Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums (2022)
Journal Article
Mansell, J., De Little, A., & Jamieson, A. (2022). Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums. Science Museum Group Journal, https://doi.org/10.15180/221704

This article reports on the experimental methodology and key findings of the AHRC-funded impact and engagement project Sonic Futures: Collecting, Curating and Engaging with Sound at the National Science and Media Museum (2020–21). The project underto... Read More about Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums.

Negotiating Noise: Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines (2021)
Book
Krogh Groth, S., & Mansell, J. (Eds.). (2021). Negotiating Noise: Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines. Sound Environment Centre, Lund University. https://doi.org/10.37852/oblu.115

Negotiating Noise Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines brings together writing by 20 researchers from across Europe and South-East Asia on the slippery but fascinating topic of noise. What is noise, where can it be heard, and what should we do with... Read More about Negotiating Noise: Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines.

Review: Sonic Histories of Cork City (2021)
Journal Article
Mansell, J. (2021). Review: Sonic Histories of Cork City. Reviews in Digital Humanities, 2(9), https://doi.org/10.21428/3e88f64f.f34536d4

Historical Acoustemology: Past, Present, and Future (2021)
Journal Article
Mansell, J. (2021). Historical Acoustemology: Past, Present, and Future. Music Research Annual, 2, 1-19

This article surveys the field and methodology of historical acoustemology, an interdisciplinary area of study dedicated to understanding past sounds, hearers, and listeners in their historical contexts. The article charts the field’s emergence in th... Read More about Historical Acoustemology: Past, Present, and Future.

Hearing With: Researching the Histories of Sonic Encounter (2020)
Book Chapter
Mansell, J. (2020). Hearing With: Researching the Histories of Sonic Encounter. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration (2020)
Journal Article
Cliffe, L., Mansell, J., Greenhalgh, C., & Hazzard, A. (2020). Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-020-01405-3

© 2020, The Author(s). This article presents the results of a study based on a group of participants’ interactions with an experimental sound installation at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, UK. The installation used audio augmented... Read More about Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration.

Sound and Place: Digital Mapping and Community Listening Practice: project report for National Science and Media Museum (2020)
Report
Mansell, J., & Stafford, J. (2020). Sound and Place: Digital Mapping and Community Listening Practice: project report for National Science and Media Museum. Bradford: National Science and Media Museum

The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Cliffe, L., Mansell, J., Cormac, J., Greenhalgh, C., & Hazzard, A. (2019). The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality. In Proceedings of AM '19, Nottingham, United Kingdom, September 18-20, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3356590.3356617

This paper introduces two ongoing projects where audio augmented reality is implemented as a means of engaging museum and gallery visitors with audio archive material and associated objects, artworks and artefacts. It outlines some of the issues surr... Read More about The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality.

Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West (2019)
Book
MANSELL, J., SCHEER, C., & TURNER, S. (2019). Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West. Lopen: Fulgur

"It is in America that the transformation will take place, and has already silently commenced" – MADAME BLAVATSKY With these words, written in The Secret Doctrine in 1888, Helena Blavatsky drew a direct connection to the dynamic energy of nineteen... Read More about Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West.

Introduction: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West (2019)
Book Chapter
Scheer, C. M., Turner, S. V., & Mansell, J. G. (2019). Introduction: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West. In C. M. Scheer, S. V. Turner, & J. G. Mansell (Eds.), Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, Landscape and the American West, ix-xxii. Fulgur Press