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Sue Aldworth

Swansea Metropolitan

 

The Centre for Lens Arts and Science Interaction (CLASI)

Dr. Barry Atkins

Newport

 

Board Member, Performance and Screen Media

Florence Ayisi

Newport

 

Performance and Screen Media

 

 

 

 

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Rodney Bender

Swansea Metropolitan

 

Industrial Design Research Group

Anna Bhushan

Cardiff Metropolitan  

Illustration Research

Chris Bird-Jones

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Peter Bobby

Newport

 

European Centre for Photographic Research (eCPR)

John Burgan

Newport

 

Performance and Screen Media

Lisa Burkl

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dr. Paul Cabuts

Newport

 

European Centre for Photographic Research (eCPR)

Dr. Keireine Canavan

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

DIGIT

Gavin Cawood

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Board Member, Design Policy

Dr. Clive Cazeaux

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Centre for Fine Art Research

Dr Jonathan Clarkson

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Centre for Fine Art Research

Dr. Ronnie Close

Newport

 

European Centre for Photographic Research (eCPR)

John Counsell

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Ecological Built Environment Research and Enterprise (EBERE)

Dr Ian Culverhouse

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

User Centric Design

Claire Curneen

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Centre for Ceramics Research

Dr. Vanessa Cutler

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Torbjorn Dal

Newport

 

 

Tim Davies

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Irene Dee

Newport

 

Performance and Screen Media

Professor Kelvin Donne

Swansea Metropolitan

 

Board Member, Product Engineering

Dr Peter Dorrington

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Medical Applications Group (MAG)

Professor Mark Durden

Newport

 

European Centre for Photographic Research (eCPR)

 

 

 

 

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Dr Dominic Eggbeer

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Medical Applications Group (MAG)

John Paul Evans

Swansea Metropolitan

 

The Centre for Lens Arts and Science Interaction (CLASI)

 

 

 

 

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Professor David Ferry

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Centre for Fine Art Research

Peter Finnemore

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Beate Gegenwart

Swansea Metropolitan

 

Creative Industries Research and Innovation Centre (CIRIC)

Professor Steve Gill

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Board Member, Experiential Research Atelier (ERA)

Chris Glynn

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Illustration Research / Creative Pedagogies

Dr. Alexander Graf

Newport

 

Performance and Screen Media

Paul Granjon

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Centre for Fine Art Research

Ken Grant

Newport

 

European Centre for Photographic Research (eCPR)

 

 

 

 

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Professor Stephen Hagen

Newport

 

Chair of WIRAD Board

Dr Paul Hazel

Swansea Metropolitan

 

Digital Media Research Group

Dr Ross Head

Swansea Metropolitan

 

Cerebra Innovation Centre (CIC)

Chris Holtom

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Dr. Coral Houtman

Newport

 

Performance and Screen Media

 

 

 

 

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Dr. Karen Ingham

Swansea Metropolitan

 

The Centre for Lens Arts and Science Interaction (CLASI)

Dr. Barry Ip

Swansea Metropolitan

 

Digital Media Research Group

 

 

 

 

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Dr. Paul Jeff

Swansea Metropolitan

 

The Centre for Lens Arts and Science Interaction (CLASI)

Sean Jenkins

Swansea Metropolitan

 

Industrial Design Research Group

Amelia Johnstone

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Illustration Research

Dr Jeffrey Jones

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Centre for Ceramics Research

       

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Professor Gaynor Kavanagh

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Board Member

Dr. Wendy Keay-Bright

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

CARIAD (Centre for Applied Research in Inclusive Arts and Design)

Dr Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

MeAT (Metaphysics, embodiment, Aesthetics, Technology)

 

 

 

 

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Philippa Lawrence

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

DIGIT

Anna Lewis

Swansea Metropolitan

 

Creative Industries Research and Innovation Centre (CIRIC)

Professor Andrea Liggins

Swansea Metropolitan

 

Board Member, The Centre for Lens Arts and Science Interaction (CLASI)

Dr John Littlewood

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Ecological Built Environment Research and Enterprise (EBERE)

Dr Gareth Loudon

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Programme for Advanced Interactive Prototype Research (PAIPR)

Matthew Lovett

Newport

 

Performance and Screen Media

 

 

 

 

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Jane McCann

Newport

 

Smart Clothes Wearable Technology Research Centre

Adam Martin

Newport

 

Performance and Screen Media

Dr Natasha Mayo

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Centre for Ceramics Research / Creative Pedagogies

Dr Huw Millward

Cardiff Metropolitan

   

Dr Ashley Morgan

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

MeAT (Metaphysics, embodiment, Aesthetics, Technology)

Professor Chris Morris

Newport

 

Performance and Screen Media

Roger Moss

Cardiff Metropolitan

   

James Moxey

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Ingrid Murphy

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Centre for Ceramics Research / Creative Pedagogies

 

 

 

 

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Elizabeth Nelson

Newport

 

European Centre for Photographic Research (eCPR)

Dr Rob Newell

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Magali Nougarède

Newport

 

European Centre for Photographic Research (eCPR)

       

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Dr Frank O'Connor

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Design Policy

 

 

 

 

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Richard Page

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Professor Andy Penaluna

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Prof Robert Pepperell

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Centre for Fine Art Research / Experiential Research Atelier (ERA)

Rachel Phillips

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Paul Reas

Newport

 

European Centre for Photographic Research (eCPR)

Professor Howard Riley

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Russell Roberts

Newport

 

Board Member, European Centre for Photographic Research (eCPR)

 

 

 

 

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Dr Jac Saorsa

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Centre for Fine Art Research

Dr. Helen Sear

Newport

 

European Centre for Photographic Research (eCPR)

Dr Chris Short

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Centre for Fine Art Research

Dr. Andy Smith

Newport

 

Performance and Screen Media

Professor Andre Stitt

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Centre for Fine Art Research

Steve Sullivan

Swansea Metropolitan

 

Creative Industries Research and Innovation Centre (CIRIC)

       

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Dr Stephen Thompson

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

MeAT (Metaphysics, embodiment, Aesthetics, Technology) / Creative Pedagogies

Dr Cathy Treadaway

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

DIGIT

 

 

 

 

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Dr. Ian Walker

Newport

 

European Centre for Photographic Research (eCPR)

Dr. Ian Walsh

Swansea Metropolitan

 

Industrial Design Research Group

Dr Andrew Walters

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

User Centric Design

Dr. Catrin Webster

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Sue Williams

Swansea Metropolitan

 

Creative Industries Research and Innovation Centre (CIRIC)

Craig Wood

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Professor Gillian Youngs

Newport

 

The Institute of Advanced Broadcasting

 

 

 

 

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Dr. Brigitta Zics

Newport

 

Performance and Screen Media

 

 

 

 

Research Students

 

 

 

Alun Adams

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Brett Aggersberg

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Marilyn Allen

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Faridah Al Rashaid

Newport

 

The Mundane Object: Rituals, Functions and Aesthetics

Claire Andrews

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Phil Babot

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Elements of Shamanism Within Performance Art

Joe Baldwin

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Eva Bartussek

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Douglas Beal

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Janet Bennett

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Scientists, Monsters and Other Allies: Hybrid Becomings

Trevor Butler

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Linda Carreiro

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Christopher Cherry

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Jonathon Clement

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

 

 

John Cosgrove

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Sarah Crews

Newport

 

Transgression, sex and death: A critical exploration of Howard Barker's authorship of the stage

Steffan Daniel

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Geraint Davies

Newport

 

Art, Science and Belief: an investigation into the evidence of the dichitomony of opposition and consilience within and between these particular domains, and its symbolic expression in art, with reference to the Welsh cultural context vis-à-vis

Gina Deininger

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Liam Devlin

Newport

 

Can a multi-disciplinary approach to research and presentation act as an aid to agency within contemporary documentary

Vanessa Dodd

Newport

 

The Intimate Relationship Between Stories and Human Consciousness

Shelley Doolan

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Rachel Eardley

Cardiff Metropolitan

  Physicality and Embodiment: A Design Perspective in the Context of Human Engagement with Communication Technology

James Fathers

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

The Appropriate role for Design training in a Developing Context

Emily Flynn-Jones

Newport

 

Body Politics: Carnal Alterity, the Anguished and Dysmorphic Body as Locus and Manifesto in the Contemporary Visual

Bethan Gordon

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Alison Graham

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

The creation of illusory depth and movement on the surface of ceramic artworks

Sally Grant

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Laura Gray

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

In What Ways Are The Relationships Between Pottery And Sculpture Negotiated And Revealed In Contemporary Ceramics Practice?

James Green

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Nigel Hallett

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Ontological developments in contemporary art and their implications for value systems in art education

John Hammersley

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Coming To An Understanding: Dialogue As Practice And Understanding In Contemporary Art

Nicholas Hampton

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Jo Hare

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Simon Hatherley

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

A study to develop a best practice model for the development of low carbon, ecological low rise rural dwellings for 21st century Wales

Robin Hawes

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

How can scientific and philosophical theories of art impact contemporary visual arts practice?

Sebastian Hesselman

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

George Hickerton

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

David Holmes

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Joanne Hopper

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

A study to investigate and test traditional and ecological strategies to mitigate and adapt existin g deprived dwellings for climate change in the UK

Martin Huggins

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Theo Humphries

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

A Sense of Humour: Understanding Ways in which Concepts of Humour may Contribute to Design

Laura Jenkins

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Dragana Jurisic

Newport

 

Trouble with Seeing: The nature of photographic seeing, in the context of conflict situations

Al Kang

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Richard Keating

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Jin Eui Kim

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

The ways surface marks and tone may manipulate perception of three-dimensional ceramic artworks

Joao Leal

Newport

 

 

David Linsley-Hood

Cardiff Metropolitan

   

Leah Mclaughlin

Cardiff Metropolitan

  How the moving image can reveal the interaction between ceramicist and material

Catrin Maby

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Ameneh Mahmoodian

Newport

 

A comparison between how women have been represented in photographs taken in Iran and England

Paul Marais

Cardiff Metropolitan

   

Helen Matthews

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Stella Mejewski

Newport

 

 

Ariana Mihoc

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Jon Moorhouse

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Richard Monahan

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Simon O'Rafferty

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Sean O'Reilly

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Re-visioning Landscape as a Critical Cultural Practice

Fakri Othman

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Rotoscopy technique and the teaching of handwriting skills for children with dyspraxia

Anna Papadopoulou

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Don Parker

Newport

 

Virtual Brands: An exploration of the anti-brand, the affect on consumer behaviour and corporate relationships

Stephen Parker

Newport

 

Improving the Smart Wearable Technology Provisions in Schools and Increasing the Uptake of Textiles Based Qualifications by Boys

Caroline Parsons

Newport

 

Fake Flesh: Technological representations of the body in distress

Lewis Pearson

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Molly Price

Newport

 

Smart Textile Adaptation for the Built Environment: Do Smart Clothes and Wearable Technology have the Potential to Function as Frame, Skin,
Sensor, Actuator and/or Processor at Multiple Scales?

Alise Piebalga

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Do contemporary developments in hybrid art alter the perceived relationship between humans and technology

John Piggott

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Sharon Prendeville

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Alun Reynolds

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Amanda Roberts

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Helena Sands

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Chris de Selincourt

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Jeff Tang

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

David Taylor

Newport

 

Communication of a cross disciplinary shared language for the design of smart clothing, with a focus on the Active Ageing

Tim Taylor

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

A study to monitor low-carbon apartment buildings and investigate how design, construction and occupant factors influence environmental performance, in the UK

Chris Thomas

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Craig Thomas

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Shafeeq Vellani

Newport

 

British Asian Cinema

Yanjun Wan

Newport

 

 

Emma Westacott

Newport

 

Performing Play in Digital Game Form

Andy Whall

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

The problem of representing the 'bouldering' experience as it exceeds conventional forms of representation

Anna Whicher

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Paul Wilgeroth

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Angela Williams

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Anna Williams

Newport

 

Site-Specificity: Carthasis or Intervention? Location and Ethnology, Visual Art beyond the Gallery

Damien Woodford

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Paul Woodland

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Frances Woodley

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

Practice as hermeneutic method: How can contemporary art response to historical paintings embody and extend the act of interpretation

Alan Wray

Swansea Metropolitan

 

 

Dimitrous Zampellis

Cardiff Metropolitan

 

 

Research Themes

 

Creative Pedagogies 

 

mind map

 

Design Enhanced Human Futures

 

 

Ecological Built Environment Research and Enterprise (EBERE) 

 

ecological building

 

Fine Art and Ceramics

 

Fine Art & Ceramics

 

Film, Photography and Screen Media

 

Film, Photography and Screen Media

 

Design: Policy and Practice

 

Design: Policy and Practice

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