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...

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 th...

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 th...

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...

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/bro...

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...

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 th...

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 Ce...

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...

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...

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 re...

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 val...

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. Pri...

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...

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, Ph...

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 pract...

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, Ta...

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 Architectu...

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 tra...

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.

In this podcast, Patrick Alexander talks about his new book Schooling and Social Identity: Learning to Act Your Age in Contemporary Britain. Patrick explores the history of schooling before recounting a year in the life of an Oxfordshire secondary school. In telling this story, Patrick asks why it is that schools are organised according to age categories, using the concept of 'age imaginaries' to...

Rebecca is a PhD candidate researching Autonomous Moral Artificial Intelligence. The aim of the research is to investigate ways to creating robots with the capacity to make moral decisions. My twitter is @rebecca_raper.

Dr Richard Carver has been researching whether torture prevention measures actually work. International law makes detailed prescriptions for the measures that states should adopt to stop torture, but there had been no previous evidence on whether these did indeed have the intended effect. In a multi-country study, Richard and a team of more than 20 researchers discovered that the most important el...

My podcast episode focuses on family homelessness and life in hotels and other forms of temporary accommodation. For the project, I spoke with formerly homeless families in Dublin and London about their experiences. Key findings included the devastating impact on children's nutritional health due to a lack of cooking facilities; deterioration in mental health for both parents and adults; feelings...

Dr Susan Cheyne is a lecturer in biological anthropology and is talking about conserving Borneo's wildlife. Dr Cheyne's social media accounts are @DrSusanCheyne and @BorneoNature for Twitter.