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.
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
Louise Finney: Working through Fragments: Fictionalising the Archive
Exploring how archives and indexes can be applied to blur the boundary between fact and fiction
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.
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
Anton Hecht: Examining Gamefulness in Participatory Art: Space, Participant and Artefact
The study explores how games theory might elucidate and generate participatory art.