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Liquid Futures: Floating Biodiveristy Habitats
No full textMy research around the River Lea, London, looks at the intersection of land, water and in betweenness. Working in this field has led me to work with various agents/actors in the area, charitable, and statutory, those who are pushing for care around these environments.
Drawing my focus around post-industrial rivers in this area, a constellation of what Tsing describes as ‘minor forms of space and time merge with great ones’ the vestiges of industrialization, seep and saturate into the toxicity of the water. In thinking about contamination as a process of latent residual matter, in Bennett’s words ‘a vital materiality, meaning the capacity of things to act as quasi agents or forces with trajectories, and tendencies of their own’ I used the process of contamination to build up an exploded view of inter-relations and responsibilities. My presentation will look a series of river restoration projects in the area, through this lens of vital materiality as well as drawing on the live project which I carried out with the environmental charity Cody Dock, on the River Lea, London, titled Liquid Futures, a series of Floating Biodiversity Habitats, a co-production project between myself, the Lea and UoW students. The project provided an opportunity to think with and through water and its composites, whereby contamination becomes agency. Through this engagement with the River Lea, I aimed to explore new forms of socio-ecological relationships, as well as questions of repair and observation around these liminal environments.
The anthropologist Anna Tsing, calls for a mediation or ‘platform and method for finding artful ways of living in and with contamination, what would describe as entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions which offer urgent ‘arts of living’. I would propose to question if this constitutes repair of these environments.
Recently emerging ontologies of the nonhuman have been applied to illuminate the material dynamics of environmental destruction, how do we identity artful ways of responding to living on a damaged planter (Tsing) .
My research is part of the Gender Ecologies British Council Grant in dialogue with practitioners from Pakistan, working on the Indus and Ravi Rivers
CTNet: multi-modal channel attention transformer network for breast cancer image classification
No full textDeep learning has significantly enhanced diagnostic accuracy in medical imaging, particularly in breast cancer detection. While unimodal methods such as mammography and histopathology analysis achieve strong performance, integrating multimodal data remains challenging due to the high dimensionality and heterogeneity of imaging modalities. To address these challenges, we propose the Channel Attention CNN-Transformer (CTNet), a hybrid model that combines convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with vision Transformers for improved breast cancer classification. CTNet incorporates a channel attention mechanism for modality-specific feature refinement, a Cross Attention Block (CAB) for efficient feature extraction, and a Dynamic Attention (DA) block with Transformer encoding to strengthen contextual representation. Experimental evaluation demonstrates that CTNet outperforms baseline models, achieving 99% accuracy on histology images, 93% on mammography, and 86% on combined datasets, exceeding architectures such as EfficientNet and DenseNet. Rather than introducing complex fusion strategies, CTNet applies a straightforward element-wise fusion of modality features, showing that robust performance can still be achieved through careful architectural design. These findings highlight the potential of channel- and Transformer-based integration to advance breast cancer diagnostics, offering a practical and clinically relevant approach to multimodal analysis
Integrating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Management Education: An Empathy Framework
No full textAre future managers well equipped to drive the transformation towards more inclusive and just societies? This paper presents the perspectives of business school students on integrating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) principles into management education. We engage students as participants, co-researchers and consultants in a student voice-informed, multi-method qualitative study taking place in the United Kingdom (East and West Midlands, South East and West and North regions) and in the United States (Midwest region), focusing on marketing as a case discipline. Findings illuminate student critiques of the prevalent normative coverage of DEI, to the detriment of applied knowledge and action-oriented learning. We draw on the concept of empathy as a foundational lens for understanding and conceptualizing student expectations and develop a theoretical framework for holistically integrating DEI into management education. Our framework offers a theoretical understanding of shortcomings in current DEI learning in business schools and advances empathy as integral to both DEI and responsible management education. It proposes a novel direction for pedagogical innovations addressing social justice broadly and DEI specifically and showcases the value of student-voice-informed methodologies in education research for curriculum change
The Photographic Darkroom, Early Screen Media and Animated Images
No full textThis article explores the points of convergence between the ephemeral images that inhabited the early photographic darkrooms and screen media. Charting the long 19th century in the Anglophone world, it discusses, first, the animation of the image on the plate encountered during the chemical development of negatives, which up until the 1890s was done by observation, and how this echoed the illusion once achieved by the diorama through lighting effects. Second, the technical and conceptual affinities between the photographic enlarger, the magic lantern and the cinematographer as technologies geared to foster the public life of images. By taking as its guiding thread darkroom practitioners’ own words, the article argues that their responses to the latent-turning-visible and then to the projected image were part of a media culture that strove for the technological reproductions of the phenomenal world and for such images to elicit kinaesthetic perceptions
Doctor Watson Architects Collected and Incomplete Works
No full textIn 2025 Doctor Watson Architects changed their name to Doctor Watson Architecture. To mark and celebrate that decision they have collected their five volumes of Incomplete Works into this one, single publication
Preprint: Health Equity Informative Metrics (HEIM): A Framework for Quantifying Global Biobank Research Equity
No full textConsumers’ needs gratified by virtual influencers and their impact on self-expansion, brand identification, and purchase intention
No full textPurpose: Virtual Influencers (VIs) are increasingly used for brand endorsements. While consumer interaction with VIs is growing, little is known about the motivations behind these
interactions and how they influence consumer behavior.
Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected through an online survey of 298 users who interact with VIs. The model was tested using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM).
Findings: Consumers interact with VIs to satisfy their intellectual, novelty, entertainment, and social needs. These needs positively influence self-expansion, which in turn enhances brand identification and purchase intention.
Originality: This study is the first to integrate Uses and Gratifications (U&G) Theory with Self-Expansion Theory to explain the psychological and behavioral effects of VI interaction, offering a novel framework for understanding digital consumer engagement.
Research limitations/implications: This study is limited by its cross-sectional design, reliance on self-reported data, and focus on predominantly individualistic respondents in the
UK. Future studies should examine cross-cultural samples, employ longitudinal or experimental designs to establish causality, and explore additional psychological mechanisms
that might shape consumer-VI interactions.
Practical implications: The findings of this study can help marketers and VI developers understand how to use VIs to enhance consumer interaction and stimulate purchase intention.
Social implications: VIs are shaping new forms of consumer-brand interaction and raising important questions about identity, technology, and trust in AI-driven media
Introduction: Rethinking Censorship as Discourse, Articulatory Practices, Performance, and Dialogic
No full textThis chapter accounts for the methodology, scope, and organisation of the book. It goes beyond approaching censorship as repression, that is, as discourse, articulatory practice, performance, and dialogic process shaped by entangled moral, commercial, and political logics. Centring on the discourse of worrying—the articulations of concern by censors, teachers, television professionals, students, and academics over the moral susceptibility of imagined audiences, it situates censorship within the suzhi discourse and expands it to examine how television viewers are constructed through assumptions about morality and civic responsibility. Audiences are treated not as empirically real entities but as discursive constructs mobilised to justify censorship. Drawing on Bakhtinian dialogism, this chapter proposes analysing officially endorsed and censored dramas in relation to one another, and within broader disciplinary regimes. By analysing the discourse surrounding censored dramas alongside popular and overlooked ones, this chapter positions the monograph as a contribution to the growing fields of Chinese television studies, media studies, censorship studies, cultural studies, audience studies, memory studies, and social history, offering insight into how moral anxieties shape cultural governance in postsocialist China
Ain’t I a plant? Ain’t I a Woman? – A Reflective Journey Through Case II of the CICC
No full textThis essay reflects on Case II of the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes: The East India Company on Trial in London, considering how the Witnesses and Advocate in this case highlighted the continuities between the socio-ecological destruction and exploitation perpetrated by the East India Company as part of its highly profitable trade in indigo, and contemporary practices of agribusiness in Africa that separate people from their traditional agricultural knowledges and drive their food production into dependency on multinational corporations. The text then addresses the indigo plant that grew at the centre of the CICC’s courtroom to pose questions around plant-being and speaking up from a feminist perspective