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The distribution model for Hollywood blockbusters during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 (2023)
Book Chapter
Li, Q. (2023). The distribution model for Hollywood blockbusters during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. In Q. Li, D. Wilson, & Y. Guan (Eds.), The Global Film Market Transformation in the Post-Pandemic Era: Production, Distribution and Consumption (114-122). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003345251

In the wake of the pandemic, the traditional mode of theatrical release has been disrupted, and Hollywood has had to shift its focus to alternative methods of distribution, such as releasing films on streaming platforms. This shift has been necessita... Read More about The distribution model for Hollywood blockbusters during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Identity construction and collusion in documentary of the Gaelic-speaking community: a filmmaker’s perspective (2023)
Journal Article
Maclean, D. (in press). Identity construction and collusion in documentary of the Gaelic-speaking community: a filmmaker’s perspective. European Journal of Cultural Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494231159342

If Gaelic has been symbolically appropriated to represent Scotland, then it follows that we need to look more closely at the part played by documentary film both of and from the Scottish Hebrides, in furthering the dissemination of what is an idealis... Read More about Identity construction and collusion in documentary of the Gaelic-speaking community: a filmmaker’s perspective.

A Comparative Study on the Representation of Confucian family and Image of Father in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Hulk (2023)
Book Chapter
Li, Q. (in press). A Comparative Study on the Representation of Confucian family and Image of Father in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Hulk. In The Asian Family in Literature and Film. Palgrave Macmillan

Ang Lee is perhaps one of the most successful auteur director of Chinese origin. This chapter conducts a case study on Ang Lee’s internationally acclaimed academy award winner Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and his Hollywood blockbuster Hulk, and in... Read More about A Comparative Study on the Representation of Confucian family and Image of Father in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Hulk.

In a new Context, we are all Apprentices: How Dialogue Between the Three States of Craft Education is a Catalyst for Adaptation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerlaff, P. (2023). In a new Context, we are all Apprentices: How Dialogue Between the Three States of Craft Education is a Catalyst for Adaptation. In A. Lazet (Ed.), Design for Adaptation: Cumulus Conference Proceedings Detroit 2022 (438-449)

This essay argues that dialogue between the three states of craft education is a key mechanism for adaptation. Adaptation here is taken as the act or process of adjustment to changing circumstances (Merriam-Webster 2022), with a particular focus on c... Read More about In a new Context, we are all Apprentices: How Dialogue Between the Three States of Craft Education is a Catalyst for Adaptation.

Using steam to power equality and democracy in vaccination decision making in the face of climate apartheid (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MacDonald, I., Firth, R., Healey, C., Malone, E., & McDermott, A. (2022, November). Using steam to power equality and democracy in vaccination decision making in the face of climate apartheid. Presented at Cumulus Detroit 2022: Design For Adaptation, Detroit

Technology and science are often promoted as the answer to the climate crisis, but changing human behavior from a user-centric position requires a humanistic and design thinking approach (Brown, 2009). If climate apartheid is to be challenged to decr... Read More about Using steam to power equality and democracy in vaccination decision making in the face of climate apartheid.

"Wherefore I seek a poetry of facts": Science in Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2023, April). "Wherefore I seek a poetry of facts": Science in Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry. Presented at The British Society for Literature and Science Eighteenth Annual Conference, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

Best known as a modernist poet in Scots, Hugh MacDiarmid’s later poetry moved away from its earlier lyricism to become a ‘poetry of facts’ written in terminological English. His appropriation of scientific sources was central to this. This paper look... Read More about "Wherefore I seek a poetry of facts": Science in Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry.

A Stacking Ensemble of Deep Learning Models for IoT Network Intrusion Detection (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Lazzarini, R., Tianfield, H., & Charissis, V. A Stacking Ensemble of Deep Learning Models for IoT Network Intrusion Detection

The number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has increased considerably inthe past few years, which resulted in an exponential growth of cyber attackson IoT infrastructure. As a consequence, the prompt detection of attacks inIoT environments throug... Read More about A Stacking Ensemble of Deep Learning Models for IoT Network Intrusion Detection.

Closing the Loop (2023)
Digital Artefact
Panneels, I. (2023). Closing the Loop. [video]

This short film brings together case studies from three different projects and craft communities. Following a joint event with Creative Informatics in early 2020 led to the convening of The Closing the Loop group of makers by Applied Arts Scotland... Read More about Closing the Loop.

Dot, dot, dot: Anon., WAAC: The Woman’s Story of the War (1930) (2023)
Digital Artefact
Frayn, A. (2023). Dot, dot, dot: Anon., WAAC: The Woman’s Story of the War (1930). [Podcast]

One of many books about the First World War on the censor’s blacklist, this one claims to offer a new, fresh perspective about the British army. But how much truth can a memoir written by ‘anonymous’ tell? With Dr Andrew Frayn.

Rural modernity, rural modernism and deindustrialisation in Norman Nicholson’s poetry (2023)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2023). Rural modernity, rural modernism and deindustrialisation in Norman Nicholson’s poetry. English Studies, 104(3), 478-499. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2023.2180593

This article argues that the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson (1914–1987) is an exemplary writer about rural modernity, whose work also enables us to conceptualise a rural modernism. Nicholson lived all his life in his home town of Millom, an industria... Read More about Rural modernity, rural modernism and deindustrialisation in Norman Nicholson’s poetry.

Participatory polyvocal performative and playful interpreting Resnik's 4 for creative placemaking with digital tools (2023)
Book Chapter
Grandison, T., Flint, T., & Jamieson, K. (2023). Participatory polyvocal performative and playful interpreting Resnik's 4 for creative placemaking with digital tools. In D. Giglitto, L. Ciolfi, E. Lockley, & E. Kaldeli (Eds.), Digital Approaches to Inclusion and Participation in Cultural Heritage: Insights from Research and Practice in Europe (114-140). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003277606-7

This chapter discusses inclusive playful encounters made possible through a Digi-Mapping project that ran in partnership with local arts organisation WHALE Arts and participants aged between 8 and 11 from three local primary schools. As part of a bot... Read More about Participatory polyvocal performative and playful interpreting Resnik's 4 for creative placemaking with digital tools.

Literary Prize Cultures: A Fairer Future? (2023)
Journal Article
Marsden, S. (2023). Literary Prize Cultures: A Fairer Future?. Wasafiri, 38(1), 67-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2023.2133859

In June 2022, Costa Coffee announced that they would no longer be running the Costa Book Awards, one of the UK's most significant series of awards for fiction, children's books, poetry, non-fiction, and short fiction. The cancellation of the awards w... Read More about Literary Prize Cultures: A Fairer Future?.

Digital Play Psychogeography and Creative Placemaking (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Flint, T., Stewart, F., & Grandison, T. (in press). Digital Play Psychogeography and Creative Placemaking.

This is a presentation of two creative placemaking projects with primary school children in three schools in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh. The projects were undertaken with local arts centre WHALE Arts and researchers from Edinburgh Napier University. Bo... Read More about Digital Play Psychogeography and Creative Placemaking.

Haftor Medbøe|Konrad Wiszniewski: Poiesis (2023)
Digital Artefact
Medboe, H., & Wiszniewski, K. (2023). Haftor Medbøe|Konrad Wiszniewski: Poiesis. [Compact Cassette and digital distribution]

An album of freely improvised music recorded in July 2022 and released on compact cassette and digital platforms by Subcontinental Records, Bangalore.

Prisoner of War Camp Journals (2023)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2023). Prisoner of War Camp Journals. In M. Demoor, C. Van Dijck, & B. Van Puymbroeck (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

A case study of internment camp newspaper Stobsiade, contextualised in an overview of First World War internment camp periodicals.

“Waked, and unquiet”: William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (2023)
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (in press). “Waked, and unquiet”: William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land. In C. Sederholm, & K. Woofter (Eds.), The Weird: A Companion. Oxford: Peter Lang

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1917) is a central but sometimes overlooked figure in the development of weird fiction in the early twentieth century. Hodgson’s work flourished at the intersection of what we now call science fiction, Gothic, fantasy, and... Read More about “Waked, and unquiet”: William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land.

Motivations and expectations of higher popular music education in Scotland: Student perspectives (2023)
Journal Article
Harvey, A. (2023). Motivations and expectations of higher popular music education in Scotland: Student perspectives. Journal of Popular Music Education, 7(1), 69-85. https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00100_1

This research investigates the motivations of students and their expectations of the aims and content of undergraduate popular music programmes in Scotland. With a particular interest in the pedagogical issues surrounding the familiar ideological deb... Read More about Motivations and expectations of higher popular music education in Scotland: Student perspectives.