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Colour accuracy in digitally-printed textiles: what you see is not (always) what you get
Journal Article
Collis, A. M., & Wilson, J. Colour accuracy in digitally-printed textiles: what you see is not (always) what you get. Journal of the International Colour Association, 9, 20-31

One problem faced when digitally printing textiles is ensuring that the colours of the final printed output are a satisfactory match to those of the design on a computer monitor or the original artwork. In other words, that there is a close enough ma... Read More about Colour accuracy in digitally-printed textiles: what you see is not (always) what you get.

Youth design against crime : a catalyst for change amongst young people
Presentation / Conference
Wootton, A., Davey, C., & Marselle, M. Youth design against crime : a catalyst for change amongst young people. Presented at Endless End, Porto, Portugal

The literature reveals a number of programmes across Europe to involve young people in design, planning and/or community safety. This paper describes a programme developed by the Design Against Crime Solution Centre in partnership with the young peop... Read More about Youth design against crime : a catalyst for change amongst young people.

City centre crime: Design thinking for safer city centres
Presentation / Conference
Wootton, A., Marselle, M., & Davey, C. City centre crime: Design thinking for safer city centres. Presented at 8th European Academy of Design Conference, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland

This paper presents the findings of research investigating the relationship between the urban environment and the occurrence of crime, with the aim of devising and implementing practical design interventions to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour.... Read More about City centre crime: Design thinking for safer city centres.

Fictionality and tourism in the construction of national images. Studies on Japanese anime representations of Spain
Presentation / Conference
Hernandez Perez, M. Fictionality and tourism in the construction of national images. Studies on Japanese anime representations of Spain. Poster presented at XII congreso nacional y iii internacional : Japon. El turismo como via de conocimiento y desarrollo, Complutense University of Madrid

It is a fact that one of the biggest attractions of modern Japanese culture lies in its immense, outstanding cultural capital. In recent years, the fascination that Japan has on our collective imagination has been stimulated, even more if possible, b... Read More about Fictionality and tourism in the construction of national images. Studies on Japanese anime representations of Spain.

The clown who lost his memory : the life and times of Irving Pollard
Exhibition / Performance
Talbot, R. (2020). The clown who lost his memory : the life and times of Irving Pollard. [Microsoft Sway with embedded Youtube and Soundcloud clips]. (Unpublished)

Irving Pollard was an amateur variety entertainer who lived in Primrose Hill Street in the Hillfields area of Coventry. The Clown Who Lost His Memory is a multimedia monograph, created on Microsoft Sway, and presented through the voice and persona of... Read More about The clown who lost his memory : the life and times of Irving Pollard.

The value of design research in improving crime prevention policy and practice
Presentation / Conference
Davey, C., & Wootton, A. The value of design research in improving crime prevention policy and practice. Presented at Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the European Academy of Design

The Design Against Crime Solution Centre at the University of Salford adopts a human-centred, design-led approach to issues of security, wellbeing and social responsibility. This paper explores how improved service design can enhance the efforts of u... Read More about The value of design research in improving crime prevention policy and practice.

The social shaping of packaged software selection
Journal Article
Howcroft, D., & Light, B. The social shaping of packaged software selection. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 11(3),

As organisations increasingly engage in the selection, purchase, and adoption of packaged software products, how
these activities are carried out in practice becomes increasingly relevant for researchers and practitioners. Our
focus in this paper i... Read More about The social shaping of packaged software selection.

Things that go ‘round: A rhythmanalysis of the relationship between a ceramics practice and domesticity using the form of the vessel
Thesis
vessel. (Thesis). University of Sunderland

Things that go ‘round: A rhythmanalysis of the relationship between a ceramics practice
and domesticity using the form of the vessel
This research starts from a hypothesis that a ceramics practice undertaken within the home
is interwoven with o... Read More about Things that go ‘round: A rhythmanalysis of the relationship between a ceramics practice and domesticity using the form of the vessel.

Performance, death and dinner : autobiography and commensality, prompts for conversations around death and dying
Presentation / Conference
McCormick, S. Performance, death and dinner : autobiography and commensality, prompts for conversations around death and dying. Presented at International Federation for Theatre Research Annual Conference 2021, National University of Ireland, Galway/Online

This paper explores the origins, development and outcomes of my 2019 Practice as Research project entitled Death, Dinner and Performance: A Study of the Efficacy of Performance to Enhance Conversations Around Death and Dying. The project brought toge... Read More about Performance, death and dinner : autobiography and commensality, prompts for conversations around death and dying.

‘I is an other’ : encountering the self as other in expressive arts practice
Presentation / Conference
Thurston, S. ‘I is an other’ : encountering the self as other in expressive arts practice. Presented at 2nd International Arts in Healthcare Event - Arts, Creativity and the Global Crisis: Reimagining Identity, Otherness and the Possible, Pratt Institute, New York, United States of America

This paper was delivered at the 2nd International Arts in Healthcare Event – Arts, Creativity and the Global Crisis: Reimagining Identity, Otherness and the Possible, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, 4th-6th October 2019

In 1871, the poet Ar... Read More about ‘I is an other’ : encountering the self as other in expressive arts practice.

A Ridiculusmus virtual trilogy: grief, laughter and the performance. In Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!
Other
In Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!

In May 2020, David Woods and Jon Haynes, performers and artistic directors of Ridiculusmus, presented the trilogy ‘Dialogue As The Embodiment of Love’ in the form of a three-day online seminar series, via the online conference platform Teams. It feat... Read More about A Ridiculusmus virtual trilogy: grief, laughter and the performance. In Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!.

The influence of ethnicity in newspaper coverage of the Plateau State conflict in North-Central Nigeria (2010-2012)
Thesis
Dewan, A. (in press). The influence of ethnicity in newspaper coverage of the Plateau State conflict in North-Central Nigeria (2010-2012). (Thesis). University of Salford

This research project surveyed the Influence of ethnicity in newspaper coverage of the Plateau State conflict in North-Central Nigeria. It analyses how conflict journalists reported this violent episode that has spanned nearly twenty years and the si... Read More about The influence of ethnicity in newspaper coverage of the Plateau State conflict in North-Central Nigeria (2010-2012).

From ‘talking Cure’ to ‘Bedlam’ : a study of the factors impacting on the construction of UK factual psychotherapy programming 1999 to 2013
Thesis
Blaker, L. From ‘talking Cure’ to ‘Bedlam’ : a study of the factors impacting on the construction of UK factual psychotherapy programming 1999 to 2013. (Thesis). University of Saford

This thesis extends research on UK factual television by investigating programming that has not previously been studied, and by utilising a mixed-method research design that situates textual analysis within broader cultural, professional and industri... Read More about From ‘talking Cure’ to ‘Bedlam’ : a study of the factors impacting on the construction of UK factual psychotherapy programming 1999 to 2013.

Cinematizing genocide : exploring cinematic form and its relationship to the hidden voices of the Kurdish genocide of 1988
Thesis
Razawa, D. (in press). Cinematizing genocide : exploring cinematic form and its relationship to the hidden voices of the Kurdish genocide of 1988. (Thesis). University of Salford

Throughout the last two decades, the Kurdish genocide of 1988 has become a significant material in a variety of contexts. Kurdish filmmakers have tried to represent the tragedy in various formats. By comparing their work with the unique testimonies o... Read More about Cinematizing genocide : exploring cinematic form and its relationship to the hidden voices of the Kurdish genocide of 1988.

Meta TV in practice : a study of the re-use of television texts within contemporary television programmes
Thesis
Waller, A. Meta TV in practice : a study of the re-use of television texts within contemporary television programmes. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis considers how television reflects on its own output in the context of newly created television programmes which seek to reconsider, reframe and re-contextualise the content of television programmes that have already been broadcast. It do... Read More about Meta TV in practice : a study of the re-use of television texts within contemporary television programmes.