Below you will find information about your PGR tutors.
Tobiasz Trawinski is a PhD researcher in the School of Psychology.
"I am interested in spectatorship of pictorial art. In my research I examine differences between art experts and non-experts during the art perception process. I conduct my research using a cognitive neuroscience approach."
Joe Higgins is a PhD History student researching the end of the British Empire in South Arabia (modern Yemen), looking at the British idea of federation as a means of maintaining control and influence during the 1950s and 1960s.
Nick Harding is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Southampton, specialising in sexual ethics. He is interested in many areas of practical ethics, moral philosophy, and psychology.
Jamie Howell is a PhD student in composition at the University of Southampton under the supervision of Ben Oliver and Matthew Shlomowitz. He is a guitarist with a background in rock, funk, jazz and blues and is currently playing with, and composing for, his band 'The Definite Collective'.
Joan McGavin is a published poet with degrees in English from Edinburgh University and UCSB. She is currently doing a Creative Writing Ph.D. in the form of a volume of poems, with accompanying critical writing, supervised by Dr Will May. The starting point for the volume was a collection of death masks put together by a nineteenth-century prison surgeon at Winchester Prison, but poem topics have broadened out to cover more general issues of memorialisation, identity, and the relationship between art and reality.
Christopher Tubb - 2012-2015: BA Hons Film at Southampton Solent University, 2015-2016: MA Film Studies at the University of Southampton.
"At the core of my research interests are the various debates and discussions surrounding the representation of history in narrative film. In the case of my thesis this comes through in its discussion of the cultural memory of the Western Front on-screen. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how cinematic strategies are utilised to depict the Western Front experience within the national cinemas of Britain, Canada, and Australia to understand the films’ place as a form of memorial within a wider landscape of cultural remembrance."
Lian Patston - "I am a PhD Candidate in the English department, researching digital sociability and the stranger in contemporary fiction".
Yushi Hou is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film Studies, University of Southampton. Yushi’s thesis examines urban space in contemporary Chinese neo-noir. Her research interests also lie in the fields of contemporary Chinese cinema, genre studies and transnationalism. She taught East Asian Action Cinema for MA in Film in the 2018-19 academic year.
Nathaniel Baurley - "I am a PhD student with a strong interest in glaciology and glacial geomorphology. My research is investigating how glaciers in Iceland are responding to climate change, with a particular focus on those glaciers that flow into large lakes, and how these lakes then are influencing ice speed, surface elevation and retreat over time. This involves using a combination of high resolution unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery, GPS data and satellite imagery."
Chris Tomsett - "I am a PhD student at the University of Southampton with a background in geography and geomatics, developing multi sensor UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) surveying systems for environmental applications. This combines laser scanning and photogrammetry to improve our understanding of the environment and the processes that go on within it, having a predominant research focus on river systems and vegetation."
Phuong Le Hoang Ngo - "I am currently a PhD Candidate in Applied Linguistics working on the language policy of English-medium instruction (EMI) in non-Anglophone contexts. Specifically, I look at teachers' and students' perceptions and practices in EMI settings."
Coralie Clerc - "I am a 4th year PhD student in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching. My research investigates teacher cognition with a particular focus on English teachers’ beliefs in a time of change. I am also interested in curriculum implementation and teacher education."
Clio O’Sullivan - “I am a part-time PhD student in English, studying at the University of Southampton, as well as working at Chawton House, where I am the Communications and Public Engagement Manager. As Chawton House holds over 10,000 rare volumes of women’s writing in their collection, my work there frequently feeds into my academic research. The Elizabethan manor was owned by Jane Austen’s brother, and walking the halls where she once frequented, places her novels into real context.”
Ekaterina Perevoshchikova is a PhD student in Competition Law, a seasoned legal practitioner and a tech blogger. Her research interests include competition in digital markets, FinTech, AI and application of the new technologies to law.
Monarchs: Icons of History
Dr Chloë McKenzie is an Early Career Researcher at the University of Southampton. Her research explores monarchical institutions and women in Late Medieval England. She is passionate about sharing historical research with a wide range of audiences and has recently worked to develop a new heritage route in South Wales, which was inspired by a real medieval pilgrimage (the St Thomas Way: www.thomasway.ac.uk). Chloë's PhD was supervised by Professors Anne Curry and Maria Hayward at the University of Southampton.
Joyce Tang is in the third year of her PhD in musicology at the University of Southampton, supervised by David Owen Norris. Her thesis is titled 'Ideals of tone in Grand Pianos from 1880 to 1904 and their implication on performance practice'.
Dr Stephen Watkins is a Lecturer in English literature at the University of Derby, but he continues to teach at Southampton on a part-time basis. His main research interests lie in Renaissance and Restoration literature and theatre, performance history and contemporary responses to the plays of the past.
Kenneth Wesley Norwood is a Postgraduate research student within Film at the University of Southampton and is an American Film research student at the University of Southampton, who currently resides in London. He hales from Houston, Texas but received his undergraduate degree in Mass Communications from Xavier University of New Orleans in 2013. In that same year, after receiving his B.A., he relocated to Brooklyn, New York to pursue his M.A. in Media Studies at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus–which he received in 2017. His primary academic concern is the role that Black Queer Art and its disruption of historical narratives through films. In the past, he has written extensive work in the area of the African Queer Diaspora and the works of both the late Marlon Riggs and Isaac Julien, his queer identity and experience, and political criticism. His written work has been featured on Itchysilk.com, AZmagazine, questionjournal.com, and he has also been featured on PinkNews.
Sarah Smyth is a PhD student in Film at the University of Southampton. Her thesis is part of a larger project called ‘Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary UK Film Culture’. Sarah’s main interest are all aspects of women’s filmmaking, but particularly women’s filmmaking in Britain. She is also interested in how women are represented on-screen in cinema and wider media culture.