- Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
- Media Studies and Communication
- Philippine History and Culture
- Comics and Graphic Narratives
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Visual Culture and Art Theory
- Design Education and Practice
- Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
- Noise Effects and Management
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Digital Storytelling and Education
- ICT in Developing Communities
- Communism, Protests, Social Movements
- Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- Art, Technology, and Culture
- Themes in Literature Analysis
- American and British Literature Analysis
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Architecture and Computational Design
- Literacy, Media, and Education
University of Portsmouth
2016-2024
Background Although 1 billion people live in informal (slum) settlements, the consequences for respiratory health of living these settlements remain largely unknown. This study investigated whether children an settlement Nairobi, Kenya are at increased risk asthma symptoms. Methods Children attending schools Mukuru (an Nairobi) and a more affluent area (Buruburu) were compared. Questionnaires quantified symptoms environmental exposures; spirometry was performed; personal exposure to...
Abstract Reportage drawing is a revelatory act that combines the challenges of quick, gestural with level accuracy in depiction people and places. Add to complications working sometimes hostile or, at very least, less than ideal environments you have highly unique act. drawing, through its quick execution necessitated by environmental flux other conditions, also provides window into genesis drawing. The momentary, intuitive process fluctuates between observed, imagined remembered. Looking...
In his study Storycraft, the veteran American journalist Jack Hart asks following questions about reportage, memoir and other forms of nonfiction writing that proceed from first-person perspective their author: 'Where's storyteller standing? What can he see hear? Whose story is it, anyway?' (Hart, 2021, Storycraft: The complete guide to narrative (p. 39). University Chicago Press). are suggestive formal creative decisions reportage practitioners must make, but also ethical obligations fairly...
A comic book, a graphic research paper, an experiment in image and text – ‘Steal This History’ explores the 1960s (or ‘Sixties’) as it has appeared various historical commemorative discourses. For more than forty years, Sixties been discussed debated U.S. public sphere. Its political cultural legacy continues to excite conflict disagreement. The following pages provide multi-perspective account of that combines allusions events with personal reflection, poetic imagery, symbol metaphor....
The field of contemporary reportage practice is diverse and divergent. No longer drawing restricted to the commissioning structures print media accompanying expectations journalistic doctrine. In drawing, practitioners are seeking subjects circumstances that both personally significant provide some opportunity exploit political social dimensions their subject. authorial shift in not a refutation its origins rather takes those ideals applies them inward. This moment for has come be most...