PhD profiles
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Sarah-Jane Crowson
Doctoral researcher
Sarah is a doctoral researcher investigating the space of small, specialist art colleges in higher education. She works in a small, specialist creative arts college in Herefordshire (Hereford College of Arts) . She believes that working environments and spaces strongly influence our thinking, creativity and...
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Lucia Cunningham
Doctoral researcher
Some of Lucia’s key achievements include: Being nominated for The Original Turner Prize for British Landscape Painters. Featuring on an ITV programme ‘A Brush with Fame’ where she pushed the boundaries of portrait painting on national television. Delivering talks at The British Museum about a series of ‘Find...
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Lamin Daffeh
Doctoral Researcher & Lecturer in Law
Lamin is working hard to break down cultural barriers regarding children's rights to education in his home country of The Gambia.
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Alexandra Delaney-Bhattacharya
Doctoral researcher
Lex is a part-time researcher exploring the representation of white femininity in popular Hindi cinema (Bollywood). Her focus is on the evolution of whiteness and its representation in post-liberal Bollywood.
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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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Michael Dring
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...