Welcome to our new PhD students

We have a number of new students joining us here at CCI this year, with a diverse range of topics. Its an exciting time for them to be part of the department. So hello to them all and, of course, welcome back to our existing PhDs. Our 7 new students are:

Z. Feyza Akinerdem researching Family in Representation: The Case of Marriage Shows in Turkey

Charlotte Bonham-Carter researching ‘Instrumental Cultural Policy and the Governance of Contemporary Arts Organisations.’

Ulrike Chouguley researching Behind the scenes of world cities’ cultural show: a case study analysis of how the ‘informal’ underpins the ‘formal’ cultural sector in four cities

Aysegul Kesimoglu researching Food, Identity & Nation: A socio-cultural approach to Gastronomic Tourism in Turkey

Kate Mattocks researching The politics of cultural identity in European Union cultural policy

Umed Muhammad Ameen ‏researching Lexical Choices in Shaping the Translations of Political Articles from English into Sorani Kurdish

Jou-an Chen The Flow of Fashion Designers between London, Shanghai and Taipei

Laura García Favaro whose thesis title is TBC, but is interested in Postfeminist media culture; postfeminism, neoliberalism and subjectivities

Kazi Saleh researching The role of domain expertise and translation expertise in English-Kurdish medical translation

Click on the names to find out more about the work they are doing!