PhD profiles
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Simon Crisp
Doctoral researcher
Simon is a former journalist and news photographer who returned to education (and cultural studies) in 2017 after 15 years working for nation UK newspapers when he was awarded a MA studentship at Birmingham City University as part of the Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership Routes In To PhD study initiative. He is...
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Sarah-Jane Crowson
Doctoral researcher
Sarah is a doctoral researcher investigating the space of small, specialist art colleges in higher education. She works in a small, specialist creative arts college in Herefordshire (Hereford College of Arts) . She believes that working environments and spaces strongly influence our thinking, creativity and...
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Lucia Cunningham
Doctoral researcher
Some of Lucia’s key achievements include: Being nominated for The Original Turner Prize for British Landscape Painters. Featuring on an ITV programme ‘A Brush with Fame’ where she pushed the boundaries of portrait painting on national television. Delivering talks at The British Museum about a series of ‘Find...
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Lamin Daffeh
Doctoral Researcher & Lecturer in Law
Lamin is working hard to break down cultural barriers regarding children's rights to education in his home country of The Gambia.Â
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Alexandra Delaney-Bhattacharya
Doctoral researcher
Lex is a part-time researcher exploring the representation of white femininity in popular Hindi cinema (Bollywood). Her focus is on the evolution of whiteness and its representation in post-liberal Bollywood.
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Valentina Dotto
Doctoral researcher
Valentina is a PhD researcher in Law at Birmingham City University. Her research involves the study of the Public Trust Doctrine in the context of Environmental Law. Her research aims to tie the doctrine of Public Trust to Necessity Defence. Prior to her PhD. Valentina did a Master's at Lund University specialising in Asian...
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Nathan Douglas
Doctoral Researcher
Nathan has worked within primary education for over ten years. His experience has always been within Key Stage Two and he has had a direct input into designing, shaping and developing the curriculum experiences for children in the schools he has taught at. Nathan started his career as a Class Teacher before moving onto a new...
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Sarah Doyle
Doctoral researcher
Sarah Doyle is a  widely published poet in journals and anthologies, with poetry appearing in, amongst many others, ‘Mslexia’, ‘Poetry News’, ‘The Lonely Crowd’ ‘Dust Poetry’, ‘Poetry Birmingham’, ‘Ink, Sweat and Tears’, ‘Finished Creatures’, ‘Anthropocene Poetry’, etc.
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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...