Research students

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

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

Alessia Arcuri

Research student

Adrian Shaw

Research student

On the Floor: The Museum Floor as an Active and Relational Site of Artistic Practice

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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

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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Azahara Ubera Biedma

Research student

The 4 plus dimensional materialities of the choreographic: Protocols and methodologies for queer movements to come

Read a summary of Azahara Ubera Biedma's MPhil/PhD Art research project
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Ayeshah Zolghadr

Research student

Mutable Drawing Dialogues: collaborative exchange between humans and machines

Read a summary of Ayeshah Zolghadr's MPhil/PhD Art research project

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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Chris Groenveld

Research student

"Never Again. Five Stars": Artistic Interventions and Ethical Engagement with Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age

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Christopher Sejer Fischlein

Research student

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

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E Scourti

Research student

Autotheory of a Screen Memory: Affective Archives and the Biopolitics of Surviving Online

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Elly Clarke

Research student

Is my Body Out of Date?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

Read a summary of Elly Clarke's MPhil/PhD Art research project
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Geraldo Pina

Research student

Silences and Omission: The Soul of the Sound. Conjuring Overlapping Worlds Through the Sacred Sonic of Malafo.

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Gerard Ortin Castellví

Research student

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

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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?

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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

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Marie-Alix Isdahl

Research student

Morag Colquhoun

Research student

Trofannolismo: reimagining a planetary Tropicália

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Louis Henderson

Research student

The Secret Ladder: Underdevelopment as Opportune Deprivation in the Work of Wilson Harris

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Nathan Li

Research student

Reconstructed Utopia: The Metapicture of Ballroom Culture in China

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Paola Bascón

Research student

Extractive Legacies – Unearthing through Cuerpo-Territorio

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Rebecca Lennon

Research student

ESTATE CHOIR: SPECULATIVE ANARCHITECTURES OF VOICE & POLYPHONIC WORLDBUILDING

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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

Splintered Optics: Spatio-Temporal Polyfocality and Technologies of 3D Capture

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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.
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Sula Douglas Folkes

Research student

Repertory as a model to sustain Black cultural materials through cyclic return

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Susuana Amoah

Research student

Exploring decolonial curatorial practices in English contemporary galleries

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Weile Zou

Research student

How touring national cultural initiatives, such as the Turner Prize, shape local arts ecologies when held in towns and cities outside London

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Yeu-Lai Mo

Archiving the disappearing. A history of The British Chinese Artists’ Association (BCAA) in London and the Chinese Art scene from 1997 to 2010.

Read a summary of Yeu-Lai Mo's PhD research project

See the projects from past MPhil/PhD students