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Improvisation: Autonomy, Heteronomy and Wilful Naïveté (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lambert, I. (2019, September). Improvisation: Autonomy, Heteronomy and Wilful Naïveté. Presented at EKSIG 2019: Knowing Together – experiential knowledge and collaboration, Estonia Academy of Arts, Tallin, Estonia

This paper discusses theoretical perspectives on improvisation as a powerful generator of new knowledge in practice-based research and its enhancement through wilful naïveté. The paper discusses a wilfully naïve approach to making with reference to I... Read More about Improvisation: Autonomy, Heteronomy and Wilful Naïveté.

Artificial Intelligence and Interface Design for Everyday Products (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Dowd, A., & Carvalhais, M. (2019). Artificial Intelligence and Interface Design for Everyday Products.

Imbedding artificial intelligence into designed technologies is not new, yet recently there has been a rapid increase in the number of domestic products that claim to be “smart”. The reasons for this are varied but a major contributing factor is the... Read More about Artificial Intelligence and Interface Design for Everyday Products.

Hands-on or hands off: How useful is Newsday as a teaching tool (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kocic, A. (2016, June). Hands-on or hands off: How useful is Newsday as a teaching tool. Presented at Association for Journalism Education Conference, London, UK

Journalism is now a graduate occupation and apparently it is extremely difficult to enter the industry without a degree. Training no longer occurs systematically on the job. Instead, the industry increasingly relies upon higher education to provide i... Read More about Hands-on or hands off: How useful is Newsday as a teaching tool.

Following the Auteurs: Kate Bush and the Fairlight CMI (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2019, December). Following the Auteurs: Kate Bush and the Fairlight CMI. Paper presented at This Woman's Work: A Kate Bush Symposium, Edinburgh College of Art

I’m a big fan of Kate Bush’s music but my priority in this paper is not to praise her many achievements. Instead, I want to look at how she was using music technologies in the 1980s and, more specifically, her relationship with the Fairlight Computer... Read More about Following the Auteurs: Kate Bush and the Fairlight CMI.

Performing Arts to Academia - Creativity to Conformity? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Miller Judd, P. (2019, December). Performing Arts to Academia - Creativity to Conformity?. Paper presented at Society of Research in Higher Education Annual Conference, Newport

For delivery of practice based degrees in performing arts, Universities often seek to employ lecturerswith a strong professional profile which is considered to add value to the student experience. The performing arts employment context is one which i... Read More about Performing Arts to Academia - Creativity to Conformity?.

Collaborative Disruption: Antagonistic Play within The Deaf Heritage Collective (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K., & Discepoli, M. (2019, November). Collaborative Disruption: Antagonistic Play within The Deaf Heritage Collective. Paper presented at INDialogue 4th Symposium, Nottingham

The arts are becoming increasingly integrated into applied linguistics research as scholarly attention turns towards multimodality, superdiversity (Adami 2017; Blackledge and Creese 2017) and co-production (McKay and Bradley 2016). Adding to this gro... Read More about Collaborative Disruption: Antagonistic Play within The Deaf Heritage Collective.

An alternative to the peer review workshop (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bishop, D. (2019, November). An alternative to the peer review workshop. Paper presented at National Association of Writers in Education 2019 Conference, York, United Kingdom

The peer review workshop has been called ‘the signature pedagogy’ of creative writing as an academic discipline. This presentation offers an alternative to that model. David Bishop reveals how the Edinburgh Napier University MA, a genre fiction-focus... Read More about An alternative to the peer review workshop.

Networked Arts and Social Purpose in Scotland: Performance, Participation, and Peace (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & Ferguson, P. (2019, November). Networked Arts and Social Purpose in Scotland: Performance, Participation, and Peace. Paper presented at NowNet Arts, New York

This presentation will comprise three related sections, outlining recent and imminent projects. We will begin by discussing work that the authors have recently undertaken in which communication technologies and commercially available audio software w... Read More about Networked Arts and Social Purpose in Scotland: Performance, Participation, and Peace.

Eudaimonia And Social Good Through Technologically Mediated, Collaborative Music-Making (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & Smith, G. D. (2019, November). Eudaimonia And Social Good Through Technologically Mediated, Collaborative Music-Making. Paper presented at NowNet Arts, New York

Humans often tend towards working in groups of various kinds. Following childhood and the family unit we seek those groups in mutual interest groups and activities. One of the fundamental ways that people make profound meaning is through creating mus... Read More about Eudaimonia And Social Good Through Technologically Mediated, Collaborative Music-Making.

Video Art as a Tool of Aesthetic Investigation (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Holmes, P. (2019, October). Video Art as a Tool of Aesthetic Investigation. Presented at International Forum on Cross Media Art and Design, Shanghai University of Engineering Science

Holmes, P. (2019, October). Video Art as a Tool of Aesthetic Investigation. Presented at International Forum on Cross Media Art and Design, Shanghai University of Engineering Science.

Post-war Fiction and the Literary Marketplace: Gilbert Frankau and Ford Madox Ford (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2019, October). Post-war Fiction and the Literary Marketplace: Gilbert Frankau and Ford Madox Ford. Paper presented at Upheaval and Reconstruction: Modernist Studies Association Conference, University of Toronto, Canada

Presentation at the Modernist Studies Association conference, on a panel organised by the British Association for Modernist Studies.

Nightmares and Other Doubles: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Self-shattering Dreams and Visions (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2019, September). Nightmares and Other Doubles: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Self-shattering Dreams and Visions. Paper presented at Dream Cultures: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, University of Helsinki, Finland

The nightmare is a form of “affect-laden” or “self-shattering” dream, wherein the dreamer awakens in a state of high emotional disturbance. Such dreams include initiation and/or shamanic visions, close encounters with gods or spirits, sexual dreams,... Read More about Nightmares and Other Doubles: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Self-shattering Dreams and Visions.

Collaborative Innovation: Reflections on Research for Smart Textiles in a Theatre and Performance Context (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, S., Taylor, S., & Bletcher, J. (2019, September). Collaborative Innovation: Reflections on Research for Smart Textiles in a Theatre and Performance Context. Presented at Textiles Intersections, Loughborough

This paper presents interdisciplinary research initiated through collaboration in the area of smart textiles, prompted by the Scottish Textile Industry’s 10-year Strategy (accessed March 2019), which promotes diversification and innovation as one of... Read More about Collaborative Innovation: Reflections on Research for Smart Textiles in a Theatre and Performance Context.

Weird Sisters: Victorian women’s ghost stories and a new look at the weird tale (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2019, August). Weird Sisters: Victorian women’s ghost stories and a new look at the weird tale. Paper presented at Victorian Renewals: British Association of Victorian Studies Conference 2019, University of Dundee

In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, weird fiction looks like a masculine tradition. While there are numerous women among recent ‘New Weird’ writers, female authorship of early weird tales barely shows up next to the success of H. P.... Read More about Weird Sisters: Victorian women’s ghost stories and a new look at the weird tale.

Short Paper: Initial Recommendations for the Design of Privacy Management Tools for Smartphones (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Carelli, A., Sinclair, M., & Southee, D. (2019, September). Short Paper: Initial Recommendations for the Design of Privacy Management Tools for Smartphones. Presented at IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Paphos, Cyprus

The continuing rise in the popularity of smartphones has led to an accompanying rise in the exposure of users to privacy threats as in the case of unintended leakage of personal information from apps. To improve transparency and the ability of users... Read More about Short Paper: Initial Recommendations for the Design of Privacy Management Tools for Smartphones.

Figure Study in Light by Paul Holmes (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Holmes, P. (2019, July). Figure Study in Light by Paul Holmes. Presented at Progressive Connexions: Storytelling and the Body, Verona, Italy

To make this artwork, the artist was measured by a tailor as if for a suit of clothes. These dimensions were translated into an installation of LED tubes suspended in a darkened room, forming the same shape in light that the tailor’s measuring tape m... Read More about Figure Study in Light by Paul Holmes.

A book to bind us together: Staff–student collaboration on a new model of publication (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gray, A. (2019, July). A book to bind us together: Staff–student collaboration on a new model of publication. Paper presented at Advance HE Learning & Teaching Annual Conference, 2019, Northumbria University

This presentation provides insights into a ground-breaking initiative in which academics worked with students to produce a new book, entitled “Innovation in Learning and Teaching”. The book has now been published in print and is available on Amazon (... Read More about A book to bind us together: Staff–student collaboration on a new model of publication.