Scholarship in Media Arts & Humanities

Dr Ruth Stirton, Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Law and Chair of the Social Sciences and Arts Cross Schools Research Ethics Committee. 1.   Social media users: human participants Social media research comes under the umbrella term ‘internet-mediated research’ (IMR) which is…

By Jo Lindsay Walton, Research Fellow in Arts, Climate and Technology in the Sussex Humanities Lab The MAH Sustainability Educator Toolkit is a resource to enrich teaching with themes such as planetary and social boundaries, the Sustainable Development Goals, climate…

By Emma Newport, Senior Lecturer in English Literature In 2017, I launched a new creative writing initiative, Sussex Writes, which was developed in conjunction with Mark Fairbanks and piloted at Beacon Academy. We wanted to connect our students at university…

By Victoria Grace Walden, Senior Lecturer, Director of Learning Enhancement So often online learning is discussed as a ‘deficit’ model (Darabi et al 2010, 216). It is compared to in-person, campus teaching, which it can never be identical too, therefore…

By John Walker, Lecturer in British Sign Language I strongly recommend watching the video to see the significance of visual communication illustrated. If the subtitles do not appear immediately, please hover your mouse over the bottom of the video screen…

By Lisa Peck, Senior Lecturer in Theatre Practice. The exercise ‘Caretaking’, developed by the late Ali Hodge, involves a group working together to support one central player. In an empty studio this person wears a veil over their head to…

By Sue Robbins, Senior Lecturer SCLS, Director of CPD Evidence from educational psychology tells us that talking about our learning helps us process it (Resnick, et al. 2017). I run a daily drop-in service to support Academic Development (a core…