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Publications

The School of Creative Industries submitted 10 staff to the RAE 2008 within Unit of Assessment 66 (Communication, Cultural and Media Studies). The School achieved 95% recognition of work as international or national standard.

This page contains details of recent publications from members of the school. For more publications, see the specific homepages of individual staff members to access these go to the staff section of this site.

Publications

Forthcoming

Domìnguez, C. (Forthcoming) 'Hola, estás sola? de Icíar Bollaín, desechando la idea hegemónica de Maternidad' in Cinta Ramblado (ed.) and Laura Freixas (Intr.) La maternidad en la literatura y el cine españoles. Madrid: Editorial Càtedra

Drake, P. and Miah, A.(Eds) (2009) The Cultural Politics of Celebrity, Special Edition of the refereed journal Cultural Politics (Berg) (Journal general editors: Professor Douglas Kellner and Dr John Armitage)

Jeffery, G. and Ledgard, A. (in preparation) Teacher Artist Partnership Programme (TAPP): A Professional Development Model for artists and teachers in partnership, Leeds: CapeUK

León Solís, F. (forthcoming) ‘Defense Of The Statute * Catalonia, The Self-Sacrificial Victim’, in Studies of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, Special Issue.

Miah, A. (2009) Web 2.0: Mashing Up Work & Leisure. In: Bramham, P. & Wagg, S. Unforbidden Fruit: The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure.

Rich E. & Miah, A. (2009) Prosthetic Surveillance: The medical governance of healthy bodies in cyberspace, Surveillance and Society, in press

2009

Miah, A. (2009) The Ethics of Memory Modification in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In Shapshay, S. (Ed) Bioethics Through Film, Johns Hopkins University Press

Miah, A. & Rich, E. (2009) Bioethics Through the Media. In: Albertazzi, D. & Cobley, P. The Media: An Introduction (Third Edition). Pearson.

Rich E. & Miah, A. (2009) Prosthetic Surveillance: The medical governance of healthy bodies in cyberspace, Surveillance and Society, in press.

Robertson, JW (2009) ‘Informing the Public? UK Newspaper Reporting of Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome’, Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs: Media Special Edition

2008

Giraud-Johnstone L. (2008) in collaboration with Chaserant Camille, Un exemple de collaboration Outre-Manche, Francophonie, Number 37 (pp11-16).

Jeffery, G., Cochrane, P. and Craft, A. (2008) ‘Suspending disbelief? Perspectives on the creativity agenda in education policy’, in Sefton-Green, J., (ed) Creative Learning, London: Creative Partnerships

Miah, A. (2008) Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty, FACT & Liverpool University Press. / University of Chicago Press

Miah, A. & Rich, E. (2008) The Medicalization of Cyberspace. Routledge.

Miah, A. (2008) A Critical History of Posthumanism, in Chadwick, R. and Gordjin, B. Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity, Springer.

Miah, A.& Garcia, B. (2008) We Are the Media: Alternative Voices and Non-Accredited Media at the Olympic Games. In Price, M. Narrative and Counter Narrative in the Beijing Olympics: Hearts, Minds and the Projection of Modern China.

Miah, A. (2008, 3 August) Enhanced Athletes? It’s Only Natural, The Washington Post, B1, B5

Miah, A. (2008) 17 Days in Beijing, for Beijing 2008 Olympic Dossier, Centre for Olympic Studies, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Online at: http://olympicstudies.uab.es/beijing08/eng/content.asp?id_seccions=38&id_subseccions=80

Miah, A. (2008) The Ethics of Human Enhancement in Sport. In: Luppicini, R. & Rebecca Adell. Handbook of Research on Technoethics. Idea Group Publishing, pp.69-84.

Miah, A. (2008) A Deep Blue Grasshopper: Playing Games with Artificial Intelligence. For Hales Benjamin. Philosophy and Chess.

Miah, A. (2008) Inside the mind of a marathon runner, Nature, 454, 583-4

Miah, A. (2008) Section Introduction: Ethical Considerations of Human Performance Optimisation. In Taylor, N.A.S., Groeller, H. & McLennan, P.L. ‘Physiological Bases of Human Performance During Work and Exercise, Elsevier.

Miah, A. (2008) Letter to Utopia: A Reply to Bostrom, Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2(1),

Miah, A. (2008) Engineering Resistance or Radical Transhuman Enhancement, Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2(1), in press.

Robertson, J.W. (2008) 'It Looks Like There's No Alternative: UK TV News Coverage of the 2008 Budget and the Propaganda Model', Fifth-Estate-Online,

Spielmann, Y. (2008) Video. The Reflexive Medium MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008

Stuart, S. (2008). Are clones really different? Evidence from a Bildungsroman: Eva Hoffman's The Secret, Critical Survey Vol. 20 Number 1 2008: 43-55

2007

Campbell, E. (2007) Les dictionnaires Larousse: Genèse et evolution. In French Studies 61, 253-5

Campbell, E. (2007) La Traduction: contact de langues et de cultures . In French Studies 61, 414-5

Crawford, E. (2007, June 14) Time for a Turnaround, The Guardian

Crawford, E. (2007, April 13) Uncanny Strategy The Guardian.

León Solís, F. (2007) ‘Spanish Monarchy: Leukemia of History and Politics?’ in Ámbitos, Revista Internacional de Comunicación, Vol 13

León Solís, F. (2007) 23-F :Redemption or Derailment of Spanish Democracy?’, in International Journal of Iberian Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2007.

Miah, A. (2007) No Go Logo? London 2012’s Branding Hurdle, Culture @ the Olympics, 9(3), 14-17

Miah, A. (2007) Genetic Selection for Enhanced Health Characteristics, Journal of International Biotechnology Law, 4(6).

Miah, A. (2007) Genetics, Bioethics & Sport, Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 1(2), 146-158

Robertson, J.W. (2007) 'TV News: Do they mean us', Sociology Review, 17(1): 6-9

Robertson, J.W. & Lee, S. (2007) 'Quality and Quantity: the value of online seminars for media and cultural studies undergraduates', Learning, Media and Technology, 93(4), 351-368

Spielmann, Y. (2007) Kultureller Umbau. Räume, Identitäten und Re/Präsentationen, Transcript Publishers, Bielefeld 2007, co-edited with Meike Kröncke and Kerstin Mey

2006

Crawford, E. (2006, May 27) Terror of the Scottish Raj The Guardian

Jeffery, G. and Cochrane, P. (2006) ‘Leading creative learning: developing creativity in initial teacher education, leadership and CPD’, part of Nurturing Creativity in Young People: Roberts Review of Creativity in Schools, London: HMSO

Miah, A. and Rich, E. (2006) Genetic Tests for Ability? Talent Identification and Genetic Determinism, Sport, Education and Society.

Robertson, J.W. (2006) Illuminating or Dimming Down: A Survey of UK Television News Coverage, Fifth-Estate Online: International Journal of Radical Mass Media Criticism.

Miah, A. (2006) Therapeutische ingrepen, niet-therapeutische ingrepen en prestatieverbetering, in Hilvoorde, I. van & Pasveer, B. (eds.). Beter dan Goed. Over genetica en de toekomst van topsport. Diemen: Veen Magazines, pp.138-149

Robertson, J.W. (2006) ‘Mum or Eminem? Media influences on today’s teenagers’, Sociology Review, 16(1): 8-11

Miah, A. (2006) Doctor, Can You Fix My Broken Heart?
Journal of Medical Humanities, 27(2), pp.127-129

Miah, A. (with Garcia, B.) (2006, July) Ever-Decreasing Circles? The Profile of Culture at the Olympics, Locum Destination Review, pp.60-62.

2005

Campbell, E. (2005) The CD-ROM Larousse Chambers français-anglais English-French Dictionary. French Studies 59, 285-6.

Campbell, E. (2005) 'Le Traitement des insultes racistes et sexistes dans les dictionnaires bilingues' in The French Revie

Giraud-Johnstone, L. (2005) Encourager la motivation chez les non-spécialistes, Laurence Giraud-Johnstone, Francophonie- the French refereed journal of the Association for Language Learning- Autumn, Number 32 (pp7-13)

Jeffery, G. (ed.) (2005) The creative college: building a successful learning culture in the arts, Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books

Miah, A. (2005) Virtually Posthuman, review of Virtual Worlds by Pramod Nayar, Delhi: SAGE, 2004. Media, Culture & Society, 27(4), 626-630.

Miah, A. (2005). "Genetics, cyberspace and bioethics: why not a public engagement with ethics?" Public Understanding of Science 14(4): 409-421.

Miah, A. (2005). "From anti-doping to a 'performance policy': sport technology, being human, and doing ethics." European Journal of Sport Science 5(1): 51-57.

Miah, A. (2005) Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet by Lisa Nakamura, London and New York: Routledge (2002). Media, Culture & Society, 27(1), 145-147.

Miah, A. (2005). "Doping and the child: an ethical policy for the vulnerable." The Lancet 366: 874-876.

Miah, A. (2005) Therapeutische ingrepen, niet-therapeutische ingrepen en prestatieverbetering, in Hilvoorde, I. van & Pasveer, B. (eds.). Beter dan Goed. Over genetica en de toekomst van topsport. Diemen: Veen Magazines [Dutch].

Miah, A. (2005) Gene Doping: The Shape of Things to Come (2005)
In Tamburrini, C.M. and Tannsjo, T. (Eds.) Genetic Technology and Sports: Ethical Questions. London and New York: Routledge.

Miah, A. (2005) Sport Technology,
Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics. London: Macmillan.

Neely, S. (2005) 'Scotland, heritage and devolving British cinema', Screen, vol. 46, no. 2, Summer, pp. 241-245

Robertson, J. W., Blain, N. & Cowan, P. (2005) 'Children's Media Choices: A Survey of Scottish 10-12 year-olds', Citizenship, Social and Economics Education.

Robertson, J. W., Blain, N. & Cowan, P. (2005) 'The Influence of Friends and Family vs The Simpsons:Scottish Adolescents' Media Choices', Journal of Educational Media,

2004

Blain, N. and Gifford, A. (2004) Scottish Political Identity Construction in the Media: Learning and Teaching Questions Around the Theme of Inclusiveness. In, Towards Our Goals in Broadcasting, The Present, the Performing Arts and the Economy: Minority Languages in Northern Ireland, The Republic of Ireland and Scotland. Edited by J.M. Kirk and D.P. O'Badill. Belfast Studies in Language, Culture, and Politics.

Burnett, K. (= Mike Danson) (2004) 'Adding or Subtracting Value?: rural enterprise, quality food promotion and Scotland's cluster strategy', International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research 10(3): 381-304 ISBN 1355-2554

Campbell, E. (2004) 'Masculin/féminin: conventions lexicographiques au Grand Siècle' in Seventeenth Century French Studies, 25, pp.259-70.

Campbell, E. (2004) La Représentation des femmes dans les dictionnaires bilingues' in French Studies, 58, 61- 76.

Drake, P. (2004), 'Jim Carrey: the cultural politics of dumbing down', in Andrew Willis (ed.) Hollywood Stars and Beyond, Manchester UP

Drake, P. and A. Miah (2004). "Playing on the Level: The 'Level Up' International Digital Games Research Conference, Utrecht University, 4-6 November, 2003." Media, Culture & Society 26(6): 906-909.

Drake, P. (2004) (with Iain Docherty and Stuart Gulliver) 'Exploring the Potential Benefits of City Collaboration', Regional Studies 38.

Giraud-Johnstone, L. (2004) Comment motiver des apprenants non-linguistes par l'intermédiaire des tâches?, les Cahiers de l'Apliut- Vol.XXIII- N.1- February - ISSN 0248-9430. (pp 104-121 )

León Solís, F. (2004) ‘Operación Triunfo: Amusing Catalonia to Death’, in International Journal of Iberian Studies, Vol. 17 No. 2.

Miah, A. (2004), 'The Public Autopsy: Between Education, Art and Entertainment, Journal of Medical Ethics, 30, 576-579.

Neely, S. (2004) Review of Contemporary British and Irish Film Directors, Yoram Allon, Del Cullen and Hannah Patterson (eds.) in Scope: an Online Review of Film, ISSN 1465-9166 .

Neely, S. (2004) Review of Irish Film: the Emergence of a Contemporary Cinema, Martin McLoone in Scope: an Online Review of Film, May, ISSN 1465-9166

Neely, S. (2004) 'Cultural Ventriloquism: The Voice-over in Adaptations of Contemporary Irish and Scottish Literature', in Kevin Rockett and John Hill (eds.), National cinema and beyond: Studies in Irish film, 1 (Dublin: Four Courts, 2004), ISBN 1-85182-873-7 (hbk), ISBN 1-85182-874-5 (pbk).

Willy Maley and Sarah Neely, (2004) ''Almost afraid to know itself': Macbeth and Cinematic Scotland', in Eleanor Bell and Gavin Miller (eds.), Scotland in Theory: Reflections on Culture & Literature (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2004), pp. 97-106, ISBN: 90-420-1028-2 (pbk)

Robertson, J. W., Blain, N. & Cowan, P. (2004) Naming the First Minister: Scottish Adolescents' Knowledge and Perceptions of Political Decision-Making Processes', Scottish Affairs, 48, Summer 2004

Robertson, J. W., Blain, N. & Cowan, P. (2004) 'Who Decides? What Matters? Scottish Adolescents' Perceptions of the Importance and Influence of Media Personalities, Parents and Peers', Citizenship, Social and Economics Education: An International Journal, 6(1) Summer 2004

Robertson, J. W. (2004) 'People's Watchdogs or Government Poodles? Scotland's National Broadsheets and the Second Iraq War', European Journal of Communication, 19 (4), December 2004.

 

2003

Burnett, K. (2003) The Taste of Scotland: reimagining rural Scotland through food., in Pihlainen, K. and E. Tirkkonen (eds.) Rustica Nova: The New Countryside and Transformations in Operating Environment , Institute of History: University of Turku, Finland ISBN 951-29-2318-1

Burnett, K. (2003) Taste of Tradition: a critical examination of the relationship between heritage, food and tourism promotion in Scotland. In Local Food and Tourism, World Tourist Organisation/CTO Larnaka, Cyprus. ISBN: 92-844-0613-7

Campbell, E. (2004) 'Masculin/féminin: conventions lexicographiques au Grand Siècle' in Seventeenth Century French Studies, 25, 259-270

Campbell, E. (2003) Book Review: Harrap's Unabridged Dictionary . In French Studies 57, 438-40

Domìnguez, C. (2003) 'La imposible refutación del tiempo en la obra poética de Borges". Donaire , No. 19 (2003) pp. 56-59.

Drake, P. (2003), 'Mortgaged to music: new retro movies in 1990s Hollywood cinema' in Paul Grainge (ed.), Memory and Popular Film, Manchester UP.

Drake, P. (2003) 'Low Blows? Theorising Performance in Post-classical Comedian Comedy' in Frank Krutnik (ed.) Hollywood Comedians: The Film Reader, London and New York: Routledge.

Dumbrek, A., Hermanns, K.W. and McBain, K. (2003) Sounding Out the Future: Key skills, training and education in the music industry. Commissioned by The National Music Council

Leon Solis, F. (2003) The Transition(s) to Democracy and the Discourses of Memory, in International Journal of Iberian Studies, Vol. 16 No. 1, 2003.

Miah, A. (2003), Is bigger better?: A response to the international tennis federation's 'bigger balls' proposal, International Sports Studies.

Miah, A. (2003), (e)text: Error!...404 Not Found, or the Disappearance of History, Culture Machine: The E-Issue, 5,
[Available from: http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/frm_f1.htm]

Miah, A. (2003), Dead Bodies for the Masses: The British Public Autopsy and the Aftermath, CTHEORY: International Journal of Theory, Technology and Culture, Event-Scene, E119, [Available Online from: http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=363].

Miah, A. (2003), Patenting Human DNA, in B. Almond and M. Parker (Eds), Ethical Issues in the New Genetics: Are genes us?, Aldershot, Ashgate, pp.111-117.

Willy Maley and Sarah Neely, 'Tartan Tarantino?: Getting Medieval
with Macbeth', Drouth 10: The Word (Winter 2003), pp. 9-13, ISSN 1474 6190.

2002

Gibson, G. (2002), (with J. Seeley, D. Kitchen, A. Gifford), Standard Grade English: Credit Book, General Book and Teacher's Guide, Oxford, Heinemann Educational.

Miah, A. (2002), '/cybersex/no_gender/no_sexuality/no_body.html In S. LaFont (Ed.) Constructing Sexualities: Readings in Sexuality, Gender, and Culture, New York, Prentice Hall, pp.362-370.

Miah, A. (2002), Immersion and Abstraction in Virtual Sport, Research in Philosophy and Technology, Vol.21, 225-233.

Miah, A. (2002), Book Review: Trigger Happy: The inner life of video games by Steven Poole, Fourth Estate (2001), Media, Culture & Society, 24(6), 855-856.

Robertson, J (2002) Using the Internet in Primary Local History Studies,
Primary History, Historical Association, London

Robertson, J (2002) The Ambiguous Embrace: 20 Years of ICT in UK Primary Schools, British Journal of Educational Technology, 33:4, (extended version at http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/bjet/

Robertson, J & Hall, I (2002) Restoring 'Regional' History Education, International Journal of Intercultural Education, 13:3, September 2002.

Robertson, J (2002) Stepping Out Of The Box: Rethinking the failure of ICT to transform schools, Journal of Educational Change, Kluwer Press

2001

Blain, N. (2001),' The Scottish we, the royal them, and other thems: a note on Britishness', Media Education Journal, Issue 30, Autumn.

Blain, N. (2001),'Sport as real life: media, sport and culture (with R. Boyle), in Briggs A. & Cobley P. (eds.) The Media: an Introduction, second edition', Longman, London.

Burnett, K. (= Mary Holmes) (2001) Bodies, Battlefields and Biographies: scars and the construction of the body as heritage in S. Cunningham-Burley & K. Backett-Milburn (editors) Exploring the Body, Basingstoke: Macmillan ISBN 0-333-77596-1

Burnett, K. (2001) Heritage, Authenticity and History in S. Drummond & I. Yeoman (eds.) Quality Issues in Heritage Visitor Attractions London: Butterworth Heinemann ISBN 0 7506 4675 6

Campbell, E. (2001) Book Review: Harrap's Shorter Dictionary. Sixth edition. In French Studies 55, 589-90

Campbell, E. (2001) Collins Robert French Dictionary. Fifth edition. In French Studies 55, 589-90

Dunn, D. (2001), 'A Place of Recreation: The Island of Taransay as Tourist Destination in the Television Series Castaway 2000', Media Education Journal, Autumn, 23-27.

Gibson, G. (2001), 'John Byrne's Slab Boys: Time, Place and Popular Culture,' in Media Education Journal Issue 30 (Autumn 2001).

Gibson, G. and Gifford, A. (2001),' Standard Grade English : Pupil and Teacher Books', Heineman

Gifford, A. and Liddell, G. (2001), New Scottish Poetry, Heineman.

Gifford, A. and Robertson E.J. (2001) Contemporary Scottish Plays for Higher English and Drama. Hodder and Stoughton.

Giraud-Johnstone L. and Russow, R. (2001) Enhancing Student Autonomy through Learning Technology, Laurence University Language Press.

Miah, A. (2001),' Genetic Technologies and Sport: The New Ethical Issue, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport', XXVIII, 32-52.

Neely, S. (2001), 'Cool Intentions: the literary classic, the teenpic and the 'chick flick'' in Deborah Cartmell et al. (eds, Retrovisions: Film/Fiction (London: Pluto Press), pp. 74-86, ISBN 0 7453 1583 6 (hbk), ISBN 07453 1578 X (pbk).

Robertson, J (2001) Do They Know Who They Are? A Survey of Informed Opinion on the Identity Formation of Scotland ¹ s Schoolchildren, Journal of Children's Social and Economic Development, Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, UK

2000

Burnett, K. (= Mike Danson) (2000) Arts and Culture in Regional Development in Scotland Welsh Economic Review Vol. 12 (2): 39-42 ISSN/ISBN: 0965-2450

Domìnguez, C. 'Lesbianismo e identidad sexual en la obra poética de Cristina Peri Rossi'. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp 145-156

Miah, A. (2000),' Virtually Nothing: Re-evaluating the Significance of Cyberspace', Leisure Studies, 19:3, 211-225

Miah, A. (2000, April),' Can you remain faithful in cyberspace?, Spark Online 7.0', Hypertext Document: http://www.sparkonline.com/april00/trends/miah.html

Miah, A. (2000),' The Engineered Athlete: Human Rights in the Genetic Revolution, Culture, Sport, Society, Vol.3, No.3, 25-40.

1999

Campbell, E. (1999) Book Review: The Oxford French Mini Dictionary. In French Studies 53, 117-18.

Campbell, E. (1999) Book Review: The Oxford Shorter French Dictionary. In French Studies 53, 500-501.

Campbell, E. (1999) Book Review: The Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary. In French Studies 53, 500-501.

Campbell, E. (1999) The Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary. In French Studies 53, 500-501

Domìnguez, C. "Cristina Peri Rossi", in Alberto Mira (ed.) Para entendernos, Barcelona: Ediciones de la Tempestad, pp 566 - 67

Dunn, D. (1999),'Clinging to the Edge: Hebridean Representations in the Television Series Machair', Media Education Journal, Winter: 53-59.

Gifford, A. (1999),' The poetry section in Using Scottish Texts ed. David Menzies', Scottish CCC.

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