Dream Weaving: A journey into natural sustainable textiles
I decided on this title for my blog because I am a dreamer, and I am in the Manchester Fashion Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University and doing weaving of sorts. Living in the utopia of my dream, Manchester Met…
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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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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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Meet the Team series: The PGR Lifecycle Project
The first in the Graduate School’s ‘Meet the Team’ series, we’ve asked Justine Abbott, Graduate School Consultant leading on the PGR Lifecycle Project to tell us more about the project and what it means for PGRs. What is the…
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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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A Visual Language for Impact
I was intrigued by the Images of Research competition, so I attended a Graduate School Coffee Chat to find out more, and I am so glad I did. I realised that this competition was going to be a fantastic…
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Doing a PhD with an energy-limiting illness
Before Long COVID many people were unaware of post-viral illnesses; I was too until I became ill a few years ago. I was diagnosed with ME/CFS (Myalgic encephalomyelitis), or chronic fatigue syndrome, a condition characterised by widespread pain, immune and nervous system dysfunction, and a whole host of other symptoms on top of bone-crushing…
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No Pressure
I had a title for my project— Memorial Benches: A Cultural Marker in the Landscape — and a starting date for my PhD of 1st January 2021. When I look back on it now it seems a bit crazy but, within days of…
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Working Alone Together
My PhD involves working on an interpretation of artisanal footwear prototyping as an alternative, sustainable fashion system. Artisanal fashion is a design and production approach dedicated to the creation of clothing using traditional methods. At the heart of these small-scale businesses are…
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Sand in my Suitcase: Place Writing research at the most easterly point in the British Isles
My research is based on the area I grew up in, at the most easterly point in the British Isles. As I now live over two hundred miles away, the COVID-19 pandemic has certainly made this challenging. Due to restrictions, I was unable to travel to…
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