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Techne Students 2025

  • Jessie Akambadi

    Jessie Akambadi

    Media and performance arts
    Loughborough University London

    They Still Call it Africa: interrogating corruption using theatre archives and participatory filmmaking

  • Mohd. Ahmar Alvi

    Ahmar (Mohd.) Alvi

    Languages and literatures
    Brunel University London

    Documenting Resistance through Food: A Study of Twentieth-Century Dalit Literature

  • Max Annoot

    Max Annoot

    Languages and literatures
    Kingston University London

    'Two men on a summer night, with nowhere to call their own': ‘Affective Precarity’ in British Gay Men's Contemporary Fiction

  • Eve Archer

    Eve Archer

    Art and design
    University of Brighton

    Queer Immortality: The creation, collection, preservation and distribution of LGBTQ+ histories through Small Art and participatory DIY artistic initiatives.

  • Amy Austin

    Amy Austin

    Histories and philosophies
    Kingston University London

    Fragmented Bodies, Fragmented Stories: Exploring Endometriosis Through Multidisciplinary Creative Practice to Challenge Cultural Narratives of Women's Pain

  • Arta Barzanji

    Arta Barzanji

    Media and performance arts
    University of Roehampton London

    Concrete Abstractions: Film Criticism and Dialectical Thought

  • Sarah Blake

    Sarah Blake

    Culture and communications
    Kingston University London

    The Real Monster in ‘Sleeping Beauty’: An Examination of Aurora through the ‘Faces’ of the Monstrous-Feminine

  • Charlotte Bookham

    Charlotte Bookham

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Travelling Circus Animals: traversing boundaries of performer, pet and property 1822-1925

  • Thomas Boulousis

    Thomas Boulousis

    Media and performance arts
    Kingston University London

    Generative AI and Composing Musical Narrative

  • Josh Bulman (2)

    Josh Bulman

    Histories and philosophies
    Kingston University London

    Parataxis and being within Cities - an investigation into minority experience and production of space within Dawson’s Height Estate

  • Maddie Burdon

    Maddie Burdon

    Histories and philosophies
    University of the Arts London

    Queer Whores: Embodied Knowledge and Performance Practices in Sex Work

  • Tabby Carless Frost

    Tabby Carless-Frost

    Languages and literatures
    Brunel University London

    Between Poison and Cure: Formal Innovation and its Ethical Dilemmas in Writing “Invisible” Chronic Illness

  • Jessica Corfield

    Jessica Corfield

    Languages and literatures
    University of Westminster

    ‘I have come to claim / Marilyn Monroe’s body’: Exploring Identification through Star Images in American Lyric Poetry.

  • Jesse Cumming

    Jesse Cumming

    Media and performance arts
    University of Roehampton London

    The Dynamics of Development: An Analysis of the Operation and Influence of Filmmaking Laboratories and Workshops.

  • Georgia Dimdore Miles

    Georgia Dimdore-Miles

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Cruising the cut: Lesbian histories of mobility and queer futures of boat-dwelling on the UK's canals

  • Joel Dungworth

    Joel Dungworth

    Languages and literatures
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Figuring Out in Spenser and Late Shakespeare: Obscure Life and Spectatorship

  • KATHERINE EASTHILL

    Katherine Easthill

    Brunel University London

    The Wapping Post: Media Democracy and Workers' Control

  • Jessa Fairbrother

    Jessa Fairbrother

    Culture and communications
    Kingston University London

    Reaching to the stars: astrology and the body in the past, present and future

  • Mariana Felix Sancliment

    Mariana Felix Sancliment

    Languages and literatures
    Brunel University London

    Dirty Work: Latin American Horror and the Invisible Violence of Domestic Servitude

  • Hannah Francis

    Hannah Francis

    Royal Holloway University of London

    Black British History, Inclusive Teaching and Curriculum Reform

  • Marta Garcia

    Marta García

    Languages and literatures
    University of Roehampton London

    Painting Critical-Creative Writing: J. M. Barrie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Zelda

  • Filip Jan Gesse

    Filip Gesse

    Art and design
    University of Brighton

    Costume-Generated Performance as Praxis: Costume Encounters with Kashubian Material Culture from a Diasporic Standpoint

  • Kyna Gourley

    Kyna Gourley

    Media and performance arts
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Negotiating virtual spaces:  Exploring the intersection of young people’s behaviour and identity across virtual and physical worlds through ethnographic filmmaking

  • Holly Graham

    Holly Graham

    Culture and communications
    University of Westminster

    Tending to Black Life, Death, and Resistance in the Community Archive: Artist as Archivist / Activist / Care-Worker

  • Claire Hamlett

    Claire Hamlett

    Histories and philosophies
    University of Roehampton London

    Animals as builders: Exploring animal buildings as sites of agency, rights, and politics

  • Juliet Haysom

    Juliet Haysom

    Art and design
    Kingston University London

    From the Ground Up: An Exploration of a Purbeck Quarry’s Leftover Materials

  • Josephine Hills

    Josephine Hills

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Cleopatra Stories and Community Engagement

  • Olivia Hollins Molinero

    Olivia Hollins Molinero

    Media and performance arts
    University of Surrey

    Inclusive Gaming for Gamers with Sight Loss: Exploring Audio Description and Multimodal Mediation

  • Benji Jeffrey

    Benji Jeffrey

    Media and performance arts
    Kingston University London

    Playing the Fool: Reappraising foolishness through joyful, intersectional performative practice

  • Sally Jones

    Sally Jones

    Culture and communications
    University of Brighton

    Selling Shippam's: Food Consumption, Visuality and Post-War Culture

  • Dawit Yekoyesew

    Dawit Kassa

    Culture and communications
    Brunel University London

    Epistemological Fusion in Ethiopian Education: Imagining a Decolonial Approach to Childhood

  • Sylvie Jane Lewis

    Sylvie Jane Lewis

    Languages and literatures
    University of Brighton

    An Archive of Fairies: Modernism, Fantasy, and Shy Ephemera 1890-1930

  • Jiahan Lin

    Jiahan Lin

    Media and performance arts
    University of Westminster

    Cinephilia’s “Horizontal Terrain”: Exploring Chinese Digital Cinephile Culture Through Pinglun

  • Jingyi Ma

    Jingyi Ma

    Culture and communications
    Kingston University London

    Rhythms of Making: Preserving Cultural Knowledge in Shanxi's Craft Communities - Tradition, Technology and Community Practice in Cultural Heritage

  • Soumyaseema Mandal

    Soumyaseema Mandal

    Royal Holloway University of London

    “Lesbian?”... “She no Lebanese. She Punjabi!”: Tracing the experiences of working-class, queer British South Asian women, 1970s to 1990s

  • Oscar Mather

    Oscar Mather

    Art and design
    Kingston University London

    Memory’s Narratives:  Considering Fernand Pouillon’s Architectural Approach to Historical Time.

  • Ellie Mcdougall

    Ellie McDougall

    Languages and literatures
    University of Westminster

    ‘Calling to theory, calling to bed’: Transpoetics After the Sign

  • Eleanor Medhurst

    Eleanor Medhurst

    Histories and philosophies
    University of Brighton

    ‘Crafting a Life’: examining the role of craft in lesbian dress and textiles through oral history, c.1963-2003

  • Stacy Miller

    Stacy Miller

    Media and performance arts
    Royal Holloway University of London

    “The Unconditional Spectator”: Ethnographic Study of Adaptation in Theatre for Young Audiences

  • Jessa Mockridge

    Jessa Mockridge

    Art and design
    Kingston University London

    rub rub rub rub rub rub brush brush quiver oh hello, you: Queer Captioning as Material

  • Monica Jae Yeon Moon

    Monica Jae Yeon Moon

    Culture and communications
    University of Brighton

    Colonial modernity in Dongdaemun garment district and its fashion production (1910-2014)

  • Tonya North

    Tonya North

    Culture and communications
    University of Westminster

    Signing Sound: Deaf Gain within Inclusive Co-Created Audio Descriptions of Museum Experiences

  • Maria Paganopoulou

    Maria Paganopoulou

    Histories and philosophies
    University of Brighton

    Publishing Feminism: Poli Gynaikon, Feminist Media, and the Transnational Exchange of Ideas

  • Karina Patfield

    Karina Patfield

    Languages and literatures
    University of Brighton

    Silence from the archive: How can archives inform an original method of blackout poetry seeking to ethically remember the Holocaust?

  • San Pham

    San Pham

    Languages and literatures
    University of Surrey

    Curating a Diasporic Archive in the Elsewhere: A Critical and Creative Exploration of Recovering, Dismantling, and Re-Imagining the Diasporic Space

  • Sarah Phelan

    Sarah Phelan

    Art and design
    University of the Arts London

    Missing Mavigraphs: Investigating the Lost Potentials of Thermographic & Electromagnetic Video Printing Systems

  • Lasse Proebsting

    Lasse Pröbsting

    Languages and literatures
    University of Surrey

    Analogical change in Germanic verbs

  • Supraja Ramesh

    Supraja Ramesh

    Culture and communications
    Brunel University London

    ‘Cleaving’ Queer Aesthetics: Contemporary Indian Performance at the Intersections of Caste, Gender and Sexual Politics.

  • Imogen Reeve

    Imogen Reeve

    Media and performance arts
    University of Roehampton London

    Revealing gender bias in generative AI through embodied and choreographic practices

  • Davinia Ann Robinson

    Davinia-Ann Robinson

    Culture and communications
    University of Westminster

    Through an Embodied Practice of Stillness

  • Kate Ryan

    Kate Ryan

    University of the Arts London

    Internal noise: choreographing with and from affective states

  • Amber Savage

    Amber Savage

    Histories and philosophies
    Loughborough University London

    Wired for the War?: The Role of British Telegraphy and Communication Networks in World War II

  • Atmadeep Sengupta

    Atmadeep Sengupta

    Brunel University London

    “Non-vegetarian” food: Mapping contestations over the consumption of meat, fish and eggs in the culinary cultures of Ahmedabad, India

  • Peter Sharples

    Peter Sharples

    Media and performance arts
    Brunel University London

    Performing Pain: How Stand-Up Comedy Functions as an Autobiographical Performative Act of Self-Authorship and Resistance in Narrating Disability and Pain

  • Su Smith

    Su Smith

    Languages and literatures
    Kingston University London

    Complexity Theory’s Potential For Creative Writing: Open Systems, Nonlinearity, Chaos And Emergence In The Twenty-First Century Trauma Novel

  • Jake Stumpf

    James Stumpf

    Histories and philosophies
    Brunel University London

    Laws of Empire and Nation: Legal Assimilation and Subjugation in Alsace and Lorraine Under French and German Rule, 1852-1939

  • Rebecca Swan

    Rebecca Swan

    Histories and philosophies
    University of Brighton

    A Feminist Critique of the Veterinary Industry: working towards improved human and non-human welfare.

  • Marysia Tanska

    Marysia Tańska

    Art and design
    University of the Arts London

    Designing Accessible Tools for Digital Making

  • Simon Terrill

    Simon Terrill

    Histories and philosophies
    Kingston University London

    Crowd as Image, Crowd as Process: A contemporary reimagining of the crowd.

  • Anna Viatova

    Anna Viatova

    Culture and communications
    University of Brighton

    Bridging the gap between affective and linguistic processing in foreign language learners

  • Yehong Wei

    Yehong Wei

    Culture and communications
    University of the Arts London

    Reclaiming Nüshu: A participatory method to reinterpret a Women’s Hidden Script in Rural China

  • Abbas Zahedi

    Abbas Zahedi

    Art and design
    Kingston University London

    Acoustic Agency: Reimagining Mental Health Spaces through Sound and Art