Our long history of practice-led PhDs in art, design and media goes back to the earliest days of the ADMRC over 20 years ago. More than 40 students have completed PhD projects, many of whom now have well established international careers as artists, designers, craft practitioners, researchers and educators.
2022
Bolland, Emma. Scripting silence: the expanded screenplay as present-traumatic language
Griffin, Jeanine. Aura in the post-digital: a diffraction of the curatorial archive
2021
Cascella, Daniela. Nothing as we need it for chimeric writing
Middleton, Andrew. The situated agency of studio learning and its value for non-studio disciplines
2020
Knowlson, Amelia. Curatorial insecurity: the impact of 3D scanning and printing on curatorial practice
O'Toole, Bernadette. Beyond the space of painting and poetry: Mallarmé and the embodied gesture
Smith, Rachel. Drawing out Language: From Or to And, Disrupting Dualism through Conceptual Poetics
2019
Al-Ismaili, Amal. Interpreting the Traditional Jewellery of Bedouin in Oman through Contemporary Jewellery Practice
Gent, Susannah. The neuroscientific uncanny: a filmic investigation of twenty-first century hauntology
Herring, Jonathan. Photographic exposure: A critique of the shopping centre
2018
Claisse, Caroline. The augmented house: Crafting tangible interaction in house museums
Day, Michael. Artistic research into distraction, agency, and the internet
Partridge, Rebecca. The Value of a Research Through Design approach to explore Healthcare Service Provision
Taylor, Rachel. Heritage as Process: Constructing the Historical Child’s Voice Through Art Practice
2017
O’Connor, Emma. Re-imagining patient narrative: exploring patient experience of genetic medicine through art practice
2016
Eccleshall, Bryan. Reiterative drawing as translation: Making, resistance, and the negotiated encounter
2015
Bec, Remi. Utilising games and design-research methodology to promote physical activity among adolescents
Harrington, Jerome. Process made visible - in and outside the object
Hobson, Gillian. In Search of Space: Exploring the Dynamic Relation of Person and Place
2014
Chen, Yen-Fu. Creating meaningful bodily expression in virtual worlds : Inquiring methods for designers
Dexter, Matt. Open design and medical products.
Dolah, Mohd Shahrizal bin. How may designers create furniture that allows meaningful place-making in modern office
Ramli, Saiful Hasley. Mocking up: Strategies to engage expert users in designerly thinking
2013
Holmes, Dale. Abstract realism: Non-anthropocentric strategies for constructing non-relational artworks
Carr, Alison. How do I look? Viewing, embodiment, performance, showgirls, and art practice
2011
Santos, Miguel. Poetics of the interface: Creating works of art that engage in self-reflection
2010
Gonzalez, Laura. Make me yours: the psychodynamics of seduction through works of art
2009
Bowen, Simon. A critical artefact methodology : using provocative conceptual designs to foster human-centred innovation.
Lyons, Lucy. Delineating disease : a system for investigating Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
2007
Wallace, Jayne. Emotionally charged: A practice-centred enquiry of digital jewellery and personal emotional significance
Ehiyazaryan, Ester. Interactive media for enhancing learning and creativity in design and technology education
Shipton, Janet. Understanding the secondary functions of packaging : UK domestic reuse
2006
Horne, Grace. Solid state diffusion bonded damascus steel and its role within custom knifemaking
Wood, Nicola. Transmitting craft knowledge : designing interactive media to support tacit skills learning
2005
Walters, Peter. Knowledge in the making: Prototyping and human-centred design practice
2004
Swindell, Steve. A Study of the Relationship between Art Practice and Citizenship
2000
Whiteley, Graham. An articulated skeletal analogy of the human upper-limb
