, I. Northern Willow. [Ceramic]. Exhibited at The Whitaker Museum and Gallery. 1 November 2019 - 18 March 2020. (Unpublished)

Northern Willow at the Whitaker
A collection of ceramics exploring local identity and value systems in the North West, set against an eclectic and vibrant group of relevant artefacts from the archives of the Whitaker Museum and Gallery.

This... Read More about Northern Willow.

Researching exhibitions of South Asian women artists in Britain in the 1980s (2019)
Journal Article
Correia, A. (2019). Researching exhibitions of South Asian women artists in Britain in the 1980s. British Art Studies, https://doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-13/acorreia/000

This paper narrates the author’s research methodologies and findings relating to her ongoing project, Articulating British Asian Art Histories. With a specific focus on four exhibitions of South Asian women artists during the 1980s and early 1990s, i... Read More about Researching exhibitions of South Asian women artists in Britain in the 1980s.

Dark night of the soul : applicability of theory in comics and radio through the scripted podcast drama (2019)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L. (2019). Dark night of the soul : applicability of theory in comics and radio through the scripted podcast drama. Studies in Comics, 10(2), 235-254. https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00004_1

This article responds to McCloud’s theoretical framework for comics and applies this framework to audio drama, which I argue is, like comics, a mono-sensory medium (one can only be seen in static image and the other can only be heard); both require a... Read More about Dark night of the soul : applicability of theory in comics and radio through the scripted podcast drama.

The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader (2019)
Book
Wilkie, I. (2020). I. Wilkie (Ed.), The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429057526

The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader is a selection of the most outstanding critical analysis featured in the journal <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcos20">Comedy Studies</a> in the decade since its inception in 2010.

The Reader illustr... Read More about The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader.

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

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.

White masculinity in crisis in Hollywood's fin de millennium cinema (2019)
Book
Deakin, P. (2019). White masculinity in crisis in Hollywood's fin de millennium cinema. Lexington

At the turn of the millennium, cultural and gender commentators were announcing that an apocalypse was under way. Men were changing. Patriarchy was crumbling. Masculinity, in short, was in crisis. Inaugurating a collective of what I would like to lab... Read More about White masculinity in crisis in Hollywood's fin de millennium cinema.

Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017 (2019)
Journal Article
Rich, E., Miah, A., & Lewis, S. (2019). Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017. Sociology of Health and Illness, 41(S1), 31-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12980

Informed by a discourse analysis, this article examines the framing of equity within the UK's digital health policies between 2010 and 2017, focusing on England's development of NHS Digital and its situation within the UK Government's wider digital s... Read More about Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017.

Whatever happened to the Westminster Model? The 'Italianisation' of British politics (2019)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (2019). Whatever happened to the Westminster Model? The 'Italianisation' of British politics

The UK was once viewed by political scientists as embodying a distinct majoritarian form of politics – the ‘Westminster Model’ – that stood in contrast to the ‘consensus’ democracies found elsewhere in Europe. Several of the countries in the latter g... Read More about Whatever happened to the Westminster Model? The 'Italianisation' of British politics.

A tale of three tribes : UK MPs, Twitter and the EU Referendum (2019)
Journal Article
Ward, S., McLoughlin, L., Southern, R., & Gibson, R. (2020). A tale of three tribes : UK MPs, Twitter and the EU Referendum. Information Polity, 25(1), 49-66. https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-190140

This paper examines the structure of Twitter communication networks between MPs during the 2016 EU Referendum campaign. In particular, the research examines the impact of Twitter in two dimensions: (1) how far social media might facilitate inter-part... Read More about A tale of three tribes : UK MPs, Twitter and the EU Referendum.

Volunteer teachers working together : a refugee support group case study (2019)
Book Chapter
Etherington, M. (2019). Volunteer teachers working together : a refugee support group case study. In F. Mishan (Ed.), ESOL Provision in Ireland and the UK: Challenges and Opportunities. Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b13398

This case study describes an English language conversation class taking place at a refugee support group based in a large town in the north west of England. The refugee group is well established, running for over fifteen years, having been set up to... Read More about Volunteer teachers working together : a refugee support group case study.