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Student profiles

Our student community is distinguished by breadth and diversity in the people and projects that make up M4C. Connecting across the Midlands, our students are part of a dynamic network of postgraduate researchers, with opportunities for collaboration throughout the doctoral experience. This page offers a sample of student profiles, which are in development. A full list will be available in the coming months
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Daniel Rathbone

Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Warwick

I am a researcher examining the history of the People's Parks in South Africa, and how archives mediate an understanding of the politics of space and heritage.

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Kathryn Birch

Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Nottingham

First year Collaborative Doctoral Researcher working with Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature to safeguard and promote Nottingham’s diverse language heritages.

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Zara Fahim


University of Nottingham

PhD researcher in Linguistics (Modern Languages) at Nottingham interested primarily in language contact, emerging multiethnic urban vernaculars and adolescent language use. I am also involved in MFL outreach and widening participation.

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Mariia Kulykivska

Visual Arts
De Montfort University

I am a twice-displaced Ukrainian artist-scholar who makes feminist multidisciplinary art, working across contemporary performance, sculptural and visual arts. My PhD explores agency within вразливість (vulnerability/fragility).

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Louisa Pickard

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

Currently researching menstruation in early modern performing arts but also interested in women, bodies, maternity, pregnancy, the womb and how these topics are explored in theatre and song.

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Lucinda Lancaster

History
Nottingham Trent University

A PhD Researcher looking at the networks of noblewomen and exploring female power as a shared and inherited phenomenon which recognises that queens were not isolated political actors but members of a robust multigenerational network

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Adela Pakandlova

Languages and Literature
Coventry University

Phd student in Coventry, intersted in clay-work for the bereaved individual and metaphoricalexpression of grief

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Delilah Kealy-roberts

Media
University of Nottingham

I am a first-year PhD researcher at the University of Nottingham, exploring the portrayal of femicide in news media from 2013 to 2023 through the examination of thematic and episodic frames.

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Abigail Carr

History
University of Leicester

I am a first year PhD researcher at the University of Leicester. My project explores cultural representations and understandings of English wet nurses in the eighteenth century, in the context of venereal disease transmission.

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Tom Goodwin

Design
University of Warwick

PhD student examining the architectural expression of arts and culture-led regeneration in 1990s and early 2000s Britain

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Laura Besley

Languages and Literature
University of Leicester

Writer of short stories, flash- & microfiction and researching the new genre of novella-in-flash, which combines short 'flash' chapters with a longer (often disjoined) narrative.

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Charlotte Clark

Music
University of Birmingham

A pianist and euphonium player with diverse experience of supporting and performing with community music groups. My lived experience of being neurodivergent and working with neurodivergent groups drives my current research interests.

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Mridul Kaintura

Drama and Theatre Studies
University of Warwick

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Hannah Bradshaw

Drama and Theatre Studies
University of Warwick

Hannah is a 1st year PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies collaborating between the University of Warwick and Woburn Abbey and the Bedford Estates. Her research interests are gender, dress, and material culture.

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Molly Pye

Archaeology
University of Leicester

First year PhD student exploring role of public value in the development of archaeology and the discipline’s relationship with the public in Britain from 1830 to 1880.

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Marijke Valk

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

First-year PhD student in the field of English literature, researching the representation of alchemy in late-Victorian fiction.

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Michelle Buckley

Dance
Coventry University

Professional dancer and PhD candidate researching the ISTD archive with a particular interest on the history of ballet in Britain.

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Lynn Marriott

History
University of Warwick

I am a first year PhD. student who is studying religious dissent in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and examining how women were an intrinsic part of the spread of nonconformity in the counties of Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

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Edward Clijsen

Music
De Montfort University

Experimental composer and guitarist investigating innovative compositional applications of microtonal musical techniques to locate new expressive dimensions in music.

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Ruby Hake

Philosophy
University of Birmingham

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Matheus Melo

Law and Legal Studies
University of Birmingham

Brazilian, 28. First year PhD Student at the University of Birmingham.

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Elliot Andrews

Languages and Literature
University of Leicester

I am a second-year PhD student at the University of Leicester. My research centres on Victorian periodicals (specifically Punch) , and the networks that the Brotherhood formed in the nineteenth-century. I also utilise digital approaches in my work.

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Kat Ward

Archaeology
University of Birmingham

I'm a first year PhD student studying archaeology. My thesis uses micro-CT scanning of human bone to better understand Early Neolithic mortuary practices in southern Britain.

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Alison Hoffmeister

Drama and Theatre Studies
De Montfort University

A PhD researcher seeking to explore Postpartum bodies in Live Art Practice.

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Olivia Penrose Punnett

Visual Arts
Nottingham Trent University

Independent Curator and Researcher at NTU & Nottingham Contemporary. Drawn to alternative ways of knowing. Project title A Poetical Science: Exploring Art, Feminism and Technology through Contemporary Curatorial Practice.

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Jack Horlock

Philosophy
University of Birmingham

I am a researcher at the University of Birmingham focused on the metaphysical foundations of phenomenology. My PhD explores depression as a dynamic process shaped by relational and temporal factors, drawing on process philosophy and Einstein’s relativity.

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Carol Gurnham

Archaeology
University of Leicester

First Year PhD Candidate researching the Neolithic landscape of Leicestershire and Rutland. Investigating the region’s apparent absence of long barrows and the influence of Neolithic occupation and farming on subsequent landscape use and environment.

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Sophie Dungan

Languages and Literature
University of Warwick

I am the author of Reading the Vegetarian Vampire (2022). My expertise is in vampire studies, Anthropocene studies, Gothic Fiction, and ecocriticism. I also have academic interests in ecohorror, vegetarian and vegan studies.

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Gabriel Flynn

Languages and Literature
University of Warwick

I'm a first-year PhD student at Warwick working on a creative-critical study of Theodor Adorno's aesthetics.

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Timothy Gawaya

Visual Arts
University of Warwick

My research looks at the history of distributed technologies in 20th and 21st century artistic practices

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Timothi Lim Weihao

Media
De Montfort University

Exploring transdisciplinary XR frameworks integrating generative AI and real-time data to enhance user engagement

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Ellie Smith

Languages and Literature
University of Warwick

I am a first-year PhD student researching the psychology of queer women in French cinema. My project aims to draw focus away from the pathological, looking instead at the theory of 'positive psychology'.

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Melissa Pasut

Dance
Coventry University

Melissa is a dancer, choreographer and researcher. Her interest is in choreographic research that seeks to confuse the traditional boundaries between dance and other arts practices. Her PhD is focusing on ballet pointe work and butoh.

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Josie Davies

Drama and Theatre Studies
University of Birmingham

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Bee Damara

Political Science and International Studies
University of Leicester

I research activism of people with lived experience of human trafficking, focusing on their political perspectives and how they define their experiences.

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Elisabeth Del Prete

Visual Arts
Birmingham City University

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Holly Gowland

Music
University of Birmingham

Doctoral researcher and composer examining the effect of urban change on electroacoustic and mixed composition.

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Gillian Walters

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

First year PhD researcher at the University of Nottingham. I am particularly interested in Victorian poetry and periodicals. My PhD project is a study of women’s poetry in Macmillan’s Magazine (1859 to 1907).

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Rose Varley

Archaeology
University of Nottingham

Second year PhD student researching the episcopal economy of Anglo-Saxon England.

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Christian Gurdin

Languages and Literature
University of Warwick

I am a first-year PhD candidate at the University of Warwick, researching Black radical movements across four English-speaking Caribbean nations — namely, Guyana, Grenada, Jamaica and Trinidad — during the "Long Seventies" (1968-83).

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Zhian Zhang

Classics
University of Warwick

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Kiana Smithdale

Drama and Theatre Studies
De Montfort University

A PhD researcher seeking to explore and combine the transgressive potential of rage across feminist Live Art and screen horror contexts.

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Daniel Lee

Music
University of Birmingham

I am a social historian primarily interested in nightlife studies and the sexual geography of queer scenes therein. My research focuses on the decline of queer nightlife in post-apartheid South Africa.

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Beth Preece

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

Beth Preece is a trans writer. Her short fiction can be found in the likes of The Stinging Fly, Litro Magazine, and Extra Teeth. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart prize and is a PhD candidate in Creative writing at the University of Birmingham

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Matthew London

Music
De Montfort University

I am a first year PhD student at DMU. My project focuses on the concept of the 'Integrated Soundtrack', exploring relationships between the soundtrack elements specific to modern mainstream english speaking horror films.

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Emmy Sale

History
De Montfort University

Dress historian researching women's sportswear. Currently working in collaboration with The Hockey Museum.

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Sarah Westcott

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

I am a poet with a life-long interest in the natural world. I'm in the first year of researching and creating inter-species poetry as part of a M4C-funded PhD.

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Millie Jacoby

Languages and Literature
University of Warwick

I am a 1st year PhD student at the University of Warwick, researching memory and postmemory of Eastern Europe and the Pale of Settlement in Jewish literature from France.

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Faye Claridge

Visual Arts
University of Warwick

I am an artist and part time first year PGR, researching the layered impacts of anonymity in the presentation of artworks made by people in prison.

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Rebecca Capel

History
University of Warwick

I am a first-year PhD candidate with an interest in the history of youth, gender, and sex. My research project is entitled 'Young Women's Experiences of Sex and Romance in Britain, 1650-1750'

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Andrea Zarza Canova

Visual Arts
University of Nottingham

Andrea is an AHRC-funded PhD candidate, doing a practice-based Collaborative Doctoral Award with Nottingham Contemporary. Her doctoral research explores the use of sound in contemporary art, and will take shape as an exhibition and doctoral thesis.

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Jacob Hyde

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

I am a second year PhD student studying madness and sectarian literature during the English Commonwealth (1648-1660).

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Yuqi Jiang

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

First year PhD at the Shakespeare Institute. Theatre History/Childhood/Posthumanism/Jonson. Happy to chat about anything early modern.

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Nina Walker

Languages and Literature
University of Leicester

I am a first year PhD student intrested in contemporary American literature, New media and our rapidly developing relationship to the digital world.

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Charlotte Skye

Philosophy
University of Birmingham

I am a first year PhD Philosophy student at the University of Birmingham. My research focuses on the nature of monothematic delusions, focusing on current characterisations namely surrounding truth value judgements and irrationality claims.

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Tina Hofman

Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Birmingham

I am a researcher, theatremaker and producer working across practices to inverstigate lived experience and curiousity about migration, fantasy, grief and chaos. I co-run Notnow collective and work independently. More info: www.tinahofman.org

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Mollie Smith

History
Nottingham Trent University

I am a second year doctoral student at Nottingham Trant University whose research focuses on redefining the role of Queen Consort in Early Modern Europe and the relationship between gender and revolution in the period.

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Teddy Hunter

Music
University of Birmingham

Teddy Hunter is an audio visual artist and electronic musician working in alternative soundscapes, immersive audio and ecology. Her practice takes root in sonic arts, exploring the environment through field recording, installations and live performances

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Danielle Andrea Krikorian

Visual Arts
University of Birmingham

Krikorian is a PhD student in History of Art and an early-career art practitioner. Her research interests are abstraction, Islamic art, trauma, testimony, and decoloniality. She has worked in archival research, curatorion, and gallery management.

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George Davis

History
University of Nottingham

I am a first-year PhD candidate studying the human experience of demobilisation during the transition between the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses. I have a particular interest in disability narratives and lawlessness.

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Jen Pearce

History
Nottingham Trent University

I am a PhD researcher working within NTU's Religion, Conflict and Resolution Research Group. My interdisciplinary project combines History and Legal Studies in order to explore the complexities of cross-cultural relationships in the mediaeval Latin East.

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Haley Goren

Archaeology
University of Birmingham

Biological Anthropologist, PhD Candidate

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Fridolin Neumann

Philosophy
University of Warwick

I am a second year PhD student in Philosophy working on Heidegger, Kant, and intentionality. Apart from that, I have broader interests especially in 20th centtury philosophy.

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Aleph Ross

History
University of Birmingham

I am a first year PhD student researching Jewish migration and sexual health in London's East End.

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Roseanna Smith

Design
Birmingham City University

Roseanna is undertaking a collaborative PhD project, which investigates the Coalbrookdale Collection of illustrated Victorian trade catalogues at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust in Shropshire.

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Cristiana Palandri

Music
De Montfort University

Composer and visual artist. Over the years, sh

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Irene Sacchetti

Law and Legal Studies
Nottingham Trent University

I am a second-year PhD Candidate in International Law at NLS. I hold an integrated LLM from the University of Bologna. Former research fellow at the Potsdam Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies and Czech Academy of Science

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Victoria Vening-richards

Classics
University of Warwick

I am a 1st year PhD student at Warwick University researching the representation of the Flavian imperial women (69-96 AD) on the coinage of the eastern provinces.

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Bryn Holding

Drama and Theatre Studies
University of Birmingham

I am a first year PhD Student exploring the relationship between breath, the actor and the audiece in the performance of Shakespeare. Bringing Shakespeare studies, theatre practice and respiratory physiology into a dynamic discourse.

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Emma Lovell

Visual Arts
University of Warwick

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Felicity Bromley-hall

Drama and Theatre Studies
University of Nottingham

My research focuses on the 'lost plays' of Frantz Fanon - revolutionary psychiatrist and history's leading anticolonialist. As director of their UK premiere, I specialise in how the plays contribute to current-day thoughts on theatre and mental health.

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Jordan Healy

History
Nottingham Trent University

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Emma Horne

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

​Second year PhD student at the University of Nottingham researching the landscapes of the Old Norse-Icelandic Family Sagas.

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Rebecca Humphreys-lamford

Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Birmingham

​Rebecca Humphreys-Lamford (she/her) is a second year PhD student. Her research interests surround queer studies and queer representation, with a focus on asexual representations on television.

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Clare-louise Rhys-jones

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

I am a first year PhD candidate at the Shakespeare Institute (UOB). My project aims to uncover possible theatre practice in the early modern period and discover how an understanding of dialogic rhetoric may impact the rehearsal room today.

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Matthew Hamblin

Visual Arts
University of Nottingham

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Carson Lloyd

Law and Legal Studies
Birmingham City University

Midlands4Cities funded PhD Researcher at Birmingham City University investigating the extent that smart city development is limited by the legal infrastructures within which they operate with a focus on Phoenix, Boston and Pittsburgh in the US.

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Steve Katon

Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University

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Angela Billings

Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester

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Jacob Saheb

Media
University of Nottingham

I am a sound artist and first-year Critical Theory and Cultural Studies PhD student at the University of Nottingham interested in the historical formation of the sensorium -- specifically interested in diasporic listening practices in post-war Britain.

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Bethan Downs

History
University of Birmingham

I am a first year PhD student exploring the relationship between feminism and kink in 1980s and 90s Britain through a focus on self-identified sadomasochist lesbian feminists.

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Andrea Hadley-johnson

Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester

I’m researching self-led creative activity in prison cells, the role historic prison made artifacts might play as a stimulus, and the mental health impacts of enabling creative agency for people living in prison.

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Niamh Lawlor

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

Second year PhD student exploring both fiction and non-fiction representations of Pre-Historic monuments in the early 20th Century, with a particular emphasis on gaining an insight into how these monunments were interracted with by local communities.

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Alexander Curtis

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

I'm a first year PhD candidate studying representations of the working class and labour disputes of Nottingham in the run-up to the strikes in 1984-85.

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Jurriaan Gouw

Classics
University of Warwick

I am a second year PhD student at the University of Warwick. My research focuses on the Roman emperor Trajan's rise to power and the phenomena of post-truth politics during his early rule.

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Kelly Bosomworth

History
Nottingham Trent University

First year PhD candidate researching the history of the Six Point Group, the leading gender equality organisation in the interwar years and in the run up to second-wave feminism. CDA project in collaboration with the Women's Library.

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Jack Cole

Visual Arts
Nottingham Trent University

Second-year postgraduate researcher.

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Chloe Knibbs

Music
Birmingham City University

Chloe Knibbs is a composer, songwriter and sound artist motivated by lyricism, vulnerability and storytelling.

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Anna Tyacke

Archaeology
University of Leicester

I am a first year doctoral student researching the Iron Age and Roman metalwork and coins of the South West with a curatorial background before working for the Portable Antiquities Scheme as a Finds Liaison Officer.

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Andi Johnson

Dance
De Montfort University

Andi (They/Them) is a dancer, photographer, and archive researcher from the U.S.A. In their down time they like to nerd out about craft beer, play video and board games, and cook.

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Zohreh Baghban

Languages and Literature
De Montfort University

collagist, creative writer, multimodalist, I'm a first-year Postgrad. Research at De Montfort Univ. working on my Practice-based Creative Writing project, considering the animal perspective in Net Zero policy

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Declan Gillespie

Languages and Literature
University of Warwick

First year PhD candidate at Warwick, intersecting literary affect theory with a study of apophatic theology to illuminate the prose work of Samuel Beckett

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Angus Crawford

History
University of Warwick

I am a first year PhD student in History at the University of Warwick. My project looks at the Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick in the early modern period.

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Christopher Waite

Languages and Literature
University of Warwick

Chris is a budding literary translator working from Spanish into English and is studying the PhD in Literary Translation Studies on Warwick Writing Programme.

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Kate Honeker

Archaeology
University of Nottingham

First year PhD student exploring the production and decoration of both locally produced and imported sarcophagi within the Roman province of Syria, with a focus on the 1st to 3rd centuries CE.

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Erin Green

Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester

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Rachel Thorpe

History
Nottingham Trent University

I am a fourth year (p/t) PhD candidate at NTU. My research is based on an oral history of the South Derbyshire Mining Community, 1947-2022.

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Francesca Ash

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

Second Year PhD: Researching the presentations of binary and non-binary gender as presented in Old English hagiographies.

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Thomas Vare

History
University of Leicester

I am a first year PhD student studying early medieval history at the University of Leicester. My academic interests lie in kinship, dynasty and the display of power in Anglo-Saxon England.

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Klaudia Wittmann

Dance
Coventry University

Klaudia Wittmann is a former professional gymnast, dancer and choreographer based in the UK. She is co-founder and co-director of KWAM Collective. Her academic and artistic practice explores the tensions between the body, subjectivity and sociality.

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Paloma Trigas

Music
Birmingham City University

I am a classical violinist and folk musician from Galicia, Spain and my research analyzes the relationship between both genres through the calssical and traditional violin repertoire of this region.

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James Rodker

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

3rd year PhD researcher studying text image interaction in 20th century American art, with a focus on the work of Ed Ruscha

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Joel Blackledge

Media
Birmingham City University

I am a first-year doctoral student, researching social media video work and its relationship with cinematic style.

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Reuben Hutchinson-wong

Archaeology
University of Birmingham

Second year doctoral researcher exploring tomb reuse in ancient Egyptian mortuary spaces and redressing their interpretation in modern academic discourse.

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Tomoki Yamada

History
University of Birmingham

I am a second-year PhD student at the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. Before starting my doctoral studies in Birmingham, I obtained a master’s degree in contemporary history at Kyoto University in Japan.

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Joanne Shemmans

Languages and Literature
Birmingham City University

2nd year PhD researcher interested in the relationship between Romantic literature and politiical and social issues, with a particular focus on exploring the themes of vagrancy, poverty and criminalisation.

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Anna Gillions

Philosophy
Coventry University

Anna’s transdisciplinary approach uses socially engaged art to explore the relationship between social structures, emotion and behaviour.

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Emma Thompson

Archaeology
University of Leicester

I am a second year researcher investigating the effect of migration and religious change in English and Danish burials (c. 800 - 1100 CE) to assess (re)negotiations of mortuary identities.

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Tamsin Johnson

Design
Nottingham Trent University

A second year PhD student at Nottingham Trent University analysing the visual representation and histories of cycling women (1880-1939)

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Sebastian Leyton Blanco

Philosophy
University of Warwick

Second year PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Warwick, working at the intersection between Anglo-American Philosophy of Race and Latinx/Caribbean Decoloniality. My research focuses on Racialisation, Subjectivity and Antiracist Praxis.

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Shaoyu Yang

Languages and Literature
University of Warwick

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Helena Hunter

Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University

Helena is an AHRC M4C funded PhD candidate in Creative and Critical Writing at Nottingham Trent University in partnership with the University of Warwick, she is based in the Department of English, Linguistics & Philosophy at NTU.

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Nicola Hamer

Languages and Literature
University of Warwick

I am pursuing a PhD at the University of Warwick's department of English and Comparative Literature. My research draws on ecology, poetics and ongoing colonial histories. I also teach at the University of Warwick and write poetry.

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Katie Deane

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

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Shaheen Merali

Cultural and Museum Studies
Coventry University

Shaheen Merali (born in Tanzania, lives in Britain) is a curator, critic, and artist of Asian heritage. Merali began his artistic practice in the 1980s, committing to social, political, and personal narratives.

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Ke Xia

Philosophy
University of Warwick

I’m a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. My research focuses on the history of political philosophy and moral philosophy, especially 18th-century political thought.

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Jenny Gleadell

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.

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Lizzy Le Quesne

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).

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Naomi Taylor

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)

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Elizabeth Freestone

Drama and Theatre Studies
University of Birmingham

Second year PhD researcher at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford working on Shakespeare and the environment. Also a theatre director.

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Xinyao Zhang

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.

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Natasha Burbridge

Visual Arts
University of Warwick

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Jade Jenkinson

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

I am a final year PhD student, studying at the University of Nottingham.

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Ben Torrens

Music
Birmingham City University

Second-year doctoral researcher examining reggae music culture in Britain and Jamaica, 1968-1981.

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Airelle Amedro

Languages and Literature
University of Warwick

I am a first year PhD student. My project focuses on queer vulnerability in French contemporary narratives.

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Abbey Rees-hales

Visual Arts
University of Birmingham

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Brodhie Molloy

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.

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Mia Edwards

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.

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Simone Blandford

Languages and Literature
University of Warwick

I am a second year PhD student specialising in twentieth-century American literature. My current research is on Chiacgo's radical literary history, from the reception of the Paris Commune to the Chicago Black Renaissance.

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Lucy Grace

Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University

My PhD examines existing Anthropocentric imaginary of the subsurface in a creative and critical project. Areas include underground uncanny, human and non-human, the curious temporality of geological time and Earth's subterranean resources.

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Tom Chesworth

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

Second-year PhD student researching the reception of Simone de Beauvoir's Marxism within continental feminist thought.

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Isabel Lucia Collazos Gottret

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.

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Elena Claudi

Classics
University of Warwick

I am a second-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).

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Tyler Broome

Classics
University of Birmingham

First year PhD student researching informal diplomatic practices in the Late Roman Republic (1st century BC), with a specific focus on the construction and use of roles in Cicero's letters.

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Abigail Ford

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.

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Ben Campion

Philosophy
University of Warwick

I am a second year PhD student in philosophy at the University of Warwick working on creativity, agency, and ethics in photography.

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Frances Yeung

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.

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Sydni Zastre

History
University of Birmingham

I am a third-year PhD student with an interest in histories of motherhood 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.

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Maria Oliveira

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.

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Chloe Challender

History
University of Warwick

I am a third-year part-time doctoral candidate researching 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.

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Melisa Oleschuk

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.

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Nitya Gundu

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.

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Jessica Hirtle

Development Studies
University of Nottingham

I am a 2nd 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.

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Tabitha Lambert-bramwell

History
University of Birmingham

I am a third-year PhD researcher, supervised across the University of Birmingham and the University of Warwick, examining the relationship between middle-class women's professional work and the employment of domestic servants within their homes

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Rene Bonifacio

Linguistics
University of Nottingham

I am a third-year PhD student in Linguistics (Modern Languages) at the University of Nottingham interested in how language policies and legislations impact the language practices, attitudes, and ideologies of Manobo people in south-central Philippines.

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Katarina Kompauerova

Classics
University of Leicester

I am a third year part-time PhD student at the University of Leicester, interested in ancient Greek disabilities, the emotions associated with disabled and different bodies, and the ways disability stories are communicated in museums.

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Caroline Fucci

Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester

I am a second 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.

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Ben Cottrell

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.

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Pauline Vasselle

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.

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Ambika Raja

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.

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Henrietta Hale

Dance
Coventry University

I'm a 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.

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Victoria Anne Bird

Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Nottingham

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Rach Baines

Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Nottingham

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Anna-primrose Orchard

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.

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Marianne Fish

Linguistics
University of Nottingham

Second-year PhD researcher at the University of Nottingham studying narrative consciousness in the works of Jean Rhys. My research, through stylistic analysis, examines trauma—as expressed through consciousness representation.

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Rachel Rolph

Archaeology
University of Nottingham

I am a PhD student exploring the archaeology of zootherapy in Roman Britain.

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Bryony Taylor

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.

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Amy Arden

Classics
University of Leicester

Second 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, the various expressions of Matricentric Feminism, and Cogni

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Andie Lloyd

Design
Birmingham City University

First year PhD researcher of Printing History, looking at 19th century radical newspapers and Birmingham print culture

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Alfie Hancox

History
University of Birmingham

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Frankie Goodridge

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

PhD student in Latin American literature

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Rachel Macfarlane

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

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Dion Ellis-taylor

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.

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Michele Roncarati

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

Researcher focusing on the impact of wolves on medieval Scandinavia. I completed my MA in Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies at the University of Nottingham, and my BA at the University of Bologna with an Erasmus year at the University of Sussex.

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Amber Williams

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

PhD Researcher: Literary representations of the Duel in Britain, 1780-1845

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Ambra Minoli

Languages and Literature
University of Warwick

PhD student in Translation and Transcultural Studies at the University of Warwick.

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Carolin Lange

Visual Arts
De Montfort University

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Alessia Attanasio

Visual 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.

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Yaqi Xi

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.

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Jarkko Tanninen

Visual Arts
University of Nottingham

PhD candidate specialising in American art and visual culture.

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Alex Round

Visual Arts
Birmingham City University

2nd year PhD Researcher of Pre-Raphaelite women artists and writers. Trustee of the Birmingham and Midland Institute.

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Ellen Schaffert

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.

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Campbell Orchard

Classics
University of Warwick

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Robyn Whalley

Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University

I am a second 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.

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Amy Bouwer

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.

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Saraya Haddad

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)

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Luke Thrumble

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.

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Polina Zelmanova

Media
University of Warwick

I am a PhD candidate looking at the representation of sex in Film and Television after #MeToo.

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Himesh Mehta

History
University of Warwick

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Jess Samuel

Languages and Literature
De Montfort University

Jess is a third-year PhD candidate at De Montfort University. Her research focuses renderings of the consciousness in fiction published via periodical culture in turn-of-the-century Britain.

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Dominic Boden-tebbutt

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

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Karl Mcintyre

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.

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Anna Pravdica

History
University of Warwick

University of Warwick PhD researcher, exploring links between sincerity, deceit, and non-elite identity in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British culture and everyday social contexts.

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Eloise Parr

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.

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Cannon Fairbairn

Archaeology
University of Birmingham

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Akinboboye Alonge

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.

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Alice Smith

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

PGR at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford upon Avon. Theatre Historian, Freelance Researcher, Costume Designer and Makeup Artist.

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Ruth Walbank

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.

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Sarah Jillian Cox

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.

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Holly Doron

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.

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Nathan Dooner

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.

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Hollie Wistow

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.

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Greta Gauhe

Dance
Coventry University

Greta is a Choreographer, Dancer and Researcher. My Research is focussed on re-creating touch-like sensations over distance or online.

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Nicole Salomone

History
University of Leicester

2nd Year PhD candidate, researching how death was defined in late Enlightenment England.

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Charlie Bradley

Philosophy
University of Nottingham

Second year PhD student in the School of Politics and International Relations exploring the constitutional thought of Hugo Grotius.

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Robert Stockton

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.

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Alex Tadel

Classics
University of Warwick

I'm a second-year PhD candidate at the University of Warwick, and I am researching Neo-Latin texts written by women in the Venetian Quattrocento.

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Ian Nixon

Languages and Literature
University of Warwick

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Javed Sultan

History
De Montfort University

Javed is a photographer with over a decade of experience in India, now based in Leicester. His Ph.D. research explores how photojournalism contributed to the making of Indian democracy in the early post-independence period.

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Ankara Clarke

Visual Arts
De Montfort University

I am a CDA researcher at DMU specialising in rural creative industries development. My research aims to define, conceptualise and advance a rural creative industries in the counties of Cornwall (Jamaica and UK) while partnering with Creative UK.

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Scott Hurley

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.

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Sally Butcher

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.

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Rachael Abbey

Cultural and Museum Studies
De Montfort University

I am a second 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.

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Laura Woolley-nunez

Languages and Literature
University of Warwick

Second 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.

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Daniel Zacariotti

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.

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Andy Irwin

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.

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Mark Russ

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.

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Sarah Lancaster

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

PhD researcher at the University of Nottingham. My research explores relationships between didactic literature and subjective experience, focusing on texts and iconography from late medieval Yorkshire.

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Charlotte Spear

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.

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Emma Hyde

Visual Arts
De Montfort University

PhD candidate 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.

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Hannah Brumby

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

Melancholy Men and English Renaissance Drama: from Marlowe to Ford

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Elizabeth Gray

Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester

3rd 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.

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Wendy Scott

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.

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Marah Jaraisy

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

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Tim Elliott

Political History
University of Birmingham

Researching populism, and how it can reinterpret the politics of first-century BCE Rome.

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Lance Hayward

Media
University of Warwick

I am a third-year PhD student at the University of Warwick, studying serial documentary form.

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Abigail Naidu

Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Birmingham

I am a PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham studying the Dead Sea Scrolls. My research focuses on material and textual analysis of the Temple Scroll manuscripts.

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Cheung Wai Leuk

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

A researcher in early English Pride

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Charlotte-rose Kennedy

Linguistics
Nottingham Trent University

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Harrison Charles

Media
Birmingham City University

Gaymer and queer doctoral researcher focusing on explicit constructions of sex within video games

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Charles Comerford

Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Birmingham

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Sarah Simpson

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.

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Jodie Hannis

Archaeology
University of Leicester

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Karin Thomson

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

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Sam Underwood

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.

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Gareth James

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.

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Connor Williams

History
University of Nottingham

3rd-year PhD researcher researching wardships in Late Medieval England, Wales and Ireland.

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Jo Gane

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.

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Sean Carroll

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

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Bekkie Alexander

Drama and Theatre Studies
University of Nottingham

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Meryem Clarke

Linguistics
University of Birmingham

She/her, 28, third-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.

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James Mcilwrath

Music
Birmingham City University

james is an experimental composer/performer who makes things, does things and curates experimental performances.

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Samuel Penny

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.

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Rose Miyonga

History
University of Warwick

I am a third-year PhD candidate at the University of Warwick looking at memories of the Mau Mau War in post-colonial Kenya

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Raffaele Grandoni

Philosophy
University of Warwick

PhD student in Philosophy at Warwick, working at the crossroad of history of philosophy and political (continental) epistemology.

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Lee Davies

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.

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Robert Kilshaw

Media
University of Warwick

First-year PhD researcher exploring edgelands and their screen lives

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Tabina Iqbal

Languages and Literature
University of Warwick

First year PhD student working on Samuel Beckett, Ludwig Wittgenstein and the elusive "I" in the 20th Century.

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Elizabeth Smith

Languages and Literature
University of Warwick

As a third year PhD researcher at the University of Warwick, my project investigates the disruptive effects of uncharismatic organisms in ecopoetics, as a way to grapple with the challenges of environmental crisis.

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Tonya Outtram

Design
Nottingham Trent University

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Peter Domankiewicz

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

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Laura Staccoli

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).

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Gabriel Jackson

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.

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Ewan Swift

Philosophy
University of Nottingham

My thesis explores the moral, social, and political dimensions of microaggressions

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Edmund Van Der Molen

History
University of Nottingham

Second-year PhD student researching saintly identity in fifteenth-century canonisation processes.

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Georgina Cockburn

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.

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Ellen Brown

Design
University of Warwick

PhD researcher exploring the past, present and future of the British shopping centre

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Zrinka Uzbinec

Dance
Coventry University

Zrinka Užbinec is a dance artist. She/they work(s) with choreography crafting it with various mediums and different materials.

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Daniel Rignall

History
University of Leicester

I am a history PhD student researching the influence of the Bible in eighteenth-century Britain

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Lucy Shaw

Visual Arts
University of Birmingham

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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.

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Kiran Khan

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.

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Nicole Moolhuijsen

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.

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Mahasen Nasser-eldin

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.

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Zeynep Serinkaya Winter

Media
Nottingham Trent University

Third 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.

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Natalie Rudd

Visual Arts
University of Birmingham

Curator and writer exploring precariousness in British sculpture by women, 1978-1993

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Samuel Riley

Music
University of Birmingham

Researching experimental music in late and post-Soviet Russia.

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Martin Jurgens

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).

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Catherine Rae

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

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Leah Everquill

Drama and Theatre Studies
De Montfort University

Leah Everquill 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.

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Eleanor Harris

Philosophy
University of Birmingham

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Stefano Catena

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

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Danielle Lascala

History
De Montfort University

Danielle is a third-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.

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Frances Potts

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.

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Jordan Mitchell-king

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.

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Ian Jackson

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.

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Robin Smith

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 to the rise of the Third Reich.

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Gregory Walker

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.

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Claudia Di Tosto

Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Warwick

I am a contemporary art historian, curator and museum professional, currently researching the British Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale (1948-present).

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Neil Malloy

Languages and Literature
University of Warwick

PhD researcher at the University of Warwick studying neoliberalism and political invisibility in the contemporary French novel

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Emma Fearon

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.

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Rob Hedge

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

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Joe Bedford

Languages and Literature
University of Leicester

Novelist and short fiction author with a wide publication and awards history. Second year Creative Writing researcher using nature writing to challenge far-right attitudes to conservation and the environment.

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Molly Watson

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

I am a PhD student at the University of Nottingham researching maternal loss and childhood in the works of Sara Coleridge and Mary Shelley (1820-52). I previously completed my MRes on Percy Shelley's Gothic fiction at Huddersfield (2020-21).

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Charles Gough

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

Doctoral researcher investigating the treatment of the soul in queer Victorian poetry.

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Annabel Wearring-smith

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

Third 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

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Daniel Smith

Media
University of Leicester

Second-year PhD student at the University of Leicester (AHRC Midlands4Cities) studying nostalgia in British film and television in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis.

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Maria Victoria Guzman

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.

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Alethia Antonia

Dance
De Montfort University

A independent choreographer, performer, teacher and part-time PhD researcher working within the Contemporary dance sector. My research is centred on exploring feminine blackness and decolonisation within choreography, performance and pedagogy.

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Thomas Fairfax

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.

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Silvia Vari

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.

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Roo Dhissou

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.

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Jacopo Dolci

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 Late Antiquity.

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Clark Bates

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.

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Imogen Clarke

Classics
University of Nottingham

First year PhD student researching representations of disability in the works of Juvenal and Martial.

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Elizabeth Lamle

Visual Arts
University of Birmingham

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Fred Hubble

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.

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Leonie Bausch

History
University of Nottingham

Third-year PhD student researching sexual/intimate encounters in French-occupied Germany after the Second World War

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Bethany O’brien

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.

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Hasan Ilban

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

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Salome Chitaia

Music
Birmingham City University

Pianist at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire investigating Maurice Ravel's piano music

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Jim Hulbert

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.

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Kate Arnold

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/

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Natasha Booth-johnson

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

First year PhD student researching queer fiction by female activists in the late nineteenth century.

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Aidan Teplitzky

Music
Birmingham City University

Aidan Teplitzky is a doctoral researcher and composer from a working-class background.

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Abigail Lloyd

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.

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Emma Stockley

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 predictive modelling.

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Ella Flavell

Visual Arts
University of Warwick

Fourth year PhD researcher working on Art Brut and Outsider Art

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Sarah Hodgson

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

Sarah is a third year PhD student investigating how the English Reformation(s) impacted traditional eschatological beliefs and led to an emerging social desire for worldly fame and self-memorialisation.

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Esther Kearney

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.

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Molly Harrabin

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

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Oliver Evans

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

Third-year M4C student researching the intermediality of the post-war novel in Britain.

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Arbaz Muzaffer

Law and Legal Studies
University of Birmingham

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Willem Baetsen

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

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Madeleine Burt

Visual Arts
Nottingham Trent University

I am an artist-educator undertaking a practice-based PhD in Illustration, specialising in graphic novels, at NTU where I lecture part-time on the Illustration MA and Graphics BA courses. I am in my second year of doctoral study.

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Khazna Chami

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.

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Valentina Anania

Media
University of Nottingham

PhD student at the University of Nottingham writing about transmedia authorship.

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Diane Strange

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.

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Hannah Roberts

Music
Birmingham City University

Musicologist at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire investigating the Pedagogy of Clara Schumann

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Lee Griffiths

Music
Birmingham City University

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Robert Chafer

Music
De Montfort University

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Fiona Moore

Archaeology
University of Nottingham

Archaeologist investigating trade, mobility and social dynamics in Middle Saxon East Anglia through isotope analysis of human remains.

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Laura Cooper

Visual Arts
Birmingham City University

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Keisha Bruce

Media
University of Nottingham

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Rosslyn Brown

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.

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Christopher Earley

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.

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Camilla Pitton

Philosophy
University of Warwick

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Christopher Griffin

Languages and Literature
University of Warwick

PGR in Contemporary Literary Studies, researching the novel, neoliberalism, and the aesthetics of the secret.

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Johanna Kreft

History
University of Birmingham

Final 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.

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Giulia Lorenzi

Philosophy
University of Warwick

I am a PhD student based at the University of Warwick working on philosophy of auditory perception.

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Francesca Farnell

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.

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Philip Carstairs

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.

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Imogen Knox

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.

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Darcie Mawby

History
University of Nottingham

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Bethan Evans

Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University

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Alessandra Pegurri

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.

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Nathaniel Sikand-youngs

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.

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Anna Persig

Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Birmingham

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Eleanor Griffiths

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.

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Mia Parkes

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.

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Eleanor Sutton

History
University of Birmingham

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Sophie Hartles

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.

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Emma Jaura

Philosophy
University of Nottingham

I am a first year philosophy PhD researcher working on metaphysical interdependence, fundamentality, and Buddhist emptiness.

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Henry Jones

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

I am a doctoral student researching Sir Philip Sidney and early modern visual culture.

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Maria Chiara Scuderi

History
University of Leicester

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Sean Shields

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.

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Jane Hardstaff

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

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Lydia Manley

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

I am a final 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.

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Magdalena Krysztoforska

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

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Jane Nead

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

I’m a Jewellery Designer-Maker with a fascination for Shakespeare. My PhD is a practice-informed study of metal-related language - it's about how I read the plays as a maker.

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Poppy Freeman-cuerden

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.

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Elsa Ball

Design
Nottingham Trent University

Final year PhD candidate at Nottingham Trent University researching the importance of hair to fashionable identity formation. .

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Ellen Addis

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.

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Annie Styles

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

English Literature PhD student examining the writing and events from Garsington Manor during WWI.

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Nathalie Cooper

History
University of Warwick

I’m a final-year PhD researcher looking at the legacies of imperial violence in the Horniman Museum’s collections. My PhD is co-supervised by the Horniman Museum, London.

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Elisa Vecchi

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.

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Mutsa Mhende

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

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Zach Dawson

Music
University of Birmingham

zach dawson is a UK-based composer and researcher. He is currently undertaking his PhD at UoB. He produces notated electronic music under the experimental duo 7balcony and was the co-founder of Post-Paradise Series until 2020.

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Victoria Mcmillan

Cultural and Museum Studies
Nottingham Trent University

PhD researcher at NTU. My research explores the role heritage can play in sustainability and regenerative futures through a more holistic, place-based approach.

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Kathryn Collinson

Media
De Montfort University

First year PhD student at De Montfort University, interested in film audiences, reception, and genre cinema.

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Paul O’shea

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

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Alessandro Carabia

Classics
University of Birmingham

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Guy Young

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.

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Bethany Seaman

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.

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Daniel Boucher

Music
University of Birmingham

Musicologist and cultural historian

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Marcus Spencer-brown

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.

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Annette Willoughby


Nottingham Trent University

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Andy Rogers

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.

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Blanca Jove Alcalde

Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester

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Blanca Jove Alcalde

Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester

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Theodore Reeves

Archaeology
University of Birmingham

Fourth year PhD student specialising in British Iron Age Marsh-forts and Heritage Classifications

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Serin Quinn

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.

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Lucia Antonia Dino Guida

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.

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Lisa Deml

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.

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Rachael Davies

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.

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Taylor Matthews

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.

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Maxwell Ayamba

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

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Paul Shaw

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

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Imogen Worrall

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.

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Jonathon Graham

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

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Amy Bromilow

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.

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Carys Hughes

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

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Amirah Mohiddin

Languages and Literature
University of Leicester

My PhD examines how and why Muslim female storytellers in Arabic literature use fantastical stories to articulate themselves. In my practice-based research, a fantasy novel, I interrogate storytelling as a mode of female heroism and salvation.

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Catherine Gower

History
Nottingham Trent University

PhD researcher looking into royal genealogical chronicles and their production and use in fifteenth-century England.

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Annabelle Gilmore

History
University of Birmingham

I am a final year PhD student interested in the wide ranging effects of colonialism, imperialism and slavery in eighteenth and nineteenth century history.

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Laura Smith

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.

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Jasmin Higgs

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

My research examines how to use interdisciplinary methods in determining the functions of early runic writing.

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Catalina Imizcoz

Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester

I am an Argentinian researcher and editor, working within the field of exhibition studies.

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Eleanor Vivian

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

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Dawn Newbery

Visual Arts
De Montfort University

1st year PhD student photography and sports history. Working in partnership with the National Paralympic Heritage Trust.

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Caroline Butterwick

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

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Gabriel Shelton

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.

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Natasha Commissiong

Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Birmingham

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Rebecca Hickman

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.

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Flora Perara

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.

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Jack Moss

History
University of Nottingham

Historian and former museum professional, in my final year of a Collaborative Doctoral Award with the Boots Archive, Nottingham. Using the business as its central case study, my reseach explores the experiences and cultures of postwar high-street shopping

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Sumaiyah Kholwadia

Law and Legal Studies
University of Birmingham

PGR working on conceptualising spiritual equality in human rights law using the case study of veiling bans

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Giorgia Rizzioli

Visual Arts
Coventry University

Second year PhD student at Coventry University, Centre for Post Digital Cultures

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William Noble

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.

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Amber Vella

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.

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Maialen Maugars

Visual Arts
University of Warwick

I am a final year CDA PhD student at the University of Warwick and Birmingham Museums Trust. My thesis focuses on Birmingham's Italian Renaissance decorative art collection.

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Elaine Goodey

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham, specialising in the publications of police detectives from 1880-1930.

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Stephanie Limb

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

Poet and essayist

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Louisa Petts

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.

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Imogen Kaufman

Media
University of Nottingham

Hi! I'm a 4th year CDA student with the National Videogame Museum, at Nottingham Uni, looking at gaming identities and spaces through an oral history lens.

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Isabel Cawthorn

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

My research examines memory in the 19th-Century Spanish short story

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Kathryn Bullen

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.

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Bruce Forman

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

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Amelie Doche

Languages and Literature
Birmingham City University

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Alex Riggs

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.

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Kendall Cowle

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.

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Zack Ditch

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.

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Ross Davidson

Music
De Montfort University

Exploring the synthesis of electroacoustic music composition and narrative film sound design.

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Lucy Holehouse

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

Theatre historian studying dramatic disguise in the King's Men's repertory from 1603 to 1630.

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Meredith Laing

Archaeology
University of Leicester

A former solicitor now returned to my first love - archaeology! Researching children in the Bronze and Iron Age.

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Liam Rogers

Media
University of Warwick

Third year PhD student at the University of Warwick researching posthumanism, technology and embodiment in science-fiction film and television.

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Zoltan Pallag

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.

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Dani-louise Olver

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.

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Annelise Edwards-daem

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.

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Lauren Eglen

History
University of Nottingham

'The Heart of the Collective': Black Women's Activism and Freedomways Magazine, 1961-1985

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Matthew Carter

History
University of Nottingham

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Robert Francis

Media
University of Nottingham

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Rita Gayle


University of Birmingham

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Graham Ashurst

History
University of Nottingham

A Contrarian in Search of Tradition- Post-War American Education and the Career of Diane Ravitch

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Susan Bishop

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

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Ian Sergeant

Media
Birmingham City University

Ian Sergeant has an MA in Contemporary Curatorial Practice from the School of Art, Birmingham City University.

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Yvonne O’dell

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.

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Rachel Small

Archaeology
University of Leicester

My research considers the influence of humoral theory, a medical doctrine, on early modern diet, combining archaeological and historical evidence.

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Daniel Johnson

History
University of Leicester

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Lauren Parsons

History
University of Leicester

I'm a 2nd year PhD researcher and I specialise in British approaches to seeking compensation for the Holocaust.

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Stefania Zardini Lacedelli


University of Leicester

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Lucrezia Gigante

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.

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Charlotte Johnson

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.

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Hannah Dennett

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.

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Eleanor Cook


Coventry University

I am a third year PhD researcher at Coventry University, researching public art and ideas of home in post-war Coventry.

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Helen Hopkins

Languages and Literature
Birmingham City University

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Robert Frost

Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Nottingham

Doctoral student, School of Geography, University of Nottingham

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Jessica Hodgkinson

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.

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Jill Robinson

Media
Birmingham City University

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Clare Matthews

Visual Arts
University of Birmingham

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Matilda Blackwell

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

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Natalie Grace

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.

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Roxanne Ablett

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.

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Emanuele Podda

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

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Jayde Martin

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!

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Benjamin Scott

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.

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Nadine Tauchner

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

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Ben White

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.

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Samantha Ford

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.

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Nora Battermann

Archaeology
University of Leicester

Zooarchaeologist focussing on human-animal relationships.

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Joshua Caldicott

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

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Liam Sims

Languages and Literature
University of Leicester

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Ronan Love

History
University of Warwick

Third-year History PhD student researching the politics of sovereign debt from the Old Regime to the French Revolution.

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Grace Owen

History
University of Birmingham

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Natalie Mason

Music
University of Birmingham

Musician, facilitator and performer-composer researching music-making in local communities and schools, inspired by her work with the 'Multicultural Music Making' community music education programme.

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Robin Diver

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.

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Fraser Logan

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.

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James Cull

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.

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Laura Parsons


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.

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Dan Powell

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.

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Roxanne Korda

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 .

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Victoria Zoe Callus

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.

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Andrew Judson

History
University of Nottingham

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David Osborne

Archaeology
University of Nottingham

Residential mobility and settlement from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in Lincolnshire and the Fens, using stable isotope analysis of faunal remains and X-ray fluorescence analysis of Bronze Age soil samples.

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Lauren Sisson

History
University of Nottingham

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Emily Quigley

History
University of Nottingham

My research explores the portrayal of Matthew the evangelist in the writings of the Venerable Bede.

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Liam Hathaway

Media
De Montfort University

I am a third year doctoral candidate at De Montfort University, writing a thesis on killer bug films.

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Elizabeth Egan

History
University of Warwick

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Ela Wydrzynska

Linguistics
University of Nottingham

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Daniel Bilton

Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University

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Rachael Helen Banes

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.

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Ashley Chhibber

Classics
University of Nottingham

I specialise in the Latin poetry of the early Roman empire, especially Virgil, Lucan and Statius.

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Alice Monypenny

Philosophy
University of Nottingham

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Emily Brady

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.

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Natasha Stoyce

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.

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Chris Mapp

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.

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Kate Garland

Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Nottingham

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Megan Doole

History
University of Nottingham

My research is about revisiting the histories of Wollaton Hall country house heritage site. What this reveals about histories of historic 'places' 1950s-1990s, beyond the design viewpoint.

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Kallina Krasteva-brailsford

Visual Arts
Nottingham Trent University

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Emily Gray

Cultural and Museum Studies
Nottingham Trent University

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Rebecca Savage

Visual Arts
University of Birmingham

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Corey Mwamba

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.

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Giulia Manica

Media
University of Nottingham

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Samantha Topley

Music
De Montfort University

Sound artist using craft to investigate music, technology and textiles in participatory settings.

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Laura Dudley

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.

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David Russell

History
University of Leicester

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Sophie Campbell

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).

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Sophie Swoffer

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.

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Matthew Holliday

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

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Elina Nahlinder

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

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Elliot Newbold

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)

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Jodie Smith


University of Birmingham

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Adela Kratenova

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.

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Stewart Campbell

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.

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Richard Burn

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.

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Andrew Searle

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.

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Pernille Nailor

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

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Kristen Horner


University of Nottingham

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Nathan Gubbins

Archaeology
University of Leicester

Archaeologist looking at the impact of new materialist philosophy on our understaning of change in prehistoric Britain.

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Jennifer Voss

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.

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Rhiannon Cogbill

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.

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Edward Mckeon

Music
Birmingham City University

Ed McKeon is a producer of experimental music and arts, lecturer and researcher.

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James Aitcheson

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.

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Natasha Bailey

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.

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Matthias Sperling

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.

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Paul Adey

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.

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Ruby Hawley-sibbett

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

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Amy Wilcockson

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

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Laura Charles

History
Nottingham Trent University

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Sally Cooke

Visual Arts
Nottingham Trent University

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Harriet Carter

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.

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Rachael Wickenden

Design
Nottingham Trent University

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Christopher Booth

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.

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Colette Davies

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

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Patricia Francis

Art and Design and Arts and Humanities
Nottingham Trent University

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Andrea Jaeger

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.

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Charlotte James

History
University of Nottingham

Research on the memory of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth through visual culture in the twentieth century

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Emma Putland

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.

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Eleanor Cox

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.

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Laura Dudley

Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester

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Jennifer Caddick

History
University of Nottingham

The Distribution of Royal Patronage to the Gentry in the Minority of Henry VI, 1422-1437

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James Opstad

Music
University of Birmingham

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Sahal Abdi

Archaeology
University of Leicester

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Jessica Murray

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.

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Eloisa Rodrigues

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.

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Makiko Tsunoda

Cultural and Museum Studies
Nottingham Trent University

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Ben Salisbury

Classics
University of Birmingham

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Kerryn Wise

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.

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Eleanor Hedger

Music
University of Birmingham

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Luke Butler


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.

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Jessica Venner


University of Birmingham

Doctoral researcher of Roman gardens, domestic space and identity.

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Cesare Cuzzola

Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester

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Mark Ferguson

Music
University of Birmingham

Wildlife sound recordist and sound artist.

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Stacey Kennedy

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 .

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William Gildea

Philosophy
University of Warwick

I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethics and McGill University, Canada. My research asks: what grounds the moral rights and equal moral status of human beings, and what kind of rights and status do animals have?

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Alan Morton

Visual Arts
University of Leicester

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Julie Hurst-whitehouse

History
University of Leicester

Project Manager and PhD student passionate about supporting survivors of sexual violence through oral history methods and practice

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Sophie Almond

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).

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Michele Piscitelli

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

Historian and Language tutor

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Chiara Marabelli

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.

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Hannah Spruce

Languages and Literature
University of Leicester

Researches contemporary women's writing and American/Canadian contemporary literatures.

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Alexandra Hewitt

History
University of Birmingham

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Christopher Rouse

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.

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Laura Farr Rozada

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'.

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Frederick Lloyd Williams

History
University of Nottingham

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William Green

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

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Josh Webb

Classics
University of Leicester

My research explores Ancient Greek warfare and the military tradition of individual poleis beyond Athens and Sparta

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Andrea Brondino

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.

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Selina Schmidt

Linguistics
Birmingham City University

PhD in English Linguistics based in Birmingham, UK

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Maria Grazia Aurora Campisi

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?

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Nathalie Muller

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.

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Caroline Ridler

Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham

PhD student in Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Nottingham.

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Akvile Stuart

Music
Birmingham City University

Musicologist and pianist examining the life and music of the forgotten early 20th century Russian composer Alexei Stanchinsky.

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Matt Mcginn

History
University of Nottingham

My research uses oral history methodology to consider the relationship between national identity and football in Galicia, Spain.

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Emma Sheppard


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.

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Jessica Sutherland

Philosophy
University of Birmingham

Global Ethics PhD student, University of Birmingham and SAF respresentative.

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Luis Freijo Escudero

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.

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Tamsin Parnell

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.

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Rebecca Wheddon

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

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Thomas Lockwood-moran

Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University

Nottingham based. Interested in queerly disrupting everything. Thesis title: 'Global Queer Literary Resistance: Contemporary Caribbean Communality'.

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Mikel Herran Subinas

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.

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Niall Gallen

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

I research of representations and responses to accelerated change in culture. My principal interest is in accelerationism, which I define as a affirmative approach to accelerated change.

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Gheorghe Williams

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.

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Harriet Clark

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.

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Francesca Leveridge

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.

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Jane Kisbey

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.

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Thomas Wood

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.

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David Christie

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.

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Humma Mouzam

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

Mother of Literary Dragons. Doctoral Researcher in Medieval Arthurian literature.

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Vasiliki Louka

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.

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Lorna Giltrow-shaw

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

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Fiona Walpole-trumper

Visual Arts
Nottingham Trent University

Artist-researcher with an interest in bereavement theory it's application within contemporary fine art.

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Darren O’brien

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.

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Lucy Prior

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.

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Ellen Smith

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.

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Lucretia Mccarthy

Languages and Literature
University of Leicester

My work examines women’s contemporary experimental life-writing from 1990s-present.

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Oresta Muckute

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

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Margherita Riso

Archaeology
University of Leicester

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Tuesday Goacher

Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University

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Laura Marie Clark

History
University of Birmingham

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Michael Lane

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.

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Daniel Blanco

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.

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Jessica Cretney

History
De Montfort University

Researching connections between contemporary German architectural thinking on societal “improvement”, the built environment of Nazi concentration camps and the regime's exclusionary and genocidal goals.

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Steve Atkin

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

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Laura Ewart

History
Nottingham Trent University

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Daniel Sheppard

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.

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Federica Mirra


Birmingham City University

Research Fellow at the University of St. Gallen, investigating contemporary visual arts in urban China

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Simon Clewes

Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham

Queerness and transness in the novels of William Godwin, his circle and beyond

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Judith Vocker

History
University of Leicester

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Claire Going

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.

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Catrin Fear

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.

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Amy Hondsmerk

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!

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Peter Haysom

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).