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‘The secret garden’: Artists, bohemia and gentrification in the Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (2016)
Journal Article
Whiting, J., & Hannam, K. (2016). ‘The secret garden’: Artists, bohemia and gentrification in the Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. European Urban and Regional Studies, 24(3), 318-334. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776416643750

Research has pointed to the importance of artists in the early stages of gentrification; however, few studies have examined specifically the meaning of gentrification and place-change from the perspective of artists themselves, and few studies have i... Read More about ‘The secret garden’: Artists, bohemia and gentrification in the Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Blue paint and white underwear: miscommunication and humour in intercultural contexts. (2016)
Book Chapter
Victoria, M. (2016). Blue paint and white underwear: miscommunication and humour in intercultural contexts. In J. N. Singh, A. Kantara, & D. Cserző (Eds.), Downscaling Culture: Revisiting Intercultural Communication (92-113). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

When two individuals from different cultural backgrounds fail to achieve mutual understanding, the accusatory finger is almost always automatically pointed at ‘cultural difference’. Indeed it is a commonly held notion that interactions between speake... Read More about Blue paint and white underwear: miscommunication and humour in intercultural contexts..

Discordant lifestyle mobilities in East Asia: privilege and precarity of British retirement in Thailand (2016)
Journal Article
Botterill, K. (2016). Discordant lifestyle mobilities in East Asia: privilege and precarity of British retirement in Thailand. Population, Space and Place, 23(5), e2011. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2011

This paper explores the lifestyle mobilities of British retirees in Thailand, drawing on empirical research conducted in 2012. Thailand is a host to a significant number of British retirees motivated by a search for a better lifestyle in Asia. This p... Read More about Discordant lifestyle mobilities in East Asia: privilege and precarity of British retirement in Thailand.

"We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research (2015)
Journal Article
Botterill, K. (2015). "We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research. Forum: Qualitative Social Research / Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 16(2),

This article offers a reflexive account of conducting research on Polish migration to Scotland from the perspective of the "outsider." The contribution argues for a revision to the insider/outsider dichotomy viewing it as inadequately nuanced in rela... Read More about "We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research.

Designing digital urban interactions industry landscape and market analysis. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zaffiro, G., Melissa, B., Brynskov, M., & Smyth, M. (2015, March). Designing digital urban interactions industry landscape and market analysis. Presented at 13th International Conference on e-Society 2015

Urban Interaction Design addresses the question of how we, as physical beings, will interact with the technologically augmented, data-rich urban environments that increasingly characterize cities. As an emergent field very little analysis has been co... Read More about Designing digital urban interactions industry landscape and market analysis..

Reconceptualization of Acculturation from the Non-Essentialist Cultural View (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Xu, H. (. (2015, May). Reconceptualization of Acculturation from the Non-Essentialist Cultural View. Presented at SIETAR Europa Congress 2015

In this paper, I start with the three building blocks concluded from the diverse acculturation definitions across disciplines and then discuss the main focuses in acculturation studies. Through the review, I realise that a critical thinking of accult... Read More about Reconceptualization of Acculturation from the Non-Essentialist Cultural View.

Cultural resilience: The production of rural community heritage, digital archives and the role of volunteers. (2015)
Journal Article
Beel, D. E., Wallace, C. D., Webster, G., Nguyen, H., Tait, E., Macleod, M., & Mellish, C. (2017). Cultural resilience: The production of rural community heritage, digital archives and the role of volunteers. Journal of Rural Studies, 54, 459-468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2015.05.002

The following paper addresses a lacuna in the literature relating to the concept of resilience. To date, cultural activity in relation to resilient communities has been given little attention and this paper will highlight how the lens of community he... Read More about Cultural resilience: The production of rural community heritage, digital archives and the role of volunteers..

Life at the local scale: an alternative perspective on the urban. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smyth, M., & Helgason, I. (2015, September). Life at the local scale: an alternative perspective on the urban. Presented at Hybrid Cities - Data to the People 3rd International Biennial Conference

The study of cities has risen to the top of research agendas in the last decade, raising the question of how to study something as vast and eclectic as cities. This paper proposes a return to a focus on the local as an appropriate scale to investigat... Read More about Life at the local scale: an alternative perspective on the urban..

Urban Heat Island (UHI) mitigating strategies: A case-based comparative analysis (2015)
Journal Article
O’Malley, C., Piroozfar, P., Farr, E. R. P., & Pomponi, F. (2015). Urban Heat Island (UHI) mitigating strategies: A case-based comparative analysis. Sustainable Cities and Society, 19, 222-235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2015.05.009

Urbanisation may have been shown to have no effect on climate change, but some researchers suggest that cities are fully capable of responding to it. Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) represent dense urban areas within cities where the temperature is recorde... Read More about Urban Heat Island (UHI) mitigating strategies: A case-based comparative analysis.

The geographies of community history digital archives in rural Scotland (2015)
Journal Article
Beel, D., Wallace, C., Webster, G., & Nguyen, H. (2015). The geographies of community history digital archives in rural Scotland. Scottish Geographical Journal, 131(3-4), 201-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2014.980839

The CURIOS (Cultural Repositories and Information Systems) project has been working with community heritage groups to co-produce sustainable solutions for the production of heritage archives in digital form. This process has produced an opportunity f... Read More about The geographies of community history digital archives in rural Scotland.

Creating smart-er cities (2014)
Book
Deakin, M. (Ed.). (2014). Creating smart-er cities. Routledge/ Taylor and Francis

Drawing upon the smart experiences of "world class" cities in n.America, Canada and Europe, this book provides the evidence to show how entrepreneurship-based and market dependent representations of knowledge production are now being replaced by a co... Read More about Creating smart-er cities.

From intelligent to smart cities. (2014)
Book
(2014). M. Deakin, & H. Al Waer (Eds.), From intelligent to smart cities. Routledge/ Taylor and Francis

The concept of smart cities offers a revolutionary vision of urban design for sustainability. Utilising the intelligent application of new technologies, smart cities also incorporate considerations of social and environmental capital in order to tran... Read More about From intelligent to smart cities..

Performing the Scratch Orchestra's Nature Study Notes: creating and exploring a third sphere through improvised communal action. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hails, J. (2014, October). Performing the Scratch Orchestra's Nature Study Notes: creating and exploring a third sphere through improvised communal action. Presented at Music and shared imaginaries: nationalisms, communities, and choral singing, Aveiro, Portugal

In June 2014, a disparate group of trained and untrained performers gathered together at the Chisenhale Dance Space to perform items from the Scratch Orchestra’s 1969 Nature Study Notes. The performance was not a nostalgic recreation of past practice... Read More about Performing the Scratch Orchestra's Nature Study Notes: creating and exploring a third sphere through improvised communal action..

From The City Of Bits to E-Topia: Space, Citizenship and Community as Global Strategy. (2014)
Journal Article
Deakin, M. (2014). From The City Of Bits to E-Topia: Space, Citizenship and Community as Global Strategy. International Journal of E-Adoption, 6, https://doi.org/10.4018/ijea.2014010102

Mitchell's book on the City of Bits, sets out a vision of urban life literally done to bits. His next book e-topia, provides the counter-point to this vision of urban life and scenario where the city is no longer left in bits and pieces, but a place... Read More about From The City Of Bits to E-Topia: Space, Citizenship and Community as Global Strategy..

Smart cities: the state-of-the-art and governance challenge (2014)
Journal Article
Deakin, M. (2014). Smart cities: the state-of-the-art and governance challenge. Triple Helix, 1, Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40604-014-0007-9

Reflecting on the governance of smart cities, the state-of-the-art this paper advances offers a critique of recent city ranking and future Internet accounts of their development. Armed with these critical insights, it goes on to explain smart cities... Read More about Smart cities: the state-of-the-art and governance challenge.

Journeys of inspiration: Working artists’ reflections on tourism (2014)
Journal Article
Whiting, J., & Hannam, K. (2014). Journeys of inspiration: Working artists’ reflections on tourism. Annals of Tourism Research, 49, 65-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2014.08.007

While much recent research has been focused on aspects of creative tourism, relatively little has paid attention to the views of creative residents. In this paper we argue that romantically informed modes of travel are important to working artists. T... Read More about Journeys of inspiration: Working artists’ reflections on tourism.