Institute for Media and Creative Industries

Our doctoral researchers

Chiara Muzzi

Chiara is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. Her research interests include communicative justice, gender, and the role of media in socio-environmental communication and justice. Her focus is on audio.
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Clara Searle

Clara is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. Her research interests include racial and gender representation in media, and the exploration of identity through material culture.
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Flavio Garcia Da Rocha

Flávio is a part-time doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. His doctoral research draws on the theoretical and empirical tenants of Audience Research and Media Ethnography to investigate audiovisual consumption practices of connected young adults in Brazil, where a tradition on broadcasting dominance is being shaken by the growth of Internet-transmitted content, with potential impact on issues of social inequality and representation.
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Glauber Guedes Ferreira de Lima

Glauber de Lima is a doctoral researcher within the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. His research discusses the Brazilian Cultural Policy that involves museums and politics of difference through urban revitalization policies. He is interested in how culture has been used as a resource for political and economic ends.
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Happy Singu Hansen

Happy's PhD aims to analyse the longitudinal perspectives of the work by a major player in youth empowerment work in Tanzania; the civil society organisation Femina. Reaching a quarter of the population, the organisation has over the last 20 years engaged in enhancing capacities of youth, through communication and media initiatives.
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Marianne Walker

Marianne is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London. Her research is funded by Techne and she is interested in the use of public space, art and community activism.
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Melek Kucukuzun

Melek Kucukuzun

Melek is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London. She also works as a researcher carrying out a case study on the Turkish media system for the POPBACK Project.
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Mona Khan

Mona is a doctoral researcher within the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. With a background in Visual Arts & the History of Art, she is interested in the value of arts and culture to people and society.
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Nell Nixon

Nell is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. Her research interests include digital humanities and the role of cultural heritage institutions in education.
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Erica Fletcher

Erica Fletcher

Erica is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London. She is interested in studying contemporary spoken word poetry communities, their use of digital media and the perception of inclusion within them.
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Rittika Dasgupta

Rittika is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. With a background in South Asian studies, she is interested in art, politics and south asian languages.
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Reza John Vedadi

Reza's PhD research examines and explores the complex and fascinating relationship between the Hollywood film industry and the representation of the Muslim identity.
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Sangeeta Menon

Sangeeta is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. Her research interests include journalism, media studies, grassroots movements, communicative justice, and communication for social justice and change.
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Shuo Liu

Shuo Liu is studying a PhD within the Institute of Media and Creative Industries. Shuo is interested in rural change and slow reality TV production in China.
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Sophie Declerck

Sophie is a doctoral researcher in the Institute for Design Innovation. Her research interests include aesthetic theory, Peircean pragmatism and biosemiotics, sensory design, posthuman philosophies, and design ontology.
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William Chamberlain

William Chamberlain

William is currently working on a part-time, practice-based PhD researching the role of the creative economy and social enterprise in urban regeneration, with a focus on the Hackney Wick and Fish Island creative cluster in East London and its role in the major regeneration of this area for the 2012 Olympics.
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