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Harnessing the Obsolete in Contemporary Art Practice (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Holmes, P. (2021, June). Harnessing the Obsolete in Contemporary Art Practice. Paper presented at Technology and Tradition: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Manchester, UK

Creative Thinking Level 6 Summary (2021)
Other
Cochrane, R., & Heathcote, K. (2021). Creative Thinking Level 6 Summary. Edinburgh

A new qualification in Creative Thinking offered at SCQF Level 6 in schools across Scotland. Embedding contemporary teaching and learning theory to provide the transferable, problem solving skills identified by the World Economic Forum and Skills De... Read More about Creative Thinking Level 6 Summary.

Creative Thinking Level 5 Summary (2021)
Other
Cochrane, R., & Heathcote, K. (2021). Creative Thinking Level 5 Summary. Edinburgh

A new qualification in Creative Thinking offered at SCQF Level 5 in schools across Scotland. Embedding contemporary teaching and learning theory to provide the transferable, problem solving skills identified by the World Economic Forum and Skills De... Read More about Creative Thinking Level 5 Summary.

The Deaf Heritage Collective: Collaboration with Critical Intent (2021)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K., Discepoli, M., & Leith, E. (2021). The Deaf Heritage Collective: Collaboration with Critical Intent. Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 15(1), 1-26

The paper reflects upon the Deaf Heritage Collective, a collaborative project led by Edinburgh Napier University’s Design for Heritage team and Heriot Watt’s Centre for Translation And Interpreting Studies. The project aimed to advance discussion aro... Read More about The Deaf Heritage Collective: Collaboration with Critical Intent.

Bleeding Free (2021)
Digital Artefact
MacLeod, K., Morgan, L., & Cochrane, R. (2021). Bleeding Free. [Digital video]

A documentary film about period poverty and menstrual health. The film focuses on the importance of free access to period products and how this improves the life chances for women and girls, especially in relation to education but also for gender equ... Read More about Bleeding Free.

Rethinking rural China: Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum and the roots-searching movement in a post-cultural revolution context (2021)
Book Chapter
Li, Q. (2021). Rethinking rural China: Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum and the roots-searching movement in a post-cultural revolution context. In S. P. Gabriel, & B. Wilson (Eds.), . London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003105367

Zhang Yimou, one of the most successful of Chinese auteur directors, has been criticized for his Orientalist tendencies, specifically for the exotic atmosphere that turns his films into Oriental spectacles for Western consumption. Yet criticizing Zha... Read More about Rethinking rural China: Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum and the roots-searching movement in a post-cultural revolution context.

The Dream in the Mirror (2021)
Digital Artefact
Martin, S., & Milne, L. (2021). The Dream in the Mirror. [Digital Video]

The Dream in the Mirror is a documentary commissioned by Criterion, NYC for their new Blue-Ray /streaming restored edition of Tarkovsky's Mirror (1975).

(Dis)locating Democratisation: Grime, Digitalisation, and 'The PlayStation Generation' (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2021, May). (Dis)locating Democratisation: Grime, Digitalisation, and 'The PlayStation Generation'. Paper presented at Annual Symposium of Music Scholars in Finland, Online

For many commentators over the last two decades, digitisation represents nothing short of a watershed moment in how music is produced, stored, and consumed. In this paper, I address claims around the democratisation of music making with the advent of... Read More about (Dis)locating Democratisation: Grime, Digitalisation, and 'The PlayStation Generation'.

KUSWA: a case study of indigenous participatory filmmaking addressing gender violence and sorcery accusations, Papua New Guinea (2021)
Report
Crook, T., Fufurefa, E., Hukula, F., MacLeod, K., Munau, L., Sar, L., & Strong, T. (2021). KUSWA: a case study of indigenous participatory filmmaking addressing gender violence and sorcery accusations, Papua New Guinea. AHRC & ESRC

Case study produced for AHRC/ESRC project addressing indigenous engagement in research practice. Case study discusses community filmmaking within context of KUSWA organisation in Goroka, Papua New Guinea and its use as a strand in combatting gender b... Read More about KUSWA: a case study of indigenous participatory filmmaking addressing gender violence and sorcery accusations, Papua New Guinea.

Intelligent collision avoidance and manoeuvring system with the use of augmented reality and artificial intelligence (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bram-Larbi, K., Charissis, V., Khan, S., Lagoo, R., Harrison, D., & Drikakis, D. (2021). Intelligent collision avoidance and manoeuvring system with the use of augmented reality and artificial intelligence. In Advances in Information and Communication -

The efficiency of collision-avoidance abrupt braking or manoeuvring is primarily based on a driver{\textquoteright}s response time. The latter is affected by the driver{\textquoteright}s spatial and situational awareness, which in turn is heavily dep... Read More about Intelligent collision avoidance and manoeuvring system with the use of augmented reality and artificial intelligence.

Creatives in Crisis (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Patrick, H. (2021, April). Creatives in Crisis. Paper presented at International Labour Process Conference 2021, London [Online]

The Entangled Terrestrials: Mapping E.T.’s Ecological Web (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2021, April). The Entangled Terrestrials: Mapping E.T.’s Ecological Web. Paper presented at British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference, Online

Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) has accrued an eclectic but small body of scholarly criticism. With this paper I contribute an ecocritical analysis of the film, suggesting that the disruption to Elliott’s schoolboy life caused by... Read More about The Entangled Terrestrials: Mapping E.T.’s Ecological Web.

Souvenir authenticity in the additive manufacturing age (2021)
Journal Article
Anastasiadou, C., & Vettese, S. (2021). Souvenir authenticity in the additive manufacturing age. Annals of Tourism Research, 89, Article 103188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2021.103188

The expansion of additive manufacturing or 3D printing as a novel (re)production method disrupts social consumption patterns and challenges existing conceptualisations of tourist souvenirs as material, metonymic and symbolic objects that often lack a... Read More about Souvenir authenticity in the additive manufacturing age.

‘Scottish People Can’t Rap’: the local and the global in Scottish hip-hop (2021)
Journal Article
Hook, D. (2021). ‘Scottish People Can’t Rap’: the local and the global in Scottish hip-hop. Popular Music, 40(1), 75-90. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143021000040

Hip-hop is a global culture, where local representation is a core tenet of its ideological framework. Therefore, it provides opportunities to observe how a global cultural structure is interpreted, realigned and expressed in local cultural forms. Thi... Read More about ‘Scottish People Can’t Rap’: the local and the global in Scottish hip-hop.

The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium – Doing Impact and Engagement during a global pandemic (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MacLeod, K. (2021, March). The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium – Doing Impact and Engagement during a global pandemic. Paper presented at MPE/MeCCSA Practice Network Symposium 2021, Bournemouth University

The presentation will discuss initial reflections on a UKRI funded impact and engagement project in the Pacific, aimed at addressing community based and participatory media production as a development methodology to tackle gender inequality and speci... Read More about The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium – Doing Impact and Engagement during a global pandemic.

The Scottish Revival Network (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2021, March). The Scottish Revival Network. Paper presented at The Future of Scottish Cosmopolitanism at the Fin de Siècle, University of Glasgow [Online]