PhD profiles
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Jill Robinson
Doctoral researcher
Jill's research is framed by knowledge and experiences gained over the course of a portfolio career including teaching, funding (ERDF and Lottery bids), policy development, transnational project management in European, cultural and urban affairs and parallel long-term involvement in the arts as performer, trustee, strategist...
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Jay Rowe
Doctoral researcher
Jay's research topic is 'Understanding Changing Voter Attitudes and Perceptions toward Brexit', with respondents drawn from across the social spectrum. This is in order to gain insight into the broad range of views concerning Brexit.
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Nataliya Rozhin
Doctoral researcher
Nataliya Rozhin is a designer and PhD student focussing on design-led research and experimental fashion. She studied at the leading national school of fashion design, Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design, graduating with distinction and winning national and international awards for her collections. Nataliya has...
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Ana Rutter
Doctoral researcher
Ana’s Practice as Research PhD is situated between The School of Art and The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire at Birmingham City University. Ana’s research centres around affect, embodied installation and the commonplace aural landscapes that we live within, it is concerned with affecting experience created using re-mediated...
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Panagiotis Sampanis
Doctoral researcher
Panagiotis' innovative PhD research project aims to investigate the role of culture upon human visual attention by merging psychological disciplines and quantitative experimental methodologies.
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Zakaria Sanousy
Doctoral researcher
Zakaria is a PhD Researcher at Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Centre, School of Computing and Digital Technology. Zakaria’s Doctoral Research is mainly in the area of Medical Image semantic and instance segmentation using Deep Learning techniques.
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Emily Scarrott
Doctoral researcher
Emily is an artist and PhD candidate in the School of Art. Her practice-led research explores the absurd as a non-cis-male protagonist. These experiences are led by nourishing and tactile encounters with unfertilised eggs. She is currently performing durational care to one specific egg; he is doing quite well, and they go...
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Nicki Schiessel Harvey
Doctoral researcher
Nicki is an environmental planning professional-turned-academic. Her research focuses on changing values of inland waterways and how values are incorporated into policy decision-making. Nicki was formerly an environmental planning consultant at Atkins Planning, Landscape and Heritage in Birmingham, focusing on EIA,...
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Selina Schmidt
Doctoral researcher
Selina Schmidt is currently a Research Assistant at Birmingham City University, where she is working on the School of English impact case studies that will be returned to REF2021. Before completing her PhD in English Linguistics at Birmingham City University, she studied at Saarland University in Germany, gaining...
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Heather Scripps Scripps
Doctoral researcher
Heather Scripps has been a registered nurse since 1996 and has had a varied work history, including 21 years of military service. She has worked in or around nurse education since 2003.