RESEARCH ROUNDUP
32 ANNUAL REVIEW RESEARCH
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r Robin Bunce, Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Politics, coauthored the authorised biography of Diane Abbott MP, published by Biteback Publishing in September 2020. The book was named as a Waterstones Best Politics Book of the Year. Robin also worked as historical consultant on Mangrove, a film made by Steve McQueen exploring the arrest of the Mangrove Nine, which was screened on the BBC to widespread acclaim in November. Professor Karen Coats, Director of the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature, has published the following papers and chapters this year: • Cadden, M., Coats, K. and Trites, R. S., Eds. “Teaching Young Adult Literature” MLA Options for Teaching Series • “From ‘Death be not Proud’ to Death Be Not Permanent: Shifting attitudes toward death in contemporary young adult literature” International Journal of Young Adult Literature, Vol. 1, Issue 1. • “The Self in Twentieth Century American Children’s Literature: A Tale of Two Schemas” Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods Edited by Rachel Conrad and L. Brown Kennedy, Palgrave, pp. 31-49 • “Genre and Gentrification in the Young Adult Novel” Examining Images of Urban Life Edited by Laura M. Nicosia and James F. Nicosia, Myers Education Press.
• “Line Breaks, Page Turns, and Gutters: Formal Moments of Silence in Children’s Texts” International Research in Children’s Literature, Volume 13 Issue Supplement, pp. 127-140. • Coats, K. (2020) “Diverse Identity in Anxious Times: Young Adult Literature and Contemporary Culture.” Transforming Young Adult Services, 2nd edition. Edited by Anthony Bernier, ALA Neal-Schuman, pp. 17-26. Professor Tim Eisen, Professor of Medical Oncology, was Chief Investigator in a large-scale trial of the drug sorafenib which confirmed that the drug should not be used as a treatment straight after surgery for kidney cancer. The results, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology in October 2020, confirm that active surveillance, where patients are closely monitored for signs of the disease coming back or getting worse, remains the standard of care for patients at intermediate or high risk of recurrence after surgical removal of their primary cancer. Director of Studies and Fellow in Education Dr Karen Forbes has published Cross-Linguistic Transfer of Writing Strategies: Interactions between Foreign Language and First Language Classrooms (Published October 2020 by Multilingual Matters). Aimed at both researchers and practitioners, the book draws on research evidence to explore the ways in which skills and strategies developed in a foreign language classroom in schools can positively influence learning in students’ other languages, including in their first language. It seeks to encourage more joined-up, cross-curricular thinking related to language in schools and includes a step-by-step guide for developing and
