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Sustainable supply chains: beyond the final product. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BREMNER, P. 2025. Sustainable supply chains: beyond the final product. Presented at the 2025 CQI/IRCA (Chartered Quality Institute/International Register of Certified Auditors) Quality live conference and awards ( Quality Live 2025): dreamers and disruptors: driving innovative, sustainable, competitive quality, 19 June 2025, London, UK.

Globally, the fashion industry produces around 92 million tonnes of textile waste annually. This contributes significantly to environmental pollution, with the industry responsible for 10% of global carbon emissions. We consume 62 million tonnes of t... Read More about Sustainable supply chains: beyond the final product..

You shall go to the ball!: overcoming inhibitors to promote a higher education research culture at RGU. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BREMNER, P. and MCGREGOR, R. 2025. You shall go to the ball!: overcoming inhibitors to promote a higher education research culture at RGU. Presented at the 2025 Advance HE research symposium: enablers and inhibitors of thriving research cultures, 17 June 2025, [virtual event].

In 2002 Alan Jenkins first referred Higher education research (HER) as the 'Cinderella of academia'. HER was really not recognised or valued by the 'ugly sisters' of the QAA and Research Assessment Exercise. Even after 20 years challenges still exist... Read More about You shall go to the ball!: overcoming inhibitors to promote a higher education research culture at RGU..

Weaving a community: securing the intangible cultural heritage created by Harris Tweed. (2025)
Book Chapter
STEED, J., CROSS, K. and WILSON, B. 2025. Weaving a community: securing the intangible cultural heritage created by Harris Tweed. In Kosmidou, E.R. and McMurtry, L.G. (eds.) Intangible cultural heritage and new methodological frameworks: media, performance and the public space. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 7, pages 121-137. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003415329-11

Scotland’s Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is diverse with many situated in rural and remote northerly peripheries, today still retaining human idiosyncrasies free from the uniformity created by mass-globalization. They include textile craft pract... Read More about Weaving a community: securing the intangible cultural heritage created by Harris Tweed..

Embedding sustainable development goals (SDGs) into the curricula using an interdisciplinary design thinking approach. (2025)
Journal Article
BREMNER, P. and STEED, J. 2025. Embedding sustainable development goals (SDGs) into the curricula using an interdisciplinary design thinking approach. Journal of perspectives in applied academic practice [online], 13(1), pages 171-182. Available from: https://doi.org/10.56433/t0vhf816

Embedding sustainability into curricula has been a challenge many universities have been facing for a while. The nature of the topic could be classified as "dry" when taught through a legislative lens, but a creative, impactful method is required to... Read More about Embedding sustainable development goals (SDGs) into the curricula using an interdisciplinary design thinking approach..

Head shot! Artefatti del giocare interventista: le schermate estese di Joseph DeLappe. (2025)
Book Chapter
DELAPPE, J. and LEUZZI, L. 2025. Head shot! Artefatti del giocare interventista: le schermate estese di Joseph DeLappe. In Bittanti, M. and De Mutiis, M. (eds.) Fotoludica: fotografia e videogiochi tra arte e documentazione. Milan: Mimesis Edizioni [online], pages 459-491. Available from: https://milanmachinimafestival.org/fotoludica-book

In this chapter DeLappe and Leuzzi argue that screenshots and other artefacts created to document Joseph DeLappe's performative, activist, and interventionist actions within contemporary game spaces are at once inspired by war photography while also... Read More about Head shot! Artefatti del giocare interventista: le schermate estese di Joseph DeLappe..

The lifecycle of a social media beauty trend: a case study of the Instagram body. [Article] (2025)
Journal Article
UTI, T. and MARCELLA-HOOD, M. 2025. The lifecycle of a social media beauty trend: a case study of the Instagram body. Cogent arts and humanities [online], 12(1), article number 2472544. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2025.2472544

This article explores the evolution of the Instagram body as an example of a social media beauty trend and theorises an updated lifecycle model to convey this phenomenon. The advent and evolution of social media has led to an online beauty culture an... Read More about The lifecycle of a social media beauty trend: a case study of the Instagram body. [Article].

Visualizing time: a recent survey of time-focused art. [Magazine article, 2023/2024 edition] (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
SBRILLI, A. and LEUZZI, L. 2024. Visualizing time: a recent survey of time-focused art. Time's news [online], 54, pages 44-51. Available from: https://studyoftime.org/publications/times-news/

This is the 2023/2024 annual survey of time-focused art, which on this occasion has been curated by Antonella Sbrilli and Laura Leuzzi. Published in the International Society for the Study of Time's "Time's News" annual magazine, this year's survey f... Read More about Visualizing time: a recent survey of time-focused art. [Magazine article, 2023/2024 edition].

Thinking with the Harrisons: re-imagining the arts in the global environmental crisis. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
DOUGLAS, A. and FREMANTLE, C. 2024. Thinking with the Harrisons: re-imagining the arts in the global environmental crisis. Presented at the Keynote lecture for the Helen and Newton Harrison: California work exhibition, 19 November 2024, San Diego, USA.

Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, known as "the Harrisons", dedicated five decades to exploring and demonstrating a new form of artistic practice, centered on "...doing no work that does not attend to the wellbeing of the web of life." Their... Read More about Thinking with the Harrisons: re-imagining the arts in the global environmental crisis..

Parasitic projects and the politics of research-creation. (2024)
Book Chapter
CLARKE, J. 2025. Parasitic projects and the politics of research-creation. In Sansi, R. and Tinius, J. (eds.) The trouble with art: an anthropology beyond philistinism. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 9, pages 171-190. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003283683-13

This chapter considers the possibility of a 'symmetrical' anthropology by examining three 'parasitic' projects – collaborative, public projects at the borders of art and anthropology, which address the politics of authorship, intimacy and knowledge –... Read More about Parasitic projects and the politics of research-creation..

Discomfited futures. [Exhibition] (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
ZEĆO, M. 2024. Discomfited futures. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 24 October - 16 November 2024, Institute of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; 14-26 June 2025, SCS Centar Jadro, Skopje.

This is the first solo exhibition of the sound and performance artist Maja Zećo in Skopje. Zećo hails from Sarajevo but for the last ten years has been living and working in Scotland. Zećo's practice traces the interstices and overlaps between perfor... Read More about Discomfited futures. [Exhibition].

Destabilising the home: place making, dark tourism and the spectral. (2024)
Journal Article
IRONSIDE, R. and SMITH, F. [2024]. Destabilising the home: place making, dark tourism and the spectral. Tourism geographies [online], Latest Articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2412547

Ghosts, hauntings and the spectral are intrinsically linked to sites of dark tourism. Supernatural stories commonly emerge in places connected with tragedy, death and the macabre, forming spectral geographies in which the past and present intertwine.... Read More about Destabilising the home: place making, dark tourism and the spectral..

Exploring knowledge and perceptions of level learning outcomes and meta-skills in a creative business school context. (2024)
Journal Article
BREMNER, P.A.M., PIRIE, E., MARCELLA-HOOD, M. and SINGLETON, A. 2024. Exploring knowledge and perceptions of level learning outcomes and meta-skills in a creative business school context. GILE journal of skills development [online], 4(2), pages 3-18. https://doi.org/10.52398/gjsd.2024.v4.i2.pp3-18

Much has been written about the necessity for graduates to be aware of their skill set and transferability for the workplace. Degree programmes in Scotland have long relied on guidance from the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) on the taxonomy or wordin... Read More about Exploring knowledge and perceptions of level learning outcomes and meta-skills in a creative business school context..

Pic first, eat later: an investigation into motivations behind the "foodstagramming" phenomenon. (2024)
Journal Article
DYCE, V., MARCELLA-HOOD, M. and PIRIE, E. 2024. Pic first, eat later: an investigation into motivations behind the "foodstagramming" phenomenon. Hospitality and society [online], 14(3), pages 253-276. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/hosp_00086_1

This research explores the motivations and behaviours behind the social phenomenon of foodstagramming. Qualitative interviews were carried out with Millennial and Gen Z participants who share food-related photographs on Instagram, and foodstagramming... Read More about Pic first, eat later: an investigation into motivations behind the "foodstagramming" phenomenon..

The generative nature of parasites: an experimental essay on parasites and autotheory. (2024)
Journal Article
CLARKE, J. 2024. The generative nature of parasites: an experimental essay on parasites and autotheory. International journal of education and the arts [online], 25(special issue 1): art for the sake of care, article number 1.2. Available from: https://doi.org/10.26209/ijea25si1.2

This visual and poetic essay draws on the concept of the parasite from French philosopher Michele Serres, evolved into an artistic methodology within the author's ongoing project Feminist Hospitalities (2020-). Situated within the context of ongoing... Read More about The generative nature of parasites: an experimental essay on parasites and autotheory..

Transformative masculinities: re-examining the role of the male in Red Riding Hood. (2024)
Book Chapter
SMITH, F. and MCKAY, F. 2024. Transformative masculinities: re-examining the role of the male in Red Riding Hood. In Le Clue, N. (ed.) Gender and the male character in 21st century fairy tale narratives: from enchanted heroes to modern masculinities. Leeds: Emerald Publishing Limited [online], chapter 6, pages 75-86. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-788-420241007

Red Riding Hood is said to have been assembled from folktales that pre-date the collector Charles Perrault's 1697 re-telling and initial publishing (Dundes, 1989; Zipes, 1993). Since then, it is a story that has been re-told and re-imagined many time... Read More about Transformative masculinities: re-examining the role of the male in Red Riding Hood..

Interdisciplinary workshop: creative approaches to the energy crisis. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
RODRIGUEZ-REMEDI, A. 2024. Interdisciplinary workshop: creative approaches to the energy crisis. Presented at the Interdisciplinary research and innovation symposium, 4 September 2024, Aberdeen, UK.

This poster was authored by Alejandra Rodriguez-Remedi (University of Aberdeen), and includes depictions of creative works contributed by various artists, including Maja Zećo and Callum Kellie (both Robert Gordon University). The poster was presented... Read More about Interdisciplinary workshop: creative approaches to the energy crisis..

Family mourning after war and disaster in twentieth-century Britain. (2024)
Book
FOSTER, A.-M. 2024. Family mourning after war and disaster in twentieth-century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191968129.001.0001

Across the twentieth century, after war and disaster, families were left to make sense of deaths of their members, and navigate newfound grief. This book is concerned with those who died in war or disaster in Britain across the first four decades of... Read More about Family mourning after war and disaster in twentieth-century Britain..

Field/works II: generating ecologies of trust. [Exhibition] (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Field/works II: generating ecologies of trust. [Exhibition]. Exhibited from 18 July 2024, [online exhibition]. Hosted on EASAonline [online]. Available from: https://fieldworks.easaonline.org/

The theme of this exhibition is inspired by Isabelle Stengers and Didier Debaise's call to rebel against the "suspicion-based" epistemology of modern sciences, and to fight back with what Félix Guattari called the "polyphonic arts", building trust-ge... Read More about Field/works II: generating ecologies of trust. [Exhibition].

Meta skills and level learning outcomes: is there a miss-match? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BREMNER, P.A.M. and PIRIE, E. 2024. Meta skills and level learning outcomes: is there a miss-match? Presented at the 2024 Advanced HE teaching and learning conference: future-focused education: innovation, inclusion and impact, 2-4 July 2024, Nottingham, UK.

The authors conducted a qualitative research over an academic year using six modules in six creative degrees to evaluate if students and staff were able to articulate what meta skills they have learned on a module. In four out of the six modules stud... Read More about Meta skills and level learning outcomes: is there a miss-match?.