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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.

Digital Sampling: The Design and Use of Music Technologies (2019)
Book
Harkins, P. (2019). Digital Sampling: The Design and Use of Music Technologies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351209960

Digital Sampling is the first book about the design and use of sampling technologies that have shaped the sounds of popular music since the 1980s.

Written in two parts, Digital Sampling begins with an exploration of the Fairlight CMI and how artis... Read More about Digital Sampling: The Design and Use of Music Technologies.

Introduction to ‘Reading the Écrits’: La trahison de l’écriture (2019)
Book Chapter
Hook, D., Neill, C., & Vanheule, S. (2019). Introduction to ‘Reading the Écrits’: La trahison de l’écriture. In D. Hook, C. Neill, & S. Vanheule (Eds.), Reading Lacan's Écrits: From ‘The Freudian Thing’ to 'Remarks on Daniel Lagache' (1-5). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429294310-1

In comparison to Sigmund Freud’s oeuvre that of course exists in the collected form of the Standard Edition, Jacques Lacan’s written work exists in a far more scattered and diffuse state. Prior to the eventual 15 November 1966 publication date of the... Read More about Introduction to ‘Reading the Écrits’: La trahison de l’écriture.

“Without sexual intercourse, frequent and pleasant”: Expurgating Richard Aldington’s Death of a Hero (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2019, June). “Without sexual intercourse, frequent and pleasant”: Expurgating Richard Aldington’s Death of a Hero. Paper presented at Troublesome Modernisms: the British Association for Modernist Studies conference, London

Richard Aldington treads a delicate line in his Death of a Hero, between ‘writing in all the buggers and bitches’ and his need to be published and to live by the pen; he borrows from Djuna Barnes the method of asterisking expurgated sections, the vis... Read More about “Without sexual intercourse, frequent and pleasant”: Expurgating Richard Aldington’s Death of a Hero.

Possible models of local news provision by radio in Scotland: A mixed-methods study (2019)
Journal Article
Kocic, A., & Milicev, J. (2019). Possible models of local news provision by radio in Scotland: A mixed-methods study. Journal of Digital Media & Policy, 10(2), 183-201. https://doi.org/10.1386/jdmp.10.2.183_1

Scotland does not have any public service radio on a local level, except for a few bulletins or programmes offered by BBC Radio Scotland on an opt-out basis. Scottish commercial radio stations do cover local issues but within brief hourly news bullet... Read More about Possible models of local news provision by radio in Scotland: A mixed-methods study.

The Victorian Barmaid and the British Press: How She Was Defined and Represented in Late-Nineteenth-Century Media, and How She Utilized the Press to Fight for Better Pay and Working Conditions (2019)
Journal Article
Boughey, A. (2019). The Victorian Barmaid and the British Press: How She Was Defined and Represented in Late-Nineteenth-Century Media, and How She Utilized the Press to Fight for Better Pay and Working Conditions. Journalism history, 45(1), 77-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/00947679.2019.1574180

This article explores how British print media in the late-nineteenth century portrayed and represented the Victorian barmaid, utilizing newspapers, magazines, periodicals, and other printed materials as its primary sources. The barmaid was a product... Read More about The Victorian Barmaid and the British Press: How She Was Defined and Represented in Late-Nineteenth-Century Media, and How She Utilized the Press to Fight for Better Pay and Working Conditions.

Film: On the Outside (2019)
Digital Artefact
Gray, P. (2019). Film: On the Outside. [Film]

On the Outside, is the outcome of an educational film project that was a collaboration with women who were serving sentences in HMP Polmont.
The project was undertaken in two parts. The first part ran inside the prison over a period of three months,... Read More about Film: On the Outside.

Simulating Experiences of Displacement and Migration: Developing Immersive and Interactive Media Forms Around Factual Narratives (2019)
Journal Article
Blake, J. N. (2019). Simulating Experiences of Displacement and Migration: Developing Immersive and Interactive Media Forms Around Factual Narratives. International Journal of E-Politics, 10(1), 49-60. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijep.2019010104

Immigration is a highly politicised and emotive area of public discourse. During the peak of the so-called ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Europe, a number of EU politicians and mass media outlets manipulated the abstract idea of ‘the migrant’ as a scapegoat for... Read More about Simulating Experiences of Displacement and Migration: Developing Immersive and Interactive Media Forms Around Factual Narratives.

The past in the present: constructions of community through participatory and collaborative documentary production (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MacLeod, K., & Scott, A. (2019, January). The past in the present: constructions of community through participatory and collaborative documentary production. Paper presented at Meccsa Practice Research Network Annual Conference 2019, University of Stirling

This paper will examine ways in which processes of documenting the past in community-based media are informed by the present. Through collaborative and participatory approaches to production which validate local knowledge and experience, individuals... Read More about The past in the present: constructions of community through participatory and collaborative documentary production.

Edgelands without a centre: Norman Nicholson and post-industry (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, November). Edgelands without a centre: Norman Nicholson and post-industry. Presented at English research seminar, University of Edinburgh

A poet whose first editor at Faber & Faber was T.S. Eliot, Norman Nicholson (1914-87) lived his whole life in Millom, an ironworks town in the south-west of Cumbria, away from but within sight of the major fells of the Lake District. Nicholson’s fam... Read More about Edgelands without a centre: Norman Nicholson and post-industry.

Film: On the Outside, Voices from Prison, London Literature Festival Screening during Koestler Trust ‘I’m Still Here’ exhibition, South Bank Centre, London, 24 Oct 2018 (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Gray, P. Film: On the Outside, Voices from Prison, London Literature Festival Screening during Koestler Trust ‘I’m Still Here’ exhibition, South Bank Centre, London, 24 Oct 2018. 24 October 2018

Voices from Prison, London Literature Festival
Screened during the Koestler Trust ‘I’m Still Here’ exhibition in the South Bank Centre, at a spoken word event as part of the London Literature Festival.
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/131... Read More about Film: On the Outside, Voices from Prison, London Literature Festival Screening during Koestler Trust ‘I’m Still Here’ exhibition, South Bank Centre, London, 24 Oct 2018.

Documentary Practice as Research Methodology (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MacLeod, K. (2018, June). Documentary Practice as Research Methodology. Paper presented at Meccsa Practice as Research Network Symposium, University of Lincoln

This paper proposes documentary filmmaking as creative practice and as a methodological approach to research. This is relevant to the specific research contexts in which documentary production is situated, as well as to a broader critique of the vali... Read More about Documentary Practice as Research Methodology.

Our Future Scotland (2018)
Digital Artefact
Blake, J. (2018). Our Future Scotland. [Video and online digital content]

The 'Our Future Scotland' film project was commissioned by the Scotland’s Futures Forum at the Scottish Parliament in early 2018 and was designed to engage people to share their visions and aspirations for the future. The research project became a m... Read More about Our Future Scotland.

Gaelic Television: Building Bricks without Straw (2018)
Journal Article
Maclean, D. (2018). Gaelic Television: Building Bricks without Straw. International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen, 11(1), 6-28

This article considers the role and place of Gaelic television output looking at how Gaelic content was delivered prior to the creation of BBC Alba in 2008 and up to the present day. It compares the contradictory way in which it is has been viewed ex... Read More about Gaelic Television: Building Bricks without Straw.

STV At 60 (2018)
Journal Article
Scott, A. (2018). STV At 60. International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen, 11(1), 29-50

This article traces the history of Scottish Television (STV) since it was first established as the independent television channel serving central Scotland in 1957 by charting the company’s landmark productions across a range of genres made for both S... Read More about STV At 60.

Introduction (2017)
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2017). Introduction. In The Island of Doctor Moreau & Other Stories (x-xxvii). Wordsworth Editions