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Mark Player
Embarking on a PhD is unlike any form of education you have previously done.
Mark Player, PhD student
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Professor Teresa Murjas
Through curating audio-recorded material, video, photography and textual narrative, I focused on exploring the boundaries of the Evacuee Archive at the Museum of English Rural Life, and on extending its reach.
Professor Teresa Murjas, Professor in Theatre & Performance and researcher
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John Whitney
I’m a practitioner first, so one of the things I enjoy most is that I get to work on performance as part of my PhD.
John Whitney, PhD student
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Sarah Byrne
I’m really interested in how different media interact, and what impact this has on the storytelling process and the experience of watching a performance.
Sarah Byrne, PhD student
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Professor Lúcia Nagib
We came up with the idea of an intermedial history of Brazilian cinema. It is a way of reconstructing the history of a national cinema through the ways in which it has conversed with other arts and media.
Professor Lúcia Nagib, Professor in Film and researcher
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