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.
Dylan Gauld
PhD title
Beneath the Surface: A practice-led investigation and development of the 3D visualisation of subsea survey data
By using the latest in acoustical imaging technology, we are able to gather data about these underwater environments, and the objects and structures that they may contain… offering us new insight into these exciting and previously unseen worlds.
Eleni Vlachaki
PhD title
The Kapodistrian Orphanage and Aegina Prison: Can the arts function within a social context as a catalyst for change in our relationship with our past and our immediate environment?
Within this historical and social context this practice led research explores the potential of material objects and practices through first-hand exposure to connect us to our past and with each other.
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.
Irene Orr
PhD title
Craft: Process and Wellbeing
In what ways does making things contribute to our health and wellbeing?
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?
Katerina Gorkovenko
PhD title
Second Screens for Political Discourse
Second screens and social media are introducing new ways for members of the general public to play a role in a discussion that has traditionally been the domain of politicians and journalists.
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.
Laura Donkers
PhD title
Deploying collaborative artistic co-creative methods to strategically promote eco-social sustainability for small island communities
I am an environmental artist based in North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. As part of my research I have devised and led a series of community food growing projects.
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.
