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Research Expertise and Projects

Areas of research expertise and supervision within MIRIAD and the Faculty of Art & Design.

  • Activist Arts
  • Applied Arts and Craft
  • Architectural Conservation
  • Architecture
  • Art and Aesthetics of Obsolete Technologies
  • Art and Anthropology
  • Art and Diasporas
  • Art and Ecology
  • Art and Expertise in Contemporary Practice
  • Art and Health
  • Art and Installation
  • Art and Politics
  • Art and Sound
  • Art and Theory
  • Art and Well-being
  • Authorial Illustration
  • Book Arts
  • British Cinema
  • Business Development in Craft
  • Ceramics
  • Children's Media
  • Collections and Collectors
  • Community Arts
  • Computer Aided Design
  • Consumer Product Design
  • Contemporary Fashion Culture
  • Craft
  • Craft and Anthropology
  • Creative Media Practice
  • Creative Writing and the Graphic Arts
  • Creativity and Practice
  • Critical Theory for Art and Design
  • Cultural Memory
  • Cultures of Conflict
  • Curating the Contemporary
  • Deleuze and Screen Studies
  • Design
  • Design for Manufacture
  • Design Theory
  • Digital Art
  • Digital Craft
  • Digital Design
  • Digital film making
  • Digital Motion Graphics
  • Documentary Drawing
  • Drawing
  • Drawing and Memory
  • Drawing and Visualisation for Design
  • Eco-pedagogy
  • Embroidery
  • Environmental Arts
  • European Cinemas
  • Fashion Design
  • Fashion Imaging
  • Fashion Textiles
  • Feminism
  • Film and media theory, philosophy and history
  • Fine Art
  • Furniture Design
  • Garment Production Techniques
  • Gender
  • Glass
  • Graphic Design and Art Direction
  • Graphic Novel and the Comic
  • History of Architecture in the 20th and 21stC
  • History of Art in the 20th and 21stC
  • History of Craft in the 20th and 21stC
  • History of Design in the 20th and 21stC
  • Identity
  • Illustration
  • Industrial Design
  • Installation
  • Integral Critical Futures
  • Interactive Media Arts
  • Interior Environment Design
  • Jewellery
  • Landscape Architecture and Design
  • Location, Memory and the Visual
  • Material Culture
  • Media and Technology
  • Media Arts
  • Media Ethnography
  • Media Narratives
  • Memory and Place
  • Mobile and Networked Media
  • Narrative in the Moving Image
  • New Screen Media
  • Pedagogy in Art and Design
  • Photography
  • Postcolonialism and Transnationalism
  • Postwar Art and Design
  • Printed Textiles
  • Product Development
  • Public Art
  • Publicity, Propaganda and Advertising
  • Screen Typography
  • Semiotics in Graphic Communication
  • Sensory Cultures
  • Short Film
  • Site-specific Art
  • Social Aesthetics
  • Socially Engaged Practice
  • Surrealism
  • Sustainable Design in Architecture
  • Tapestry
  • Text and Image
  • Textile Design
  • Textile History
  • Three Dimensional Design
  • TV Comedy
  • TV Studies
  • Urbanism
  • Visual Culture
  • War and Representation
  • Whole Systems Ecology
  • Women's Art
  • Writing for the Media

Also see Research Students Project Titles

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Projects

Current research projects to which research students might be attached.

  • Anthropometrics (body scanning) for clothing
  • Art and diaspora
  • Art and obsolescent technologies
  • Artists/designers and Asian Cultures and Communities in the UK
  • Arts, festivals and events
  • CAD/CAM
  • Clothing comfort
  • Clothing technology related areas
  • Colour forecasting
  • Comics and Animation
  • Continuity in architecture: historic buildings, conservation and new uses
  • Cultural policy and programming
  • Cultures of conflict
  • Destinations and place
  • Ecological arts and the Mersey Basin.
  • Ethnicity and culture
  • Events experience
  • Fashion business
  • Fashion practice
  • Fashion product development
  • Healthy eating
  • International fashion marketing
  • International food culture with a focus on slow food and sustainability
  • Intersections between anthropology and art
  • Maker and the archive: the value of museum collections for contemporary practice
  • Media and Production
  • Migration, transnationalism, creativity and innovation
  • New media and contemporary craft practice
  • Performance of materials for clothing.
  • Photography: histories, documents, collective memory, collections and archives.
  • Physical infrastructures and digital networks in the urban environment
  • Printed ephemera
  • Propaganda, publicity and advertising
  • Rethinking Surrealism
  • Stitch and the community
  • Sustainable approaches to the remodelling of existing buildings
  • Sustainable urban communities – climatically derived and energy intensive solar societies.
  • Sustainable urban communities – ecological societies & urban farming.
  • Tourist experience

Enquiries

For further information please contact the Art & Design Research Degrees Administrator.

Tel: +44 (0)161 247 4609

Email: miriad@mmu.ac.uk