Dance
Coventry University
Lizzy Le Quesne is a somatic dance artist and practitioner with an international practice in performing, teaching, choreographing, research and writing. She is a certified teacher of Skinner Releasing Releasing Technique (SRT).
Media
Birmingham City University
CDA student working with BAFA to explore how arts festivals have changed since Covid-19, exploring how we can use these experiences to build a more resilient sector. Also creative director of Chiltern Arts Festival (chilternarts.com)
Drama and Theatre Studies
University of Birmingham
First year PhD researcher at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford working on Shakespeare and the environment.
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
Zhang Xinyao is in her second year of PhD in Translation and Transcultural Studies at the University of Warwick. Her research interests mainly lie in the fields of feminist translation studies, gender and translation, fan/amateur translation.
Visual Arts
University of Warwick
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
I am a final year PhD student, studying at the University of Nottingham.
Music
Birmingham City University
Second-year doctoral researcher examining reggae music culture in Britain and Jamaica, 1968-1981.
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
I am a first year PhD student. My project focuses on queer vulnerability in French contemporary narratives.
Visual Arts
University of Birmingham
Archaeology
University of Leicester
First year PhD researcher exploring how archaeology can be utilised in deconstructing attitudes towards and the re-representation of those experiencing homelessness.
History
University of Warwick
I am a first year PhD researcher looking at the intersections between masculinity, disability and physicality within the Antebellum South. This research looks at both plantation labour spaces and industrial labour spaces.
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
I am a first year PhD student specialising in twentieth-century American literature. My current research is on Chiacgo's radical literary history, focusing specifically on the novel.
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
My PhD examines the existing Anthropocentric imaginary of the subsurface in a creative and critical project. Areas include the underground uncanny, the human and non-human, the curious temporality of geological time and Earth's subterranean resources.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
First-year PhD student researching the reception of Simone de Beauvoir's Marxism within continental feminist thought.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
I am a first year PhD student and cultural manager with a social change perspective. My research focuses on the practices, discourse and limits to decolonisation of museums in contemporary Plurinational Bolivia.
Classics
University of Warwick
I am a first-year PhD student at the University of Warwick. My research focuses on the construction of identity and otherness in the 'Imagines' of Philostratus (II-III century CE).
Classics
University of Birmingham
My research looks at informal diplomatic practices in the late Roman Republic, with a special focus on the political use of social roles in Cicero's letters.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
Second year PhD: assessing archaeological evidence for magical beliefs and practices in late medieval/early modern Scotland. My background is in commercial archaeological fieldwork and post-excavation processing.
Philosophy
University of Warwick
I am a first year PhD student in philosophy at the University of Warwick working on creativity, agency, and ethics in photography.
Cultural and Museum Studies
Coventry University
I'm a 1st year PhD student at Centre for Postdigital Cultures (Coventry University). My research focus on commoning digital practices for art & cultures - will be closely collaborating with NN Contemporary Art with their Library Stack Archives.
History
University of Birmingham
I am a first-year PhD student with an interest in histories of gender and sexuality. I received my BA (Hons) in History with a minor in German from the University of Alberta in 2020 and my MSc in Gender History from the University of Glasgow in 2022.
Law and Legal Studies
Birmingham City University
First year PhD student, researching the link between the Universal Periodic Review and Portugal's response against human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
History
University of Warwick
My research looks at individual encounters, non-normative identities and the experience of minority groups within the 19th Century British Parliament, with a particular focus on gender and sexuality.
Law and Legal Studies
Birmingham City University
AHRC Midlands4Cities funded PhD researcher examining the role of civil society in translating international human rights law into domestic legal change, using the UN's Universal Periodic Review & the ACLU's Campaign for Smart Justice as case studies.
History
University of Warwick
I'm a first year PhD student. I work on intellectual and material histories of early modern Deccan and South India.
Development Studies
University of Nottingham
I am a 1st year PhD student in the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies and School of Geography at the University of Nottingham. My research focuses on solidarity discourses and disaster management in Cuba.
History
University of Birmingham
First-year PhD student researching domestic servants and middle-class professionalised women who employed them in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain
Linguistics
University of Nottingham
I am a PhD in Linguistics (Modern Languages) student at the University of Nottingham interested in the dynamics of language ecology of the Matigsalug people, one of the indigenous cultural communities in the Philippines.
Classics
University of Leicester
I am a first year part-time PhD student at the University of Leicester, interested in ancient emotions (with a focus on the Greek world), disabilities, and the accessibility and promotion of heritage.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
I am a first year PhD researcher at the University of Leicester. My research is centred on the art biennial model and the representation of Brazilian contemporary art within key biennials.
Music
Birmingham City University
Ben Cottrell is a conductor, composer, arranger, and producer who is best known for his work with Beats & Pieces Big Band, which he founded in 2008. He also runs independent label Efpi Records.
History
University of Nottingham
I work on monasticism in Rus', from the 11th century to the 15th century, with a focus on the notions of community and family.
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
I'm a first year PhD researcher at the University of Warwick. My study focuses on the narritivization of affective ecocriticism in contemporary South Asian literature.
Dance
Coventry University
I'm a 1st year CDA PhD researcher exploring the archive of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, as an embodied enquiry that looks through the lenses of work and care. My background is in dance, performance and somatic practices.
Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Nottingham
Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Nottingham
History
University of Nottingham
My research focuses on Material culture in the Vietnam War, and how it played a pivotal role in GIs’ understanding of their identity, masculinity and military service, alongside the microcosm of consumerism transposed from America into Vietnam Base Camps.
Linguistics
University of Nottingham
First-year PhD researcher at the University of Nottingham studying narrative consciousness in the works of Jean Rhys. My research, through stylistic analysis, examines postcolonial trauma—as expressed through consciousness representation.
Archaeology
University of Nottingham
I am a PhD researcher exploring the archaeology of zootherapy in Roman Britain.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Second-year PhD student at the University of Nottingham engaging with ecofeminist theory in relation to the contemporary Eco-Gothic novel.
Classics
University of Leicester
First year PhD student (Archaeology/Ancient History) at the University of Leicester. Research interests include the social and cultural application of astronomy and astrology throughout history, and the various expressions of Matricentric Feminism.
Design
Birmingham City University
First year PhD researcher of Printing History, looking at 19th century radical newspapers and Birmingham print culture
History
University of Birmingham
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
PhD student in Latin American literature
Cultural and Museum Studies
De Montfort University
My PhD will examine the experience of Victorian built heritage for people living in coastal communities. Over 6-years, my part-time research seeks to broaden our understanding of cultural values through consideration of non-users and place. As a cultural
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Warwick
I am a first year AHRC-funded PhD candidate in Cultural Policy Studies (Research) at the University of Warwick, in collaboration with Coventry Biennial.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
PhD Researcher: Literary representations of the Duel in Britain, 1780-1845
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
PhD student in Translation and Transcultural Studies at the University of Warwick.
Visual Arts
De Montfort University
Art and Design and Arts and HumanitiesDesignHistoryVisual Arts
University of Birmingham
I specialise in Neapolitan Art, with particular interests in country houses, history of collecting, and museum studies, supported by eight years of experience working in Italian and English museums.
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
I am a first year PhD at U of Warwick. My research tells the story of literary translators going vocal, where I explore ways of empowering contemporary Chinese writers (and their translators!) through my own translation and trans-mediation practice.
Visual Arts
University of Nottingham
First year PhD student specializing in American art and visual culture. My current research focuses on Regionalism and mythology in contemporary American photography.
Languages and Literature
Birmingham City University
2nd year PhD Researcher of Pre-Raphaelite women artists and writers. Trustee of the Birmingham and Midland Institute.
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
My creative-critical research investigates the relationship between poetic form and algae, and how an ecology that embraces multiple scales, temporalities and modes of address can help rethink the Anthropocene through poetry.
Drama and Theatre Studies
University of Nottingham
I am a first year PhD researcher interrogating the place of disabled characters, actors and audiences within the contemporary Shakespeare theatre industry.
Classics
University of Warwick
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
I am a first year PhD researcher exploring the presentation of controversial and divisive figures in museum spaces. My research is in collaboration with the King Richard III Visitor Centre in Leicester.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
PhD researcher in contemporary women's dystopian writing. I study the crystallisation of feminist thought into speculative writing from 2016-2020, in (and reinforcing) the tradition of The Handmaid's Tale.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Combining queer theory and early modern studies, my work looks at intersections between magic and queerness in the Renaissance period. I am based at the Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham)
History
University of Nottingham
My research explores Britain’s role in the end of the Cold War and its aftermath, examining the development and implementation of foreign policy and diplomacy from ~1985-95.
Media
University of Warwick
I am a first year PhD researcher, looking at the representation of sex in Film and Television after #MeToo.
History
University of Warwick
Languages and Literature
De Montfort University
Ph.D. candidate at De Montfort University, fascinated by the spaces in turn-of-the-century print culture where political radicalism and stylistic innovation overlap!
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Drama and Theatre Studies
De Montfort University
A first year PhD researcher exploring queer gerontology, disappearing queer spaces and social capital through cabaret and performance art.
History
University of Warwick
First year History PhD at the University of Warwick, exploring popular ideas about sincerity, deceit, and their connections to social identity in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain.
Linguistics
University of Birmingham
I'm currently a PhD Linguistics student at the University of Birmingham, UK. Prior to this, I graduated with a MA in Applied Linguistics and a BA in English. My doctoral research is a corpus-assisted metaphor analysis of online pregnancy discourse.
Archaeology
University of Birmingham
Theology, Divinity and Religion
Coventry University
Bob, a PGR, brings a unique approach to research because of his multi-disciplinary academic journey in architecture, educational leadership, theology, and media & cultural studies. He envisions himself as an eclectic storyteller, advocate and leader.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
PGR at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford upon Avon. Theatre Historian, Freelance Researcher, Costume Designer and Makeup Artist.
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
I’m a first-year PhD candidate at Warwick University exploring ecology, theology, and the Gothic in nineteenth-century literature.
Music
Birmingham City University
Sarah Cox is a PhD student at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire exploring the life and pedagogy of Italian American singing teacher Carlo Bassini. Sarah studied singing at RNCM and National Opera Studio before becoming an opera singer and voice teacher.
Design
Birmingham City University
Architect / cotect collaborating with CoLab Dudley and Civic Square to explore how co-creative architectural processes and social lab approaches might create conditions for communities to co-evolve regenerative ecosystems.
Languages and Literature
De Montfort University
I graduated from UCD with a BA in English in 2018. After working for 2 years -- first as a Project Manager on college software systems, and later for Intel -- I came to DMU in 2021 for an MA, and a PhD in 2022.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Nottingham
I am a first year PhD researcher in game and play studies. I am interested in how time and space has queer potentiality when players play in a certain way.
Dance
Coventry University
Greta is a Choreographer, Dancer and Researcher. My Research is focussed on re-creating touch-like sensations over distance or online.
History
University of Leicester
Post-Graduate Researcher who is researching how death was defined in late Enlightenment England.
Philosophy
University of Nottingham
First year PhD student in the School of Politics and International Relations exploring the constitutional thought of Hugo Grotius.
History
University of Nottingham
I'm a PhD student in American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. My research focuses on the impact of the corporation on late nineteenth and early twentieth century American fiction.
Classics
University of Warwick
I'm a first-year PhD candidate at the University of Warwick, and I am researching Neo-Latin texts written by women in the Venetian Quattrocento.
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
History
De Montfort University
I am a photographer who has spent more than a decade working in India before moving to Leicester. My Ph.D, project investigates the photojournalistic participation in the formation of independent India.
Visual Arts
De Montfort University
I am a CDA researcher at De Montfort University specialising in creative industries development. My research explores the identity and access of rural creative practitioners in the counties of Cornwall (Jamaica and UK) while partnering with Creative UK.
Music
University of Nottingham
I'm a music composition PhD practitioner in my first year. My work involves creating new musical theatre works for underrepresented communities.
Visual Arts
Birmingham City University
I am a first year PhD researcher at the School of Art, BCU. I'm also an artist and lecturer, with an interdisciplinary practice engaging with female subjectivity and embodiment across spheres of the domestic, maternal & erotic.
Cultural and Museum Studies
De Montfort University
I am a first year CDA student, working with Leicester Comedy Festival and De Montfort University, Leicester. My academic background is based in comedy, stand up and gender and my professional background is in devised theatre making.
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
First year PhD student in Translation and Transcultural Studies focused on transnational feminist translation and practice-based research. My research is supervised by Dr Olga Castro from SMLC and Professor Maureen Freely from WWP.
Media
University of Warwick
I'm currently doing a PhD at the University of Warwick in Film and Television Studies and developing research about queer films and politics in Brazil.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
First year PhD researcher. Literature specialist in sexuality & gender studies with a relentless focus on disrupting social inequality and supporting community-building that centres people who are structurally disenfranchised.
Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Nottingham
My research articulates and interrogates the modern Quaker theology of the human being through the lens of race.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
My research interests include late medieval vernacular theology, subjectivity, and regionalism. I aim to work at the interdisciplinary intersection of literature, history and theology.
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
Charlotte Spear (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick. Her thesis is titled “Locating the Human: World Literature and the Concept of Rights” and explores the role of literature in rethinking dominant human rights frameworks.
Visual Arts
De Montfort University
I am a first year part-time PhD student and Audiovisual Archivist. My research explores the digitisation of photographic collections and how staff skills and digital literacies have conditioned digitised/born digital heritage collections.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Melancholy Men and English Renaissance Drama: from Marlowe to Ford
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
2nd year PhD student at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester researching the interpretation of performing arts history within museums, focusing on the experience of performing in 19th century English pantomime.
History
University of Leicester
I'm a 'small-finds' Archaeologist with an interest in coinage. I previously worked in Museums Archaeology in Leicestershire, spending 16 years as Leicestershire & Rutland Finds Liaison Officer for the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme.
Linguistics
University of Birmingham
I focus on the deaf community in Kufr Qassem, a Palestinian-Arab town in Israel, & their local sign language: KQSL, a marginalised and non-dominant indigenous sign language
Political History
University of Birmingham
Researching populism, and how it can reinterpret the politics of first-century BCE Rome.
Media
University of Warwick
I am a third-year PhD student at the University of Warwick, studying serial documentary form.
Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Birmingham
I am a PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham studying the Dead Sea Scrolls. My research focuses on material and textual analysis of the Temple Scroll manuscripts.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
A researcher in Old English and Latin literature
Linguistics
Nottingham Trent University
Media
Birmingham City University
Gaymer and queer doctoral researcher focusing on explicit constructions of sex within video games
Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Birmingham
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
First-year doctoral student examining the construction of so-called "lesbian literature" as a category within Latin American literature.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Music
Birmingham City University
Building on my professional work in the field of musical instrument design, my research seeks to explore and develop novel and innovative acoustic musical instrument designs. Particular areas of focus are modular mechanical and feedback instruments.
Music
Birmingham City University
Gareth is a flautist and PhD researcher at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, with an interest in Early Music and Historical Performance. His PhD, in collaboration with Ex Cathedra, investigates choral works by Pietro Torri for the Munich Court.
History
University of Nottingham
2nd-year PhD researcher investigating wardships in Late Medieval England, Wales and Ireland.
Visual Arts
Birmingham City University
I'm a 1st year PhD researcher and practitioner of historic photographic processes, making images using 19th Century techniques such as the Calotype and Wet Plate Collodion. My research seeks to understand the early history of Photography in Birmingham.
Visual Arts
De Montfort University
My research will explore uses of artificial intelligence within curatorial practice, focussing on the collection held by the Computer Arts Archive in Leicester. Computer art presents a challenge to curators due to multiple media formats used in developmen
Drama and Theatre Studies
University of Nottingham
Linguistics
University of Birmingham
She/her, 26, first-year PhD student. I am fascinated by the link between language and thought, and am currently working on applications of metaphorical language to the field of mental healthcare.
Music
Birmingham City University
james is an experimental composer/performer who makes things, does things and curates experimental performances.
Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Nottingham
Theology and Religous Studies student at the University of Nottingham focusing on the research areas of Biblical Hebrew and Jewish Studies, through the use of reception history.
History
University of Warwick
I am a second-year PhD researcher looking at memories of the Mau Mau War in post-colonial Kenya
Philosophy
University of Warwick
PhD student in Philosophy at Warwick, working at the crossroad of history of philosophy and political (continental) epistemology.
Law and Legal Studies
University of Birmingham
I am a first year PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham whose thesis examines the legal regulation of gender recognition - particularly focusing on medical sterilisation as a prerequisite to recognition.
Media
University of Warwick
First-year PhD researcher exploring edgelands and their screen lives
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
First year PhD student working on Samuel Beckett, Ludwig Wittgenstein and the elusive "I" in the 20th Century.
History
University of Warwick
As a first year PhD researcher at the University of Warwick, I will be investigating uses of the uncanny in ecopoetics, especially where strange or unloved creatures are concerned.
Design
Nottingham Trent University
Media
De Montfort University
I am a film director and writer who is now re-examining the myths around the beginnings of motion pictures and early cinema, with special focus on the controversial figure of William Friese-Greene
Visual Arts
University of Warwick
I am a PhD researcher at the University of Warwick and I specialise in Italian art, drawing and theory (1500-1600).
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
(he/him) First year PhD student at the University of Nottingham, interested in issues of privacy, context collapse and identity construction in a networked social media age.
Philosophy
University of Nottingham
My thesis explores the moral, social, and political dimensions of microaggressions
History
University of Nottingham
Second-year PhD student researching saintly identity in fifteenth-century canonisation processes.
Dance
Coventry University
I am a first year student working on a Collaborative PhD at the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry, partnered with People Dancing, exploring how Living Well Hubs might enhance wellbeing through dance, particularly for those living with Parkinson's.
Design
University of Warwick
PhD researcher exploring the past, present and future of the British shopping centre
Dance
Coventry University
Zrinka Užbinec is a dance artist. She/they work(s) with choreography crafting it with various mediums and different materials.
History
University of Leicester
I am a history PhD student researching the influence of the Bible in eighteenth-century Britain
Visual Arts
University of Birmingham
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I am a first year English Lit PhD student at the University of Birmingham, studying the presentation of dwarfs in Tolkien, Pratchett and Martin through the lens of disability studies.
Media
De Montfort University
First year CDA student, collaborating with Sampad Arts, focusing on the role that South Asian media had on South Asians in the Midlands during the 1990s. My research will focus on themes of race, cultural identity and space.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
First year PhD student looking at the agency of museums and LGBTQ+ equality movement. Interested in: gender and sexual diversities, queer theory and methods, cultural politics and media studies.
Media
De Montfort University
I am a documentary filmmaker and researcher in oral history, film studies and gender and sexuality. My research explores the writing of marginalised historical narratives through image, sound and the archives. I am a first-year PhD researcher at DMU.
Media
Nottingham Trent University
Second year PhD student at Nottingham Trent University. Background in history, sociology, anthropology, gender and disability studies. Worked for human rights NGO's. Freelance translator, linguaphile.
Visual Arts
University of Birmingham
Curator and writer exploring material precariousness in British sculpture by women, 1978-1993
Music
University of Birmingham
Researching experimental music in late and post-Soviet Russia.
Visual Arts
De Montfort University
I am a PhD student at DMU, with a previous M.S. (Rochester Institute of Technology) and M.A. in Art Conservation (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada).
Languages and Literature
University of Leicester
I'm a poet and spoken word artist - I've performed extensively in the UK. I have a proven track record in delivering writing and performance workshops in schools, community organisations, festivals and poetry events
Drama and Theatre Studies
De Montfort University
Leah Wilkes is a full time PhD researcher (2021-2025) at De Montfort University, Leicester. Her thesis investigates feminism and the representation of women in biographical musical theatre from 2009 onwards.
Philosophy
University of Birmingham
Music
De Montfort University
I'm a PhD researcher in the area of electroacoustic and acousmatic music, with a focus on the spatial aspect of sound and sound synthesis
Visual Arts
University of Birmingham
I am a curator and art historian with experience of working in museums and contemporary art galleries, currently also Associate Lecturer at the University of Lincoln. My PhD examines museum approaches to collecting and exhibiting post-Internet/Web Art.
History
De Montfort University
Danielle is a second-year PhD student who is creating a biography of the burger to investigate how its global expansion has impacted culture, health, and class experience in the UK.
History
University of Nottingham
I am a PhD student working with Nottingham City Museums and Galleries to research the origins and early history of the collections at Nottingham Castle Museum and how this history can be used to decolonise the collections.
History
De Montfort University
First-year PhD student researching women's informal clothing in eighteenth-century Britain. Particularly interested in embodied knowledge and making as a resarch methodolgy.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Nottingham
PhD researcher: learning from the past to understand how we can unlock the available hydropower potential to help in our climate change mitigation efforts today. Key interests; Derwent Valley Mills, Hydroelectric Power, Community Energy.
History
University of Leicester
I’m a part time history lecturer in Further Education and a part time PhD student with the University of Leicester’s Stanley Burton Centre. My area of research is the responses of the teaching profession in Germany to the rise of the Third Reich.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
I am a first year PhD student at the University of Nottingham exploring the ways in which D. H. Lawrence responded to censorship.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Warwick
I am a contemporary art historian, curator and museum professional with experience of working in large-scale art institutions both in UK and abroad. Currently researching the British Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale (1948-present).
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
PhD researcher at the University of Warwick studying neoliberalism and political invisibility in the contemporary French novel
History
Nottingham Trent University
History PhD candidate, researching how we can increase opportunities for the representation of gender and LGBTQI+ identities in castle histories. CDA project award holder working in collaboration with Nottingham Castle.
History
University of Leicester
PhD researcher investigating patterns of dispersed medieval settlement in the Middle Severn Valley. An interdisciplinary project combining archaeological, historical and place-name studies, based at the Centre for English Local History
Languages and Literature
University of Leicester
Novelist and short fiction author with a wide publication and awards history. First year Creative Writing researcher using nature writing to challenge far-right attitudes to conservation and the environment.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
I am a PhD student at the Uni of Nottingham researching maternal loss and childhood in the works of Sara Coleridge and Mary Shelley (1820-44). I previously completed my MRes on Percy Shelley's Gothic fiction at Huddersfield (2020-21).
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Doctoral researcher investigating the representation of the soul in queer Victorian poetry.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Second year PhD candidate researching the feminist, literary and publishing networks of the Virago Press in the late 20th Century. Asking questions about how we receive feminisms and the publishers role in these discourses
Media
University of Leicester
First-year PhD student at the University of Leicester, studying nostalgia and populism in relation to British film and television following the Global Financial Crisis.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
First year PHD researcher, focusing on art museums in Latin America and their relationship with their communities. She has worked as professor of Museum Studies and Art History in Chile; and as art critic and art writer, within her blog El Gocerío.
Dance
De Montfort University
A freelance dancer, choreographer, teacher and researcher working within Contemporary dance. My research is centred on exploring feminine blackness and decolonisation within choreography, performance and pedagogy.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Tom Fairfax is a researcher of northern Scotland and the Northern Isles during the Viking Age and the Late Norse Period, with a focus on Old Norse sagas. He has a BA from Lancaster University and an MLitt from the University of St Andrews.
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
First year PhD researcher at the University of Warwick with an interest in comics studies. I investigate how the comics medium, through its fragmetnary form and multiple tensions, can convey stories of migration and displacement.
Visual Arts
Birmingham City University
Roo Dhissou is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher. She is interested in facilitating discourse around race, gender and social class and the performability of these social structures.
Archaeology
University of Nottingham
I was educated in Archaeology at the University of Milan, and took part in different projects in Italy, Tunisia and Morocco. My research interests revolve around the afterlife of Roman cities in the eastern Mediterranean during the Late Antinquity.
Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Birmingham
I am a second-year PhD student working with the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing (ITSEE). I am researching pre-medieval Greek commentary manuscripts of the New Testament as a window into the interpretational philosophy of the era.
Classics
University of Nottingham
First year PhD student researching representations of disability in the works of Juvenal and Martial.
Visual Arts
University of Birmingham
Visual Arts
Birmingham City University
I am an artist and first year PhD researcher based between Birmingham and the Black Country, exploring seasonality in arts practice, micro-climates, micro-seasons, Bonsai, Folk histories, Calendars, Culture, weather and ecology.
History
University of Nottingham
Second-year PhD student researching the impact of nationalist and racialised gender roles on cross-national sexual encounters in the French Zone of Occupation in post-WW2 Germany
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I'm a first year Creative Writing PhD student, researching the representation of disability in contemporary fairy tale retellings.
History
University of Birmingham
History Degree in Near East University in Nicosia Cyprus in 2018. MA in Early Modern History at the University of Birmingham in 2019
Music
Birmingham City University
Pianist at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire investigating Maurice Ravel's piano music
History
University of Leicester
I am a first year PhD student, looking at colonial violence on the frontiers of India and Queensland during the latter half of the 19th century.
History
Nottingham Trent University
Musician researching medieval crusade songs and Arabic anti-Frankish jihad poems, in historical context. Performance as research. MMus Ethnomusicology (Middle East) (SOAS), BA Arabic and French with Music (Leeds). https://katearnoldmusic.com/
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
First year PhD student researching queer fiction by female activists in the late nineteenth century.
Music
Birmingham City University
Aidan Teplitzky is a doctoral researcher and composer from a working-class background.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
PhD Researcher: Early Medieval settlements, hills and place-names. Visibility in the historic landscape & its role in naming-practice. Routeways, viewsheds and navigation. Usually to be found climbing hills, looking for a view.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
I am a prehistoric and community archaeologist with ten years’ experience in the heritage sector and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Plymouth. My PhD research is focused on Mesolithic Dartmoor and UK National Park land management.
Visual Arts
University of Warwick
First year PhD researcher working on Art Brut and Outsider Art
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I am a second year PhD student investigating how the English Reformation(s) impacted traditional eschatological beliefs and led to an emerging societal appetite for worldly fame and self-memorialisation.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
2nd year PhD researcher at the University of Nottingham studying the works of the seventeenth-century writer Lucy Hutchinson, with an interest in early modern writing in general.
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
First year PhD student examining representations of the 'other' in Weimar cinema and the (dis)continuities with National Socialist film
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Second-year M4C student researching the intermediality of the mid-twentieth century novel
Law and Legal Studies
University of Birmingham
Archaeology
University of Leicester
Tobacco came to Europe in the 16th century. How did maternal exposure affect the unborn child? My research looks at developmental delay/anomalies in Dutch and English skeletal remains to establish this, and gauge effects on post-medieval populations
Visual Arts
Nottingham Trent University
I am an artist-educator undertaking a practice-based PhD in Illustration at NTU, where I lecture part-time. I am in my first year of doctoral study.
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
First year PGR student in the University of Warwick Writing Programme. Writing a novel about time, returns, and living between broken homes.
Media
University of Nottingham
PhD student at the University of Nottingham writing about transmedia authorship.
History
University of Leicester
I am a third-year PhD student at the University of Leicester researching the experiences of litigants within the Court of Wards and Liveries during the reign of James I.
Music
Birmingham City University
Musicologist at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire investigating the Pedagogy of Clara Schumann
Music
Birmingham City University
Music
De Montfort University
Archaeology
University of Nottingham
Archaeologist investigating trade, mobility and social dynamics in Middle Saxon East Anglia through isotope analysis of human remains.
Visual Arts
Birmingham City University
Media
University of Nottingham
Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Nottingham
First year PhD student at the University of Nottingham researching the occurrence of Jewish Kabbalistic Creation motifs in contemporary art.
Philosophy
University of Warwick
AHRC funded PhD student at Warwick, working on the cognitive value of contemporary art. Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick, supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies from 2023.
Philosophy
University of Warwick
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
PGR in Contemporary Literary Studies, researching the novel, neoliberalism, and the aesthetics of the secret.
History
University of Birmingham
First year PhD researcher at the Department of Modern Languages, University of Birmingham, researching the potential to "decolonise" postcolonial memory in Germany through transformative social activism.
Philosophy
University of Warwick
I am a PhD student based at the University of Warwick working on philosophy of auditory perception.
History
University of Warwick
I'm a third year PhD student at the University of Warwick, exploring how non-elite women's experiences, both ordinary and other-worldly, were embedded in popular supernatural narratives of early modernity.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
I am in my final year at the University of Leicester, looking forward to taking the PhD on nineteenth century soup kitchens out into the world of further research and fieldwork.
History
University of Warwick
University of Warwick doctoral researcher investigating early modern expressions of suicide and self harm in supernatural narratives across early modern Britain.
History
University of Nottingham
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
Archaeology
University of Leicester
I am a 3rd year PhD student and I am specialized in Roman material culture (especially pottery) with particular focus on Late Antiquity.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
American Studies researcher, two years into a project tracing how the landscapes of an American California were written into being.
Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Birmingham
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
I'm a PhD candidate in the American and Canadian Studies department at the University of Nottingham. Before returning to academia, I worked as a journalist and spent nearly a decade reporting for national titles.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I'm a final-year PhD student researching women's political imprisonment in Franco's Spain, 1980s Latin America and the UK and USA today. My research focusses largely on testimony, memory and the prison texts of incarcerated women.
History
University of Birmingham
History
University of Warwick
Second Year PhD candidate in Renaissance Studies at University of Warwick. I am interested in Renaissance Italy, cultural history and the history of emotions. My current thesis will focus on Laughter and Violence in Venice and Bologna.
Philosophy
University of Nottingham
I am a first year philosophy PhD researcher working on metaphysical interdependence, fundamentality, and Buddhist emptiness.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I am a doctoral student researching Sir Philip Sidney and early modern visual culture.
History
University of Leicester
PhD researcher interested in global and colonial collecting and display in the early 20th century. Imperial propaganda and national identity in exhibition histories, international circulation of material culture - esp. basketry, object-based methodology
Philosophy
University of Nottingham
I am a 1st Year PhD student working on moral responsibility - more specifically, exploring the practical implications which ought to follow if we cannot ever truly be held to be blameworthy or praiseworthy.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
My creative practice spans individual work as a curator, artist, writer, and researcher and includes collaborative projects and creative project management. My background in museums, psychotherapy, women’s health, and community engagement. I am founder/c
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I am a second year English literature PhD student at the University of Birmingham. My research focuses on First World War plays performed on the British stage between 1919-1939.
Media
University of Nottingham
Magdalena is a PhD researcher based at the Centre for Critical Theory, University of Nottingham. Her project uses the conceptual tools of generic epistemology to engage with high-stakes applications of machine learning
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I am a doctoral researcher and jewellery designer-maker mining Shakespeare's works for metal and jewellery imagery. My work is a combination of academic research and practice-led investigations.
History
University of Birmingham
I am a second year PhD student studying early modern gender and animal history. My research examines women's relationships with animals, both physical and cultural, and how these relationships were affected by gender.
Design
Nottingham Trent University
First year PhD student at Nottingham Trent University exploring the importance of hair to fashionable identies and using my background in Textile Design for fast fashion to explore implications this could have for sustainability and fashion.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
My thesis explores the contributions that Hay Festival has made in shaping cultural and critical understandings of reading today and how this might be changing in a digital era.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
English Literature PhD student examining the writing and events from Garsington Manor during WWI.
History
University of Warwick
I’m a third-year PhD researcher looking at the legacies of imperial violence in the Horniman Museum’s collections. My PhD is co-supervised with the Horniman Museum in London.
Archaeology
University of Nottingham
I'm an archaeologist with international experience of fieldwork and a solid background in Mediterranean Archaeology. My current research focuses on the definition of ethnicity in the late prehistory with the use of the Ligurians as a case study.
History
De Montfort University
First-year PhD student at DeMontfort University, excavating and bringing voice to the regional archives of Black life, history, and culture in the Midlands. Situated in memory studies, postcolonialism, and community-based research
Music
University of Birmingham
Zach Dawson is a composer based in Shropshire. He is currently undertaking his PhD at UoB and DMU. He co-curates experimental concerts for Post-Paradise Series and produces notated electronic music under the experimental music duo 7balcony.
Cultural and Museum Studies
Nottingham Trent University
PhD researcher at NTU. My research explores the role heritage can play in sustainability through a more holistic, place-based approach.
Media
De Montfort University
First year PhD student at De Montfort University, interested in film audiences, reception, and genre cinema.
History
University of Leicester
First year PhD student studyinng friendship in three Nazi concentration camps with a focus the role of gender and specifically masculinity in both the relationships of male prisoners, and the functioning of camp society
Classics
University of Birmingham
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
My research, in collaboration with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, looks at sub-genres of life-writing and the presentation of spaces and places in Warwickshire associated with the life of Shakespeare.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
My research investigates the representation and reception of medicine in late medieval literature and Shakespeare. I'm interested in the intersection between medicine, material culture, and the body.
Music
University of Birmingham
Musicologist and cultural historian
History
University of Birmingham
I am a second year PhD student specialising in coinage of the Late Roman Empire and the political messages it presents.
Nottingham Trent University
Archaeology
University of Leicester
First year PhD candidate at the University of Leicester. Research interests include colonialism in the Americas, Indigenous archaeologies, archaeological theory and posthumanism.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
Archaeology
University of Birmingham
Third year PhD student specialising in British Iron Age Marsh-forts
History
University of Warwick
I am a second-year doctoral researcher, supervised by Professors Rebecca Earle and Beat Kümin. My research is on the introduction and assimilation of the tomato and other New World foods into England and Italy in the early modern period.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham, currently investigating song translation and voice performance in the context of Italian film dubbing and international film music production.
Visual Arts
Birmingham City University
My research investigates visual articulations of citizenship and affective ways of seeing. Initially trained as a journalist, I worked for cultural institutions internationally, including HKW, Berlin, Haus der Kunst, Munich, and Ashkal Alwan, Beirut.
Dance
Coventry University
I am a first year PhD student at the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University, researching the work and legacy of Chisenhale Dance Space from 1977-88.
Philosophy
University of Nottingham
My research sits within the field of virtue and vice epistemology. Before starting my PhD at Nottingham, I studied for my MA at UCL and prior to that I gained my BA from the University of Reading.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Nottingham
Maxwell is a PhD research student whose research interests transcends the trajectories of race, ecology and environmental Justice in the UK and; the genealogy of people of Black African ancestry and the natural environment in the UK
History
University of Leicester
Born again historian after a career looking down a microscope. Fascinated by 'The Making of the English Landscape', I took the Masters in English Local History at Leicester. Researching into Anglo-Scandinavian medieval landscapes, settlement and farming
Archaeology
University of Nottingham
2nd Year PhD researcher focusing on colour and glass in the Aegean Late Bronze Age through the use of a cross-disciplinary approaches and scientific analysis.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
I am a third year PhD student at the University of Leicester exploring difference in the Late Neolithic (c.3000-2500 BC) communities of the Isle of Man, Orkney, and Yorkshire with posthumanist theory
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
First year PhD researcher at the University of Nottingham in the School of English department of Drama and Creative Writing, researching contemporary discourses of Shakespeare.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Languages and Literature
University of Leicester
I am a 2nd year PhD in Creative Writing student writing a novel reconstructing female storytellers in Arabic epic literature and considering how and why they articulated their experiences in fantasy stories.
History
Nottingham Trent University
PhD researcher looking into royal genealogical chronicles and their production and use in fifteenth-century England.
History
University of Birmingham
I am a second year PhD student interested in the wide ranging effects of colonialism, imperialism and slavery in eighteenth and nineteenth century history.
Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Birmingham
I am a final year student doctoral student at the University of Birmingham researching discourses of female suffering in late antiquity.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
My research examines how to use interdisciplinary methods in determining the functions of early runic writing.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
I am an Argentinian researcher and editor, working within the field of exhibition studies.
Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Birmingham
PhD Candidate in the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham, considering the function of metaphor in the depictions of disability in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Visual Arts
De Montfort University
1st year PhD student photography and sports history. Working in partnership with the National Paralympic Heritage Trust.
Languages and Literature
De Montfort University
Memoir as Counter Narrative: Using creative nonfiction to explore visual impairment and mental illness and challenge dominant models of disability
Visual Arts
University of Birmingham
I am a third year History of Art PhD student at the University of Birmingham studying Michelangelo's knowledge of human anatomy.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Birmingham
History
University of Nottingham
I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in History from the University of Cambridge in 2016, and an MPhil in Modern British History from the same institution in 2018. Professionally, I have been involved in several heritage projects in South Wales and Essex.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I am a first year English Lit and Creative Writing PhD student at the University of Birmingham. My research explores issues of cultural diversity in the contemporary romance fiction industry, focusing on reader response and incorporating a romance novel.
History
University of Nottingham
Historian and former museum professional, in my third year of a Collaborative Doctoral Award with the Boots Archive. My research focuses upon the history and culture of high-street shopping in postwar Britain
Law and Legal Studies
University of Birmingham
Visual Arts
Coventry University
Second year PhD student at Coventry University, Centre for Post Digital Cultures
History
University of Nottingham
My thesis examines popular perceptions of ‘decline’ in the period c.1958-1981, with particular focus on discourses of 'race' and immigration in the Midlands.
Languages and Literature
University of Leicester
My research considers the experience of pregnancy in Georgian Britain through the intersections of the history of medicine, textual cultures, and the body.
Visual Arts
University of Warwick
I am a third year CDA PhD student at the University of Warwick and Birmingham Museums Trust. My thesis focuses on Birmingham's Italian Renaissance decorative art collection, its provenance, and its impact.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham, specialising in the publications of police detectives from 1880-1930.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Poet and essayist
Dance
Coventry University
I am a third year doctoral researcher exploring the experience of community dance practice for health and wellbeing amongst older adult populations.
Media
University of Nottingham
Hi! I'm a 2nd year CDA student with the National Videogame Museum, at Nottingham Uni, looking at gaming identities and spaces through an oral history lens.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
My research examines memory in the 19th-Century Spanish short story
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Final year PhD researcher, investigating the impact of language, history, and landscape on place-names on the Isle of Axholme in Lincolnshire. Research interests: place-names, Viking and Anglo-Saxon history, wetland habitats.
Music
Birmingham City University
Researching the musical language of Olivier Messiaen, and his role as a church organist. I studied for a BA in Theology before taking an MA in Music as a mature student and now researching towards the PhD
Languages and Literature
Birmingham City University
History
University of Nottingham
My research focuses on the 1980s American left, using case studies from national and local politics to assess its character in this period.
Visual Arts
Birmingham City University
My research interests sit within the fields of creative arts and perceptual psychology specifically fine-art photography and visual perception.
Cultural and Museum Studies
Nottingham Trent University
First Year PhD - My project explores the socioeconomic dimensons of regional drag performance scenes in the Midlands, sitting between theatrical, sociological and gender-based research.
Music
De Montfort University
Exploring the synthesis of electroacoustic music composition and narrative film sound design.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Theatre historian studying dramatic disguise in the King's Men's repertory from 1603 to 1630.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
A former solicitor now returned to my first love - archaeology! Researching children in the Bronze and Iron Age.
Media
University of Warwick
Second year PhD student at the University of Warwick researching posthumanism, technology and embodiment in science-fiction film and television.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
I'm a classical archaeologist. My main interest is the art and archaeology of the Roman empire and late antique art. I'm particularly interested in late Roman visual and material culture and the ancient and modern biographies of museum objects.
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
I am a third year PhD researcher at Nottingham Trent University, examining contemporary Indigenous school stories in the U.S. and Canada.
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
I am a second year PhD student at Nottingham Trent University with research interests in women's writing, dolls, ventriloquism studies, gender studies, feminism, the Gothic and posthumanism.
History
University of Nottingham
'The Heart of the Collective': Black Women's Activism and Freedomways Magazine, 1961-1985
History
University of Nottingham
Media
University of Nottingham
University of Birmingham
History
University of Nottingham
A Contrarian in Search of Tradition- Post-War American Education and the Career of Diane Ravitch
Archaeology
University of Leicester
I study social and cultural histories. My primary objective is to add minority perspectives and hidden voices to 20th Century British history. I am also interested in the connective possibilities of Oral History theory and the History of Emotions
Media
Birmingham City University
Ian Sergeant has an MA in Contemporary Curatorial Practice from the School of Art, Birmingham City University.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
Final year PhD researcher at the University of Leicester, currently researching affect theory, new materialism, and post humanism, with a focus on the colonial Caribbean.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
My research considers the influence of humoral theory, a medical doctrine, on early modern diet, combining archaeological and historical evidence.
History
University of Leicester
History
University of Leicester
I'm a 2nd year PhD researcher and I specialise in British approaches to seeking compensation for the Holocaust.
University of Leicester
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
I am a third-year PhD Candidate in the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester with an interest in participatory practices and engagement strategies in art museums and galleries.
History
University of Birmingham
Charlotte Johnson is a first year M4C PhD student. Her project ‘Imperial Connections: re-examining Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire' is a CDA co-supervised by the National Trust.
History
University of Warwick
My collaborative History PhD examines the lives of Black, Asian and mixed-race children received into the eighteenth-century Foundling Hospital, alongside financial connections of the founders and governors to colonial trade and the British Empire.
Coventry University
I am a third year PhD researcher at Coventry University, researching public art and ideas of home in post-war Coventry.
Languages and Literature
Birmingham City University
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Nottingham
Doctoral student, School of Geography, University of Nottingham
History
University of Leicester
Researching the active participation of women in the production and use of early medieval books through analysis of survivng manuscripts commissioned, copied, owned and/or used by them.
Media
Birmingham City University
Visual Arts
University of Birmingham
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
BA (Bristol), M.St. (Oxon), PGCE (Buckingham), MA (London). AHRC Midlands4Cities PhD Student at the University of Birmingham.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
History
University of Nottingham
I started my PhD at the University of Nottingham in 2018, having also completed my BA and MA in History there. Research interests include early modern print, witchcraft, gender, and the Reformations.
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
Roxie is an AHRC M4C-funded doctoral researcher focusing on the collection, dissemination and reclaimation of Nigerian folklore. She received her BA and MRes degrees from and is undertaking her PhD at Nottingham Trent University.
History
University of Warwick
Emanuele Podda is a French Studies PhD student at the University of Warwick. His area of study is French intellectual, constitutional and international history in the first half of the 20th century
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
My name is Jayde Martin, my main areas of research include posthumanism, digital cultures, science-fiction, and literature and science. Drop me an e-mail if you're interested in collaborating on projects relevant to any of the above!
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
I am a first year PhD researcher at Nottingham Trent University, investigating the relationship between representations of labour in contemporary Francophone film and neoliberalism.
History
University of Leicester
I am a PhD Candidate at UK's oldest institution for the research of the Holocaust, the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies of the University of Leicester. Before starting my doctorate, I received a Bachelor and Master of Arts in Journ
Classics
University of Nottingham
Third year PhD researcher in Classics and Archaeology. My interests pertain to how people move, feel and interact in urban centres, especially colonnaded space(s), and the broader consequences for socio-political change and continuity.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Collaborative Postgraduate Doctoral Researcher working with Big Cat Advertising Agency to explore the creativity of figurative communication in advertising and its impact on consumer behaviour.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
Zooarchaeologist focussing on human-animal relationships.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Languages and Literature
University of Leicester
History
University of Warwick
Third-year History PhD student researching the politics of sovereign debt from the Old Regime to the French Revolution.
History
University of Birmingham
Music
University of Birmingham
Musician, educator and performer-composer researching international music-making in local communities and schools, inspired by her work with the 'Multicultural Music Making' music education project.
Classics
University of Birmingham
Robin is a final year PhD researcher in classical reception and children's literature. She looks at adaptations of sexual violence in children's anthologies of Greek myth.
Philosophy
University of Warwick
Third-year PhD in Philosophy specialising in Nietzsche and honesty. Previous degrees in politics & international relations, international political theory, and continental philosophy.
Drama and Theatre Studies
De Montfort University
James Cull is a multidisciplinary artist based at DMU exploring interactivity, horror, video games and installation art. I completed my BA and Masters at DMU, and continue to collaborate, research and develop alongside other artists at the university.
De Montfort University
I am a Collaborative Doctoral Award student working with Leicester City Council to find new ways of measuring and articulating the value of hidden culture.
Languages and Literature
University of Leicester
Prize-winning author of short stories. Debut collection of stories, Looking Out Of Broken Windows, shortlisted for the Scott Prize and longlisted for Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Edge Hill Prize.
Music
Birmingham City University
Roxanne is an opera singer, librettist and science disseminator. She has an MMus (Dist) Vocal Performance (RBC) and BSc (1st) Physics and Philosophy KCL. in 2017 she cofounded www.infiniteopera.com .
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
Second-year: creative-critical project exploring paper affect and literary innovation. Writer. Occasionally dabbles in visual art. Influenced by multilingualism and previous work in Film & Media.
History
University of Nottingham
Archaeology
University of Nottingham
My research explores residential mobility and settlement from the Middle Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age, focusing on Lincolnshire and the Fens and using stable isotope analysis of faunal and human remains.
History
University of Nottingham
History
University of Nottingham
My research explores the portrayal of Matthew the evangelist in the writings of the Venerable Bede.
Media
De Montfort University
I am a third year doctoral candidate at De Montfort University, writing a thesis on killer bug films.
History
University of Warwick
Linguistics
University of Nottingham
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
Classics
University of Birmingham
I am a second year PhD student whose research focuses on graffiti in the late antique east. My ultimate goal is to produce a catalogue of graffiti, as well as an analyses of the trends found within.
Classics
University of Nottingham
I specialise in the Latin poetry of the early Roman empire, especially Virgil, Lucan and Statius.
Philosophy
University of Nottingham
Development Studies
University of Nottingham
My research looks at the contribution of African American women photographers to the long civil rights movement in the United States. I am interested in feminist networks, visual analysis, and intersectional histories.
Languages and Literature
University of Leicester
Natasha Stoyce is an AHRC-funded M4C doctoral researcher investigating the Great War work of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for the Serbian Army. She is fluent in English & Serbo-Croatian.
Music
Birmingham City University
Chris is a bass player, improviser and composer living and working in Birmingham. His work falls somewhere between composition and improvisation, using sound, music and electronics to satisfy his own sonic curiosity.
Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Nottingham
History
University of Nottingham
My research is about the experience of revisiting the post-1650 history of Wollaton Hall country house heritage site. Interested in histories of historic 'places' beyond the design viewpoint.
Visual Arts
Nottingham Trent University
Cultural and Museum Studies
Nottingham Trent University
Visual Arts
University of Birmingham
Music
Birmingham City University
I am a musician, arts programmer and presenter, and doctoral researcher from Derby. My research interests cover jazz and improvised music studies; practice research; and practice research methodologies.
Media
University of Nottingham
Music
De Montfort University
Sound artist using craft to investigate music, technology and textiles in participatory settings.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
I am a second year PhD candidate at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. I am also a recent Fine Art Graduate with an interest in museums, participation, contemporary and historical art practice and photography.
History
University of Leicester
Development Studies
University of Nottingham
Final Year PhD Student looking at Transatlantic Slavery commemoration at heritage sites. Co-supervised across Geography, History and American Studies (PhD formally in American Studies and History).
Drama and Theatre Studies
De Montfort University
Sophie is a final full time PhD student that uses feminist performance art practice to interrogate and uncover the potentials in subverting Laura Mulvey's theory of the male gaze.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Visual Arts
University of Warwick
Fourth year doctoral student looking at Swedish domestic interiors around 1900, focusing on the concept 'art in the home' and its role in the turn-of-the-century socio-cultural reform movement
Political Science and International Studies
University of Nottingham
Imagining Independence: The United States, Public Diplomacy, and Philippine Freedom in the Age of Decolonization, 1945-1960 (working title)
University of Birmingham
Law and Legal Studies
Nottingham Trent University
I am a third year PhD researcher at the Nottingham Trent University with an interest in international trade and commercial law as well as contract law.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I am an experienced cultural leader with a proven track record of management in the arts, predominantly music. I’ve spent the past decade working as a director in the creative industries and higher education and voluntary sectors.
Music
Birmingham City University
My PhD explores how we perceive sound and to what extent technology may be used to support musical performance for people with a hearing impairment. I am completing my studies part-time, while also lecturing in Music Technology.
History
University of Birmingham
The majority of my career has been in IT, until twelve years ago when I decided on a lifestyle change and became a part-time firefighter. At the same time I read for a Degree and then Masters in History.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
University of Nottingham
Archaeology
University of Leicester
Archaeologist looking at the impact of new materialist philosophy on our understaning of change in prehistoric Britain.
Media
De Montfort University
Jennifer Voss is a part-time PhD candidate whose research focuses on actresses’ performance of emotion during the transition from silent to sound cinema in Britain and America.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
PhD student working on health & unhealth, early twentieth-century fiction, medical humanities & disability studies at the University of Birmingham.
Music
Birmingham City University
Ed McKeon is a producer of experimental music and arts, lecturer and researcher.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Novelist, medievalist, Anglo-Saxon and Norman specialist, creative writing tutor. Author of four novels, published in the UK, the US, Germany and the Czech Republic. PhD in Creative Writing candidate at the University of Nottingham.
History
University of Leicester
I am a historian of early modern Mexico, focusing on the relationship between Indigenous Nahua alcohol producers and the early colonial state.
Dance
De Montfort University
My artistic doctoral research in dance evolves from my 20 years of professional practice as an artist, choreographer and performer. Please visit http://www.matthias-sperling.com/about.html for more details.
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
Practitioner of hip hop lyricism under the performance name of Cappo. My research aims to explore and artistically illustrate the occurrence of literary intertextuality in the rap lyrics of artists such as Rakim, Nas, Black Thought, and Kendrick Lamar.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
History
Nottingham Trent University
Visual Arts
Nottingham Trent University
Visual Arts
Birmingham City University
Practice-based researcher in painting practice. Harriet's research is situated between the School of Art and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with focus on moving between the auditory and the visual.
Design
Nottingham Trent University
Archaeology
University of Nottingham
Historical archaeologist currently working on the material culture and sensory experience of early modern apothecaries. I am interested in the history and archaeology of medieval and post-medieval science, technology, and medicine.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Art and Design and Arts and Humanities
Nottingham Trent University
History
University of Birmingham
My research explores the organisation Moral Re-Armament, which operated from 1938 onwards to revive Britain's Christianity, fight communism & immorality, and promote a life led by Four Absolute standards of Purity, Honesty, Love and Unselfishness.
Visual Arts
Nottingham Trent University
Multimedia artist-researcher investigating the sensory qualities of disruptions in human-machine interactions using methods such as Deep Listening and Visual Thinking Strategies.
History
University of Nottingham
Research on the memory of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth through visual culture in the twentieth century
Linguistics
University of Nottingham
I'm a sociolinguist currently researching how people with experience of dementia represent their experiences and how they relate these to a range of visual and linguistic portrayals in the media.
History
University of Nottingham
My research explores how a belief in the coming apocalypse may have impacted religious thought, culture and society in fourteenth-century England.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
History
University of Nottingham
The Distribution of Royal Patronage to the Gentry in the Minority of Henry VI, 1422-1437
Music
University of Birmingham
Archaeology
University of Leicester
Dance
De Montfort University
Jess is a professional rhythm tap performer, teacher and tap jam host. She works collaboratively with musicians to create original performance work.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
I am an art historian and researcher interested in art museums, collections and collecting history, Brazilian and Latin American art.
Cultural and Museum Studies
Nottingham Trent University
Classics
University of Birmingham
Drama and Theatre Studies
De Montfort University
Kerryn Wise is a movement-based artist, researcher, lecturer and performer based in the East Midlands, making work across dance, physical theatre, contemporary performance and digital technologies.
Music
University of Birmingham
Nottingham Trent University
PhD Researcher based at Nottingham trent University. I use scientific imaging techniques and AI to study Maritime Southeast Asian manuscripts in partnership with the British Library.
University of Birmingham
Doctoral researcher of Roman gardens, domestic space and identity.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
History
University of Birmingham
Music
University of Birmingham
Wildlife sound recordist and sound artist.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Researcher at the University of Birmingham. Art anthropologist. Women’s agency in the Nigerian art world: modernist legacies and contemporary moves across African art networks .
Philosophy
University of Warwick
I am a PhD researcher at Warwick working in moral and political philosophy. My research asks: what grounds the moral rights and equal status of human beings, and what kind of rights and status do animals have?
Visual Arts
University of Leicester
History
University of Leicester
Project Manager and PhD student passionate about supporting survivors of sexual violence through oral history methods and practice
History
University of Leicester
I am a second year PhD student in the School of English at the University of Leicester, studying the history of the Medical Women's Federation (MWF).
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Historian and Language tutor
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
I am an archaeologist and a museum professional. I am very interested in objects, their multiple stories, and the relationships and interactions between objects and people in the museum space.
Languages and Literature
University of Leicester
Researches contemporary women's writing and American/Canadian contemporary literatures.
History
University of Birmingham
History
University of Birmingham
I’m a medievalist working on the representations of East Asia in European world maps. My research draws on narrative, spatial and postcolonial theory to explore how maps incorporated the space, time and agency of Asia into a Latin Christian worldview.
Music
Birmingham City University
Laura Farré Rozada is an award-winning pianist and mathematician, deemed a 'Rising Star' by BBC Music Magazine. Classical Music Magazine considered her debut album ‘The French Reverie’ (2018): 'a model for young artists making their recording debuts'.
History
University of Nottingham
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Classics
University of Leicester
My research explores Ancient Greek warfare and the military tradition of individual poleis beyond Athens and Sparta
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
Hi! My research focuses on Italian contemporary literature; it investigates the literary practices of irony displayed in several genres (e.g. autofiction) and by different authors (e.g. Wu Ming) in reaction to the exhaustion of postmodernism.
Linguistics
Birmingham City University
PhD in English Linguistics based in Birmingham, UK
Music
University of Birmingham
Musicologist, pianist and clarinetist investigating opera and its complex merger of art forms in the 20th century: "death" of a genre or cultural transformation?
Visual Arts
Birmingham City University
Independent curator and writer specialising in contemporary art from the Middle East. My PhD research looks at science fiction in contemporary art from the Middle East.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
PhD student in Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Nottingham.
Music
Birmingham City University
Musicologist and pianist examining the life and music of the forgotten early 20th century Russian composer Alexei Stanchinsky.
History
University of Nottingham
My research uses oral history methodology to consider the relationship between national identity and football in Galicia, Spain.
University of Warwick
My collaborative doctoral study is with the University of Warwick and Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. The focus of my research is on the life and work of the prolific and pioneering theatre director Michael Bogdanov.
Philosophy
University of Birmingham
Global Ethics PhD student, University of Birmingham and SAF respresentative.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I am a 4th-year PhD candidate at the Department of Film and Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham. My research focuses on genre studies, World Cinema and the global Western. I also have a professional background in journalism in Spain.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Examining British and European identity construction(s) in Brexit Britain using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis and qualitative interviewing.
History
University of Nottingham
Third-year PhD student specialising in the use and manipulation of political language by the crown in the period 1470-1509
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham based. Interested in queer everything. Thesis title - Queer Resistance(s): Contemporary Caribbean Communality - more info whithin profile.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
My research explores how women played a key role in the social and religious transformation of medieval Islamic Spain. For this I focus on the domestic spaces and activities through assemblage theory. I also dabble in public engagement.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I am a researcher of representations and responses to technology in culture. I am currently investigating the fascinating links between accelerationism, the writing of J.G. Ballard, and the work and miliue of artist Eduardo Paolozzi.
Drama and Theatre Studies
University of Birmingham
Based at the University of Birmingham. My thesis examines contemporary Gothic drama as a form of political theatre.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
PhD researcher studying the regionalism and co-rulership practices of medieval Norway and how those practices were presented in the Old Norse histories.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
I am a PhD researcher in Translation Studies at the University of Nottingham, investigating the semiotic and narrative dynamics of subtitles in multilingual films through the lenses of identity, alterity and power.
Philosophy
University of Birmingham
My research focuses on how we can best characterise psychopathy. I argue that people diagnosed with psychopathy lack the ability to care about their future selves. I investigate the connection between future self-interest and moral responsibility.
History
University of Birmingham
My research explores the significance of serpents and dragons in early modern Germany, and how these potent symbols were employed in the religious upheavals of the Reformation.
History
University of Birmingham
Researching homelessness under the Labour Governments 1997-2010. I spent ten years running projects for street homeless people in the 1980s and 1990s. I write poetry and have published a utopian novel.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Mother of Literary Dragons. Doctoral Researcher in Medieval Arthurian literature.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
Forensic anthropologist and M4C PhD student with an interest in skeletal trauma and violence in armed conflicts. Application of photogrammetry in trauma analysis.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Visual Arts
Nottingham Trent University
Artist-researcher with an interest in bereavement theory it's application within contemporary fine art.
Visual Arts
Nottingham Trent University
Darren O'Brien is an artist Researcher, exploring posthumanism and the animal turn, through the praxis of the Walkies as Method.
Philosophy
University of Birmingham
My research examines rising anxiety rates in UK young people aged 16-24. I consider current conceptions of anxiety and the relation between social media and anxiety rates in youth.
History
University of Leicester
My research explores the processes of production surrounding imperial letter writing that enabled families in colonial South Asia to work through gender norms in empire, and contribute to familial and wider imperial narratives, c1857-1929.
Languages and Literature
University of Leicester
My work examines women’s contemporary experimental life-writing from 1990s-present.
History
University of Leicester
I am a second year CDA student, studying the narratives of loss in the witness testimonies of war widows and maimed soldiers during the English Civil Wars and how they compared across England, Wales and Ireland
Archaeology
University of Leicester
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
History
University of Birmingham
Law and Legal Studies
Birmingham City University
Michael is a Midlands4Cities funded PhD researcher investigating the impact of the UN's Universal Periodic Review on human rights in the UK. He has several years experience as a visiting lecturer on LLB Law Modules at BCU, and Newman University.
Music
Birmingham City University
Resident composer and co artistic director of Infinite Opera, exploring how to create new opera that is relevant to society by interdisciplinary work and collaboration.
History
De Montfort University
Researching connections between the built environment of concentration camps and Nazism’s exclusionary and genocidal goals with contemporary architectural thinking on societal “improvement”.
Law and Legal Studies
Nottingham Trent University
I am researching the extent to which aspects of the legal systems of the UK and Republic of Ireland uphold the rights of disabled persons
History
Nottingham Trent University
Media
Birmingham City University
Daniel is a Visiting Lecturer and PhD Candidate at Birmingham City University. He has written for Horror Homeroom and Screening Sex, contributed to such collections as Monsters: A Companion (2020), and presented at various international conferences.
Birmingham City University
Research Fellow at the University of St. Gallen, investigating contemporary visual arts in urban China
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Queerness and transness in the novels of William Godwin, his circle and beyond
History
University of Leicester
Languages and Literature
De Montfort University
My project looks at whether short stories printed in British magazines during and in the aftermath of the First World War can be considered a therapeutic tool for readers suffering from the emotional or psychological effects of war.
Archaeology
University of Nottingham
My research explores the impact of lead use in medieval Britain from the environmental impact, social and medicinal impact through to identifying poisoning in the skeleton. I also research cave archaeology and palaeoanthropology.
Cultural and Museum Studies
Nottingham Trent University
My research looks at videogames as interpretation in museums. I’m focusing on three key areas of intersection: narrative/storytelling, emotion/affect, and rhetoric. I also dabble in Twine and making games!
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
My PhD in Portuguese & Lusophone Studies considers regionalism and regional identity in modern Portuguese fiction. I hold a B.A. in Modern & Medieval Languages (Cambridge) and an M.A. in Portuguese Literature (Porto).
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