Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities
With a total commitment to creativity, diversity and real-world relevance, the Faculty of Art and Design has a strong record in research activity, evidenced by its rating of 4 within the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
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School of Arts [722]
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School of Design [272]
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School of Humanities [1648]
Recent Submissions
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Scholarly method, truth, and evidence in Shakespearian textual studies
(Article)Although their raw materials are often the same, the methods of Shakespearian textual scholarship can be markedly different from those of Shakespearian literary-dramatic criticism, which are different again from those of ... -
Identifying the Socio-Economics of Pantomime through Cinderella’s Footwear in 2017-18 Adaptations of the Tale.
(Article)Footwear plays a significant role in the fairy tale Cinderella and in different versions of the tale the eponymous character’s slipper has taken many different forms. Meanwhile, pantomime producers have for centuries been ... -
I am Cinderella: Naming, Power and Identity
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New Dimensions of Sport in Modern Europe: Perspectives from the ‘Long Twentieth Century’
(Article)This collection offers new perspectives on European sport history in the ‘long twentieth century’ designed to challenge and deconstruct what might be considered ‘traditional’ or more familiar Euro-centric conceptions and ... -
“Football more important than Berlin”: East German Football vs. NATO, 1960-64
(Book chapter)In the early 1960s Portugal and the Netherlands confronted the problem of East German participation in the UEFA Junior Tournament and Olympic qualification. Although not very important tournaments, domestic governments ... -
Introduction
(Book chapter)Sport and diplomacy have been mutually intertwined in transnational networks of governance and competition – not just on the field of play – and the non-governmental bodies controlling the sport play an important role ... -
Global Players: Soccer and Diplomacy
(Book)The book explores the nexus of the world’s most popular sport and diplomacy, as a tool of the nation-state based diplomacy, as diplomacy of soccer as a non-state actor, and via the relationship between soccer and a variety ... -
Local or Global? Approaches for New Product Development in Low Income Countries
(Article)To increase opportunity and quality of life for people living in poverty, governments and non-government organizations (NGOs) sell products to low-income countries. These are typically products that can make fundamental ... -
The Textilesphere: The threshold of everyday contacts
(Article)A sense of displacement pervades contemporary life, with the global crisis of forced migrations, increasingly modular and distributed families, and remote social interactions replacing familiar ways of being in a space ... -
By the Light of the Moon
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New Shoes, Old Paths: Disney’s Cinderella(s)
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Tailoring Cinderella: Perrault, Grimm and their Beautiful Heritage
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Her Own Words Describe Her Best? Reconstructing Plath’s Original Ariel in Sylvia (2003) and Wintering (2003)
(Article)This article explores two of Sylvia Plath’s afterlives: John Brownlow and Christine Jeffs’ biopic Sylvia (2003) and Kate Moses’s novel Wintering (2003). Contrary to Frieda Hughes’s assertion that such works attempt to ... -
The Persuasion Game: Serious Gaming Information Warfare and Influence
(Article)In an age of hybrid, asymmetric, and non-linear conflict, the role of Information Operations has become ever more important. This paper presents a research project examining ways of better enabling stakeholders to respond ... -
Enzyme-catalysed synthesis of polymeric colorants for wool coloration and surface patterning
(Conference)There is considerable interest for improving the sustainability of textile preparation, coloration and functional finishing. An enzyme-based eco-friendly approach not only has the potential advantage in saving time and ... -
Emergencia de villas y movimientos villeros
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Challenges and opportunities for scaling up upcycling businesses – The case of textile and wood upcycling businesses in the UK
(Article)Upcycling is a process in which used or waste products and materials are repaired, reused, repurposed, refurbished, upgraded and remanufactured in a creative way to add value to the compositional elements. It has been part ...
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