Completed Practice-Based PhDs

Three examples of practice-based PhDs that can be viewed as a whole.


Dr Jackie Batey
The Safe Cigarette: Visual Strategies of Reassurance in American Advertisements for Cigarettes - 1945-1964
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Keywords:Artist's books, Satire, Advertising, Cigarettes


Dr Adele Carroll
Dictated Sequences and the Pursuit of Efficiency in the Physical Culture Movement 1896-1939: A Filmic Scrutiny
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Keywords:Physical Culture, Film/Documentary, Health


Dr Solveigh Goett
Linking threads of experience and lines of thought: everyday textiles in the narration of the self
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Keywords:Artist's books and Boxes, Textiles, Narrative


Dr Maureen O'Neill
The Mystery of Mapness: The Void Between Mind and Map
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Keywords:Artist's books, Print, Maps, Map Taxonomy


Dr Bob Wright

Theoretical and visual appraisal of behavioural symptoms of the Asperger’s child. An investigation of how illustrative practice can inform scientific diagnosis.
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Keywords: Typography, Asperger, illustration