Ariel is undertaking a PhD in Creative Languages. Her topic is exploring the ways in which nuclear energy becomes framed in public discourse and popular culture, and, in turn, how those framing narratives impact upon developments in the nuclear sector. She is especially interested in ways these narratives are framed in France. Her research is part of the energy thematic in the MSF.

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I am interested in gender and inter-institutional dynamics in current China. Specifically, my focus is mainly on non-governmental organisations promoting gender equality.

Moreover, I am also fascinated by the current Chinese diverse nuances of feminism.

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The fast-growing development of nanotechnology support the idea of 'infinitive' data storage. We are able to store more and more information. This leads us to future where we would be able to store everything. My PhD project is focused on exploring future outcomes of such vision. If we could store everything, would we be able to actually retrieve relevant information? If so, how? Would we need tools to clean our digital dirt? How will we interact with our digital world on the individual but also collective, social level if we had no storage limitations?

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My research is focused on the interplay between National Identity as a flawed form of an image of totality and Nation as an imaginary artefact. Arguing for Literature as an indispensable means of examining the phenomena in an Algerian and South African context, my work is of a comparative approach. I aim at exploring the process of identification through key historical points in the development of the Algerian and South African Nations.

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I am a first year PhD student at DelC. My research focuses on hermeneutics, translation and Lao Tzu's philosophy.

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Begging is a human phenomenon which cuts across all races and cultures. The representation of beggars has long been a preoccupation of African writers and this research examines literary appraisal as a mirror for, and interrogation of such social conditions as exemplified in contemporary Nigerian writers in their exploration of the Almajiri child beggar. Hitherto, the Almajiri is seen as a potential authority in the field of Islamic knowledge but today, he is often seen as a displaced figure symbolised by hunger and poverty and whose survival strategy is to beg for alms in a society where the majority stigmatise him.

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Join the MSF in 2019-20 to expand the energy thematic in the MSF. Her PhD will focus on public understanding of nuclear energy in the Lancaster area and how this understanding is mediated through contemporary media, such as computer games and their narratives. Her PhD is the dept of Creative Languages and it tentatively titled ‘Temporality and Space in the Nuclear Paradigm: Exploring a “Fallout” yet to come’.

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My research is currently focused on the work of women surrealists and their use of mythological imagery to explore and assert their artistic identities. I approach this from a queer phenomenological angle, as well as drawing from psychoanalysis and poststructural feminism.

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I study the history and evolution of comics, with a strong emphasis on the relationship among these and other artistic and narrative forms (maps, chronologies, calligrams, rebus, etc.) and on the multi-panel sequential narration (frescoes, tapestries, picture books, etc.). One of the central points of my research is the attempt to overcome a literary approach to the medium in favour of a more visual one. My current research concerns both the attempt to insert comics into the wider field of data visualization and the study of comics as a medium capable of implementing scientific communication and dissemination.

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