Bader Aldurai
PhD title
Domestic Interior Social Dynamics: Social Interactions in Kuwaiti Homes
The research aims to find better understanding of the current forms of social interactions that are caused by or causing differences in the domestic interior design to come with a problem solving approach to social developments.
Daniel Herron
PhD title
Digital Separations
How can technology be used to support people as they experience sensitive life transitions?
David Sanchez Ruano
PhD title
Designing with-in Nature: Using biophilia, biomimicry and resilience thinking as foundations for a ‘symbiotic design practice’
How can design education move from using nature as a source of aesthetic inspiration, applied simply as a catalyst to artistic problem elaboration, to the act of designing symbiotically with nature?
Deirdre MacKenna
PhD title
Duration, Cultural Programming and Sensemaking
This Ph.D. seeks to understand the role of durational programming in human sensemaking processes.
Geoff Lucas
PhD title
Towards a Concrete Art: A Practice-Led Investigation
This study aims to identify a consistent position for Concrete Art, relevant to an understanding of, and highlighting its vital importance in, contemporary practice.
Giles Sutherland
PhD title
The Road to Meikle Seggie: Richard Demarco’s Pedagogical-Creative Journeys, 1972 to 1990
The purpose of this study is to document, illuminate, analyse, comment on and explicate Richard Demarco’s pedagogical-creative journeys, between 1972 and 1990.
Gill Emslie
PhD title
The Braided Way: From Conflict to Community Social design tools for sustainability
This heuristic study uses ‘Process Work’ as a lens to evaluate the facilitation of a shift in perspective, consciousness, or meta-design.
Harriette Yarrington
PhD title
The Emotive Object
This research focuses on the nexus between Art, Conservation, and Ecology, and how sculpture can be used effectively, to reinterpret museum collections through the creation of emotive objects.
Iwona Hyrnczenko
PhD title
Periodic Table of Movements: A Reference Framework for Expressive Movement and Gesture
The research, ontological in character, analysing and mapping body language, aims to contribute to future interactive applications, based on movement recognition technology.
Joanna Bletcher
PhD title
Curating design innovation: an exploration of curatorial methodologies for an emerging design museum
The thesis argues that communication and recognition of design as an intellectual and practical activity remains underdeveloped within industry and academia.
Joanna Foster
PhD title
The Artist As Troubadour: Exploring Creative Encounter through Song, Travel and Story
I aim to uncover a process of creative exchange in live musical performance that develops in real-time between, and in relation to, the performer, audience and environment.
John Dummett
PhD title
Paper Publics: An exploration of visual, textual and verbal representations of ‘the public’
With many urban redevelopment projects, either completed or in their developmental stages, it is an opportune moment in which to critically interrogate and creatively open up and reconfigure contemporary visual, textual and verbal representations of ‘the public’.
Karin de Wild
PhD title
Activation of the mnemonic space. A memory space for Net.Art
How can art museums offer an interactive memory space for Net.Art and which fundamental changes need to be made in the (traditional) memory culture within these institutions?
Kieran Baxter
PhD title
Topographic vision: The creative application of aerial photography and digital visualisation for built heritage and archaeological narrative
This practice-based enquiry draws from the researcher’s training in digital media and practice in low altitude aerial photography techniques.
Kumanga Andrahennadi
PhD title
Mindful Design Practice: A Journey of Becoming Water
The design thinking perspective is taken in order link it to a large body of research in response to taking care of the designer’s mind and the environment.
Rebecca Lindsay
PhD title
Building New Social Metrics for Business; Exploring methods of co-creation with rural businesses and communities.
This research will explore the needs and values of communities and businesses. It investigates how values (such as lifestyle, safety, employment) can align business with communities, the potential results being both economical and societal growth.
Roddy Hunter
PhD title
Curating The Eternal Network After Globalisation
The research focuses upon production, distribution and reception of network art practice before and after globalisation.
Saskia Coulson
Saskia's research focuses on participatory social innovation and she is developing co-creation methods for the selection, application, iteration and evaluation of project indicators.
Steven Birnie
PhD title
Local and Global Explorations Through Design Research
The work aims to understand and communicate through a series of case studies how participatory action research can be applied locally
