Research
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Postgraduate research
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PhD studyResearch highlights
Beastly Business: Examining the Illegal Trade in Bears, Eels and Songbirds in Europe
Seeking to understand the underlying drivers of why, and how, legal and illegal spheres in the trade in European species are linked.
Previvorship in the platform society
Focusing on 'previvorship', or the condition of coping with a genetic predisposition to cancer prior to cancer occurrence. If, how and to what extent does the governance and design of western social media platforms shape the way previvorship is lived, performed and understood?
Droned Life: Data, Narrative, and the Aesthetics of Worldmaking
Examining drones’ ongoing implications for socio-cultural life through concepts of imaginaries, aesthetics, and worldmaking, and their use in military and civilian realms through four narrative, worldmaking forms - literature, film, the visual arts, and game design.