Research Papers and Publications

2004 'Constructing Contemporary': Common sense approaches to 'going modern' in the 1950s, in McKellar, S. & Sparke, P. (eds.) Interior design  and Identity, M.U.P., Manchester.

2003 'Computer-Generated Animation, "Educatainment" and History: the future of re-presenting past realities?, Conference Paper, State of the Real Proceedings, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.

2001 'An Interview with Arnold Chang', Contemporary Chinese Arts in the International Arena, The British Museum.

1999 'England Our England: Garden Centre guidelines to "earthly paradise" design', Design History Conference, Nottingham Trent University.

1998-9 ‘Five Miles of Liquid Fire’: making sense of spectacle, looking, and Illuminated Art in Blackpool (1879-1998) Edited publication of ISEA98

1996-7 'D.I.Y.' Encyclopaedia of Interior Design, ed. Joanna Banham          (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers).

1996 'Workingmen's Clubs and the Masculine Aesthetic', University of Central Lancashire Post-Graduate Symposium.

1995 'Workers, Workplaces and Workingmen's Clubs: occupational communities and the function of the familiar interior', Design History Conference, Plymouth University.

1994 ' "Common-Sense" Contemporary: the ideals and realities of the popular domestic interior in the 1950s', V&A Museum History of Design Symposium


Current Research Projects


Unsophisticated Interiors: Design for the Common-Man in the 1950s & 60s (Book Proposal)

A Schoolboy Consumer in the 1960s: Making-Sense of Miniature Modernity (Book Proposal)

Grotesque Revelations: Shortcut to the Past  (Scholarly Novel Proposal)

Consultancies

1996-7 Consultant - Social History of DIY for 'All Mod Cons' series, Wall to Wall TV for BBC2