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Current Research Students

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| Staff and their research interests |


Nabil Ahmed [Research Architecture]
The Space of Disaster: Politics and Meteorology in Bangladesh

Giovanni Aloi [Visual Cultures]
Surfacing Taxidermy: new animal bodies in contemporary art

Alice Andrews [Visual Cultures]
Autoimmunity: The Promise of Science, its fictions and the unforseeable to come

Cihat Arinc [Visual Cultures]
Dervis Zaim and the Ghostly Screen: Hauntology and Cartographies of Memory in New Turkish Cinema

Shumon Basar  [Research Architecture] 
Can Buildings Curate?

Pascal Jean Beausse [Curatorial Knowledge]
The Artist as Ecosopher 

Jolan Bogdan  [Visual Cultures]
Image, Technology, Revolution

Bridget Crone  [Visual Cultures]
The Sensible Stage: materialism, performance, realism, theatre

Mafalda Damaso [Visual Cultures]
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Branding supranational power

Anshuman Das Gupta [Curatorial Knowledge]
Project Borderland: A multi sited curatorial and anthropological probing in South Asia

Russell Davies  [Visual Cultures]
The Enigma of Art in the Thought of Martin Heidegger

Gabrielle Decamous  [Visual Cultures]
Gravitational Distance: Artistic deterritorialisation of Space, Time and the Atom

Orsalia Dimitriou  [Visual Cultures]
Spatial Expression of Political Models in Public Spaces

Sam Doepel-Hardy  [Visual Cultures]
Compromised Objects: African objects, intercultural translations and meaning production

Oriana Fox [Visual Cultures]
"Feminist Performance Art Can Change Your Life For The Better!?"

Joao Florencio [Visual Cultures]
Of Metal, Blood, Pigs, and Soil: Live Art and Complex Ecology

Anselm Franke  [Research Architecture] 
Negative Horizons: 'Animism', 'Mimétisme' and the Scenography of Modern Boundary-Practices

Rania Gaafar [Visual Cultures]

Diana Georgiou [Visual Cultures]
Towards CUNTemporary Art: Assertive Female Sexualities in Contemporary Visual Culture

Thomas Groves [Visual Cultures]
Reworking faith within the Ontological Situation

Michael Haworth  [Visual Cultures]
Thought into Being: Finitude and Creation

Charles Heller [Research Architecture]

Richard Hepenstal [Visual Cultures]
The technology of remembering: Beckett, the archive, and the struggle with time (practice-based PhD)

Manuel Herz [Research Architecture]
Refugee Camps: planning strategies and the dilemma of humanitarian aid

Richard Hylton [Visual Cultures]

Gaeun Ji [Visual Cultures]
Archival impulse in Contemporary art practice: Repetition and Failure

Gwyneth Jones  [Visual Cultures]
The Role of embarresment in contemporary Art

Hyunjin Kim [Curatorial Knowledge)
On Discretion

Ruth Lipschitz  [Visual Cultures]
Animality and Alterity in South African contemporary Art

Emanuel Licha [Research Architecture]
"Gaze Shapers: From Training Camps to War Hotels".

Jon Lindblom [Visual Cultures]
"Neo-Materialism and the Philosophy of Cinema"

Adnan Madani [Visual Cultures]
The Shape of Present Time; Art, History and Traumatic Contemporaneity

Samuel Mcauliffe [Visual Cultures]
Images of thought from Benjamin to Deleuze

Angela Melitopoulos  [Research Architecture]
Blasts of the Possible

Doreen Mende  [Visual Cultures]
The Production of Visibility: Display, Dissent, Destination

Mariana Meneses Romero [Visual Cultures]
"When art becomes edible: Women cooking art"

Markus Miessen  [Research Architecture]
The Violence of Participation: Conflitual Spatial Practices Beyond Models of Consensus


Karen Mirza [Research Architecture]

Je Yun Moon [Curatorial Knowledge]

Mariana Meneses Romero [Visual Cultures]
"When art becomes edible: Women cooking art"

Ines Moreira  [Curatorial Knowledge]
Performing Building Sites: Curatorial research in/on/through space 

Gerald Nestler [Research Architecture]
Contingent Claims and Human Derivatives. From the commodity fetish to a relational daemon of self-colonisation. 

Nicole Osborne [Visual Cultures]
Pleasure and the Present
 

Daniel Pavlovits
The socio-poetics of the City: Its Everyday - and the possibility of subjective alterity

Pavlina Paraskevaidou  [Visual Cultures]
Representations of Greek Cypriot refugees and their political currency

Owen Parry [Visual Cultures]
Wantonness in Contemporary Live Art and Performance Practice

 

Godofredo Pereira [Research Architecture]
Un-natural participation: the magic politics of monuments

Lorenzo Pezzani [Research Architecture]
The management of flows: systems of mobility and dispositifs of containment at the Southern border of Europe 

Sarah Pierce  [Curatorial Knowledge]
Rebellions at the site of knowledge

Paolo Plotegher  [Visual Cultures]
Art and activism every day: what can I do with the nothing I have

Manuel Ramos  [Visual Cultures]
Visual Murmurs: Cinema and the Political Name

Joana Rafael [Visual Cultures]
Acts on Reserve

Carolina Rito [Curatorial Knowledge]
Erosion. The duration of the encounter.

Ines Schaber  [Research Architecture]
Wishing the world: analysing traveling photographs

Florian Schneider [Research Architecture]
Imaginary Property

Kerstin Schroedinger [Research Architecture]
The frame of evidence and the Images as practice

Jonathan Shaw [Visual Cultures]
Subjectivity - Radical passivity as a viewing strategy in the contemporary arts 

Shalom Shpilman [Visual Cultures]
A New Modality for Developing Photographic Meaning

Joshua Simon [Curatorial Knowledge]

Manuel Singer [Visual Cultures]

Roopesh Sitharan [Visual Cultures]
Thesis (working) Title:
Unraveling Malaysian body: The creation of subjectivity through Malaysian
art practice

Rachel Steward  [Visual Cultures]
The Sky Between Us: Bachelard, Deleuze and Guattari and a history of the trope of the sky - past, present and a speculative future.

Danka Stefan
Socialist Modernism: Architecture, urbanism and creation of national identity in ex-Yogoslavia

Jay Stewart  [Visual Cultures]
Trans on Telly: Popular Documentary and the Production of Transgender Knowledge

Aneta Szylak [Curatorial Knowldge]
Curating Context

Pavel Szynkarczuk  [Visual Cultures]
Corporeality and Meaning: Merleau-Pontean ontology of the flesh and physical theatre

Paulo Tavares [Research Architecture]
A General Essay on Air: an investigation into the atmospheric conditions of liberal democracies 

Christian Töpfner  [Visual Cultures]
Subjects of Creation. On artistic enactments of an idea.

Sebastian Truskolaski  [Visual Cultures]
Bilderverbot: The Ban on Images in Adorno and Beyond

Fusun Turetken [Research Architecture]

Leire Vergara [Curatorial Knowledge]

Grant Watson [Visual Cultures]

Michael Watson [Visual Cultures]
In defence of subjectivity: Joan of Art and the conceptual turn 

Srdjan Weiss  [Research Architecture]
Evasive Powers of Self-Organisation: a theory of

Philippe Zougane [Research Architecture]
Creolization in Architecture: Culture and Architecture in post colonial Cities