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Exploring independent learning (IL) and its relationship to mindset, motivated strategies for learning and academic performance. (2023)
Journal Article
FORBES-MCKAY, K.E., BREMNER, P.A.M., JOHNSTON, P. and AIR, C. 2025. Exploring independent learning (IL) and its relationship to mindset, motivated strategies for learning and academic performance. Journal of applied research in higher education [online], 17(1), pages 205-218. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/jarhe-06-2023-0253

This study addresses gaps in the existing literature on students' understanding of Independent Learning (IL), whilst exploring the link between levels of IL, growth mindset, motivated strategies for learning and academic performance. Three hundred an... Read More about Exploring independent learning (IL) and its relationship to mindset, motivated strategies for learning and academic performance..

Hear, now. Episode 22: Johanna Billing. [Podcast] (2023)
Digital Artefact
SCARTH, J., TAWADROS, G., BILLING, J. and WINTER, J. 2023. Hear, now. Episode 22: Johanna Billing. [Podcast]. Hosted on SoundCloud [online], 19 December 2023. Available from: https://soundcloud.com/whitechapel-gallery/hear-now-episode-22-each-moment-presents-what-happens

In this episode of Whitechapel Gallery's "Hear, Now" podcast, discover the inspiration behind artist Johanna Billing's film "Each Moment Presents What Happens" (2022), as she discusses her ideas for the work with Whitechapel Gallery Director Gilane T... Read More about Hear, now. Episode 22: Johanna Billing. [Podcast].

Immersive innovations for the communication of heritage, handcraft and sustainability. (2023)
Journal Article
CROSS, K., MESJAR, L., STEED, J. and JIANG, Y. 2025. Immersive innovations for the communication of heritage, handcraft and sustainability. International journal of fashion design, technology and education [online], 18(1): conscious communities: exploring contemporary research and practice within fashion and textiles higher education, pages 15-25. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/17543266.2023.2277264

Textile and fashion brands convey core values through marketing, and in slow-fashion heritage brands this often includes skilled craftsmanship, authenticity, sustainability and provenance. As industry digitalisation continues, brands are employing im... Read More about Immersive innovations for the communication of heritage, handcraft and sustainability..

Innovative interdisciplinary pedagogical approaches to enhance students' learning experiences and to benefit them in their future development. (2023)
Journal Article
BREMNER, P.A.M. and AIR, C. 2025. Innovative interdisciplinary pedagogical approaches to enhance students' learning experiences and to benefit them in their future development. Journal of applied research in higher education [online], 17(1), pages 150-162. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/JARHE-07-2023-0290

This study adds to the existing body of knowledge on the benefits to learners of using an interdisciplinary design thinking (DT) pedagogical approach, taking the form of a micro credential with an extracurricular workshop. This interpretivist researc... Read More about Innovative interdisciplinary pedagogical approaches to enhance students' learning experiences and to benefit them in their future development..

Bombardment, public safety and resilience in English coastal communities during the First World War. (2023)
Journal Article
FOSTER, A.-M. 2024. Bombardment, public safety and resilience in English coastal communities during the First World War. Northern history [online], 61(1), pages 155-157. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2023.2276721

Reeve's monograph refreshingly focuses on a new area of British war studies - it uses a local studies lens to explore the coastal towns in the North-East of England and their experiences in the First World War. Reeve compellingly argues that the expe... Read More about Bombardment, public safety and resilience in English coastal communities during the First World War..

I am enchanted and I see. [Exhibition] (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
I am enchanted and I see. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 10 November - 15 December 2023, [online exhibition]. Hosted on RE_EXHIBIT [online], RE_EXHIBIT 2. Available from: https://rewind.ac.uk/re_exhibit/i-am-enchanted/

"I am Enchanted and I See" (2023) is an exhibition by Cinzia Cremona, featuring a new video commission in response to Tamara Krikorian's "Vanitas" (1976), which is held in the REWIND Collection. Cremona responds to Krikorian's pioneering artwork with... Read More about I am enchanted and I see. [Exhibition].

In conversation: Johanna Billing, Judith Winter and Gilane Tawadros. [Discussion] (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
In conversation: Johanna Billing, Judith Winter and Gilane Tawadros. [Discussion]. Recorded on 13 October 2023, Whitechapel Gallery, London.

This discussion was held to celebrate the opening of Johanna Billing's exhibition, "Each Moment Presents What Happens". The exhibition presents Billing's 2022 film of the same name, for which she worked with students at Bristol Grammar School to deve... Read More about In conversation: Johanna Billing, Judith Winter and Gilane Tawadros. [Discussion].

A critical evaluation of the impact coaching and mentoring has on the walking spinal community's behavioural change and motivations to being physically active. (2023)
Thesis
FOWLER, G. 2023. A critical evaluation of the impact coaching and mentoring has on the walking spinal community's behavioural change and motivations to being physically active. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-2270792

This study explores the impact coaching and mentoring have on the Walking Spinal Community's (WSC) behavioural change and motivations to being physically active. A sub-set of the spinal community, this specific population is partly overlooked due to... Read More about A critical evaluation of the impact coaching and mentoring has on the walking spinal community's behavioural change and motivations to being physically active..

Double acts: collaborative partnerships in early artists' video. [Exhibition] (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Double acts: collaborative partnerships in early artists' video. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 22 September - 29 October 2023, [online exhibition]. Hosted on RE_EXHIBIT [online], RE_EXHIBIT 1. Available from: https://rewind.ac.uk/re_exhibit/double-acts/

Having been invited to identify a theme and to select some relevant examples of this approach from the Rewind collection, I have chosen to present works by artists working collaboratively. The medium of video is particularly suited to this way of wor... Read More about Double acts: collaborative partnerships in early artists' video. [Exhibition].

RE_EXHIBIT. [Online gallery] (2023)
Digital Artefact
LEUZZI, L. and LOCKHART, A. 2023. RE_EXHIBIT. [Online gallery]. Hosted by REWIND: Artists' Video [online]. Available from: https://rewind.ac.uk/re_exhibit/

RE_EXHIBIT is a digital platform that invites, commissions and hosts online curatorial projects developed from the REWIND collections. It aims to facilitate dialogue with other early video art collections, and with contemporary film and video artists... Read More about RE_EXHIBIT. [Online gallery].

Thinking with the Harrisons: re-imagining the arts in the global environment crisis. (2023)
Book
DOUGLAS, A. and FREMANTLE, C. 2024. Thinking with the Harrisons: re-imagining the arts in the global environment crisis. Leuven: Leuven University Press. Available from: https://doi.org/10.11116/9789461665744

This book asks a fundamental question around the place of the arts in the global environmental crises. In arguing that the arts have an important role, we are also suggesting that the arts need to be rethought, reimagined and reconfigured through new... Read More about Thinking with the Harrisons: re-imagining the arts in the global environment crisis..

Of mentors, teachers and pioneers: herstories of video and media art in Europe. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEUZZI, L. 2023. Of mentors, teachers and pioneers: herstories of video and media art in Europe. In Franco, F. and Burbano, A. (eds.) Re:source 2023: proceedings of the 10th International conference on the histories of media art, science and technology 2023, 13-16 September 2023, Venice, Italy. Venice: Resource Press [online], pages 247-252. Available from: https://www.mediaarthistory.org/?page_id=4393

In the 70s many women artists perceived video – that at the time was relatively new - as a tool free from the heavy patriarchal imprint of traditional artistic practices. Thanks to its technical specificities, it facilitated performance to camera and... Read More about Of mentors, teachers and pioneers: herstories of video and media art in Europe..

An exploration into users' engagement with nostalgia content on Instagram. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MARCELLA-HOOD, M. and THORNTON, S. 2023. An exploration into users' engagement with nostalgia content on Instagram. Presented at the 2023 Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association conference (MeCCSA 2023), 4-6 September 2023, Glasgow, UK.

Visual social media platforms like Instagram are recognised as a mechanism through which individuals can capture, share, and preserve experiences. The ease through which these media can be accessed enables users to share and consume visual content co... Read More about An exploration into users' engagement with nostalgia content on Instagram..

Editorial. (2023)
Journal Article
MARR, A., STEED, J. and BRITT, H. 2023. Editorial. Journal of textile design research and practice [online], 11(1-2): revised papers from the 5th Futurescan conference (Futurescan 5): conscious communities, 7-8 September 2022, Leeds, UK, pages 1-5. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/20511787.2023.2241834

This editorial introduces issue 1-2 of volume 11 of the Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice. This issue presents revised versions of nine selected papers originally presented at the 5th Futurescan conference (Futurescan 5): conscious comm... Read More about Editorial..

The memorial afterlives of online crowdsourcing: "Lives of the First World War" at Imperial War Museums. (2023)
Journal Article
FOSTER, A.-M. and WALLIS, J. 2023. The memorial afterlives of online crowdsourcing: "Lives of the First World War" at Imperial War Museums. Public history review [online], 30, pages 89-104. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v30i0.8048

From May 2014 to March 2019 the Imperial War Museums launched a large-scale digital crowdsourcing project, 'Lives of the First World War'. 'Lives' melded official and unofficial datasets to create an integrated database of people who had participated... Read More about The memorial afterlives of online crowdsourcing: "Lives of the First World War" at Imperial War Museums..

Collaborating with a Scottish heritage brand towards enhancing and preserving sustainable artisan hand-weaving practices through a knowledge transfer partnership. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
STEED, J., CROSS, K. and WILSON, B. 2023. Collaborating with a Scottish heritage brand towards enhancing and preserving sustainable artisan hand-weaving practices through a knowledge transfer partnership. Journal of textile design research and practice [online], 11(1-2): revised papers from the 5th Futurescan conference (Futurescan 5): conscious communities, 7-8 September 2022, Leeds, UK, pages 127-147. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/20511787.2023.2234650

This paper discusses a Knowledge Transfer Project (KTP) with a global Scottish heritage brand, which aimed to develop a year-round sustainable business model through a design-led approach to new product innovation that improves the brand's sustainabi... Read More about Collaborating with a Scottish heritage brand towards enhancing and preserving sustainable artisan hand-weaving practices through a knowledge transfer partnership..

Enhancing our knowledge of students' independent learning techniques via a qualitative approach. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BREMNER, P.A.M., GOODHAND, K., PIRIE, T. and FORBES-MCKAY, K. 2023. Enhancing our knowledge of students' independent learning techniques via a qualitative approach. Presented at the 2023 Advance HE teaching and learning conference: shaping the future of HE, 4-6 July 2023, Keele, UK.

This presentation seeks to outline the concepts of independent learning (IL) and its importance in the development of lifelong learning amongst a range of staff and students within a Scottish University context. By exploring staff and student perspec... Read More about Enhancing our knowledge of students' independent learning techniques via a qualitative approach..

Pedagogic methods in teaching for developing entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets. [Workshop] (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MOULE, C., BREMNER, P. and AIR, C. 2023. Pedagogic methods in teaching for developing entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets. [Workshop]. Presented at the 2023 International higher education teaching and learning annual conference (HETL 2023): re-imagining education: collaboration and compassion, 12-14 June 2023, Aberdeen, UK, Workshop 15.

The workshop aims to: 1) Outline the three levels of the RGU Innovation Award, highlighting the pedagogic aspects of design thinking; 2) Engage delegates in a technique that they can use with students to develop an innovative mindset (this technique... Read More about Pedagogic methods in teaching for developing entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets. [Workshop].

Exploring students' independent learning and its relationship to mindset and academic performance. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FORBES-MCKAY, K.E., BREMNER, P. and JOHNSTON, P. 2023. Exploring students' independent learning and its relationship to mindset and academic performance. Presented at the 2023 International higher education teaching and learning annual conference (HETL 2023): re-imagining education: collaboration and compassion, 12-14 June 2023, Aberdeen, UK.

There is increasing interest in the role of independent learning (IL) in higher education (Thomas, 2015). Indeed, several studies demonstrate the impact of IL on students' academic achievement (Difrancesca et al. 2016). Research also suggests that mo... Read More about Exploring students' independent learning and its relationship to mindset and academic performance..