PhD profiles
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Juan Pablo Viteri
Doctoral researcher
Juan Pablo Viteri is a cultural researcher and a visual and sound artist whose main interest is the study of new media and Latin-American independent music. His approach aims to explore the intersections between academic research and creative practice. He is currently doing a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies at the Birmingham...
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Joe Waggott
Doctoral researcher
Harpsichordist and organist Joe Waggott trained on the Historical Performance master’s degree course at the Royal Academy of Music studying harpsichord and continuo. Prior to this he studied organ at here at the Conservatoire.
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Catia Wesolowska
Doctoral researcher
Catia has been a professional conservator since 1996, in both private and museum practices. She is currently working as senior conservator and Deputy Head of Conservation at The National Museum in Gdansk, Poland. She also worked as Senior Metals Conservator for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (2003-2009).
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Gemma Williams
Research Fellow
Gemma holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology, from University of Birmingham, and has over ten years’ experience of conducting research and evaluation within the public sector (including the Probation Service and Birmingham City Council). Her research areas included: the effectiveness of accredited offender groupwork...
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Nona Wyld
Doctoral researcher
Harry then continued their study with an MA in Media and Cultural Studies. Their final research looked at the experiences of queer people of colour within Birmingham’s Gay Village. With Harry's PhD, they hope to focus their area of study and position themselves as a researcher within the field of gender and sexuality.
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Yaohan Xing
Doctoral researcher
Yaohan Xing achieved a Bachelor of Engineering (Huaqiao University) in 2017 and a Master of Science (Loughborough University) in 2019. Her research concerns leveraging design to empower people with arthritis.
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Gaopeng Zhang
Doctoral researcher
Gaopeng's study is aimed at to propose an interactive design system (IDS) to facilitate implementation of fashion MC. Through this system, customers can be invited to participate into the processes of fashion development at various points along the value chain.