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About the heads (2019) [REF2021 collection]
No full textAbout the Heads is a response to the collection of stone heads which have been stored in the Undercroft to Queen Anne’s Court at the Old Royal Naval College since the turn of the 18th century.
The mysterious heads, depicting Neptune and other denizens of the deep, were carved by Robert Jones of Stepney in the early 1700s and were originally intended for display upon the south elevation of the Painted Hall. A decision to use brick instead of stone meant the heads were abandoned, and for 300 years have languished out of sight.
The About the Heads exhibition took place at the University of Greenwich’ Heritage Gallery from 18th April to 24th May 2019. Three artists from separate disciplines - sculpture, painting and literature - created responses to the stone heads' historic and continuing internment.
The exhibition was curated by David Waterworth & Camilla Wilson and the gallery assistant was Sigrid Neptun
Producing elephant commodities for 'conservation hunting' in Namibian communal-area conservancies
No full textNamibia's internationally acclaimed CBNRM program depends to a large extent on revenues generated from the trophy hunting of wild animals. The model is an important example of an increasingly 'neoliberal' global policy framework as applied to biodiversity conservation, its market-based approach and attendant socio-ecological effects having received in-depth engagement and critique from a political ecology perspective.Yet there remains a lack of detailed research concerning how these programs and their value frames are operationalized in practice. The article attempts to advance this literature through an empirical exploration of practices undertaken by diverse actors that work to produce and extract value from 'wild' natures, specifically elephants for 'conservation hunting' in Namibian communal-area conservancies. Conceptually, the article also contributes to an emerging body of work seeking to 'ecologise' political ecology, exploring the co-optation of lively elephants and other beyond-human entities in the production of economic value. 'Following' the elephant's interactions with other living entities, the article reveals the (non)human work and social practices that together 'labor' to produce commodified elephants that can be killed as trophies. We argue that 'undesirable encounters' such as crop raiding by elephants are both indicative of unequal power relations amongst CBNRM stakeholders and central to (re)producing dominant (neoliberal) value frames. The animal's spontaneous activities are co-opted into technocratic governance practices that legitimize the killing of elephants on environmental and economic grounds. In opening up the contested,contingent, and more-than-human nature of these social-ecological relations we also hope to contribute to possibilities for imagining more equitable and ecologically resilient conservation futures
Mount Athos (2014-2015, 2018) [REF2021 collection]
No full textMount Athos is a collection of drawings, paintings, and animations documenting Orthodox monastic life on this remote peninsula of North Eastern Greece. Tim Vyner uses reportage illustration methods to explore the potential of drawing as a means of engagement, producing these illustrations during his 2013 - 2015 Mount Athos residency, as part of the inaugural Doug Patterson RCA Bursary, culminating in two exhibitions in 2014/2015 and 2018.
This Collection comprises a multi-component output with contextualising information, providing evidence of selected illustration works, two exhibitions, and context in the form of a 300 word statement, research timeline, research questions, and documentation of the methods and processes involved the creation of the works
Reportage Illustration as Visual Journalism in Two World Cups (2018) [REF2021 collection]
No full textReportage Illustration as Visual Journalism in Two World Cups brings together two projects that explore the potential of drawing to visually capture and communicate a unique testimony of global sporting events to open up new ways of audience engagement.
Street Child World Cup: Over 10 days in May 2018, Tim Vyner documented the journey of 2018 Street Child World Cup, including the opening ceremony, the games, Embassy and Red Square visits, and other cultural events. A collaborative undertaking in which a team of volunteers worked with commercial printers in Moscow produced a series of archival large format prints of Vyner's illustration work for display at an Exhibition at the Amber Plaza, part of the General Assembly (May 2018), alongside photography and artwork produced by the participants.
The FIFA World Cup: Vyner spent 35 days traveling Russia to following the developing stories of the FIFA World Cup, reporting directly to the Sports Editor at The Telegraph each day. Cities included Kaliningrad, Moscow, St Petersburg, Samara, Volgograd, and Nizhny-Novgorod, among others. This undertaking was the result of Vyner's own proposal to The Telegraph to explore how reportage illustration alongside a written diary ‘from the field’ would add value, inform and potentially grow new readers when published in the sports pages alongside their ubiquitous World Cup coverage.
This Collection comprises a multi-component output with contextualising information.
Contents list
1. 300 word statement
2. Research Timeline & Research Questions
3. FIFA World Cup - Selected images of illustration works appearing in The Telegraph
4. FIFA World Cup - Exhibition - Road To Russia National Football Museum (2018)
5. FIFA World Cup - Holburne Museum 'Holburne Up Late' event video (2018) & Bath Digital Festival talk (2020)
6. FIFA World Cup - Methods & Processes
7. Street Child World Cup - Exhibition & Featured Illustration Works (2018)
8. Street Child World Cup - Methods & Processe
The River Shannon Project (2014) [REF2021 collection]
No full textThe River is a one woman play which researches through testimonial performance and storytelling how people engage with the landscape, physicality and presence of the River Shannon as it flows through the city of Limerick. The River Shannon Project documents this creative practice research carried out by Dr Helena Enright, Senior Lecturer in Drama, at Bath Spa University in partnership with Elemental Arts & Culture Festival, Limerick and Limerick City of Culture 2014.
This Collection comprises a single-component output with contextualising information, providing as evidence of the central output a video recording of a performance of The River (2014) and the original play script of The River. Contextualising information includes a 300-word statement, research timeline, research questions, two published book chapters, and a link to a recording of Shannon's Way (an audio walk along the banks of the river)
Criminal Research: Creating Communities of Practice (2017-2020) [REF2021 collection]
No full textThe Criminal Research: Communities of Practice research project involved the creation of learning spaces that were both creatively stimulating and methodologically replicable in international prison environments with inmate practitioners. These programmes, one based on the workshop method, and the other based on the atelier method providing prisoners with a series of ‘Masterclasses’, culminated in three separate anthologies of prisoner work, encouraging prisoner participation in an ongoing community of literary practice.
This Collection documents a multi-component output with contextualising information, in the form of three edited anthologies of creative writing written by inmates at various correctional facilities in the United States and the United Kingdom (the outputs), and the contextualising documents (Research Timeline, Research Questions, and 300 word statement). Also contained in this collection are example 'Master Class' videos produced for the research project, in which Bath Spa University Creative Writing lecturers delivered craft talks for the inmates involved, and a document describing methods and processes along with supporting examples
Developing SENCO resilience: understanding and meeting the challenge of the role
Get PDFThis chapter explores some of the specific challenges a Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO) may experience, particularly in relation to the nuances of the role and how others perceive their function. The Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice outlines the duties, policies and procedures for schools and other organisations in relation to the provision for children with Special Educational Needs. Central to the implementation of these duties is the SENCO. It is unequivocal that the SENCO is expected to lead the school strategically. It is evident that the SENCO role has the potential to enact multiple policy actor roles concurrently, indicating the potential to effect change and influence school practices, but equally demonstrating the need to have a continual drive to do so despite the aforementioned challenges. SENCOs are frequently engaged in decision-making and prioritising. They concurrently work with, and advocate for, individuals in complex situations
Spoken word in the UK
No full textThis book is a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to spoken word performance in the UK – its origins and development, its performers and audiences, and the vast array of different styles and characteristics that make it unique.
Drawing together a wide range of authors including scholars, critics, and practitioners, each chapter gives a new perspective on performance poetics. The six sections of the book cover the essential elements of understanding the form and discuss how this key aspect of contemporary performance can be analysed stylistically, how its development fits into the context of performance in the UK, the ways in which its performers reach and engage with their audiences, and its place in the education system. Each chapter is a case study of one key aspect, example, or context of spoken word performance, combining to make the most wide-ranging account of this form of performance currently available
