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Accessibility Activity Diagram, created by Betül Gaye Dinç and Rachel Boyd, 2025. Alt text: The figure illustrates a sideways figure eight—the disen infinity symbol-encircled by text. On the left-side, "institutional" and on the right-side "individual" are written. On the right side, "emotional cost", "student may disengage the PhD", "problem", "self-advocacy, own resources" are written. In the middle, "object" and on the left-side, "tools", "organisation". "policy, legal requirements", "time sensitivity" and "division of labour" are written. Outside the loop, an arrow shows "outcome, coherent guidance".

(Open-access) Accessibility: Review and Repair Recommendations for Northern Bridge Consortium

Two-Thirds of PhD Students Do not Use the Doctoral Training Partnership Website. The Real Problems Run Deeper. What is not working in Northern Bridge Consortium's (NBC) current approach to access? When we asked this question to understand how PhD students use NBC documentation at the 2024 NBC Summer School at Queen's University Belfast, their responses revealed something unexpected: the barriers extended far beyond NBC’s documentation and website. Students highlighted challe

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an anthropomorphic egg and a rabbit meeting

(Open-access) Slowing Down to Find Magic in Viewing: The Poetics of Kęstutis Kasparavičius’ Illustrations

Have you ever wondered why you fell in love with the picturebooks by Kęstutis Kasparavičius ? Sandra Leticia Oropeza Palafox and Betül Gaye Dinç seeks an answer to this question in the Hans Christen Andersen Awards nominee spotlight in partnership with Evelyn Arizpe and the Erasmus Mundus programme, the International Master’s in Children’s Literature, Media and Culture (IMCLMC). You can read the complete post on IBBY UK's website . © Kęstutis Kasparavičius, 2011, Wikipedia

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Book cover written Verbal and Visual Strategies in Nonfiction Picturebooks

(Open-access) Interacting with Nonfiction Picturebooks in Art Museums

How would you represent this satyr mask from Roman period, Anatolia (2–3th century BC), Sadberk Hanım Museum Collection in your picturebook? How do museums or artists utilise nonfiction picturebooks to create multimodal engagements with art? Abstract This chapter analyses nonfiction picturebooks that ease children’s interactions in art museums as they practice meaning-making of the artworks. First, it examines relations between museums and picturebooks to explain art. Seco

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Excerpt from the book cover written "inclusion and participation in cultural heritage"

Reading, play, and critical engagement with cultural heritage: Associating children with Orientalist paintings through an interactive picturebook

"Ambassador's Map" is a picturebook project that foster children's engagements with Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation's Orientalist Paintings Collection in Pera Museum. Abstract This study examines how an interactive picturebook prototype facilitates children's exposure to a museum collection of artworks presenting cultural heritage in Istanbul, Turkey. Picturebooks foster children's creative, cultural, and critical explorations in museums. Many Human-Computer Interaction studie

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Photo of T Shape pillars in Gobekli tepe archaeological excavation

Göbeklitepe and Ecological Thinking: Human/Nature Entanglement in Fırat Yasa's Graphic Novel, Tepe (Hill).

Fırat Yaşa's graphic novel "Tepe (The Hill)" is a call for everyone to demand the human and animal rights with an imaginative journey in prehistory! ©Frank Samol, Unsplash Göbeklitepe is an archaeological site in Şanlıurfa, South East of Turkey. The archaeological excavations present a construction of circular-design and T shaped stone pillars built with basic stone tools in Pre-Pottery Neolithic period, between c. 9500 and 8000 BCE. It is the earliest example of such archi

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