PhD profiles

Tamar Shiboleth

Doctoral researcher

Tamar is conducting vital research for her PhD, looking into teens' experiences with sexual assault and its interventions.

James Shipton

Doctoral Researcher & Visiting Lecturer

James' studies included an LLB where he received the Park Square Barristers Award for Best Graduating LLB Student, the Crown Prosecution Service Award for Best Dissertation, the Award for Highest Achieving student in Law and Society, followed by an MA with distinction in Law and Social Justice from the University of Leeds. ...

Amelia Shooter

Doctoral researcher

Amelia has been a PhD student at BCU since 2016. Her work examines judicial deference to agency science in the United States, through the lens of six reports of the National Academy of Sciences, published between 1992 and 2009. Each report focuses on different forensic science disciplines. Her research seeks to examine the...

Simeon Shtebunaev

Doctoral researcher

Simeon's PhD research revolves around planning strategies for youth participation in the co-production of future cities and democratising power relations in smart cities’ agendas.

Amy-Louise Simkiss

Doctoral researcher

Amy-Louise's research is focused around psychology, principally how attention and distraction affected by factor manipulation. As well as her PhD studies, Amy-Louise is also a ps ychology technician, helping with research projects, equipment and more.

Punsaranie Siriwardane Mudiyanselage

Doctoral researcher

Punsaranie is a doctoral researcher from Sri Lanka conducting research designed to leverage technology to help people live more sustainably.  After the successful completion of her Advanced Level examinations, she got the opportunity to join the International College of Business and Technology (ICBT) campus, Sri Lanka, which...

Kateryna Sivak

Doctoral researcher

Kateryna (Kate) Sivak is a full-time doctoral researcher in Media and Cultural Studies. Her PhD project is a virtual ethnographic study that looks at unofficial ways audiovisual content is translated and distributed in Ukraine. Specifically, she is exploring such practices as file-sharing, ‘pirate’ streaming, and unofficial...

David Smith

Doctoral researcher

David has been a British Army Chaplain since 2002. He has completed multiple operational tours (Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Northern Ireland) and has been working in military training environments since 2012, where he taught military ethics.

Becky Spittle

As a driven researcher and PhD student within the Digital Media Technology Lab (DMT Lab) at Birmingham City University, Becky is committed to presenting high-quality, impactful work. Her research is focused on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), most notably how input methods can be best designed and employed for Extended...