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Collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to develop creative mindsets. (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BREMNER, P.A.M. and DAVIDSON, A. 2020. Collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to develop creative mindsets. Presented at Creative experiment in the higher education classroom, 25-26 June 2020, [virtual event].

The three-tier Scottish Innovative Student Awards (SISA - https://www.sie.ac.uk/sisa/) from the Scottish Institute of Enterprise (SIE) are an awards programme that develops innovation skills in both undergraduate and postgraduate students. At the Ro... Read More about Collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to develop creative mindsets..

Demystifying interdisciplinary working (in Valuing Nature). (2020)
Report
BEAUMONT, N. (ed.) 2020. Demystifying interdisciplinary working (in Valuing Nature). Valuing Nature paper, VNP25. Valuing Nature [online]. Available from: https://valuing-nature.net/demystifying-interdisciplinary-working

The Valuing Nature Programme has established extensive interdisciplinary partnerships with the aim of improving our understanding of the value of nature and the use of these values in decision making. Articulating the values of nature requires resear... Read More about Demystifying interdisciplinary working (in Valuing Nature)..

EWVA European women's video art in the 70s and 80s: un caso di studio. (2020)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L., SHEMILT, E. and PARTRIDGE, S. 2020. EWVA European women's video art in the 70s and 80s: un caso di studio. In Catricalà, V. and Quaranta, D. (eds.) Sopravvivenza programmata: etiche e pratiche di conservazione, dall'arte cinetica alla Net Art. Rome: Edizioni Kappabit, pages 255-268.

This chapter discusses methodologies, findings and outputs that emerged during the AHRC funded research project EWVA.

What features of a nutrition resource are important to adolescents of a low socioeconomic status? (2020)
Journal Article
SCOTT, H.C., CRADDOCK, C. and CRAIG, L.C.A. 2020. What features of a nutrition resource are important to adolescents of a low socioeconomic status? Public health nutrition [online], 23(10), pages 1716-1725. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1368980019004476

Objective: To identify the key features of a nutrition resource that are important to adolescents of a low socioeconomic status (SES). Design: Structured interviews were conducted to explore participants’ preferences relating to the features of a nut... Read More about What features of a nutrition resource are important to adolescents of a low socioeconomic status?.

Scottish fashion influencers: constructing a style identity on Instagram. (2020)
Journal Article
MARCELLA-HOOD, M. 2020. Scottish fashion influencers: constructing a style identity on Instagram. International journal of fashion studies [online], 7(1), pages 73-96. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/infs_00017_1

This article builds on existing theories of self-presentation and self-identity through a study into the behaviour of fashion influencers who position themselves as Scottish on Instagram. Fourteen interviews were carried out with Scottish fashion inf... Read More about Scottish fashion influencers: constructing a style identity on Instagram..

Apocalyptic sublimes and the recalibration of distance: doing art-anthropology in post-disaster Japan. (2020)
Book Chapter
CLARKE, J. 2020. Apocalyptic sublimes and the recalibration of distance: doing art-anthropology in post-disaster Japan. In Schorch, P., Saxer, M. and Elders, M. (eds.) Exploring materiality and connectivity in anthropology and beyond. London: UCL Press [online], pages 172-190. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787357488

On 11 March 2011, a ‘triple disaster’ (an earthquake – the strongest since records began – a subsequent tsunami, and a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant) devastated the Tohoku region of north-east Japan. This singular yet predictable ev... Read More about Apocalyptic sublimes and the recalibration of distance: doing art-anthropology in post-disaster Japan..

Glaze spectrum. [Website] (2020)
Digital Artefact
LOVE, H. 2020. Glaze spectrum. [Website]. Available from: https://www.glazespectrum.com/

This website was developed as the result of a commission by Aberdeen Art Gallery in 2017, in which the artist was tasked with creating a library of ceramic glaze test tiles. The spectrum was developed with the aim of being as bright as possible, usin... Read More about Glaze spectrum. [Website].

Reclaiming wetland values: marsh, mud and wonder. (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
Reclaiming wetland values: marsh, mud and wonder. Exhibition held 27 January - 2 February 2020, Royal Geographical Society, London.

The exhibition formed a key output of the Valuing Nature Programme (https://valuing-nature.net/) initiated by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)/UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The aim of the 4-year Valuing Nature programme is, '…to i... Read More about Reclaiming wetland values: marsh, mud and wonder..

An alloy made from art and activism, in North Macedonia. (2020)
Book Chapter
BLACKWOOD, J. 2020. An alloy made from art and activism, in North Macedonia. In Steinbock, E., Leven, B. and de Valck, M. (eds.) Art and activism in the age of systemic crisis: aesthetic resilience. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 7, pages 92-103. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429269189-7

This chapter traces the development of an “alloy” of artist and activist strategies in the context of North Macedonia, during Nikola Gruevski’s right-wing conservative government (2006-16) and its turbulent overthrow; the chapter concludes by assessi... Read More about An alloy made from art and activism, in North Macedonia..

Scottish style: the construction of national identity and place amongst Scottish fashion influencers on Instagram. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MARCELLA-HOOD, M. 2019. Scottish style: the construction of national identity and place amongst Scottish fashion influencers on Instagram. In Miller, M. (ed.). Fashion: ID; proceedings of 21st International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institute (IFFTI) 2019 conference: fashion ID (IFFTI 2019), 8-12 April 2019, Manchester, UK. Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University [online], pages 350-361. Available from: https://fashioninstitute.mmu.ac.uk/ifftipapers/paper-151/

This paper explores the phenomenon of personal style as an expression of national identity by investigating the construction of Scottish identity amongst fashion influencers on Instagram. Instagram is recognised as an example of visual media that has... Read More about Scottish style: the construction of national identity and place amongst Scottish fashion influencers on Instagram..

Comfort in clothing: fashion actors and victims. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
CROSS, K. 2019. Comfort in clothing: fashion actors and victims. In Miller, M. (ed.). Fashion: ID; proceedings of 21st International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institute (IFFTI) 2019 conference: fashion ID (IFFTI 2019), 8-12 April 2019, Manchester, UK. Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University [online], pages 284-297. Available from: http://fashioninstitute.mmu.ac.uk/ifftipapers/paper-168/

Fashion psychology is an emerging discipline, recognising the potential of clothing to enhance well-being in an era when mental health issues are increasing in the Western world. Well-being is important to the individual and on a wider societal leve... Read More about Comfort in clothing: fashion actors and victims..

Edimburgo - Roma 1967: connessioni italo-scozzesi sulle tracce della mostra Contemporary Italian Art alla Richard Demarco Gallery. (2019)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. 2019. Edimburgo – Roma 1967: connessioni italo-scozzesi sulle tracce della mostra Contemporary Italian Art alla Richard Demarco Gallery. Storia dell'arte [online], 151/152, pages 205-215. Available from: https://www.storiadellarterivista.it/shop/articoli/edimburgo-roma/

Since the 60s, the Italo-Scottish artist and cultural entrepreneur Richard Demarco (Edinburgh, 1930), has played a fundamental role in the production and promotion of European - and in particular Italian - visual and performing arts in Scotland. Dema... Read More about Edimburgo - Roma 1967: connessioni italo-scozzesi sulle tracce della mostra Contemporary Italian Art alla Richard Demarco Gallery..

The Fourth Encounter in Motovun, 1976: a platform for experimentation for early video art. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEUZZI, L. 2019. The Fourth Encounter in Motovun, 1976: a platform for experimentation for early video art. In Kuźmicz, M. (ed.) Revisiting heritage: material from the conference Revisiting heritage, 7-8 June 2018, Warsaw, Poland. Warsaw: Fundacja Arton [online], pages 165-171. Available from: https://issuu.com/fundacjaarton1/docs/arton_book_revisiting_heritage_-_pd

In Summer 1976 the Fourth Susret u Motovun (Encounter in Motovun) took place. As part of the festival, it was organised a video encounter - dedicated to the theme of ‘Identity’ (Identitet=identità) - that turned out to be a key event for the experime... Read More about The Fourth Encounter in Motovun, 1976: a platform for experimentation for early video art..

Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories. (2019)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2019. Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories. In Grau, O., Hoth, J. and Wandl-Vogt, E. (eds.) Digital art through the looking glass: new strategies for archiving, collecting and preserving in digital humanities. Krems: Edition Donau-Universität Krems [online], pages 161-177. Available from: https://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dam/jcr:a29638aa-f334-4abb-9601-10e36652d09f/Digital_Art_through_the_Looking_Glass_updated.pdf

This paper will discuss re-enactment as a relevant tool for practice-based research to investigate pioneering video performances and video artworks from the 1970s and 1980s from a theoretical, art-historical and curatorial point of view. Since the ea... Read More about Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories..

Coming together differently: art, anthropology and the curatorial space. (2019)
Book Chapter
WINTER, J. 2020. Coming together differently: art, anthropology and the curatorial space. In Sansi, R. (ed.) The anthropologist as curator. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 7, pages 115-132. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003086819-7

The term 'curator' obviously encompasses a broad spectrum of practices. Like all disciplines the activity of curating is continually being redefined. This is a process that is pushed, challenged and accelerated in correspondence with artists and vari... Read More about Coming together differently: art, anthropology and the curatorial space..

From of, to with, to and? Anti-disciplinary exhibition making with art and anthropology. (2019)
Book Chapter
CLARKE, J. 2020. From of, to with, to and? Anti-disciplinary exhibition making with art and anthropology. In Sansi, R. (ed.) The anthropologist as curator. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 8, pages 133-146. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003086819-8

As lines between 'social practice' in art and social research blur, anthropologists are increasingly taking on curatorial roles in contemporary art settings and/or employing artistic methodologies in exhibition-making. This chapter explores some dyna... Read More about From of, to with, to and? Anti-disciplinary exhibition making with art and anthropology..

The disrupted workplace: are the digital and group skills needs of employers being addressed by universities? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BREMNER, P.A.M. and LAING, A. 2019. The disrupted workplace: are the digital and group skills needs of employers being addressed by universities? Journal of learning development in higher education [online], 16: special issue of articles from the 2019 Association for Learning Development in Higher Education conference (ALDINHE 2019), 15-17 April 2019, Exeter, UK, article 535. Available from: https://journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jldhe/article/view/535

Upskilling moves quickly in today’s ‘disrupted’ workplace, and skill sets need to change to meet the needs of the digital economy (Gray, 2016), sometimes referred to as the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). Using a mixed methods approach and drawin... Read More about The disrupted workplace: are the digital and group skills needs of employers being addressed by universities?.

Placing sound: a contextual exploration of personal identities in sound art discourse through performance art practice. (2019)
Thesis
ZEĆO, M. 2019. Placing sound: a contextual exploration of personal identities in sound art discourse through performance art practice. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1713018

This practice-led research explores how personal identities shape listening experiences in the context of sound art discourse. The research aim is to develop a contextual approach to sound art practice, informed by personal experience of listening to... Read More about Placing sound: a contextual exploration of personal identities in sound art discourse through performance art practice..

Placing sound: a contextual exploration of personal identities in sound art discourse through performance art practice. [Appendices] (2019)
Data
ZEĆO, M. 2019. Placing sound: a contextual exploration of personal identities in sound art discourse through performance art practice. [Appendices]. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1831816

These multimedia appendices accompany a thesis that formed part of a PhD awarded by Robert Gordon University. The practice-led research represented in both the thesis and these appendices explores how personal identities shape listening experiences i... Read More about Placing sound: a contextual exploration of personal identities in sound art discourse through performance art practice. [Appendices].

Working with refugees an exploration through conversations and drawings. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
RUGGERONE, L., ALTENBERGER, I., HACKETT, C. 2019. Working with refugees an exploration through conversations and drawings. In Swartz, J. (eds.) Proceedings of 2019 Indisciplines: research in arts practice conference, 28-30 November 2019, Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona: University of Barcelona/Campus de les arts [online], pages 242-252. Available from: https://www.campusdelesarts.org/proceedings

While the experience of refugees is explored via various avenues, the voices of the workers who support their resettlement are rarely heard. Hence, rather than focusing on the Syrian refugees and their experience of settling in the North East of Scot... Read More about Working with refugees an exploration through conversations and drawings..