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PhD Research Students

 

Michael Bidnell - Recycling architectural fragments - moveable feasts. More information (pdf).

 

Sancha Briffa - Against The Grain. An interdisciplinary cultural history of the making of wood

 

Fran Carter - Women's things: the women's sex shop, its significance and implications for a contemporary construction of feminine sexuality (PhD)

 

Olivia Fryman - Making the Bed: An Investigation of the day to day care & conservation at HCP 1686-1838 (PhD)

 

Rachel Fuller - The Meaning of Home and Processes of Home-Making in 21st Century London Middle Class Home (PhD)

 

Lyanne Holcombe - Art, Luxury and Taste: The design and decoration of the palace hotel in London 1890 - 1939. More information (pdf).

 

Yumi Lee - Designing Korean Hotels: A cross-cultural History of Modernity and National Identity 1887-1945. More information (pdf).

 

Nick Leech - The material culture of British diplomacy. More information (pdf).

 

Claudia Marfella - Aesthetic Values of the '50s. The thinking of Reyner Banham and Gillo Dorfles and the Activities of the IG and the MAC. More information (pdf).

 

Harriet McKay - Accommodating the Passenger: Interior Design for the Union Castle Line, 1945-77 (PhD)

 

Patrick O'Shea - BOAC and the interior of the jet aircraft: 1939 - 1974 (PhD)

 

Keren Protheroe - Tracing the Surface of the Suburban-Oriental Style: The printed Textile Designs of Minnie McLeish and Winifred Mold 1910-1925 (PhD) AHRC Studentship. More information (pdf).

 

Jukka Savolainen - Design aesthetics of the 21st century in Finland & GB - The burden of national design programes & promotions on generation "now" (PhD)

 

Jonathan Stafford - Serving the Empire: P&O, Design, Identity and Representation, 1837-1969 (PhD)

 

Patricia Wheaton - Rise of the Interior Decorator in Britain during the Interwar period (PhD)

 

Jane Wildgoose - Collecting & Interpreting Human Skulls & Hair in Late 19th C. London

Anthea Winterburn - Design in translation? Perceptions in Britain's relationship with Sweden on ideas about domestic interior design during the period 1945-1955, with special reference to the Council of Industrial Design. More information (pdf).

 

MA by Research Students

 

Maria Costantino - The Fitted Kitchen: From Commodious Cupboards to Spectacular Spaces. More information (pdf).

 

Joanna Paplinska - Oriental interior design in Victorian paintings (1837 - 1901) (MA Research)

 

Graduated Research Students

 

Judith Carmel-Arthur - Rosenthal Ceramics: Themes in Company and Product Identity Reconfiguration (PhD). More information (pdf).

 

Emma Ferry - Macmillan’s ‘Art at Home Series’, 1876-83 (PhD). More information.

 

Fiona Fisher - In Public, In Private: Design and modernisation in the public house, 1872-1902 (PhD). More information.

 

Lisa Hockemeyer Italian ceramics, 1943-58: a synthesis of avant-garde ideals, craft traditions and popular culture (PhD)

 

Patricia Lara-Betancourt – Conflicting Modernities?: Arts and Crafts and Commercial Influences on the Decoration of the Middle-Class Home, 1890-1914 (PhD). More information.

 

Brenda Martin - Dorich House, The Origins and Design of Dorich House (1936)  (MPhil). More information (pdf). More information on the Dorich House Museum .

 

Julia Parker - Re-inventions: Hampton Court Palace and its Publics (1838-1992) (PhD / AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award). More information (pdf).

 

Keren Protheroe - Jacobean and Jazz: Printed Textile Design in a London Design Studio 1919-1924 (MA by Research)

 

Hannah Rumball - The Visual Culture of Quaker Dress (AHRC-funded MA by Research). More information (pdf).