Directed by Bill Forsyth 'Local Hero' (1983)
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Manderson, D., & Scott, A. J. (2010)
Directed by Bill Forsyth 'Local Hero' (1983). Association of Scottish Literary Studies
This is a study of the feature film 'Local Hero', written and directed by Bill Forsyth, and is one of a series of study guides for secondary school pupils and students in furt...
Distributed Discussion: An Integrated eParticipation Model for Engaging Young People in Technology Policy
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Taylor-Smith, E., Kimpeler, S., & Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P. (2011)
Distributed Discussion: An Integrated eParticipation Model for Engaging Young People in Technology Policy. In Y. Charalabidis, & S. Koussouris (Eds.), Empowering Open and Collaborative Governance, 181-197. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27219-6_10
This chapter describes an eParticipation model, designed to be especially appropriate to young people and complex topics: distributed discussion. It draws on the experiences o...
Productive Ignorance: Assessing Public Understanding of Human Trafficking in Ukraine, Hungary and Great Britain
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Sharapov, K. (2016)
Productive Ignorance: Assessing Public Understanding of Human Trafficking in Ukraine, Hungary and Great Britain. In P. Rigby, & M. Malloch (Eds.), Human Trafficking: The Complexities of Exploitation, 17-40. Edinburgh University Press. doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474401128.003.0002
Focusing on three national case studies this chapter explores the comparative empirical data on public knowledge and understanding of human trafficking, examining the link bet...
The vexed question of humanity in Heart of Darkness: a historicist reading
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Dryden, L. (2006)
The vexed question of humanity in Heart of Darkness: a historicist reading. In D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke (Ed.), Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness, 83-91. Routledge
This book chapter takes a historicist approach to Conrad's Heart of Darkness. It relies on theories of historicim and ethnography and cites Clifford Geertx and James Clifford ...
Enhancing the link between business and operations strategy.
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MacKerron, G. (1995)
Enhancing the link between business and operations strategy. In C. A. Voss (Ed.), Manufacturing strategy: operations strategy in a global contextLondon Business School
This paper reprots on the use of banchmarking to improve the links between business and operations strategies. The use of benchmarking as a toll to facilitate improvements in ...
Coast to Coast 2023
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Smyth, M., & Delaney, F. (2023)
Coast to Coast 2023. Edinburgh: Boom Saloon. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8099962
Through the Coast to Coast Project, Dr Michael Smyth Co-Director of Creative Informatics (https://creativeinformatics.org/) and Frank Delaney from Future Screens Northern Irel...
“Can such goodness be profitably discarded?” Benedict Anderson and the politics of nationalism.
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Wollman, H., & Spencer, P. (2006)
“Can such goodness be profitably discarded?” Benedict Anderson and the politics of nationalism. In A. McCleery, & B. Brabon (Eds.), The Influence of Benedict Anderson, 1-20. Merchiston Press
Imagined Communities has been extraordinarily successful and one of the most (if not the most) influential books in the contemporary literature on nationalism. Anderson’s defi...
Tourism and the European Union.
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Anastasiadou, C. (2006)
Tourism and the European Union. In D. Hall, M. Smith, & B. Marciszweska (Eds.), Tourism in the New Europe: The challenges and opportunities if EU enlargement, 20-31. Wallingford: CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International
This chapter provides examples of the EU's involvement in tourism and discusses potential areas of involvement as these have been suggested in the tourism literature and were ...
Breaking the Rules: writing reflectively for yourself.
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Cowan, J. (2008)
Breaking the Rules: writing reflectively for yourself. In N. L. Mertens (Ed.), Writing, Processes, Tools and Techniques, 109-113. Nova Science Publishers
The rules which epitomise good writing may on occasions be broken, deliberately and with what the writers judge to be good purpose. This can well occur when students or staff ...
Talent identification and development: an academic review.
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Abbott, A., Collins, D., Martindale, R. J. J., & Sowerby, K. (2002)
Talent identification and development: an academic review. SportScotland
The Academic Review was commissioned to help evaluate Sportscotland's pilot Talent Identification and Development Programme which operated from early 2000 to the end of 2001. ...