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Design History

  • Mariachiara Tiboni

    Mariachiara Tiboni

    Art and design
    Kingston University London

    Between Tradition and Innovation: Women's Textiles in Venetia during the Fascist Era (1920s-1940s)

  • Eve Barro

    Eve Barro

    Art and design
    Loughborough University London

    Colonial Coral: Design for Decolonising More-than-Human Worlds in the Natural History Museum

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    Pragya Sharma

    Histories and philosophies
    University of Brighton

    Cultures of Hand-knitting in North India: Provenance, Domesticity and Gendered Learning, c.1850-1980

  • Oknim Jo [Square]

    Oknim Jo

    Art and design
    University of Brighton

    Transnational Studies of Interior Design Practice in South Korea from the 1960s to the 1980s

  • Sanne Visser

    Sanne Visser

    Art and design
    University of the Arts London

    Human Hair as a Regenerative Material Resource: utilising protein fibre waste in the circular bioeconomy through interdisciplinary collaborative design practice

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    Christina Hourigan

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    The making of a global arboretum: the case of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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    Marco Veneri

    Culture and communications
    Kingston University London

    Curating Urban Futures: Urban Farming and Meanwhile Tactics in the Context of Urban Regeneration Strategies

  • Sophia Kamps

    Sophia Kamps

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Economies of Natural History: Publishing Science in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

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    Lavinia Tinelli

    Media and performance arts
    Kingston University London

    Lolita: Fashioning Identity, Liberal Selves and the City

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    Devika Sharma

    Art and design
    Loughborough University London

    Design Activism – Exploring Creative Repertoires for Public Participation

  • Aurore Damoiseaux

    Aurore Damoiseaux

    Art and design
    University of Brighton

    Employing the materiality of clothed bodies to ask for change: the social and political weight of Greenham Women’s dress (1981-2000).

  • Abbie Vickress

    Abbie Vickress

    Culture and communications
    University of the Arts London

    Pluralist Exhibition Design Methods: anti-colonial graphic design in British ethnographic museums.

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    Ellis Cuffe

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    The Micro-Histories of Rural Romano-Egyptian Households

  • Zoe Few

    Zoe Few

    Culture and communications
    University of Westminster

    Pride, Passengers and Personnel: Collecting LGBTQ+ Experiences in and on London’s Transport in the 1970s and 1980s.

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    Alex Kirstukas

    Media and performance arts
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Moving Pictures, Music and Theatrical Exhibition in London, 1914–1930

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    Eleanor Watson

    Art and design
    Kingston University London

    Developing semi-permanent design displays in an era of rapid climate change

  • Tom Chambers [Square]

    Tom Chambers

    Culture and communications
    University of Westminster

    Photography by Train: New Leisure Experiences of Heritage in Britain, 1880s-1930s

  • Anne Nielsen

    Anne Nielsen

    Culture and communications
    University of Brighton

    Duplicates, Dispersal and Disposal in Museums

  • Amy Hare

    Amy Hare

    Culture and communications
    Kingston University London

    Period Costume Making in British Art Schools from the late 1950s and its impact on British Television & Film Dramas

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    Alastair Sherwood

    Languages and literatures
    University of Roehampton London

    Seeing the Funny Side: Slapstick, Visuality, and Victorian Literary Form

  • Alana Reibstein

    Alana Frey Reibstein

    Media and performance arts
    University of Roehampton London

    Dancing as Religious Embodiment: A Philosophical Perspective on Esotericism and Occultism in Early Modern Dance

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    Dani Trew

    Art and design
    University of Brighton

    Socialist Dress Reform in Britain, 1880-1914

  • Regan Ebsworth

    Regan Ebsworth

    Histories and philosophies
    Brunel University London

    Resistance, Collaboration, and the Spaces in Between: the Internment of British Citizens in France, 1935-1955

  • Bill Edmonds [Square]

    Bill Edmonds

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Global Humanitarianism: Quaker Aid to Refugees from Nazism, 1938-1945

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    Luke Beesley

    Culture and communications
    University of Brighton

    On Our Own Behalf: Theory, Strategy, and Practice within the Disabled People’s Movement in Britain

  • Manuel Cini

    Manuel Cini

    Media and performance arts
    University of Surrey

    From Ashes To Eternity - The Unknown Music Compositions of the Nazi Concentration Camps

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    Karen Hanrahan

    Languages and literatures
    University of Brighton

    Narrative navigatio of former nuns: Exploring stories of transgression, reflexivity and transcendence through life history

  • Marta Marsicka

    Marta Marsicka

    Culture and communications
    University of the Arts London

    Representation of Central and Eastern European (CEE) female artists in the history of British exhibitions after 1989

  • Richard Squires

    Richard Squires

    Art and design
    University of Brighton

    Death-style: An essay film investigation of 1980s images of gay male depravity through the lens of ‘queer negativity’

  • Wajid Abbas Rather

    Wajid Abbas Rather

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Changing Dynamics of Shi'ism in Kashmir: Commemorative practices, Identity and Transnational Influences.

  • Joana Chicau

    Joana Chicau

    Media and performance arts
    University of the Arts London

    Human-Computer Counter-Choreographies

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    Jon Norman-Mason

    Languages and literatures
    University of Brighton

    Re-storying the city: applying urban perspectives to eco-storytelling

  • Ellennolan

    Ellen Nolan

    Culture and communications
    University of Westminster

    The Nita Harvey Archive: Hidden History, Experience and Objectification in the 1930s Hollywood Star System.

  • Lillian Crawford

    Lillian Crawford

    Media and performance arts
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Television Drama in Transition: Screen Two, the Single Play, and the Television Film

  • Lisa Hood

    Lisa Hood

    Art and design
    University of Brighton

    The Weaponization of Beauty: British female film stars and the struggle for women’s agency 1938-1948

  • Samantha Dick

    Samantha Dick

    Art and design
    Kingston University London

    I Woz Ere: An Intimate Look at the Forgotten Tower Blocks of the Edinburgh City Skyline

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    Roxy Moore

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    “We must carry on”: The Jewish Relief Unit, Displaced Persons and Anglo-Jewish Humanitarianism in Postwar Europe

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    Isabelle Kemp

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Representations of Single Motherhood in British Cinema, 1945-1970

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    Isabel Smith

    Languages and literatures
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Affective Scribal Activity in Medieval Devotional Writing, 1300-1500

  • Jahnvi Acharya

    Janhvi Acharya

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Home Away from Home: Exploring 'neighbourliness' and community identities among British South Asians, 1960 to 2017

  • Lisa Hinkins

    Lisa Hinkins

    Art and design
    University of Brighton

    Where are all the Lesbians? In search of Lesbian Lives in Museums.

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    Sam Bartlett

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    An Analysis of Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall’s Intellectual Thought in India; Exploring its Development and Contemporary Significance

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    Daniel Gottlieb

    Culture and communications
    Kingston University London

    The ‘Golden Chain’? - Tradition as a Philosophical Problem

  • Leon Thomas

    Leon Thomas

    Media and performance arts
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Caribbean Jazz: A Performative Discourse on the Roots, Rhythms, and Reach of Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean Jazz

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    Ella Roberts

    Histories and philosophies
    University of Westminster

    The BBC and Northern Ireland: creating and accepting a shared history

  • Lauren Warner-Treloar

    Lauren Warner-Treloar

    Culture and communications
    Kingston University London

    Sound Art and Visual Culture: The Anti-Book Experiment in the Romanov Empire and the USSR, 1881-1932

  • Aleksei Ziniuk

    Aleksei Ziniuk

    Histories and philosophies
    Kingston University London

    The Socialist Being of a Thing: The Concepts of Object and Structure in Soviet Constructivism and Bruno Latour's Legacy

  • Alan Lee

    Alan Lee

    Culture and communications
    University of Roehampton London

    Pride Flags and Queer Networks: The Making of the Transnational LGBTQ+ Community

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    Phoebe Clothier

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    'Wonderful and Astonishing Occurrences’: The Miraculous and Wondrous in William of Newburgh’s Historia rerum Anglicarum

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    Sandra Lipner

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Microhistories of the Holocaust and the Use of Family History: The Families Ganz / Brenzinger, c1871 - 1945

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    Jacqueline Grainger

    Histories and philosophies
    University of Westminster

    The 'Lost' Museum: The rise and fall of the British Empire in objects

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    Emma Mitchell

    Languages and literatures
    Brunel University London

    The Covent Garden Ladies: Life Beyond Harris’s List

  • Thomas Hull

    Tom Hull

    Languages and literatures
    University of Brighton

    Nineteenth-century Ambivalence and the Gendered Body: A Practice-based Study of Dr James Barry

  • Adrianna Chmielewska (1)

    Adrianna Chmielewska

    Culture and communications
    Kingston University London

    Adaptation of literature into opera as a reflection of Italian cultural imagination and identity.

  • Tim Jerrome

    Tim Jerrome

    Histories and philosophies
    University of Brighton

    Uncovering queer histories and dissonant sexualities in rural England, c.1800-1950

  • Mike Blackburn

    Mike Blackburn

    Languages and literatures
    Kingston University London

    Exploration into the features and characteristics of cognitive processing within multimodal “concept/puzzle advertisements”

  • Xi (Bonnie) Liu

    Xi (Bonnie) Liu

    Languages and literatures
    Royal Holloway University of London

    A Cross-Century Communication between Elizabeth Gaskell and Virginia Woolf via “the Chinese Katherine Mansfield”: Narrative Legacy across Time and Space

  • Olivia Aarons

    Olivia Aarons

    Histories and philosophies
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Speaking Truth to Power: A History of Galop and the LGBTQ Community's Responses to Violence

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    Kiera Fitzgerald

    Languages and literatures
    University of Roehampton London

    Literary Heritage and the Public Archives: The Diverse Women of Britain’s Special Operations Executive, F Section

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    Joanna Brown

    Languages and literatures
    Royal Holloway University of London

    The Listening: fictionalising fugitive voices and fragmented lives in the slavery archive

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    Aurora Prehn

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    The Biocultural Diaspora of Tea in the 21st Century

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    Bethany Williamson

    Culture and communications
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Translating place: orthography and the problem of place names at the Royal Geographical Society, 1830–1919

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    Hannah Cotterill

    Languages and literatures
    Royal Holloway University of London

    Milk to Gall: Representations of Angry Women on Page and Stage