Student projects

This work traces a collection of Palestinian photos and films that have been ejected from public spheres following a series of violent events.

A practice-based PhD programme, Sophie is writing a novel that incorporates a calendar custom, Thankstide, to examine what it reveals about individuals and communities in contemporary England, and how useful it is as a narrative device for the contemporary creative writer.

The project develops research approaches into ‘heritage’ as both a locus of meaning (the heritage object) and a practice of meaning (a doing) which has affecting as well as personal, political, cultural, and ethical consequences within our everyday lives.

This practice-led PhD explores how the materiality of post-industrial landscapes may be used to deconstruct and reconstitute female subjectivity.

Exploring how archives and indexes can be applied to blur the boundary between fact and fiction

A practice-based PhD that investigates our relationship to and understanding of the object and its materiality

This research address how the material and conceptual form of artist books may be used to explore the partial nature of communication and to challenge the fixity of meaning implied by dualism in language

Gathering threads from psychoanalysis, art psychotherapy, and the arts I (re)examine the psycho-social role of reflexive art practice in honing sensitivity to the affective dimensions of human situations and experience.