Collage on the Go
As a full-time doctoral student, I have enough time and space to study the major and expand the career. My master’s final project is the basic research on collage, and now I am researching this technique in depth. I…
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Heritage Language Maintenance through Family Language Investigation: a comparative study of four multilingual families in Manchester
I am currently researching heritage language maintenance through family language investigation: a comparative study of four multilingual families in Manchester. This study focuses on how the experience of multilinguals portrays their patterns, practices and instances of linguistic behaviour that…
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Turing Scheme Internship at the University of Toronto
I’m Anam, a first year PhD student working under the supervision of Dr Andrew Lewis in the Department of Natural Sciences and in the Centre for Bioscience. Earlier this year I successfully obtained funding from the Turing Scheme to…
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Yes, there’s an academic conference about punk!
It may come as a surprise to some readers of this blog that there is an annual academic conference dedicated to sharing scholarly work on punk and its legacy of subsequent underground music scenes. But such an event does…
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Renting: the future of fashion
As I approach the final year of my PhD, I highlight some of the current findings to emerge from data analysis. Such findings are tentative, and themes discussed below are subject to develop/change. The fashion industry is one of…
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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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