Student-led blogs about their research. If you’d like to write for the doctoral research blog, please email doctoralservices@mmu.ac.uk
Countersilence: voicing Manchester’s streets through sound
I entered the 3MT® competition in 2021 just toward the end of my first year as a part-time PhD researcher at the School of Digital Arts (SODA). I saw the competition as a challenge which could help me to…
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The importance of collaboration in conservation
Historically, conservation has been undertaken using methods that can be seen as neo-colonial. For example, many national parks and conservation areas were designated via ‘land grabs’, fencing out communities that relied on this land and its resources for their…
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Stories for the Archive
My PhD is entitled Memorial Benches: A Cultural Marker in the Landscape. It is a creative non-fiction place writing project which involves desk and field research. With many years of business experience behind me I felt confident about initiating and conducting interviews in my search for…
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Re-design of PPE for clinical use during the pandemic: sharing our research through the 2021 Images of Research Competition
This image was entered into Manchester Met’s Images of Research competition in 2021. It was taken in April 2021 at the height of the pandemic. The small photographs along the top of the shot show the technical services team…
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Collaged Hybrids Under Analysis
When I heard about the Images of Research 2021 competition, I was at the very start of my PhD journey. I had engaged with some of the training programme sessions about disseminating and communicating your research and I decided that…
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The leafcutters
Leafcutter ants are an iconic image of the rainforest, with their large leaf trails making the forest floor come alive. They mimic a busy highway, moving to the sound of nature. But why all the leaves? Leaf fragments are cut…
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From monkeys to modelling – adapting from fieldwork to deskwork during a pandemic
I started my PhD in Conservation Ecology at Manchester Met in October 2019 and planned to go to conduct fieldwork in Peru soon after, but COVID… Like many others, I have had to drastically change my trajectory, postponing my fieldwork by many months. When I began my…
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Creation of clothing sizing system for Ghanaian children
Growing up in the field of fashion in Ghana, and realising all the challenges encountered by apparel manufacturers, customers and fashion students due to the absence of a national sizing system based on anthropometric data of Ghanaians, I decided to research into the development of a standardised sizing system…
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Pushed back but I am still standing
I wanted to study the professional doctorate course as I aim to become a professional psychotherapist. I started my university journey in 2015, completing a BSc in Psychology with Sociology followed by an MSc in Clinical and Integrative Psychotherapy. When I…
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Adjusting Research Methods and Other Lessons From the Pandemic
As a lifelong fan of horror film, with many queer friends and communities who are as well, I had a hypothesis that many members of the LGBTQ+ community have a distinctive (distinctively queer) relationship with the horror genre. Therefore, I set…
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