“This wall does more for mental health than the uni does”: Theorising Toilet Graffiti as a Safe House for Students
Journal Article
Victoria, M. (in press)
“This wall does more for mental health than the uni does”: Theorising Toilet Graffiti as a Safe House for Students. Innovative Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-024-09712-w
Despite sometimes being considered unworthy of scholarly attention, the study of toilet graffiti, also known as latrinalia, has nevertheless garnered increasing interest among...
Methodological Issues and Challenges in Researching Transculturally
Book
Victoria, M. (Ed.)
(2022). Methodological Issues and Challenges in Researching Transculturally. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
This book sheds light on the ‘unseen’ challenges encountered by qualitative researchers before, during and long after conducting their study. These issues, often shrouded in m...
What's in a Cake: Diversity, Inclusivity and Interculturality
Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M., & Smith, D. (2022, June)
What's in a Cake: Diversity, Inclusivity and Interculturality. Paper presented at Future Visualities: Visual Methods & Ethnography in Interdisciplinary Research, Edinburgh Napier University
Food, death and taxes have been claimed by anthropologists as some of the factors that are common to all human beings. Food is considered an important marker of identity and c...
Graffiti, Place and Society
Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M. (2022, May)
Graffiti, Place and Society. Paper presented at TBS Research Seminar, Edinburgh Napier University
‘DON’T KIL URSELF’. ‘ YOU SHALL OVERCOME.’ The impetus for this study comes from serendipitous encounters with certain types of graffiti around Edinburgh during the covid-19 ...
A ‘Politeness free-for-all’ in a multicultural classroom
Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M. (2010, June)
A ‘Politeness free-for-all’ in a multicultural classroom. Paper presented at 5th International Symposium on Politeness, University of Basel, Switzerland
The strategic use of impoliteness to convey caring relations: A Philippine cultural perspective
Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M. (2009, June)
The strategic use of impoliteness to convey caring relations: A Philippine cultural perspective. Paper presented at Linguistic Impoliteness And Rudeness Conference, Lancaster University
It has been claimed that in some discourse contexts, huge power differential and training philosophy account for the pervasiveness of impoliteness (Culpeper 1996: 359). In thi...