phd supervision

PhD/MPhil completions

(as main supervisor):

• PhD: Dan Ward: “Hegemonic Masculinity and Violence in the Contemporary US Crime Drama”, awarded March 2013. Dan is now a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland; see here
• MPhil (practice-based; photography portfolio and critical writing): Afsaneh Tayyar: “Place to Place: Nostalgia and Photography”, awarded August 2015. See Afsaneh’s work here
• MPhil: Calum Corser: “Live Music, Performance and Touring during the Digital Era”, awarded September 2015. 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). Ufuk is a sound designer and producer, musician, documentary-maker and lecturer at Bilkent University; see here

Current PhD supervisions include:

• new philosophical concepts of labour and unemployment
• BME readings of UK school curricula
• history of the surveillance of the British Communist Party
• female sex tourism

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