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Automatic mixing and tracking of on-pitch football action for television broadcasts
Presentation / Conference
Oldfield, R., & Shirley, B. Automatic mixing and tracking of on-pitch football action for television broadcasts. Presented at 130th AES Convention

For the television broadcast of football in Europe, the sound engineer will typically have an arrangement of 12 shotgun microphones around the pitch to pick up on-pitch sounds such as whistle blows, players talking and ball kicks etc. Typically, duri... Read More about Automatic mixing and tracking of on-pitch football action for television broadcasts.

Systematic and just: The use of a systematic review methodology in social work research
Journal Article
Kelly, C. Systematic and just: The use of a systematic review methodology in social work research. Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 15(3), 72-85. https://doi.org/10.1921/095352212X657544

This discussion paper is based on my experiences with the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) on a 12 day placement as part of the Research Development Initiative 4 (RDI4) program. Claims and counter claims are made about the appropriateness... Read More about Systematic and just: The use of a systematic review methodology in social work research.

The neural string network: An interactive collaborative drawing ‘machine’
Presentation / Conference
Sermon, P. The neural string network: An interactive collaborative drawing ‘machine’. Presented at Drawing Research Network (DRN) 2012, Loughborough University

An interactive collaborative drawing ‘machine’ designed on the concept of a neural network, allowing participants to experience a shared creative process, using the principles of open-source and social networked communication through an analogue stri... Read More about The neural string network: An interactive collaborative drawing ‘machine’.

The long view
Digital Artefact
O'Reilly, C. The long view. [national radio]

In the late 1950s The Manchester Guardian demonstrated its national ambition by dropping Manchester from its title. The Guardian wanted to establish itself as far more than a high-brow regional paper with a strong reputation for international coverag... Read More about The long view.

Celebrating heterogeneity? A survey of female ICT professionals in England
Journal Article
Griffiths, M., Moore, K., & Richardson, H. Celebrating heterogeneity? A survey of female ICT professionals in England. Information, Communication and Society, 10(3), 338-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691180701409945

This paper introduces key findings from a large-scale, online survey of women in the ICT industry across England undertaken between October 2004 and October 2005. Placed in a theoretical framework which draws on critical perspectives from within info... Read More about Celebrating heterogeneity? A survey of female ICT professionals in England.

"All they lack is a chain": lean and the new performance management in the British Civil Service
Journal Article
Carter, B., Danford, A., Howcroft, D., Richardson, H., Smith, A., & Taylor, P. "All they lack is a chain": lean and the new performance management in the British Civil Service. New Technology, Work and Employment, 26(2), 83-97. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-005X.2011.00261.x

The adaptation of lean techniques in public services is viewed as an innovative managerialist response to government
demands for more efficient services amidst large reductions in public spending. This paper explores workers’ experiences of the impa... Read More about "All they lack is a chain": lean and the new performance management in the British Civil Service.

Constructing sustainable urban futures: from models to competing pathways, impact assessment and project appraisal
Journal Article
Guy, S., & Marvin, S. Constructing sustainable urban futures: from models to competing pathways, impact assessment and project appraisal. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 19(2), 131-139. https://doi.org/10.3152/147154601781767113

This paper begins to build a conceptual framework that acknowledges the multiplicity of pathways towards different sustainable futures that often co-exist within a single city. There are three stages to the argument: the shift from the concept of a s... Read More about Constructing sustainable urban futures: from models to competing pathways, impact assessment and project appraisal.

Developing Urban and Regional Foresight: Exploring Capacities and Identifying Needs in the North West
Journal Article
Puglisi, M., & Marvin, S. Developing Urban and Regional Foresight: Exploring Capacities and Identifying Needs in the North West. Futures, 34, 761-777. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-3287%2802%2900019-8

Recent changes in the context for English governance are creating new opportunities for futures thinking at urban and regional level. Drawing on a study of key stakeholders concerned with urban and regional development, this paper presents an analysi... Read More about Developing Urban and Regional Foresight: Exploring Capacities and Identifying Needs in the North West.

Divers winged creatures
Other
Williams, A. Divers winged creatures. [Peformance, broadcast]

This is the first movement from my piece Divers Winged Creatures, performed by the MDR Radio Choir, April 2008, libretto by Philip Goulding

Passive acoustic thermometry
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Conventional acoustic thermometry is usually performed by exciting a resonator with a sound source and identifying the resonant frequencies of the system. If the dimensions of such system are known it is relatively straightforward then to determine t... Read More about Passive acoustic thermometry.

Non-naturalistic performance in political narrative drama: methodologies and languages for political performance with reference to the rehearsal, and production of E to the power 3 – education, education, education
Book Chapter

The devised practice-as-research production E to the Power 3 Education, Education, Education (E3) was first staged at The Robert Powell Theatre, Salford 25th-27th April 2002. Scenes from the production were then performed at The Lowry, Salford Quays... Read More about Non-naturalistic performance in political narrative drama: methodologies and languages for political performance with reference to the rehearsal, and production of E to the power 3 – education, education, education.