PhD profiles
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Hannah Roberts
Doctoral researcher
Hannah is a doctoral researcher at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Her research interests include nineteenth-century piano pedagogy and performance practice, and modern-day piano pedagogy. Alongside her doctoral studies, Hannah is a visiting piano tutor at Cheltenham College and Aldwickbury Independent Boys School.
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Jill Robinson
Doctoral researcher
Jill's research is framed by knowledge and experiences gained over the course of a portfolio career including teaching, funding (ERDF and Lottery bids), policy development, transnational project management in European, cultural and urban affairs and parallel long-term involvement in the arts as performer, trustee, strategist...
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Jay Rowe
Doctoral researcher
Jay's research topic is 'Understanding Changing Voter Attitudes and Perceptions toward Brexit', with respondents drawn from across the social spectrum. This is in order to gain insight into the broad range of views concerning Brexit.
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Nataliya Rozhin
Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Textiles
Nataliya Rozhin is an award-winning fashion designer, entrepreneur, community activist, and STEAM Fellow, who integrates fashion, technology, and AI via industry-led projects advancing portfolio development and enterprise skills. She founded STEAM Fashion and Fashion Play Lab, where students collaborate with technologists,...
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Ana Rutter
Doctoral researcher
Ana’s Practice as Research PhD is situated between The School of Art and The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire at Birmingham City University. Ana’s research centres around affect, embodied installation and the commonplace aural landscapes that we live within, it is concerned with affecting experience created using re-mediated...
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Panagiotis Sampanis
Doctoral researcher
Panagiotis' innovative PhD research project aims to investigate the role of culture upon human visual attention by merging psychological disciplines and quantitative experimental methodologies.
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Zakaria Sanousy
Doctoral researcher
Zakaria is a PhD Researcher at Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Centre, School of Computing and Digital Technology. Zakaria’s Doctoral Research is mainly in the area of Medical Image semantic and instance segmentation using Deep Learning techniques.
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Emily Scarrott
Doctoral researcher
Emily is an artist and PhD candidate in the School of Art. Her practice-led research explores the absurd as a non-cis-male protagonist. These experiences are led by nourishing and tactile encounters with unfertilised eggs. She is currently performing durational care to one specific egg; he is doing quite well, and they go...
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Nicki Schiessel Harvey
Doctoral researcher
Nicki is an environmental planning professional-turned-academic. Her research focuses on changing values of inland waterways and how values are incorporated into policy decision-making. Nicki was formerly an environmental planning consultant at Atkins Planning, Landscape and Heritage in Birmingham, focusing on EIA,...
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Ian Sergeant
Doctoral researcher
Visual Representations and Cultural (Re) constructions of Black British Masculinities in 21st Century Birmingham, is a practice-based enquiry utilising a “cut and mix” methodology, to investigate notions of masculinities identities, sexualities, race, place, and representation