Alejandro Ball
Post-Internet or Point of Transition? An investigation into the net art from the 90's to the new media contemporary practice - from internet 1.0 to 3.0
Allan Davies
'Imaging the Imageless : addressing the paradox and presence of the simultaneously physical and metaphysical through visual interpretation and representation of religious signification in the Christian Holy image'.
Andrea McSwan
PhD title
Light for the Blind: Exploring 3D Animation and Immersive Digital Film, to Represent the Perceptual-Experiences of the Blind
This thesis introduces the advanced capabilities of 3D animation and haptic film technology to help facilitate the communication between the blind and the sighted.
Annie Runkel
PhD title
Unlocking the Utopian Potential of Boredom
In response to a growing body of work in the field of boredom research which sees the experience of boredom as an important incentive for a change in human behaviour, the project sets out to explore the energising potential of boredom in the context of socially engaged artistic practice.
Cate Newton
PhD title
William Turnbull, Process Philosophies, and Material Practice
My research explores Turnbull's place in the Modernist movement, challenging frequently-used descriptions of "timelessness" in that movement and establishing how his work can be recast as a means of addressing questions around history and contemporaneity in contemporary art.
Cayla Key
PhD title
Everyday Living: Towards A More Open Design of Trusted Things
My work has focused on breaking open the normative assumptions attached to the term ‘home’ and in turn the homogeneity of current domestic IoT approaches and values.
Daniel Herron
PhD title
Digital Separations
How can technology be used to support people as they experience sensitive life transitions?
Drew Walker
PhD title
The Importance of Place: Gugging, Patient, Art, Doctor und Die Welt
What is the nature of the artistic and psychological process between patient-artist and artist-doctor in the psychiatric facility of Maria Gugging, in Lower Austria?
Hamer Dodds
PhD title
The sublime and the unimaginably unpresentable.
My research interests itself the 'emergent biosciences' and sublime qualities associated with them using scientific techniques within artistic practice.
Helen Roger
PhD title
A New Culture of Learning, University of the Highlands and Islands
This research will inform our future holistic and strategic approach to lecturer training, Creative Industries curriculum development; connect communities and enable wider access and collaboration internationally and within the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
Jade Lauren Gunnell
PhD title
Co-created Citizen Science for Community Action
This project aims to identify what co-created citizen science can achieve for science and society, and to ascertain the core features of a successful co-created project, developing models of practice and/or interventions to support practitioner’s delivery.
Judith Fieldhouse
PhD title
Digital Memory and Photographic Memory – New Media Art, Archives and Exhibiting for a Future Life.
The research seeks to determine how the archive is viewed by artists and audiences alike, with an aim to altering the way that artists collaborate with archivists and archives.
Karen-Ann Dicken
PhD title
Integrating 3D printing and hand fabrication in contemporary craft practice
This study seeks to establish the relationships between makers, technology and society through a practice based investigation of how contemporary creators are integrating 3D printing and traditional hand fabrication through tool making.
Katie Brown
PhD title
Exploring hearing aids and super normal design
The research aims to understanding the different social and cultural relationships that exist and their link to hearing aids. It will involve the experiences and perspectives of wearers, non-wearers, health care professionals and manufacturers of hearing aids.
Lauren Baker
PhD title
Making a Difference – The longer-term impact of the Craft Scotland programme on the development of maker careers and the Scottish creative economy
Focussing on the topic of craft business development, the research seeks to uncover the long-term impact that Craft Scotland, Scotland's national development agency for craft, has on a makers' career, and consequently the creative economy.
Lee Cheatley
PhD title
Continued Bonds: Computationally Creative Grief Support
People are increasingly turning to technology for support when someone they care about dies.
Lucy Robertson
PhD title
Sonic Textiles for Wellbeing
This research investigates adding to the natural qualities of textiles through the addition of sound, creating sonic textiles.
Miriam Mallalieu
PhD title
Taxonomies of Knowledge: a practice-led investigation into the organising, structuring and archiving of information.
I intend to use Michel Foucault's The Order of Things as one point of focus for the investigation, expanding his analysis of structures to look at systems and taxonomies with specific attention to On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Thompson.
Sang Hun Yu
PhD title
Capturing, communicating and collaborating with Virtual Reality in forensic science
This project aims to develop workflows to capture scenes (e.g. crime scenes, archaeological sites, etc) accurately, repeatedly and reliably, without decontaminating scenes using modern 3D capture technologies
Sara Nevay
PhD title
Textile Connections: E-textiles for social connectedness
By combining textiles with sound, this research has produced a series of e-textile prototypes designed to encourage interaction, conversation and bonding.
