Student projects

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Rachel Smith: Drawing out Language: From or to and, Disrupting Dualism through Conceptual Poetics

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


Victoria Lucas: Reclamation Ground: Material Reckoning with Gendered Subjectivity through Site-Responsive Art Practice

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


Emma O'Connor: The Reclamation of Patient Narrative: Interrogating patient experience of genetic conditions through film

Using film to explore the relations between the experience, its representation, and its communication.


Sophie Parkes-Nield: Thankstide: The English calendar custom as narrative device in contemporary fiction

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.


Amy Graham: On London Buses: Heritage Practices in Everyday Life

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.


Marika Grasso: Responsive matter: touch-touchscreen relationship through a material explorative approach

The study explores the conductivity of touch through art practice, and material explorative approach.


Daniela Cascella: Nothing As We Need It: For Chimeric Writing

Nothing As We Need It: For Chimeric Writing is a thesis-work in which a new form of critical writing is imagined, enacted, and studied.


Louise Finney: Working through Fragments: Fictionalising the Archive

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


Azza El Hassan: The Afterlife of an Image - Palestinian Images Following Plundering

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


Susannah Gent: The Neuroscientific Uncanny: a Filmic investigation of Twenty-first Century Hauntology

A practice-based study explores how filmmaking, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and neuroscience might interact to generate an expanded understanding of the uncanny and the related concept of hauntology


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