PhD profiles
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Sebastian Svegaard
Doctoral researcher
Sebastian Svegaard is a MA in Musicology and currently a PhD candidate at Birmingham City University's Birmingham School of Media, where he is pursuing his research into the intersection of music, affect and critical fandom through studying vids. He has previously focused on the performance of masculinity in popular music...
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Martin Svejda
Doctoral researcher
Martin graduated with BSc (Hons.) Computer Science (first class) from Birmingham City University. He is currently studying PhD in the same subject and has been actively demonstrating on taught modules varying in levels of technical and soft skills for three consecutive years. Martin is currently a Senior Technician in...
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Alan Taman
Doctoral researcher
Alan's PhD project aims to determine and explore what people over a wide social range perceive on solutions to health inequality, how they attribute causes, and ways of engaging them so that more equitable health policies can be arrived at and then applied.
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Rowan Tandiwe Watson
Doctoral researcher
Rowan is an architect with a long involvement in design- build; craft processes and dance. As a lecturer at ITSligo , he is interested in inspiring and immersing students in design through craft and direct, embodied responses to place. Rowan am currently reading for a practice PhD at BCU that uses movement to...
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Daniel Tong
Head of Piano in Chamber Music
Daniel is Head of Piano in Chamber Music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. As a performe, he has released numerous commercial CDs, performed at major venues throughout the UK and Europe and founded two chamber music festivals.
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Benjamin Torrens
Doctoral researcher
Benjamin Torrens is a Midlands4Cities-funded doctoral student in the School of Media, within the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media at Birmingham City University. Ben is studying for a PhD titled ‘Dance a yard before you dance abroad: reggae as a music production culture in Jamaica and Britain, 1968 – 1981’. Ben is a member of...
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Jonnie Turpie
Doctoral researcher
Turpie, having established a successful creative industries career, returned to education in 2017 as a Doctoral Research Student at Birmingham School of Art. His career included establishing an independent production company producing innovative television programmes and digital content. During his journey towards PhD...
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Juan Pablo Viteri
Doctoral researcher
Juan Pablo Viteri is a cultural researcher and a visual and sound artist whose main interest is the study of new media and Latin-American independent music. His approach aims to explore the intersections between academic research and creative practice. He is currently doing a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies at the Birmingham...
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Joe Waggott
Doctoral researcher
Harpsichordist and organist Joe Waggott trained on the Historical Performance master’s degree course at the Royal Academy of Music studying harpsichord and continuo. Prior to this he studied organ at here at the Conservatoire.
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Catia Wesolowska
Doctoral researcher
Catia has been a professional conservator since 1996, in both private and museum practices. She is currently working as senior conservator and Deputy Head of Conservation at The National Museum in Gdansk, Poland. She also worked as Senior Metals Conservator for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (2003-2009).