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Title: Literary Cultures, Social Networks and the Railway worker, 1840-1920
Supervisors: Prof Kirstie Blair (Eng, Strath), Dr David Goldie (Eng, Strath)
Funding: AHRC
Title: How Saudi Companies use Social Media to Address Crisis Communication
Supervisors: Dr Petya Eckler(Journalism, University of Strathclyde), Dr Michael Higgins (Journalism, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: Scholarship - Saudi Arabia
Title: Creative Interruptions: Grassroots Creativity, State Structures and Disconnection as a Space for Radical Openness
Supervisors: Dr Churnjeet Mahn (Eng, Strath), Prof Jim Mills (History, Strath)
Funding: AHRC
Title: Controlling Cocaine in Colonial Burma (History)
Supervisors: Prof James Mills (History, University of Strathclyde), Dr Patricia Barton (History, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: Wellcome Trust
Title: Differential development on the Ohio River, 1850-1880: A historical and genealogical study of two small towns in Ohio and a rural district of West Virginia, before and after the U.S. Civil War
Supervisors: Dr Mark Ellis (University of Strathclyde, History) Tahitia McCabe (University of Strathclyde, Postgraduate Genealogical, Palaeographic and Heraldic Programme)
Title: Between Victimhood and Resistance: Algerian Women in the Literature and Film of The Black Decade
Supervisors: Dr Caroline Verdier (French, University of Strathclyde), Prof David Murphy (French, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: Scholarship – Algerian Embassy
Title: Use of Folktale Adaptions in Exploring Gendered Social Narratives and the Far-Right Radicalization of Online Communities
Supervisors: Dr Rodge Glass (Creative Writing, University of Strathclyde), Dr Esperanza Miyake (Journalism, University of Strathclyde), Darshana Jayemanne (external)
Funding: Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities/Arts and Humanities Research Council
Title: Keep It Quiet: A Study of Access to Information Concerning Japanese Internment in the United States During World War II
Supervisors: First - Dr. Emma Newlands (History, University of Strathclyde), Second - Dr. Mark Ellis (History, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: Dean's Global Research Studentship Award
Title: Irish emigrant women and Dundee's textile industry, c.1840-1950
Supervisors: Dr Niall Whelehan (History, University of Strathclyde), Prof Edna Delaney (Edinburgh)
Funding: SGSAH
Title: Industrial Workers as Readers: Libraries, Reading Rooms and the Industrial Workplace in the Long Nineteenth Century
Supervisors: Prof Kirstie Blair (Eng, Strath), Dr Sarah Edwards (Eng, Strath)
Funding: AHRC
Title: "Reforming" human and animal relationships in early modern Scotland, c. 1560-1660
Supervisors: Prof Erica Fudge (English, University of Strathclyde) and Dr Steven Reid (University of Glasgow)
Funding: AHRC
Title: Not as it Seems, Place Space and Augmented Realty Games
Supervisors: Dr Esperanza Miyake (Strathclyde) and Dr Tom Brock (Manchester Metropolitan)
Title: Printing and Periodical Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Asylum
Supervisors: Prof Kirstie Blair (English, University of Strathclyde), Prof Matt Smith (History, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: AHRC
Title: Writing Unity: a practise-led exploration of female physicality in early twentieth century historial fiction
Supervisors: Dr Liam Bell (University of Stirling), Dr Laura Kelly (History, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: Internal
Title: A Study of Sex and Gender in Omegaverse Fan Fiction
Supervisors: Dr Chrunjeet Mahn (English, University of Strathclyde), Prof Kirstie Blair (English, University of Strathclyde)
Title: Smartphones, experience and cyborgian identity
Supervisors: Dr Esperanza Miyake (Strathclyde) & Dr Adi Kuntsman (Manchester Metropolitan)
Title: The Legacy of the Water: a comparative study of the literary identity of the cities of Glasgow and Genoa
Supervisors: Prof Johnny Rodger, Dr Giovanna Guidicini (Glasgow School of Art), Dr Sarah Edwards (Eng, Strathclyde)
Funding: AHRC
Title: Mapping places through prose
Supervisors: Dr Rodge Glass (CW, Strath), Mr Andrew Meehan (CW, Strath)
Title: An Oral History of Birth Control in Scotland, c. 1960-2000
Supervisors: Dr Laura Kelly (History, University of Strathclyde), Dr Emma Newlands (History, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: Wellcome Trust
Title: The role of reputation in cases involving sexual assault and misconduct: The importance of a (male) name
Supervisors: Prof Karen Boyle (Gender Studies, University of Strathclyde), Dr Michael Higgins (Journalism, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: Global Research Award (Strathclyde)
Title: History of Cocaine in China, 1880s-1940s
Supervisors: Prof Jim Mills (History, University of Strathclyde), Dr Patricia Barton (History, University of Starthclyde)
Funding: China Scholarship Council and Wellcome Trust
Title: The representation of Hijras in South Asian fiction, cinema and life writing
Supervisors: Dr Churnjeet Mahn (English, University of Strathclyde), Prof Yvette Taylor (Education, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: HaSS Doctorial Studentship
Title: Fandom, Media and Gender in Scotland's "National" Game
Supervisors: Prof Karen Boyle (University of Strathclyde), Prof Richard Haynes (Communications, Media & Culture, University of Stirling), Andrew Pike (Scottish Football Association)
Funding: AHRC
Title: Consuming Men: Masculinity, Meat and Myth in Literary Fictions from Mary Shelley to Ursula K. Le Guin
Supervisors: Prof Erica Fudge (English, University of Strathclyde), Dr Elsa Richardson (English, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: University of Strathclyde
Title: Sun, Sea, Sand - Self-Loathe? A mixed-methods explorative study of the concept of the ideal beach body and its relation to women’s body image concerns
Name of supervisors: Dr Petya Eckler (Journalism, University of Strathclyde), Dr Andrea Tonner (Marketing, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: Self-funded
Title: Body positivity empowerment on Instagram in the UK and Turkey
Supervisors: Dr Petya Eckler (Journalism, University of Strathclyde), Dr Andrea Tonner (Marketing, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: Scholarship – Turkey
Title: Can readers go wrong with fiction? An interdisciplinary study of whether fiction can change readers for the worse
Supervisors: Prof Nigel Fabb (Eng, Strath), Dr Elspeth Jajdelska (Eng, Strath)
Funding: Algerian gov
Title: Press, print and nation: recovering popular Scottish magazine culture, 1870 to the 1920s.
Supervisors: Prof Kirstie Blair (English, University of Strathclyde), Dr David Goldie (English, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: AHRC - Collaborative Doctoral Partnership
Title: Exploring the psychological aspects of addiction to social media
Name of supervisors: Dr Stephen Butler (Psychology, University of Strathclyde), Dr Petya Eckler (Journalism, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: self-funded
Title: Social Media and Political Activism in Nigeria
Supervisors: Dr Michael Higgins (Journalism, University of Strathclyde), Dr Chamil Rathnayake (Journalism, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: Scholarship
Title: The role of online discussion forums in decision-making and attitude formation about childhood vaccination
Supervisors: Dr Petya Eckler (Journalism, University of Strathclyde), Dr Sallyanne Duncan (Journalism, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: Scholarship – Turkey
Title: Spanish Crisis Cinema: Stasis, Stillness and Immobility (2008-2018)
Supervisors: Professor David Murphy & Dr Beatriz Caballero
Title: American Resident in Scotland, 1850-1901
Supervisors: Dr Mark Ellis (History, University of Strathclyde), Prof Richard Findlay (History, University of Strathclyde)
(Working) Title: Humanking Versus the Natural World: How are early modern English conceptions of "civility" and "civilisation" threatened by the Irish environment, and how does the resulting English hostility manifest itself with those conceptions?
Supervisors: Dr Erica Fudge (English, University of Strathclyde), Dr Ali Cathcart (University of Stirling)
Funding: Internal
Title: Hear the Hammers Ring: Shipyard Workers, Literary Culture and Communities on the Clydeside and in Belfast, 1840-1914.
Supervisors: Professor Kirstie Blair (English) and Dr. Niall Whelehan (History).
Funding: SGSAH / AHRC.
Title: Landscape, Literature and the Place of the Scottish Coal Mine, from the eighteenth-century to the present’
Supervisors: University of Stirling, Prof Kirstie Blair (Eng, Strath)
Funding: AHRC
Title: Missing from the Picture: Beauty Norms in Scottish Anti-Men's Violence Against Women Campaigns
Supervisors: Dr Alenka Jelen (Public Relations, University of Stirling), Prof Karen Boyle
Funding: AHRC
Title: It's No Real Pleasure in Life: The Grotesque in Southern Gothic and Beyond
Supervisors: Kevin MacNeil (University of Stirling), Dr Elspeth Jajdelska (English, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: University of Strathclyde Research Studentship
Title: Site-Specific Performances : Actor/Performer/Facilitator, A Transformative Experience
Supervisors: Dr David Goldie (Eng, Strath), Prof Yvette Taylor (Education, Strathclyde)
Title: Assessing Transculturality in K-pop Fan Fiction
Supervisors: Prof Kirstie Blair (English, University of Strathclyde), Dr Petya Eckler (Journalism, University of Strathclyde)
Title: Sources & Silences: A Feminist Creative Intervention in Historical Crime Fiction
Supervisors: Dr Liam Bell (Creative Writing, University of Stirling), Prof Karen Boyle
Funding: AHRC
Title: Self-Branding and New Forms of Masculinity in Online Spaces
Supervisors: Dr Esperanza Miyake (Strathclyde) and Dr Chamil Rathnayake (Strathclyde)
Title: Identity creation in online spaces
Supervisors: Dr Andrea Tonner (Marketing, University of Strathclyde), Dr Petya Eckler (Journalism, University of Strathclyde)
- Title : Baldwin’s Blues: Music and Narrative in James Baldwin’s Writing
- Supervisors : Dr Sophie Jones (primary supervisor), Dr Mark Ellis, Professor Nigel Fabb
- Funding: Partially funded by the global research award
Title: 'Why don't they just go home?': Women's Aid in Britain and the women's refuge movement as a transnational endeavour, 1971-1996.
Supervisors: Prof Lynn Abrams (Glasgow), Prof Karen Boyle (Strathclyde)
Funding: AHRC
Title: "Why buy the cow when the milk is free?": The shared identity of women and cows, from milkmaid to milking machine
Supervisors: Prof Erica Fudge (English, University of Strathclyde), Prof Kirstie Blair (English, University of Strathlcyde)
Funding: Internal
Title: Coercive Control at the Intersect of Gender, Race and Religion: Narratives of South Asian Women in Scotland
Supervisors: Dr Melanie McCarry (Social Work and Social Policy, University of Strathclyde), Prof Karen Boyle (Gender Studies, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: Strathclyde Excellence Award
Title: The relationship between the current debate of Critical Posthumanism and contemporary South Asian Anglophone Literature
Supervisors: Prof Nigel Fabb (English, University of Strathclyde), Dr Elspeth Jajdelska (English, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: Self-funded
Title: Reading fiction and identity formation: an empirical literary study from an integrated perspective of psychology and sociology
Supervisors: Prof Nigel Fabb (Eng, Strath), Dr Elspeth Jajdelska (Eng, Strath)
Title: A history of speech therapy in twentieth century Britain
Supervisors: Dr Laura Kelly (History, University of Strathclyde), Dr Angela Turner (History, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: Self-funded
Title: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the Scottish popular press: How print media coverage of PTSD has impacted the lives of the people featured in those stories.
Supervisors Dr Sallyanne Duncan (Journalism, University of Strathclyde); Dr Susan Rasmussen (Psychology, University of Strathclyde)
Title: Gender, Loss and Memory: The Impact of Deindustrialisation on Women Woerkers in Scotland since 1970
Supervisors: Prof Arthur McIvor (History, University of Strathclyde), Dr Laura Kelly (History, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: AHRC
Title: Examining Queer Female Bodies in Horror Film
Supervisors: Prof Karen Boyle and Dr Churnjeet Mahn
Title: An Oral History of the "Obesity Epidemic” in Scotland, 1980 to 2000
Supervisors: Dr Elsa Richardson (History, University of Strathclyde), Dr Donna McCormack (English, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: Strathclyde Student Excellence Award
Title: The Re-presentation of History in the Works of Mo Yan, Ma Jian and Yan Lianke
Supervisors: Prof Nigel Fabb (Eng, Strath), Dr Churnjeet Mahn (Eng, Strath)
Title: Get In Touch With The Plant-based “Exotic Food”: A Study Of Representations of Chinese food and Chinese Immigrants in the UK
Supervisors: Prof Erica Fudge (Eng, Strath), Dr Elsa Richardson (History, Strath)
Title: Psychoactive Substances in the American Philippines (The Asian Cocaine Crisis: Pharmaceuticals, consumers and control in South and East Asia, c. 1900-1945)
Supervisors: Prof Jim Mills (History, University of Strathclyde), Dr Patricia Barton (History, University of Strathclyde)
Funding: Wellcome Trust
Title: Comparative cultural history of the 'Scots-Irish' in the Carolinas and the Ulster Presbyterians in Ireland in the areas of music and religious practice, 1760-1840
Supervisors: John Young (History, University of Strathclyde) & Mark Ellis (History, University of Strathclyde
Title: Community literature and cultural activism Glasgow 1960-1990
Supervisors: Dr Eleanor Bell (English, University of Strathclyde), Dr Angela Bartie (University of Edinburgh)
Funding: AHRC
Title: The Shamrock and the Thistle: The Impact of Irish and Scottish settlers on their communities in Saskatchewan, 1905-1929
Supervisors: Prof Tanja Bueltmann (History, University of Strathclyde) and Tahitia McCabe (Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Strathclyde).