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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Practice-based PhD"”.
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From the jungle : Iban performance practice, migration and identity : a practice-based PhD based on four-years of research, culminating in this thesis and a performance piece, From the jungle, May 2012
… contextual and methodological rationale for a practice‐based PhD research project undertaken at London Metropolitan University 2009-2013. This four‐year project was an exploration in identity, space and location. It looks at the transitions, journeys and stories of migrant women. Specifically …
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My Impossible Task? Writing an Ethical Biopic of Samuel Johnson
This practice-based PhD comprises an original screenplay for a biopic of eighteenth-century lexicographer and writer Samuel Johnson, entitled Sam J, and a thesis which reflects upon the process of writing that film. The research question asks whether it is possible to write a biopic which operates …
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Filmic Fabulation: The Imagining of pre-Nakba Palestinian Women's History Beyond the Archives
This practice-based PhD creates and analyses We Carve Words in the Earth in Five Vignettes, a filmic representation of Palestinian women’s histories in the pre-1948 Nakba period, during British colonisation of Palestine (1920–1948). The research underpinning this work is interdisciplinary, drawing …
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A New Process for Creating Design Briefs to Improve Design Innovations in Home Health Care
… to realise the best innovative solutions. This practice-based PhD thesis presents the research journey which investigated the strengths and weaknesses of product innovation approaches of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) which dominate the HHC field. It considers how to improve HHC …
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Inter-Piece Sampling and Convolution: Portfolio of 5.1 Acousmatic and Electronica Compositions, Interactive Diagrams and Text
This practice-based PhD – ‘Inter-piece Sampling and Convolution’ – evolved against the background of composers such as Amon Tobin and Monty Adkins, who use techniques and workflows common to both acousmatic and electronica music. The pieces in this thesis are linked through a sustained commitment …
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Crafting counter-hegemony: using porcelain to interrogate ideological whiteness as anti-racist praxis
… ideological whiteness. This interdisciplinary, practice-based PhD responds to the colonial legacy and ongoing crisis of white supremacy. It asks whether porcelain – so physically white and so historically and symbolically laden with preciousness, power and prestige – can be reimagined as a tool …
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The First Cut; the locus of decision at the limits of subjectivity
… documentation of live works. These instances of practice, whose form and mode of presentation were informed by a specific aspect of the research, are integrated into the thesis to constitute ‘chapters’. The practice can and does function independently in other contexts. However, what is presented …
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Living with contradictions: re-reading the representation of hybridity in visual art
My practice-based PhD investigates how photographic arts can subvert existing visual stereotypes of otherness by exploring how the concept of hybridity undermines black and white notions of identity. Alongside an autobiographical visual art practice, using my own mixed heritage (Sri Lanka and …
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(un)childhood: performing the voices and times of childhood through relational video-making
This practice-based PhD is comprised of two interrelated elements: (i) ‘(un)childhood’, a 53’ video-essay shown on two screens; and (ii) a 58286 word written thesis. The project, which is contextualised within the tradition of artists working with their own children on time-based art projects, …
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Taming Contingency: Photography at the Crossroads between Collections, Archives and Atlases
My practice-based PhD investigates how the gathering of visual information through the photographic camera, together with the visual strategies involved in the organisation and configuration of specific groups of images are key processes in the constitution of meaning. I use my own practice to …
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A space to tell : writing poetry in a second language
… creative writing in a pedagogical context, this practice-based PhD research attempts to situate the process of writing poetry in a second language as a creative practice in its own right. This enquiry focuses not only on the outcome of my creative practice, which is memory poetry: poetry of …
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Phallic metaphors and feminist perspectives : unsettling the Linnaean Botanical Archive through historiographic technique and studio practice
This practice-based PhD examines the entanglement of gender, botanical science, and domestic aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain through contemporary fine art methods. Taking the botanical collages of Mary Delany (1700–1788) as a historical point of departure, the research situates women’s …
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The Competitors: violent women protagonists in popular cinema - a creative and critical thesis
… Cinema: A Creative and Critical Thesis is a practice based PhD thesis in creative and critical writing. This research comprises an original feature length screenplay and an accompanying critical thesis. The screenplay, The Competitors, is a dystopian western set in Britain 2053 and follows …
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A gift of stone
… the Great Irish Famine. The novel for this practice-based PhD in Creative Writing imagines two lives – that of a young Irishwoman and her family caught up in the Famine in the 1840s and a contemporary Canadian woman who returns to Ireland in search of her roots over 150 years later. The …
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A feminist dialogue with the camera: strategies of visibility in video art practices.
This is a practice–based PhD that seeks to contest limited and reductive tropes of female representation in a contemporary Western context. The focus of the thesis is on video art, which, I argue, can be both a radical tool for deconstructing dominant mainstream images of femininity and play a role …
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Effective factual TV content for young audiences : exploring new approaches to creating history documentaries for 6 - 12 -year - olds in digital UK television
… my research as a practitioner. The purpose of my practice-based PhD research is to create a teaching resource/guide to support the production of engaging children’s TV history documentaries. It could be helpful to, and applied by students, filmmakers, commissioners, educators, and anyone studying …
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Behind the curtain: composing acousmatic sounds and 3D CGI
… a portfolio of audiovisual works that form a practice-based PhD completed at De Montfort University. The overall aim of this research project is to explore possible ways of combining acousmatic sounds with three-dimensional computer-generated imagery (3D CGI) so as to achieve balance between …
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Agency is molecular: moved by being moved to moving or co-constitution in intra-active knowledge production
This practice-based PhD aims to intertwine theoretical research and artistic practice on the basis of knowledge production by conceptually thinking through motion, with movement informing the methodological counterpart in performative research settings. I argue that movement and the concept of …
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Visualizing global drug flows : transnational connections to the overdose crisis in New England, USA
This documentary film practice-based PhD explores the impacts of two global drug trajectories: (a) heroin adulterated with illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF), a powerful synthetic opioid; and (b) naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote used in the public health crisis of drug overdose deaths in …
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Material as a gateway to other forms of knowing - what the secrets in materials and processes can offer in the field of transformative social practice
This practice-based PhD explores the role of physical material as used in art, in social art processes. Here the material stone is the starting point for geological studies and practical explorations such as photography and a stone-carving project. Detailed observation of the phases of work in this …
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