Postgraduate researchers
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Historical Buildings in Heritage Cinema and Their Effect on the Visitor Experience
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Storytelling, Fairytales & ADHD: Adapting Narratives for Neurodivergent Audiences
Thomas Battey
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No Man’s Rose: Challenging the Expectations of the Neo-Western Woman Through Serial Drama
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How to give students a professional experience during productions while still teaching technique to actors in training? An investigation into discovering strategies that can be used when directing students.
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Plays and Performance in the Country House: The 'Bijou' Theatre at Chatsworth
R Clayton
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How does shifting from a horizontal aspect ratio to a vertical aspect ratio in long-form film production affect the filmmaking process and resulting narratives?
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Grand Theft Artaud - An autoethnographic study of live performance in "real" and "virtual" worlds
Teodora Fartan
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How can Augmented Reality help bridge the gap between classroom and remote science learning for Primary Schools?
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The Interplay of Place and Nostalgia in Contemporary Migratory European Cinema
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Interactive documentary and non-profit engagement through personal storytelling
Alan Heaven
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To what extent is the work of Nathan Field distinctive in its use of instructional content?
Joe Horsey
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The Role of Metaphor in Documentary Film and Television
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Screen Industry: Theoretical Process Management Frameworks for Film, Television, and Videogames
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Magic Circles: Generating collaborative queer utopias via tabletop roleplaying games and the “Fantastic Genres”
Alexander Kiddier
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Deborah Klika
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The comic nature of character and narrative in related TV and film comedy.
Francesca Lewis
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Searching for counter-diagnostic meaning within borderline experience
David Libeau
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Generating real-time audio description for live streamed gaming
Tala Linjawi
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Functional enhancement: Redefinition of sports commentary in the era of digital media
Daniel Lock
Simona Manni
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Responsive media and non-linear participatory narratives of mental health
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Music as an agent: Video game narrative, musical empathy, and themusic that flows between
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Story Seeds - Growing Storied Experiences from Outdoor Cultural Heritage Sites through Tangible Interactive Artefacts
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Superheroes, Trauma, and the Internet: Feeling the Relational Self in the Era of Networked Neoliberalism.
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Mental Illness and Dramatising Symptoms: A Playwright's Perspective
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Experimentation of a new grammar for telling narratives in Cinematic Virtual Reality
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Serialising Sports: Crafting Sustainable Sporting Narratives for 'Quality' Drama Television
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ASMR: Sound interventions for mental health and wellbeing in adolescents
Nick Newman
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Thesis title in development
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Fom the Underdog to Top Dog – Gender representation and unconscious bias in sportsfilms from the late 1970s - 2020.
Richard Oakes
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Investigating Emotional Audience Responses to Theatre and Music
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Towards a feminist mythography: a practice based enquiry exploring female archetypes in native folklore and how these might play as source material in contemporary film narratives
Gabrielle Russell
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Ether-Realism: evolving new cinematic form by speaking the old language of our native psyche
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Working title: Queer encounters with the reproductive imperative — addressing the impact of reproductive futurism on visions of queer futurity in science fiction theatre
Hadeel Shqair
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Aljazeera Channel's Effect on the Political Consciousness of the Arab Youth since 2000
M.G. Stewart-David
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Writing the Immersive Musical
Ellen Storm
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Audio Describing gestures and facial expressions in Thai serials
Mwewa Sumbwanyambe
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Thesis title in development
Mark Summers
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The player as antagonist. Can the reframing of narrative terms lead to a more immersive and engaging experience in interactive storytelling?
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Staging Conspiracy Theory: exploring staged responses to conspiracy theory in contemporary theatre and performance practice
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Dual Carriageway - Live performance and digital storytelling linking communities along the Great North Road
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Curating the self: Social Media, Identity, Memory and the Mediated Vernacular.
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Reflections of Sherlock Holmes: A Study of the Relationship between Sherlock Holmes Adaptations, Appropriations and Modern Media Protagonists.
Xiaojie (Cheryl) Xie
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'I Still Believe in Heroes': Creating a Contemporary Mythology in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
