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Research Students

Find out more about the students currently conducting research at Norwich University of the Arts.

Current Research Students

Abbie Cairns

Interrogating Artist-Teacher identity formation in Adult Community Learning

Marian Saunders

Free Movement: How does audio-visual innovation and digital choreography lead to changes in contemporary collaborative performance art?

Jeanette Bolton-Martin

Spectral Shores: vanishing places and haunted spaces. Coastal Erosion and its effect on perceptions of time and the cultural construction of coastal landscapes

Dominic Bradbury

The Work of Richard Seifert & Denys Lasdun: A Comparative Study of Their Buildings and Reputations.

Kazuko Morohashi
The role of design in family experience at cultural sites
Paul Vousden
The Legacy of the Burkean Sublime: Representations of the British Landscape in Visual Art

Examples of Completed Research Degrees

Amy Goodwin
The archive as a space for dubious, disputed and subverted narrative: employing the illustrative turn in order to reestablish identities for fairground women
James Quinn
Screen/Space: A critical re-appraisal and re-alignment of the viewing screen by means of an experimental body of fine art practice centered on viewer perceptual and spatial disruption.
Dr Sam Ismail-Epps
Artists’ Pages: The Function of the Page in Conceptual Art 1966 – 1973
Nicola Simpson
Right mind-minding: The Transmission and Practice of Zen and Vajrayana Buddhist Method Practices in the poem objects of Dom Sylvester Houédard, 1960-1975
Dr Katherine Hewlett
An investigation of thinking in dyslexic creative visual artists: a socio-cultural perspective

Paul Cope
The Classroom Art Demonstration as Pedagogical Art Practice

Dr Sarah Horton
Decoration: Disrupting the Workplace and Challenging the Work of Art

Dr John Boursnell
The unsound object and the intimate space

Dr Catherine Dormor
Material Matrices: Haptic, Scopic and Textile

Dr Mary MacMaster
Growing Old for Real: Women, image and identity

Dr Joanna Sperryn-Jones
Breaking as making: In what ways can making sculpture contribute to understanding experiences and perceptions of breaking?

Dr Jodie Wick
The Infrastructure of the Animation Industry in the East of England between 2009 & 2011

Dr Mark Wilsher
Negotiation Theory and the Critique of Dialogue in Dialogical and Relational Ar
Dr Maxine Bristow
Pragmatics of attachment and detachment: medium (un)specificity as material agency in contemporary art

Subject to student’s agreement, an electronic version of final theses will be placed on the University repository and the British Library e-thesis online service EThOS through which it will be readily available online for public access.

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Paul Vousden - Black and red painting by NUA Research Student Paul Vousden
Nicola Simpson - Work by Nicola Simpson, Fine Art Research Student at Norwich University of the Arts stating 'I Love Sings' on plinth
John Boursnell - Work by Norwich University of the Arts Research Student John Bournsell showing various objects on a table including matches, shell, phone, glass, ball, camera and book
Sarah Horton - Drawing by Fine Art Research Degree student Sarah Horton showing chairs and office furniture with post it colours.
Kazz Morohashi - Work by Norwich University of the Arts Research student Kazz Morohashi showing 9 dog puppets in multiple colours
Large room with white walls and a brown checked floor, with frames on the walls and a black umbrella with blue string hanging down from the edges

NUA PhD student celebrates kindness in local exhibition

Kazz Morohashi launches The Museum of Human Kindness at The Anteros Arts Foundation.
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