PhD profiles
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Emma Collett
Doctoral researcher
Emma is a p racticing chartered landscape architect with an interest in how we inhabit space and can be cognisant of space and time . B uilt upon a foundation of art practice and e ducated in architecture, landscape and urban design . A p rimaril y visual communicato r , applying abstract ...
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Sue Cook
Doctoral researcher
Sue is a mature, part-time PhD student at Birmingham City University, researching women’s involvement in the Birmingham printing industry and allied trades in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Kendall Cowle
Doctoral researcher
Kendall Cowle (Kenny) is a current PhD candidate within the school of Visual Communication at Birmingham City University and is being funded by Midlands4Cities. Her research focuses specifically on developing new understandings of Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) though the use of photography.
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Martin Cox
Doctoral researcher
Working with industry partners, Martin's research will explore alternative resourcing models for arts activity in urban environments, critically examining the effects of cultural mediation on practice and outcomes.
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Simon Crisp
Doctoral researcher
Simon is a former journalist and news photographer who returned to education (and cultural studies) in 2017 after 15 years working for nation UK newspapers when he was awarded a MA studentship at Birmingham City University as part of the Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership Routes In To PhD study initiative. He is...
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Sarah-Jane Crowson
Doctoral researcher
Sarah is a doctoral researcher investigating the space of small, specialist art colleges in higher education. She works in a small, specialist creative arts college in Herefordshire (Hereford College of Arts) . She believes that working environments and spaces strongly influence our thinking, creativity and...
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Lucia Cunningham
Doctoral researcher
Some of Lucia’s key achievements include: Being nominated for The Original Turner Prize for British Landscape Painters. Featuring on an ITV programme ‘A Brush with Fame’ where she pushed the boundaries of portrait painting on national television. Delivering talks at The British Museum about a series of ‘Find...
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Lamin Daffeh
Doctoral Researcher & Lecturer in Law
Lamin is working hard to break down cultural barriers regarding children's rights to education in his home country of The Gambia.
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Alexandra Delaney-Bhattacharya
Doctoral researcher
Lex is a part-time researcher exploring the representation of white femininity in popular Hindi cinema (Bollywood). Her focus is on the evolution of whiteness and its representation in post-liberal Bollywood.
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Lisa Deml
Doctoral researcher
Lisa Deml is a Midlands4Cities funded researcher who holds degrees in Art History and Philosophy from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. Initially trained as a journalist, she subsequently worked for public cultural institutions and non-profit organisations internationally,...