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Showing 1 to 20 of 151 for “"Practice research"”.
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Hybrids, mimics, colonies and collections : a cross-disciplinary art practice research process
… PhD submission primarily consists of my fine art practice as research published and disseminated in a range of exhibition sites and interventions. Full textual and visual documentation is accompanied bya critical, contextual commentary. This research and its manifestations not only test and cross …
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Site-Specific Composition for Brass and Voice: A practice-research enquiry into the creative methods deployed to respond to the challenges and opportunities of producing site-specific participatory music performances in Cornwall
This research enquiry explores a range of appropriate creative methods to produce site-specific participatory music performances in Cornwall. Using a practice-research approach, research questions were identified, compositional and performance strategies were tested, developed and implemented …
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We Are not Designers: Pattern making and garment making as practices of co-design for social change
… hostile to women and girls, this doctoral research project investigated how fashion design, and more specifically, the practices of making patterns and garments, can give them tools to enhance their agency and build community resilience. This research aimed to explore how pattern making and …
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Red Lake / Black Mine: Affective Bodies and Material Complicity in Sound Art Practice
This practice-research operates at the intersection of field recording, electroacoustic composition and sound art. It investigates how material—often considered inert—possesses agency, drawing the body of the artist to other affective bodies (sounds, objects, and actions) that exert influence on …
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Exploring transracial and transethnic international adoption
… and contextual influences. Implications for practice, research limitations and suggestions for future research are provided.
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Voice in Screenwriting: Discovering/Recovering an Australian Voice
This creative practice research explores the concept of an identifiable screenwriter’s voice from the perspective of screenwriting as craft, proposing that voice can be understood and described based on its particular characteristics. Voice is understood to be the authorial presence of the …
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Building Better Relationships: Developing critically reflective practice when working preventively with domestic violence and abuse
… and social impact, is globally well documented, practice in this area is not. Responses are often confusing and contradictory, arising from an ill-defined area of professional practice that has a negative impact on those involved, including victims and practitioners who work with them. Aim The …
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Movement, Technological Mediation and Embodied Interactions, in the Education of children with autism.
The thesis offers insight into an embodied practice informed by childhood development studies, cognitive science, and pedagogy as an iterative approach to develop creative alternatives to the application of solo engagement with technologies in the education of autistic children. Through the diverse …
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The Value of Counter-Storytelling in Decolonising the Curriculum: Insights from an Art School Educational Developer
… frame and reflect on these project outputs as practice research to illustrate what counter-storytelling looked like and how it operated in the context of a metropolitan art school circa 2020. As part of this, I examine how the projects created counter-storytelling communities, sites and spaces …
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Speakingdance: a concept-based practice for the performance of being
… is a new concept-based approach to dance practice, in which a dancer’s sense of being is performed. The practice provides a meaningful purpose for speech in contemporary dance and challenges objective perceptions of a dancer. Philosophical writing about speech and being provides a …
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Navigating Landscapes of Longing and Belonging: Dialogues of Capoeira and Welsh Folk Dance in Intercultural Performance
… & Atebion (2011-2013), an intercultural practice research exchange project between artists from Wales and Brazil, that was co-led by myself, a Welsh dancer and choreographer and Brazilian musician and capoeirista, Ruan de Vargas. Perguntas & Atebion took place between Wales and Brazil …
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Mixed messages: assessing communication in architectural education and practice
… feel about communication skills in their practice. Research findings pointed to a dichotomy in academic and professional perceptions of the importance of communication training in undergraduate architecture education. While only 13.8 percent of academic programs require communication …
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Rethinking the clinical vs. social reform debate: a dialectical approach to defining social work in the 21st century
… Conclusions and implications for social work practice, research, education and policy are discussed
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Playing outside the box: cosplay, fandom creativity, and transformative media engagement
… of contemporary media fandom. Its multifaceted practice revolves around recreating the appearance of fictional characters in costume. This interdisciplinary project offers a thorough examination of the subject from three separate methodological angles. Practice research, archive research, and …
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Emotional avatars: choreographing emotional facial expression animation
… in psychology and computer science research, both in terms of their naturalistic appearance and the virtual replication of facial movements. From this work much is known about expression universality, anatomy, psychology, and synthesis. Beyond the realm of scientific research, …
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UNDERSTANDING THE GENDERED EXPECTATIONS AND EXEMPTIONS EXPERIENCED BY MALE DOUBLE DUTY CAREGIVERS: A QUALITATIVE SECONDARY ANALYSIS
… direct implications for healthcare policy and practice, research, and theory development.
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Storytelling using myths through a range of media in the foreign language classroom: Establishing practices to enhance the motivation of primary school learners of English in Greece
… English as a Foreign Language classroom. This research investigates the effectiveness of using myths and a variety of media in storytelling in fostering the motivation of primary school students in Greece. Using a portfolio of three pedagogical practice-research projects, data was collected …
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Registered Nurses Perspectives Regarding Interventions for Workplace Incivility
This Dissertation in Practice research study was designed to gain understanding of the frequency and degree of workplace incivility on Registered Nurses in the acute care setting. The aim of the study was to understand the meaning and effect of workplace incivility experienced or witnessed by …
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Recovering from Silence. Composing Self in Time, Spaces, and Friendships: A Narrative Inquiry with Four Mothers Supporting Adolescent Children through Long-Term Addictions Treatment
… long-term addiction treatment is an under-researched context. This study is a narrative inquiry into the experiences of four mothers parenting children through long-term addiction treatment. Narrative inquirers explore experience by attending to features of temporality, sociality, and place …
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