English Literature
Nottingham Trent University
'Strangers to these shores; strangers to themselves': Belonging and Resistance in Postcolonial Travel Writing
University of Nottingham
School of English
Writing the Middle Ages: a re-evaluation of the fantastical in historical fiction
History and Cultures
University of Birmingham
Commercial Exhibitions of the Irish in World Fairs in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
University of Leicester
History
Men's hair in Britain: c 1958-c.1974
The Reception and Appropriation of Pompeian Wall Painting in Britain c.1750-1800.
State of the Nation: The Literary North and the Devolving Politics of Multiculturalism
Plague, tsunami and warfare: The role of metaphor in understanding and communicating dementia
Nahua Women in the Pulque Trade of Early Colonial Mexico, 1550-1629
Archaeology
Addressing the role of faunal remains in the Neolithic long barrows of Wessex
School of History
'Up in Smoke': Opium and Indentured Labour in Mauritius, British Guiana, and Trinidad, 1834 - 1912
Museum Studies
The colonial lens in New Zealand, refocusing and reframing colonial-era photographs of Maori in British museums
Music
The legacy of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in modern Qawwali and Islamic sound art
Archaeology and Ancient History
Revealing Reynard: a 10,000 year cultural biography of human-fox interactions
Classics
Rivers, Rulers and Romans: How do rivers in Augustan literature reflect the relationship between power and the environment?
Classics & Ancient History
Reading Ovid in the Italian Renaissance garden
The Centre of English Local History, School of History
War Widows and Orphans in the Midlands during the mid-seventeenth century
A Dog's Life: An Interdisciplinary Study of Changing Human-Animal Relationships in Roman Britain
Race and Remembrance in Jamaica and the UK: The Families of Treasure Beach and their Scottish Ancestries
Political Science and International Studies
Visiting the United States and Bringing it Back Home: the US Exchange Programs with Germany and Italy, 1950-1965
Birmingham City University
The Creativity of Radio: How does radio as an industry understand and negotiate creativity?
Reading and reviewing the mid-eighteenth-century English novel
English
Dalit Writing in the 21st Century: Activism and Literary Experimentation in Modern India
Women's experiences of romantic relationships that crossed ethnic, national and religious boundaries in Leicester between 1948 and 1985.
Celtic Britain: Writing National Identities from 1603-1746
Centre for English Local History, School of History
Out-door relief under the New Poor Law (1834-1930)
Closet Spaces: Reading the Bathroom in Early Twentieth-Century Literature
Neapolitan intermezzos (1707-1735): new approaches for an updated enquiry
Culture, Film and Media
Agency as a Game Design Affordance in Avatar-Based Video Games
Philosophy
How the debate on the admissible contents of perceptual experience might inform the understanding of delusion formation
Distilling the Apothecary: the archaeology of early modern medical practitioners in Britain and the Atlantic world
The performance history of Shakespeare's apocryphal and collaborative plays
Cheap Print and Prejudice: Anti-Spanish Sentiment in the formation of popular English identities 1560-1640
Melancholy, Womanhood and the Problem of Genius in the work of Margaret Cavendish (1632-1673) and Anne Finch (1661?1720)
Law & Legal Studies
The interplay of the Rights of the Child, international refugee law and asylum procedures in the European Union.
Catholicism and identity in late Tudor/early Stuary Welsh Borderlands
Languages & Literature
Neoliberalism, Resistance, and Figurations of Class in Contemporary Writing in Britain Post - 2008
American and Canadian Studies
Picturing the American Civil War: visual Culture of the Citizen-Soldier, 1861-1865
Melancholy and Romanticism in the Poetry of Edward Thomas
Photographs of nude children in the UK Art Museum and Gallery
Rethinking the GDR Opposition: Reform, Resistance and Revolution in the Other Germany
Strangers, Foreigners and Outsiders: Attitudes toward 'the Other' in the Hebrew Bible
Modern Languages - Italian Studies
An Interdisciplinary dialogue between cinema and its posters: Italy 1945-1979
Music-making for the Deaf: Exploring new ways of enhancing musical experience with visual and haptic feedback systems.
Visual Arts
British art and the continent, 1630-1660
Before and Beyond Abolition: Re-remembering and representing the economic impact of Transatlantic Slavery in England and New England.
School of Archaeology and Ancient History
Re-evaluating cultural change in Bronze Age Italy: materiality, interactions and identities in Sicily, c. 2000-1500 B.C.
The archaeology of soup kitchens in post-medieval philanthropy
Queer enactments in processes of conceptual and material translation
Hospital voluntarism and charitable organisation in East Midlands
The Rise of Meritocratic Discourse: Appropriation, Adaptation and Transformation, 1958-2000
That's not how it should end: The effect of reader/player responses on the development of narrative
Illness and the Body in the work of Woolf, Richardson and Sinclair
English Language and Applied Linguistics
"The hoole book": a literary-linguistic study of cohesion in Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur
Linguistics
Weight Stigmas in Britain: The Linguistic Representation of Obesity in Newspapers
The Borderline State: A Phenomenology of Borderline Personality Disorder and its Literary Depiction in America
John Milton's use of canonical and non-canonical gospels
Making Time Material - Dated Objects in Early Modern England
Andrew Marvell and anticlericalism
Art and Cultural Impact: Exploring Alternative Models for Creative Practices, Policy and Sustainability in Contemporary Urban Space
Transcendental 'Becomings' and the Internet in Contemporary American Literature
Physical disability and well-being
Mastering Time: Temporality in contemporary poetry
Practicality and Perception: the McDowell-Dreyfus Debate
Architects of Fortune: Autobiographical Writing and the Royal Society, 1660-1706
Artefacts and Social Inclusion: Object-Based Learning and the Promotion of Diversity in Museums
The Minerva Press, Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace, 1770-1820.
From Eco to Barthes: Waning Radicalism in Luciano Berio's Musical Engagement with Contemporary Thought (1958?1984)
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
Mining for Meaning: A Biographical Investigation into the Flint Mines of north-west Europe 4500-2000 BC
Form and Prosody in Contemporary Caribbean Poetry
'Wonderful Stories for Kids': Rape and Sexual Violence in Children's Anthologies of Greek Myth
Archaeology of the Moment: An Exploration of Transformative Instances in the Writing of Poetry
The anti-Manichaean context of Petrus Siculus' History of the Paulicians
Comic Violence - a study of verbal and physical violence in the comedies of Aristophanes
History of Art
Conceptual art and counterculture in 1960s America
Dept of English Literature
Future Girls: Revolutionary Adolescence in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction in the Digital Age
Community, Solidarity, and Otherness
How music impacts prisoner identity and the prison environment
American Studies
'Dope Music': Representations of the U.S. War on Drugs in Hip-Hop lyricism from the 1970s to the present.
Cultural & Museum Studies
Spatial, strategic and narrative requirements of the museum environment
Communicating ethical collections disposals
Department of America and Canadian Studies
Afrofuturism, Resistance & Defining Race, 1960s-present day.
Physics in Transatlantic Modernist Literature and Culture 1905-1945
Regulation and Resistance: Selling the Atom in Post-War America
Anonymity and the Art of Pure Surface: the Politics of Opacity
"Marketing Exoticism": Mixed Race Identities and Contemporary British Fiction
Memoir and fictional representations of women in the intelligence services, WWII
Representing the rural: new rural imaginaries on the British stage.
Human Geography
Contested Histories and Producing the Past: Geographies of Heritage in the Nottinghamshire Coalfield
Geography, Earth and Environmental Science
Laughing and caring: emotions, embodiments, and space
ADM
On the periphery: film,place and transformation in London's outer boroughs.
School of Langauges
Star Wars - Aliens, Dubbing, and the Uncanny Valley
"A wide-warp warns of slaughter...": Textiles, Gender, and Identity in Old English and Old Norse Literature
A most Dangerous Place: Violence Beyond the Battlefield in the Peloponnese, c.500-100 BC
From Antediluvian to Dinosaur: The Production and Reception of Writing about Prehistoric Reptiles in the Victorian Era
Shakespeare Institute
Hybridity and identity in Japanese and British Shakespeare productions
Comparisons, Connections and Contexts: Cistercian Monasticism and the Cult of Saints' Relics, c.1100-c.1250
School of Art and Design
Conservator as Artist: Re-thinking intra-objectivity for contemporary art practice via the Raphael Tapestry Cartoons
Media
De Montfort University
Unseen Horror: The Unmade Films of Hammer
Department of Archaeology
Faunal and Cultural Invasions: zooarchaeological and linguistic perspectives on the Easter ?Bunny?
Classics and Geography
Arboreal foundation myths from Roman Republic to Empire
Drama and Theatre Arts
?The Algo Movement: Towards a ?Political Digital Dramaturgy?
The Adapted Screenplays of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The Visual Arts in Urban Regeneration. A Tale of Two Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Birmingham and Liverpool
Robert Zemeckis and Contemporary Hollywood
The effects of private military and security contractors on sovereignity
The Textual Self: Authorship and Agency in John Donne's Commemorative Writing
The Shakespeare Institute
Thomas Middleton and the Adaptation of Shakespeare: Jacobean Politics in Print and Performance, 1616-1623
British commemoration and presentation of the Korean War
Representations of Al-Andalus: Remediation through Travel Writing and other Cultural Productions
A cognitive poetic model of humour in fiction
History of Art, University of Birmingham
The Morphine Addict in Fin-de-Siècle French Visual Culture
Rethinking music consumption in the digital age
Journeys in Search of Travel Writing: A Creative-Critical Interrogation of Travel Writing as a Genre
School of Archaeology & Ancient History
Creative Interventions in Archaeology: Experiments in Facilitating Public Engagement with Archaeological Research
Belonging and Belongings: Portable artefacts and identity in the Civitas of the Iceni
Russian and Slavonic Studies
Preserving identities: the role of community languages in the Ukrainian and Belarusian diasporas of the United Kingdom
The future of intangible cultural heritage in the UK
SPLAS
Representations of Portuguese identity in the novels of valter hugo mãe
The significance of Jacobethanism in 21st-century stage and costume design for Shakespeare and his contemporaries
Rogues Gallery: Liminality and the Politics of Power in Early Modern Texts
Modern Languages
Regionalism and Resistance: Writing the Region in 20th Century Portuguese Fiction
Birmingham School of Art
Beyond sensors; de-coding the curve of the young female body; feminism and performance art in the age of digital transformation.
Edward III?s Affinity in War and Peace, 1337-1369.
'Ghetto Youth A Bust': The Jamaican Dancehall Movement in New York City
Shakespeare's Self-Fashioning: social identity and the interiors of the lesser gentry house in early modern England.
Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre
Pedagogical tools for opening minds to sound based music
A Face in the Glass: Virginia Woolf and the Elegiac Impression
International Responses to Shakespeare in the Collections of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Film Studies
The Lost Decade: The Films and Fortunes of the Hollywood Renaissance Auteur in the 1980s
I Forgot to Remember to Forget: curation, reuse and memory of the prehistoric past in Roman Britain
America's Imagined Revolution: Making Narrative, Shaping Politics and Conceiving the New South after Reconstruction
French Studies
Defending the French language: Comparing 19th century and modern-day attitudes to ?good? and ?bad? language in France
Centre for Textual Studies
The Production and Reception of Middle English ?Miscellanies?: BL Harley 3810/1 and related MSS
The secretum secretorum: Medieval secrets of statecraft and science
Composition
Performing the compositional act
Commerce or Status: the emergence of the 'Middle Class' in late Medieval England
EDACS
Coming Unstuck: David Foster Wallace's Spermatic Economies
Patriarchy and Poverty? A Transnational Analysis of the Social Implications of the Oil Industry
Environmental dystopia and postmodern Eco critical theory
Author, Reviewer and Translator: Katherine Mansfield's Place in Literary Culture
The influence, use and resistance to the pastoral mode in the poetry of Derek Walcott.
Masculinities, Contraception and Sexual Health in Britain, 1967-
The Digitisation and Virtual Future of Holocaust Survivor Testimony at The National Holocaust Centre and Museum
Spanish Portuguese and Latin American Studies
The sexed and desiring female body in Portuguese women's writing 1961-2010
Culture, Languages and Area Studies
Distinction within Fan Communities : Sherlock Holmes
Power in 11th Century Byzantium: Re-thinking its Nature from an Interdiscipliary Approach
Photography
Visual literacy in a culture of immediate photography: Evaluating the impact of participatory visual methods on the reengagement of NEETs
Nottingham Law School
Effective enforcement of international commercial transactions by UK businesses in a fragmenting transnational institutional environment
The culture of Rubery Owen at home and abroad 1945-1970
School of Law
China's regulation of takeover defences
HERITAGE SMARTBOX: Museum as threshold of our imagination. A music-sharing model of crowdsourcing in museums
Growing up and starting work in later British prehistory
A social constructivist analysis of the conceptual evolution of combatants and non-combatants in international humanitarian law
Roman Senses and the Female Body
Particularism and moral development
Drama & Theatre Studies
Cross-disciplinary performative reality in contemporary theatre and docu-drama
Amateur Film in Public History: The Use and Misuse of Non-Professional Media in Museums, Archives, and Arts Projects
The Archival Exhibition: new ways of creating meaning from archives and broadening access to our documentary heritage
Popular Piety in Pre Reformation Bristol, 1400-1500
Breaking the Binaries: Rethinking Religion, Gender and Secularism in Modern Britain
Theology and Religious Studies
Chromatic Dialogues: Colour and Culture in Ancient Hebrew, Greek and Akkadian
Runes, runic writing and runic inscriptions as primary sources for town development in medieval Bergen, Norway
A history of race in children's homes in post-war Britain
School of Museum Studies
Original copies? Readdressing the value of archaeological cast collections in contemporary museum practices
Testamentary Piety: The Evidence of the Norfolk and Kent Wills, c. 1400-1535.
School of Music
Barriers to access in electroacoustic music: A practice-led study in reception and engagement
Music Composition
Composing relationships. Gesture and identity in electronic music performance
School Cultures Language and Area Studies - Department of Culture Film and Media
Hazy atmospheres: a sensory history of smoking and vaping, c. 1880 - present
Protestant Martyrs or Irish Vagrants? Impact of 'Irish' refugees in England 1641-1651
The School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
Le Corbusier, Chandigarh and the challenge of Aesthetic Modernity.
Constructing the model citizen in health communication
Live music curation as emerging discipline of aesthetics and musicology
Constructing individual religious criminality in southern France: heresy, the Albigensian Crusade (1209-29), and beyond
Connecting with new Asian audiences; The impact of immigration on BBC Local Radio in the 1970s
Dickensian domesticity in nineteenth-century theatrical and prose adaptions of the novels
Postmodernist Literature and Postmodernist Editing
Nation Building from Outside: European Networks and Architectural Heritage in Modern Romania (1878-1918)
Villa décor, identity and self-representation in the 4th century Guadalquivir Valley (Hispania Ulterior Baetica).
'Safe Space' Policy and Epistemic Injustice
Philosophy/Music
The problems of authenticity in musical performance
Arts, Design and Media
Practice-led intermingling of human relationships to their environments, and processes of creativity.
'Love me or kill me': Desire and Trauma in the Theatre of Sarah Kane
Theology
Wealth ethics and social concerns in the New Testament
Area Studies
The Low Growl of the Lion: Transatlantic Abolitionism and the Impact of African American Fugitive Slaves in Britain
Can you hear yourself? ? personal sound in jazz and improvised music
Islamic member state justification for the use of the death penalty within the Universal Periodic Review
Contextual information in the performance of conceptual music
The marsh forts of North Shropshire
Shakespeare and contemporary verse drama
Ontologies of Affect: Exploring emotional encounters and transformations in the Caribbean
Women, nature and the representation of seventieth-century-English landscapes
Arts, Design & Humanities
Queer Poetics - the Self as Lens
Historical Theology
Arminian Soteriology in Anglican and Puritan thought
A new kind of score: rethinking the relationship between composer, performer and technology
Classics & Archaeology
Moving with the times: diet and mobility of people and animals in prehistoric Lincolnshire
Light as air': the poetics of wonder in the work of Kenneth Koch and Ron Padgett
Theology and Religion
New Testament - Pauline Catenae manuscripts
Department of History of Art, School of Humanities
National identity, religion and changing taste in Britain: the case of Guido Reni and seventeenth-century Bolognese art
The politics of expertise in cultural work
Criminalising Association After Jogee
English language during the Wars of the Roses
Film & TV Studies
The Children's Film Foundation: an investigation into the decline and demise of a unique British institution
Motherhood and Manhood: Gender in the White Citizens Councils
School of Arts & Humanities
Museum Conservation, Digital Media & the Visitor Experience
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
Styling success: ICT, design and public performance among technology entrepreneurs in Accra, Ghana.
Interventions on the female body in contemporary Chinese art, 1984 to present day
The Diversity of Slaving Strategies in Classical Athens, and their Effects on the Lives of Athenian Slaves
Godwin, Holcroft and Inchbald: Writing and Friendship
School of Arts, English
Shaping Storyness: developing a preclosural approach to the process of writing short fiction.
The Old Poor Law, Enclosures and Social Change in Leicestershire and Rutland, c.1700-1834
CLAS
Colonies as experimental spaces of modernity: Afterlives of Joseph Conrad?s Heart of Darkness in German and English fictions
The Downfall of the Host of Heaven
History, School of Humanities
Women in Genoese Chios (1346-1566)
'Struggles over Prostitution in Southern Nigeria: Colonial Anxieties and Local Debates.'
Mass visual media and domestic space in Britain 1964-1979
(S)Ex-Libris: Women Artists and the Trade in Erotic Illustrated Books in Europe and the United States, c. 1914-1934.
Culture, Film & Media
Fanning the flames: The impact of social movement anti-austerity discourse on the political agenda in the UK from 2015-18
'Not Totally Gay, I Suppose': A Queer Oral History of Multiple-Gender-Attraction in the Gay Liberation Movement, 1969 - 1983
Meditation, non-duality and the boundaries of consciousness
Orientalism or Meridionism? Comparing Imperial and European Travel Writing in the Creation of British and European Identity.
Digital inequalities: a critical study of the uses of big data and data visualisation in addressing young people?s opportunities for contributing to cultural and social life.
Department of History
English Spies and Catholic Traitors: Catholic Knowledge of Elizabethan and Jacobean Government Surveillance
Coinages of William I and William II
Hunting, politics and culture in early Stuart England
"'Shiten shepherde and a clene sheep": clergy-lay relationships in seventeenth-century Herefordshire'
On the margins: Personhood and moral status in marginal cases of human rights
Masc4Masc: Masculinity, Gay Men, and the Cultures of Online Cruising
Reconciliation of Work and Family Life in an Evolving United Kingdom Labour Market: A Role for Grandparents?
Galilean Religious Identity and Spatiality
The integration of the Padana into the Roman Empire
Rapport management in online spoken interaction: a cross-cultural linguistic analysis of communicative strategies
Modern Languages / German Studies
Post Punk, Goth & Avant Garde in East Germany
Learning to Consume: Childhood, Citizenship and the Reproduction of Capitalism
The Functions of Live Theatre Broadcast Paratexts: Shakespeare as Paradigm
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Living Heritage and living heritage: The ontology and experience of cultural landscapes in the English Lake District
Commentary on the extant fragments of 4th century BC tragic poets
Food and drink as social capital in early modern England: a case study from Leicestershire
Donna con donna (woman with woman): representations of female-female desire in Italian early modern literature
"A practice-based investigation of the event of choreographic performance as a site of embodied knowledge-generation."
School of English and American Studies
Destabilising the Psychopath Narrative Through North American Women's Writing
Marketing Texts of Alterity In British Literary Festivals
'Live' moments: Social Media and the distribution of movie trailers
Arts and Humanities
Contemporary Poetry, Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding
Facilitating abolition of the death penalty in the United States - the effectiveness of the UN Universal Periodic Review
Situated Knowledge and Policy Decision Making
Performance Art and Film Studies
In Her Prime or Past It? Reconsidering The Gaze and Feminine Monstrosity in Feminist Performance Art and Film.
Geography
Planning for cultural ecosystem services: A study of socialist and post-socialist Croatia
English Renaissance drama and the supernatural
Big data analytics and the transformation of the British television Industry
A critical environmental history and cultural geography of the woodlands of coastal Dalmatia, Croatia
Museums of Memory: Modernist Poetics, Psychoanalysis, and the Material Object
Bodies of Law: Marriage, Succession, and Sovereign Power in Shakespeare's Plays
Political Autonomy in Hellenistic Sicily
It's Very Simple: A Defence of Hermeneutic Nihilism as the Correct Answer to the Special Composition Question
Re-imagining the soul: ancient Egyptian iconography and British material culture, 1830 ? 1930
Confronting a crisis of discourse: stylistic diversity in my music composition
Dance
Roots: Establishing British Caribbean Diasporic Identity through Dance.
The economy of the Roman Commune, 1143-1389
Department of of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
Byzantine stucco decoration 850-1453. Cultural and economic implications across the Mediterranean world.
In the borderlands: Archaeological evidence for relations between Etruscans and Ligurians in the 6th-5th cents BC
Reinventing instruments. Composing new music, where the compositional processes embody the properties of instruments.
Reforming the early-English church
Drama and Film // Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre
Performing Emotion: Women's screen acting and the transition from silent to sound cinema, 1926-1934
In Quest of Wisdom: Louise Rosenblatt, H.D., and the Transactional Literary Experience
Representations of Imperial women
Serial autobiography and regional working-class self-expression: a cultural history of the Midlands
The Sensuousness of Error: Investigating glitch, complexity, synaesthesia and new materialism in contemporary media arts
Dress and Identity in the Roman and Late Antique world: the case of North Africa (c.AD 200-700)
Mobile translation applications: On the verge of a post-Babel world 2.0?
Religious Mentality and Civic Identity: the Evidence of City Coinages of the Multicultural Roman Near East
History & American Studies
The Outward Face of Segregation: Segregationists' Media Strategies during the 1950s and 1960s
Sporting Participation and People with Learning Disabilities: A History, c.1960-2012
African Studies and Anthropology (DASA)
Transnationalism and reconstruction in Rwanda and Uganda
Department of French and Francophone Studies
Contemporary political caricature in France and Great Britain
The Night and Darkness in Anglo-Saxon England
Memory of the Kindertransport in National and International Perspective
Holocaust Studies, Department of History
Uncovered Topographies: Re-Conceptualisation of the Sobibor Memorial Site
Exile in Francophone women's writing
How do new religious experiences create new Holy Scriptures?
Birmingham Law School
The Constitutionalisation of International Law and the ECtHR: Towards a European Constitutional Court for Human Rights?
Visual Elements of English Printed Sermons, c. 1540 - c. 1660: Reading, Religious Politics, and Iconography
The periphery of Lepcis Magna: Suburban topography and land use of a Roman city
