Completed PGRs
Details of our completed Postgraduate Researchers and their research2025
| Student Name | Discipline | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Aidan Teplitzky | Conservatoire | Working Class-ical Music: Exploring the Creative Potential of Embodying Working-Classness in a Folio of New Interdisciplinary Compositions |
| Simon Crisp | Media | Mediating yoga: An exploration of the cultural translation of yoga in the UK through its popular representations (1955-1975) |
| Alan Musson | Media | Documenting the Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra 1968-1980 through radio-style production |
| Lisa Deml | Art & Design | Towards Citizen Spectatorship: Visual Culture and Shifting Perceptions of Documentary Media since the Arab Uprisings |
2024
| Student Name | Discipline | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Bruce Forman | Conservatoire | Olivier Messiaen’s Liturgical Improvisations: A Theological Practice and its Resonances |
| Simon Fleury | Art & Design | Conservator as Artist: Re-thinking intra-objectivity for contemporary art practice via the Raphael Tapestry Cartoons |
| Claire-Gillian McIntosh | Media | Teaching Through Music: The Curriculum for Excellence and Interdisciplinary Learning |
| Mengqi (Sam) Li | Media | Beyond Stereotypes: Exploring the Multi-layered Portray of China in and around Video Games |
| Laura Farré Rozada | Conservatoire | Conceptual Simplification: an Empirical Investigation of a New Method for Analysis, Learning and Memorisation of Post-Tonal Piano Music |
| Ying (Cherry) Sun | Art & Design | Square Dancing in Contemporary Urban China |
| Daniel Sheppard | Media | Gays, Women, and Chainsaws: Queer Approaches to Characterisation and Identification in Contemporary Slasher Film and Television, 1996-2019 |
| Ross Hawkes | Media | The semi-professional journalist: An investigation into the practice and experiences of independent local news journalists |
| Jessica Glaser | Art & Design | In search of the First Lady of Typography: A reappraisal of Beatrice Warde |
| Wanshu Li | Art & Design | Exploring the potential of UV-reactive materials as body adornment through performance art |
| Roxanne Korda | Conservatoire | ‘LIBRETTISING’ SCIENCE: Using operatic narrative and performance to re-present scientific thought in an investigation of new methods towards developing contemporary opera |
| Melinda Maxwell | Conservatoire | An Instrumental Unlocking with Performer as Innovator: the oboe as protagonist in re-thinking the relationships between Performance, Improvisation, and Composition |
| Daniel Blanco Albert | Conservatoire | Composition strategies for the creation of science-based interdisciplinary and collaborative music-theatre |
| Yfat Soul Zisso | Conservatoire | Distillation, Embodiment, Vulnerability: Expressing and Transforming Emotional States in Musical Composition Through the Lens of the Composer-Performer |
| Benjamin Tassie | Conservatoire | Renaissance Synthesisers: New Frameworks for Composition and Performance with Early Music Instruments |
| Lucy Lopez | Art & Design | Instituting with Care: How Might Art Institutions Care Well? |
| Simon Paton | Conservatoire | Creative Orchestra Music (BHX): Developing a shared compositional language |
2023
| Student Name | Discipline | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sarah Walden | Art & Design | The Sensuousness of Error: Investigating glitch, complexity, synesthesia and new materialism in contemporary media arts |
| David Henry Roberts | English | Shakespeare and Bagehot: a Study in Drama and Politics |
| Kate (Kateryna) Sivak | Media | The Informal Screen Media Economy of Ukraine |
| Emily Scarrott | Art & Design | Nurturing the Unfertilised Egg: Towards the Absurd Heroine |
| Sahar Afshar | Art & Design | Gurmukhi printing types: an historical analysis of British design, development, and distribution in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries |
| Rowan Tandiwe Watson | Art & Design | Place Trace: Embodying site and architectural experience through movement praxis |
| Yinglong Li | Art & Design | Expanding the Boundaries of Traditional Enamel Plique à Jour through Hybrid Craft Practice |
| Michael Dring | Art & Design | Comprehensive Plans and Radical Paradigms: exploring the Climate for Change in the Post War Reinvention of Birmingham |
| David Osbaldestin | Art & Design | A new framework for assessing the sans serif in nineteenth-century printed ephemera: Birmingham and Bridgnorth case-studies |
| Michael Boyle | Conservatoire | Absent Performers, Absent Tools, and Their Role in Musical Composition: Exploring Integrated Competencies in the Extended Musical Mind |
| Jacob Koster | Art & Design | Prefigurative Politics and Social Practice: A Critique |
| Frank Mannion | Media | The Dependent Film Distributor: The Role of Entrepreneurship and the Experiential in the UK and Irish Theatrical Film Sector |
| Sulayman Bah | Media | Media Law and Journalism in Post-Colonial Africa - The Case of The Gambia - Regulating Press Freedom: A Political Economy of Journalism in The Gambia |
| Rebecca (Beck) Howson | Art & Design | The Printing Types. A practice based study of design principles in experimental letterpress |
| Vincent Obia | Media | Regulatory Annexation and the Matrix of Dependence: The Regulation of Social Media in Nigeria |
| Jennifer Su Yin Ng | Art & Design | The 'lost' Peranakan Reimagined: Creating new interpretation of lost Peranakan objects through contemporary artistic imagination |
| Martin Cox | Media | Understanding Socially Engaged Arts as Discourse and Experience: Discursive structures of inequality, and art as experience |
| Xin Zhang | Art & Design | Chinese Knitwear Brands: The need for creative design to result in global business success |
| Sean Wilson | Art & Design | A Study of Queer Affect and Relation in Curatorial Practice and Writing |
| Alexandros Drymonitis | Conservatoire | The Artists who Say Ni!: Incorporating the Python programming language into creative coding for the realisation of musical works |
2022
| Student Name | Discipline | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Christian Moerken | Media | The Cultural Value of The Analogue Fiction Book in the Digital Age. |
| Mai Alhasawi | Art & Design | A comparative analysis of the urban and social transformation of three cities in UAE; the question of identity |
| Khyam Allam | Conservatoire | Échos-monde: Towards a hybrid repertoire of contemporary and experimental acoustic, electroacoustic and electronic Arabic music |
| Joanna Fursman | Art & Design | The Struggling Love Between Gesture and Figure |
| Jenny Peevers | Art & Design | What is the importance of memory and personal attachment to places and how does this impact on sense of belonging and sense of place? |
| Nathalie Muller | Art & Design | Lost Futurities: Science Fiction in Contemporary Art from the Middle East |
| Bill (William) Hunt | Conservatoire | From Byrd to Gibbons by way of Hooper: The performance of consort anthems from the golden era with illustrative reference to a critical edition of three anthems by Edmund Hooper |
| Chris Mapp | Conservatoire | “What kind of music do you play?” |
| Christopher Marshall | Conservatoire | Commissioning music for the Proms 1960–1985: constructing new music |
| Christopher Long | Conservatoire | Composing for Amateurs: A practical exploration of interactive creativity and socio-musical relationships |
| Jimena Maldonado Alvarez | Conservatoire | Synergising music and image – exploring a holistic sonic-visual bond through composition |
| Ian Sergeant | Media | Visual Representations and Cultural (Re)Constructions of Black British Masculinities in 21st Century Birmingham |
| Sebastian Fálki Kaczmarczyk Svegaard | Media | "All the Feels!": Music, Critique and Affect in Fanmade Music Videos |
| Jeffrey Leak | Art & Design | Type in the Environment: An investigation into projected graphic interventions |
| Harriet Carter | Art & Design | Beyond Transposition? Exploring Metaphysicality in Birdsong and Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue D'oiseaux Through Painting Practice |
| Jill Robinson | Media | Digital Inequalities: A Critical Study of the Uses of Big Data and Data Visualisation in Addressing Young People's Opportunities for Contributing to Cultural and Social Life |
| Martha Elena Nunez Lopez | Art & Design | Supporting the Sustainable Development of Mexico: An Investigation into the Reorientation of an Undergraduate Industrial Design Curriculum |
| Luan Shaw | Conservatoire | Facilitating the Transition from Student to Professional through Instrumental Teacher Education: A Case Study with Main Reference to the Royal Birmingham |
| Tadas Stalyga | Conservatoire | Out of Place: Interdisciplinary Encounters in Contemporary Art |
| Alexander Hinksman | Media | Creative Mastering: A New Culture of Audio Post-Production |
| Juan Pablo Viteri Morejon | Media | Ecuadorian Independent Music: Resistance, Mestizaje and Globalisation in 21st Century Latin America |
| Federica Mirra | Art & Design | Urban Imaginaries: Contemporary art and urban transformations in China since 2001 |
| Gabriela Csulich | English | Im(Politeness) and Power in the Early Modern English Courtroom (1560 to 1639) |
| Andrew Bain | Conservatoire | Empathic Interaction: A Study of Jazz Ensemble Performance |
| Helen Hopkins | English | ‘Gifts of the World’?: Creating and Contextualising the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s International Collection |
2021
| Student Name | Discipline | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sally Bailey | Art & Design | Locating a Space of Exchange: re-imagining the liminal in contemporary painting practice |
| Samia La Virgne | Conservatoire | Lust and Disgust: Reimagining Injurious Representations and Experiences of Black Actresses in the U.K. and U.S |
| Edward McKeon | Media | Making Art Public: Musicality & The Curatorial |
| Maya Jaber | Art & Design | Integral Design Thinking: A Novel Cross-national Framework for Sustainability Management |
| John O'Gallagher | Conservatoire | Analysing Pitch Structure in Late-Period Recordings of John Coltrane: Interstellar Space and Stellar Regions |
| Daniel Tong | Conservatoire | Reinterpreting Beethoven: Contemporary Compositional and Performance Responses to the Violin Sonatas (1798-1812) |
| Kirsten Sheldrake | Conservatoire | American and British Flute Schools: Technique, Pedagogy and Performance in the 20th and 21st Centuries |
| Julia Szivak | Media | A Study of the Transnational Journeys of British Asian Music and Musicians in the 21st Century |
| Vishual Chauhan | Media | Margins, Memoirs, and Movies: De-coding Dalit Representation in Popular Hindi Cinema (1930s-2010s) |
| Rosemary Whitcombe | English | John Keats and the Literary Letter |
| Emmanual Duh | Media | Media Pluralism in Political Transitions in sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of English language newspapers in Cameroon |
| Soha Alzaid | Art & Design | The Visual Absence in the History of the Ka’ba and the Kiswa: A Response through Printmaking |
| Martin Perkins | Conservatoire | Music in Country Houses of the English Midlands, 1750-1810 |
| Nuo Lin | Art & Design | Art Museums in China's Urban Regeneration |
| Simon Brown | Conservatoire | Britten’s performances of Mozart: practice and interpretation |
2020
| Student Name | Discipline | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jack Ravenhill | Media | Television news media representations of contemporary industrial disputes in public and former public industries |
| Charlie Sarson | Media | Masc4Masc: Masculinity, Gay Men and the Cultures of Online Cruising |
| Ruth Barsky | Art & Design | The Making of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem: Symbol of an Emergent Nation-State |
| Rawan Sharaf Khatib | Art & Design | The Institutionalisation of the Palestinian Contemporary Art Field: Negotiating the Politics of NGOisation, Privatisation and Colonialism |
| Huichao Feng | Art & Design | Cultural-Architectural Assets: a new framework to study changes and continuity of dwellings of Mosuo tribe in transitions |
| Colette Jeffrey | Art & Design | Why people get lost in buildings: The influence of architecture, information and navigator cognition on indoor wayfinding and waylosing |
| Helen Roberts | Conservatoire | Wind Instruments in Provincial English Cathedrals, c.1580–c.1680: Towards a Performance Practice |
| Joe Scarffe | Conservatoire | Conceptualising Musical Graphic Performance: An Investigative Journey of Self-Reflective Artistic Practice and Autoethnography |
| Lara Furniss | Art & Design | Beyond Discipline: Positioning Design Practice and Education for the Twenty-First Century |
| Connor Winterton | Media | Representations of Gay, Lesbian and Queer Sex in Contemporary French and North American Cinema |
| Corey Mwamba | Conservatoire | How the Vibraphone can be a Mouth: Personal Sound on the Vibraphone in Jazz and Improvised Music Performance |
| Sian Hindle | Art & Design | Subjective Embodiment: Jewellery at the boundary of the self |
| Susannah Self | Conservatoire | Quilt Song: Quilting as a model of new operatic compositional practice |
| Bobbie-Jane Gardner | Conservatoire | Collaborative Composition in a Hyperlocal Environment |
| Balandino Di Donato | Conservatoire | Designing embodied human-computer interactions in music performance |
| Paul Taylor | Conservatoire | Abstraction of American Landscapes as Catalysts for Composition |
| Johan Eriksson | Conservatoire | Automatonism: towards dynamic macro-structure in generative music for modular synthesisers |
| Geraldine Marshall | Art & Design | Graphic DNA: towards a taxonomy of environmental lettering |
| Emily Bettison | Media | The creation of creativity in radio: How does radio as an industry define, practice and negotiate creativity? |
| Angela English | Media | On the periphery: archive film, public history and memory in places and spaces on the borders of London |
| Niccolo Granieri | Conservatoire | Augmenting the experience of playing the piano: controlling audio processing through ancillary gestures |
| Selina Schmidt | English | Rapport management in online spoken interaction: A cross-cultural linguistic analysis of communicative strategies |
2019
| Student Name | Discipline | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Ronny Krippner | Conservatoire | Organ Improvisation in the Anglican Cathedral Tradition: A Portfolio of Professional Practice with Critical and Contextual Commentary |
| Riaan Vosloo | Conservatoire | The certainty of chance and a new noise: A pan-idiomatic approach that explores the boundaries of composition, improvisation and creative technology |
| Daniel Galbreath | Conservatoire | Conceptualising Choral Play: The Creative Experience of Aleatory Choral Music |
| Andrew Toovey | Conservatoire | Viscerality in Music: Directness as a form of Communication |
| Khulod Albugami | Art & Design | Al-Sadu as a Way of Understanding the Sociospatial Practices of Contemporary Art by Saudi Women |
| Yi Liu | Art & Design | An experimental and critical study of strategies for the enhancement of creativity and academic achievement amongst Chinese postgraduate students studying contemporary jewellery in the UK Higher Education System |
| Sam Cleeve | Media | Live From Nowhere: Virtual Reality, Musical Performance, and the Simulation of Audience Experience |
| Giulia Galasso | Conservatoire | The Mass Collection Octo Missae (1663) by Francesco Foggia (1603-1688): An Analytical Study and Critical Edition |
| John Grayson | Art & Design | South Staffordshire Enamels: The Lost Craftsmanship of Eighteenth-Century Copper Substrate |
| Guy Osherov | Art & Design | The Poetic Mechanics of Erasure: Practicing the Minor Politics of Sound Recording |
| Maya Verlaak | Conservatoire | Hexenhaus - a scrutinising compositional position |
| Joseph Wright | Conservatoire | The Design of Exploratory Sonic-Play Instruments With Non-Verbal Young People on the Autistic Spectrum |
| Tamadher Alfahal | Art & Design | Curating & Creating A Practical Approach for Contemporary Islamic Design Pedagogy and Practice |
| Siobhan Stevenson | Media | Discourses of Community Radio; Social Gain Policies in Practice |
| Richard Stenton | Conservatoire | Publishing as a Musical Practice |
| Tamara Peeters | English | Power and Language in the Wars of the Roses |
2018
| Student Name | Discipline | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Andy Ingamells | Conservatoire | Grandchildren of Experimental Music - Performing the compositional act by creating intriguing situations in which musical sound may occur |
| Paul Norman | Conservatoire | Unprotected Practice: Including Process as Compositional Material |
| Paul Leonard Nevins | Conservatoire | Trumpet in Transition: A History of the Trumpet and its Players in the United Kingdom through the Music and Relationships of Sir Edward Elgar |
| Alberto Condotta | Art & Design | Diffracting Painting: 'Mattering' as Reconfiguration of its Making, Understanding and Encountering |
| Tatiana Papageorgiou | Conservatoire | The Piano Music of Mikis Theodorakis: A Cornerstone of the Period 1940-1960 |
| Ezinne Igwe | Media | Formalizing Nollywood: Gentrification in the Contemporary Nigerian Film Industry |
| Muhammad Sayyid Bin Shafiee | Conservatoire | The Sound of Gaudi: Method of Interpreting Antoni Gaudi’s Building Design into the Domain of Musical Composition |
| Karen Patel | Media | The Politics of Expertise in Cultural Labour |
| Craig Hamilton | Media | The Harkive Project: popular music, data and digital technologies |
| Jerome Turner | Media | Hyperlocal Community Media Audiences: An ethnographic study of local social media spaces and their place in everydat life |
| Sheridan Horn | Art & Design | Living with Loss: An Enquiry into the Expression of Grief and Mourning in Contemporary Art Practice |
| Jakub Ceglarz | Art & Design | Materializing Palimpsest: interrogation into palimpsestuousness as a queer enactment in artistic research |
| Michael Fletcher | Conservatoire | Picasso(s): History, originality and performing the creative process |
| Peipei Yu | Art & Design | Seeking cultural originality - a critical study on contemporary product design in China |
| Ahmad Saleh Almontasheri | Art & Design | The Transformation of Calligraphy from Spirituality to Materialism in Contemporary Saudi Arabian Mosques |
| Sijing Chen | Art & Design | The Transformation of Guai Imagery in China (1949-78) |
| Patrick Giguere | Conservatoire | An exploration of the duende in the composition of musical works |
| Gregory Paul Dunn | Art & Design | Touching Topography: Negotiating Landscape Encounters with 'Several Parts' of the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |
| Andrea Granitzio | Conservatoire | Stone and water in sound: A composition portfolio informed by the natural growth processes of stalactites and stalagmites |
| Regina Seiwald | English | Towards a New Theory of Metafiction: Literary Self-Reflexiveness in Contemporary British Fiction. |
| Stuart Mugridge | Art & Design | -becoming-#langscape-[fold here] intra-rupting landscape, language and the creative act |
| Sarah Elizabeth Raine | Media | 'A Little Togetherness': Making claims, negotiating boundaries, and forging meaning as a young member of the British northern soul scene |
| Graham Waterhouse | Conservatoire | The balance of traditional and progressive musical parameters through the concertante treatment of the piano |
| Samuel Coley | Conservatoire | Music Documentary Production Practices for Commercial Radio |
| Ting Zhao | Art & Design | Contemporary Fashion Illustration in China and its Application in the Chinese Fashion Market with Special Reference to Chinese Elements |
2017
| Student Name | Discipline | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hans Koller | Conservatoire | Twelve Reinventions for George Russell: The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization as a Transformative Tool in Contemporary Composition |
| Camille Chinneck | Art & Design | Idea Management: Enhancing External Innovation Capabilities within Front-End Activities |
| Samantha Hughes-Johnson | Art & Design | The Fresco Decoration of the Oratorio dei Buonomini di San Martino: piety and charity in late fifteenth-century Florence |
| Rene Mogensen | Conservatoire | Typology of relations between acoustic instruments and electronics in concert muisic: an analysis -and composition-based approach |
| Mattia Paganelli | Art & Design | Finitude, Possibilities, Dimensionality: Aesthetic after Complexity |
| Rebecca Struthers | Art & Design | Unravelling the myth of the 'Dutch forgery': The production, trade and dissemination of grey market watches in Europe, 1750 - 1820 |
| Marta Perez Garcia | Art & Design | Design driven Innovation: Enhancing Idea Quality in Front End Idea Generation Practices in Large Multinational Companies (MNCs) |
| Mohammad Ali | Art & Design | The influence of the physical environment on learning behaviour: a case study of intermediate schools in Kuwait |
| Zhixia Yang | English | A Corpus-based Study of Rhetorical Questions in Monologic Genres in the Framework of Relevance Theory |
| Yanyan Wang | Art & Design | Creating a New Urban Life: A Critical Study of the Educational Significance of the Shanghai Biennale |
| Darquise Bilodeau | Conservatoire | Gabriel Fauré and I'organisation du mouvement: Poetic prosody and rhythmic continuity in the songs (1861-1921) |
| Sharon Watson | Art & Design | Exploring nature in urban wildspaces with young filmmakers |
| Rachel-Ann Charles-Hatt | Media | The effectiveness of the Shoot to Live community initiative in addressing the needs of the at-risk youth in Trinidad and Tobago |
| Edmund Hunt | Conservatoire | 'The Difference Between Us': Using Early Medieval Northern European Texts in the Creation of A Work for Instrumental Ensemble, Voices and Electronics |
| Noha Ali Atef Yusuf Hefny | Media | The Interaction between Citizen Media and the Mainstream Media: Media Organisation in Egypt during 2011, 2012 and 2013 |
| Simon Cummings | Conservatoire | Cloud Triptych: an exploration of stochastic movement between discrete musical behaviours |
| James Horrocks | English | Mature Poets Steal: a novel, Notes to Self, and an extended essay on that work |
| Grace Alexandra Williams | Art & Design | The Supernatural Sex: Women, Magick and Mediumship, Assembling a Field of Fascination in Contemporary Art |
| Rachel Marsden | Art & Design | The Transcultural Curator: Translating Networked Curatorial Practices in the Chinese Context since 1980 |
| Anastasia Nikologianni | Art & Design | The role of low carbon, spatial quality and drawings in landscape-based regional strategies |
2016
| Student Name | Discipline | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Joanna Szalewska Pineau | Conservatoire | Performing Szymanowski: A pianist's perspective |
| Alex Albans | Art & Design | Site Seeing: Interpreting Site in Landscape Architecture |
| James Dooley | Conservatoire | Sounding the environment: research through composition exploring the interplay of space and place in musical and installation works |
| Andrew Kehoe | English | Harnessing the web as a source of data for linguistic analysis |
| Adam Whittaker | Conservatoire | Musical Exemplarity in the Notational Treatises of Johannes Tinctoris (c.1435-1511) |
| Tychonas Michailidis | Conservatoire | On the hunt for feedback: Vibrotactile feedback in interactive electronic music performances |
| Christian Goursaud | Conservatoire | The Neapolitan Presentation Manuscripts of Tinctoris’s Music Theory: Valencia 835 and Bologna 2573 |
| Jacob Tsado | Media | Reporting Violence or Mediating Peace? The Nigerian Press and the Dilemma of Peace Building in a Democracy |
| Stuart Stevens | Conservatoire | New Tonal: musical composition exploiting and developing the alternative functional harmony of the Bohlen-Pierce scale. |
| Fang Fang | Conservatoire | Echoes of Chinese Folksong: Degrees of Integration and Separation in the Use of Pre-existing Regional Chinese Folksong and Composed Material |
| Faye Davies | Media | What promotional and textual discourses are constructed over the production lifecycle of ‘The L Word’ and how do audiences respond to producer decisions within such discursive constructions? |
2015
| Student Name | Discipline | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Haiyan Men | English | Vocabulary Increase and Collocation Learning: A corpus-based cross-sectional study of Chinese EFL learners |
| Bushra Zalloom | Art & Design | The Social Sustainability of Urban Landscape - Case Study of Abdali regeneration (the new downtown of Amman) |
| David Baltuch | Conservatoire | Orchestral Conducting Since 1950: A Comparative Analysis of Conducting Manuals, Practitioners’ Testimonies and Two Orchestral Performances |
| Tim Perkins | Conservatoire | Metta Vee: A Stylistic Journey Through a Landscape of String |
| Lorenzo Beretta | Art & Design | An Accessory Becomes Protagonist: The New Materiality of Sound in Spatial Design |
| Tao Ma | English | The Structural Basis of Figurative Compound Interpretation |
| Laura Coucill | Art & Design | Tensions between theory and practice in sustainable architectural design |
| Claudio Forcada-Delgado | Conservatoire | Good Practice in Violin Pedagogy: Psychological Aspects Related to the Acquisition of Motor Skills |
| Quimei Yu | Art & Design | Inequality in Chinese Higher Education And Its Relation to Students' Internal Mobility: A case study of internal movement of art and design university students |
| Joanna Lee | Conservatoire | Dramatic vocal composition combining lyrics singing with extended vocal techniques |
| Susan Cannon | Conservatoire | Anubis – Triptych of Orchestral Works |
| Roger Gill | Art & Design | Pinturicchio's Frescoes in the Sala dei Santi in the Vatican Palace: Authorship and a new iconological interpretation of the 'Egyptian' theme |
| Sandra Da Costa | Art & Design | The Choreography of Landscape Experience. Person-Place Interactions in Selected Environments |
| Sara Hubrich | Conservatoire | The Creative Embodiment of Music - Practice-Based Investigations into Staged and Embodied Interpretations of Instrumental Music in Volumes l and II |
| Jian (Laura) Leng | Art & Design | Gatekeeping the arts: National Policy, student perception and the art and design entrance examination in China |
| Leslie Johnson | Media | Cultural entrepreneurship and reggae culture: a practice-based exploration of black heritage through interactive visual media and design |
2014
| Student Name | Discipline | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Christos Noulis | Conservatoire | Somatic Education and Piano Performance |
| Andrew Thomas | Conservatoire | Journeys to Recover the Future |
| Amy Bourbon | Art & Design | Towards a New Way of Thinking in Painting through the Application of Analogous Notions of Listening and Analysis in Acousmatic Music |
| Jennifer Gadsby | Art & Design | Scenogrpahy in Museum Design: an examination of its cultural use, and its impact on visitors' value of experience |
| Jacqueline Taylor | Art & Design | Writing//painting: l’écriture feminine and differences in the making |
| Sebastiano Dessannay | Conservatoire | ‘The Cry of the Double Bass’: a chamber opera |
| Selina-Jayne Topham | Art & Design | Soft Glass - The Aesthetic Qualities of Kiln Formed Glass with Recycled Inclusions |
| Lisa Metherell | Art & Design | Glittering Orientations: Towards a Non-Figurative Queer Art Practice |
| Amy Twigger Holroyd | Art & Design | Folk Fashion: Amateur re-knitting as a strategy for sustainability |
| Gabrielle Kaufman | Conservatoire | Gaspar Cassadó: A Study of Catalan Cello Arrangements and Cello Performance Style |
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