Student-led blogs about their research. If you’d like to write for the doctoral research blog, please email doctoralservices@mmu.ac.uk
A posthuman summer
Training is integral to a PhD project. For me this meant applying for leading Posthuman theorist – Professor Rosi Braidotti’s summer school 2022. The prospect was incredibly exciting, Braidotti’s interdisciplinary work is key to the framework and methodology of…
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Exchange Life in Kanazawa University and Japan
Between June and July 2022, I applied for a six-week exchange at Kanazawa University, and participated in the activities of the Urban Planning Laboratory there. My PhD research aims to develop a novel methodological approach for modelling and analyzing…
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Sliding Serendipity
Last June I applied for a Research Support Award (RSA). It was granted and the only condition attached was to contribute a piece to this blog. In my three years at Manchester Met I’ve received an average of one…
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Are Microbes Fashion’s Future?
My PhD was inspired by a chance conversation with a student. After many years working in the textile and garment industry, in 2008 I started lecturing in textile technology and fashion product development at Manchester Met. Several years later…
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The Platelet Summer School: Attending training events for PhD students
Organised by the Platelet Society, the European Platelet Summer School is a three-day programme of seminars, open group discussions and practical workshops provided by leading international experts in platelet biology. The objective of this event is to introduce PhD…
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Endings and Beginnings
This year is the fourth year of what should have been a six-year part-time PhD by Practice in Creative Writing. Instead, it will probably be my last. While many researchers have been severely adversely impacted by the pandemic, I…
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How hard can it be to read?
I am Jeremy, a first-year MPhil student supervised by Dr Matthew Shardlow, and I am working on natural language processing, which is a cross-subject of computer science and linguistics. I believe anyone interested in sci-fiction must be familiar with…
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Ancient Greek in Syracuse
This summer, thanks to the research grant awarded by Manchester Metropolitan University , I was able to travel to Syracuse, Italy. The purpose of my trip was to study the ancient Greek language with other students and professors of…
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International Gothic Association Conference 2022: An Invaluable Opportunity for Disseminating Research, Networking, and Exploring Ireland’s Gothic Heritage
My first conference experience happened in 2018 when the International Gothic Association held their annual conference at Manchester Metropolitan University. After a conference the following year in Chicago and a two-year delay due to COVID-19, I was delighted to…
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Field update from the Tambopata Research Centre, Peru
Research Background: I study primate conservation ecology in the Peruvian Amazon. I am interested in the effect of habitat disturbance on Amazonian primate communities comprising of spider monkeys, howler monkeys, capuchins, titi monkeys, squirrel monkeys and tamarins. Understanding these…
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