RAH! Podcast

Read the episode transcript here: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/artshumanities/rah/news/story/?id=12569

Featuring: Tom Brock on the turn of gambling in digital games and how this has arisen due to the current political economy; Charlotte Gislam, a PhD student researching artificial intelligence, storytelling and video games; and Chloe Germaine-Buckley about her research on horror-themed live action role playing games. We’ll even get to hear how each of our researchers got into this field and some game recommendations from each.

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The Manchester Games Studies Network (MGSN), established at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2016 by Sam Illingworth and Paul Wake, is an interdisciplinary research group working on games and play. Our focus is on both analogue and digital games, and the MGSN team brings together academics and practitioners from a range of disciplines, including Computing, Education, English, History, Media Studies, Psychology, Science Communication, and Sociology. You can find out more about our work here. https://www.manchestergamestudies.org/about

Presented by Matt Foley, edited by Charlie Fyfe-Williams, mixed by Julian Holloway and produced by Lucy Simpson

Disclaimer: The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in the RAH! Podcast belong solely to the speaker, and are not necessarily reflective of the views of Manchester Metropolitan University, or to the speaker's employer, organization, committee or other group or individual.

RAH! Podcast: Episode 004 Launch date: May 2019

Episode transcript available here: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/artshumanities/rah/news/story/?id=12567

In this episode, will focus on personalisation in the transformation of public services, with some really interesting research with real lasting impact for individuals within public services.

Featuring: Professor Chris Fox on public sector reform in the criminal justice setting; Caroline Marsh, an independent consultant who speaks to Chris about how this work has impacted upon practice; and Gail Mann who works on personalisation in voluntary, community and social enterprise services.

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This podcast features the voices of service users. These were collected by People’s Voice Media and are available, open access on the www.communityreporter.net website.

The Policy Evaluation and Research Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University is a multi-disciplinary team of evaluators, economists, sociologists and criminologists based in MMU's Sociology Department. Find out more here: https://www.mmuperu.co.uk/

See the project page for our work on personalisation in offender rehabilitation: https://www.mmuperu.co.uk/projects/a-personalisation-model-for-criminal-justice

See a key findings report on the work so far: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03906701.2017.1422886?tokenDomain=eprints&tokenAccess=Czub6ZwMVbu8yvDrIUAb&forwardService=showFullText&doi=10.1080%2F03906701.2017.1422886&doi=10.1080%2F03906701.2017.1422886&journalCode=cirs20

Presented and mixed by Julian Holloway, edited by Adam Farish and produced by Lucy Simpson.

Disclaimer: The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in the RAH! Podcast belong solely to the speaker, and are not necessarily reflective of the views of Manchester Metropolitan University, or to the speaker's employer, organization, committee or other group or individual.

RAH! Podcast: Episode 002. Launch date: April 2019

Episode transcript available here: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/artshumanities/rah/news/story/?id=12563

In this episode we explore the intersection of LGBTQ+ identities and religion and how religion can provide spaces of belonging for those who have often felt excluded.

Featuring: Catherine Fox on her Lindchester chronicles, where she explored contemporary issues such as gay marriage; Kim McLelland on paganism and LGBT identities; and queer jewish writer and educator, sam sax at an event by the Manchester Writing School.

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Dr Catherine Wilcox is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University. She was educated at Durham and London Universities and has a degree in English and a doctorate in Theology. Writing as Catherine Fox, she is author of seven novels that explore themes of the spiritual and the physical with insight and humour. Her Lindchester Chronicles are published by Marylebone House/SPCK. Link to Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/l/B001KD8HII?_encoding=UTF8&redirectedFromKindleDbs=true&rfkd=1&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

sam sax is a queer, jewish, poet, & educator. He's the author of Madness (Penguin, 2017) winner of The National Poetry Series and ‘Bury It’ (Wesleyan University Press, 2018) winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. You can buy sam's books on Blackwells: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/search/author/Sam%20Sax%20(author)

The Manchester Writing School at Manchester Met is one of the most successful literary centres running in the UK today. The school plays a leading role in establishing Manchester as a city of writers with a commitment to finding diverse new voices and creating opportunities for writer development, enabling new writing and building audiences for the next generation of talent.

Image: sam sax, credit to Hollis Rafkin

Presented and mixed by Julian Holloway, edited by Mia Abeyawardene and produced by Lucy Simpson.

Disclaimer: The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in the RAH! Podcast belong solely to the speaker, and are not necessarily reflective of the views of Manchester Metropolitan University, or to the speaker's employer, organization, committee or other group or individual.

Read the episode transcript here: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/artshumanities/rah/news/story/?id=12211

Featuring: Rodica Arpasanu on Dark Tourism; Eleanor Beal and Craig Young on the upcoming Death and the Sacred symposium and the previous Encountering Corpses series events; and Graham Foster, Iris Feint and Martin Kratz on Anthony Burgess' Beard's Roman Women.

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Dr Eleanor Beal lectures in English literature and film at Manchester Metropolitan University and is an associate of the Manchester Centre for Gothic studies. She specialises in religion, theology and the Gothic with particular interest in the intersections and debates between the religious, the secular and the female body. She is the lead organiser in Manchester Metropolitan's forthcoming interdisciplinary symposium on Death and the Sacred taking place in March. Her publications include chapters in Divine Horror: Essays on the Cinematic Battle between the Sacred and Diabolical (McFarland, 2017) and Transmedia Creatures: Frankenstein's Afterlives (Bucknell University Press, 2018). She is the co-editor of Horror and Religion: New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race and Sexuality (University of Wales Press, 2019) and on the Editing board for The Dark Arts Journal. She is currently working on the monograph, Post-Secular Gothic: Disenchantment and Re-enchantment in Contemporary Gothic Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming). Outside of Gothic and Horror, she has strong interests in feminist studies, film and critical theory.

Presented by Matt Foley, edited by Ben Stott, mixed by Julian Holloway and produced by Lucy Simpson.

Disclaimer: The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in the RAH! Podcast belong solely to the speaker, and are not necessarily reflective of the views of Manchester Metropolitan University, or to the speaker's employer, organization, committee or other group or individual.

Launch date: April 2019

Read the episode transcript here: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/artshumanities/rah/news/story/index.php?id=12565

In this episode we explore Modernist Architecture with a particular Manchester focus.

Featuring: Richard Brook and Janneke Geene on their recent Special Collections exhibition featuring the work of Gordon Hodkinson; Hannah Neate and Steve Millington on modernist architecture in Manchester and the Manchester Modernists Society; and Johnathan Djabarouti on intangible heritage and the significance we attach to buildings.

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Image credit: Day Sketch for a Bungalow Gordon Hodkinson

Disclaimer: The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in the RAH! Podcast belong solely to the speaker, and are not necessarily reflective of the views of Manchester Metropolitan University, or to the speaker's employer, organization, committee or other group or individual.