NWCDTP - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Programmes and Assessment Coordinator ( PGR )
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- Admissions Manager ( School of Social Sciences & Law )
I'm a postgraduate researcher in the faculty of Arts and Humanities and MSARC. My PhD is a collaborative doctoral award funded by NWCDTP and in partnership with Science and Industry Museum, Department of Materials at UoM and MMU's Special Collections. This research looks at contemporary textile production in Greater Manchester, investigating what textiles means to the region today. Through the research I aim to identify the important role that textiles play in the creation of Greater Manchester's identity and sense of place, communicating these notions through curatorial practice with the museum partners. Alongside my PhD research I work as a Teaching Assistant in the Design Department at Manchester School of Art. My BA in Textiles in Practice and MA in Contemporary Curating are both from MMU.
Job Titles:
- Faculty Research and KE Administrator
Job Titles:
- Postgraduate Research Administrator
Her research aims to investigate encomiastic poetry in the late antiquity period (4th - 7th century AD) in order to produce a rhetorical analysis of a wide selection of encomiastic works (papyri, inscriptions) She is concentrating on studying these eulogies through the lens of ancient rhetorical handbooks. Starting from such selection of texts, the main objectives of her research are to identify conventional themes and rhetorical strategies present in encomiastic compositions that were directly influenced by the rhetorical handbooks (first of all Menander Rhetor), to determine to what extent late antique poems were influenced by rhetorical conventions and techniques taught in schools and lastly to define the cultural and linguistic identity of the audience to the texts through the poets ‘rhetorical choices.
I am conducting interdisciplinary research into the moral status and responsibility of artificial intelligence. I first consider how various duties might come to be placed on artificial agents, either via explicit agreements made or through the social roles that they occupy in our community. I argue that the notion of prospective responsibility can be applied to artificial agents using deontic logic translations of the obligations and duties we want to place on agents in virtue of their role. I discuss how, using these translations, artificial agents might respond when faced with problems such as moral conflicts between two or more duties they have taken on.
Job Titles:
- PGR Administrator for PhD Applicants ( School of Arts, Languages and Cultures )