Research students in DJCAD
Our PhD successes in recent years include students who have gained positions with the V&A Dundee, employment in industry, lecturing posts, post-doctorate positions, government, the NHS, and many have continued to build successful careers in art and design.
PhD students have received major accolades, including the Scottish National Portrait Award, the Scottish Government Awards Climate Change Fund, and the AHRC Research in Film Awards.
We welcome many types of research, both theoretical and practice-based, reflected in applicants’ distinctive proposals.
Current students
Aaron Goddard
Unworlding the wider audience: Artist’s moving image investigation of behind-the-scenes opera production
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Adam Nasser Benmakhlouf
Communal Words: How can art institutions support non-normative art writing?
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Alison Price
The Ontology of the Photographic Moment - An Exploration of the Implications of Speculative Realism for Photographic Practice
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Annie Runkel
The Boredom Project: Boredom, Art & Attention
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Awdhah Alotaibi
Rules, Roles, Resistance in Contemporary Kuwaiti Painting: The Body as the Site of Resistance
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Calum Eccleston
Performing the Unseen. A practice-led exploration of intangible cultural memory through engagement with the Alastair MacLennan Performance Art Archive
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Cat Dunn
Spaces of Diaspora; Identity Otherness and Belonging in contemporary art of black women artists working in Britain
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Cate Newton
Contemporary sculptural practice and philosophies of time: material, context and temporality
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Cathel de Lima Hutchison
Towards multispecies urbanism: Negotiating wildlife and biodiversity in design practice
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Catherine Hehir
Printmaking in the expanded Field
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Dan Drage
Sacred Space, Place, Time: Extra-material realities in and through the material
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Désirée Coral Guerra
Invisible stories of plants: Seven chapters on botanical trajectories of appropriation and exchange, probing colonial historical narratives and hierarchies to interconnect relationships through their materiality.
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Eman Almukaimi
The Influence of European Modernism on Today's Arabic Contemporary Ceramics
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Ewan Allinson
Working the Land, Knowing its Grain
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Fatemeh Mahmoudnejad
Understanding Inclusive Participation in Planning Practice (The Case of Co-Design in Scotland).
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Federica Bruni
A Sense of Surreal and Magic in the Work of Contemporary Italian Female Artists
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Georgia Dunn
Neurodiversity, Masking, and Mockumentaries: Practice-Based Character Writing and Trash Performance
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Hamer Dodds
The sublime and the unimaginably unpresentable.
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Haorui Yu
Mapping AI's Interpretive Boundaries Through Chinese Painting Analysis
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Heather Maycock
Rehearsing Death: A Cultural Analysis of Death Procedures in Single Player Role-Playing Videogames
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Jess Akerman
A Deep Ecology approach to the Built Environment: A Transdisciplinary Framework for Ecological Awareness, Placemaking, and Regenerative Models of Living.
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Jinyu Han
Co-designing better visitor engagement experiences with blind and partially sighted people
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Johanna Roehr
An Unreadable Thesis: Exploring Multimodal Communication through Creative Practice with Artists Described as Having Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities (PIMD)
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Karen-Ann Dicken
Integrating 3D printing and hand fabrication in contemporary craft practice
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Katie Hart Potapoff
With an Attentiveness Towards Intimacy and Texture: Exploring a Sense of Land and Place Through Creative Practices
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Kunning Ding
From E-waste to Jewellery: practice-based research on exploring creating emotionally durable jewellery with the metal recovered from electronic waste
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Leena Nammari
A practice-based examination of the nature of Haneen: framing thoughts and representations on post-locational home and belonging.
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Louise Ritchie
Automaking - A Nomenclature of Art Practice
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Lucy Smith
Making the Conceptual Tangible: The Role of Art in the Understanding and Communication of Science.
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Mahtab Karami
Comparative Gendered Aesthetics in Contemporary Afghan painting (post 1970)
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Margaret Kerr
Recovering what has been left behind: an interdisciplinary exploration of interconnected ways of knowing
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Mark Vella
Exploring the impact of the Maltese National Planning Framework on the natural and built environment to achieve sustainable development.
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Maryam Forghaniallahabadi
Scalability within smart spatial planning: mapping coherence, linkage and distribution across scales of planning.
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Merrily Hall
An Investigation of Creative Practice as a Shield for Innate Sensitivity
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Morgan Wood
Towards an Ontology of Gendered Aesthetics: Surveying Topologies of Self and Other in Performance, Society and Media
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Nicholas “Nikki” Ilic
On Representation in Medical Illustration
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Nuo Cheng
Seeing through Cavalier Perspective: Hieronymus Bosch’s World and Chinese Spatial Perception
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Oludare Osore
The Paradox of Sustainable Urban Development as Demonstrated in the Prevalence of Informal Housing Development in Developing Countries: A Case of Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria
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Poom Subpaiboonkit
The Cultural Appropriateness of Housing Design: Responding to Kon Muang Local Housing Culture with Earthquake-resilient Architecture in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand.
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Raveendran Selvarajah
Developing a Planning Framework for Sustainable Urban Form for Jaffna Town, Sri Lanka
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Rui Bao
How contemporary jewellery construct cosplayer’s self-identity?
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Samantha Robinson
Inter-Species Ongoingness: Exploring Entanglement with Other-Than-Human ‘Pests’
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Sang-hun Sean Yu
Dundee Ground Truth Imaging Protocol: Optimising Forensic Scene Documentation Through the Art of SfM Photogrammetry and Immersive VR 3D Reconstruction
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Sascia Pellegrini
Sense Amplification: a Phenomenology of Time
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Sihao Fan
The Life of Churches: A Contemporary Photographic Exploration at The Intersection of Archive, Anthropology, and Architecture
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Susan Douglas-Scott
Past, Present, Future: Thoughts on Disability and Things
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Susie Johnston
Matters of entanglement: exploring making and metaphor as expansive ways of being and thinking.
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Titus Nnadozie Onuoha
Assessment of the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Urban Water Provision Practices in Owerri, Imo State Nigeria
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Wendy Bell
How Reality is Grounded not in what we Perceive but in what we do not Perceive.
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Xiaoyue (Eve) Zhang
Online Exhibitions after the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Xiang (Kevin) Li
The Role of the Creative Behaviour Operating Unit (CBOU) in Knowledge Generation and Learning: Validation Through Art and Design Practice and Its Educational Implications
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Xinyu Huang
Private Wilderness: Reconstruction of Individual Life and Elimination of Alienation Dilemma in the Context of Contemporary Atomization
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Yimou Huang
How to Touch Nature? A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Taoism and Western Ecofeminism
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Yingying Ren
Traditional Crafts and Living Traditions in South-Western China
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Yufei Gong
Transnational and Transmedia Approaches to Creating Comics in Asia, the USA and Europe
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Yuxin Li
Investigating digital identity through taking digital as material within the jewellery design practice.
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Ziyue Tao
Developing design guidelines for creating a sense of home in dementia care home environments in Chinese rural area