Our doctoral researchers
Alicja Prochniak
In her investigation into the role of myths in political discourses and narratives, Alicja combines knowledge and expertise from the field of International Relations, Security Studies, Communication, Sociology, Politics and Political Psychology.
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Andrew Hegarty
Andrew is a doctoral candidate in the Institute of Diplomacy and International Governance, where he is focused on innovation diplomacy.
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Auri Evokari
Auri is a Doctoral Researcher with the Institute for Design Innovation. After working in entrepreneurship support both in her home country Finland as well as in Southern Africa, she is driven to enable early-stage technology startup entrepreneurship through her research.
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Benjamin Mole
Benjamin Mole is a Doctoral Researcher at Loughborough University on the London Campus.
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Bethany Hushon
Bethany is a part-time PhD student with the Institute of Sport Business. Her research consists of reviewing sponsorship within Women's Football in the UK, looking at the difference between the tangible and intangible to boast equity and brand awareness.
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Boeun Bethany Hong
Boeun's research interest is the role of design in shaping/reshaping human experience, focused on the experiences around the disability stigma. Her research is part of the 'Para Sport Against Stigma (PSAS)', a multi-disciplinary project for social innovation to break down barriers of disability stigma through parasport.
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Britta Boyer
Britta holds a PhD from the Institute for Design Innovation, Loughborough University, London, and an MA in Sustainable Design from the University of Brighton. She completed a BA in Fashion Design at Central St. Martins, London, in 1995, founded three international start-ups and was an early pioneer of the fashion sustainability movement in 1995, working with post-consumer denim waste for her own brand, Earth 33, with a grant from the Prince's Trust. Britta has previous creative industry experience as a distinguished designer with a history of accolades, including the Whistles New Designer of the Year (2006), IDEA (1998), and Barker Brown Creative Industry awards (1997).
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Chaoyi Gu
Chaoyi studied our Sport Analytics and Technologies MSc programme before going on to study a PhD within the Institute for Digital Technologies. Chaoyi's research looks at optimizing football and basketball game strategies with Machine Learning techniques.
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Chiara Muzzi
Chiara is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. Her research interests include communicative justice, gender, and the role of media in socio-environmental communication and justice. Her focus is on audio.
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Chris Toronyi
Chris is a full-time PhD candidate in the Institute of Sport Business. His research focuses on the intersection of nation branding, diplomacy, sport, club ownership and supporters. Chris teaches a Sport Public Relations and Communication graduate course at LUL and also guest lectures across other institutes.
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Clara Searle
Clara is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. Her research interests include racial and gender representation in media, and the exploration of identity through material culture.
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Devika Sharma
Devika's research is centred around design activism, with emphasis on how creativity and innovation facilitate citizen participation in harnessing social change.
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Federico Winer
Federico is a doctoral researcher within the Institute for Sport Business. As an entertainment industry leader and former broadcast journalist, he is exploring how different technologies can help the esports ecosystem to create more accurate data.
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Femi Obasun
Femi Obasun is currently a PhD researcher at the Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Loughborough University London with focus on CSR among family SMEs in Europe and Africa/Middle East.
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Fiona Meeks
Since the 2012 games were hosted in London, the area of East London has undergone a huge transformation. Are organisations that have moved to the district involved in collaborative partnerships that lead to innovative outcomes and how are organisations establishing those relationships?
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Flavio Garcia Da Rocha
Flávio is a part-time doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. His doctoral research draws on the theoretical and empirical tenants of Audience Research and Media Ethnography to investigate audiovisual consumption practices of connected young adults in Brazil, where a tradition on broadcasting dominance is being shaken by the growth of Internet-transmitted content, with potential impact on issues of social inequality and representation.
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Flavio Pinto
Flavio is a doctoral researcher within the Institute for Digital Technologies, but his contribution also extends to the Institute for Sport Business. A former engineer and businessman, Flavio is keen to develop this research where innovative digital technologies are expected to help tackling the problem of doping in sports.
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George Mwika Kayange
George is a Doctoral Researcher with the Institute for Design Innovation. He is researching innovations and scaling of assistive technology (AT) solutions in Malawi, Kenya, and South Africa to support people with disabilities. George holds an MBA in Project Management from the University of Zambia and a Bachelor of Science in Project Management from the Institute of Development Management (IDM) in Botswana.
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Glauber Guedes Ferreira de Lima
Glauber de Lima is a doctoral researcher within the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. His research discusses the Brazilian Cultural Policy that involves museums and politics of difference through urban revitalization policies. He is interested in how culture has been used as a resource for political and economic ends.
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Happy Singu Hansen
Happy's PhD aims to analyse the longitudinal perspectives of the work by a major player in youth empowerment work in Tanzania; the civil society organisation Femina. Reaching a quarter of the population, the organisation has over the last 20 years engaged in enhancing capacities of youth, through communication and media initiatives.
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Iman Khan
Iman is a doctoral researcher within the Institute of International Management. Her research is a part of the Centre for Doctoral Training on 'Unequal Academic Citizenship: Opportunities and Barriers to Participation and Inclusion of Cultural Diversity and Intersecting Identities in Higher Education (CITHEI)'.
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John Vivian
John is a doctoral researcher in the Institute for International Management. His research is focused on emerging markets, specifically how Chinese multinationals have engaged with Africa. Having previously studied at Warwick and Sheffield, John has several years experience working with charitable NGOs.
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Marianne Walker
Marianne is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London. Her research is funded by Techne and she is interested in the use of public space, art and community activism.
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Massimo D'Angelo
Massimo is a full-time PhD student at the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance at Loughborough University London. He is highly interested in international politics, and he has a strong cosmopolitan background.
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Maylin Stanic
Maylin is a doctoral researcher affiliated with the Institute for Sport Business and is originally from Berlin, Germany. With an academic background in human resource management and management, she aims to combine her knowledge in her research with her passion for sport as a former competitive athlete.
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Melek Kucukuzun
Melek is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London. She also works as a researcher carrying out a case study on the Turkish media system for the POPBACK Project.
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Neil Mortimer
Neil is a third-year interdisciplinary doctoral researcher at the Institute for Diplomacy and Governance, with a primary focus on policy responses to COVID-19 and their implications for governance and policymaking. Neil seeks to contribute to the understanding of how policy responses to COVID-19 impact governance and inform evidence-based policymaking and practice.
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Nell Nixon
Nell is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. Her research interests include digital humanities and the role of cultural heritage institutions in education.
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Nicos Moushouttas
Doctoral researcher at the Institute of International Management. My research focuses on analysing Worker Cooperatives, their organisational and decision-making structure, and their potential as alternative forms of production within the capitalist economic system.
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Ijeoma Ogiemwonyi
Ijeoma is a doctoral researcher within the Institute for Digital Technologies at Loughborough University London. Her research proposes a market model where data users procure personal data from data owners via a privacy secure marketplace as a replacement to the third-party cookie.
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Erica Fletcher
Erica is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London. She is interested in studying contemporary spoken word poetry communities, their use of digital media and the perception of inclusion within them.
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Johannes Willem Heesbeen
Johannes is interested in the reflective habits within Design Practices. These habits can illuminate the various dependencies and forms of sub-ordination, which are at play in creative business and design practices in particular.
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Rittika Dasgupta
Rittika is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. With a background in South Asian studies, she is interested in art, politics and south asian languages.
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Aubrey James Roche
Aubrey is originally from Ireland and is currently studying a PhD under the Institute for Digital Technologies. Prior to his studies at Loughborough, Aubrey studied at several universities across Ireland.
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Talia Hussain
Talia is a doctoral researcher with the Institute for Design Innovation. She has over 20 years experience working as a designer and an MBA (merit) from Imperial College. Her research is funded by Techne and focuses on retail and the circular economy.
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Kavitha Ravikumar
Kavitha is a doctoral researcher at Loughborough University London, who works in the area of Sustainability studies through a multidisciplinary approach. She is affiliated with both the Institute for International Management and the Institute for Design Innovation.
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Ruairi Cousins
Ruairí is studying for his PhD within the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance.
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Sangeeta Menon
Sangeeta is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. Her research interests include journalism, media studies, grassroots movements, communicative justice, and communication for social justice and change.
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Shuo Liu
Shuo Liu is studying a PhD within the Institute of Media and Creative Industries. Shuo is interested in rural change and slow reality TV production in China.
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Sid Panayi
Having previously completed an MSc at Loughborough London, Sid has returned as an ISB PhD student alongside other academic commitments.
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Sophie Declerck
Sophie is a doctoral researcher in the Institute for Design Innovation. Her research interests include aesthetic theory, Peircean pragmatism and biosemiotics, sensory design, posthuman philosophies, and design ontology.
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Sophie Declerck
Sophie is a doctoral researcher in the Institute for Design Innovation. She studies meaning-making practices and the role of aesthetics in design, with a particular focus on the sense of touch.
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Stephen Cho
Stephen’s research explores the impact of institutional arrangement on resource integration within the context of Creative Professional Service Firm.
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Valentina (Val) Volpi
Val is a doctoral candidate in the Institute for Design Innovation and the School of Design and Creative Arts.
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Vicky Gerrard
For over 10 years Vicky has worked internationally with government, civil society, industry, and academia, researching how to enhance participation through design practice. She is continuing this work at Loughborough to develop a design pedagogy thats supports people to reclaim boundaries of freedom from within hostile environments.
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Viktoriia Startseva
Viktoriia Startseva is a doctoral researcher within the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance. Having previously studied at the University of York, Viktoriia has several years’ experience working with Public Service, NGOs, and Corporate Business Training.
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William Chamberlain
William is currently working on a part-time, practice-based PhD researching the role of the creative economy and social enterprise in urban regeneration, with a focus on the Hackney Wick and Fish Island creative cluster in East London and its role in the major regeneration of this area for the 2012 Olympics.
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Ying Feng
Ying is a doctoral researcher within the Institute for Digital Technologies. Her research area is 'Applied AI in IoT and consumer intelligence in digital finance'. Ying previously graduated from the MRes Sport Business Programme at Loughborough University with distinction in 2019.
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Yiyang Zhang
Yiyang is a Doctoral Researcher within the Institute for Sport Business. His research interests in social media and relationship marketing in professional sports, specifically focusing on the innovative use of TikTok as a strategic tool for engaging with and fostering meaningful connections among Gen Z fans.
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