Research Students

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Our current MPhil and PhD research students and the projects they are working on.

Abhaya Rajani

Research student

Anti-caste feminist portals: Traversing fluid dalit polyvocal ancestral / fictional bodies through expressions of embodied labour

Read a summary of Abhaya Rajani's MPhil/PhD Art research project

Adriana Arroyo

A Liquid Body: activating memory in the context of coloniality along the San Juan River, Central America.

Read a summary of Adriana Arroyo's MPhil/PhD Art research project

Alicja Rogalska

Research student

Future Imaginaries: investigating and intervening in the political imaginary crisis through collaborative speculation

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Andrea Khora

Research student

New Sight: The Alchemy of Surveillance into Resistance in Near Future Worlds

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Ash Reid

Research student

Memory work: Cinenova and the undoing of a nation

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Barbara Mahlknecht

Research student

This curatorial research engages in the Wages for Housework campaign

Read a summary of Barbara Mahlknecht's MPhil/PhD Art research project

Becky Lyon

Touch As Method: The Artist as Ecologist & Feeling-For Other(ed) Conservation Cultures In England

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Bridget Kennedy

Research student

Awakening the sleeper: creating a new imaginary of nuclear futures via a performative installation practice

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Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh

Research student

'The Current State': The Entanglement of the Private and Public Body

Read a summary of Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh's MPhil/PhD Art project

Clémentine Bedos

Research student

Techno-Tantrik Embodiment: Navigating Oppression and Resistance Through the Creolisation of Ancestral and Emerging Technologies

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Danielle Smith

Research student

Dan Newton

Research student

Please Leave Quietly: Plagiarisms of Place and Linguistic Localities in Neighbourhood Aesthetics

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Daria Khan

Research student

Outside of the Canon: curating verbo-visual and performative poetry

Read a summary of Daria Khan's MPhil/PhD Art research project

Elly Clarke

Research student

Is my Body Out of Date? The Drag of Physicality in the Digital Age

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Gerard Ortin Castellví

Research student

Moving image, technologies and ecologies of food production, distribution and consumption

Read a summary of Gerard Ortin Castellví's MPhil/PhD Art research project

Jamila Johnson-Small

Research student

Oracular practice and the choreographic machine

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Jessie McLaughlin

Research student

Queering the Art Museum: what can museums learn from young curators and the museum learning programmes that support them?

Read a summary of Jessie McLaughlin's MPhil/PhD Art research project

Kanad Chakrabarti

Research student

Reasons for Persons: The Good Successor Question

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Lee Kai Chung

An Infrastructure of Affect: On Coloniality and Displacement in Manchuria

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M. Maria Walhout

Research student

Photo of Marie-Alix Isdahl

Marie-Alix Isdahl

Research student

Morag Colquhoun

Research student

Trofannolismo: reimagining a planetary Tropicália

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Rowena Harris

Research student

The new digital/material in sculpture: defining a new relationship between the body, materiality and technology through practice

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Sam Plagerson

Research student

A Tremor in the Photograph: 3D Computer-Generated Image Making and its Relationship to the Photographic

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Sophie J Williamson

Research student

Being-With-Dying: Living with agency through the 6th mass extinction

Read a summary of Sophie J Williamson's MPhil/PhD Art research project.

Susuana Amoah

Research student

Exploring decolonial curatorial practices in English contemporary galleries

Read a summary of Susuana Amoah's MPhil/PhD Art research project

Teresa Calonje

Research student

Appropriating the Moment: Collecting the Performance

Read a summary of Teresa Calonje's MPhil/PhD Art research project

See the projects from past MPhil/PhD students