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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Victoria Lucas: Reclamation Ground: Reconstituting Place and Female Subjectivity through Artistic Practice
This practice-led PhD explores how the materiality of post-industrial landscapes may be used to deconstruct and reconstitute female subjectivity.