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Lighting design principles for placemaking in historic sites (2022)
Thesis
Aslani, S. Z. Lighting design principles for placemaking in historic sites. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2968224

This thesis identifies the various interrelated areas needed in the research and preparation of lighting design schemes for historic sites as facilitators for placemaking processes. In doing so, it firstly focuses upon placemaking as an influential p... Read More about Lighting design principles for placemaking in historic sites.

Musical reading of free-verse poetry: The compositional approach in Songs after Love (2022)
Thesis
Koufoudakis, I. Musical reading of free-verse poetry: The compositional approach in Songs after Love. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2948413

This thesis consists of the first part of my song cycle Songs after Love: a group of four songs for soprano and ensemble, plus an epilogue piece for solo violin. In these songs, I have explored different pieces of poetry, coming from the following 20... Read More about Musical reading of free-verse poetry: The compositional approach in Songs after Love.

‘There it is, another code ready to be used’. Repurposing comprovisation [Lecture-recital]. (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Papageorgiou, D., & Sánchez Díaz, F. (2022, June). ‘There it is, another code ready to be used’. Repurposing comprovisation [Lecture-recital]. Presented at Performance Studies Network International Conference 2022, Department of Music and Media, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

‘There it is, another code ready to be used’ is a notational environment and a system for improvisation on any instrument of the saxophone family (with or without live electronics) developed by Dimitris Papageorgiou. The project is the result of an... Read More about ‘There it is, another code ready to be used’. Repurposing comprovisation [Lecture-recital]..

Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles (2022)
Book
Alder, E., Packham, J., & Passey, J. (Eds.). (2022). Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles. London: British Library

From foreboding cliffs and lonely lighthouses to rumbling shingles and silted estuaries, the coasts of the British Isles have stoked the imaginations of storytellers for millennia, lending a rich literary significance to these spaces between land and... Read More about Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles.

Castells versus Bell: A comparison of two grand theorists of the information age (2022)
Journal Article
Duff, A. S. (2023). Castells versus Bell: A comparison of two grand theorists of the information age. European Journal of Social Theory, 26(1), 90-108. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310221099695

Daniel Bell (1919–2011) and Manuel Castells (1942–) are the grand theorists of the information age. The article provides a detailed, up-to-date, comparative analysis of their writings. It begins with their methodologies, identifying numerous commonal... Read More about Castells versus Bell: A comparison of two grand theorists of the information age.

The End of the 90s in Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion, Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2022)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2023). The End of the 90s in Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion, Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 64(4), 685-698. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2022.2078179

This article argues that three contemporary novels – Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion (2014), Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room (2017), and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018) – offer correctives to prevalent histories of the... Read More about The End of the 90s in Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion, Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation.

Sustainable and Responsible Design Education: Tensions in Transitions (2022)
Journal Article
Boehnert, J., Sinclair, M., & Dewberry, E. (2022). Sustainable and Responsible Design Education: Tensions in Transitions. Sustainability, 14(11), Article 6397. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14116397

Sustainable and Responsible Design (SRD) harnesses design’s potential to address eco-social problems and in doing so challenge the status quo of design education by reframing the social and ecological consequences, boundaries and agencies of design.... Read More about Sustainable and Responsible Design Education: Tensions in Transitions.

Fairy Light (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Dearnley, E. Fairy Light. [Immersive theatre installation]. 21 May 2022 - 22 September 2023. (Unpublished)

'And then I said, "Those fairies we see - let's take a picture!"'

In the summer of 1917, cousins Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright claimed to have seen fairies by Cottingley Beck. The photographs they took would later be described by Sir Arthur C... Read More about Fairy Light.

Staging the Modern Nightmare (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2022, May). Staging the Modern Nightmare. Presented at Nightmare/s in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge

‘Common Sense Slimming’ - How the contribution of Joan Robins, television’s ‘afternoon cook’, was not the perfect-fit for the culture of the BBC in the 1950s (2022)
Journal Article
Geddes, K. (2022). ‘Common Sense Slimming’ - How the contribution of Joan Robins, television’s ‘afternoon cook’, was not the perfect-fit for the culture of the BBC in the 1950s. Critical Studies in Television, 17(3), 254-268. https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020221103469

Cooking on television after WWII mainly addressed ‘the housewife’ audience, while women themselves were presenting television cooking programmes. History has largely forgotten the presenter Joan Robins, who appeared alongside Philip Harben and Margue... Read More about ‘Common Sense Slimming’ - How the contribution of Joan Robins, television’s ‘afternoon cook’, was not the perfect-fit for the culture of the BBC in the 1950s.

Raising HPV Vaccine Awareness and Advocacy Through STEAM Workshops (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Healey, C., MacDonald, I., Malone, E., Firth, R., & McDermott, A. (2022, April). Raising HPV Vaccine Awareness and Advocacy Through STEAM Workshops. Presented at EUROGIN 2022 - International Multidisciplinary HPV Congress, Dusseldorf, Germany

The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium: Producing Pacific community-based films by Pacific filmmakers (2022)
Journal Article
MacLeod, K. (2022). The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium: Producing Pacific community-based films by Pacific filmmakers. Media Practice and Education, 23(2), 195-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2022.2059832

This case study will discuss the impact pathways associated with a practice-led impact and engagement project based in the Pacific through the establishment of The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium. The project aims to support community-based a... Read More about The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium: Producing Pacific community-based films by Pacific filmmakers.

Vivid Stories: Oral histories, collective memory and constructing Scottish jazz pasts within the contemporary scene (2022)
Book Chapter
Maclean, D. Vivid Stories: Oral histories, collective memory and constructing Scottish jazz pasts within the contemporary scene. In Á. Havas, B. Johnson, & D. Horn (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies. Routledge

This chapter draws on the production and content of the Scottish Jazz Archive (SJA) oral histories collection alongside interviews from a PLACE (Scottish Government) funded research project focused on the contemporary jazz scene in Scotland. We consi... Read More about Vivid Stories: Oral histories, collective memory and constructing Scottish jazz pasts within the contemporary scene.