PhD profiles
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Hannah Malpass
Doctoral researcher
Hannah is a qualified primary school teacher, specialising in Early Years. She graduated from Birmingham City University in 2014, having completed the BA (Hons) in Primary Education with QTS. She has also taught in a smaller school in Worcestershire, where she gained experience teaching in Key Stage One. Hannah has also taught...
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Natalie Mason
Doctoral researcher
Natalie's work as a Creative Music Facilitator in Cape Town was particularly significant to her development as a practitioner of international and intercultural music-making. In 2015 she established a creative partnership with Friction Arts in Birmingham to develop a new ethnomusicologically-informed music education project.
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Katherine McAtamney
Doctoral researcher
Following a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Health Psychology, Katie decided to continue her journey of learning and researching by undertaking a PhD. Previous research projects have explored constructs including body dissatisfaction, mindfulness and enjoyment of physical activity, all underpinned by a passionate interest in...
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Alex McAuley
Doctoral researcher
Alex is an Assistant Lecturer and PhD Researcher at BCU, teaching across a range of subjects in both the Sport & Exercise and Life Science departments.
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Claire McIntosh
Doctoral researcher
Claire is a teacher based in Aberdeen, having taught in both England and Scotland over the last 8 years. She trained in music teaching as her specialist subject and she has since further specialised in working with young people with a range of additional support needs within a specialist ASN Wing alongside continued music...
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Dr Ed McKeon
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Ed is researching the curator as a visual paradigm, one who creates value by making differences visible through processes of representation, and the curatorial as a counter-praxis informed by a musical logic that disturbs this function.
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Karl Merrick
Doctoral researcher
For the past twelve years, Karl has worked full time as a Higher Level Teaching Assistant, cover supervisor and music and RE teacher in a primary school. His wider roles as a school governor and lead for the School's Council have given him the experience in strategic project management. Karl has a First Class degree in...
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Christian Moerken
Doctoral researcher
Christian's research focuses on the cultural value of the printed book in the age of digitization. Most research considering the book in the digital age focusses on the digitization of texts and on reading digital texts (Baron, 2017) or the economic consequences of the digitization of the book trade (Thompson 2013) but not...
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Bayley Morris
Doctoral researcher
Bayley is a full-time doctoral candidate under the supervision of Victoria Kinsella and Alex Kendall. Experimenting with post-qualitative, posthuman and artistic approaches, her research entangles and deterritorialises contemporary fine art practices and pedagogy to reimagine practitioner learning in higher education.
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Nat Muller
Doctoral researcher
Natalie's research looks at how science fiction (SF) and futurism are articulated in contemporary art and film from the Middle East. It explores at which historical and geo-political junctures SF and futurism appear in art and filmic practices.