Unlocking Landscapes Using Locative Media

This interdisciplinary research is situated within the practice and discourse of locative media at the confluence of art, location and technology. The practice-based research project aims to use the arts to address a crisis arising from rapid redevelopment in a marginal coastal town – Hayle, Cornwall. A recent supermarket build on a prominent Hayle heritage quay led to UNESCO’s threat to de-list the entire Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site, awarded only in 2006. Research builds on recent findings on the link between increased sense of self and community cohesion through connection to heritage and participation in the arts. Media artists, participants and theorists have indicated that locative media experiences can promote connection to landscapes and their histories. However, these claims are unsubstantiated by empirical research to date. This research seeks to redress that through systematic analysis (unusual in the arts and therefore distinct). The main research question posed was: Does locative media allow people to develop a deeper connection with landscape and, if so, how? A smartphone deep map app was created – an evocation of a Cornish post-industrial landscape assembled from audio memory traces, sound and visual images revealed using GPS and the moving body. The Hayle Churks app weaves past and present, absence and presence and digital content into physical place. The Hayle Churks app is a research tool and published creative practice that received a national award in 2014. The empirical data is an original contribution to knowledge. Additional contributions include a timeline – a historical overview of the relationship between locative media art and emerging technologies and a deep map app reference tool for artists. The research explores the role of immersion and embodiment and how recording and listening to audio and voice performance affect immersion. Readers of this thesis are encouraged to access the Hayle Churks smartphone app prior to and during reading

Deep Map App Reference Tool

This reference tool guides the reader through the thought, planning and decisions faced by artists, practitioners, producers and commissioners of deep map apps – GPS-triggered smartphone apps that connect the user to the location. Recommendations at the end point to further reading and projects to test on location as well as to listen to online. A good locative media app mixes the media (audio stories and sounds for example) with the location, the everyday environment to make something different and more interesting than when just media or just the place are experienced without the other

Giving everyone a voice – creating locative media & audio walks

A paper for: Symposium: Re:voicing Cultural Landscapes Narrative and Non-narrative traditions across mediaHeritage, Identity and Inclusivity part of: Leeuwarden Summer School in collaboration with the Heritage Lab

Insiders and outsiders researching insiders and outsiders by Lucy Frears & Laura Hodsdon

Revoice research was an international research project led by Dr Laura Hodsdon at Falmouth University. Our research in Cornwall brought up issues around intersubjectivity - what was happening when non-Cornish (English) interviewers interviewed Cornish people about their identity. We expanded on this idea to create a workshop at the Symposium: Re:voicing Cultural Landscape Narrative and Non-narrative traditions across media

No sex scandals please, we're French: French attitudes towards politicians' public and private conduct

The notion of distinct ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres underpins much normative and practical engagement with political misconduct. What is less clear is whether citizens draw distinctions between misdemeanours in the ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres, and whether they judge these in systematically different ways. This paper explores attitudes to political misconduct in France. French citizens are often said to be particularly relaxed about politicians’ private affairs, but there has been little empirical evidence for this proposition. Drawing on original survey data, this paper demonstrates clearly that French citizens draw a sharp distinction between politicians’ public and private transgressions, and are more tolerant of the latter

Metabotyping of docosahexaenoic acid - Treated alzheimer's disease cell model

10.1371/journal.pone.0090123PLoS ONE92-POLN

The "Statinth" wonder of the world: a panacea for all illnesses or a bubble about to burst

After the introduction of statins in the market as effective lipid lowering agents, they were shown to have effects other than lipid lowering. These actions were collectively referred to as 'pleiotropic actions of statins.' Pleiotropism of statins formed the basis for evaluating statins for several indications other than lipid lowering. Evidence both in favour and against is available for several of these indications. The current review attempts to critically summarise the available data for each of these indications