Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences

30th May 2018

Pile of books by Raoul Luoar
Paints by Sayot
 FACULTY OF ARTS, DESIGN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE

WEDNESDAY 30th May 2018

Programme:
09.15 – 9.45: Registration and refreshments, Lipman Foyer and Lipman 035

09.45 – 10.00: Welcome Address, Professor David Gleeson (Faculty Associate Pro Vice-
Chancellor for Research and Innovation) and Professor David Campbell (PGR Director),
Lipman 031

10.00-11.15: Session 1
Panel 1 – Lipman 232: Chair – Professor Michael Green

10.00-10.15 – XiaoJing Niu (Design): Key Crowdsourcing Technologies for Product Design
and Development

10.15-10.30 – Anne Spaa (Design): Working at the Boundaries of Human-Computer

Interaction and Public Policy – Speculative Approaches within Research through Design as
a Source of Gathering and Sharing Knowledge for Think Tanks

10.30-10.45 – Jose Valencia (Design): The role of Design in Consumer Product Start-ups

10.45-11.00 – Christopher Knott (Design): Exploring the early stages of design-led

innovation: Identifying the triggers of value creation

11.00-11.15 – Questions

Panel 2 – Lipman 231: Chair – Professor Keith Shaw

10.00-10.15 – Ralph Dorey (Arts): Broken Cybernetics of Mucousal Art

10.15-10.30 – Erica Eyres (Arts): How does the performance of deadpan humour effect our
reading of personal narratives?

10.30-10.45 – Tina Naples (Humanities): Who believes in Fairies?

10.45-11.00 – Alison Bainbridge (Humanities): Advertising, StrexCorp and Postmodern

Capitalist Anxieties in Welcome to Night Vale

11.00-11.15 – Questions
Panel 3 – Lipman 303: Chair – Dr Jamie Harding

10.00-10.15 – Gabriel Hogg (Humanities): ‘BLACK AND WHITE, UNITE AND FIGHT’ Race
and Trade Union Activism in San Francisco, 1934-1941

10.15-10.30 – Rebecca Jayne Oswald (Social Sciences): Becoming ‘real’: exploring

meaningful work, identity re-construction and desistance in a case study of the Skill Mill
social enterprise

10.30-10.45 – Drew Ryder (Humanities): Allied and Animosities: Interactions between British
Troops and the UN taskforce in the Korean War, 1950-1953

10.45-11.00 – Jane Brough (Social Sciences): What is the motivation of food bank
volunteers?

11.00-11.15 – Questions

11.15 – 11.30: Break and Refreshments, Lipman 035

11.30 – 12.45: Session 2

Panel 1 – Lipman 232: Chair – Professor Richard Terry

11.30-11.45 – Susannah Ronnie (Humanities): Setting sail: early poetic imaginings and
interrogations of Henry Hudson's final voyage

11.45-12.00 – Ruth Stacey (Humanities): Using Symbolist poetry techniques to unlock the
imagined memoir of the Symbolist artist Pamela Colman Smith

12.00-12.15 – Vanja Vasiljevic (Humanities): This throughout the history of English

12.15-12.30 – Sandra Elliott (Arts): A Comparison of the Life of Saint Aldhelm in three
Fifteenth-Century Middle English Versions of Legenda Aurea

12.30-12.45 – Questions

Panel 2 – Lipman 231: Chair – Dr Rupert Ashmore

11.30-11.45 – Chiara Chille (Arts): Measurement of the temperature changes during Er:YAG
laser irradiation on four varnish samples

11.45-12.00 – Nick Dodds (Humanities): Reframing the Graphic Memoir: How can the
comic-strip artist negotiate modality and fidelity in the depiction of personal and historical
narratives?

12:00-12:15 – Valentina Risdonne (Arts): Historical plaster casts and their coating

12.15-12.30 – Caroline Ali (Arts): Interpolated Drawing

12.30-12.45 – Questions
Panel 3 – Lipman 303: Chair – Dr James McConnell

11.30-11.45 – Alex Frost (Arts): Ghostspace.uk

11.45-12.00 – James Bell (Arts): Traveling around the rim – black holes and queering
geographies

12.00-12.15 – Bianca Fadel (Social Sciences): Local volunteering in protracted crises:

challenging invisibility within the humanitarian and development work

12.15-12.30 – Kelly Johnson (Social Sciences): Wellbeing in a post-industrial society: what

does it mean to live well in an ex-coal mining community

12.30-12.45 – Questions

12.45 – 13.45: Lunch, Lipman 035

13.45 – 15.30: Session 3

Panel 1 – Lipman 232: Chair – Dr Lesley Twomey

13.45-14.00 – Andrew Lawrence (Arts): Methodological Issues in Cold Case Investigative

Research

14.00-14.15 – Massimilliano Papini (Arts): Presence of Japan in the Northeastern

newspapers (1862-1873): green tea trade and transcultural encounters

14.15-14.30 – Mark Stoddart (Humanities): The 1887 Jubilee Exhibition in Newcastle –

Public Event as Forgotten Public History

14.30-14.45 – Erin Wiegand (Social Sciences): Mondo Movies: Exoticism and Cultural
Tourism in the Exploitation Documentary

14.45-15.00 – Kathleen Boodhai (Arts): Indian ‘Heritage-ness’ in Diaspora: Transnational

Case Studies

15.00-15.30 – Questions

Panel 2 – Lipman 231: Chair – Dr Gabriel Moreno Esparza

13.45-14.00 – Laura Harrington (Arts): Spiralling as an alternative encounter with the field

14.00-14.15 – Inge Panneels (Arts): How artists are charting climate change in the
Anthropocene in the New North: Dark Ecology, an art project on the periphery of northern
Europe

14.15-14.30 – Tom Ratcliffe (Social Sciences): Contested cultural landscapes: community

resilience, heritage and the re-industrialisation of the North York Moors National Park

14.30-14.45 – Maria Ruiu (Social Sciences): Media Reporting and Climate Change: a moral
panic perspective

14.45-15.00 – Claire Pencak (Arts): Practices for Dwelling : Emergence as a real time
planning practice
15.00-15.15 – Ekaterina Gladkova (Social Sciences): Intensive food production financing
and environmental injustice

15.15-15.30 – Questions

Panel 3 – Lipman 303: Chair – Professor John Vines

13.45-14.00 – Belen Barros Pena (Design): Reintroducing values into exchange: co-
designing contextual and practice-sensitive financial services with older adults

14.00-14.15 – Rafiq Elmansy (Design): Investigating Value-added through the Application of

Creative Design Thinking in Medical Technology Innovation and How It May Contribute
to the Industry’s Future

14.15-14.30 – Hayley Mardon (Design): Southern African ‘Jewellery’: Where’s the catch?

14.30-14.45 – Clair Aldington (Design): Drawing a line; the role of the co-created artefact in
engendering moments of solidarity between participants in Restorative Justice processes

14.45 -15.30 – Questions

Panel 4 – Lipman 335: Chair – Dr Victoria Bazin

13.45-14.00 – Amanda McBride (Social Sciences): Gender, Pleasure and the NTE

14.00-14.15 – Chloe Renwick (Humanities): Thomas Heywood’s Ages Plays and Spectacle

14.15-14.30 – Rowan Thompson (Humanities): Masculinity, Militarism and Mobilisation: The

Air Defence Cadet Corps, 1937-1939

14.30-14.45 – Jenny Hunter (Humanities): Allegory in plague literature, 1563-1666

14.45-15.00 – Scott Williams (Social Sciences): A study of the representation of women’s

team sport in the British National Press and Public Policy Documents 2010-2018

15.00 -15.30 – Questions

15.30 – 16.30: Post-Conference Reception, Humanities Hub

Abstracts (in alphabetical order)

Aldington, Clair

Drawing a line; the role of the co-created artefact in engendering moments of

solidarity between participants in Restorative Justice processes

Restorative Justice is a process that includes everyone involved in an incident of harm or

conflict in discussions about the way forward. This paper will outline the potential for the co-
creation of artefacts within Restorative Justice processes as a method for engendering
solidarities between participants. Meredith Rossner posits that the most ‘successful’
restorative meetings between people responsible for causing harm and those harmed are
those that are the most ‘emotional’. Rossner iterates these moments of emotion as
solidarities being created between the two parties during the meeting. This paper will detail
practice based investigations to date of the concept of solidarity, its appropriateness in a
restorative context and the possibilities for help or harm that the gifting of co-created
artefacts opens up between parties involved in Restorative Justice processes.

Ali, Caroline

Interpolated Drawing

Rooted in practice-based drawing, this paper presents recent research that aims to examine
how strategies for Conservation of Works of Art on Paper might usefully inform approaches
to Fine Art drawing. Integration of one drawing into another is identified for this project as
interpolation and drawing that contains interpolated elements is proposed as a distinct
category of drawing practice. The interdisciplinary reach of this project extends to the
development of a theoretic model for transcription in drawing practice directly informed by
conservation retouching. This model has created a means to identify and compare parallel
modes of copy practice for Fine Art and for Conservation.
To conclude, this paper will present a proposal for a specific area of copy/transcription
through studio practice and identify terms appropriate and distinct to that domain.

Bainbridge, Alison

Advertising, StrexCorp and Postmodern Capitalist Anxieties in Welcome to Night Vale

The podcast Welcome to Night Vale (2012-) is a local news broadcast for a fictional town
where every conspiracy theory is real. Bridging the gap between comedy and horror,
Welcome to Night Vale uses nihilistic humour to broach topics which reflect the fears and
anxieties of contemporary Western culture. This includes the postmodern capitalist concerns
of today’s consumer-orientated society, represented by the “messages from our sponsors”
interspersed throughout the show. This includes marketing for real big-name brands, as well
as the fictional StrexCorp Synernists Incorporated: a company behind which hides the cult of
a universe-devouring Lovecraftian entity.

By examining the various types of advertising used in the show, as well as the role
StrexCorp plays in the larger plot, this paper will situate Welcome to Night Vale as a text
relevant to contemporary capitalist concerns, and which uses parody alongside more
traditional horror tropes in order to underline those anxieties.
Barros Pena, Belén

Reintroducing values into exchange: co-designing contextual and practice-sensitive

financial services with older adults

This PhD will explore the design of financial technology and services for later life, in
partnership with the Vulnerable Customers team at Santander UK. Research has highlighted
how payment methods mediated by digital technologies alienate older adults through a
combination of accessibility barriers [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], problematic design affordances [6, 7] and
value-driven interpretations [8]. The dematerialisation and ongoing digitisation of payment
systems can undermine the practices by which older adults keep control over their finances
[6, 7]. It can also reduce the ability of older adults to mitigate the risks they take when
entrusting others with financial matters [9]. Furthermore, digital services are often perceived
by older adults as representing an exploitative form of banking that is too focused on
increasing shareholder profits, and on promoting spending rather than saving [8]. This
research aims to use participatory design and a lifecourse perspective of ageing [10] to
design more appropriate financial technologies with older adults. It will explore how
technology could leverage the communal aspects of financial transactions [11], and the
strengths of traditional means of payment, to be better tied to the values and practices of
older adults, and improve their access to financial services.

Bell, James

Traveling around the rim – black holes and queering geographies

This short paper will consider the sexual practice of rimming as a means of exploring queer
conceptions of time and space. Drawing on early sexuality studies and queer theory,
including thinkers such as Gayle Rubin, Guy Hocquenghem and Leo Bersani, the paper will
begin to outline a research methodology, or following Kate Eichhorn a ‘dirty’ methodology,
informed by the located and specific lived-experiences of queers in time and space.
Rimming, with its focus on the anus, the persecuted site of buggery or symbol of queer
death dating from the AIDS crisis, is a locus for a collapse of normative understandings of
time, a black hole if you will, where time works differently. From this sketch, the paper will
briefly discuss rimming as methodology when exploring activist, archival and artistic
practices engaged with queer pasts, presents and futures; and the other ways of being in the
world these practices may elucidate.

Boodhai, Kathleen

Indian ‘Heritage-ness’ in Diaspora: Transnational Case Studies

This research proposes to study what happens to Indian ‘Heritage-ness’ in diaspora and how
it is represented and performed in museums and the public sphere in England, Trinidad and
Canada. My research is from a critical heritage perspective, a qualitative study which seeks
to draw attention to how and why people of Indian heritage express their ‘cultural heritage’
with heritage not always understood as ‘authorized’, buildings and objects, but as traditions
characteristic of ways of thinking drawn from the past. (Smith, 2006). My research
encompasses cultural studies, post-colonial studies, critical heritage studies, diasporic and
transnational studies.

Heritage here is conceptualized as traditions, characteristics as ways of thinking drawn from

the past. (Smith, 2006) as ‘embodied’, a ‘political act’ against forms of ‘authorized heritage’
and as ‘active participation of people and communities who to date have been marginalised
in the creation and management of ‘heritage’ and ‘incorporate the complexities of cultural
activities that heritage helps to mediate’ and negotiate (Smith, 2012: 540).
Brough, Jane

What is the motivation of food bank volunteers?

The rise in the number of food banks in the UK and their uptake has been much reported in
recent years. In turn, food banks are reporting rising numbers of food parcels distributed
each year. The growth is set against the implementation of welfare reform and austerity
measures. The rise in the need for and changing shape of food banks and other food charity
demonstrates the wider shifts occurring in the era of welfare austerity.

Foodbanks rely on food and cash donations from the general public and business sector.
Food banks are managed by a growing number of volunteers in a response to a community
need. What kind of volunteer does a food bank attract? What are the differences between
‘frontline’ and trustee volunteers? What is the influence of faith and beliefs for both sets of
volunteers?

Chille, Chiara

Measurement of the temperature changes during Er:YAG laser irradiation on four

varnish samples

This work aims at the development of a cleaning methodology for twentieth-century

varnished oil paintings using Er:YAG laser (2940 nm). The transient thermal behaviour of
four different un-aged varnishes, each commonly applied during the 20th century, were
investigated to understand the local thermal effects of the laser output during the cleaning
procedure.

MATERIALS AND METHODS:

A Fotona FidelisXS Er:YAG laser in Very Short Pulse (VSP) mode allowing a range of 40-
600 mJ emission was employed. The beam was delivered perpendicular to the surface by an
R11 handpiece. Single laser pulses, at fluences ranging from 0.56 J/cm2 to 2.40 J/cm2 were
fired onto the varnish samples spread on glass slides. The laser beam diameter was 3 mm
and the pulse repetition was 2 Hz. To measure the temperature changes the thermal
imaging camera (FLIR T600, FLIR Systems) was used.

Dodds, Nick

Reframing the Graphic Memoir: How can the comic-strip artist negotiate modality and
fidelity in the depiction of personal and historical narratives?

A presentation of current doctoral work outlining critical perspectives on the graphic memoir,
with a particular focus on; the structural modalities of the comic-strip and their application
within the autographic genre, the mediating role of the artist/creator and lastly, a
consideration of issues concerning authenticity and drawn memoir narratives. These points
will be explored via current studio-based practice involving the initial preparation and
treatment of a graphic adaptation of Pilgrimage from Nenthead, written by Chester
Armstrong (published by Methuen 1938). Thematically, Armstrong's text deals with the social
history of the Northumberland colliery town of Ashington in the late 1890’s, as well as the
habitual aspects of community life and vibrancy of local associations. However, the main
strand of the memoir concerns the impulse towards autodidacticism, or specifically the
author's intellectual re-orientation through modernist literature and sociopolitical texts.
Dorey, Ralph

Broken Cybernetics of Mucousal Art

“Learn from the rats, reduce secretly” (Nishimura, 1995) This paper considers an art practice
as a mucousal net crossing the points and planes of ideas, objects and events. This net
harbours bacteria which grow new scaffolds or eat away at anything they come into contact
with. This is a way of talking about an art practice which acknowledges the observation of
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari that “work only when they break down, and by continually
breaking down” (Deleuze & Guattari, 1983). This paper considers the creative power not
only of iconoclastic damage, but the unstable and mutating ecologies of shared, libidinal
creative practices where “breaking down” is a mode of praxis. This paper uses the cinema of
Yoshihiro Nishimura (Nishimura, 1995, 2008) to consider an art practice that eschews
professionalism (Abbott, 2012; Berardini, 2016; Steyerl, 2009) for sabotage (Foreman &
Haywood, 1993; Negri, 2008).

Elliott, Sandra

A Comparison of the Life of Saint Aldhelm in three Fifteenth-Century Middle English

Versions of Legenda Aurea

The life of St Aldhelm (639 –709) first appears briefly in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the
English People, where his astute and prolific reading and writing skills are highlighted. Yet,
later accounts of his miracles and visit to Rome are not mentioned. Aldhelm is then albeit
forgotten in hagiographical texts until the twelfth century, where he appears, with fervour
and zeal, in William of Malmesbury’s Deeds of the Bishops of England.
This paper will compare Bede and William of Malmesbury’s accounts of St Aldhelm, within
the context of three 15th century Middle English versions of Voragine’s Legenda Aurea:
Abbotsford MS, Lambeth Palace MS72, and Caxton’s printed version BL. It will make a
comparison of the texts, examining their similarities, differences, and anomalies. It will also
explore inclusions or omissions of certain events relating to earlier accounts and possible
reasons.

Elmansy, Rafiq

Investigating Value-added through the Application of Creative Design Thinking in

Medical Technology Innovation and How It May Contribute to the Industry’s Future

This research aims to explore what are the values that can be added by applying creative
design thinking in medical technology innovation, and how this adoption may contribute to
overcoming barriers. The research aims to 1) Investigate the current design processes
applied in companies, 2) explore the contribution of design and what values that may be
added using it, and 3) assess the expected value-added through applying creative design
thinking and how this application may impact the future of medical technology innovation.
This study will focus on case studies of SMEs working in medical treatment technology
innovation in the UK. Over the course of achieving research aims, the research plan includes
five stages where both qualitative and quantitate methods will be used including, semi-
structured interviews, surveys, and action research. Data-analysis methods will be adopted
such as coding. Finally, the Delphi method will be used to for assessment and data
triangulation.
Erica Eyres

How does the performance of deadpan humour effect our reading of personal
narratives?

I will present a paper that will examine the theme of invisibility within deadpan comedy, and
specifically how this manifests in the television sitcom, Arrested Development. According to
Henri Bergson, the comic is a kind of automaton who “becomes invisible to himself while
remaining visible to all the world.” I will argue, however that, in the example of Arrested
Development, the characters’ lack of self-awareness makes them invisible, not only to
themselves, but to everyone around them. I will also discuss the deadpan strategies of
Elaine Sturtevant, and how her methods of copying well known artworks may be read as a
performance of invisibility in which she both doubles and cancels out the original.

Fadel, Bianca

Local volunteering in protracted crises: challenging invisibility within the

humanitarian and development work

This research project explores the relationships between protracted crises, local
volunteering, humanitarian and development work, and innovation. The aim is to
conceptualize the role that local volunteers play during protracted crises in contributing to
durable and innovative solutions on the ground and understand the multiple variables that
shape their work in the Global South. Protracted crises are complex, often forgotten, settings
where humanitarian and development approaches interact in different ways. Shifting the
focus from international to local volunteers from affected communities, we intend to look at
them not only as service-delivery agents but also as key actors whose limitations and
contributions in these settings need to be further understood. In partnership with the
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the research
intends to explore the theoretical approaches in this field and highlight the practice of local
volunteers, aiming to shed some light on the challenges and opportunities regarding
innovation and sustainability through their lenses.

Frost, Alex

Ghostspace.uk

Life in the global city conflicts with the grounded inflexibility of objects. The self-storage
warehouse at the city’s perimeter offers a way to acquire some flexibility within the city.
These containers become satellites carrying the unwanted thoughts and memories of the
city’s citizens. Storage warehouses present a context of visibility and invisibility, movement
and ossification, care and neglect.
I will be talking about Ghostspace.uk an artist-led project room set up in London to address
these issues of space and mobility. The first iteration is a series of exhibitions within a self-
storage unit. I will be looking at other models of the digital project room that facilitate the flow
of ideas and experimentation. The circulation of exhibitions online and how the digital project
room alters the conventions of visibility within the professionalised, bureaucratic and
commercialised art world.
Ekaterina Gladkova

Intensive food production financing and environmental injustice

Food production can serve as a lens for comprehending social and environmental injustices.
The need to incorporate environmental justice research into criminological literature is
evident. Moreover, green criminology research demands further theorisation of food
production crimes as well as the expansion of the scope of food production harms. This
project focuses on the connection between intensive food production financing and
environmental injustice. It aims to conceptualise the nature of harms resulting from intensive
food production financing, determining contexts behind them, and study the response to
harm in its capacity to reinstate environmental justice. Considering the limited attention to
the role of discourse in producing and reproducing harms within green criminology, this
research turns to discourse analysis when analysing the data collected during an
ethnographic study and document review. Discourse analysis will reveal how financing
proponents promulgate the current food production discourse cementing foundations for
harm. It will uncover power disequilibriums and hegemonic relations between discourses of
the affected community and financing proponents, and demonstrate how the affected
community relate to the mainstream food production discourse. The latter will explore
whether the affected community has the capacity to counter-argue the prevailing
consensuses in order to re-establish justice and prevent future harm.

Harrington, Laura

Spiralling as an alternative encounter with the field

Through deploying ‘deep listening’, putting significant attention on haptic sensitivity and the
sensuous capacities belonging to our different human entities – looking at the artists body as
an active agent within the field – in the proposed paper I will look at ‘spiralling’ as a new
field-work model and alternative methodology. To do so, I will take us on a journey, moving
and repeating into and with the landscape, drawing on the processes of artists Ana Mendieta
and Brie Ruais, their explorations between external topographies and internal landscapes –
believing in the capacity to think that which repeats itself also transforms itself. In this paper I
shall speculate what 'spiralling' might mean to an artist as well as other implications for other
discourse.

Hogg, Gabriel

‘BLACK AND WHITE, UNITE AND FIGHT’ Race and Trade Union Activism in San
Francisco, 1934-1941

In 1934, the San Francisco waterfront became a pivotal location in a strike wave that spread
throughout Pacific Coast ports. As white workers throughout the city dropped tools, the
African American communities were at a crossroads. Barred from entry into many American
Federation of Labor unions and unable to gain regular employment outside of scabbing, the
United States trade union movement offered little support to these communities. This paper
explores the experience of the African American communities during the 1934 strike wave to
understand how segregated unionism appealed to African American workers during
extraordinary times. It will then delve into the impact and legacy of the 1934 strikes amidst
mass migration of African American workers from southern states to the west coast. Within
Up From Exclusion it is acknowledged that ‘One of the tasks ahead for historians of trade
union racial practices is to integrate African American history…into their labor history
narrative.’ and amidst the police brutality, communist propaganda and picket-line radicalism,
this task is still to be completed for the 1934 West Coast Longshoremen strike.

Hunter, Jenny

Allegory in plague literature, 1563-1666

My thesis explores the use of allegory in early modern plague literature. This understudied
genre, often only analysed on a basic level, can be used to better understand early modern
perceptions of disease. I argue that they are also allegorical texts which tackle wider social
issues such as gender, and perceptions of the human body. Plague authors use metaphor,
personification, and other literary techniques to create a ‘duplicity of meaning’ within their
work. This paper focuses on the first two chapters of my thesis which analyse the
relationship between sin, plague, and the female body in A Dialogue both pleasant and
piety-full Against the Fever Pestilence (1564) by William Bullein, the anonymously written
Triall of Treasure (1567), and The Wonderful Year (1603) by Thomas Dekker.

Johnson, Kelly

Wellbeing in a post-industrial society: what does it mean to live well in an ex-coal

mining community

Contemporary measurements of wellbeing have moved beyond economic indicators to

determine how nations or regions are doing however these measurements often neglect that
individual communities within that nation or region have different experiences of life and are
not homogenous. This research adapted from a wellbeing methods handbook uses a
mixture of research methods to explore how people are doing in a post—industrial coastal
town, that once flourished during the height of coal mining industry but is now experiencing
multiple deprivations. Using focus group data from phase one of a 3-year PhD project, this
paper explores; what does it mean to live well in the wake of deindustrialisation? It found
there were gendered differences in what people needed to live well as well as people
needed relational factors to live well just as equally as material factors. This paper concludes
that to understand how people are doing, wellbeing research must include factors that have
been self-determined by community members.

Knott, Christopher

Exploring the early stages of design-led innovation: Identifying the triggers of value
creation.

The overarching aim of this research is to identify the key triggers of value-creation during
the early stages of design-led innovation practice in order to enable new methods, tools and
approaches to guide their adoption. The term ‘design-led innovation’ has been explored
within academic literature since the turn of the century and is a topic of increasing interest.
Despite its popularity, growing use as a term and likelihood to become ‘more prevalent’
within the future, design-led innovation has ‘no consistent definition’ and requires further
research to enable its clear explanation, recognition and measurement (Design Council,
2016). It is anticipated that the research will create a framework that maps the early stages
of design-led innovation and enables a replicable method that can be applied to
organisations across industries. Through having a clearer understanding, practitioners will
be better able to manipulate processes and early stage strategies to create specific value for
organisations.
Lawrence, Andy

Methodological Issues in Cold Case Investigative Research

This paper will explore methodological and ethical issues highlighted by a recent
investigation. During preliminary research for my thesis an interviewee mentioned his cousin
was searching for her English father. This was a famous case in Iceland due to the girl being
a survivor of an avalanche, which buried an entire town. Her father left Iceland 28 years ago
unaware that he was about to become a father. Previous appeals in Icelandic and British
media had been unable to find the correct individual and this was considered to be an
unsolvable case. Agreeing to look over existing documentation to see if previous
investigations had missed pertinent information I found new avenues to explore. My
investigation was filmed by Icelandic television network Stoo2. The programme won an
award at the 2018 EDDA ceremony.

Mardon, Hayley

Southern African ‘Jewellery’: Where’s the catch?

Jewellery (historic and contemporary) continues to hold a significant place in culture and
society. It attracts, divides and repels with its symbolism, controversy, status, value, ethics,
politics and diversity. In this critical examination, I consider some of the dominant Euro-
American narratives that have come to define jewellery as it has transformed over time. I
look at its distinctions between design, art and craft, its location somewhere between fashion
and sculpture and the changing status of the craftsperson. My aim is to go beyond western
perceptions of jewellery to question what other narratives emerge from a closer look at
selected jewellery & material culture from Southern Africa through a postcolonial lens. What
becomes visible as I refer to past and present approaches used to interpret, classify and
categorise jewellery (V&A and recent significant contemporary exhibitions) is a different view
connected to hybridity and the agency of artefacts as well as issues around race and
ethnicity that also take into account cultural value, identity, tradition and contemporaneity.

McBride, Amanda

Gender, Pleasure and the NTE

The proposed research is located at the nexus of two areas of academic interest: ‘gendered’
drinking and young adult drinking. While research linking gender and alcohol has highlighted
a number of ways in which drinking and drinking culture interact dynamically with gender
identity, young adult drinking is typically approached from a social policy and public health
perspective. Broadly, the aim of the research is to integrate these approaches to develop a
framework for understanding how gender and pleasure mediate young adult drinking
practices. In doing so it aims to shed light on the co-productive relationship between the
cultural, material and subjective realities of young people’s experience in the (increasing
neoliberal) night time economy.

Naples, Tina

Who believes in Fairies?

This paper argues for the widespread belief in fairies in early modern England and earlier.
Even though over time a level of scepticism began to creep in, it is hardly surprising that
fairies are deployed across a variety of literary genres and by a range of poets and
playwrights. In my research I am examining the use of humour in juxtaposition with
supernatural phenomena – in this case, fairies and bawdy. In this presentation I shall be
looking in particular at the different approaches taken by Shakespeare and Jonson in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream and Oberon, The Fairy Prince respectively; Shakespeare
deploying traditional folkloric fairies, and Jonson using satyrs in a court masque. In both
cases, using humour enables and enhances a critique of the morality of contemporary
society through social commentary.

Niu, Xiaojing

Key Crowdsourcing Technologies for Product Design and Development

Traditionally, manufacturing SMEs rely heavily on a skilled, technical and professional

workforce to increase productivity and remain globally competitive. Crowdsourcing offers an
opportunity for SMEs to get access to online communities who may provide requested
services such as generating design ideas or problem solutions. However, there are some
barriers preventing them from adopting crowdsourcing into their product design and
development (PDD) practice. Here I report a literature review of key crowdsourcing
technologies including crowdsourcing platforms and tools, crowdsourcing framework, and
techniques in terms of open call generation, rewarding, crowd qualification for working,
organization structure of crowds, solution evaluation, workflow and quality control and
indicate the challenges of integrating crowdsourcing with a PDD process. I also explore the
necessary techniques and tools to support crowdsourcing PDD process. Finally, I discuss
the pros and cons of applying crowdsourcing in PDD process.

Oswald, Rebecca Jayne

Becoming ‘real’: exploring meaningful work, identity re-construction and desistance

in a case study of the Skill Mill social enterprise

There are mixed findings as to whether engaging in employment can help desistance.
Drawing on literature from criminology, sociology and organisational psychology, I propose
that a particular type of employment - ‘meaningful employment’ - might trigger a move away
from crime because it aids the construction of a ‘pro-social’, non-offending identity. To
explore this assertion I am conducting a case study of the ‘Skill Mill’ social enterprise. This
organisation provides outdoor employment for young offenders aged 16-18. I am collecting
data through observations, interviews and analysis of the YOT records of 20 Skill Mill youths.
Initial findings demonstrate that what young offenders consider meaningful is ‘real work’;
work that is stable, pays a living wage and society values. Only though engagement in real
work could they envisage themselves having a legitimate role in society. It is inconclusive as
to whether the Skill Mill is the necessary ‘real work’ for desistance.

Panneels, Inge

How artists are charting climate change in the Anthropocene in the New North: Dark
Ecology, an art project on the periphery of northern Europe

This research project frames an emerging narrative of creative cartographies in the field of
visual culture, with a specific focus on how particular artists are using the map as a trope
and employing diverse mapping methodologies to chart climate change in the New North
(Smith, 2012). The paper will focus specifically on the case study of an international art
project which took place on the periphery of Northern Europe informed by the concept of
‘dark ecology’ (Morton, 2016). The case study will inform the larger research question about
what mapping projects of this kind can ‘do’ in relation to current discourses about artists’
engagement with science data, their ‘empowerment’ of communities, and contributions to
policy making, as well as their more ‘traditional’ role in engaging aesthetically with space and
place which, it is argued here, is by its very nature political.

Papini, Massimiliano

Presence of Japan in the Northeastern newspapers (1862-1873): green tea trade and
transcultural encounters

In 1862, a delegation of the Japanese government paid a visit to Newcastle upon Tyne in
order to study the North-East heavy industries. According to the traditional scholarship, the
relationship between Japan and North East of England became quite relevant only from the
mid-1870s, after the second visit of Japanese diplomats in the North-East in 1873 (Iwakura
Mission). To shed the light on the first decade, I looked at articles that have Japan as the
main topic in newspapers such as the Newcastle Daily Chronicle and the Durham County
Advertiser. It appears clear that also the first visit in Newcastle of the Japanese diplomats
had a relevant impact on the Northeastern both in the economic than cultural environments.
Two aspects that have to be studied in parallel, as they influenced each other. About the
former, I will talk about the import of Japanese green tea; while regarding the latter, I will
discuss the early instances of Japanmania in the region, underlying the connection between
them.

Pençak, Claire

Practices for Dwelling : Emergence as a real time planning practice

This presentation will outline the starting points, key areas of interest and research questions
which brings the perspectives of my dance and choreographic practices to encounters with
current planning practice in Scotland. I will use the contexts of current artistic collaborations
to draw out the perspectives that are being foregrounded through the practice -so- far. These
include ‘emergence’ as a form of real- time composition and a planning process that
generates alternative arrangements. Also I propose ‘dwelling’ as an alternative perspective
to ‘place making’ that allows for different forms and degrees of belonging, the more than
human and different ‘species of spaces’(George Perec). I will situate this artistic practice
alongside the Scottish Governments current planning review and bring the embodied
perspective of dance as an alternative framework to consider and review Scotland’s third
national planning framework and it’s first Land Use Strategy.

Ratcliffe, Tom

Contested cultural landscapes: community resilience, heritage and the re-

industrialisation of the North York Moors National Park

This research paper will explore industrial developments in British National Parks and the
pressure this type of development can impose on the historic environment, communities and
cultural landscapes. This paper will critically examine the role of the community in decision
making and how they are represented by the processes and practices of heritage
management in a National Park setting.
In particular, this paper will focus on the North York Moors National Park as a case study
where one potash mine exists, another potash mine is under construction and hydraulic
fracturing for shale gas may take place on the edge of the National Park which is causing
increasing concerns amongst communities. As a consequence these industrial
developments provide an opportunity to understand how communities value this landscape
and to explore the contested spaces in which different individuals and groups interact. This
paper will investigate how these communities look to protect their cultural heritage and
everyday traditions when threatened by developers – how do local people look to secure
their future and preserve their identity in the face of accelerated changes to the landscape in
which they live?

Renwick, Chloe

Thomas Heywood’s Ages Plays and Spectacle

Abstract: This paper indicates how my thesis will be approaching Thomas Heywood’s Ages
(1594?-1596?) and their use of special effects to construct spectacle on the early modern
stage. The pentalogy offers pyrotechnics, theatrical machinery, lavish props and costumes to
dramatize diverse classical mythology in spectacular fashion. I attend to how these dramatic
spectacles speak to the immediate environments both within and outside of the Rose theatre
by incorporating metadrama. The project uses wider material contemporary with Heywood,
reflecting the London theatrical scene and its reliance on collaboration, appropriation and
competition. By approaching Heywood’s spectacular mythological plays through a lens of
metadrama and intertextuality, I will show how the Ages shed light on the theatrical scene of
the 1590s and illustrate how Heywood uses theatre to explore and question political
uncertainty, propaganda, and dark cultural turns.

Risdonne, Valentina

Historical plaster casts and their coating

This review paper is the result of an introductory literature examination for an AHRC CDP
PhD research focused on the coatings on historical plaster cast. The research aims to
understand and contextualise the V&A’s 19th century plaster casts through historical and
technical analysis of the casts’ coatings applied to ensure a desired appearance and
durability, and to investigate the efficacy of the conservation treatments currently in use at
the V&A. The desired outcome will be the development of a safe and effective methodology
for the removal of soils from their surface. Understanding their context, following a change
from 18th century emphasis on purity of form to the wider variety of coatings in 19th century,
investigating materials and techniques of the Victorian cast makers, and a glance at the
coeval plaster casts’ collections, in Europe and in the world, are fundamental to address
these aims. Accurate historical reconstructions will facilitate the development and testing of
specific cleaning techniques. .Although the focus of the research is the traditional and later
coatings on 19th century plaster cast, a review of the available literature on historical plaster
casts is due, especially in light of the debate around the role of the plaster casts in
Museums’ collections. The research is undertaken at Northumbria University and at the
Victoria and Albert Museum, and is therefore especially focused on the V&A plaster casts’
collection.

Ronnie, Susannah

Setting sail: early poetic imaginings and interrogations of Henry Hudson's final
voyage

In 1610 Henry Hudson and his crew boarded the Discovery and set sail from St Katherine’s
dock in London on a voyage that came to a mutinous conclusion in the Canadian Arctic in
1611. I am using poetry as my research methodology to imagine and interrogate the events
of that voyage in a multi-voiced narrative in order to test the possibilities of poetry as a form.
I will share some early research outputs, predominantly first drafts of poems, along with the
historical source material that has inspired them and, briefly, the background of
contemporary poetry against which they are written. This will include an exploration of how
these early poems might shape my ongoing research, as I work towards a final output of a
full-length poetry collection, and my current thinking about the complexities of giving a
truthful account of an event that took place more than 400 years ago.

Ruiu, Maria

Media Reporting and Climate Change: a moral panic perspective

This paper presents the preliminary results obtained from a Categorical Principal Component
analysis (CATPCA) on a sample of 958 articles (from 1988 to 2016) retrieved from 9 national
British newspapers (including their Sunday and online versions) aimed at investigating the
possibility to apply the moral panic framework to the analysis of British newspaper reporting
on climate change. The adoption of a moral panic conceptual framework for classifying and
interpreting the data gave the opportunity to simultaneously identify the main components of
the process of news construction and exploring what elements of the framework are
applicable to the study of the phenomenon. Five dimensions emerge from the analysis
related to different aspects of climate change. However, it is possible to identify two different
threats to the moral order (and related folk devils): in one case (centre/right leaning
newspapers) the concern regards the possibility that a part of scientists, activists and NGOs
are responsible for the “moral crisis”. This group also shows a tendency to adopt skeptical
frames, uncertainty frames of consequences and mockery tones to describe climate change.
In the second case, the concern regards the possibility that climate change threatens the
“planet” (and humans). In this case, the multiplicity of “offenders” are identified in climate
sceptics/deniers, corporations, industrialised countries and contrarians.

Ryder, Drew

Allied and Animosities: Interactions between British Troops and the UN taskforce in
the Korean War, 1950-1953

The Korean War (1950-1953) was one of the British Army’s first major tests in the field as
part of a large United Nations force. Whilst the strategic interactions between the Allied
forces are well documented amongst historians, the interpersonal interactions and opinions
held by the soldiers on the ground is an element of social history, which has been mostly
overlooked in the discourse of the war. This paper will amend this by examining the
relationship between British Soldiers and their allied counterparts, specifically the US military
and the South Korean forces, drawing upon first hand accounts, memoirs and recordings
from the soldiers themselves. It will show that the views held by British soldiers of their allies
was a complicated tapestry of opinions, influenced by geopolitical events, personal
experience, and in some cases, racist thinking, and which remained in flux throughout the
course of the war.

Spaa, Anne

Working at the Boundaries of Human-Computer Interaction and Public Policy –

Speculative Approaches within Research through Design as a Source of Gathering
and Sharing Knowledge for Think Tanks

In our current society, the already significant role technology takes in our lives appears to
continue to grow. Therefore, the need for public policy on topics of (emerging) technologies
is increasing in order to deal with the societal impact of technologies such as blockchain
technologies, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and internet of things.
Surprisingly, Human-Computer Interaction research (HCI) - which investigates how
technology will change our lives - has had limited impact on the development of such public
policy. The objective of this PhD is to contribute to the small community of researchers that
explore how HCI research could better inform public policy.
More precisely, it investigates how the anticipatory, future envisioning and speculative
aspects of the HCI research approach of Research-through-Design (RtD) might become part
of the think tank field to inform the development of public policy on topics of (emerging)
technologies.

Stacey, Ruth

Using Symbolist poetry techniques to unlock the imagined memoir of the Symbolist
artist Pamela Colman Smith

The Symbolist poets, with a current focus on Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud, used
particular techniques that are being utilised to write poetry in the imagined voice of a real
woman: Pamela Colman Smith. Working in the beginning decades of the 20th century,
Smith was an artist and illustrator who embraced the ideals of the French Symbolist art
moment by rejecting realism in favour of dream-like worlds populated by enigmatic figures
(often portraying characters from literature, mythology and folklore). Smith designed
illustrations for Ellen Terry, Bram Stoker and William Butler Yeats. She also drew the most
famous tarot deck, yet she is hardly known for her other artwork and left minimal written
record of her life. Adopting the form of the prose poem, and other Symbolist techniques like
musicality, use of metaphor, obliqueness and evocation, will create an appropriate form of
poem to express the imagined memoir of the Symbolist artist.

Stoddart, Mark

The 1887 Jubilee Exhibition in Newcastle – Public Event as Forgotten Public History

In 2018 Newcastle/Gateshead will hold The Great Exhibition of the North. The stated
ambition is that it ”… will showcase world-class art, culture, design and innovation from the
North.” Their website states: “It will reveal … how the North of England’s great art and
culture, design and innovation has shaped all our lives and is building the economy of
tomorrow. The dramatic story of the North, … will instil local pride and inspire people to
pursue exciting lives and careers in the North. By attracting visitors from near and far, it will
transform global perceptions of Northern England...”
In 1887 Newcastle held another exhibition with remarkably similar aims. Yet this event is
almost forgotten –information boards at the location have only two references to it, and the
main local museum has only a couple of items on display. Yet it attracted over 2 million
visitors, and made a financial surplus of over £3700. Visitors came on excursion trains from
around the UK, and a party of 250 Danish artisans, paid for by their Government, made the
trip a cross the North Sea. The event was put together quickly, and it displayed showed full
range of North Eastern industry, from a 100 ton gun to a woollen needlework picture of
Moses. It was fully lit by electricity, had an extensive art gallery and a theatre.
Archival material is almost non-existent, (compare the 1887 Manchester Exhibition) and
there is only one peer-reviewed article. The paper will discuss how the exhibition came
about and the role of business and workers, as well as contemporary reactions. It will
question how far the past should inform the present, and will finish with provisional thoughts
as to why the event has been largely forgotten.

Thompson, Rowan

Masculinity, Militarism and Mobilisation: The Air Defence Cadet Corps, 1937-1939

Writing to the committee of the Air Defence Cadet Corps (ADCC), Lord Beaverbrook, the
press baron who held various positions in Churchill’s wartime government, enthused that
‘the members of your cadet corps are the future defenders of our country’s heritage’. He
continued, ‘they give the most splendid demonstration of the spirit of the youth of this country
today. A spirit of willing and eager self-sacrifice deep rooted in the love of their country.’
However, despite such praise, the origins, activities and values of the ADCC have received
curiously little attention.

This paper will redress this historiographical neglect by examining the pre-war activities of
the Corps, particularly in relation to masculinity, militarism and mobilisation. The Corps was
‘an association of all those who have the welfare of their country in the air at heart’ and – by
the outbreak of the Second World War – consisted of 20,000 uniformed, disciplined, patriotic
and knowledgeable boys aged 14 to 18.'

Valencia, Jose

The role of Design in Consumer Product Start-ups

Recent studies have shown that ignoring the customer, or having a "poor product", or
offering a “nice to have” but not providing an essential value to the consumer, are among the
top reasons why start-ups fail (Jonikas, 2017; CB insights, 2016). Designers can offer fresh
insight to help start-ups overcome these problems.
PepsiCo, Phillips and Apple have successfully incorporated design at their corporate
strategic level for several years. Former start-ups unicorns in high tech areas such as
Pinterest, Kickstarter and Airbnb have designers in their founder team, expanding, even
more, the role of design as a pillar of entrepreneurship, but there is a lack of studies about
this new role of design in consumer product startups

Vasiljevic, Vanja

This throughout the history of English

The aim of this paper is to give an account of how the demonstrative this has changed in
terms of use in various deictic categories e.g. person, place, manner, time, and discourse
mainly in the 13th, 14th, and 15th century and how this influenced the instrumental form of this
þys to grammaticalize into a manner demonstrative and finally into a sentence connective.
The common path of development of demonstratives is person → place → time →
discourse → manner. Yet the data from historical corpora show that this has been used in
various manner expressions e.g. in this way or manner already in the 13th century, unlike
the demonstrative that which is used in the manner category in the 15th century. Here it is
claimed that this has been influenced by the instrumental form which is semantically
associated with manner.

Wiegand, Erin

Mondo Movies: Exoticism and Cultural Tourism in the Exploitation Documentary

The ‘mondo’ film—a genre typically traced back to 1962 with the release of Mondo cane—is
a form of exploitation documentary that pieces together short clips from around the world in
order to highlight the exotic, the exciting, and the shocking. While their content was diverse,
such films frequently included striptease acts; esoteric religious rites (often fabricated for the
camera); violence against animals; and unusual cuisine, fashion, and art. Avoiding in-depth
analysis in favor of pure spectacle—yet simultaneously promising audiences a glimpse of
the truly “authentic”—mondo movies have much in common with certain aspects of tourism;
my thesis reads these films in part through the work of tourism scholars such as Dean
MacCannell and John Urry. Additionally, I look at the marketing and reception of these films
in the United States and Italy in the 1960s and 70s, placing them in the context of other
genre cycles of the period.

Williams, Scott

A study of the representation of women’s team sport in the British National Press and
Public Policy Documents 2010-2018.

The London 2012 Olympic Games were considered by many to be a watershed moment for
sport, with every Olympic delegation sending a female athlete to compete (Fink, 2015;
Coche and Tuggle, 2016), leading to 2012 being christened the ‘year of the woman’ for sport
(Fink, 2015). Women’s place in sport has historically been an area of contestation (Dunning,
1986; Messner, 1988; Rowe, 1997; Dworkin and Messner, 2002), with a struggle being
played out in the representation of women’s sport in social institutions such as the media
and public policy. This presentation will centre on the methodology employed in this study,
discussing how the use of a critical discourse analysis based approach can shed new light
on discursive repertoires within institutions. Given the unprecedented level of public funding
that (some) sport currently enjoys, this study is being undertaken at an important time.