Student-led blogs about their research. If you’d like to write for the doctoral research blog, please email doctoralservices@mmu.ac.uk
Audire Conference 2022 – Sound Experiences: Memory, creativity and participation
Thanks to the Research Support Award I was able to attend and participate in the Audire Conference 2022 entitled ‘Sound Experiences: Memory, creativity and participation’. The conference took place in Braga, Portugal on the 27th and 28th June 2022. You can see…
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Research trip to the archives of Gottfried Leibniz, Alan Turing, and Niels Bohr
A quote from Abraham Pais, notable physicist and biographer of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr serves as a foreword for the thesis and work during the research trip: “As often happens in times of great scientific upheaval, discovery does…
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Collaborating and de-stigmatizing visual communication of mental illness
When starting out on a PhD, you are told frequently that you need to attend conferences, both as a presenter, but equally important to attend as a viewer also. Thanks to the Graduate School Research Support Award, three years…
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Collaboration in research: lessons learnt from the 7th International XR Conference
“If you want to run fast, run alone. But if you want to run far, run together”. This well-known proverb pretty much summarises my experience of doing a research degree at Manchester Met so far, as well as clearly…
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Tackling racial and gender bias in medical and fitness devices
Optical pulse detection ‘photoplethysmography’ (PPG) provides a means of low cost, unobtrusive and continuous cardiovascular monitoring that is used ubiquitously for decades in medical settings for blood oxygen monitoring and more recently popular in many wearable devices to monitor…
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Getting captive African wild dogs back into the wild
Reintroduction and release of animals is one of the goals towards conservation success. To be part of the story and to follow the ‘Shakespeare pack’ of African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) from initial bonding in 2019 through to reintroduction…
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Not-So-Wicked Witches and Adventures in Library Research
I write to you in a state of “precatory enthusiasm” with “vehement intention of the mind.” Be clear; this is merely an “effect of Nature” and should not be mistaken for “Diabollical Possession” as confirmed in classical scholar Meric…
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Bringing my PhD project to a close at the ICA 2022 Paris Conference
Exactly one year ago, my fieldwork for my practice-led PhD project concluded with a new curatorial collaboration. A combination of performance, photography and poetry, ASEAN Manifesto launched on 8 August 2021 via www.aseanvisionproject.com. The same day marked the 54th…
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Women Farmers and Public Policy
In the development of human history, women have played a fundamental role. In hunter-gatherer societies, women provided 60-80% of food, mainly through their gathering activities. Since the invention of agriculture, women have experimented with seed hybridisation, crop association, selection…
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Travelling through art history
My PhD research is the first in-depth scholarly study of the painter Karl Weschke (1925-2005). He’s mostly unheard of, yet he played a significant role in formations of Modern British Art in post-Second World War St Ives, and wider…
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