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Turning around coast-based schools: an interpretive narrative analysis of a report on school reform in English coastal communities
Get PDFAn interpretive narrative inquiry approach is adopted to shed light on the improvement agendas applied in a specific set of coastal schools. The unifying thread between the focal cases is that they had been designated as failures and made notorious through association with their communities’ tainted reputations. These schools feature in a report published by the Future Leaders Trust, which is used as the resource for this paper. The taken for granted deficit discourses implicit in the accounts of how these schools were reformed are relied upon by the school leaders and other stakeholders to justify why they needed to be turned around. These assumptions that come to the fore through analysis, demonstrate that the socioeconomic contexts found in the jaded English coastal communities are not engaged with. Importing approaches that draw on communities’ resistance to relegation could, potentially, build positive discourses that lead to communities reclaiming educational opportunities in such schools, one clear example being that of Countesthorpe in Leicestershire, UK, in the 1970s
Landandmybody ... body from the stillness drinking in
Get PDFConsidering diverse approaches made to investigate modalities of spatial thinking through the discipline of a Fine Art drawing practice, this paper aims to prospect for embodied strategies so as to address spatial drawing concerns, responding to a conversation between the body present and a set of waypoints used to explore developments of spatial thinking and its relational turn within arts practice. Methodologies of walking and drawing are employed to encounter the land, mindful of Frédérique Gros' observation that the landscape is a set of tastes, colours and scents which are absorbable by the body, in this instance, absorbed through my walking gendered body
Broadening understanding of environmental communication through transdisciplinary narratives on climate change - a creative & critical exploration (2017, 2019) [REF2021 collection]
No full textThis body of research contributes to the field of environmental communication, by expanding upon the more traditional notion of one-way 'messaging'. Rather, by integrating theory and practice, environmental communication is posited as developing a community’s own ecological storytelling capacity, and enhancing local capacity to identify and address environmental problems. The work draws from concepts in many fields including media communication, and the environmental humanities, but is grounded in creative practice as research.
This item contains the research outputs and supportive evidence documentation for a Type T output, created for submission to REF2021.
The article, A crisis discipline: broadening understanding of environmental communication through theory and practice, originally appeared in the The International Journal of Creative Media Research, and can be additionally accessed at the link provided on the record.
The film TIMELINE is published on the peer-reviewed site, SCREENWORKS: TIMELINE - Screenworks where the research statement and judges' comments are also included
Deep sea (2017-2019) [REF2021 collection]
No full textThe works developed for Deep Sea resulted from Mariele Neudecker's collaboration with scientists and explore the hidden, often contradictory, aspects of the deep ocean. Focusing on the theme of the sublime in a contemporary context Neudecker questions our perceptions of, relationship to and impact on this invisible world.
This Collection comprises a multi-component output with contextualising information, providing evidence of principle works shown in exhibitions, in the items below: The Improbable Always Happens Sometimes (1 & 2) (2017), an immersive, 12-screen installation across two floors; One More Time (2017), a video installation tracking the 8.62m giant squid in a formaldehyde-filled tank in London’s Natural History Museum; and The Improbable Always Happens Sometimes (Sediment) (2017) and The Improbable Always Happens Sometimes (Descent) (2017), consisting of mixed media works in museum cabinets and wall hung photographs respectively. Contextualising information includes a 300 word statement, research timeline, and research questions
Arctic / Antarctic (2014-2019) [REF2021 collection]
No full textTwo pivotal research trips to Greenland, the first in 2012, and then 2015 to document receding glaciers, extended Neudecker’s ongoing interest in the contemporary sublime and the legacy of Romanticism. Addressing Arctic landscapes, she questions our notions of ‘idyllic’ nature and its representation (through technology), examining how our perceptions and consciousness are formed by fragmented information and knowledge. This research is brought together in key Arctic works including After Life (2016), a large multidisciplinary installation; On the Other Side (2016), a stereoscopic viewer and new tank works, Some Things Happen All at Once (2014), and Nothing Will Stay the Same (2019).
This Collection comprises a multi-component output with contextualising information, evidencing these key works and their exhibitions in the items below. Contextualising information includes a 300 word statement, research timeline, and research questions. [Exhibitions of created works took place between 2014-2019
100 Years Later: RISING (2015-2016) [REF2021 collection]
No full text100 Years Later: RISING is a practice based research project led by Dr Helena Enright which explores contemporary experiences of young people’s social and political activism in the wake of the 100 year anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. Rising is an original piece of verbatim theatre, commissioned and funded by Dublin Youth Theatre and was the main output of the research.
This Collection comprises a single-component output with contextualising information, and documents the above research providing as evidence a video of the Rising performance, the Rising play script, and as contextualising information, a 300-word statement, research timeline and research questions, a promotional video of the Rising performance, the Rising performance flyer, a short research and development video, an example diary entry from a Rising cast member, and material from Dr Helena Enright's conference presentation at the Changemakers Youth Theatre Practice Symposium
Waypoints (2014-2015) [REF2021 collection]
No full textWaypoints is a four track EP exploring the shared sociological and compositional practices in electronic music within academic and commercial circles. The EP explores both gesture/texture based practices, common to acousmatic music as well as beat and pattern based structures more common to commercial electronic music.
This collection documents a single component output with contextualising information. The items provide evidence of the 300-Word Statement, Research Questions & Research Timeline and Four Track EP which is the research output for this project
Storytellers on schizophrenia
No full textAn in-depth conversation about serious mental illness: what it is, how it is treated, what its effect is on families and what could or should be different
A linguistic awareness intervention targeting spelling and written expression in a 10-year-old dyslexic child
Get PDFWe report the case of a monolingual English-speaking boy (AM) aged 10-years, and the intervention targeting spelling and written expression difficulties that AM had. AM’s performance was contrasted in all experimental measures to a group of 13 typically developing spellers attending the same class. Literacy and cognitive assessments revealed for AM non-word reading difficulties, and deficits in spelling, written expression, phonological ability, verbal memory and rapid automatized naming. AM took part in nine sessions of linguistic awareness intervention that focused on promoting simultaneous attention to phonology, orthography, morphology, semantics and syntax. Results revealed a significant improvement in spelling, non-word reading, writing and handwriting. The results indicate that raising linguistic awareness can have a robust impact on spelling and written expression
Heavy metal justice? Calibrating the economic and aesthetic accreditation of the heavy metal genre in the pages of Rolling Stone, 1980-1991: part two 1986-91
Get PDFGiven the genre name heavy metal can be traced to a negative adjective that emerges out of 70s rock criticism and which reflects a widespread dissensus among rock writers about its value and impact on North American rock music, how are we to explain the gradual or cumulative shift away from this majority aesthetic disapprobation, in the 1980-85 period, towards a widespread economic accreditation, particularly in the pages of leading rock magazine, Rolling Stone. Is it simply a belated recognition of the longevity of the genre and its resurgent popularity with majority audiences? If so, how are we to explain the subsequent shift, clearly evident in Stone coverage in the 1986-91 period, from economic to aesthetic approbation of selective bands, particularly those identified with a thrash metal underground, which is nevertheless seen to emerge from within the genre or to be an aesthetic development of some of its key musical features, while rejecting others. Drawing on a comprehensive sample, composed of album reviews, lead or feature articles and interviews, drawn from the RS archive, my research, in Part Two of this article, shows how heavy metal in the period 1986-91, acquires a notable level of critical or aesthetic legitimation which is conferred on particular bands and album releases, particularly those emerging from the thrash underground, such as Metallica and Megadeth, with the former receiving their first lead feature in January 1989, entitled ‘Heavy Metal Justice’. However, this aesthetic approbation is drawn within the wider genre, distinguishing between the newly emergent avant-garde and the more popular styles of the wider genre. It is therefore somewhat ironic that this aesthetic approbation reaches a symbolic plateau with Robert Palmer’s **** review of Metallica’s “black album”, an album that in retrospect can be seen to announce a ‘crossover’ strategy that allowed the band to find a wider audience beyond the thrash underground