PhD profiles
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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,...
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Francesco Dimundo
Doctoral researcher
Francesco is currently a funded PhD student at Birmingham City University, researching about the topic of talent identification and development in professional rugby union. He also works as strength and conditioning coach and sport scientist.
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Valentina Dotto
Doctoral researcher
Valentina is a PhD researcher in Law at Birmingham City University. Her research involves the study of the Public Trust Doctrine in the context of Environmental Law. Her research aims to tie the doctrine of Public Trust to Necessity Defence. Prior to her PhD. Valentina did a Master's at Lund University specialising in Asian...
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Nathan Douglas
Doctoral Researcher
Nathan has worked within primary education for over ten years. His experience has always been within Key Stage Two and he has had a direct input into designing, shaping and developing the curriculum experiences for children in the schools he has taught at. Nathan started his career as a Class Teacher before moving onto a new...
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Sarah Doyle
Doctoral researcher
Sarah Doyle is a widely published poet in journals and anthologies, with poetry appearing in, amongst many others, ‘Mslexia’, ‘Poetry News’, ‘The Lonely Crowd’ ‘Dust Poetry’, ‘Poetry Birmingham’, ‘Ink, Sweat and Tears’, ‘Finished Creatures’, ‘Anthropocene Poetry’, etc.
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Dr Michael Dring
Academic Lead for Architecture & Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Michael Dring is an architect, educator, research scholar and artist, working across the fields of architecture, landscape, and art. Educated at the Manchester School of Architecture, Michael has worked in Birmingham for over 20 years in award-winning architectural practice and as course leader and tutor at Birmingham School...
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Alexandros Drymonitis
Doctoral researcher
Alexandros Drymonitis is a sound and new media artist. He is an MMus graduate of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam where he studied the guitar and composition. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Birmingham City University.
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Maria Eduarda Oliveira
PhD student
Maria graduated with a First-Class Honours degree in Law with Criminology in 2020. In the following academic year, she was accepted on the LLM course International Human Rights where her initial focus of solely criminal law started adapting with victim’s rights and the mixing of both perspectives from the sides of the law. She...
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Alison Edwards
Doctoral researcher and Senior Lecturer
Alison originally trained as a general nurse and then in 1990 entered Midwifery training. Since qualifying as a midwife she have worked in all areas including ante/ postnatal and birth environments, and managed wards and a fetal medicine/day assessment unit. Following a secondment, Alison moved into academia full time and has...
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Seán Elder Wilson
Doctoral researcher
"I am a curator, researcher and writer based in Birmingham. I have previously worked with artists to develop events, exhibitions and writing for organisations including Jerwood Arts (London); BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead); Grand Union (Birmingham); LUX Scotland (Glasgow); The Worm (Aberdeen). "As...