Andrew welcomes interest from researchers and organisations for collaborative research projects and postgraduate supervision with interests particularly in the strategic and operational production, interaction and application of illustration and animation in emerging media for both practice-based and full thesis PhD variants of study.

 

Completed PhD supervisions:

  • Dr Haifa Alhumaidan: Co-Design of Augmented Reality Book for Collaborative Learning Experience in Primary Education, co-supervised with Dr Kathy Pui Ying Lo, as part of the Service Design Mini Centre for Doctoral Training led by Dr Kathy Pui Ying Lo
  • Dr Hind Alhumaihdi: Visualising Najd women’s oral history through rotoscope animation: A feminist case study in the Al Salem Museum, co-supervised with Professor Paul Wells
  • Dr Hend Althibiti: Revealing, representing and repositioning Taif women: Investigating hidden oral histories of folk dance through animated documentary, co-supervised with Professor Paul Wells
  • Dr Diwas Bisht: Diasporic memory ecologies: Creative explorations of intergenerational memories and identities in the British Bangladeshi community, co-supervised with Professor Emily Keightley, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, as part of the Leverhulme Trust-funded research project Memory and the Post-colonial Imagination (MMPI): British Asian Memory, Identity and Community after Partition
  • Dr Gill Bliss: Redefining the Anthropomorphic Animal in Animation, co-supervised with Professor Paul Wells
  • Dr Nye Canham: Examining the application of STAMP in the analysis of patient safety incidents, co-supervised with Professor Thomas Jun, as part of the Service Design Mini Centre for Doctoral Training led by Dr Kathy Pui Ying Lo
  • Dr Holly Ling Hou: An Exploration of Social Photography in a Visitor Museum Experience: Understanding Communication and Engagement through a Mixed Methods Study Incorporating Service Design, co-supervised with Dr Marco Bohr (Nottingham Trent University) and Dr Fred Dalmasso, as part of the Service Design Mini Centre for Doctoral Training led by Dr Kathy Pui Ying Lo
  • Dr Sara Khomais: Translating Picturebook Type: A practice-led enquiry into the typographic design of picturebooks that are translated from English to Arabic, co-supervised with Dr Rob Tovey
  • Dr Samantha Moore: Out of Sight: Using animation to document perceptual brain states, co-supervised with Professor Paul Wells
  • Dr Mohamad Nor Ridzuan Bin A. Rasid: Reframing Motion Graphics in Graphic Design Education: A Practice-Based Study with Generation Z in Malaysian Higher Education, co-supervised with Professor Paul Wells
  • Dr Mark Smith: The Implications of the Internet as a Distributive System for Moving Image Learning Resources, co-supervised with Dr Robert Harland
  • Dr Xiyuan Tan: Representation of Chinese Minority Ethnicity in the Contemporary Context: Constructing Fictional Characters in a Chinese Zhuang Folktale Adaptation, co-supervised with Professor Paul Wells
  • Dr E Yishi: National Identity and Chinese Animated Feature Films from 1958 to present, co-supervised with Professor Phillip Lindley
  • Dr Ying Zhang: A Comparative Feminist Analysis of Chinese and Disney Animated Features 1970-Present, co-supervised with Professor Paul Wells
  • Dr Xinyu Zhao: Exploring the emotional needs of family caregivers of Chinese patients with advanced cancer through storytelling, co-supervised with Dr Simon Downs

Current PhD supervisions: 


  • Andy Robert Davies: Illustration as a method for investigating and articulating the narratives of the River Severn, co-supervised with Dr Rob Tovey
  • Xiaojie Gao: Design of museum narrative systems: Building a cultural perception space and emotional connection between public and heritage, co-supervised with Dr Richard Johnson
  • Sue Goddard: The animated film poem: Towards a definition and approaches to practice, co-supervised with Professor Paul Wells
  • Tianhua Jing: Exploring design strategies for 3D avatar stylisation for motivational effects in gameful environments, co supervised with Dr Steve Summerskill (CSC funded)
  • Aga Kowalska: Tactile Narratives: An Investigation into How Material and Design Strategies in Picture Books Support Storytelling Around Themes of Migration, Displacement and Evolving Identity, co-supervised with Professor Paul Wells
  • Pia Malhotra: The art of feeling: Illustration as a method of affective data visualisation, co-supervised with Dr Karen Jiyun Sung
  • Shiza Seher: Illustrating the perimenopause: Visualising the unseen through graphic narratives, co-supervised with Dr Richard Johnson
  • Jiawen Cherie Xie: A study of digital interaction with exhibits by museum audiences at the National Museum of China, co-supervised with Professor Paul Wells and Dr Xiyuan Tan
  • Haozhe Xu: Visual metaphorical expressions of social anxiety symptoms among Chinese students in the UK through the lens of loose-tight cultural dimensions, co-supervised with Dr Xiyuan Tan
  • Yueting Yang: Becoming Animal and Visual Metaphor: Therapeutic Encounters through Art and Affect, co-supervised with Dr Richard Johnson
  • Yaohua Zhao: Innovating a museum service model through AR: Impact on emotion and education, co-supervised with Professor Paul Wells
  • Yingtong Charon Zhao: Reframing the ethics of commercial illustration in the age of AI: Authorship, empathy, and cultural identity, co-supervised with Dr Richard Johnson (CSC funded)