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Techne Students 2024

  • Jahnvi Acharya

    Janhvi Acharya

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Home Away from Home: Exploring 'neighbourliness' and community identities among British South Asians, 1960 to 2017

  • Keren Assaf

    Keren Assaf

    Histories and philosophies
    Brunel University London

    Towards a decolonized future examining the meaning of solidarity alliance in settler states

  • Eve Barro

    Eve Barro

    Art and design
    Loughborough University London

    Colonial Coral: Design for Decolonising More-than-Human Worlds in the Natural History Museum

  • Mike Blackburn

    Mike Blackburn

    Languages and literatures
    Kingston University London

    Exploration into the features and characteristics of cognitive processing within multimodal “concept/puzzle advertisements”

  • Jane Cameron

    Jane Cameron

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Mapping Messengers: The work, urban mobility, and lived experiences of London motorcycle despatch riders, 1970 – 2000.

  • Tom Chambers [Square]

    Tom Chambers

    Culture and communications
    University of Westminster

    Photography by Train: New Leisure Experiences of Heritage in Britain, 1880s-1930s

  • Adrianna Chmielewska (1)

    Adrianna Chmielewska

    Culture and communications
    Kingston University London

    Adaptation of literature into opera as a reflection of Italian cultural imagination and identity.

  • Ramish Chohan 2 [Square]

    Ramish Chohan

    Culture and communications
    Brunel University London

    Dismantling modern-day slavery: Learning from the lives of indentured brick kiln workers in peri-urban Pakistan.

  • Kitty Clark

    Kitty Clark

    Culture and communications
    Kingston University London

    World Building in Time and Space: Open World Video Game Mechanics in Contemporary Art Practice

  • Anna Clifford

    Anna Clifford

    Media and performance arts
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Listening in From the Museum

  • Adam Cole

    Adam Cole

    Media and performance arts
    University of the Arts London

    Queering the Simulacrum: How Can Generative AI Video Practice Be Challenged and Elevated Through Queer Expanded Cinema

  • Maud Craigie

    Culture and communications
    Kingston University London

    Tools for Persuasion: methods of storytelling in UK and US courtrooms

  • Lillian Crawford

    Lillian Crawford

    Media and performance arts
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Television Drama in Transition: Screen Two, the Single Play, and the Television Film

  • Aurore Damoiseaux

    Aurore Damoiseaux

    Art and design
    University of Brighton

    Employing the materiality of clothed bodies to ask for change: the social and political weight of Greenham Women’s dress (1981-2000).

  • Bill Edmonds [Square]

    Bill Edmonds

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Global Humanitarianism: Quaker Aid to Refugees from Nazism, 1938-1945

  • Louis Emmitt Stern

    Louis Emmitt-Stern

    Media and performance arts
    University of Surrey

    Between The Practice and The Pedagogy of Dramatic Writing: Towards A Cohesive Approach to Training The Contemporary Scriptwriter

  • Zoe Few

    Zoe Few

    Culture and communications
    University of Westminster

    Pride, Passengers and Personnel: Collecting LGBTQ+ Experiences in and on London’s Transport in the 1970s and 1980s.

  • Eleanor (Ellie) Fields

    Ellie Fields

    Culture and communications
    Brunel University London

    Contesting Narratives: Young people’s perspectives of school labels and the culture of youth in education and society.

  • Juliet Harrison

    Juliet Harrison

    Languages and literatures
    University of Roehampton London

    The Margins of Instruction: Educating Children through Narrative in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain

  • Jessica Higgins

    Jessica Higgins

    Art and design
    Kingston University London

    Inferred Publics and Interfering Voices: exploring implication as a critical tool within contemporary art and performance practices

  • Lisa Hinkins

    Lisa Hinkins

    Art and design
    University of Brighton

    Where are all the Lesbians? In search of Lesbian Lives in Museums.

  • Thomas Hull

    Tom Hull

    Languages and literatures
    University of Brighton

    Nineteenth-century Ambivalence and the Gendered Body: A Practice-based Study of Dr James Barry

  • Tim Jerrome

    Tim Jerrome

    Histories and philosophies
    University of Brighton

    Uncovering queer histories and dissonant sexualities in rural England, c.1800-1950

  • Oknim Jo [Square]

    Oknim Jo

    Art and design
    University of Brighton

    Transnational Studies of Interior Design Practice in South Korea from the 1960s to the 1980s

  • Pratibha Joshi

    Pratibha Joshi

    Languages and literatures
    University of Surrey

    Mapping India’s Audio Description Practice within an emerging Art Museum Community: The Role of Professional Training on ‘Non-Expert’ Audio Description

  • Sophia Kamps

    Sophia Kamps

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Economies of Natural History: Publishing Science in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

  • Ala' Qaraman

    Ala' Kraman

    Culture and communications
    University of Roehampton London

    Empowering Displaced Children: Reimagining Urban Spaces with children

  • Serafina Lee

    Serafina Lee

    Languages and literatures
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Unfinishing: The Draft Poetics of Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis

  • Rachel Limage (1)

    Rachel Limage

    Histories and philosophies
    University of Brighton

    Project: Overcoming the 'motherhood penalty': improving women's access to work in the UK

  • Xi (Bonnie) Liu

    Xi (Bonnie) Liu

    Languages and literatures
    Royal Holloway University of London

    A Cross-Century Communication between Elizabeth Gaskell and Virginia Woolf via “the Chinese Katherine Mansfield”: Narrative Legacy across Time and Space

  • Lucie Mclaughlin

    Lucie McLaughlin

    Art and design
    Kingston University London

    Sites of Art Writing: Tonalities in ‘Post-Conflict’ Northern Ireland

  • Theresa Nelson

    Theresa Nelson

    Media and performance arts
    University of the Arts London

    Freedom Walks: Reanimating Ghanaian and West African Cultural Artefacts through Performance.

  • Anne Nielsen

    Anne Nielsen

    Culture and communications
    University of Brighton

    Duplicates, Dispersal and Disposal in Museums

  • Ellen Nolan

    Ellen Nolan

    Culture and communications
    University of Westminster

    The Nita Harvey Archive: Hidden History, Experience and Objectification in the 1930s Hollywood Star System.

  • Sara Obrien

    Sara O'Brien

    Art and design
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Between Art and Writing: Translating meaning through the ‘text-as-host’ in contemporary art writing practice

  • Miles Pissarro

    Miles Pissarro

    Languages and literatures
    Kingston University London

    ​ ​ "On Disability": Using my composite novel to depict a phenomenological account of the "Disability Experience" through auto-ethnographic reflections​

  • Tom Pryce

    Tom Pryce

    Histories and philosophies
    University of Brighton

    Knowing ourselves as embodied beings: Trans-forming Heidegger, Irigaray against Derrida

  • Alana Reibstein

    Alana Frey Reibstein

    Media and performance arts
    University of Roehampton London

    Dancing as Religious Embodiment: A Philosophical Perspective on Esotericism and Occultism in Early Modern Dance

  • Joseph Reynolds

    Joseph (Joe) Reynolds

    Media and performance arts
    University of Brighton

    The music of speech: effort, expectations, effects and affect

  • Joe Rizzo Naudi

    Joseph Rizzo Naudi

    Languages and literatures
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Image Without Resemblance: combining co-creative artwork description practices, divergent mimesis and post-modern narrative technique towards an anti-ocularcentric writing methodology.

  • Charlotte Roberts

    Charlotte Roberts

    Art and design
    University of the Arts London

    The notational: mental health and female identity in the diary films of Anne Charlotte Robertson

  • Lolly Sillitoe

    Lolly Sillitoe

    Languages and literatures
    University of Westminster

    Ecohorror and the work of Annie Proulx: Imagining Non-Human Trauma Victims

  • Rhiannon Smith

    Rhiannon Smith

    Media and performance arts
    University of the Arts London

    The Theatricalization of Class in Performance, Policy and Practice.

  • Kay Min Soh

    Kay Min Soh

    Art and design
    University of Westminster

    Weather as Witness: Political Ecologies of Southeast Asia through a Curatorial Lens

  • Selam Mussie Tadesse

    Selam Mussie Tadesse

    Culture and communications
    University of Westminster

    Women’s Movements in Africa: Digital Collective Identity Building and Offline Organising in Ethiopia and Kenya

  • Trey Taylor

    Trey Taylor

    Histories and philosophies
    Kingston University London

    Instituent Power: Social Structure and Political Practice in Roberto Esposito and Cornelius Castoriadis

  • Mariachiara Tiboni

    Mariachiara Tiboni

    Art and design
    Kingston University London

    Between Tradition and Innovation: Women's Textiles in Venetia during the Fascist Era (1920s-1940s)

  • Emrys Travis [Square]

    Emrys Travis

    Histories and philosophies
    University of Brighton

    De/Constructing Identity: French, Italian, and British Gay Liberationism in the Long ‘68

  • Abbie Vickress

    Abbie Vickress

    Culture and communications
    University of the Arts London

    Pluralist Exhibition Design Methods: anti-colonial graphic design in British ethnographic museums.

  • Lindsay Virgilio [Square]

    Lindsay Virgilio

    Languages and literatures
    Kingston University London

    Party Girl Gets Sick: Using Autofiction to Navigate Modern Issues of Identity and Illness

  • Weitao Wang

    Weitao Wang

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    The Geopower of Air and Fire: a Cultural Geography of Fiery Rituals in China

  • Helen Williams [Square]

    Helen Williams

    Languages and literatures
    Brunel University London

    Unfinished Business: A study into the narrative techniques used to represent relationships between university-educated mothers and daughters in contemporary fiction

  • Emma Yandle

    Emma Yandle

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    The Geographical Museum: Making Knowledge through Objects

  • Zhiqian Zhao [Square]

    Zhiqian Zhao

    Culture and communications
    Brunel University London

    The “Way Out” (chulu): Minority Education, Youth Aspirations, and the Good Life in Southwest China