PhD profiles
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Alexandros Drymonitis
Doctoral researcher
Alexandros Drymonitis is a sound and new media artist. He is an MMus graduate of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam where he studied the guitar and composition. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Birmingham City University.
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Maria Eduarda Oliveira
PhD student
Maria graduated with a First-Class Honours degree in Law with Criminology in 2020. In the following academic year, she was accepted on the LLM course International Human Rights where her initial focus of solely criminal law started adapting with victim’s rights and the mixing of both perspectives from the sides of the law. She...
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Alison Edwards
Doctoral researcher and Senior Lecturer
Alison originally trained as a general nurse and then in 1990 entered Midwifery training. Since qualifying as a midwife she have worked in all areas including ante/ postnatal and birth environments, and managed wards and a fetal medicine/day assessment unit. Following a secondment, Alison moved into academia full time and has...
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Seán Elder Wilson
Doctoral researcher
"I am a curator, researcher and writer based in Birmingham. I have previously worked with artists to develop events, exhibitions and writing for organisations including Jerwood Arts (London); BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead); Grand Union (Birmingham); LUX Scotland (Glasgow); The Worm (Aberdeen). "As...
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AlaaAllah ElSabaa
Doctoral researcher
AlaaAllah's 5G-related research involves exploring solutions for energy and data supply to end users avoiding the loss of data rate and their connectivity failure.
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Matthew Evans
Doctoral researcher
Matthew DF Evans is a Birmingham based sound artist and musician focused on connecting sound and image. Graduating from UAL (LCC) with a BA in Sound Art & Design and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with an MMus in Music Technology, Matthew is currently a Visiting Tutor and Doctoral Researcher at the Royal Birmingham...
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Laura Farre Rozada
Doctoral researcher
Laura is an award-winning pianist and mathematician. She is currently a PhD student in performance at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where she has been awarded a Midlands4Cities AHRC Doctoral Studentship.
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Siavash Fasihi
Doctoral researcher
After completion of BSc in “Water Engineering”, Siavash joined the hydraulics division of a consulting company involved in water industry projects to work as an engineer. After some years, he returned to academia to develop his knowledge about fluvial hydraulics and river engineering and did an MSc degree in River Engineering...
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Oliver Freestone
Doctoral researcher
Oliver is a current PhD student at BCU who also completed his undergraduate degree in psychology here. He has a particular interest in aspects of biological psychology such as language and memory, as well as how psychology can impact the legal system. His aims for the future are to become a researcher and...
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Joanna Fursman
Doctoral researcher
Joanna is an artist-educator studying a practice-led PhD at the School of Art, Birmingham. I have been a lecturer for MA and BA Art and Education Practices and since 2016 on Initial Teacher Education courses across Birmingham City and Newman University, Birmingham.