Doctoral researchers in film and Creative Writing Back to 'FCW research' The Department of Film and Creative Writing maintains a thriving and diverse postgraduate community. A broad range of research opportunities are available to our students. Profiles of some of our doctoral researchers and information on their research topics are shown below. Louise Coopey Doctoral researcher PhD title: Representing the 21st Century Other: Monsters and (Wo)men in Game of ThronesSupervisors: Dr James Walters and Dr Richard LangleyPhD Film Studies Dominique Duberry Doctoral researcher PhD title: Thug-life Britain: Hip-hop, a true reflection of urban reality or a glamorised lie? Supervisor: Dr Luke Kennard & Dr Elsa Braekkan-Payne PhD Creative Writing Ian Dudley Doctoral researcher PhD title: The Museum Supervisor: Dr Isabel Galleymore and Professor John Holmes PhD Creative Writing David Evans-Powell Doctoral researcher Thesis title: Sunlight and Terror: Mapping the characteristic contours of folk horror in British screen texts Supervisor: Dr James WaltersPhD Film Studies Luis Freijo Doctoral researcher Thesis title: De-Westernising the Western: Remapping Genre Theory for World Cinema Supervisor: Professor Rob Stone and Dr Catherine LesterPhD Film Studies Fady Gamal Atallah Doctoral researcher PhD title: Interrelation between Film, Philosophy and Anti-Realism in Scandinavian Cinema (as a representative case study) Supervisor: Professor Rob Stone and Dr Richard Langley PhD Film Studies Jens Garrelfs Doctoral researcher PhD title: Complicit Narratives - A Fictional Investigation of the Volkswagen Emissions ScandalSupervisors: Dr Dan Vyleta and Dr Anna MetcalfePhD Creative Writing Nina Jones Doctoral researcher PhD title: Where did they bury the ethics?: A study of the ethics within contemporary true crime documentary. Supervisor: Dr Richard Langley, Dr Merten Reglitz and Professor Rob Stone PhD Film Studies with Audio-Visual Olga Kenton Doctoral researcher PhD title: The Silent Voices of Russian Immigration Supervisor: Dr Dan Vyleta, Dr Nataliya Rulyova and Dr Richard House PhD Creative Writing Sarah Leamy Doctoral researcher PhD title: On Ambiguity: A study into the craft and authors of gender-queer and androgynous narratives in contemporary western literature.Supervisor: Dr Anna MetcalfePhD Creative Writing Oscar Mealia Doctoral researcher PhD title: ‘Inhuman, all too Inhuman: Lyotard, Film and the aesthetics of the Digital’. Supervisor: Dr Richard Langley and Professor Rob Stone PhD Film Studies with Audio-Visual Rachel Sargeant Doctoral researcher PhD title: Hijacking Survivor Narratives: trauma appropriation in fictionSupervisors: Dr Ruth Gilligan and Dr Dan VyletaPhD Creative Writing Jemma Saunders Doctoral researcher PhD title: Looking for Birmingham: the Fragmented Audio-Visual City (working title)Supervisor: Dr James Walters and Dr Richard LangleyFilm Studies with Audio-Visual PhD Jennifer Steil Doctoral researcher PhD title: Erebo: A narrative and critical exploration of representations of a queer underground in South America as a revolutionary space, a postcolonial space, and a gendered space Supervisor: Dr Dan Vyleta PhD Creative Writing Ren Warom Doctoral researcher PhD title: Reprogramming the Signifiers: Examining the power of post-truth spectacle in a hyperreality and the mechanics of restoring meaning in a meaningless world Supervisor: Dr Richard Langley and Dr Stephen Forcer PhD Film Studies Ella Wright Doctoral researcher PhD title: ‘Half-Essay, Half-Film’: The search for concreteness in the video essay form. Supervisor: Dr Richard Langley and Dr James Walters PhD Film Studies with Audio-Visual
Louise Coopey Doctoral researcher PhD title: Representing the 21st Century Other: Monsters and (Wo)men in Game of ThronesSupervisors: Dr James Walters and Dr Richard LangleyPhD Film Studies
Dominique Duberry Doctoral researcher PhD title: Thug-life Britain: Hip-hop, a true reflection of urban reality or a glamorised lie? Supervisor: Dr Luke Kennard & Dr Elsa Braekkan-Payne PhD Creative Writing
Ian Dudley Doctoral researcher PhD title: The Museum Supervisor: Dr Isabel Galleymore and Professor John Holmes PhD Creative Writing
David Evans-Powell Doctoral researcher Thesis title: Sunlight and Terror: Mapping the characteristic contours of folk horror in British screen texts Supervisor: Dr James WaltersPhD Film Studies
Luis Freijo Doctoral researcher Thesis title: De-Westernising the Western: Remapping Genre Theory for World Cinema Supervisor: Professor Rob Stone and Dr Catherine LesterPhD Film Studies
Fady Gamal Atallah Doctoral researcher PhD title: Interrelation between Film, Philosophy and Anti-Realism in Scandinavian Cinema (as a representative case study) Supervisor: Professor Rob Stone and Dr Richard Langley PhD Film Studies
Jens Garrelfs Doctoral researcher PhD title: Complicit Narratives - A Fictional Investigation of the Volkswagen Emissions ScandalSupervisors: Dr Dan Vyleta and Dr Anna MetcalfePhD Creative Writing
Nina Jones Doctoral researcher PhD title: Where did they bury the ethics?: A study of the ethics within contemporary true crime documentary. Supervisor: Dr Richard Langley, Dr Merten Reglitz and Professor Rob Stone PhD Film Studies with Audio-Visual
Olga Kenton Doctoral researcher PhD title: The Silent Voices of Russian Immigration Supervisor: Dr Dan Vyleta, Dr Nataliya Rulyova and Dr Richard House PhD Creative Writing
Sarah Leamy Doctoral researcher PhD title: On Ambiguity: A study into the craft and authors of gender-queer and androgynous narratives in contemporary western literature.Supervisor: Dr Anna MetcalfePhD Creative Writing
Oscar Mealia Doctoral researcher PhD title: ‘Inhuman, all too Inhuman: Lyotard, Film and the aesthetics of the Digital’. Supervisor: Dr Richard Langley and Professor Rob Stone PhD Film Studies with Audio-Visual
Rachel Sargeant Doctoral researcher PhD title: Hijacking Survivor Narratives: trauma appropriation in fictionSupervisors: Dr Ruth Gilligan and Dr Dan VyletaPhD Creative Writing
Jemma Saunders Doctoral researcher PhD title: Looking for Birmingham: the Fragmented Audio-Visual City (working title)Supervisor: Dr James Walters and Dr Richard LangleyFilm Studies with Audio-Visual PhD
Jennifer Steil Doctoral researcher PhD title: Erebo: A narrative and critical exploration of representations of a queer underground in South America as a revolutionary space, a postcolonial space, and a gendered space Supervisor: Dr Dan Vyleta PhD Creative Writing
Ren Warom Doctoral researcher PhD title: Reprogramming the Signifiers: Examining the power of post-truth spectacle in a hyperreality and the mechanics of restoring meaning in a meaningless world Supervisor: Dr Richard Langley and Dr Stephen Forcer PhD Film Studies
Ella Wright Doctoral researcher PhD title: ‘Half-Essay, Half-Film’: The search for concreteness in the video essay form. Supervisor: Dr Richard Langley and Dr James Walters PhD Film Studies with Audio-Visual