Doctoral Research

The following are examples of current and recently completed doctoral projects associated with HOMELandS: 

Ahmad Alham (School of Organisations, Economy and Society)

Project Title: Migrant Workers in the Construction Industry in the UAE: Access to Healthcare

Swati Bakshi (School of Arts)

Project Title: Space in Sai Paranjpye’s Cinema- An Exploration of Spatial Experiential Economy 1970-2010

Anita Barton-Williams (School of Humanities)

Project Title:  A Radical Intervention: Translating Black Caribbean Writers

Anastasiya Bezborodova (School of Social Sciences)

Project Title: Language Practices and Processes in English-Medium Higher Education in Uzbekistan

Monia Channoufi (School of Humanities)

Project Title: The Tunisian Diaspora in Britain: the London Case

Dmitri Chong (School of Architecture and Cities)

Project Title: Forced Migration and Home-building: Building Homes as Resistance against Technologies of Control during Asylum in the United Kingdom. 

Iuliana Chitac (School of Social Sciences) post-doctoral 

Project Title: Romanian Entrepreneurs in the UK

Stephanie Ifill (School of Social Sciences)

Project Title: Black Diaspora Women in White Postcolonial Spaces

Denise Kwan (School of Humanities)

Project Title: The Talking of Objects: Migratory Experiences, Subjectivity and Representation of Chinese Women in the UK.

Lonceny Kourouma (School of Social Sciences)

Project Title: Examining the Black Doctoral Students’ Lived Experiences in the UK within a Decolonising Lens

Xiao Ma (School of Humanities)

Project Title: Locating London’s Chinatown: Multicultural Heritage and Place-making in a Global City

Benedetta Morsiani (School of Humanities)

Project Title: Performing Cultural Identities and Transnational ‘Imaginaries’: Fashion and Beauty Practices as Diasporic Spaces among Young London Congolese

Hahnfeld Maren (School of Arts)

Project Title: Syrian Women Refugees in Germany  

Mary Martins (CREAM, School of Arts)

Project Title: Made in Thamesmead; An Exploration of the Migration and Settlement of the Black British Community through Documentary Animation

Giulia Pepe (School of Humanities)

Project Title: Multilingual Practices in a Disavowed Community: The Case of New Italian Migrants in London

Dulce Pedroso (School of Media and Communications)

Project Title: The Role of Urban Cycling in Facilitating Emplacement and Belonging for Displaced People. 

Veronica Posada Alvarez (School of Arts)

Project Title: Visuality, Diaspora and the Contemporary Latin American Community in London – 1970s onwards

Alexandra Rappoport (School of Humanities)

Project Title: Translanguaging Practices Among Russian University Students in London.

Faisal Reasat (School of Organisations, Economy and Society)

Project Title: The Distinctiveness of Climate Change Migration: Its Drivers and Implications in the Context of Employment in the RMG Sector of Bangladesh

Khaoula Zitouni Sayyah (School of Humanities)

Project Title: Discourse and Counter-discourse: A multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of ' Crisis', (Im) mobility and Dis-placement Tropes in (Counter)narratives around Contemporary African-European Unauthorised Migrations

Joseph Sykes (School of Humanities)

Project Title: An Exploration of Learner Autonomy in an International University in Japan 

Francesco Arese Visconti (School of Arts)

Project Title:  Re-thinking Photographic Portraiture of 21st Century Italian Migrants in the Arc Lémanique Area

Jing Wang (School of Arts)

Project Title: Artmaking as Place-making: Positioning the Practice of British Transnational Filmmakers in the Landscape of British Artists’ Moving Image Since the 1980s.

Chen Yang (School of Arts)

Project title: Online Media, Cultural Identity and Chinese Migrants in Britain 

Yueya Zhang (School of Organisations, Economy and Society)

Project Title: Co-creating for Social Innovation: A Study of Sustainable Housing for the Senior Community in China