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
Visual Arts
Birmingham City University
Media
University of Nottingham
Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Nottingham
First year PhD student at the University of Nottingham researching the occurrence of Jewish Kabbalistic Creation motifs in contemporary art.
Philosophy
University of Warwick
Christopher Earley is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His reserach focuses on the question of how contemporary art helps us to improve our cognitive standing. He is also an artist and visting lecturer at UCL.
Philosophy
University of Warwick
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
PGR in Contemporary Literary Studies, researching the novel, neoliberalism, and the aesthetics of the secret.
History
University of Birmingham
First year PhD researcher at the Department of Modern Languages, University of Birmingham, researching the potential to decolonise postcolonial memory in Germany through transformative social activism.
Philosophy
University of Warwick
I am a PhD student based at the University of Warwick working on philosophy of auditory perception.
History
University of Warwick
I'm a first year PhD student at the University of Warwick, exploring women's involvement in supernatural phenomena from approximately 1558-1660 and issues of agency and oppression that lie therein.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
I am in my final year at the University of Leicester, looking forward to taking the PhD on nineteenth century soup kitchens out into the world of further research and fieldwork.
History
University of Warwick
University of Warwick doctoral researcher investigating early modern expressions of suicide and self harm in supernatural narratives across early modern Britain.
History
University of Nottingham
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
Archaeology
University of Leicester
I am a 3rd year PhD student and I am specialized in Roman material culture (especially pottery) with particular focus on Late Antiquity.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
American Studies researcher, two years into a project tracing how the landscapes of an American California were written into being.
Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Birmingham
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
I'm a PhD candidate in the American and Canadian Studies department at the University of Nottingham. Before returning to academia, I worked as a journalist and spent nearly a decade reporting for national titles.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I'm a first-year PhD student researching women's political imprisonment in Franco's Spain, 1980s Latin America and the UK and USA today. My research focusses largely on testimony, memory and the prison texts of incarcerated women.
History
University of Birmingham
History
University of Warwick
First 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 the Italian Renaissance.
Philosophy
University of Nottingham
I am a first year philosophy PhD researcher working on metaphysical interdependence, fundamentality, and Buddhist emptiness.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I am a doctoral student researching Sir Philip Sidney and early modern visual culture.
History
University of Leicester
I am a first year PhD student researching global and colonial material culture at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, and how international exhibitions and missionary expositions fostered a European imperial culture between 19th and 20th century
Philosophy
University of Nottingham
I am a 1st Year PhD student working on moral responsibility - more specifically, exploring the practical implications which ought to follow if we cannot ever truly be held to be blameworthy or praiseworthy.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
My creative practice spans individual work as a curator, artist, writer, and researcher and includes collaborative projects and creative project management. My background in museums, psychotherapy, women’s health, and community engagement. I am founder/c
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I am a first year English literature PhD student at the University of Birmingham. My research focuses on First World War plays performed on the British stage between 1919-1939.
Media
University of Nottingham
Doctoral researcher at the Centre for Critical Theory, University of Nottingham. Studying predictive systems and machine learning models via non-standard epistemology.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I am a first year PhD student and jewellery designer-maker mining Shakespeare's works for metal and jewellery imagery. My work is a combination of academic research and practice-led investigations.
History
University of Birmingham
I am a second year PhD student studying early modern gender and animal history. My research examines women's relationships with animals, both physical and cultural, and how these relationships were affected by gender.
Design
Nottingham Trent University
First year PhD student at Nottingham Trent University exploring the importance of hair to fashionable identies and using my background in Textile Design for fast fashion to explore implications this could have for sustainability and fashion.
Philosophy
University of Warwick
First year PhD student in philosophy working on neoliberal capitalism, gender and alterity.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I am a first year PhD student exploring the contributions that Hay Festival has made in shaping cultural and critical understandings of reading today and how this might be changing in a digital era.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
English Literature PhD student examining the writing and events from Garsington Manor during WWI.
History
University of Warwick
I’m a first year PhD researcher looking at the legacies of imperial violence in the Horniman Museum’s collections. My PhD is co-supervised with the Horniman Museum in London.
Archaeology
University of Nottingham
I'm an archaeologist with international experience of fieldwork and a solid background in Mediterranean Archaeology. My current research focuses on the definition of ethnicity in the late prehistory with the use of the Ligurians as a case study.
History
De Montfort University
First-year PhD student at DeMontfort University, excavating and bringing voice to the regional archives of Black life, history, and culture in the Midlands. Situated in memory studies, postcolonialism, and community-based research
Music
University of Birmingham
Zach Dawson is a composer based in Shropshire. He is currently undertaking his PhD at UoB and DMU. He co-curates experimental concerts for Post-Paradise Series and produces notated electronic music under the experimental music duo 7balcony.
Cultural and Museum Studies
Nottingham Trent University
1st year PhD researcher at NTU. My research explores the role heritage can play in sustainability through a more holistic, place-based approach.
Media
De Montfort University
First year PhD student at De Montfort University, interested in film audiences, reception, and genre cinema.
History
University of Leicester
First year PhD student studyinng friendship in three Nazi concentration camps with a focus the role of gender and specifically masculinity in both the relationships of male prisoners, and the functioning of camp society
Classics
University of Birmingham
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
My research, in collaboration with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, looks at sub-genres of life-writing and the presentation of spaces and places in Warwickshire associated with the life of Shakespeare.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I'm a first year PhD student investigating the representation and reception of medicine in late medieval literature and Shakespeare. I'm interested in the intersection between medicine, material culture, and the body.
Music
University of Birmingham
Musicologist and cultural historian, specialising in nineteenth and early-twentieth century German opera.
Linguistics
Nottingham Trent University
Critical Discourse Analysist researching the representations of the pro- and anti-Brexit demonstrations in the national daily UK press, and their democratic implications. Second year PhD researcher at Nottingham Trent University.
History
University of Birmingham
I am a first year PhD student specialising in coinage of the Late Roman Empire and the political messages it presents.
Nottingham Trent University
Archaeology
University of Leicester
First year PhD candidate at the University of Leicester. Research interests include colonialism in the Americas, Indigenous archaeologies, archaeological theory and posthumanism.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
Archaeology
University of Birmingham
First year PhD student specialising in British Iron Age Marsh-forts
History
University of Warwick
I'm a first year doctoral researcher at the University of Warwick, researching the introduction and assimilation of the tomato and other New World foods into English and Italian diets in the early modern period.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham, currently investigating song translation and voice performance in the context of Italian film dubbing and international film music production.
Visual Arts
Birmingham City University
Dance
Coventry University
I am a first year PhD student at the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University, researching the work and legacy of Chisenhale Dance Space from 1977-88.
Philosophy
University of Nottingham
My research sits within the field of virtue and vice epistemology. Before starting my PhD at Nottingham, I studied for my MA at UCL and prior to that I gained my BA from the University of Reading.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Nottingham
Maxwell is a PhD research student whose research interests transcends the trajectories of race, ecology and environmental Justice in the UK and; the genealogy of people of Black African ancestry and the natural environment in the UK
History
University of Leicester
Born again historian after a career looking down a microscope. Fascinated by 'The Making of the English Landscape', I took the Masters in English Local History at Leicester. Researching into Anglo-Scandinavian medieval landscapes, settlement and farming
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Archaeology
University of Nottingham
Archaeology
University of Leicester
I am a first year PhD student at the University of Leicester exploring Late Neolithic (c.3000-2500 BC) communities in the Isle of Man, Orkney, and Yorkshire with posthumanist theory
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
First year PhD researcher at the University of Nottingham in the School of English department of Drama and Creative Writing.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Languages and Literature
University of Leicester
I am a 1st year PhD student exploring female heroism in Arabic fantasy literature and implementing this in my creative practice in the modern context of Islamic feminist and hybridity theories.
History
Nottingham Trent University
First year PhD researcher looking into royal genealogical rolls and their use in fifteenth-century England.
History
University of Birmingham
I am a first year PhD student interested in the wide ranging effects of colonialism in eighteenth and nineteenth century history.
Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Birmingham
I am a first year student doctoral student at the University of Birmingham researching discourses of female suffering in late antiquity.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
My research examines how to use interdisciplinary methods in determining the functions of early runic writing.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
I am an Argentinian researcher and editor, working within the field of exhibition studies.
Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Birmingham
PhD Candidate in the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham, considering the function of metaphor in the depictions of disability in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Visual Arts
De Montfort University
1st year PhD student photography and sports history. Working in partnership with the National Paralympic Heritage Trust.
Languages and Literature
De Montfort University
Visual Arts
University of Birmingham
I am a first year History of Art PhD student at the University of Birmingham studying Michelangelo's knowledge of human anatomy.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Birmingham
History
University of Nottingham
I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in History from the University of Cambridge in 2016, and an MPhil in Modern British History from the same institution in 2018. Professionally, I have been involved in several heritage projects in South Wales and Essex.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I am a first year English Lit and Creative Writing PhD student at the University of Birmingham. My research explores issues of cultural diversity in the contemporary romance fiction industry, focusing on reader response and incorporating a romance novel.
History
University of Nottingham
Historian and former museum professional, in my first year of a Collaborative Doctoral Award with the Boots Archive. My research focuses upon the history and culture of high-street shopping.
Law and Legal Studies
University of Birmingham
Visual Arts
Coventry University
PhD Student at Coventry University. I have extensively developed my interest in conservation and valorisation of artistic practise. Specifically, I have been focusing on the relationship between painting art, moving images and extended media.
History
University of Nottingham
In my research I use several Midlands case studies to examine how local identities were connected with conceptions of ‘race’ and immigration, and how these in turn contributed to popular perceptions of ‘decline’ in the period c.1958-1981.
Languages and Literature
University of Leicester
I am a first year PhD student at the University of Leicester, researching the experience of pregnancy between 1714 and 1837.
Visual Arts
University of Warwick
I am a first year CDA student at the University of Warwick and the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. My project focuses on the Museum's Renaissance and Baroque decorative art collection.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham, specialising in the publications of police detectives from 1880-1930.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Poet and essayist
Dance
Coventry University
I am a first year doctoral researcher exploring community dance practice and it's potential to improve psychosocial wellbeing amongst older adult populations.
Media
University of Nottingham
Hi! I'm a first year collab doc at Nottingham Uni, looking at identity, gender and videogames.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
My research examines memory in the 19th-Century Spanish short story
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Second year PhD researcher, investigating the impact of language, history, and landscape on place-names on the Isle of Axholme in Lincolnshire. Viking and Anglo-Saxon enthusiast.
Music
Birmingham City University
Researching the musical language of Olivier Messiaen, and his role as a church organist. I studied for a BA in Theology before taking an MA in Music as a mature student and now researching towards the PhD
Languages and Literature
Birmingham City University
History
University of Nottingham
My research focuses on the 1980s American left, using case studies from national, local and single-issue politics to assess its character in this period.
Visual Arts
Birmingham City University
Current PhD candidate within the school of Visual Communication at Birmingham City University. My research focuses specifically on developing new understandings of Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) though the use of photography.
Cultural and Museum Studies
Nottingham Trent University
First Year PhD - My project explores the socioeconomic dimensons of regional drag performance scenes in the Midlands, sitting between theatrical, sociological and gender-based research.
Music
De Montfort University
I am conducting practice-based research into the effects of applying an electroacoustic compositional approach to the soundtrack of narrative film, wherein the boundaries between sound design and music are dissolved.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I am a first year PhD student studying dramatic disguise in early modern repertories 1594-1630.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
A former solicitor now returned to my first love - archaeology! Researching children in the Bronze and Iron Age.
Media
University of Warwick
First year PhD student at the University of Warwick researching posthumanism, technology and embodiment in science-fiction film and television.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
I'm a classical archaeologist. My main interest is the art and archaeology of the Roman empire and late antique art. I'm particularly interested in late Roman visual and material culture and the ancient and modern biographies of museum objects.
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
First year doctoral researcher of contemporary anglophone literature. Focusing on the intersection of neoliberalism, the novel, and the aesthetics of 'the secret'.
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
I am a first year PhD researcher at Nottingham Trent University, investigating contemporary Indigenous school stories from the perspective of Tribal Critical Race Theory.
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
I am a first year PhD student at Nottingham Trent University with research interests in women's writing, dolls, ventriloquism studies, gender studies, feminism, the Gothic and posthumanism.
History
University of Nottingham
'The Heart of the Collective': Black Women's Activism and Freedomways Magazine, 1961-1985
History
University of Nottingham
Media
University of Nottingham
University of Birmingham
History
University of Nottingham
A Contrarian in Search of Tradition- Post-War American Education and the Career of Diane Ravitch
University of Leicester
I study social and cultural histories. My primary objective is to add minority perspectives and hidden voices to 20th Century British history. I am also interested in the connective possibilities of Oral History theory and the History of Emotions
Media
Birmingham City University
Ian Sergeant has an MA in Contemporary Curatorial Practice from the School of Art, Birmingham City University.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
Final year PhD researcher at the University of Leicester, currently researching affect theory, new materialism, and post humanism, with a focus on the colonial Caribbean.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
My research considers the influence of humoral theory, a medical doctrine, on early modern diet, combining archaeological and historical evidence.
History
University of Leicester
History
University of Leicester
I'm a 2nd year PhD researcher and I specialise in British approaches to seeking compensation for the Holocaust.
University of Leicester
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
I am a first-year PhD Candidate in the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester with an interest in participatory practices and engagement strategies in art museums and galleries.
History
University of Birmingham
Charlotte Johnson is a first year M4C PhD student. Her project ‘Imperial Connections: re-examining Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire' is a CDA co-supervised by the National Trust.
History
University of Warwick
My collaborative History PhD examines the lives of Black, Asian and mixed-race children received into the eighteenth-century Foundling Hospital, alongside financial connections of the founders and governors to colonial trade and the British Empire.
Coventry University
I am a second year PhD researcher at Coventry University researching public art and ideas of home in post-war Coventry.
Languages and Literature
Birmingham City University
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Nottingham
Doctoral student, School of Geography, University of Nottingham
History
University of Leicester
Media
Birmingham City University
Visual Arts
University of Birmingham
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
History
University of Nottingham
I started my PhD at the University of Nottingham in 2018, having also completed my BA and MA in History there. Research interests include early modern print, witchcraft, gender, and the Reformations.
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
Roxie is an AHRC M4C-funded doctoral researcher focusing on the collection, dissemination and reclaimation of Nigerian folklore. She received her BA and MRes degrees from and is undertaking her PhD at Nottingham Trent University.
Languages and Literature
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
Visual Arts
University of Birmingham
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
My name is Jayde Martin, my main areas of research include posthumanism, digital cultures, science-fiction, and literature and science. Drop me an e-mail if you're interested in collaborating on projects relevant to any of the above!
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
I am a first year PhD researcher at Nottingham Trent University, investigating the relationship between representations of labour in contemporary Francophone film and neoliberalism.
History
University of Leicester
I am a PhD Candidate at UK's oldest institution for the research of the Holocaust, the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies of the University of Leicester. Before starting my doctorate, I received a Bachelor and Master of Arts in Journ
Classics
University of Nottingham
Third year PhD researcher in Classics and Archaeology. My interests pertain to how people move, feel and interact in urban centres, especially colonnaded space(s), and the broader consequences for socio-political change and continuity.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Collaborative Postgraduate Doctoral Researcher working with Big Cat Advertising Agency to explore the creativity of figurative communication in advertising and its impact on consumer behaviour.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
Zooarchaeologist focussing on human-animal relationships.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Languages and Literature
University of Leicester
History
University of Warwick
Second-year History PhD student researching the politics of public debt and its connection to sovereign power in the French Revolution.
History
University of Birmingham
Music
University of Birmingham
Musician, educator and composer researching international music-making in local communities and schools, inspired by her work with the 'Multicultural Music Making' music education project.
Classics
University of Birmingham
Robin is a third year PhD researcher in classical reception and children's literature. She looks at adaptations of sexual violence in children's anthologies of Greek myth.
Philosophy
University of Warwick
First-year PhD in Philosophy specialising in Nietzsche's conception of freedom. Previous degrees in politics & international relations, international political theory, and continental philosophy.
Drama and Theatre Studies
De Montfort University
James Cull is a multidisciplinary artist based at DMU exploring interactivity, horror, video games and installation art. I completed my BA and Masters at DMU, and continue to collaborate, research and develop alongside other artists at the university.
De Montfort University
I am a Collaborative Doctoral Award student working with Leicester City Council to find new ways of measuring and articulating the value of hidden culture.
Languages and Literature
University of Leicester
Prize-winning author of short stories. Debut collection of stories, Looking Out Of Broken Windows, shortlisted for the Scott Prize and longlisted for Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Edge Hill Prize.
Music
Birmingham City University
Roxanne is an opera singer, librettist and science disseminator. She has an MMus (Dist) Vocal Performance (RBC) and BSc (1st) Physics and Philosophy KCL. in 2017 she cofounded www.infiniteopera.com .
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
Second-year: creative-critical project exploring paper affect and literary innovation. Writer. Occasionally dabbles in visual art. Influenced by multilingualism and previous work in Film & Media.
History
University of Nottingham
Archaeology
University of Nottingham
My research explores​ residential mobility and settlement from the Middle Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age, focusing on Lincolnshire and the Fens and using stable isotope analysis of faunal and human remains.
History
University of Nottingham
History
University of Nottingham
My research explores the portrayal of Matthew the evangelist in the writings of the Venerable Bede.
Media
De Montfort University
I am a third year doctoral candidate at De Montfort University, writing a thesis on killer bug films.
History
University of Warwick
Second year PhD at the University of Warwick researching the construction of whiteness in Jamaica following the Morant Bay Rebellion
Linguistics
University of Nottingham
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
Classics
University of Birmingham
I am a second year PhD student whose research focuses on graffiti in the late antique east. My ultimate goal is to produce a catalogue of graffiti, as well as an analyses of the trends found within.
Classics
University of Nottingham
I specialise in the Latin poetry of the early Roman empire, especially Virgil, Lucan and Statius.
Philosophy
University of Nottingham
Development Studies
University of Nottingham
My research looks at the contribution of African American women photographers to the long civil rights movement in the United States. I am interested in feminist networks, visual analysis, and intersectional histories.
Languages and Literature
University of Leicester
Natasha Stoyce is an AHRC-funded M4C doctoral researcher investigating the Great War work of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for the Serbian Army. She is fluent in English & Serbo-Croatian.
Music
Birmingham City University
Chris is a bass player, improviser and composer living and working in Birmingham. His work falls somewhere between composition and improvisation, using sound, music and electronics to satisfy his own sonic curiosity.
Theology, Divinity and Religion
University of Nottingham
History
University of Nottingham
My research is about the post-1650 local and global connections of Wollaton Hall country house heritage site. Interested in history of place.
Visual Arts
Nottingham Trent University
Cultural and Museum Studies
Nottingham Trent University
Visual Arts
University of Birmingham
Music
Birmingham City University
I am a musician, arts programmer and presenter, and doctoral researcher from Derby. My research interests cover jazz and improvised music studies; practice research; and practice research methodologies.
Media
University of Nottingham
Music
De Montfort University
Sound artist using craft to investigate music, technology and textiles in participatory settings.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
I am a second year PhD candidate at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. I am also a recent Fine Art Graduate with an interest in museums, participation, contemporary and historical art practice and photography.
History
University of Leicester
Development Studies
University of Nottingham
Final Year PhD Student looking at Transatlantic Slavery commemoration at heritage sites. Co-supervised across Geography, History and American Studies (PhD formally in American Studies and History).
Drama and Theatre Studies
De Montfort University
Sophie is a third year full time PhD student that uses feminist performance art practice to interrogate and uncover the potentials in subverting Laura Mulvey's theory of the male gaze.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Visual Arts
University of Warwick
My research focuses on the presence of fine art objects in Swedish domestic settings around 1900, and investigates the role assigned to this type of visual art by means of considering contemporary discourses on the home, nationhood, and cultural reform.
Political Science and International Studies
University of Nottingham
Imagining Independence: The United States, Public Diplomacy, and Philippine Freedom in the Age of Decolonization, 1945-1960 (working title)
University of Birmingham
Law and Legal Studies
Nottingham Trent University
I am a third year PhD researcher at the Nottingham Trent University with an interest in international trade and commercial law as well as contract law.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I am an experienced cultural leader with a proven track record of management in the arts, predominantly music. I’ve spent the past decade working as a director in the creative industries and higher education and voluntary sectors.
Music
Birmingham City University
My PhD explores how we perceive sound and to what extent technology may be used to support musical performance for people with a hearing impairment. I am completing my studies part-time, while also lecturing in Music Technology.
History
University of Birmingham
The majority of my career has been in IT, until twelve years ago when I decided on a lifestyle change and became a part-time firefighter. At the same time I read for a Degree and then Masters in History.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
University of Nottingham
Archaeology
University of Leicester
Archaeologist looking at the impact of new materialist philosophy on our understaning of change in prehistoric Britain.
Media
De Montfort University
Jennifer Voss is a part-time PhD candidate whose research focuses on actresses’ performance of emotion during the transition from silent to sound cinema in Britain and America.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
PhD student working on modernist medical humanities at the University of Birmingham.
Music
Birmingham City University
Ed McKeon is a producer of experimental music and arts, lecturer and researcher.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Novelist, medievalist, Anglo-Saxon and Norman specialist, creative writing tutor. Author of four novels, published in the UK, the US, Germany and the Czech Republic. PhD in Creative Writing candidate at the University of Nottingham.
History
University of Leicester
I am a historian of early modern Mexico, focusing on the relationship between indigenous Nahua alcohol producers and the early colonial state.
Dance
De Montfort University
My artistic doctoral research in dance evolves from my 20 years of professional practice as an artist, choreographer and performer. Please visit http://www.matthias-sperling.com/about.html for more details.
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
Practitioner of hip hop lyricism under the performance name of Cappo. My research aims to explore and artistically illustrate the occurrence of literary intertextuality in the rap lyrics of artists such as Rakim, Nas, Black Thought, and Kendrick Lamar.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
History
Nottingham Trent University
Visual Arts
Nottingham Trent University
Visual Arts
Birmingham City University
Practice-based researcher in painting practice. Harriet's research is situated between the School of Art and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with focus on moving between the auditory and the visual.
Design
Nottingham Trent University
Archaeology
University of Nottingham
Historical archaeologist currently working on the material culture and sensory experience of early modern apothecaries. I am interested in the history and archaeology of medieval and post-medieval science, technology, and medicine.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Art and Design and Arts and Humanities
Nottingham Trent University
History
University of Birmingham
My research explores the organisation Moral Re-Armament, which operated from 1938 onwards to revive Britain's Christianity, fight communism & immorality, and promote a life led by Four Absolute standards of Purity, Honesty, Love and Unselfishness.
Visual Arts
Nottingham Trent University
Artist queering praxis as order from noise, non-representational power and sensuousness in photographic production.
History
University of Nottingham
Research on the memory of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth through visual culture in the twentieth century
Linguistics
University of Nottingham
I'm a sociolinguist currently researching how people with experience of dementia represent their experiences and how they relate these to a range of visual and linguistic portrayals in the media.
History
University of Nottingham
My research explores how a belief in the coming apocalypse may have impacted religious thought, culture and society in fourteenth-century England.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
History
University of Nottingham
The Distribution of Royal Patronage to the Gentry in the Minority of Henry VI, 1422-1437
Music
University of Birmingham
Archaeology
University of Leicester
Dance
De Montfort University
Jess is a professional rhythm tap performer, teacher and tap jam host. She works collaboratively with musicians to create original performance work.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
My research focuses on analysing acquisitions of Brazilian art by public museums and art galleries in the UK
Cultural and Museum Studies
Nottingham Trent University
Classics
University of Birmingham
Drama and Theatre Studies
De Montfort University
Kerryn Wise is a movement-based artist, researcher, lecturer and performer based in the East Midlands, making work across dance, physical theatre, contemporary performance and digital technologies.
Music
University of Birmingham
Nottingham Trent University
PhD Researcher based at Nottingham trent University. I use scientific imaging techniques and AI to study Maritime Southeast Asian manuscripts in partnership with the British Library.
University of Birmingham
Doctoral researcher of Roman gardens, domestic space and identity.
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
History
University of Birmingham
Music
University of Birmingham
Wildlife sound recordist and sound artist.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Researching Nigerian women's art networks in the African contemporary art world. Interdisciplinary work combining Anthropology/ Art History/ African Studies/ Sociology. Field research: Nigeria, Morocco, USA
Philosophy
University of Warwick
My research examines which psychological capacities moral rights are based on, in order to develop a new account of the moral status of humans and animals.
Visual Arts
University of Leicester
History
University of Leicester
Project Manager and PhD student passionate about supporting survivors of sexual violence and finding ways to make oral history more trauma informed
History
University of Leicester
I am a second year PhD student in the School of English at the University of Leicester, studying the history of the Medical Women's Federation (MWF).
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Historian and Language tutor
Cultural and Museum Studies
University of Leicester
I am an archaeologist and a museum professional. I am very interested in objects, their multiple stories, and the relationships and interactions between objects and people in the museum space.
Languages and Literature
University of Leicester
Interested in contemporary (C21) women's writing and American/Canadian studies, my doctoral research examines how US & Canadian women writers deploy the discourses of psychopathy.
History
University of Birmingham
History
University of Birmingham
I’m a medievalist working on the representations of East Asia in European world maps. My research draws on narrative, spatial and postcolonial theory to explore how maps incorporated the space, time and agency of Asia into a Latin Christian worldview.
Music
Birmingham City University
Laura Farré Rozada is an award-winning pianist and mathematician, deemed a 'Rising Star' by BBC Music Magazine. Classical Music Magazine considered her debut album ‘The French Reverie’ (2018): 'a model for young artists making their recording debuts'.
History
University of Nottingham
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Classics
University of Leicester
My research explores Ancient Greek warfare and the military tradition of individual poleis beyond Athens and Sparta
Languages and Literature
University of Warwick
Hi! My research focuses on Italian contemporary literature; it investigates the literary practices of irony displayed in several genres (e.g. autofiction) and by different authors (e.g. Wu Ming) in reaction to the exhaustion of postmodernism.
Linguistics
Birmingham City University
PhD in English Linguistics based in Birmingham, UK
Music
University of Birmingham
Musicologist, pianist and clarinetist investigating opera and its complex merger of art forms in the 20th century: "death" of a genre or cultural transformation?
Visual Arts
Birmingham City University
Independent curator and writer specialising in contemporary art from the Middle East. My PhD research looks at science fiction in contemporary art from the Middle East.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
PhD student in Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Nottingham.
Music
Birmingham City University
Musicologist and pianist examining the life and music of the forgotten early 20th century Russian composer Alexei Stanchinsky.
History
University of Nottingham
My research uses oral history methodology to consider the relationship between national identity and football in Galicia, Spain.
University of Warwick
My collaborative doctoral study is with the University of Warwick and Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. The focus of my research is on the life and work of the prolific and pioneering theatre director Michael Bogdanov.
Philosophy
University of Birmingham
​My research develops a victim-perpetrator model of the moral responsibility of child soldiers. I explore how endorsement of action can establish a degree of moral responsibility under certain conditions, and use this to argue for the potential dual
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I am a 3rd-year PhD candidate at the Department of Film and Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham. My research focuses on genre studies, World Cinema and the global Western. I also have a professional background in journalism in Spain.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Examining British and European identity construction(s) in Brexit Britain using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis and qualitative interviewing.
History
University of Nottingham
My research specialises in the manipulation of political language and rhetoric in the reign of Henry VII
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham based. Interested in queer everything - theoretically and materially. Thesis title - Queer Resistance(s): Contemporary Caribbean Communality - more info whithin profile.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
My research explores how women played a key role in the social and religious transformation of medieval Islamic Spain. For this I focus on the domestic spaces and activities through assemblage theory. I also dabble in public engagement.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
I am a researcher of representations and responses to technology in culture. I am currently investigating the fascinating links between accelerationism, the writing of J.G. Ballard, and the work and miliue of artist Eduardo Paolozzi.
Drama and Theatre Studies
University of Birmingham
I am based at the University of Birmingham, and my PhD research investigates the role of the Gothic in contemporary political theatre and performance.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
PhD researcher studying the regionalism and co-rulership practices of medieval Norway and how those practices were perceived according to the Old Norse histories.
Languages and Literature
University of Nottingham
Philosophy
University of Birmingham
My research focuses on how we can best characterise psychopathy. I argue that people diagnosed with psychopathy lack the ability to care about their future selves. I investigate the connection between future self-interest and moral responsibility.
History
University of Birmingham
My research explores the significance of serpents and dragons in early modern Germany, and how these potent symbols were employed in the religious upheavals of the Reformation.
History
University of Birmingham
Researching homelessness under the Labour Governments 1997-2010. I spent ten years running projects for street homeless people in the 1980s and 1990s. I write poetry and have published a utopian novel.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Mother of Literary Dragons. Doctoral Researcher in Medieval and Early Modern Arthurian literature.
Archaeology
University of Leicester
Forensic anthropologist and M4C PhD student with an interest in skeletal trauma and violence in armed conflicts.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Visual Arts
Nottingham Trent University
Artist-researcher with an interest in bereavement theory it's application within contemporary fine art.
Visual Arts
Nottingham Trent University
Darren O'Brien is an artist Researcher, exploring posthumanism and the animal turn, through the praxis of the Walkies as Method.
Philosophy
University of Birmingham
My research examines rising anxiety rates in UK young people aged 16-24. I consider current conceptions of anxiety and the relation between social media and anxiety rates in youth.
History
University of Leicester
My research considers the importance of letter-writing for the imperial family. Using family collections from 1790-1920 it explores how families communicated between Britain and India during periods of separation.
Languages and Literature
University of Leicester
My research focuses on women's contemporary and experimental life writing, touching upon themes of identity, feminism, new media, and oversharing.
History
University of Leicester
I am a second year CDA student, studying the narratives of loss in the witness testimonies of war widows and maimed soldiers during the English Civil Wars and how they compared across England, Wales and Ireland
Archaeology
University of Leicester
Languages and Literature
Nottingham Trent University
History
University of Birmingham
Law and Legal Studies
Birmingham City University
Michael is a Midlands4Cities (AHRC) funded PhD student investigating the impact of the UN's Universal Periodic Review on human rights in the UK. He also teaches LLB Law modules at Birmingham City University.
Music
Birmingham City University
Resident composer and co artistic director of Infinite Opera, exploring how to create new opera that is relevant to society by interdisciplinary work and collaboration.
History
De Montfort University
Researching the built environment of Nazi concentration camps as deliberately created spatial experiences, linked with the modernist ideological drive for architectural efficiency, functionality and standardisation.
Law and Legal Studies
Nottingham Trent University
I am researching the extent to which aspects of the legal systems of the UK and Republic of Ireland uphold the rights of disabled persons
History
Nottingham Trent University
Media
Birmingham City University
Daniel is a Visiting Lecturer and PhD Candidate at Birmingham City University. He has written for Horror Homeroom and Screening Sex, contributed to such collections as Monsters: A Companion (2020), and presented at various international conferences.
Fine Art History, Theory and Practice
Birmingham City University
Sinologist interested in investigating contemporary Chinese artistic responses to the unprecedented urbanization in China to raise awareness of this phenomenon’s social implications and envision future urban imaginaries.
Languages and Literature
University of Birmingham
Queerness and transness in the novels of William Godwin, his circle and beyond
History
University of Leicester
Languages and Literature
De Montfort University
My project looks at whether short stories printed in British magazines during and in the aftermath of the First World War can be considered a therapeutic tool for readers suffering from the emotional or psychological effects of war.
Archaeology
University of Nottingham
My research explores the impact of lead use in medieval Britain from the environmental impact, social and medicinal impact through to identifying poisoning in the skeleton. I also research cave archaeology and palaeoanthropology.
Cultural and Museum Studies
Nottingham Trent University
My research looks at videogames as an interpretative tool in museums. I’m focusing on game mechanics, narrative, emotion/affect, and procedural/persuasive rhetoric. I also dabble in coding.
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).
