PhD profiles
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Daniel Sheppard
Doctoral researcher
Daniel is a PhD candidate in the Birmingham School of Media, fully funded by the AHRC Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. He has written for Horror Homeroom and Screening Sex, contributed to such edited collections as Monsters: A Companion (2020), and presented at various international conferences.
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Tamar Shiboleth
Doctoral researcher
Tamar is conducting vital research for her PhD, looking into teens' experiences with sexual assault and its interventions.
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James Shipton
Doctoral Researcher & Visiting Lecturer
James' studies included an LLB where he received the Park Square Barristers Award for Best Graduating LLB Student, the Crown Prosecution Service Award for Best Dissertation, the Award for Highest Achieving student in Law and Society, followed by an MA with distinction in Law and Social Justice from the University of Leeds. ...
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Amelia Shooter
Doctoral researcher
Amelia has been a PhD student at BCU since 2016. Her work examines judicial deference to agency science in the United States, through the lens of six reports of the National Academy of Sciences, published between 1992 and 2009. Each report focuses on different forensic science disciplines. Her research seeks to examine the...
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Simeon Shtebunaev
Doctoral researcher
Simeon's PhD research revolves around planning strategies for youth participation in the co-production of future cities and democratising power relations in smart cities’ agendas.
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Amy-Louise Simkiss
Doctoral researcher
Amy-Louise's research is focused around psychology, principally how attention and distraction affected by factor manipulation. As well as her PhD studies, Amy-Louise is also a ps ychology technician, helping with research projects, equipment and more.
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Punsaranie Siriwardane Mudiyanselage
Doctoral researcher
Punsaranie is a doctoral researcher from Sri Lanka conducting research designed to leverage technology to help people live more sustainably. After the successful completion of her Advanced Level examinations, she got the opportunity to join the International College of Business and Technology (ICBT) campus, Sri Lanka, which...
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Kateryna Sivak
Doctoral researcher
Kateryna (Kate) Sivak is a full-time doctoral researcher in Media and Cultural Studies. Her PhD project is a virtual ethnographic study that looks at unofficial ways audiovisual content is translated and distributed in Ukraine. Specifically, she is exploring such practices as file-sharing, ‘pirate’ streaming, and unofficial...
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Michelle Strauss
Doctoral Researcher
Michelle was admitted to the bar in New Zealand in 2007 as a barrister and solicitor and practiced in the area of civil litigation, undertaking both claimant and defendant work. She moved to the UK in 2012 practising predominately in the area of professional negligence. Michelle became involved in animal and environmental law...
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Akvile Stuart
Doctoral researcher
Akvilė Stuart is a musicologist, pianist and doctoral researcher at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Her PhD project is generously funded by the AHRC Midlands 4 Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. Akvilė is the Student Advisory Forum representative for M4C DTP for the academic year 2020-2021.