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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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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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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