Browse theses by postgraduate research students from the School of Art, Design and Architecture
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Towards Elucidating Psychological Arousal in Response to Music Theatre, Ryan Thomas Green
Film Here Now: Daily Filmmaking and the Path to Well-being, Raul Alvarez
Life Still: A Sequence of Paintings Reimagining Dutch Golden Age Still Life, CHRISTOPHER COOK
Mapping a lived experience in landscape: An artist’s analysis of GPS and GIS data, Becalelis Brodskis
Transmission+Interference: A New Materialist and Machine-Oriented Approach to Collectively Make-With Noise, David Strang
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
A FRAMEWORK FOR SYNCRETIC PLURIVERSAL NARRATIVE: SOMAESTHETICS AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN THAI DESIGN EDUCATION, Tommaso Maggio
An accumulation of care: affect in the role of the contemporary curator, Sara-Jayne Parsons
A Practice-Led Inquiry into Collaboration with Landscape within the Expanded Field of Photography, Laurie Reynolds
Building Immersive Environments Towards Non-Human Models of Organizing Against Global Crisis, Luis Andre Varela Reis
Casting a Line to the Land: Narratologies of Embodied Rituals and Connectivity to Place, Zoë Latham
Echoes of Time: an exploration of photography, land, and memories, Mary Pearson
Hauntological Videogame Form: Nostalgia and a "High Technology" Medium, James Sweeting
Humanity Undone, A practice led enquiry into self-injury, Karen Abadie
Islamic Tradition and Innovation in a Contemporary Kuwaiti Woman’s Painting Practice, Shaikha Almehana
OCTOPUS OPTICS: A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY INVESTIGATION OF HUMAN VISUAL BIAS IN NARRATIVE WITH CORRESPONDING WRITING EXPERIMENTS USING ANIMAL FOCALISATION, Stephanie Jane Cussans Moran
Performance Writing, Objects and Millennial Precarity: A co-authored PaR exploration between friends, Chris Green
Performance Writing, Objects and Millennial Precarity: A co-authored PaR exploration between friends, Katheryn Owens
Reframing museum epistemology for the information age: a discursive design approach to revealing complexity, Coral Manton
Shanshuihua: ‘Mountain-water-painting’ for an ecological age, Lei Liu
SPATIAL ROBUSTNESS: DOUBLE-DESIGN AND THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF SPACE, AN EXPLORATION OF DESIGNING FOR MULTIPLE USES, Michael Cassidy
The Agency of Error in Post-digital Print, Laura Rosser
THE BAROQUE PHOTOGRAPH: PALERMO, STREET PHOTOGRAPHY, AND THE FOLD., Martin Cole
The Postnatural Animal in Contemporary Art, Paul Finnegan
Tutti Frutti: A Body of Paintings Informed by a Study of Symbols and Appropriation Techniques in Contemporary Romanian Painting, Petre Bogdan Sassu
Walking away from VR as ‘empathy-machine’: peripatetic animations with 360-photogrammetry, Katerina Athanasopoulou
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
A Media Archaeology of Technologies of Enchantment, Jane Hutchinson
An Earthly Response to Movement. Moving Images Diffracted Through New Materialism, Emilio Chapela Pérez
An interdisciplinary study of an aesthetic particularism: the ‘Split representation in the Art of Asia and America’, Benjamin Pothier
Architectural design for Dementia: Exploring alternate contemporary cultures of residential care design, Ricky Burke
BECOMEBECOME - A TRANSDISCIPLINARY METHODOLOGY BASED ON INFORMATION ABOUT THE OBSERVER, Andrea T. R. Traldi
Re-imagining the Vernacular: Dwelling at the Thames Edge, Sally Sutton
The Disquieting Image, Retracing the filmmaking of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Luisa Greenfield
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
A Relational Ecology of Photographic Practices: Towards a Non-anthropocentric Approach to Photography, Jacqueline Knight
Deciphering the Silence: A Literary Journey to Alice E. Kober, Regina Dürig
How progressive was the representation of physical disability within mainstream film in the 1990s, given the increased awareness about disability during the decade?, Connor David Ruse
Ideas Exchange: Design and the post bio-tech-body, Agatha Haines
Intuitive Interventions: Constructing Documentary Cinematic Narratives, Heidi Morstang
Light Dance: Beyond the Dichotomy of Light and Vision, Seth Riskin
Place and identity in Italian photography through a study of the town of Lugo, Luca Nostri
Prosthetic Realities, Prosthetic Futures: Challenging the status quo of external breast prosthesis design, Rosie Brave
Sense and Sensing: A critical enquiry into relations between hearing-impaired children, vision and photography, Kevin Robinson
Social Sculpture: A Plastic Process of Mutual Transformation, Veronica marina Fazzio Welf
SYNCRETIC PRACTICES BETWEEN ART AND ARCHITECTURE: TOWARDS A CRITICAL EPISTEMIC PRACTICE FOR SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT., Alejandro Quinteros
The liminal event and its symbols: on the intersection of human and technology, Blanka Deroko
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Apophenoesis & the Origins of Creativity: Virtual Pattern Recognition, Error, Paths to Consciousness & Augmenting the Evolution of Self, Max B. Kazemzadeh
Being Vulnerable: Distances of the Sublime Anthropocene, Laura Hopes
Collage in the Posthuman Era: Gender and Becoming, Margaret Hart
Creative Caprice: Intrinsic Interest; States of Consciousness; Emotion & Practice-led Phenomenological Inquiry, Steven A Evans
Designing Playful Systems, Michael Straeubig
INTERROGATING SELF-REPRESENTATION AT THE INTERSECTION OF VISUAL ARTS AND NEUROSCIENCE, Nicole Ottiger
Maker, Wearer, Viewer, Object: the reflexive destabilisation of brooches in a contemporary jewellery making practice, Allison Geremia
Syncretic Narrative: Method for Navigation of Power and Resistance in War and Conflict, Diane Derr
Thermal Efficiency of Courtyards for Residential Buildings in Iraq, Omar Al-Hafith
Vibrating Existence: Early Cinema and Cognitive Creativity, Guy Edmonds
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Arhitectura 1950-1989. Interstitial Spaces of Communist Romanian Architecture, Ioana Popovici
Artistic Modulation of Consciousness by Bioelectromagnetic Stimulation, Luis Miguel Almeida Ferreira Girao
Challenging Robot Morality: An Ethical Debate on Humanoid Companions, Dataveillance, and Algorithms, Eugenia Stamboliev
Landscape of Legislation: A Photographic Investigation of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, David Anthony Wyatt
Le Passage - Towards the Concept of a New Knowledge Instrument, Isabella Marzena Beyer
Mindfulness and Embodiment in the Design of a Synthetic Experience, Julieta Aguilera
Peter Fuller, Modern Painters and the Sensation exhibition, James Alexander Brown
PROTOTYPING RELATIONAL THINGS THAT TALK: A DISCURSIVE DESIGN STRATEGY FOR CONVERSATIONAL AI SYSTEMS, Birgitte Aga
Space-Time Experience in the Meta-Environment: A Cybersemiotic Analysis, Claudia Ferreira Jacques de Moraes Cardoso
Sustainable Digital Neighbourhoods: A Case Study of People, Place and Technology under the Rural Village Condition, Pamela Varley
THE IMPACT OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT ON THE THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF SOCIAL HOUSING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, JOÃO PAULO ULRICH DE ALENCASTRO
THEORISING THE EMBODIMENT OF MATERIALITY AND EXPERIENCE IN MAN-MADE OBJECTS FROM A DESIGN PERSPECTIVE, Hana Hapiz
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
A Framework for the Consideration of Narrative in Creative Arts Practice, Paul Green
Encountering Statues: Object Oriented Ontology And The Figure In A Sculptural Practice, Lisa Osborn
Inhabiting the Uninhabitable: Interdisciplinary strategies for creating other worlds, Jane Grant
The (not so) Intelligent House: User Perception in an Interactive Architectural Environment, Alexander Ćetković
THE ROLE OF VIRTUAL IMAGING IN BUILDING CONSERVATION, KATHRIN SCHUETTE
The States and Status of Clay: Material, Metamorphic and Metaphorical Values., Lu La Buzz
Turbo Film As Artistic Apparatus And As Manifesto For The Uncertain Future Of Moving Images, Paololuca Barbieri Marchi
Une certain équivoque? A study of Vincent van Gogh's ambivalent engagement with prostitution, highlighted by the 1888 Courrier Français controversy, Fiona B. Saint-Davis
‘UNIVERSITY MUST BE SAVED’ GENEALOGY AS A KNOWLEDGE APPROACH., Patrizia Moschella
YANGTZE THE MOTHER RIVER - Photography, Myth and Deep Mapping, Yan Wang Preston
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Decision-making in the selection of retrofit facades for non-domestic buildings, Helen Mary Garmston
Designing Inclusivity: Reconstructing the Meaning of the Seven Pointed Star Symbol in the Jordanian Flag through Design Thinking, Fadwa Barakat
Haplós: Towards Technologies for and Applications of Somaesthetics, Diego Silang Maranan
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Mass-participation Architecture: Social Media and the Decentralisation of Architectural Agency as a Commercial Imperative, Alexander Lorimer
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The Management of the conservation of Masjed-e Jame, Isfahan, zahra Abdollahnejad
A DECISION SUPPORT FRAMEWORK FOR SELECTING INNOVATIVE SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES FOR DELIVERING LOW CARBON RETAIL BUILDINGS, SYEDA DANGANA
Delivering zero carbon homes and sustainable communities: the potential of group self-build housing in England, Emma Elizabeth Heffernan
Discursive Designing Theory - Towards a Theory of Designing Design -, Juergen Faust
Subject and Aesthetic Interface - an inquiry into transformed subjectivities, Kathrine Elizabeth Lorena Johansson
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Multidimensional Depth of the Image: Body-Environment-Artefact (A philosophical reflection for graphic design), Martyn Stuart Woodward
Towards an Articulation of Architecture as a Verb; Learning from Participatory Development, Subaltern Identities and Textual Values., Richard Bower
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Development of a framework for sustainable repair of adobe building in an urban area in Nigeria, Theophilus Adeyinka Shittu
Eve and the Madonna in Victorian Art, Bebhinn Dungan
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Moisture performance of Straw Bale Construction in a Temperate Maritime Climate, Jim Carfrae
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Art Ecology and Planning: Strategic Concepts and Creativity within the Post Industrial Public Realm, Timothy Martin Collins
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A METHODOLOGY FOR CREATING AN EARTHEN BUILDING INVENTORY, MARGARET LYN FORD
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
SEQUENTIAL EXPERIENCES IN ARCHITECTURE: COMPUTER SIMULATION OF HUMAN RESPONSE TO THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT, G Mckennan
