Research publications: Recent submissions
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Shakespeare Recycled: the Making of Historical Drama
(Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992)This book is an exercise in reading Shakespeare's history plays as history. It sets out to challenge Tillyard's view that the plays may be read as historical evidence for the providence-driven theory of history and as ... -
The Prince of Denmark
(University of Hertfordshire Press, 2002)This fictional re-writing of the Hamlet story is set in a time somewhere between the Scandinavian Dark Ages (out of which the tale of Hamlet came), and the Renaissance society of Shakespeare's play. The novel searches past ... -
Visual Shakespeare: essays in film and television
(University of Hertfordshire Press, 2001)Published in books and journals between 1984 and 1998, these essays constitute a resource for the study of Shakespeare in the media. These essays have been acknowledged as pioneering applications of the terms of Shakespeare ... -
Shakespeare: The Roman Plays
(Longman, 1996)An authoritative introduction which considers the Roman plays of Shakespeare - Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus in the light of both traditional and contemporary criticism. The collection of essays reflects ... -
Shakespeare: the histories
(Palgrave Macmillan, 1999)This study reviews Shakespeare's plays in the light of modern theory and modern views informed considering history as re-readings of the past. Both the early modern consciousness of history, obsessed by ghosts and ... -
Anglo-Saxon verse. (Writers & Their Work)
(Northcote House, 2000)An introduction to Anglo-Saxon poetry which combines powerful new translations with lucid commentary, bringing these Old English texts within the compass of the modern reader. -
Mental health issues and adults with learning disabilities
(John Wiley & sons, 2006)Introduction – What is a mental health condition? How does this differ from a learning disability? Prevalence and aetiology of mental illness in people with learning disabilities – Why is their ... -
Testicular self-examination: the person with learning disabilities
(Mark Allen Publishing, 2007)People with learning disabilities are just as much at risk as the general population are of contracting cancer. Mainstream men’s health care needs are often neglected and this is also true for men who have learning ... -
From Globalisation to Internationalisation : Stepping Back to Move Forwards in Progressing Higher Education in Overseas Markets
(2009)By using the MBA as an example, this paper questions whether we should be globalising education on economic grounds, or inter-nationalising to promote learning. With regard to education, globalisation has already begun. ... -
Researching the future : method or madness?
(2003)This paper examines the methodological issues behind futures studies, questioning whether it is possible to claim a futures study as methodologically ‘sound’, and critiquing how futures methodology fits within the ... -
The future workplace : Views from the floor
(2007)Speculation on the future of work and the nature of the future workplace has come to dominate much academic discourse in recent years. Rarely however has the voice of what might be termed the average skilled employee been ... -
The rise and rise of the corporate university
(2005)Purpose – As the boundaries between training and education have converged, the demand for the services of universities and the response of the traditional public have drifted apart, leaving a gap which has been filled by ... -
Building on solid foundations : establishing criteria for e-learning development
(2003)In recent years, advances in technology and changes in the market place for education and learning have resulted in a rapid growth of interest in e-learning. Early experiments in the area have indicated that e-learning may ... -
Inter-rater and intra-rater reliability when measuring interphalangeal joints: comparison between three hand-held goniometers
(2003)Objective: To establish the inter-rater and intra-rater reliability of measurement using a hand-held goniometer within a team of therapists and to discover if this reliability differs when measuring the proximal and distal ... -
Implications of gender differences for the development of animated characters for the study of bullying behaviour
(2007)This paper considers the impact of gender on the design of animated agents that aim to evoke empathy and to encourage children to explore issues related to bullying. High fidelity storyboards containing bullying scenarios ... -
Experience, action and representations : Critical realism and the enactive theory of vision
(2007)This paper defends a dynamic model of the way in which perception is integrated with action, a model I refer to as ‘the navigational account’. According to this account, employing vision and other forms of distance perception, ... -
Early adolescents' HIV-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in Finland
(2002)Finland had a relatively low rate of HIV infection during the first 17 years of the epidemic, which began in 1980. Similar to other developed countries around the world, information about the infection has been readily ... -
Narratives of risk : women at midlife, 'medical experts' and health technologies
(2002)The 'management' of midlife women's bodies is becoming an increasingly important focus for both themselves and medical 'experts'. Health technologies play a major part in this process, given health promotion messages about ... -
Jewish Primary Schools in a Multicultural Society : Responding to Diversity?
(2002)In February 2001 the British government announced its commitment to increase the number of schools run by the churches and other religious groups where there was 'clear local demand from parents and the community'. The ... -
Confronting the Holocaust in Religious Education
(2001)Studies of Holocaust education in secondary schools have tended to focus on how the subject is taught as part of the history curriculum. Comparatively little work of either a theoretical or an empirical nature has looked ...