PhD & MPhil Researcher Community
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Connect with our PhD and MPhil researcher community. We have researchers working across a range of projects all contributing to our overarching research strategy. You can search and connect with our community here.
Our researchers
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Ian Walden
Thesis title: A good death: Creating discursivity around end of life choices through design. ...
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Faith Kirigha
Thesis title: Digital Authoritarianism: A critical examination of the regulation of social media con...
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Mat Osmond
Thesis title: Borrowed Time: fostering adaptive response-ability to socioecological collapse through...
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Tom Hull
Thesis title: Wild Voices: understanding ecological changes in the natural world as signaled by the ...
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Kern Robinson
Thesis title: Folk Horror Otherness and the British Counter-Culture
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Sara Hougham-Slade
Thesis title: A Practice-based study to examine the potential role of weight and correlative movemen...
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Cosima Holmes
Thesis title: Emotionally attached pixels: romantic and sexual attraction towards NPCs and non-custo...
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Kelly H
Thesis title: Off the Hook: Blending and balancing humour with horror in a contemporary horror-comed...
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Andy Dillion
Thesis title: Blood Pours Slower than Rye: Representations of the Irish pub in contemporary crime ge...
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Joskaudė Pakalkaitė
Thesis title: Development of noise-free digital interfaces to benefit large information technology c...
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Elena Traina
Thesis title: “Literatures of Creative Writing” in Emerging Creative Writing Degrees in Spa...
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Carina Assuncao
Thesis title: How is gender diversity experienced in esports communities in Portugal and the UK...
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Dinah Hayward
Thesis title: How can increased knowledge of aural diversity influence, modify and transform approac...
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Julianne Oc
Thesis title: Beyond the Female Popstar Paradigm: Selling Songs in Dark Times
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Rose Johnson
Thesis title: Tis the Night of the Witch: Supporting Difference within Dark Fan Communities
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Vik Gill
Thesis title: The Ghost of Vicarage Row: Crossing the Threshold of Cornish Gothic, Crime and Feminis...
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Lydia Hounat
Thesis title: Intergenerational Healing in the Isefra (Oral Poetry) of Kabyle Women in Algeria ...
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Peter Convery
Thesis title: Metagame Mastery: Understanding the Rules Underpinning the Metagame of Collectable Car...
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Josie Purcell
Thesis title: Cornwall’s ‘Rivercide’ Cyanotypes: can abstract photographic art act as a mediat...
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Chris Hewitson
Thesis title: Performing the Anthropocene: human and non-human animal interaction in the Corbières ...
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Vicki Aimers
Thesis title: Exploring the Narrative Threads: An Analysis of the Young Makers’ and Educators...
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Alan Conteh
Thesis title: Photographing the Invisible: Exploring the Relationship Between Photographic Narrative...
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Ananya Banerjee
Thesis title: Looking into the correlation between sustainable business models and sector specificit...
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Elena Stockton
Thesis title: Who Shapes Us? An Autoethnographic Response to Contemporary Transgender Representation...
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Claire Musser
Thesis title: Multispecies entanglements, from conflict to coexistence: How remote cameras can shape...
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Kiara Fabbri
Thesis title: Exploring Immersion and Empathy in Cinematic VR Journalism Through Direct Eye Contact ...
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Sven Preger
Thesis title: What is the impact of the different storytelling techniques used in factual narrative ...
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Freya Campbell
Thesis title: A good death: Creating discursivity around end of life choices through design. ...
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Rebecca Althaus
Thesis title: Love in the Deadly Silence: making meaning out of grieving through creative writing&nb...