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Bloodstain classification methods: A critical review and a look to the future (2024)
Journal Article
Hook, E., Fieldhouse, S., Flatman-Fairs, D., & Williams, G. (2024). Bloodstain classification methods: A critical review and a look to the future. Science & justice : journal of the Forensic Science Society, 64(4), 408-420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2024.06.004

Classifying bloodstains is an essential part of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis. Various experts have developed methods. Each method considers the same basic bloodstain pattern types. These use either terminology based on the observable characteristics o... Read More about Bloodstain classification methods: A critical review and a look to the future.

The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames (2021)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K., & Crofts, M. (in press). The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames. In A. Alcala Gonzalez, & C. H. Sederholm (Eds.), Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming (213-226). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367713065

Manuel Aguirre’s The Closed Space: Horror Literature and Western Symbolism (1990) drew critical focus to the importance of enclosed spaces and Gothic literature; caverns, catacombs and labyrinths. For Aguirre ‘the world is defined in horror literatur... Read More about The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames.

Bridges and barriers to developing visual literacy in UK undergraduates (2021)
Thesis
Bartram, J. A. Bridges and barriers to developing visual literacy in UK undergraduates. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223611

Today’s communication is multimedia and visually-rich. However, there is a possibility that many students leave university without the visual literacy they need to understand the multifaceted role that visuals can play in such messages or to create s... Read More about Bridges and barriers to developing visual literacy in UK undergraduates.

“Rats is bogies I tell you, and bogies is rats”: Rats, repression and the Gothic mode (2019)
Book Chapter
Crofts, M., & Hatter, J. (2020). “Rats is bogies I tell you, and bogies is rats”: Rats, repression and the Gothic mode. In R. Heholt, & M. Edmundson (Eds.), Gothic animals: Uncanny otherness and the animal with-out (127-140). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34540-2_8

Rats are inherently Gothic animals—uncannily intelligent, cannibalistic, constantly present, often unseen but constantly watching. As a single entity, or as part of a pack, the rat is a powerful vehicle for delivering horror in the popular Gothic ima... Read More about “Rats is bogies I tell you, and bogies is rats”: Rats, repression and the Gothic mode.

Monsters of History: Tyranny, Torture and the Gothic (2019)
Thesis
Crofts, M. R. Monsters of History: Tyranny, Torture and the Gothic. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4739178

The Gothic tyrant is a figure that not only plays a vital role in generating fear and manipulating the balance of power in Gothic fiction, but one that has survived throughout the mode’s changing form. It is tyranny that frequently turns Gothic tales... Read More about Monsters of History: Tyranny, Torture and the Gothic.

Space, Scholarship and Skills: Building Library Strategy on New and Emerging Needs of the Academic Community (2018)
Journal Article
Blake, M., Gallimore, V., & Radford, K. (2018). Space, Scholarship and Skills: Building Library Strategy on New and Emerging Needs of the Academic Community. LIBER Quarterly, 28(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10254

This article follows the publication of a previous article which discussed the outcomes of the Understanding Academics research project (2016-2017) which sought to better understand academic staff at the University of York. The project centred around... Read More about Space, Scholarship and Skills: Building Library Strategy on New and Emerging Needs of the Academic Community.

From Hydra to Samvera: An open source community journey (2017)
Journal Article
Awre, C., & Green, R. (2017). From Hydra to Samvera: An open source community journey. Insights the UKSG journal, 30(3), 82-88. https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.383

The Hydra Project started in 2008 through a partnership between the University of Hull, the University of Virginia, Stanford University and Fedora Commons (now DuraSpace) to create tools that support use of the Fedora digital repository. Hull adopted... Read More about From Hydra to Samvera: An open source community journey.

"The Fairy Tale That Won’t Behave"?: Ageing and Gender in Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and Matthew Vaughn’s Film Adaptation (2016)
Journal Article
Crofts, M., & Hatter, J. (2016). "The Fairy Tale That Won’t Behave"?: Ageing and Gender in Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and Matthew Vaughn’s Film Adaptation. Femspec, 16(1), pp.19-43

Fairy stories, it seems, are growing up. Neil Gaiman’s novel Stardust (1999) and Matthew Vaughn’s 2007 film adaptation of the same name are just two examples of the form’s recent resurgence, particularly in film. Recent additions to the genre are dis... Read More about "The Fairy Tale That Won’t Behave"?: Ageing and Gender in Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and Matthew Vaughn’s Film Adaptation.

Communicating the open access policy landscape (2016)
Journal Article
Awre, C., Beeken, A., Jones, B., Stainthorp, P., & Stone, G. (2016). Communicating the open access policy landscape. Insights the UKSG journal, 29(2), 126-132. https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.308

© 2016 Chris Awre, Andrew Beeken, Bev Jones, Paul Stainthorp and Graham Stone. The HHuLOA (Hull, Huddersfield, Lincoln Open Access) project is a two-year Jisc-funded project, which seeks to identify how open access (OA) support mechanisms can be used... Read More about Communicating the open access policy landscape.