Current Research Students and their Projects

 

 

 


 

 

Please click on the names below for further details of projects currently undertaken by TFTS Research Students:

 

  • Rhodri Ap Dyfrig: Cyfryngau Cydgyfeiriol a'r Economi Ddigidol (Media Convergence and the Digital Economy)
  • Ahmad Alzafeeri: Turkish Soap Operas and Kuwaiti Audiences
  • Terry Bailey: Digital Drama- Scenario Manuals in the Age of Multimedia
  • Sam Christie: ' Cantre'r Gwaelod and Tales of Inundation' - a case study that proposes filmmaking as a mode of enquiry and as a tangible research output
  • Rebecca Collins: 'Betwixt and between', Spectator/participant/performer: Towards a Democratic aesthetics
  • Caroline Dale: History of the British Media in World War II
  • Branwen Davies: Ysgrifennu yng Nghymru heddiw, sut mae'n cael ei feithrin a beth yw'r dyfodol? (New Writing in Wales today: how is it being developed and what is the future?)
  • Helen Davies: Does the media mediate or maintain minority language: a case study looking at children's television aimed at 7-11 year olds
  • Cristina Delgado Garcia:  Unattributed Speech, (Dis)Wmbodiment, and Self-Obliteration: The Politics of Disidentification in Contemporary British Drama

 

 

 

 

 

 


  • Nia Edwards-Behi: Remaking Taste: Four case studies into the changing reception of controversial films and their remakes
  • Gareth Evans: Theatr Ôl-ddramataidd yng Nghymru/Postdramatic Theatre in Wales.
  • Tracy Evans: There’s a stork in the labyrinth: Towards a phenomenology of birth, trauma and memory
  • Rhian Harry: Practice based film enquiry
  • Lee Hassall:  I Have Played The Fool.
  • David Haylock: Theatre of Fireworks: in what ways could new media technologies aid the reception of modern theatrical performance
  • Wei-Juei Wendy Hsieh: Ba-jia-jiang As Religious Theatre  
  • Mareike Jenner:  Follow the Evidence : The Search for Truth, Justice and Scientific Objectivity in the Contemporary American Crime Serial
  • Ffion Jones : Landscaping the rural
  • Matthew Jones:‘Theatr yr ifanc mewn perthynas â’r diwylliant digidol’ (‘Theatre for Young people in the digital age’)

 

  • Stephanie Jones: A reception study and textual analysis of masculinties in James Bond Films
  • Garen Karapetyan: Genocide 24fps:cinematic representations of genocide
  • Reuben Knutson: Evolving Communities, Evolving Landscapes
  • Daniel Ladnar:The role of the lecture performance in contemporary performance practice and research
  • Conan Lawrence: Locating bodies of enchantment: rural site-specific performance and documentation
  • Alison Matthews: Dramaturgies of Social Exchange
  • Rod Munday: An ethnographic study of the medium of ‘Second Life.’
  • Robbie McAllister: An analysis of 21st century Steampunk cinema and the relevance of Neo-Victorianism to current debates in film theory
  • Rowan O'Neill: Archwylio hunaniaeth: Ymchwil hewristig trwy gyfrwng archif yr artist clifford Mc Lucas (Investigating Identity: heuristic research through the medium of the archive of the artist Clifford McLucas)
  • Edward Payne: Football Memories: The Exploration of Football Fandom through Popular Cultural Memory.
  • Tom Payne: Performing Location: The Launch Year of National Theatre Wales.
  • Emma Pett: British Audiences of Asian Extreme Films
  • Wikanda Promkhuntong (Tan) On Becoming East Asian Auteurs: The Transnational Reputation Making Processes of Hong Kong’s Wong Kar-wai, Thailand’s Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and South Korea’s Kim Ki-duk
  • Sion Richards: Strategaeth ar gyfer cynhyrchu a dosbarthu cynnwys aml-gyfryngol ar-lein mewn cyd-destunau lleol a hyper-lleol yn yr iaith Gymraeg (Strategies for producing and distributing online, multi-media Welsh language content in local and hyper-local contexts)
  • Louise Ritchie: Digital notation: new approaches to physical theatre and its documents.

 

  • Kirsty Sedgman:The National Theatre Wales (NTW) Audience Research Project
  • Ywain Tomos: Esblygiad neu Chwyldro? Beth yw'r prif ddylanwadau ar anime siapaniaidd yn dilyn ei ddatblygiad fel genre byd eang wrth edrych ar waith Hayao Miyazaki a Satoshi Kon? (Evolution or revolution? What are the main influences on Japanese anime following its development as a world wide genre with specific focus on the work of Hayao Miyazaki a Satoshi Kon?)
  • Enrique Uribe Jongbloed: A study of Minority Language Media Policies in Wales and the Basque Country and their lessons for the development of Minority Language Media and their policy in Colombia. 
  • Ian Wilkie: Comic Theory in Performance:  An Analysis of Superiority, Relief and Incongruity in Operation in Scottish Comic Performance in the Mass-Media Age.
  • Ashley Wallington: In(authentic) Tendencies: Postdramatic Theatre with Young People.
  • James Woolley: Queer[y]ing the Archive: Unveiling the Invisible in Performance Art Documentation.