All Outputs (2022)

A Compositional Exploration of Auditory-Visual Synaesthesia (2023)
Thesis
Anderson, C. A Compositional Exploration of Auditory-Visual Synaesthesia. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

This thesis is an autoethnographic exploration of how my music composition practice is influenced by my auditory-visual synaesthesia. I perceive music as coloured and textured shapes – ‘photisms’ – in my mind’s eye. There are few first-person account... Read More about A Compositional Exploration of Auditory-Visual Synaesthesia.

'The dreadful tides of a new and incomprehensible life': Rural Modernity and Watchfulness in Early Twentieth-Century Scottish Women’s Writing (2023)
Thesis
Duncan, H. M. 'The dreadful tides of a new and incomprehensible life': Rural Modernity and Watchfulness in Early Twentieth-Century Scottish Women’s Writing. (Thesis). Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3175165

This thesis provides a detailed study of the work of three Scottish women writers of the interwar period (Willa Muir, Lorna Moon, and Nan Shepherd) to review their individual responses to one critical aspect of rural modernity: widespread watchfulnes... Read More about 'The dreadful tides of a new and incomprehensible life': Rural Modernity and Watchfulness in Early Twentieth-Century Scottish Women’s Writing.

‘Abjection hurts’: Race, class, gender, and the demand for a contemporary reworking of the Kristevan abject (2023)
Thesis
Margiotta, C. ‘Abjection hurts’: Race, class, gender, and the demand for a contemporary reworking of the Kristevan abject. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

This thesis examines Julia Kristeva’s theory of the abject, as outlined in Powers of Horror (1980), through the lens of contemporary American literature, considering the potential problems with the Kristevan abject and the ways in which contemporary... Read More about ‘Abjection hurts’: Race, class, gender, and the demand for a contemporary reworking of the Kristevan abject.

A Space of Time: The Evolution of a Screendance Practice (2023)
Thesis
McPherson, K. A Space of Time: The Evolution of a Screendance Practice. (Thesis by Publication). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3175350

A Space of Time: the evolution of a screendance practice explores the relationship between making, writing and teaching as a model for developing screendance. It is a portfolio submission in which the accompanying thesis examines and expands upon the... Read More about A Space of Time: The Evolution of a Screendance Practice.

Robert Louis Stevenson: The Mediation of Literary Reputation and the Advent of Modernism (2023)
Thesis
Milne, D. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Mediation of Literary Reputation and the Advent of Modernism. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

This thesis seeks to place Robert Louis Stevenson as an important contributor to the emergence of Modernism. In exploring this, the thesis suggests that Stevenson’s contribution to literary Modernism has frequently been overlooked due to several crit... Read More about Robert Louis Stevenson: The Mediation of Literary Reputation and the Advent of Modernism.

Shaping Deaf/Hearing alliances in the workshop’s temporary space: a critical ethnographic account from a hearing researcher’s perspective on the Deaf Heritage Collective (2023)
Thesis
Discepoli, M. Shaping Deaf/Hearing alliances in the workshop’s temporary space: a critical ethnographic account from a hearing researcher’s perspective on the Deaf Heritage Collective. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

The MRes thesis takes its area of research enquiry from a Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) funded project, The Deaf Heritage Collective, which aimed to create significant working relationships between Scotland’s Deaf Community and the cultural sector... Read More about Shaping Deaf/Hearing alliances in the workshop’s temporary space: a critical ethnographic account from a hearing researcher’s perspective on the Deaf Heritage Collective.

New Weird Technologies: Subverting Neoliberal Globalisation through Hybridity (2023)
Book Chapter
Bouet, E. (2023). New Weird Technologies: Subverting Neoliberal Globalisation through Hybridity. In R. Duncan (Ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic (206-220). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Globalisation is often portrayed in politics as an equalising, homogenising, and beneficial phenomenon which allows for universal development, a discourse which in fact masks the inequalities that neoliberal, transnational institutions foster to reta... Read More about New Weird Technologies: Subverting Neoliberal Globalisation through Hybridity.

‘Keeping the Machines Alive’: Repairing and Maintaining the Fairlight CMI. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2023, June). ‘Keeping the Machines Alive’: Repairing and Maintaining the Fairlight CMI. Paper presented at Innovation In Music Conference 2023, Edinburgh, UK

The story of the Fairlight CMI is a story of misuse. Designed primarily as a digital synthesizer for the imitation of acoustic instruments, it was used in the worlds of popular music to sample the sounds of everyday life and pre-existing recordings.... Read More about ‘Keeping the Machines Alive’: Repairing and Maintaining the Fairlight CMI..

Crisis? What Crisis? Carbonism, Solutionism, and the (Un)sustainability of Music (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2023, June). Crisis? What Crisis? Carbonism, Solutionism, and the (Un)sustainability of Music. Paper presented at XXII Biennial IASPM International Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

In June 2021, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research published ‘Super-Low Carbon Live Music: a roadmap for the UK live music sector to play its part in tackling the climate crisis’. Commissioned by the Bristol trip-hop group, Massive Attack,... Read More about Crisis? What Crisis? Carbonism, Solutionism, and the (Un)sustainability of Music.

In search of a framework for academic-industry collaborations with archival institutions: Experiences from a partnership with the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Correia, N., & Foubister, K. (2023, June). In search of a framework for academic-industry collaborations with archival institutions: Experiences from a partnership with the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. Paper presented at Shaking the

The paper explores models for collaborative work between academia and public archival institutions, based on the authors’ experiences as PhD researcher and industry supervisor in the 'Film Bang' research project on the history of the Scottish screen... Read More about In search of a framework for academic-industry collaborations with archival institutions: Experiences from a partnership with the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.

“Accompanying the series”: Early British television cookbooks 1946-1976 (2023)
Journal Article
Geddes, K. (2023). “Accompanying the series”: Early British television cookbooks 1946-1976. Food and Foodways, 31(3), 219-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/07409710.2023.2228034

This paper provides a historical analysis to demonstrate the connections and developmental links which emerged between cookbooks and television in Britain after World War II, focused on television broadcasts in the period 1946 and 1976. In this paper... Read More about “Accompanying the series”: Early British television cookbooks 1946-1976.

Designing Blended Experiences: Laugh Traders (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Keefe, B. J., Mastermaker, M., Flint, T., Resmini, A., Chirico, A., & Sturdee, M. (2023). Designing Blended Experiences: Laugh Traders. In C&C '23: Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition (116-128). https://doi.org/10.1145/359119

Digital transformation is increasingly blurring the line between what is software and what is the world, requiring designers to harmoniously blend digital and physical products, services and spaces if they want to orchestrate meaningful experiences t... Read More about Designing Blended Experiences: Laugh Traders.

Streaming Scotland: Global Streaming Platforms and Freelance Employment Opportunities in the Scottish Screen Sector (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Correia, N. (2023, June). Streaming Scotland: Global Streaming Platforms and Freelance Employment Opportunities in the Scottish Screen Sector. Paper presented at Locating Media Industries: Cities, Spaces, Places conference, King’s College London

The paper discusses how the global demand for streaming content in recent years has led to a boom in screen production activity in Scotland, and comments on the impact of this situation on opportunities for Scottish-based film and television workers.... Read More about Streaming Scotland: Global Streaming Platforms and Freelance Employment Opportunities in the Scottish Screen Sector.

"The Omnific Word": Hugh MacDiarmid’s Religious Poetry (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2023, June). "The Omnific Word": Hugh MacDiarmid’s Religious Poetry. Presented at Hugh MacDiarmid, 1923−2023: Visions and Revisions, University of Western Brittany, Brest

This talk examines a range of Hugh MacDiarmid’s religious poetry. ‘Religious’ is defined here in the very broadest sense as poems that deal with questions of meaning from a wide spiritual or metaphysical perspective, rather than solely from the narro... Read More about "The Omnific Word": Hugh MacDiarmid’s Religious Poetry.

Anthropology, Time and Ecology in two novels of Andaman Islands (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bhattacharya, A. (2023, June). Anthropology, Time and Ecology in two novels of Andaman Islands. Paper presented at The European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Triennial Conference 2023: Imagining Environmental Justice in a Po

This paper will read two novels, Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing (2018), and Glorious Boy (2020) by Aimee Liu, narratives set in the Andaman Islands, on the Bay of Bengal. It discusses how the novels play off the anthropological scientific do... Read More about Anthropology, Time and Ecology in two novels of Andaman Islands.

Ritual of Fire (2023)
Book
Bishop, D. (2023). Ritual of Fire. London: Pan MacMillan

Florence. Summer, 1538. A night patrol finds a wealthy merchant hanged and set ablaze in the city’s main square. More than mere murder, this killing is intended to put the fear of God into Florence. Forty years earlier, puritanical monk Girolamo S... Read More about Ritual of Fire.

Tempered radicalism: A model for navigating academic practice and identity in the twenty-first-century neoliberal university? (2023)
Journal Article
Vaul-Grimwood, M. L., Naik, V., Graham, C., Moir, Z., & Smart, F. (2023). Tempered radicalism: A model for navigating academic practice and identity in the twenty-first-century neoliberal university?. Learning and Teaching, 16(2), 32-54. https://doi.org/1

This article explores Meyerson and Scully's concept of ‘tempered radicalism’ (1995) in the context of contemporary academic practice and identity. We report on a collaborative autoethnographic study which addressed the question: ‘What does the concep... Read More about Tempered radicalism: A model for navigating academic practice and identity in the twenty-first-century neoliberal university?.

SPARTACUS’ Aftermath / Influences (2023)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (in press). SPARTACUS’ Aftermath / Influences. In Kubrick encounters Spartacus. (Kubrick Studies). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

A short reflection on the impact of the movie onto Kubricks carreer but moreover how it got referred to by later productions - movies, TV productions, and games alike.

The competence of a successful designer (2023)
Journal Article
Turtola, N., & Määttä, K. (2023). The competence of a successful designer. International Journal of Business and Management (Prague), 11(1), 32-49. https://doi.org/10.20472/BM.2023.11.1.003

The designer’s practice is subject to ever-increasing demands in the accelerating transformations and complexities of our time. A designer's competence requires continuous renewal and realignment, yet it contains several permanent qualities. The purp... Read More about The competence of a successful designer.

Mapping the Anthropocene: Beautiful Destruction and Dark Ecology (2023)
Book Chapter
Panneels, I. (2023). Mapping the Anthropocene: Beautiful Destruction and Dark Ecology. In D. White, J. Peck, & C. Goldie (Eds.), Disturbed Ecologies: photography, geopolitics and the Northern Landscape in the Era of environmental Crisis (204-229). Bielefe

This chapter explores how the photographic works of Louis Helbig’s Beautiful Destruction (2014) and Nikel Materiality (2015) by Tatjana Gorbachewskaja and Katya Larina map the disturbed ecologies in the far North of Canada and Northern Europe as evid... Read More about Mapping the Anthropocene: Beautiful Destruction and Dark Ecology.