Oxford Brookes Unscripted

Oxford Brookes PhD student, James Dunlop explains his novel participatory film documentary style and shares some insights with Unscripted about some of the documentaries that he has made in this style, including "Britain's 3 Minute Ferry", "I tried Naturism for the First Time", and "Stand Up for Cancer". James' revolutionary style of documentary-making gives a persona to the cameraman and together with the audience a shared journey is taken. You can explore James' work on his YouTube channel James Dunlop Discovers: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesDunlopDiscovers

Oxford Brookes Researcher, Dr Neal Harris shares his insights with Unscripted about E.F. Schumacher's influential book: Small is Beautiful, published over 50 years ago. Neal discusses his recently published special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory, which he co-edited. He explores how Schumacher's work continues to shape our understanding of sustainable growth, societal impact, and the pressing questions facing economists, climatologists, and sociologists today. You can discover the special issue and learn more about Neal's wider work by visiting his staff profile: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/neal-harris

Oxford Brookes Researcher, Dr Dinah Roe founded the Poetry by Carers project, a series of free online workshops designed for people with caring responsibilities, to create a space for carers to come together and amplify their voices in an accessible and creative way. Dinah talks to Unscripted about the origins of this project from her research interests in Christina Rossetti. You can learn more the Poetry by Carers project on the website https://carerspoetry.org/ you can also explore Dinah's work by visiting her staff profile https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/dinah-roe If you are interested in taking part in the project you can contact Dinah directly.

Oxford Brookes researcher, Dr. Emma Davies has identified that a multi-pronged approach is needed to raise awareness of the link between breast cancer and alcohol consumption to support women who want to cut down or quit. Emma talks to Oxford Brookes Unscripted about this study. You can learn more about Emma's project on her website: https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/alcohol-and-breast-cancer/home You can join the conversation by completing the survey: https://brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bIvN0DR9Yh2HWCi You can find out more about Emma and her wider work on her staff profile: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/emma-davies

Oxford Brookes researcher, Dr. Emma Davies talks to Oxford Brookes Unscripted again to further unpick her work on raising awareness of the link between breast cancer and alcohol consumption to support women who want to cut down or quit. We hear from several of Emma's project participants as they talk about their experiences. You can find out more about this project at: https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/alcohol-and-breast-cancer/home You can join the conversation by completing the survey: https://brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bIvN0DR9Yh2HWCi You can find out more about Emma's wider research on her staff profile: https://brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bIvN0DR9Yh2HWCi

In celebration of World Wildlife Conservation Day we talk with Professor Anna Nekaris, who is a Professor of Primate Conservation and Anthropology as well as Lead in Public Engagement with Research at Oxford Brookes University. Anna, takes us on a journey through her research in nocturnal primates, why she was interested in conservation and in particular the human element of conservation, as well as the ways that Oxford Brookes has contributed to conservation, including highlighting the many successful alumni of the primate conservation courses at Brookes. Anna concludes by sharing with us how we can all actively contribute to conservation. https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/anna-nekaris www.facebook.com/QueenFireface twitter.com/queenfireface www.instagram.com/littlefireface www.youtube.com/user/littlefireface

The Covid-19 pandemic required new ways of working and accelerated innovative practice in school nursing. This mixed-methods study, funded by the General Nursing Council England and Wales Trust, aimed to identify changes in school nurse practice working with children and young people, explore the benefits and challenges in school nurse work to support vulnerable children and young people during the pandemic, map new ways of working, and consider the use of these going forward. We conducted an international scoping review of evidence examining innovative school nurse practice with children and young people, and children’s social care; gathered school nurse’s views through an e-survey across England and Wales to identify innovative practices in front-line school nursing work with vulnerable children and young people, and examined school nurses’ views about new practices with vulnerable children and young people, and work with children’s social care through focus groups and interviews. We sought to identify learning from the three phases of the study to inform future school nursing practice. Final report https://doi.org/10.24384/1EK2-RN30 Cook, G., Appleton, J.V., Bekaert, S., Harrold, T., Taylor, J. and Sammut, D., 2023. School nursing: New ways of working with children and young people during the Covid‐19 pandemic: A scoping review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 79(2), pp.471-501. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jan.15504 Sammut, D., Cook, G., Taylor, J., Harrold, T., Appleton, J. and Bekaert, S., 2022. School Nurse Perspectives of Working with Children and Young People in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Online Survey Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(1), p.481. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/1/481

Dr Casper J. Breuker is one of the founders of Butterflies Under Pressure, a project that has produced engaging practical science activities to engage primary school children with the curriculum topic of living things and their habitats. He is a Senior Lecturer and the Subject Coordinator for various Biological Sciences degrees at Oxford Brookes University, and also Director of the university's Centre for Functional Genomics, which aims to support scientists from evolutionary biology to biomedicine in their genomic research.

Dr Adam Bibbey is co-investigator of Tackling Colour Blindness in Sport (TACBIS), a three-year project funded by the European Commission. He is Senior Lecturer in Sport, Exercise and Health Psychology at Oxford Brookes University, where his research focuses on psychophysiology and sport and exercise psychology, particularly the impact of stress/recovery and other behavioural factors on health and sporting performance. He is currently researching the examination of stress, coping and well-being (in football), personality traits, ergogenic effects of music and motivating health behaviour.

Dr. Kiron C. Neale is a Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University graduate, and expert on systems-level energy transitions, the mainstreaming of solar energy, and small-island energy systems. Dr. Neale's research expertise focuses on the interactions between 'culture' and 'policy' during energy transitions i.e., how Government policies can influence and be influenced by cultures and vice versa to support the mainstreaming of residential solar energy. He has research experience in the Caribbean (Barbados and Trinidad) and Pacific (O'ahu, Hawai'i) and has recently published a book on this topic to highlight the solar energy narrative(s) of small, tropical islands: "Mainstreaming Solar Energy in Small, Tropical Islands: Cultural & Policy Implications”. At present, Kiron is one of the EiE Lead Assessors at Oxford Brookes University where he coordinates energy efficiency audits for small and medium-sized enterprises and community groups in Oxfordshire in the UK. Additionally, as part of his role, he is also involved in the development of a new Oxfordshire energy services company, Energy Solutions Oxfordshire, which aims to help businesses improve their uptake of energy efficiency and renewable energy measures.

Dr Maurizio Sibilla is a Senior Research Fellow in Sustainable Construction here at Brookes. He leads national and international research focusing on the low carbon transition. His work experience over the past few years has focused on the bridge between technology and design culture, reconfirming his interest and enthusiasm for environmental technology. His work was recently picked up by COP26 regarding how our approach to climate research must be more interdisciplinary.

Dr Giulia Rossetti is a Lecturer in Events Management in the Business School, Oxford Brookes University. She teaches modules related to events, festivals, and marketing at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels. Giulia's areas of expertise are: understanding festival and event experiences using cultural sociology and serious leisure theories; festival socio-cultural impacts; and the educational value of festivals and events. Her PhD at the Technological University Dublin explored cultural capital development at literary festivals in Ireland and in Italy (URL: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/tourdoc/32/).

Dr Ingrid Medby is a Senior Lecturer in Political Geography. Ingrid joined Oxford Brookes University in the autumn of 2017, after having previously taught at University College London (UCL). Prior to this, she completed a PhD in Political Geography at Durham University. Her research interests lie in the areas of geopolitics, identity, nationalism, and statecraft, focusing on the Arctic region. Prior to her PhD, Ingrid worked for the North Norway European Office in Brussels, Belgium. She continues to write regularly on Arctic issues for High North News, and engage with related policy.

Simon Kövesi is Professor of English Literature at Oxford Brookes University. He researches working-class writing from the Romantic period through to contemporary literature. His books include Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, 1700-1800 (3 vols, 2003), James Kelman (2007), New Essays on John Clare: Poetry, Culture and Community (2015), and John Clare: Nature, Criticism and History (2017). He is currently working on a book entitled Literature and Poverty: 1800–2000, and a paperback edition of Pierce Egan's 1821 smash hit Life in London. He appears as a boxer-cum-fool in the 2015 feature film By Our Selves, made by Andrew Kötting.

In this instalment, Lindsay Steenberg discusses her research into gladiatorial imagery in the media and the recent release of her book on the subject, Are You Not Entertained? Mapping the Gladiator in Visual Culture. She also guides the listener through the paradoxical pleasures of the contemporary action cinema as part of her new project on the fight scene. Dr Lindsay Steenberg, BA (hons), MA, PhD, Cert HEP, SFHEA Lindsay Steenberg is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University where she co-ordinates their graduate programme in Popular Cinema. She has published numerous articles on violence and gender in postmodern and postfeminist media culture. She is the author of Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture: Gender, Crime, and Science and the recently published Are You Not Entertained? Mapping the Gladiator in Visual Culture, for which she was awarded Brookes' Research Excellence Fellowship. She on the steering committee for the Inclusion, Diversity and Gender Research Network and serves as mentor to early career researchers for the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies. She has recently begun a new project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, to map the fight sequence in post-millennial action cinema with Dr Lisa Coulthard at the University of British Columbia.

The Little Fireface Project is part of Oxford Brookes University's Slow Loris Fund. Led by Professor Anna Nekaris, the team has been working towards slow loris conservation, including in West Java Indonesia where they study the Critically Endangered Javan slow loris. In this podcast, they describe an innovative way to approach conservation, working with the local community to improve farming practices for coffee, whilst at the same time banning hunting and littering - this process has led to the village's certification as Wildlife Friendly. Postdoctoral researcher Marco and PhD student Sophie tell you more!

Dr Ryan C Pink PhD MSc BSc (hons) AFHEA After completing an Msc in Medical Diagnostics and Molecular biology PhD on dietary linked Oesophageal cancer in developing world South Africa, he worked for industry around Europe on a 6 million Euro point-of-care early diagnostic cancer tool, which lead on to working on an early cancer diagnostic tool for the International Technology Research Institute, Taiwan. Ryan went to Oxford Brookes as a Research Fellow in 2009 to set up primary blood cell culture and gene profiling in partnership with WIMM, University of Oxford and The Babraham Institute, Cambridge. Ryan is now a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology and Genomics at Oxford Brookes University focusing on the effect of extracellular vesicles in cancer and CEO of MetaGuideX cancer diagnostics. Ryan help set up the AHSC MSc Medical Genomics course. He is the assistant manager for the Oxford Academic Health Science Partners promoting biomedical research between Oxford Brookes University, University of Oxford, Oxford University Hospitals and Oxford Health NHS Trust. He is widely involved in Public Engagement projects from Art to science festivals and has presented and published his work internationally, including BBC, House of Commons, London Science Museum, Natural History Museum. For his community engagement projects he has a BBC award and made an honouree member of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. rpink@brookes.ac.uk - @drpink

OUR AIM is to raise awareness of human rights issues through the arts including informative films, performances, talks, workshops, and exhibitions. FOUNDED in 2003 the Festival was initiated by Brookes University postgraduate students on the MA in Development and Emergency Practice (DEP) which is supported by the Centre of Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) within the school of Architecture. THE FESTIVAL IS CURATED AND LED by students and the organising committee which is open to all undergraduates, postgraduates, staff and academics across the university. 2020 THEME is RESILIENCE. Through film, art and talks the 18th Oxford Human Rights Festival shares the voices and stories of resilient individuals. We will celebrate cultures, encourage debates and discussions and have opportunities to develop pathways to strengthen our resilience and thrive. Social Media link are https://www.facebook.com/OxfordHumanRightsFestival/ https://twitter.com/oxhrf?lang=en https://www.instagram.com/oxhrf/?hl=en

I am a Research Fellow with the Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice (in the Business School). My expertise is in gender within organisational structures, and I work on GEARING-Roles. This is a 4-year, EU-funded project of 10 European academic and non-academic partners. We are designing, implementing and evaluating 6 Gender Equality Plans with the firm objective of challenging and transforming gender roles and identities and work towards real institutional change. My social media handles/hashtags are: @GearingRoles @CDPRP @kateclaytonh; #genderequality #genderequalityplans #GEARINGRoles #gender #research

Jeremy MacClancy has done long-term fieldwork in the South Pacific, the Basque Country, and southeast Spain, near Benidorm. He talks about why he chose anthropology, some of the things he's done, the challenges he's faced, and what's the point of it all.