Current Research Students and their Projects

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

• Richard Allen:  The Object as Postdramatic Gesture.
• 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
• Arseli Dokumaci: Misfires That Matter: Invisible Physical Disabilities in Everyday Life.
• Nia Edwards-Behi: Reception and marketing of remakes of controversial films
• Gareth Evans: Theatr Ôl-ddramataidd yng Nghymru/Postdramatic Theatre in Wales.
• 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: Ecoleg Theatr yr Ifanc mewn Diwylliant Digidol (The Ecology of Theatre for Young People in a Digital Culture)
• 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
• 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 Sedgeman: Audiences for Theatre
• 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.