With a cost-of-living and housing crisis, women are turning to the rental platform to make ends meet, as shown in new research by Dr George Maier and ReMAP member Dr Kate Gilchrist. This post by Kate Gilchrist draws on their recent article for Gender, Work & Organisation. In recent years, much policy and research into AirBnB has critiqued of its
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The launch of Cary Bazalgette’s new book “How Toddlers Learn the Secret Language of Movies” will be held at 5.30 pm on 22nd June in The Blue Room at the BFI Southbank. This new book takes a radically new approach to the well-worn topic of children’s relationship with the media, avoiding the “risks and benefits” paradigm while examining very young
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ReMAP members Eleanor Dare and John Potter were co-investigators in this pre-lockdown AHRC-funded Knowledge exchange network, led by PI Dylan Yamada-Rice who was working at the RCA at the time. It established a partnership with academics and game industry people in the UK and Japan to explore location-based VR, site specific experiences that aim to bring together materials beyond those
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This post summarises an article by Kata Kyrölä and Tuija Huuki exploring Disney’s Frozen 2 from the perspective of decolonial queer pedagogies. Why did an animated movie about two young Indigenous women, trying to reconcile settler-colonial trauma, become one of the most popular animated children’s films of all time? What can films such as Frozen 2 (2019, directed by Jennifer
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Harold Rosen: Writings on life, language and learning, 1958-2008, published by UCL IOE Press, is a collection of writings by the influential educator and professor at the Institute of Education. Edited by John Richmond, the book includes over 50 pieces of writing grouped under three headings: the politics of language and English teaching; the role of language in learning; and
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Hamlet the videogame? The Odyssey in VR? How can immersive, playable technologies help make old stories new? This event is the first in an AHRC seminar series, and looks at adaptation of classic literature in games and virtual worlds. ReMAP member Andrew Burn will be contributing on the subject of young people’s game versions of Macbeth. Over a quarter of
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On March 29th, the respected educator Myra Barrs gave the annual Harold Rosen Memorial Lecture on the subject of her new book on Vygotsky. Myra has been a teacher, a publisher, an LEA English Adviser, and Director of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education. She has written extensively about young people’s reading and writing, and about the importance of
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Kate Stonehill, who contributes to the new BA Media film strand, and is a professional documentary-maker, was commissioned by the Arts & Humanities faculty at UCL to create a documentary with Justin Hardy, celebrating the Slade’s 150 year anniversary. The introduction on the Slade’s website says: “Through interviews, archives, artworks, and filmography, the documentary will shed light on the Slade’s
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Steve Connolly, an Associate ReMAP member and alumnus of our PhD and Masters’ programmes, is now Senior Lecturer in Education at Anglia Ruskin University, after having worked at the University of Bedfordshire. Steve is also a member of the national executive of the Media Education Association. As well as working with us on past research projects such as the Ministry
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Colleagues from ReMAP met to discuss opportunities and pitfalls in participatory research, and how a reflexive approach can support a more critical and less homogenising engagement with research practices and knowledge production. Organised by Hakan Ergul, the event was led by Bruno de Paula, who presented some of his recent work developing MissionMaker and facilitating game-making workshops with young people across London.
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