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Rasbora pycnopeza Wilkinson & Hui 2018, new species
No full textRasbora pycnopeza, new species (Figs. 3–5) Remarks. A new species of Rasbora that has been confused previously with R. sumatrana. See Appendix 1 for Description and Table 2 for morphometric data.Published as part of Wilkinson, Clare L. & Hui, Tan Heok, 2018, Fishes of the Brantian drainage, Sabah, Malaysia, with description of a new Rasbora species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), pp. 595-609 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66 on page 599, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.536011
Neglected spaces in science communication
No full textMany of the earliest drivers for improved scientific literacy and understanding were based on the assumption that science and technology is all around us, and yet there are some spaces and communities that are neglected in science communication contexts. In this brief comment, Clare Wilkinson introduces a series of ten commentaries, which further probe neglected spaces in science communication
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A study of John Clare in his historical and political context
No full textAs the title indicates, the basis of the thesis is to set John Clare’s life and work within the context of the social and political history of his time. It is a study that is long overdue. The manner in which topical and political matters were mediated to him and were reflected in his work are analysed. His introduction to the literary and social worlds of Stamford and London is evaluated, and the advantages and disadvantages of patronage assessed. The active and complex political culture of Stamford has been taken into account as this may have affected his later political statements and a growing awareness of his audience. His antagonism to enclosure and the social changes that it engendered are considered. Three major questions that arise from this are addressed. The two local newspapers that Clare is known to have read are used throughout. His correspondence with friends, colleagues and casual correspondents has provided valuable insights as have his poetry and prose writings. Research in the Northamptonshire Record Office has revealed important new information in the form of one book of Enclosure Commissioners’ Minutes dated 1809-14, the first five years of the enclosure of Helpstone, Clare’s native village
Progress and Distress on the Stratford Estate in Clare during the Eighteen Forties
No full textIn the late 1980s and early 1990s, the author acquired about 30,000 letters written mainly in the 1840s. These pertained to estates throughout Ireland managed by James Robert Stewart and Joseph Kincaid, hereafter denoted SK. Until the letters - called the SK correspondence in what follows - became the author’s property, they had not seen light of day since the 1840s. Addressed mainly to the SK office in Dublin, they were written mainly by landlords, tenants, the partners in SK, local agents, etc. After about 200 years in operation as a land agency, the firm in which members of the Stewart family were the principal partners - Messrs J. R. Stewart & Son(s) from the mid-1880s onwards -- ceased business in the mid-1980s. Since 1994 the author has been researching the SK correspondence of the 1840s. It gives many new insights into economic and social conditions in Ireland during the decade of the great famine, and into the operation of Ireland’s most important land agency during those years. It is intended ultimately to publish details on several of the estates managed by SK in book form. The proposed title is Landlords, Tenants, Famine: Business of an Irish Land Agency in the 1840s, a draft of which has now been completed. A majority of the letters in the larger study from which the present article is drawn are on themes some of which one might expect - rents, distraint (seizure of assets in lieu of rent) ; ‘voluntary’ surrender of land in return for ‘compensation’ upon peacefully quitting; formal ejectment (a matter of last resort on estates managed by SK); landlord-assisted emigration (on a scale much more extensive than most historians of Ireland in the 1840s appear to believe); petitions from tenants; complaints by tenants, both about other tenants and local agents; major works of improvement (on almost all of the estates managed by SK); applications by SK, on behalf of proprietors, for government loans to finance improvements; recommendations of agricultural advisers hired by SK, ete. Thus, most of the SK correspondence is about aspects of estate management. It seems, in the 1840s, that the only estate in Clare managed by SK was that of the elderly Col. Stratford. Although the files on the relatively small Stratford estate are much less extensive than those on some of the estates investigated in detail in the draft of Landlords, Tenants, Famine, they do refer to most of the core aspects of estate management mentioned above. But in the case of the Clare estate, the material on some of those themes is extremely thin.
Evidencing impact: the challenges of mapping impacts frompublic engagement and communication
No full textClare Wilkinson and Emma Weitkamp from the University of the West of England, Bristol offer support for researchers looking to track and evidence the unique, creative and often qualitative outcomes of public engagement and communication activities. Rather than an add-on to the research, it may be possible to embed evaluation within the research project itself
Book review: creative research communication: theory and practice by Clare Wilkinson and Emma Weitkamp
No full textWhat creative methods of research communication can help scholars get their message ‘out there’ effectively? In Creative Research Communication: Theory and Practice, Clare Wilkinson and Emma Weitkamp offer a new guide accessible to researchers working across the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences. Wilkinson and Weitkamp successfully blend the theoretical and the practical in an approachable manner in an excellent book full of interesting and relevant content for academics and non-academics alike, writes Paul Webb
Fishes of the Brantian drainage, Sabah, Malaysia, with description of a new Rasbora species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
No full textWilkinson, Clare L., Hui, Tan Heok (2018): Fishes of the Brantian drainage, Sabah, Malaysia, with description of a new Rasbora species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66: 595-609, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.536011
Anguilla marmorata Quoy & Gaimard
No full textAnguilla marmorata Quoy & Gaimard Remarks. Commonly found in the majority of sites and all land use types.Published as part of Wilkinson, Clare L. & Hui, Tan Heok, 2018, Fishes of the Brantian drainage, Sabah, Malaysia, with description of a new Rasbora species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), pp. 595-609 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66 on page 597, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.536011
Hemibagrus baramensis
No full textHemibagrus baramensis (Regan) Remarks. Ubiquitous species, but most common in oil palm estate streams. Predominantly caught in baited traps or electrofishing.Published as part of Wilkinson, Clare L. & Hui, Tan Heok, 2018, Fishes of the Brantian drainage, Sabah, Malaysia, with description of a new Rasbora species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), pp. 595-609 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66 on page 602, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.536011
Channa striata
No full textChanna striata (Bloch) Remarks. Uncommon species in this catchment. Several specimens collected from oil palm estate streams.Published as part of Wilkinson, Clare L. & Hui, Tan Heok, 2018, Fishes of the Brantian drainage, Sabah, Malaysia, with description of a new Rasbora species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), pp. 595-609 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66 on page 602, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.536011
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