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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"AHRC"”.
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Artists’ geographies of the landscape-archive: trace, loss and the impulse to preserve in the Anthropocene Age
40,000 word paper accompanying an AHRC funded collaborative PhD with the Forestry Commission at Grizedale and Glasgow School of Art
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Joined Up Writers: How can the novel be a vehicle for community participation?
… the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) call for research: “How can literature be thought to be a conversation with community?” (AHRC 2017). As well as enquiring into the novel as a potential vehicle for community participation, there are two associated questions: 1. What is the …
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The knitter's tale: a practice-led approach to framework knitting through a contemporary exploration of traditional practices, patterns, skills and stories
… from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) which set the parameters of the inquiry to include creative interaction with locations where framework knitting still takes place. The study supported the preservation of technical skill by establishing a new way to value expert craft …
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Representing Experiences of Digital Systems: The Design and Use of Externalising Models
… experiences with digital systems. This is an AHRC funded PhD written as part of the Creative Exchange, which supports collaborative research projects conducted with industry and academic partners. My primary research question focuses on the design characteristics of visual and physical models …
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Thomas Hoccleve as poet and clerk
As part of an AHRC-funded interdisciplinary research project, ‘Identification of the Scribes Responsible for Copying Major Works of Middle English Literature’, this thesis re-examines the late medieval poet Thomas Hoccleve in the context of his career as a clerk of the Privy Seal and the history of …
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Homer in the Perfect Tense: The Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus and the Poetics of Impersonation
The thesis has been written as part of the AHRC collaborative research project Greek Epic of the Roman Empire: A Cultural History. This project seeks to give the first cultural-historical analysis of the large, underexploited corpus of Greek epic poetry composed in the transformative period between …
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Communities in play: the social value of youth drama groups in rural areas of Northern Ireland
… local cultural participation. In line with the AHRC Cultural Value Project’s approach, value is interpreted as a subjectively experienced phenomenon. Drawing on theories of social capital and place, the study explores the relationship between youth drama groups and wider social networks in their …
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Exploring the theory and practice of knowledge exchange : intention, context and characteristics
… context of The Creative Exchange, one of four AHRC funded Knowledge Exchange Hubs. Each project focused on addressing opportunities and challenges associated with digital innovation across a variety of social contexts. The study reflects the premise that to design and enable knowledge exchange …
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Designing interactive objects and spaces for the digital public space
… consideration of the Digital Public Space. The AHRC Creative Exchange research project was set to explore the myriad of potentials of the Digital Public Space from understanding, facilitation and creation of digital public spaces to privacy and ethical concerns. I approached this space by …
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Collecting Renaissance Decorative Art in Britain 1850-1914
… display in public museums and galleries. As an AHRC funded collaborative doctorate between the University of Cambridge and the British Museum, much of the primary source material has been drawn from the uncatalogued archives of the British Museum, documents held in the V&A archives, and objects …
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The Emergent City (2007- 2017): Artistic explorations of the control and the ethics of data
… The Emergent City developed from the author's AHRC research fellowship at Goldsmiths College, University of London from 2006 to 2009. The research became an investigation into the ubiquity of real-time data within the city to create new media artworks. The practice resulted from technical …
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Website accessibility in Australia and the national transition strategy: Outcomes and findings
… the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is responsible for administering the Disability Discrimination Act of 1992 (DDA) (Australian Government, 2013a) In order to assist organisations in complying with the DDA, the AHRC has produced the World Wide Web Access: Disability …
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Diffracting digital public space(s) : matters and in-matters
… up their digital archives to the public. The AHRC research project Creative Exchange (CX) adopted dps as a design challenge for knowledge exchange. As a member of the CX project I am making sense of dps in the context of practices emerging from the hybridity of the digital-physical domain. At …
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Memory, Cinema and Deathscapes: Re-membering the Holocaust in Poland
… by this PhD’s distinct collaboration – as an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award – with the Galicia Jewish Museum (GJM) in Kraków. The GJM, founded in 2004 and now a key actor in local and increasingly national memory work vis-à-vis the Holocaust and Jewish heritage, has an educational …
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Establishing the characteristics of learning-sensitive architectural design using a bespoke digital participatory tool: a study informed by an evolutionary perspective
Our understanding of school building design in relation to its effects on learning is surprisingly underdeveloped. This is due to the complex nature of the environments, the lack of consensus about the criteria for their pedagogical assessment, and attendant methodological challenges. By using …
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Where do beginner readers read in the English, mainstream primary school and where could they read?
Where do beginner readers read in the English, mainstream primary school and where could they read? Emma Jane Dyer This thesis explores design for the beginner reader in Year One by evaluating existing spaces in the English primary school and imagining new ones. Three significant gaps identified in …