PhD Students

CCM currently has over 40 MPhil/PhD students, from all around the world. Our scope of supervision includes critical, theoretical, historical work on media and cultural studies subjects, as well as media practice (such as film-making, and other creative media elements).

If you would like to join us, we are always interested in discussing PhD proposals with prospective students—do get in touch.
 
Here is some information about our research students, their topics, and their CCM supervisors. This is followed by a list of our students’ recent successes, as they have gained their PhDs and MPhils. Well done!

Current MPhil/PhD students

• Abdullah Abalkhail: Online activism in Saudi Arabia: a civic deliberation tool (supervisors: O'Reilly, Light)
• Saeed Alamoudy: Mecca as a global creative city (McKay, Goddard)
• Areej Alghamdi: Women in Saudi Arabian media industry (Lin)
• Abdullah Al-Maglooth: PhD in mass communication (Light, O’Reilly)
• Zeeshan Amin: PhD in information systems (Light)
• Teresa Adair: Gerald Manley Hopkins (Buse)
• John Bannister: Charlie Drake and Kenneth Connor, the little men of low comedy (Mundy, Lee)
• Nahid Bashatah: Representation of Saudi women in western print / online media (McKay, O’Reilly)
• Atefeh Bazzazordeh: PhD in information systems ERP (Light)
• Abby Bentham: Empathising with the psychopath (Buse)
• Greg Bevan: Constructing realities: the myth of objectivity and the renegotiation of documentary truth (Knudsen, Halligan)
• Lesley Blaker: The role of psychological discourse in the development of British factual television (Palmer)
• Luke Blazejewski: Urban wilderness: a practice based study on the disconnection between humans and native wildlife in Greater Manchester and how this separation may be resolved through digital photography (Knudsen)
• Aamena Bulhoon: Power of media and its influences on politics and international relationships (Archetti)
• Dan Cookney: An exploration of the visual constructs used within electronic music and their contribution to audience perception (Goddard)
• Razli Dalan: Busting taboos: using idiomatic and linguistic subtleties in undressing questions of sociocultural amorality in Malaysian cinema (Knudsen, Willis)
• Joseph Darlington: Transatlantic experimentalism: cultural perspectives from fragmented identities (Buse)
• Mohammed Dawood: Virtual realities and climate crisis (Knudsen, Goddard)
• John Effah: Information systems ERP (Light)
• Ceyiz Fairclough: Immigration and cultural identity in the UK: a visual story (Knudsen)
• Kirsty Fairclough: Celebrity television (Mundy)
• Deborah Gabriel: Black bloggers in Britain and alternative journalism: overcoming marginalization, misrepresentation and exclusion form the mainstream media (McKay, Lin)
• Jack Harbord: 21st century minstrelising in American popular music and culture (McKay)
• Harvey Igben: Public relations, media, peace / conflict resolution in Nigeria (McKay, Simpson)
  
• Rianne Jones: An exploration of the impact of online social networks on contemporary culture (Light)
• Nick Katuszonek: Jazz and European identities, in practice and criticism (McKay)
• Ryan McGarrie: Information systems (Light)
• Nico Meissner: The impact of the Internet as an emerging distribution and marketing platform on the distribution of independent films (Knudsen)
• Mohammed Mesawa: The role of social media during the Arab (spring) uprisings Hope, democracy, deceptions and Imperialism (Goddard, McKay)
  
• Everette Ndlovu: The role of the diaspora media in mediating political change in Zimbabwe (Simpson, McKay)
• Lloyd Peters: The representation of visual impairment on screen, stage and radio drama (McKay, Knudsen)
• Frances Piper: The construction and representation of the mother in post-war English drama (Buse)
• Dilshad Razawah: Cinematic Representations of Small Nations Catastrophe (Knudsen, Halligan)
• Tom Sykes: Jazz for the iPod generation: music distribution, festivals and digital technology (McKay)
• Cristina Vasilica: Digital media deployment for the engagement of boys and young men in the maintenance of their sexual health (Light)
• Annabelle Waller: Meta TV in practice: an investigation into how contemporary British television reflects upon itself (PhD by Published Work; McKay, Palmer)
  
• Eileen Wattam: Information and communication technology (Light)
• Dan Ward: Reconstructing masculinity in ‘quality’ television drama (Halligan, Palmer)
• Marc Wichert: Rhetoric and reality of CRM in local authorities (Light)
• Ira Yusof: Global media / sport: English Premier League and television in Malaysia (McKay)

Recent PhD/MPhil completions

Warmest congratulations to the following, who have been successful with their research degrees, supervised by a CCM member. Well done again!
 
2012

• Jack Harbord (MPhil, target award) - Hip-Hop Culture and Blackface Minstrelsy (McKay)
• Silvana Serra: Italian cinema (Hope)

2011

• Frank Swannack - Phantasy Constructions of Madness in Edmund Spenser’s Shorter Poems (Buse)
• Shara Rambarran - Popular Music, Digital Technology and IPR (McKay)
  

2010

• Richard Ganis - The Problem of the ‘Other’ in Contemporary Social Theory (Buse)
• Marco Paoli - Italian Modern History in Literature and Cinema (Hope)
• Nicola Smith - Performing Fandom on the British Northern Soul Scene: Competition, Identity and the Post-Subcultural Self (McKay)
  

2009

• Beate Peter - Jung on the Dance Floor: The Phenomenology of Clubbing (McKay)
• Nicola Spelman - All the Madmen: Popular Music, Anti-Psychiatry and the Myths of Madness (McKay)