March 2021

Dr Samuel Moore on Plan S and Peer Review

COPIM Research Fellow Dr Samuel Moore has had several publications in recent months on Plan S and Peer Review and the impact this has on open access publishing. Sam is a co-author of Reading Peer Review: PLOS ONE and Institutional Change in Academia alongside Martin Paul Eve, Cameron Neylon, Daniel Paul O'Donnell, Robert Gadie, Victoria Odeniyi, Shahina Parvin. Sam has also had his article on open access and academic freedom: 'Open Access, Plan S and "Radically Liberatory" Forms of Academic Freedom', published in the journal Development and Change. Both publications are open access and available to read at the links.  As well as his own publications Sam was also mentioned in The Times Higher Education's article on Plan S, commenting on the article processing charges of prestigious publishers. 

COPIM Project Outputs

CPC members Dr Janneke Adema, Marcell Mars and Tobias Steiner have written Books contain multitudes: Exploring Experimental Publishing, a three-part research and scoping report created to support the Experimental Publishing and Reuse Work Package (WP 6) of the COPIM project.

COPIM Work Package 3, in partnership with Central European University (CEU) Press has launched the Opening the Future platform with member access to the programme’s curated backlist of books is available through Project MUSE. Opening the Future gives member libraries subscription access to portions of the Press’s highly-regarded backlist and uses the revenue to fund future/new publications in an Open Access (OA) format. 

Watch Professor Mel Jordan's Inaugural Lecture: Art Slogans and Democracy 

Congratulations to CPC Co-Director Jacqueline Cawston who has been conferred the title Professor of Immersive Culture and Heritage. 

Alongside Professor Gary Hall, Jacqueline initiated and developed the Centre for Postdigital Cultures in 2017, having previously worked for the Disruptive Media Learning Lab and the Serious Games Institute at Coventry University. The main focus of her work in postdigital media has emerged from her passion for widening participation for students with disabilities and immersive culture and heritage

A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain

Two fifths of Britain’s leading people were educated privately: that’s five times the amount as in the population as a whole, with almost a quarter graduating from Oxford or Cambridge. In A Stubborn Fury, CPC Executive Director Professor Gary Hall offers a powerful and provocative look at the consequences of this inequality for English culture in particular.

Gary Hall, A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain (London: Open Humanities Press, 2021)

Freee Art Collective: ‘Manifesto for Art'

Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer brings together a collection of text-based and visual essays, commissioned artworks and graphics. This richly illustrated book responds to the concept, aesthetics and function of the political pamphlet. As part of Freee Art Collective, Professor Mel Jordan has produced the chapter 'Manifesto for Art'. 

Freee Art Collective (2020), ‘Manifesto for Art', Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer, (eds) J. Tormey & G.Whitely, pp. 100- 107, Bloomsbury, London

'A Serious Game for Amplifying Awareness on Multimodal Teaching: Game Design and Usability Study' 

STEAM is a serious game developed as a medium for helping teachers to experience multimodality for teaching and learning. In this paper, Dr Petros Lameras et al present the design and usability evaluation of the game. 

Lameras, P., Philippe, S., & Oertel, L. (2021). A serious game for amplifying awareness on multimodal teaching: Game design and usability study. In M. E. Auer, & T. Tsiatsos (Eds.), 13th International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL2019) (pp. 559-570). (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing). Springer

'Designing Mini-Games for Micro-Learning: Open Educational Resources on Cultural Risks in Multi-Cultural Organisations'

Based on a case study of the need for training on cultural risks in multi-cultural organisations, in this paper members of the CPC Dr Michael Loizou, Professor Sylvester Arnab and our colleagues from the Disruptive Media Learning Lab, focus on the design of mini-games as playful learning resources for supporting an online learning platform that has been developed as a response to this training need. 

Arnab, S., Walaszczyk, L., Lewis, M., Kernaghan-Andrews, S., Masters, A., Calderwood, J., Clarke, S. & Loizou, M. Designing Mini-Games as Micro-Learning Resources for Professional Development in Multi-Cultural Organisations, Electronic Journal of e-Learning (EJEL)

PACES Morocco & Egypt Conferences

The Immersive Culture and Heritage Network (I-CAHN) is a collaborative network based in Coventry made up of those working in culture, heritage or immersive technology – meaning augmented reality, virtual reality, 360 video and developing visual digital technology in this field. The I-CAHN Network will facilitate knowledge sharing of immersive experiences, technology and content in the field of culture and heritage. We will encourage partnerships between academic, cultural and commercial organisations to seek opportunities for experimentation and growth.

We will be hosting this network event online on Thursday 22nd April, details to follow soon. In the meantime please email Research Assistant, Holly Turpin ad4612@coventry.ac.uk for more details.