PhD/MPhil completions

(as main supervisor):

 

  • PhD: Dan Ward: “Hegemonic Masculinity and Violence in the Contemporary US Crime Drama”, awarded March 2013, University of Salford. 
  • MPhil (practice-based; photography portfolio and critical writing): Afsaneh Tayyar: “Place to Place: Nostalgia and Photography”, awarded August 2015, University of Salford. . See Afsaneh’s work here
  • MPhil: Calum Corser: “Live Music, Performance and Touring during the Digital Era”, awarded September 2015, University of Salford. Calum works for Odeon Cinemas and is a member of the UK Cinema Association’s Disability Working Group.
  • PhD (practice-based; feature-length documentary, Ankara Rocks!, and critical writing): Ufuk Onen: “Ankara Rocks: Black, Not Grey”, awarded November 2017 (and documentary shown at various film festivals), University of Salford. Ufuk is a sound designer and producer, musician, documentary-maker and lecturer at Bilkent University; see here
  • PhD: Konstantinos Kerasovitis: “Necrolabour: A Postqualitative contextualisation of contemporary work and the ‘Totality of Self’, in respect to the philosophy of Georges Bataille”, awarded July 2023, University of Wolverhampton.
  • PhD: Oliver Price: “Enemy of the State: Political Surveillance in Twentieth Century Britain”, awarded April 2024, University of Wolverhampton.
  • PhD: Scott Martin: “Soundtracking American Smart Cinema: Self-Expression, Identity and Alienation”, awarded September 2024, University of Wolverhampton.

 

 

Current PhD supervisions include:

  • organic design in music instruments
  • gender fluid fashions: histories and roots to market
  • Dolly Parton’s relationship with feminism
  • Glam rock in the regions in the 1970s
  • Global majority representations in British contemporary film
  • Queering musical theatre: an ethnographic study

I’m available for further PGR supervision in all research areas covered on my website, including practice-based research. Please get in touch!