doctoral research
place. research centre at UWE has a considerable experience in supervising MPhil and PhD students, working on theoretical, applied and practice-based research degrees. Our postgraduate research students are an integral part of our research community and we welcome applications from graduates in a wide range of art, design and media disciplines and those with interdisciplinary interests.
Suze Adams
Location, dislocation and relocation: the walk as event and creative tool.
Research centres on the inter-relationship between self/situation understood via the vehicle of a walk. The primary medium employed for investigation/documentation is photography, the use of photography questioning the interface between fact and fiction. Inter-disciplinary boundaries are highlighted and issues of meaning, aesthetics and cultural placement examined.
Hilary Ramsden
Walking and civic dialogue: a critical and performative investigation of the relationship of walkers to their immediate neighbourhood and environment.
My research asks whether intentional and performative acts of walking can effect changes in the attitudes and perceptions of walkers to their neighbourhood and environment that might encourage dialogue and exchange among diverse communities, broadening participation in the process of community revitalisation.