PhD Depictions Photo Competition

2016

THE DOCTORAL COLLEGEwww.wlv.ac.uk/DoctoralCollege

1) Can school based exercise enhance body image in adolescent girls?

Body confidence issues account for 47% of 11-14 year olds refusal to participate in physical activities. Girls as young as eight feel pressure to look beautiful in conventional ways.

This research seeks to support developing adolescents via school based exercise interventions designed to enhance body confidence.

Sharon McIntosh Dalmedo Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing

2) Tree calligraphy

Part of my research into the written word and the limits of representation. I am particularly interested in Chinese calligraphy and the links it offers to what is outside of language - the body of the artist or objects themselves.

Roland Buckingham-Hsiao CADRE, Faculty of the Arts

3) Aging Dancers: Spinal Range of Motion

Reduced spinal mobility may result in activity limitations and participation restrictions, which could subsequently affect quality of life.

This research examines the effects of aging on spinal range of motion (ROM). Results thus far indicate that aging causes increased risk for spinal fractures, loss of ROM and decreased bone density.

The lack of available literature on this subject suggests that more research is needed on the aging spine and how it influences quality of life for aging populations.

Janine BryantFaculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing

4) CarrotsAt the start of my Professional Doctorate journey, I was overwhelmed with the realization of just much I needed to read.

So I decided to give myself a reward, every now and again.

This was my first reward during the construction of my first assignment!

Louise NickellFaculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing

5) Textspeak: Evil in the classroom?Using textspeak is not wrong, it is inappropriate in some settings.

Textspeak has been shown to be beneficial to young people’s literacy skills; it is important to encourage young people to continue to use textspeak, whilst educating them as to the appropriateness of the context in which they use it.

Theresa Summerfield Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing

6) Memento (2010)This image echoes the work that I am considering through my investigation. An installation which invites exploration and engages the senses (sight, smell, touch and sound).

As the Minimalists embraced experimentation, materiality and process, so this work reveals the manner of its production.

Joanne MillsFaculty of Arts

7) Adorned bark of tribute tree

Whilst walking in Dublin, I stopped to speculate with a young girl, about the origin of this tree’s expression of love and loss.

She informed me of her mother’s death and how she felt that her pain was misunderstood.

She felt connected to the tree and its attachment to grief.

She then thanked me for hearing her voice.

Elaine FrawleyFaculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing

8) Emerging from uncertainty: courage and transformation during the doctoral journey

This image depicts discovery, progression, personal and professional growth during my doctoral journey.

As some flowers blossom and emerge from new buds, others develop to full bloom with a new strength; representing advancement in the adversity of the challenges along the way.

Self-exploration and courage are necessary for forward movement.

Jackie MitchellFaculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing

9) A cup of tea and my thesisMy PhD allows me the flexibility to work from home (often in my pyjamas!), giving me the freedom to focus purely on my thesis.

I can delve into the literature, and work at a pace which suits me.

Endless cups of tea (and the odd biscuit) are a bonus too.

Claire TranterFaculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing

10) Urban Patterns and Sustainable Urban Forms in Erbil City-Iraq

Achieving sustainable urban forms in rapidly growing cities becomes a major concern recently. In the historical city of Erbil, in Iraq, the planning of residential projects shows a state of random physical forms with limited attention to sustainability criteria. This research aims to explore the relationship between urban patterns and sustainable urban forms in Erbil.

Rebwar IbrahimFaculty of Science and Engineering

11) Look deep into the archives

This is a photograph taken of the Burnett Working Class Autobiography Archive held at Brunel University`s Special Collections Library. This is amazing collection offers fascinating insights into the lives of the working class from 1790 - 1945. These archival records form the main primary source base for my PhD thesis.

Rebecca BallFaculty of Social Sciences

12) ‘Stickability’ – keeping going through the highs and lows of PhD study

This photograph has been created with the parking tickets bought for my PhD interviews. ‘Stickability’ represents the need to keep at it; to accept that some days, weeks or months will be more proactive than others, to recognise the lows, to exploit the highs and ultimately, you will get there!

Jenni JonesFaculty of Social Sciences

13) Increasing the success of species-rich meadow creation

Meadows are important and threatened habitats. Meadow creation works but some species are difficult. This is a meadow we created in our research and shows the high number of species found in species-rich meadows. Centre is a Common Spotted Orchid: orchids are one of the difficult families to introduce.

Alison WilkesFaculty of Science & Engineering

14) In word and deed, I am revealed: Self as Teacher

Arendt (1958, p183) claims that our action and speech retain their ‘agent revealing capacity’. How do beginning teachers in post-compulsory education (F.E.) act to shape and maintain their unique self-as-subject in their lifeworld of teaching? And what is the significance of subjectness for the teacher and their teaching practice (Biesta 2013)? Julie Wilde

Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing

15) Performing Under Pressure: Doing your best when it matters most

Academy football players train and compete in a highly pressured environment whilst fighting for a professional contract. An ability to perform under pressure is a requirement in producing excellence. Underpinned by a systematic review, this research will develop and deliver interventions designed to help academy players perform under pressure. Sofie Kent

Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing

16) Gesture based control mechanisms in virtual reality simulations

I am researching the use of gesture based technology to support natural and intuitive interaction to create a truly immersive virtual reality simulation with the focus being for use in educational applications. The research is also investigating the causes of simulator sickness and designing custom algorithms to reduce its impact. Adam Worrallo

Faculty of Science & Engineering

17) Climbing Higher to Reach Better Decisions

Those experiencing delusions make snap judgements (Huq, Garety and Hemsley, 1988) and may own climb a few steps of the treehouse to gain perspective.

Those who do not experience delusions, may ascent to the very top of the treehouse to view the expanse of surroundings in sight before making their decisions.

(Moseley Old Hall, Wolverhampton.)

Stephanie RhodesFaculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing

18) Urbanisation & Groundwater Resources Management

The picture was taken in Sun City Estate, Abuja, Nigeria. It shows how the failure of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Water Utility to provide services has led to individuals constructing boreholes to meet their water needs thereby exerting pressure on the already depleting aquifer.

Urban development and groundwater represents one of the most important aspects of growing cities. Failure of the FCT Water Utility to provide services for the growing population has led to indiscriminate sinking of boreholes. Exploitation exceeds sustainable yield, with some projections forecasting total demand increasing to double the sustainable yield in the next four years.

Ephraim Amamki DanladiFaculty of Science and Engineering

19) The power and mystery of the colourless liquid

What you see in the image is some of modern day’s best techniques for analysis of biological materials.

However all of those machines and devices require input, more often than not this always is in the form of an unassuming and innocent clear colourless liquid.

Lawrence EaglesFaculty of Science and Engineering

20) disABILITY. For children’s eyes the whole world is open.

This photo of the three years old girl Agnes I took one year ago in Ukraine. She suffers from Cerebral Palsy. But disability doesn’t mean limitation, it means uniqueness.

In Agnes’s eyes happiness and future with a variety of opportunities. Children’s eyes should shine with joy.

Anna BorzenkovaFaculty of Arts

21) Re-veil to Reveal

In my research I examine the paradoxical, artistic and written strategies on gender and sexuality combined with stark self-reflexivity.

These strategies are compelled by an unusual self-subjectivity that establishes the artist’s autobiographical portraits.

I show that these portraits demonstrate how the subject verbalizes herself into a narrative of objectified difference.

Roma Madan SoniFaculty of Arts