People who have communication difficulties find it challenging to express themselves effectively. People can experience difficulties in communication as a result of a range of conditions; some acquired in birth or early childhood, such as cerebral palsy, others as a …

Vertical farming is the practice of growing plants, indoors, under controlled conditions in stacked layers, often without solar light. Hydroponics is a subcategory of vertical farming, where the roots are submerged in water containing nutrients for growth. Benefits of such …

Academics are sometimes reluctant to admit that the takeaways from their research are more than factual. As a creative research process – rather than just a final output – storytelling is a way to explore the emotional, psychological, and spiritual …

‘How to live well with rhetoric?’ is a pressing question facing 21st century democracies: commentators and political scientists claim we are living through a ‘post-truth’ era, which has seen emotive soundbites and a disregard for experts undermine the health of …

The world faces unprecedented challenges of ecological sustainability, including climate change, biodiversity loss and depletion of natural resources. Educators and researchers are well-placed to engage with these issues by considering how our curriculums can respond to these challenges. Little research …

In 1607, two ships called The Hector and The Red Dragon set sail on a voyage that marked England’s first infiltration of Indian subcontinent trading networks. These were East India Company ships, so representatives of the company that would eventually, …

In 2019, an Experimental Partnership project took place to explore ‘An Empathetic Realisation of Embodied Grief in Fiction Film’. It was undertaken to redress the fact at fiction cinema often relegates grief to a mere plot device. The …

Climate change is an interdisciplinary, multifaceted and complex phenomenon, qualities that can also make it challenging to consider across secondary school curricula and environments. The emotional, ethical, social and political facets often found in debates and discussions around climate change …

Despite their significant presence in a wide range of world cinemas, non-professional actors have received very little critical attention. Generally, they have been considered as embodied markers of realism and authenticity, and their contribution a question of being (like their …