2. 1) Can school based exercise enhance
body image in adolescent girls?
Body confidence issues
account for 47% of 11-14
year olds refusal to
participate in physical
activities. Girls as young
as eight feel pressure to
look beautiful in
conventional ways.
This research seeks to
support developing
adolescents via school
based exercise
interventions designed to
enhance body
confidence.
Sharon McIntosh Dalmedo
Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing
3. 2) Tree calligraphy
Part of my research into the written word and the limits
of representation. I am particularly interested in Chinese
calligraphy and the links it offers to what is outside of
language - the body of the artist or objects themselves.
Roland Buckingham-Hsiao
CADRE, Faculty of the Arts
4. 3) Aging Dancers: Spinal Range of Motion
Reduced spinal mobility may result in activity
limitations and participation restrictions,
which could subsequently affect quality of life.
This research examines the effects of aging on
spinal range of motion (ROM). Results thus far
indicate that aging causes increased risk for
spinal fractures, loss of ROM and decreased
bone density.
The lack of available literature on this subject
suggests that more research is needed on the
aging spine and how it influences quality of life
for aging populations.
Janine Bryant
Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing
5. 4) Carrots
At the start of my
Professional Doctorate
journey, I was overwhelmed
with the realization of just
much I needed to read.
So I decided to give myself a
reward, every now and again.
This was my first reward
during the construction of my
first assignment!
Louise Nickell
Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing
6. 5) Textspeak: Evil in the classroom?
Using textspeak is not
wrong, it is inappropriate in
some settings.
Textspeak has been shown
to be beneficial to young
people’s literacy skills; it is
important to encourage
young people to continue to
use textspeak, whilst
educating them as to the
appropriateness of the
context in which they use it.
Theresa Summerfield
Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing
7. 6) Memento (2010)
This image echoes the work
that I am considering through
my investigation. An
installation which invites
exploration and engages the
senses (sight, smell, touch
and sound).
As the Minimalists embraced
experimentation, materiality
and process, so this work
reveals the manner of its
production.
Joanne Mills
Faculty of Arts
8. 7) Adorned bark of
tribute tree
Whilst walking in Dublin, I stopped
to speculate with a young girl,
about the origin of this tree’s
expression of love and loss.
She informed me of her mother’s
death and how she felt that her
pain was misunderstood.
She felt connected to the tree and
its attachment to grief.
She then thanked me for hearing
her voice.
Elaine Frawley
Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing
9. 8) Emerging from uncertainty: courage and
transformation during the doctoral journey
This image depicts discovery,
progression, personal and
professional growth during my
doctoral journey.
As some flowers blossom and
emerge from new buds, others
develop to full bloom with a new
strength; representing
advancement in the adversity of the
challenges along the way.
Self-exploration and courage are
necessary for forward movement.
Jackie Mitchell
Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing
10. 9) A cup of tea and my thesis
My PhD allows me the
flexibility to work from
home (often in my
pyjamas!), giving me the
freedom to focus purely
on my thesis.
I can delve into the
literature, and work at a
pace which suits me.
Endless cups of tea (and
the odd biscuit) are a
bonus too.
Claire Tranter
Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing
11. 10) Urban Patterns and Sustainable Urban
Forms in Erbil City-Iraq
Achieving sustainable urban forms in rapidly growing cities becomes a major
concern recently. In the historical city of Erbil, in Iraq, the planning of residential
projects shows a state of random physical forms with limited attention to
sustainability criteria. This research aims to explore the relationship between
urban patterns and sustainable urban forms in Erbil.
Rebwar Ibrahim
Faculty of Science and Engineering
12. 11) Look deep into the archives
This is a photograph taken of the Burnett Working Class Autobiography Archive held at
Brunel University`s Special Collections Library. This is amazing collection offers
fascinating insights into the lives of the working class from 1790 - 1945. These archival
records form the main primary source base for my PhD thesis.
Rebecca Ball
Faculty of Social Sciences
13. 12) ‘Stickability’ – keeping going through
the highs and lows of PhD study
This photograph has been created with the parking
tickets bought for my PhD interviews. ‘Stickability’
represents the need to keep at it; to accept that some
days, weeks or months will be more proactive than
others, to recognise the lows, to exploit the highs and
ultimately, you will get there!
Jenni Jones
Faculty of Social Sciences
14. 13) Increasing the success of species-rich
meadow creation
Meadows are important
and threatened habitats.
Meadow creation works
but some species are
difficult. This is a meadow
we created in our
research and shows the
high number of species
found in species-rich
meadows. Centre is a
Common Spotted Orchid:
orchids are one of the
difficult families to
introduce.
Alison Wilkes
Faculty of Science & Engineering
15. 14) In word and deed, I am revealed: Self as Teacher
Arendt (1958, p183) claims that our action and speech retain their ‘agent
revealing capacity’. How do beginning teachers in post-compulsory education
(F.E.) act to shape and maintain their unique self-as-subject in their lifeworld of
teaching? And what is the significance of subjectness for the teacher and their
teaching practice (Biesta 2013)? Julie Wilde
Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing
16. 15) Performing Under Pressure: Doing your best
when it matters most
Academy football players train and compete in a highly pressured environment
whilst fighting for a professional contract.
An ability to perform under pressure is a requirement in producing excellence.
Underpinned by a systematic review, this research will develop and deliver
interventions designed to help academy players perform under pressure.
Sofie Kent
Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing
17. 16) Gesture based control mechanisms in
virtual reality simulations
I am researching the use of gesture based technology to support natural and intuitive
interaction to create a truly immersive virtual reality simulation with the focus being for use
in educational applications. The research is also investigating the causes of simulator
sickness and designing custom algorithms to reduce its impact.
Adam Worrallo
Faculty of Science & Engineering
18. 17) Climbing Higher to Reach Better
Decisions
Those experiencing delusions
make snap judgements (Huq,
Garety and Hemsley, 1988) and
may own climb a few steps of
the treehouse to gain
perspective.
Those who do not experience
delusions, may ascent to the
very top of the treehouse to
view the expanse of
surroundings in sight before
making their decisions.
(Moseley Old Hall, Wolverhampton.)
Stephanie Rhodes
Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing
19. 18) Urbanisation & Groundwater Resources Management
The picture was taken in Sun City Estate, Abuja, Nigeria. It shows how the failure of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)
Water Utility to provide services has led to individuals constructing boreholes to meet their water needs thereby
exerting pressure on the already depleting aquifer.
Urban development and groundwater represents one of the most important aspects of growing cities. Failure of the
FCT Water Utility to provide services for the growing population has led to indiscriminate sinking of boreholes.
Exploitation exceeds sustainable yield, with some projections forecasting total demand increasing to double the
sustainable yield in the next four years.
Ephraim Amamki Danladi
Faculty of Science and Engineering
20. 19) The power and mystery of the colourless liquid
What you see in the
image is some of
modern day’s best
techniques for
analysis of biological
materials.
However all of those
machines and devices
require input, more
often than not this
always is in the form
of an unassuming and
innocent clear
colourless liquid.
Lawrence Eagles
Faculty of Science and Engineering
21. 20) disABILITY. For children’s eyes the
whole world is open.
This photo of the three years
old girl Agnes I took one
year ago in Ukraine. She
suffers from Cerebral Palsy.
But disability doesn’t mean
limitation, it means
uniqueness.
In Agnes’s eyes happiness
and future with a variety of
opportunities. Children’s
eyes should shine with joy.
Anna Borzenkova
Faculty of Arts
22. 21) Re-veil to Reveal
In my research I examine the
paradoxical, artistic and written
strategies on gender and sexuality
combined with stark self-reflexivity.
These strategies are compelled by an
unusual self-subjectivity that establishes
the artist’s autobiographical portraits.
I show that these portraits demonstrate
how the subject verbalizes herself into a
narrative of objectified difference.
Roma Madan Soni
Faculty of Arts
