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Conversation, Collaboration, Credit: The Graduate Researcher in the Digital Scholarly Environment (2014)
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Powell, D. J., Bouchard, M., Galgleish, M., Keenan, A., McLeod, A., & Thomson, T. (2014). Conversation, Collaboration, Credit: The Graduate Researcher in the Digital Scholarly Environment. Digital Studies / Le champ numérique, 3(3), https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.59

The humanities are undergoing profound shifts in the nature of the processes used to produce scholarly work. As this migration to digital practices is increasingly accepted at universities and public institutions, such bodies have realised they must... Read More about Conversation, Collaboration, Credit: The Graduate Researcher in the Digital Scholarly Environment.

A barretone, an instrumentt of musicke: its history, influences and development pre-1750. (2014)
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Durkin, R. (2014). A barretone, an instrumentt of musicke: its history, influences and development pre-1750. The Galpin Society journal, 67, 85-272

The baryton is generally considered to have been invented in England at the start of the seventeenth century, although this term is not used in England until 1685. Until now, the baryton has been studied in relative isolation, acknowledging its music... Read More about A barretone, an instrumentt of musicke: its history, influences and development pre-1750..

“What is strange is that we don't have more children coming to us”: A habitography of child psychiatrists and scholastic pressure in Kolkata, India (2014)
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Ecks, S., & Kupfer, C. (2015). “What is strange is that we don't have more children coming to us”: A habitography of child psychiatrists and scholastic pressure in Kolkata, India. Social Science and Medicine, 143, 336-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.so

The mental health of Indian school children could be expected to be a major topic of research. More people below 15 years are living in India than in any other country in the world, and India has undergone rapid social, economic, and demographic chan... Read More about “What is strange is that we don't have more children coming to us”: A habitography of child psychiatrists and scholastic pressure in Kolkata, India.

Improvisation in the digital age: New narratives in jazz promotion and dissemination. (2014)
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Medbøe, H., & Dias, J. (2014). Improvisation in the digital age: New narratives in jazz promotion and dissemination. First Monday, 19, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v19i10.5553

Those that create, promote and disseminate jazz are experiencing a period of radical change. The dwindling interest from the major labels in releasing jazz has led to a mushrooming of both traditionally imagined and virtual independent jazz labels, o... Read More about Improvisation in the digital age: New narratives in jazz promotion and dissemination..

Richard Aldington's Images, the Metropolis, and the Masses (2014)
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Frayn, A. (2014). Richard Aldington's Images, the Metropolis, and the Masses. Modernist Cultures, 9(2), 260-281. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2014.0086

Richard Aldington’s city poems in the latter part of his 1915 collection Images are concerned with the masses who inhabit the modern city. Aldington is at pains to stress his distinction from those he perceives as an increasingly homogenized crowd... Read More about Richard Aldington's Images, the Metropolis, and the Masses.

'Hauntings of Celticism': Fionn Mac Colla and the Myth of History (2014)
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Lyall, S. (2014). 'Hauntings of Celticism': Fionn Mac Colla and the Myth of History. Literature and History, 23(2), 51-66. https://doi.org/10.7227/LH.23.2.4

Fionn Mac Colla’s ideas of history can be characterised as postcolonial in their critique of historical determinism, Cartesian dualism and Whig progressivism. He utilises his theories, which encompass the psychological implications for individuals an... Read More about 'Hauntings of Celticism': Fionn Mac Colla and the Myth of History.

Curating popular music: authority and history, aesthetics and technology (2014)
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Atton, C. (2014). Curating popular music: authority and history, aesthetics and technology. Popular Music, 33(3), 413-427. https://doi.org/10.1017/s026114301400035x

The practice of curation in popular music may be seen as a form of historical enquiry that works in a similar way to the critical projects of the ‘new museology’. Self-curation can be employed by musicians to re-present their work as a historiograph... Read More about Curating popular music: authority and history, aesthetics and technology.

The Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun (2014)
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Keeble, A. (2014). The Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun. Comparative American Studies, 12(3), 173-189. https://doi.org/10.1179/1477570014Z.00000000081

While the initial literary and cultural response to 9/11 consisted mostly of domestic narratives of trauma and mourning that avoided explicit political discourse, narrative representations of Hurricane Katrina, from the beginning, have been highly po... Read More about The Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun.

Writing Violence: JonBenet Ramsey and the Legal, Moral and Aesthetic Implications of Creative Non-Fiction (2014)
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Joyce, L. E. (2014). Writing Violence: JonBenet Ramsey and the Legal, Moral and Aesthetic Implications of Creative Non-Fiction. New Writing, 11(2), 202-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2014.904888

This essay began as a hybrid critical/creative paper that was presented as part of an all-female panel discussing the intersections between writing and extreme violence. My own paper was on the relationship between my creative nonfiction novel The Mu... Read More about Writing Violence: JonBenet Ramsey and the Legal, Moral and Aesthetic Implications of Creative Non-Fiction.

Digital And Paper Sketchbooks: Learning New Ways Of Drawing And Designing (2014)
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Macdonald, I. (2014). Digital And Paper Sketchbooks: Learning New Ways Of Drawing And Designing. TRACEY,

Since the introduction of the portable mobile tablet device in 2010 there has been a surge of interest in how these might enhance technology-based learning. The advantages of mobile tablets extend into all aspects of society and education. But it is... Read More about Digital And Paper Sketchbooks: Learning New Ways Of Drawing And Designing.

An examination of the role of sound in defining the city in the context of Edinburgh (2014)
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Vettese-Forster, S., Gowans, S., Case, J., & Maciej, K. (2014). An examination of the role of sound in defining the city in the context of Edinburgh. European Academic Research, 1, 3218-3247

The surfeit of generic and place-specific sounds that exist in the urban environment contribute to what has been referred to as the soundscape. Within the built environment sound has the potential to create thresholds and acoustic territories that de... Read More about An examination of the role of sound in defining the city in the context of Edinburgh.

CURRICULUM FOR EXCELLENCE: a study of art & design and the impact on Higher Education. (2014)
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Macdonald, I. (2014). CURRICULUM FOR EXCELLENCE: a study of art & design and the impact on Higher Education. AD, 24-25

This small study was undertaken in two secondary schools in Edinburgh where art and design teachers were willing to be interviewed on video following a semi-structured questionnaire. This study asked the questions: • Will these pupils be better pre... Read More about CURRICULUM FOR EXCELLENCE: a study of art & design and the impact on Higher Education..

Cultural Change in the Creative Industries: a case study of BBC Graphic Design from 1990-2011 (2014)
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Macdonald, I. (2014). Cultural Change in the Creative Industries: a case study of BBC Graphic Design from 1990-2011. Visual Communication, 13(1), 31-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470357213507510

Using his own experience as a witness and participant in the convulsion that the BBC, and specifically the BBC Graphic Design department underwent, the author aims to illuminate the cultural change to the creative industries in many advanced industri... Read More about Cultural Change in the Creative Industries: a case study of BBC Graphic Design from 1990-2011.

‘That ancient self’: Scottish Modernism’s Counter-Renaissance (2014)
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Lyall, S. (2014). ‘That ancient self’: Scottish Modernism’s Counter-Renaissance. European Journal of English Studies, 18(1), 73-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2014.881106

This essay argues that the twentieth-century movement of literary and cultural revival known as the Scottish Renaissance was, like the Irish Revival lead by W.B. Yeats, a counter-Renaissance against the anti-national ideals of the Renaissance; it was... Read More about ‘That ancient self’: Scottish Modernism’s Counter-Renaissance.

"What in the World Distinguishes Fiction from Nonfiction Film?" (2014)
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Sellors, C. P. (2014). "What in the World Distinguishes Fiction from Nonfiction Film?". Film and Philosophy, 18, 105-123. https://doi.org/10.5840/filmphil2014188

Advocates of blurred boundaries between fiction and nonfiction film identify shared narrative and representational practices to justify scepticism about nonfiction film’s ability to depict and convey views about reality. Such arguments fail because t... Read More about "What in the World Distinguishes Fiction from Nonfiction Film?".

poem:Mariam (2014)
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Fraser, B. (2014). poem:Mariam. Café Dissensus,

A poem on public execution.