PhD profiles
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Rowan Tandiwe Watson
Doctoral researcher
Rowan is an architect with a long involvement in design- build; craft processes and dance. As a lecturer at ITSligo , he is interested in inspiring and immersing students in design through craft and direct, embodied responses to place. Rowan am currently reading for a practice PhD at BCU that uses movement to...
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Daniel Tong
Head of Piano in Chamber Music
Daniel is Head of Piano in Chamber Music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. As a performe, he has released numerous commercial CDs, performed at major venues throughout the UK and Europe and founded two chamber music festivals.
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Benjamin Torrens
Doctoral researcher
Benjamin Torrens is a Midlands4Cities-funded doctoral student in the School of Media, within the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media at Birmingham City University. Ben is studying for a PhD titled ‘Dance a yard before you dance abroad: reggae as a music production culture in Jamaica and Britain, 1968 – 1981’. Ben is a member of...
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Jonnie Turpie
Doctoral researcher
Turpie, having established a successful creative industries career, returned to education in 2017 as a Doctoral Research Student at Birmingham School of Art. His career included establishing an independent production company producing innovative television programmes and digital content. During his journey towards PhD...
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Juan Pablo Viteri
Doctoral researcher
Juan Pablo Viteri is a cultural researcher and a visual and sound artist whose main interest is the study of new media and Latin-American independent music. His approach aims to explore the intersections between academic research and creative practice. He is currently doing a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies at the Birmingham...
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Joe Waggott
Doctoral researcher
Harpsichordist and organist Joe Waggott trained on the Historical Performance master’s degree course at the Royal Academy of Music studying harpsichord and continuo. Prior to this he studied organ at here at the Conservatoire.
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Catia Wesolowska
Doctoral researcher
Catia has been a professional conservator since 1996, in both private and museum practices. She is currently working as senior conservator and Deputy Head of Conservation at The National Museum in Gdansk, Poland. She also worked as Senior Metals Conservator for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (2003-2009).
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Gemma Williams
Research Fellow
Gemma holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology, from University of Birmingham, and has over ten years’ experience of conducting research and evaluation within the public sector (including the Probation Service and Birmingham City Council). Her research areas included: the effectiveness of accredited offender groupwork...
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Nona Wyld
Doctoral researcher
Harry then continued their study with an MA in Media and Cultural Studies. Their final research looked at the experiences of queer people of colour within Birmingham’s Gay Village. With Harry's PhD, they hope to focus their area of study and position themselves as a researcher within the field of gender and sexuality.
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Yaohan Xing
Doctoral researcher
Yaohan Xing achieved a Bachelor of Engineering (Huaqiao University) in 2017 and a Master of Science (Loughborough University) in 2019. Her research concerns leveraging design to empower people with arthritis.