Completed PhD projects
Completed PhD projects by students in the Art, Design and Media Research Centre
Student projects
Student research and projects at the Art, Design and Media Research Centre
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anton Hecht: Examining Gamefulness in Participatory Art: Space, Participant and Artefact
The study explores how games theory might elucidate and generate participatory art.
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.
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.