PhD profiles
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Kateryna Sivak
Doctoral researcher
Kateryna (Kate) Sivak is a full-time doctoral researcher in Media and Cultural Studies. Her PhD project is a virtual ethnographic study that looks at unofficial ways audiovisual content is translated and distributed in Ukraine. Specifically, she is exploring such practices as file-sharing, ‘pirate’ streaming, and unofficial...
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David Smith
Doctoral researcher
David has been a British Army Chaplain since 2002. He has completed multiple operational tours (Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Northern Ireland) and has been working in military training environments since 2012, where he taught military ethics.
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Becky Spittle
School of Computing and Digital Technology - CDT
As a driven researcher and PhD student within the Digital Media Technology Lab (DMT Lab) at Birmingham City University, Becky is committed to presenting high-quality, impactful work. Her research is focused on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), most notably how input methods can be best designed and employed for Extended...
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Michelle Strauss
Doctoral Researcher
Michelle was admitted to the bar in New Zealand in 2007 as a barrister and solicitor and practiced in the area of civil litigation, undertaking both claimant and defendant work. She moved to the UK in 2012 practising predominately in the area of professional negligence. Michelle became involved in animal and environmental law...
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Akvile Stuart
Doctoral researcher
Akvilė Stuart is a musicologist, pianist and doctoral researcher at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Her PhD project is generously funded by the AHRC Midlands 4 Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. Akvilė is the Student Advisory Forum representative for M4C DTP for the academic year 2020-2021.
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YIng Sun
Doctoral researcher
Ying Sun is a doctoral candidate at Birmingham City University (BCU) where she holds a China Scholarship Council (CSC) Award. She received a double Master's degree in Landscape Architecture Design from Nanjing University of the Art (China) and Birmingham City University (United Kingdom). Her current research explores...
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Hollie Sutch
Doctoral researcher
Hollie Sutch is a PhD student at Birmingham City University focusing her research around the presence of extremism online, examining potential risk factors and drivers in order to establish systematic software and prevention strategies to reduce the level of extremism online. Hollie achieved a first-class in BSc Hons...
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Sebastian Svegaard
Doctoral researcher
Sebastian Svegaard is a MA in Musicology and currently a PhD candidate at Birmingham City University's Birmingham School of Media, where he is pursuing his research into the intersection of music, affect and critical fandom through studying vids. He has previously focused on the performance of masculinity in popular music...
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Martin Svejda
Doctoral researcher
Martin graduated with BSc (Hons.) Computer Science (first class) from Birmingham City University. He is currently studying PhD in the same subject and has been actively demonstrating on taught modules varying in levels of technical and soft skills for three consecutive years. Martin is currently a Senior Technician in...
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Alan Taman
Doctoral researcher
Alan's PhD project aims to determine and explore what people over a wide social range perceive on solutions to health inequality, how they attribute causes, and ways of engaging them so that more equitable health policies can be arrived at and then applied.