Humanities PhD Students
Ennas Al-Kedm
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
Ian Baker
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
Barbara Ball
Title: Early Town Development in the Upper Ohio Valley (Working Title)
Supervisors: Dr Mark Ellis (University of Strathclyde, History) Tahitia McCabe (University of Strathclyde, Postgraduate Genealogical, Palaeographic and Heraldic Programme)
Natalie Bello
PhD Journalism
Hanane Benchama
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
Maja Brandt Andreasen
Title: Rape culture in Internet memes about #MeToo
Supervisor:Prof Karen Boyle (University of Strathclyde), Dr Chiara Bernardi (Communications, Media & Culture, University of Stirling)
Funding: AHRC
Nicole Cumming
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
Mila Daskalova
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
Mara Dougall
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
Kelsey Entrikin
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)
Kristin Hay
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
Yun Huang
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
Rukhsar Hussain
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
Andrew Jenkin
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
Rebecca Jones
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
Charlotte Lauder
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
Daniel Massie
Title: Understanding Support: Supporting female film perfomances, The Academy Awards, and Audio-Visual Essays
Supervisors: Dr Ian Garwood (Film & Television Studies, University of Glasgow), Prof Karen Boyle
Funding: AHRC
Tahitia McCabe
Title: American Resident in Scotland, 1850-1901
Supervisors: Dr Mark Ellis (History, University of Strathclyde), Prof Richard Findlay (History, University of Strathclyde)
Lauren McDougall
(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
Clare McKeown
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
Scott McNee
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
Imene Meddoudi
Title: Assessing Transculturality in K-pop Fan Fiction
Suervisors: Prof Kirstie Blair (English, University of Strathclyde), Dr Petya Eckler (Journalism, University of Strathclyde)
Donna Moore
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
Ali Ryland
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
Rory Stride
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
Sam Tabet
Title: Examining Queer Female Bodies in Horror Film
Supervisors: Prof Karen Boyle and Dr Churnjeet Mahn
Eva Ward
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
Kate Wilson
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