All Outputs (423)
Fulwood Barracks and the Garrison Town of Preston: Regional Identity, Local Regiments and Social Change, 1848-1948 (2025)
Thesis
British Army regimental histories have attracted a good deal of criticism among historians due to their partisan nature and their tendency to gloss over human error, poor command, or the actual nature of a campaign in which a regiment participated. I... Read More about Fulwood Barracks and the Garrison Town of Preston: Regional Identity, Local Regiments and Social Change, 1848-1948.
Dancing with Douyin: An Exploration of Content Marketing in Douyin’s Fashion Community. (2025)
Thesis
Over the past six years, Douyin has become one of China’s most popular social media platforms (Zheng, 2023) yet academic work on it is still in its relative infancy. Many fashion brands have started marketing on Douyin, but there is a gap in knowledg... Read More about Dancing with Douyin: An Exploration of Content Marketing in Douyin’s Fashion Community..
Flatness in Contemporary Art and Poetic Practice (2025)
Thesis
This project develops a critical frame of flatness to understand how intermedial arts and poetic practices engage with and critique the media effects of digital technologies. Flatness is understood here as an aesthetic mode that emphasises mediative... Read More about Flatness in Contemporary Art and Poetic Practice.
Rewriting the Irish Mother Figure: Dismantling Stereotypes of Motherhood and Maternity in Contemporary Irish Literature (2025)
Thesis
This thesis will argue that contemporary Irish women’s literature challenges
traditional tropes of motherhood and reframes the Irish mother as a multidimensional
figure who is separate from both the church and state. Drawing upon a range of
theore... Read More about Rewriting the Irish Mother Figure: Dismantling Stereotypes of Motherhood and Maternity in Contemporary Irish Literature.
Analysing The Prospects For The Chinese Console Game Industry Based On The Case Studies Of US European And Japanese Markets (2025)
Thesis
This research focuses on the prospects of the Chinese video game industry by
analysing market analyses from the US, Europe and Japan. It employs a
comprehensive mixed-method approach that integrates both quantitative and
qualitative research metho... Read More about Analysing The Prospects For The Chinese Console Game Industry Based On The Case Studies Of US European And Japanese Markets.
‘Masked Morality, a new theory variant to explain the changes in British gambling policy 2005-2023' (2025)
Thesis
This thesis considers British gambling policy since the passing of the Gambling Act 2005 until the publication of the Gambling White Paper on the 27th April 2023. It argues that overall, this policy has been a success but that vocal policy actors ha... Read More about ‘Masked Morality, a new theory variant to explain the changes in British gambling policy 2005-2023'.
Future Fashion Industry: The Effects of Virtualisation of the Product Development Process (2024)
Thesis
Virtualisation in design, manufacturing, and sales is transforming the fashion industry. During the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional ways of garment presentation, such as fashion catwalk shows, shifted towards virtual showrooms, and digital samples bec... Read More about Future Fashion Industry: The Effects of Virtualisation of the Product Development Process.
This practice-as-research investigates embodied dance improvisatory approaches within motion capture environments through a shaping process I call Sculptural Qualities. Sculptural Qualities, a term developed during this research, are processual and r... Read More about Shaping Dance Improvisatory Processes Intertwined with Actual and Virtual Bodies: Exploring Sculptural Qualities Within Motion Capture Environments.
Realizations Decisions and Actions: Toward a Framework of Dramatic Structure for Film Composers (2024)
Thesis
The goal of my research is to develop a theoretical and practical framework for film composers that helps to determine the moments in a film that should be underlined or “marked” with music during the spotting process. Spotting means defining music e... Read More about Realizations Decisions and Actions: Toward a Framework of Dramatic Structure for Film Composers.
CORRIDORS - An Exploration of Muslim Female Identity and Representation Through Rap And Visual Album (2024)
Thesis
In contemporary British media and culture, the representation of Muslim women is still narrow, stereotypical, one-dimensional, and crucially lacking in visibility. This thesis sits as the counterpart to the practice as research rap-visual album Corri... Read More about CORRIDORS - An Exploration of Muslim Female Identity and Representation Through Rap And Visual Album.
Beyond Ideological Warfare? A study of the Information Research Department (IRD) in South America 1948-77 (2024)
Thesis
The creation of the Information Research Department (IRD) by the Foreign Office in January 1948 symbolised a new era of ideological warfare through the use of soft power to forward political and economic goals through the collection and dissemination... Read More about Beyond Ideological Warfare? A study of the Information Research Department (IRD) in South America 1948-77.
My thesis is based upon the findings from my post-graduate practice-as-research project.
I will propose a re-envisioning of the practice of Minstrelsy, not only as a traditional form of storytelling entertainment with its roots in ancient history... Read More about Staging Queer Spirituality: New perspectives on self-identity through Minstrelsy as multiplastic archetypal persona-performance.
An Investigation Into The Media Representation of the Almajiri System In Bauchi State, Nigeria (2024)
Thesis
The focus of this research, “An Investigation Into The Media Representation of the Almajiri
System In Bauchi State, Nigeria”, is to explore how media organisations represent the
conflictual relationship between the Almajiri system and Bauchi societ... Read More about An Investigation Into The Media Representation of the Almajiri System In Bauchi State, Nigeria.
Words from World Watchers: experiences of the occult in Mauritius (2024)
Thesis
This study investigates the occult experiences of Mauritians through an experimental novel- length narrative including elements of the roman-à-clef, short story, poetry, and script, accompanied by complementary discourses. This research has been carr... Read More about Words from World Watchers: experiences of the occult in Mauritius.
The Crack in the Ceiling: Writing the 'I' of the British-Pakistani Experience in the Fourth Space (2024)
Thesis
This thesis is a creative and critical study of contemporary poetry and poetics using innovative practice to focus on British-Pakistani experience whilst exploring the concept of the Fourth Space (Parmar et al, 2018), an alternate space proposed for... Read More about The Crack in the Ceiling: Writing the 'I' of the British-Pakistani Experience in the Fourth Space.
Facilitating playful, informal learning about scientific subjects is both a rising and challenging area of research. Science museum settings offer an interesting opportunity to study this topic through the perspective of visitor engagement with STEM... Read More about Playful Science Engagement and Interactive Interpretation Prototyping: An Exploratory Study for the Science and Industry Museum.
The Role Of Harmony In The Construction Of A Machine Aesthetic In Electronic Dance Music (2024)
Thesis
This thesis represents the first extended study of harmonic practices and their significance in electronic dance music. Focusing on analysis of recordings from the 1970s–1990s, it identifies three distinctive harmonic practices which help to define w... Read More about The Role Of Harmony In The Construction Of A Machine Aesthetic In Electronic Dance Music.
Immersive New Media And Abuse: Should There Be Regulations For How Interpersonal Abuse Is Broadcasted In Online Media? (2024)
Thesis
Media effect theorists have debated the extent to which media has influence over its audience with some believing that ‘heavy viewing’ may increase vulnerability, resulting in broadcasters introducing guidelines to reduce potential harm. These modera... Read More about Immersive New Media And Abuse: Should There Be Regulations For How Interpersonal Abuse Is Broadcasted In Online Media?.
The Indian choir, ensemble and Vedic traditions (2024)
Thesis
In this commentary, I provide the details of four Indian choir projects: how I planned,
prepared the musical repertoire, compositions, technical plans, and marketing and how I
delivered the high-profile concerts. It was my aspiration to create an I... Read More about The Indian choir, ensemble and Vedic traditions.