Dr Yu Lee An

Thesis: The purpose of Yu Lee's research is to build a bibliographical reference tool for Georgian and Victorian music trade as a Knowledge Base of semantically integrated and aware data using Linked Data.  It will enable her to create a system for publishing essential data relating to the British music trade as a Semantic Knowledge Base, which will transform the future use of this data, resulting in a new tool to musicology that will have significance far beyond the field of musicology.

Renee Dixson

Thesis: Renee will be creating an archive of oral histories of LGBTIQ refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, challenging knowledge hegemonies and hierarchies of normative archival practices. This PhD research will allow her to establish the world's first open digital archive for LGBTIQ stories of forced migration.

Qian Wang

Thesis: Qian’s research applies Linked Data methods as well as visualization tools to analyse a book of Chinese mythology, Shanhaijing. It also entails comparative analyses between Western and Eastern mythologies, linking classics from the latter with literature from the former.

Xinyuan Xu

Thesis: Xinyuan will develop methods and techniques to investigate the human grief process in the Digital Era and contribute to suicide prevention in the context of Social Media Mourning. The unique contribution of this research is an up-to-date understanding of grief in the context of online and social media.  It builds on an earlier publication on the phenomenon of social media mourning - the expression of grief publicly on an online platform. Publication: Xu, X., Nurmikko-Fuller, T., & Pereira Nunes, B. 2018, May. Tweets, Death and Rock'n'Roll: Social Media Mourning on Twitter and Sina Weibo. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, pp. 297-306

Gavin Findlay

Robert Fleet