My main supervisory interests are in the understanding and applications of drawing in clinical settings, the use of drawing as a tool of learning, approaches to arts/health research, the relationship between drawing and writing and creative/visual research methods.
I am currently supervising:
Vanessa Marr (PhD, School of Art and Media) with Jessica Moriarty; Â
Caehryn Tinker (PhD, School of Art and Media) with Heidi von Kurthy and Kay Aranda;
James Murray (PhD, School of Art and Media) with Gavin Fry and Duncan Bullen;
Lindsay Sekulowicz (AHRC Collaborative Doctorate, School of Humanities and Social Science) with Claire Wintle at 91¿ì»îÁÖ, William Milliken and Mark Nesbitt at Kew Gardens and Luciana Martins at Birkbeck, and;
Muna Al-Jawad (PhD by Publication) with Jayne Lloyd.
I have also acted as a learning mentor for a PhD student for the last 2 years.
I have supervised 4 PhD students to completion: Dr Simon Bliss, Jewellery, Silver and the Applied and Decorative Arts in the Culture of Modernism, 2019; Dr Gavin Fry, Male textile artists in 1980s Britain: a practice based inquiry into their reasons for using this medium, 2018; Dr Curie Scott, Elucidating perceptions of ageing through participatory drawing: a phenomenographic approach, 2018; Dr Sarah Haybittle, Correspondence, trace and the landscape of narrative: a visual, verbal and literary dialectic, 2015.
I have been an independent chair for a PhD examination (Andrew Cross) and have examined six PhDs: Jane Shepard, University of 91¿ì»îÁÖ, 2022 (internal examiner); Melissa Cheung, University of Sydney, Australia, 2019 (external examiner); Louisa Buck, University of 91¿ì»îÁÖ, 2018 (internal examiner); Samantha Lynch, University of 91¿ì»îÁÖ, 2018 (internal examiner); Mike Sadd, University of 91¿ì»îÁÖ, August 2015 (internal examiner); Tanja Golja, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, January 2012 (external examiner).
I've acted as internal examiner for three MRes students: Claire Scanlon, 2019; Diana Brighouse, 2015; and Mark Lander, 2014.
I have also been an independent reader for MPhil/PhD transfers and Annual Progression Review reader for 4 students.