Considering themes of violence and resistance, my research will interrogate how female and gay male audiences are invited to watch slasher films in similar ways, identifying with screen narratives based on (hetero)patriarchal cultural experience. 👻🔪🌈✊🏼🦄✨ #M4C19 #DoctoralWeek

Looking forward to exploring the reasons why Henry VI was so loved after his death despite his abject record as King #doctoralweek #M4C19

@Midlands4Cities #M4C19 #DoctoralWeek Critical-Creative, researching Northern English poets and their depictions of the places they are from. Also writing poems about where I’m from, exploring the poet’s relationship with places in industrial decline.

Networking at its best! #M4C19 #doctoralweek

My project will be about French jurist Émile Giraud (1894-1965), French representative both at the LoN and the UN, and how his paradigmatic experience mirrors the influence of French ideas on international law making and human rights' codification. #M4C19 #DoctoralWeek

My project focuses on how British political theatre has employed Gothic modes to engage with national and cultural crises since the turn of the millennium #Brexit #GothsAssemble #m4c19 #DoctoralWeek

The room is alive with the sound of networking! #M4C19 #DoctoralWeek

My research hopes to uncover the ways in which UK legislation can be amended to become in line with international laws governing rights and protection of the disabled and considers if Irish law may hold the answer. #M4C19 #DoctoralWeek

My research will hopefully uncover the lives of C18th foundlings of colour in the London Foundling Hospital, examining their experiences and their socio-economic positions. It will also explore the institution’s links to transatlantic trade and slavery. #M4C19 #doctoralweek

Very excited to have our first cohort of Midlands4Cities researchers starting their induction today! #M4C19 #Welcome

New tech (e.g. self-driving cars & computer-vision surveillance systems) require for humans to assess the societal impact of AI. The Ethical Turing Test is a transdisciplinary project seeking to empower humans to judge the ethical dimensions of AI algorithms🤖#M4C19 #DoctoralWeek

Using opera as a dissemination tool through interdisciplinary collaboration. Focusing on creating new audiences. Opera is alive! (And useful 🤣). From Science (Physics ⁦⁦@GerardoAdesso⁩) to 1400s Feminist brewers and more! #M4C19 #DoctoralWeek ⁦@Midlands4Cities⁩

Our student advisory forum sharing PhD wisdom. Embrace your headless chicken! Any tips for week one? #phdlife #M4C19

My thesis analyses the colonial collection methods concerning and dissemination of Nigerian folktales, using the archives of Elphinstone Dayrell and Angela Carter. I will then explore how Nigerian women writers reappropriate the folktale form in their fiction #M4C19 #DoctoralWeek

#M4C19 cohort cafe: building collaboration across disciplines. Making plans for future collaborations and making connections. #DoctoralWeek

I’m researching the Medical Women’s Federation (MWF) 1879-1948. In the late 19thc it was very difficult to become a doctor if you were a woman! The MWF was founded to campaign for the interests of medical women. This is a taste of my first chapter #DoctoralWeek #M4C19 #m4cfest19

Great food and greater company @Midlands4Cities induction! Thanks @warwickuni for hosting #AHRC #M4C19

At the #m4c19 welcome event: My PhD project will analyse and materially engage with the relationship between contemporary experimental literature and print & paper based media ✨ #doctoralweek (Image from Derrida’s Paper Machine)

Great to be at the @Midlands4Cities Research Festival, enjoying a day of rich research funded by @ahrcpress, and getting to know the AHRC cohort. #M4C19 #DoctoralWeek