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Current PhD Students
|
Name |
Programme |
Thesis title and supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Rosemary Alexander-Jones | PhD by Research |
Historical Buildings in Heritage Cinema and Their Effect on the Visitor Experience Dr Emma Pett |
| Lacey Allen | PhD by Research |
Storytelling and ADHD: Adapting fairy tale films for neurodiverse audiences. |
| Thomas Battey | PhD by Creative Practice |
Thesis title in develpment |
| Jonathan Bussell | PhD by Research |
How to give students a professional experience during productions whilst still teaching technique to actors in training? An investigation into discovering strategies that can be used when directing students. Tom Cantrell |
| Louise Calf | PhD Candidate in Archaeology and TFTI | Plays and Performance in the Country House: The 'Bijou' Theatre at Chatsworth Dr. Kate Giles and Dr. Ollie Jones |
| Cristobal Catalan | PhD by Research |
Dr Jonathan Hook |
| R. Clayton | PhD by Creative Practice | 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? Dr Emma Pett |
| Teodora Fartan | PhD by Creative Practice | Professor Marian Ursu |
| Warren Fearn | PhD by Creative Practice | How can Augmented Reality help bridge the gap between classroom and remote science learning for Primary Schools? Dr Jonathan Hook |
| Tasos Giapoutzis | PhD by Creative Practice | The Interplay of Place and Nostalgia in Contemporary Migratory European Cinema Professor Duncan Petrie |
| Alan Heaven | PhD by Research | To what extent is the work of Nathan Field distinctive in its use of instructional content? Professor Michael Cordner |
| Mark Helsby | PhD by Research | Television's Lost Archives of Knowledge Dr Kristyn Gorton |
| Hao Hong | PhD by Creative Practice | Transitions from Chinese Ink Paintings into Interactive media Dr Guy Schofield and Professor Marian Ursu |
| Joe Horsey | PhD by Research | The Role of Metaphor in Documentary Film and Television Dr Ed Braman |
| Sarah Hoyle | PhD by Research | What is the cultural value of outdoor/experiential film screenings? Dr Jenna Ng |
| Stewart Jones | PhD by Research |
Screen Industry: Theoretical Process Management Frameworks for Film, Television, and Videogames Dr Emma Pett, Dr Bob Townley |
| Felix Kawitzky | PhD by Creative Practice | Magic Circles: Generating collaborative queer utopias via tabletop roleplaying games and the “Fantastic Genres” Dr Louise LePage and Dr Ben Kirkman |
| Alexander Kiddier | PhD by Research | Professor Duncan Petrie |
| Deborah Klika | PhD by Research | The comic nature of character and narrative in related TV and film comedy. Mr Simon Van Der Borgh and Dr Kristyn Gorton |
| Ishita Krishna | PhD by Research |
Objects in Modernist Drama (Working Title) Dr Karen Quigley |
| Francesca Lewis | PhD by Research | Searching for counter-diagnostic meaning within borderline experience |
| David Libeau | PhD by Research | Generating real-time audio description for live streamed gaming Dr Mariana Lopez and Dr Guy Schofield |
| Tala Linjawi | PhD by Creative Practice | Professor Duncan Petrie |
| Siqi Liu | PhD by Research | Functional enhancement: Redefinition of sports commentary in the era of digital media Dr Jenna Ng |
| Daniel Lock | PhD by Research | Dr Ben Kirman |
| Simona Manni | PhD by Research | Responsive media and non-linear participatory narratives of mental health Dr Jonathan Hook and Professor Mariana Ursu |
| Silvia Mantilla-Wright | PhD by Research | Music as an agent: Video game narrative, musical empathy, and the music that flows between Dr Anna Bramwell-Dicks and Dr Jonathan Hook |
| Saad Maqbool | PhD by Research |
Story Seeds - Growing Storied Experiences from Outdoor Cultural Heritage Sites through Tangible Interactive Artefacts Dr Debbie Maxwell |
| Freyja Alice McCreery | PhD by Research |
Superheroes, Trauma, and the Internet: Feeling the Relational Self in the Era of Networked Neoliberalism. Dr Ed Braman and Dr Louise LePage |
| Benjamin McDonald | PhD by Creative Practice | Mental Illness and Dramatising Symptoms: A Playwright’s Perspective Dr Lisa Peschel |
| Grace Moore | PhD by Creative Practice |
Experimentation of a new grammar for telling narratives in Cinematic Virtual Reality |
| Jacob Mulgrew | PhD by Creative Practice |
Simon Van der Borgh |
| Clau Nader |
PhD by Research |
ASMR: Sound interventions for mental health and wellbeing in adolescents Dr Mariana Lopez |
| Nick Newman |
PhD by Creative Practice |
Thesis title in develpment Dr Tom Cantrell and Dr Karen Quigley |
| Kasia Nicklin |
PhD by Creative Practice |
Fom the Underdog to Top Dog – Gender representation and unconscious bias in sports Simon Van der Borgh / Dr Emma Pett |
| Richard Oakes | PhD by Research | Investigating Emotional Audience Responses to Theatre and Music Dr Lisa Peschel and Dr Nick Barraclough |
| Gabrielle Russell | PhD by Creative Practice | Ether-Realism: evolving new cinematic form by speaking the old language of our native psyche Dr Ed Braman and Mr Andrew Vickers |
| Sally Shangguan | PhD by Research | Professor Andrew Higson |
| Hadeel Shqair | PhD by Research | Aljazeera Channel's Effect on the Political Consciousness of the Arab Youth since 2000 Dr Ed Braman and Dr Kirstyn Gorton |
| MG Stewart-David | PhD by Creative Practice | Writing the Immersive Musical Dr Jonathan Hook and Dr Karen Quigley |
| Ellen Storm | PhD by Research | Professor David Barnett |
| Tom Strazewski | PhD by Creative Practice | Staging the York Mystery Plays in the 21st Century Dr Ollie Jones and Dr Kate Giles (Archaeology) |
| Kulnaree Sueroj | PhD by Research | Audio Describing gestures and facial expressions in Thai serials Dr Mariana Lopez |
| Mwewa Sumbwanyambe | PhD by Creative Practice | Thesis title in develpment Dr Benjamin Poore and Professor David Barnett |
| Mark Summers | PhD by Creative Practice | The player as antagonist. Can the reframing of narrative terms lead to a more immersive and engaging experience in interactive storytelling? Dr Guy Schofield and Dr Jenna Ng |
| Tianyi (Choco) Tang | PhD by Creative Practice | Dr Jenna Ng |
| Kiran Tanna | PhD by Creative Practice | Staging Conspiracy Theory: exploring staged responses to conspiracy theory in contemporary theatre and performance practice Dr Karen Quigley |
| Kate Valentine | PhD by Creative Practice | Dual Carriageway - Live performance and digital storytelling linking communities along the Great North Road Dr Debbie Maxwell and Dr Mark Smith |
| Richard Frank Vickers | PhD by Creative Practice |
Curating the self: Social Media, Identity, Memory and the Mediated Vernacular. Dr Nick Jones |
| Xiaojie (Cheryl) Xie | PhD by Research | Thesis title in develpment Dr Mariana Lopez |
| Irene Zarza Rubio | PhD by Research |
‘I Still Believe in Heroes’: Creating a Contemporary Mythology in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. |
Completed PhD Students
| Name | Year of Award | Programme | Thesis title and supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Edwards | 2021 | PhD by Creative Practice |
The application and relevance of Stanislavsky, and later exponents of his theories, in rehearsal and performance with specific focus on the portrayal of obsessive-compulsive disorder on the stage. Dr Tom Cantrell |
| Shelly Anne Galpin | 2021 | PhD by Research |
'The People No-One Imagines Anything Of:' Teenage Responses to British Period Drama |
| Michael Holden | 2021 | PhD by Research |
Mapping Memory: Cartography in Contemporary Holocaust Culture |
| Rene Fernando Idrovo Zambrano | 2021 | PhD by Research |
Immersive Continuity: Long Takes, 3-D Sound, and the Impression of Reality in the Cinema of Alfonso Cuarón |
| Richard Kearns | 2021 | PhD by Research |
Interpreting Cultures of Participations: Production, Distribution and Globalisation |
| Sina Khazaee-Farid | 2021 | PhD by Creative Practice |
Bazinian Realism in the Digital Apparatus |
| Nai Li | 2021 | PhD by Research |
Chinese Audiences’ Reception of and Attitudes towards Hollywood Films with Chinese Elements |
| Tracy Mathewson | 2021 | PhD by Creative Practice |
Post-Truth, Justice, and the Feminine Way |
| Tobias Palma Stade | 2021 | PhD by Creative Practice | Hands-off Interactive Storytelling in Cinematic Virtual Reality Dr Guy Schofield and Simon Van der Borgh |
| Rosamund Portus | 2021 | PhD by Research | Extinction Studies: Imagining a World without Bees Dr Debbie Maxwell |
| Alix Beaumont | 2020 | PhD by Research | The Depiction of Ancient Greek Mythology in Cinema, Television and Video Games Dr Jenna Ng and Dr Kristyn Gorton |
| Bridget Foreman | 2020 | PhD by Creative Practice | Directive and Prescriptive Commissioning in Theatre Dr Karen Quigley |
| Agata Frymus | 2020 | PhD by Research | European Stars in the Discourse of 1920's America Professor Andrew Higson |
| Shelley Galpin | 2020 | PhD by Research | Heritage Screen Media and Youth Audiences Professor Andrew Higson and Dr Huw Jones |
| Hasmik Gasparyan | 2020 | PhD by Creative Practice | Investigating the Making of Cinematic Silence Dr Sandra Pauletto |
| Maxine Gee | 2020 | PhD by Creative Practice | Posthuman Noir: Creating Positive Posthumans Mr Simon Van Der Borgh and Dr Jenna Ng |
| Alan Heaven | 2020 | PhD by Research | Adaptation Theory in Relation to Early Modern Theatre |
| Jandy Luik | 2020 | PhD by Research | Assemblage and The Creative Hub: Designing to Support Assemblage in Virtual Creative Hub Dr Jenna Ng and Dr Jonathan Hook |
| Nur Syuhada Mat Sin | 2020 | PhD by Creative Practice | A Malay Folktale Paper Toy Animation Professor Marian Ursu and Dr Guy Schofield |
| Siiri Sjöstrand | 2020 | PhD by Research | Neoliberalism and the Self: The Engendering of (female) Selfhood in Western Popular Culture Dr Kristyn Gorton |
| Romana Turina | 2020 | PhD by Creative Practice | The Moving Image and Historical Analysis: Trieste, Italian Cinema and the Creative Remediation of Silenced Memory Professor Duncan Petrie and Mr Simon Van Der Borgh |
| Neil Hillman | 2019 | PhD by Research | Emotion in Sound Design Dr Sandra Pauletto |
| Fiona Keenan | 2019 | PhD by Research | Enactive sound machines: new theatrical strategies for sonic interaction design Dr Sandra Pauletto |
| Martina Lovascio | 2019 | PhD by Research | Filming the past in contemporary Italy Professor Andrew Higson and Dr Alan O'Leary |
| Gianluca Balla | 2018 | PhD by Research | The Director’s Method in Contemporary Visual Effects Film: Influence of Digital effects on Film Directing Mr John Mateer and Dr David Hickman |
| Roderik Smits | 2018 | PhD by Research | Gatekeepers and Gatekeeping Networks in the Film Distribution Business Professor Andrew Higson |
| Amy Bethel | 2017 | PhD by Research | Surburbia, seaside and sensation: Showing films in London and the south-east, 1896-1897 Professor Andrew Higson |
| Matthew John Midgley | 2017 | PhD by Research | Writing Figures of Political Resistance for the English stage Professor Mary Luckhurst |
| James Ballands | 2016 | PhD by Research | Terence Davies and the Cinema: Authorship, Collaboration, Intertextuality Professor Duncan Petrie |
| Jonathan Carr | 2016 | PhD by Creative Practice | The Normalisation of Surveillance Through the Prism of Film: A Practice Based Study Dr David Hickman and Mr Simon Van Der Borgh |
| Mark France | 2016 | PhD by Research | Gregory Doran and the Royal Shakespeare Company Professor Michael Cordner |
| Christos Manolas | 2016 | PhD by Research | Sound Design for Stereoscopic 3-D Cinema Dr Sandra Pauletto |
| Francesca Middleton | 2016 | PhD by Research | Romanticism with teeth: Surrealism in British film Professor Andrew Higson |
| Julia Pascal | 2016 | PhD by Creative Practice | The Absence of Female Jewish Characters On The Post-war English Stage: Thesis and Three Plays Dr Lisa Peschel |
| Emily Torricelli | 2016 | PhD by Research | Projecting the Nation: Constructions of Scotland in Film Since 1979 Professor Duncan Petrie |
| Anya Benson | 2013 | PhD by Research | Entering ever-expanding worlds of loss: Constructions of place in contemporary Japanese children's cinema Professor Andy Tudor |
Current Masters Students
|
Name |
Programme |
Thesis title and supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Samuel Armstrong | MA (by research) in Theatre |
Dr Mark Love-Smith |
| Georgina Victoria Bowley-Moriarty | MA (by Research) in Screenwriting |
Andrew Vickers |
| Laura Burberry | MA (by Research) in Screenwriting |
Witch of the Forest Simon Van Der Borgh |
|
Sean Byrne |
MA (by Research) in Theatre | Exploring the potential of Telematic Theatre from rehearsal to performance. Dr Louise LePage and Paul Ryan |
|
Dominic Chamayou-Douglas |
MA (by Research) in Theatre | Artificially Intelligent Theatre: The application of machine learning ideas to the creation of a theatre play Dr Anna Bramwell-Dicks and Dr Louise Lepag |
|
Mat Charlton |
MA (by Research) in Screenwriting | Andrew Vickers |
|
Jack Clewer |
MA (by Research) in Screenwriting | Andrew Vickers |
|
Nathanael Craig |
MA (by Research) in Screenwriting | Andrew Vickers |
| MSc (by Research) in Interactive Media |
Designing Digital Unheimlich: A practical and theoretical gamestudy Dr Anna Bramwell-Dicks and Dr Nick Jones |
|
| Samuel Fleming |
MA (by Research) in Screenwriting |
Marlene Andrew Vickers |
| Rebecca Gallon | MA (by Research) in Interactive Media |
Lights, Camera, Interaction ! Interactive Film and its transformative potential.” Dr Guy Schofield |
| Gabrielle Giles |
MA (by Research) in Interactive Media |
A critical analysis of the role and significance of player choices within videogame storytelling Dr Jenna Ng |
| Keeley Grant |
MA (by Research) in Screenwriting |
A Hero's Journey: using codesign to develop a fine motor skills video game with and for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) Andrew Vickers |
| George Greaves |
MSc (by Research) in Interactive Media |
A Hero's Journey: using codesign to develop a fine motor skills video game with and for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) Dr Debbie Maxwell |
| Zulfiya Hamzaki |
MSc (by research) in Interactive Media |
Dr Jonathan Hook and Dr Marta Herrero |
| Robert Harding |
MA (by Research) in Screenwriting |
Andrew Vickers |
| Alfie Howle |
MA (by Research) in Theatre |
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| Janey Huscared |
MA (by Research) in Screenwriting |
Andrew Vickers |
| Dana Johnstone |
MA (by Research) in Screenwriting |
Andrew Vickers |
| William Jones | MA (by Research) in Interactive Media | Professor Sebastian Deterding and Dr Nick Jones |
| Kieran McConaghy | MA (by Research) in Interactive Media | Dr Jenna Ng |
| Owen Pow | MA (by Research) in Screenwriting | Andrew Vickers |
| Isabel Marina Schubert Hall | MA (by Research) in Screenwriting | Andrew Vickers |
| Louisa Schultze | MA (by research) in Filmmaking | Guy Schofield |
| Leo Thomas | MA (by Research) in Screenwriting | Andrew Vickers |
| Mark Thomas | MA (by Research) in Screenwriting | Andrew Vickers |
| Huiming Wen | MA (by research) in Filmmaking | Professor John Mateer |
| Nicholas Whitfield | MA (by Research) in Screenwriting | Simon Van Der Borgh |
| Tairan Yuan | MA (by research) in Filmmaking | Matt Brannan |
| Jiuyan Zhang | MA (by research) in Filmmaking | Lorianne Hall |
Completed Masters Students
|
Name |
Year of Award |
Programme |
Thesis title and supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jamie Donnelly | 2021 |
MA (by Research) in Interactive Media |
Dr Mariana Lopez |
| Adam Holloway | 2021 |
MA (by Research) in Screenwriting |
Andrew Vickers |
| Joe James | 2021 |
MA (by Research) in Screenwriting |
Andrew Vickers |
| Joe Lamyman | 2021 |
MA (by Research) in Interactive Media |
Dr Debbie Mazwell |
| Scott Mather | 2021 |
MA (by Research) in Screenwriting |
Andrew Vickers |
| Tim Newsome-Ward | 2021 |
MA (by Research) in Interactive Media |
Ben Kirman |
| Mark Allen | 2020 | MA (by Research) in Screenwriting | Andrew Vickers |
| Daniel Lock | 2020 | MSc (by Research) in Interactive Media | Ben Kirman |
| Scott Winsbury | 2020 | MA (by Research) in Screenwriting | Andrew Vickers |
| Daniel Wonnacott | 2020 | MA (by Research) in Interactive Media | Dr Jonathan Hook |
| Sean Bassett | 2019 | MA (by Research) in Screenwriting | Andrew Vickers |
| Scott Kovacs | 2019 | MA (by Research) in Filmmaking | Dr Ed Braman |
| Kate Larking | 2019 | MA (by Research) in Screenwriting | Andrew Vickers |
| Eleanor Mason | 2019 | MA (by Research) in Screenwriting | Simon Van Der Borgh |
| Nicholas Newman | 2019 | MA (by Research) in Theatre | Dr Mark Love-Smith |
| Jack Cooper | 2018 | MA (by Research) in Interactive Media | Ben Kirman |