This practice-led PhD explores the role of mimicry (simulation, impersonation, imitation) in the surrealist prose of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington. It evaluates mimicry both as a feminist critical technique and as a form of ca... Read More about Diving to The Cinema Beneath the Lake: a novel as immersive, synthetic-magical exploration of the surrealist prose of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington.
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Apropos of everything: navigating life with genre (2022)
Thesis
Apropos of Everything: Navigating Life with Genre (AoE) is a hybrid critical/creative portfolio which proposes a new theory of Genre, Creativity and Consciousness, named The Social Consciousness Theory (SoCo). By reclaiming and recalibrating the conc... Read More about Apropos of everything: navigating life with genre.
This interdisciplinary original research engages with the fields of TV documentary production, children’s television, historiography, and the pedagogy of history teaching. From this large field, I am taking what is necessary for my research as a prac... Read More about Effective factual TV content for young audiences : exploring new approaches to creating history documentaries for 6 - 12 -year - olds in digital UK television.
Salt in winter : a fictionalized biography with critical reflections (2021)
Thesis
This practice-based thesis comprises a novel exploring the life and legacy of 16th century philanthropist Henry Smith, with critical reflections on the research foundational to the creative text. The novel is a biographical work that argues for ficti... Read More about Salt in winter : a fictionalized biography with critical reflections.
Comedian autobiographies - an examination of the publishing phenomenon (2021)
Thesis
Simon Amstell, Kevin Bridges, Billy Connolly, Adam Hills, Michael McIntyre, and Sarah Millican are not only well-known stand-up comedians in the United Kingdom, but they have also all written autobiographies, with the majority becoming bestsellers. C... Read More about Comedian autobiographies - an examination of the publishing phenomenon.
Tin mining degradation : autobiographical investigations of home, loss and identity (2021)
Thesis
Suwa Gbolagun, V. Tin mining degradation : autobiographical investigations of home, loss and identity. (Thesis). University of SalfordTin mining on the Jos Plateau was the major income earner in Nigeria before petroleum was discovered in the Niger Delta region in 1958. The excavation for tin left the Plateau landscape environmentally depleted, with over forty-six per cent of its la... Read More about Tin mining degradation : autobiographical investigations of home, loss and identity.
A space to tell : writing poetry in a second language (2019)
Thesis
Distinct from the increasing interest in Research on L2 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 e... Read More about A space to tell : writing poetry in a second language.
Dismember the past (2019)
Thesis
Gregory, S. (in press). Dismember the past. (Thesis). University of SalfordThis thesis is a creative literary biography, or historiographic metafiction, of the life and works of writer and composer Anthony Burgess (1917-1993). The text consists of two synchronous narratives: a fictionalised account of Burgess’ life as a wri... Read More about Dismember the past.
The Velvet Sky – in memory of Stephen Duckhouse (2019)
Thesis
Comprising a gently fictionalised biography of my ancestor, Stephen Duckhouse, and a critical reflection this thesis combines critical and creative processes from archive and field research, family stories and creative writing. It aims to engage tech... Read More about The Velvet Sky – in memory of Stephen Duckhouse.