Sonic Rebels on tour
I used the funding received through the Research Support Award to attend the Music, Research and Activism conference at the University Helsinki in Finland. I presented as part of the Sonic Rebellions panel together with fellow researchers Baljit Kaur…
Read MoreA week in Reykjavik for RE:22 Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference
Here is a photo essay of my week in Reykjavik in June 2022. Please listen to the audio below for my reflections on the experience. I presented a paper of my research into Ella Mary Leather (1874 -1928) a…
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A Summer Abroad: The PhD Journey
A Summer Abroad: The PhD Journey My research focuses on assisting the UK to reach net-zero carbon by 2050. One of the ways to achieve this is to produce hydrogen from electrolysis. The majority (>95%) of hydrogen is currently…
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Gothic Interruptions: Attending and Presenting at a Conference
In July 2022, I attended the International Gothic Association (IGA) Conference, which took place in Dublin, and was titled ‘Gothic Interruptions’. My contribution to the conference was a paper on how the city of Manchester was represented and perceived…
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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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Traditional Knowledge & Policy for Adaptation to Climate Change Impact
Though climate change is well documented in global, national, and regional scales, the understanding of how on local scales adaptation are carried out is not very well understood as climate change impact is said to differ from micro-ecology to…
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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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