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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/10.3167/latiss.2023.160203

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?.

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). Columbia University Press - Transcript Verlag

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.

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.

Sharing Skincare Secrets in Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture (2023)
Book Chapter
Aske, K. (2023). Sharing Skincare Secrets in Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture. In Participation, Collaboration, Association: Communautés, échanges, politique, et philosophies au XVIIIe siècle. Communities, Exchanges, Politics and Philosophies in the Eighteenth Century. Par le collectif des chercheurs de la SIEDS 2019 (179-193). Honoré Champion

This chapter examines the way skin treatments were shared within popular culture from the late seventeenth to early eighteenth century. Focusing on dermatological treatments for the most common issues––pimples, freckles, and several other broadly def... Read More about Sharing Skincare Secrets in Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture.

(Mis)matching Metadata: Improving Accessibility in Digital Visual Archives through the EyCon Project (2023)
Journal Article
Aske, K., & Giardinetti, M. (2023). (Mis)matching Metadata: Improving Accessibility in Digital Visual Archives through the EyCon Project. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 16(4), Article 76. https://doi.org/10.1145/3594726

Discussing the current AHRC/LABEX-funded EyCon (Early Conflict Photography 1890-1918 and Visual AI) project, this article considers potentially problematic metadata and how it affects the accessibility of digital visual archives. The authors delibera... Read More about (Mis)matching Metadata: Improving Accessibility in Digital Visual Archives through the EyCon Project.

In Pursuit of Trugh: Once Upon A Time In China (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Li, Q. In Pursuit of Trugh: Once Upon A Time In China. [Film]. Exhibited at AVIFF Art Film Festival, Cannes, France. 16 May 2023 - 26 May 2023

This documentary film is about the filmmaking journey of Hu Jie who was a former member of the Air Force of the People’s Liberation Army and became an internationally renowned documentary filmmaker. He has been reported by mainstream media such as Ne... Read More about In Pursuit of Trugh: Once Upon A Time In China.

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.

The Global Film Market Transformation in the Post-Pandemic Era: Production, Distribution and Consumption (2023)
Book
Li, Q., Wilson, D., & Guan, Y. (Eds.). (2023). The Global Film Market Transformation in the Post-Pandemic Era: Production, Distribution and Consumption. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003345251

This book reviews the development and performance of the global film industry during the COVID-19 pandemic and examines new trends in film production, distribution and consumption through a global lens.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial im... Read More about The Global Film Market Transformation in the Post-Pandemic Era: Production, Distribution and Consumption.

Identity construction and collusion in documentary of the Gaelic-speaking community: A filmmaker’s perspective (2023)
Journal Article
Maclean, D. (2024). Identity construction and collusion in documentary of the Gaelic-speaking community: A filmmaker’s perspective. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 27(4), 540-557. 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.

"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?.

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.