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
Anton Hecht: Examining Gamefulness in Participatory Art: Space, Participant and Artefact
The study explores how games theory might elucidate and generate participatory art.
Marney Walker: How can design support the expression of personal aesthetic preferences in dementia?
Although dementia may affect the way we think, we will always know what we like.
Bryan Eccleshall: Resisting Arrest: Doubting the Art Object through Visual Translation
Bryan Eccleshall's research seeks to investigate the nature of that interest in more detail and has moved towards a more nuanced approach
Debbie Michaels: Organisational Encounters and Reflexive Undergoings - A Speculative Weaving in Three Transpositions
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.
Caroline Claisse: The Augmented House: Crafting tangible interaction in house museums.
With my practice-based PhD, I intended to broaden current practice in exhibition design by means of designing for tangible interaction in house museums.
Amal Al-Ismaili: Interpreting the Traditional Jewellery of Bedouin in Oman through Contemporary Jewellery Practice
Research project exploring the subjective value of traditional Omani jewellery
Jerome Harrington: Process made visible: In and outside the object
A practice-based PhD that investigates our relationship to and understanding of the object and its materiality