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Appendices

Appendix 1



Reports CIMARC
The centres activity listed under outputs above also engaged students in the research. Specifically
Support information on films shown in CIMARC Screenings (Nadezda Fadina)

Dossier on representations of Islam linked issues in the British Press (Muhammad Imran Asim)

Research support material on Science and the Media (Louis Sharkey)

Research support for event on Walter Benjamin (Louis Sharkey)

Data entry for longitudinal content analysis of television sport schedules (Wesley Dean)

Appendix 2


Report: Practice-led research group





External liaison and activities - Practice Research group



Meeting 10 February
Attending:

Joanna Callaghan

Lesley McKenna

Maria Wiener



Gavin Stewart
Discussed the symposium and future directions. Decided best direction of the group is in the production of projects such as future symposiums/conferences and to this end it was decided not to meet until the next project. (Conference 2011)

Individual activities
Joanna Callaghan


  • Published symposium report in Journal of Media Practice on the UoB Determining Creative Practice symposium, December 2009

  • Managing RiT project with a further £5000 awarded for 2D project

  • Presented research seminar: University of Bristol, Feb 2010

  • Keynote address at Ikonocklash, University of Algarve, Faro, June 2010

  • Had exhibitions in Liverpool and Portugal

  • Submitted funding bids to British Academy, Welcome Trust, Arts Council England

  • Elected to Peer Review College for Arts and Humanities Research Council

  • Appointed as a Permanent Fellow of the London Graduate School

Gavin Stewart


  • Stewart, Gavin (2010) "The Paratexts of Inanimate Alice: Thresholds, Genre Expectations and Status", Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 16, No. 1, 57-74 (2010)DOI: 10.1177/1354856509347709

  • Stewart, Gavin (2010) Ergodicity and ARGing, at Under the Mask, Perspective on the Gamer 2010, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, Wednesday 2nd June 2010

  • Stewart Gavin (2009) Texter-in-residence, A Mobile Phone Haiku Project, Determining Creative Practice - A practice-based research symposium,MeCCSA: Media, Communication & Cultural Studies Association, University of Bedfordshire, Luton



Maria Wiener

  • Presented a paper in Athens at a conference Dancing Bodies: Practices and Politics" entitled Unconscious and the Wonder of Creativity" alongside new animation work called "Start From Scratch"



Keith Jebb

  • Review of Ian Brinton (ed.) A Matter of Utterance: The Poetry of J. H. Prynne (Shearsman 2009) appeared in The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry Vol 2 Number 1, (March 2010).

  • Keynote address at the 16th International Reflective Practice Conference at Putteridge Bury, UOB.

  • Editor - Divergence (online international journal of innovative and experimental writing and poetics). Planning to go live over the summer and launch officially in the autumn.



Appendix 3



JOURNALISM & COMMUNICATION RESEARCH GROUP MEETING
Notes of meeting held on 29 June 2010, A103.
Present: Professor Alexis Weedon, Professor Ivor Gaber, Professor Garry Whannel, Dr Janey Gordon, Ms Deena Ingham, Mr Robin Britten, Dr Gavin Stewart, Dr Alec Charles
Apologies: Professor Jon Silverman
The group were asked to consider ideas to promote research impact, foster private and public sector industry links, increase numbers of PhD and postdoctoral research students, and enhance the student experience.
The following ideas were discussed:


  • The creation of a co-funded AHRC research studentship in collaboration with industry (possible partners might include EasyJet or the Bedfordshire Police);




  • The involvement of Dr Jen Clemitson (Research Development Manager, Knowledge Hub) in the development of opportunities for links with industry;




  • An event or series of events which might attract representatives of industry in order to promote contacts for research applied opportunities and collaborations: such events might include an Open Day (a taster session allowing guests into ongoing classes) for the Professional Doctorate and public lectures in the series promoted by the Knowledge Hub;



  • The development and promotion of individual units within postgraduate provision as CPD units (note: this should be highlighted in the documentation for the approval of new courses);




  • Public sector research projects (commissioned but conducted gratis) in order to promote the impact of research;




  • Inset days for school teachers in areas of media and communications training;




  • The promotion of training, consultancy and research services offered by RIMAD through the Knowledge Hub section of the University website;




  • The development of a RIMAD/BIMAP media/journalism weblog for inclusion on such platforms as the AJE website;




  • The development of links with the business community in Milton Keynes (DI is a member of the MK Chamber of Commerce);




  • The use of Radio LaB in the dissemination of training-style talks on media relations and communications, in the promotion to industry and to the local community of research activities and opportunities for collaboration, and in the promotion and practice of media relations and communications training activities.



Appendix 4
Junior Research Institute (jRI), Division of Performing Arts and English
The jRI was set up in 2009 - 2010 as a pilot scheme to encourage undergraduate students to recognise, participate in and contribute to a shared research community between academics and students in the Division of Performing Arts and English. The creation of the pilot scheme facilitated the initial research required to set up a jRI that was fit for purpose and specifically designed for students studying the arts within the division. Early research revealed that student perceptions of research and the existing research community needed to be changed, and the creation of the jRI aimed to do this.
Students were given the opportunity to be informed research participants in staff RiT projects. Students were encouraged and supported to write academic reflective accounts of their involvement in this research. This led to one dance student embarking upon the jRI associate fellowship scheme and being mentored in writing a paper for internal publication (2010). There are other students involved in the mentorship scheme working towards associate fellowships and full fellowships from both English and Dance, the dissemination of this undergraduate research will happen in this current academic year through; the research performance platform Junior TestBed (3rd Nov 2010), an article written for undergraduate publication (2011) and a staff/ student collaborative article for publication (2011 – 2012).

The jRI also created and delivered a programme of workshops for enhancing research skills. These were successful and student feedback on the relevance and value of these was very positive.


The first year of the jRI focused on researching the need for and design of an effective scheme, running and evaluating pilot projects and student opportunities.
Following the success of the pilot scheme, the jRI 2010 – 2011 builds on this success as well as offering more opportunities within the research community¹.
The jRI is the result of a meta-research project into research skills in undergraduate performing arts students. This research has been disseminated in a presentation and poster at the University of Bedfordshire conference 2010, and in a published chapter ².

¹ See jRI proposal 2010 – 2011 document for more information



²Hunt, S. (2010) ‘Junior research institutes: an exploration into the need for, creation of and benefits from developing undergraduate research initiatives at UoB’. In Atlay, M. & Coughlin, A. eds. Creating communities: developing, enhancing & sustaining learning communities across the University of Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire: University of Bedfordshire
Research Degrees Awarded


Name

Degree

Mode

Date of Reg.

Date of Sub.

Viva

Date of Award

Time to Sub.

Total Time

Title of thesis

Akhmal Hamed Abdelrahman

PhD

FT

28-Feb-05

24-Feb-09

15-Apr-09

21-Dec-09

48m

58m

Compositional Structures in Mural Design Towards a Site-Specific Deconstructive Mural Methodology

Shireen Janmohamed

MA

PT

29-Oct-07

18-Nov-09

14-Jan-10

14-Jan-10

23m

27m

Ideological Analysis and Cinema Fictions

Nigel Robinson

PhD

FT

01-Sep-06

26-Aug-09

15-Dec-09

15-Mar-10

36m

42m

The Apothecary’s Tales: A game of language in a language of games

Robin Saklatvala

MA

PT

01-Sep-07

29-Sep-09

17-Dec-09

19-Apr-10

25m

30m

Designing an arts festival: constructing authenticity.

Tracey Minutillo

MA

FT

05-Nov-08

05-Nov-09

06-Jan-10

13-May-10

12m

18m

‘Gender and Genre: Subverting the Norm in Contemporary Women’s Fiction’

Janey Gordon

PhD(P)

PT

05-Dec-07

 

 

25-May-10

 

 

"Other spirit voices in the air": community radio, mobile phones and the electromagnetic spectrum

Ana Garcia-Lopez

PhD

FT

01-Sep-05

28-Aug-09

24-Feb-10

06-Jul-10

48m

58m

Feminine identity as the site of struggle: the confrontation of different models of femininity in contemporary Spanish cinema directed by women (1990-2005)


Current Research Students


Reg No

Name 1

Name 2

Institute

Dir of studies

mode

degree

0513869

ANSLOW

James

MAD

Prof Luke Hockley

PT

M/P

99156342

BAKER

Catherine

MAD

John Stephens

PT

PPP

99143366

BENAGR

Samuel

MAD

Prof Garry Whannel

PT

PhD

0817847

BENNETT

Catherine

MAD

Helen Bailey

PT

MA Res;

0503860

CONWAY

Steven

MAD

Prof Garry Whannel

FT

PhD

0923427

DE SOUZA

Jodi

MAD

Dr Amanda Price

PT

MA Res;

05284273

DOUSE

Louise

MAD

Helen Bailey

FT

M/P

0923374

FAIRCHILD

Anna

MAD

John Stephens

PT

MA Res;

96126524

LA-TRAILLE

Micheal

MAD

J Digance

PT

MA Res

0411487

MASON-WILKES

Jess

MAD

Janey Gordon

PT

MA Res

99153574

OLIVER

Chantal

MAD

Dr Clare Walsh

PT

M/P

0504655

SKOPINSKA

Anna

MAD

Noel Douglas

FT

MA Res;

9804827X

SYER

Paul

MAD

Dr Clare Walsh

PT

M/P

0925507

TERRY

Teri

MAD

Ms Lesley Mckenna

PT

MA Res;

99157343

THOMAS

Lisa

MAD

Prof Jon Silverman

FT

M/P

0811292

WITWIT

May

MAD

Prof Alexis Weedon

FT

M/P

0614876

ZOGRAFOU-ZARIFI

Anna

MAD

Prof Ivor Gaber

PT

M/P




Business and Research Management Institute

Annual Research Report 2009 - 2010


Business and Management Research Institute


Annual Research Report
Academic Year 2009-2010
1. Structure and Research Areas
The Business and Management Research Institute (BMRI) sits within the Business School and manages all of the research activity within the School. It has six main Research Centres: Business and Information Systems Research Centre, Centre for Research in Marketing, Centre for Leadership Innovation, Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment, Research Centre for Contemporary Accounting and Finance and School of Law Research Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. Outside the Research Centres, there is considerable research activity by individuals and smaller research clusters in the areas of Finance and Banking, Branding and Marketing, Entrepreneurships and SMEs, International Business, and teaching and learning.
Business and Information Systems Research Centre (BISC) - has two research groups: Research in ICT Business Applications (RICTA) and Operations and Knowledge Management (OKM). The research interests of the members cover a broad range of research strands.
Centre for Research in Marketing (CAM) - concentrates on streams of research into branding, cross-cultural marketing and marketing communications.
Centre for Leadership Innovation (CLI) - aims to explore the nature of leadership needed for healthy, effective, high performing and sustainable organisations, stimulate research and research-related activity within the sphere of management, in particular with regard to the strategic direction of organizations and the management and development of human resources
Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment (CRELLA) - focuses on the nature and measurement of English language proficiency.
Research Centre for Contemporary Accounting and Finance (ResCAF) - aims to maintain a continuing enhancement of the research profile of the Division of Accounting and Finance.
School of Law Research Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (SLRC) – supports the multi-disciplinary research dedicated to the study of law in society.
A current total of 17 research themes associated with disciplinary specialism and research centres have started taking shape under the guidance of departmental research leaders, summarised as follows:

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