My research and teaching is situated at the intersection of Japanese Studies, Film Studies, History, History of Art, and Anthropology, and can best be characterized as Japanese Cultural Studies.

My wider research interests include Japanese and East Asian cinema, photography, gender studies, filmmaking, and ethnographic methods. I have published on these topics and others in Cultural Studies, Participations, Japanese Studies, Japan Forum, the U. S.-Japan Women’s Journal and The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema.

I am developing a book manuscript entitled 'Feelings Without Words: Growing Up With the Cinema in Postwar Japan', based on four years of ethnography in Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe. The book explores the role of cinema in the development of a sense of self for those who grew up during the Occupation of Japan (1945-1952) and its aftermath. Framed as an ethno-history of cinema attendance and reception in the Kansai region of Western Japan, this original study positions cinema as a discursive object in the living memories of the era. Individual chapters deal with the origin stories of cinema in Japan, gender and the cinema audience, the gap between Occupation authorities’ expectations of the audience and lived experience, and cinema's relation to activism.

Many of my research outputs take a cross-regional and interdisciplinary approach, including publications on Manchurian-Japanese wartime co-production films, postwar Japanese co-productions with Hong-Kong, and transnational star personae. I have conducted research on the simultaneous development of ethno-fiction filmmaking techniques in France and Japan, and on Taiwanese and Korean co-productions set in Tokyo, and co-authored an article on film-motivated tourism in China. I have also collaborated with affect theory specialists in the UK, USA, and Japan, and with a group of art historians in Zurich on two projects on photography. Moving beyond traditional research publication methods, I completed a short documentary titled When Cinema Was King (2018) on the topic of Japanese cinema audiences and their memories.

Before joining SEAS, I studied, researched, and taught in many areas of the world. I was an AHRC Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. (2012), a Visiting Research Fellow at the Australian National University (2011), Assistant Professor at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University (2014-2018), and Senior Lecturer in Japanese Arts, Cultures, and Heritage at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures at the University of East Anglia.

Research interests

I am influenced by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and my research background is in the work of Malcolm Lowry. This interest has continued in my recent work and teaching, including the publication Malcolm Lowry Eighty Years On (1989).

My publications in the field of literary theory include Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Reader (1996) and Introducing Bakhtin(1997).

I have been interested in representations of the Holocaust for many years, and have published a book on novels about the Holocaust, Holocaust Fiction (2000), one on children´s perspectives, Children Writing the Holocaust (2004), and, with Jenni Adams, have edited a volume entitled Representing Perpetrators in Holocaust Literature and Film (2013).

I welcome applications from PhD students wishing to work in most areas of twentieth- and twenty-first literature, theory and film, including Holocaust studies.

 Wayne's area's of interest are: 

Martial Arts and Action Film
Chinese and Sinophone Cinemas
Film Aesthetics and Media Philosophy
Popular Culture, Identity Politics, and Gender Issues
Hong Kong-UK Diaspora
Game Studies and New Media
Digital Humanities

He published in peer-reviewed journals and anthologies, such as Global Media and China, Asian Cinema, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Martial Arts Studies, Afro-Futurism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness, and The Worlds of John Wick: The Year’s Work at the Continental Hotel.

He is an editor of Martial Arts Studies, the flagship journal of the Martial Arts Studies Research Network.

Dr Statica’s work focuses on the relationship between gender and domesticity in the development and transformation of housing infrastructures and urban landscapes in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Her research interests are in the feminist practices of care, intersectional feminism, theories of infrastructure and the anthropology of socialism, and urbanism, specifically the comparative investigation of urban contexts in postsocialist and postcolonial geographies. She employs documentary film as an integral aspect of both research and practice.

Research interest and PhD Supervision areas: (Post)socialist architecture and urbanism; global urbanism and postcolonialism; gender and architecture; documentary and ethnographic film; domesticity/housing infrastructures/care; intersectional feminism and urbanism.

I have previously supervised PhDs in drama, film, translation studies and visual culture.

I welcome applications to undertake Postgraduate study in any of these areas: East Asian Popular Culture, East Asian Visual Culture, East Asian Media systems, Japanese Cinema, South Korean Cinema, World Cinema, Colonial Cinema, Gender in Visual Culture, Women Directors, Prostitution, Sex Work and Sex Trafficking in Visual Culture.

My research is humanities based and critically explores architecture and urban space, using methodologies of critical-creative writing, ethnography, autotheory and feminism towards new cultural and social histories and theories. Key topics include combinations of architecture, health, domesticity, wellbeing, the body and the city. I use a variety of interdisciplinary sources including archives and English Literature. My current research, Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity, examines the role of architecture in the construction of the maternal body and maternity practices.

Potential PhD supervision areas: gender, domesticity and architecture/cities; health/wellbeing/medicine and architecture/cities; documentary, autotheory, ethnography and observational methods in drawing, writing and film; ideas of care and intersectional and decolonial feminism. I supervise both 'by design' and 'written' PhDs

Research interests

My current research centres on connections between cinema and landscape and the representation of navies, naval combat and naval history on film. From my PhD onwards my interests also include Australasian cinema (particularly Australian Gothic horror films), genre films and auteur studies.

I welcome applications from researchers working on film, particularly in my research areas. I have supervised film studies PhD students in British, European, American and Japanese cinema and maritime films.

Research interests

Modern Latin American literature (with a particular emphasis on the New Novel and crime fiction) and external representations/imaginings of Latin America and 'Latinity' (with a particular emphasis on film and fiction).

Research interests

• Power semiconductor devices and technologies
• High temperature Power Electronics
• Active Gate Drive technologies
• High Power Density Converters
• Power Integrated Circuits for Lighting, Automotive and Switched Mode Power Supplies
• High Voltage thin film transistors & integration aspects
• Modelling of power semiconductor devices & technologies
• New concepts for semiconductor devices & technologies
• Power Semiconductor devices & technologies for harsh environments
• Wide Band gap Power Semiconductor devices and technologies
• Nano technologies for Power Electronic Applications

• Childhood sexual abuse - both current and historical
• Research ethics
• Qualitative methods including insider research
• Trauma informed research and practice
• Children’s social work
• Impact

Claire’s research has mainly focussed on interpersonal violence towards adults and children as well as the social work response. Claire is particularly interested in the lived experience of CSA recovery and the professionals supporting that recovery. Her work looks at how recovering can be conceptualised and facilitated. 
She is also fascinated by participatory research methods, co-production and trauma aware research. Recently she worked with NHS stakeholders and people with lived experience to produce a film (Flow) about disclosing abuse to NHS staff.

Research interests

Tom’s research is focused on studying the properties of ferromagnetic nanostructures both to gain a better understanding of their fundamental behaviour and to develop new technological applications, such as solid-state memory and logic technologies.

His work uses contemporary nano-fabrication techniques such as electron-beam lithography and thin-film deposition to create magnetic devices thousands of times smaller than a human hair. These devices are then characterised with cutting-edge experimental techniques such as focused Magneto-Optic Kerr Effect (MOKE) magnetometry, Vector Network Analyser Ferromagnetic Resonance measurements (VNA-FMR) and low temperature electrical transport measurements. He also has a strong interest in the simulation of magnetisation dynamics using numerical micromagnetic simulations.

• Energy efficient generation of microbubbles and their applications (particularly biofuels and bioreactors).
• Plasma microreactors, especially low power consumption generation of ozone.
• Fluid dynamics of helical turbulence and mixing.
• Thin film dynamics and microrheometry.
• Computational modelling with inverse methods.

Perlemax Ltd, a University spinout company, was founded to exploit his research and technological advances. Perlemax and Zimmerman have won the below awards and recognition:

• 2009 IChemE Moulton Medal
• 2010 Royal Society Innovation Award (Brian Mercer Fund) (Video)
• 2010 CleanTech Open, AXA UK Global Ideas Champion
• 2010 CleanTech Open, International Finalist, Global Ideas
• 2011 Zayed International Future Energy Prize, Semifinalist

Research interests

My literary research analyses the way contemporary novelists in English have responded to ethical questions around human-animal relations. After my PhD, The Literary Representation of Pro-animal Thought: Readings in Contemporary Fiction, I published essays on J.M. Coetzee, Justin Cartwright, Angela Carter, Alice Walker and Margaret Atwood and on animal ethics in literary criticism and theory. In 2006 my co-written book (with the Animal Studies Group) Killing Animalswas published by University of Illinois Press. In my current research project I am looking at how the literature, film and culture of the post war period, complicates and exceeds public and political humanitarianism. I am studying figures such as James Agee, Arthur Miller, John Huston, Romain Gary, Peter Viertel, Hubert H. Humphrey, Patricia Highsmith, Brigid Brophy, Walker Hamilton and others.

More broadly, I am interested in the representations of animals in culture and am active in the research field of animal studies.

I would especially welcome PhD enquiries about projects to study the representation of animals and/or the environment more broadly in any literary form or period or in critical theory. I am generally interested in projects focusing on any area of post-1945 fiction in English, or on critical theory.

• Health & Social Care at home and in institutions
• Care recipent's and care worker's perspectives and knowledge 
• Financialisation of social care, business models and managment
• Social innovation in home care provision - a Wellcome Trust funded project 2017-18.
• Diane's Department of Health and Comic Relief funded project examined organizational cultures in care homes for older people and positive experiences of care. This study was conducted with colleagues at the University of East Anglia, University of Stirling, University of Worcester and Cardiff University.
• Recently Diane was involved in a two and half year, Department of Health and Comic Relief funded participatory project with care home residents and family carers to examine the organisational dynamics of abuse and respectful care of older people in care homes.

Diane’s research examines organizational arrangements, cultures and change in health and social care systems with two sub themes – organizational failure and institutional abuse in care homes; and social innovation in home care provision.

Diane is interested in supervising qualitative research in health and social care systems and organization; job quality, care workforce and labour arrangments; care quality, abuse and mistreatment in organized care; voice, power and whistle-blowing in the workplace and other organizations; collaborative forms of organizing and partnership. 

Diane is particularly interested in action research, participatory appraoches and co-production, and the development of organizational ethnography using visual methods, poetics and film.

Research interests

Her research centres on the understanding and development of magnetic films to be used in magnetic devices and sensors. The main research areas are:

Fe-based Magnetostrictive Films and Devices
Research is focussed on the fabrication and characterisation of Fe-based magnetostrictive film, including Fe-Co and Fe-Ga for MEMS device applications. Fabrication techniques include a state of the art co-sputter-evaporation deposition system, RF/DC sputter system and an evaporator. A wide range of characterisation techniques are used, which include XRD, AFM/MFM, MOKE magnetometry and resistance measurements, as well as a central facilties (ESRF, France, diamond, UK). The main aim of the work is to understand the relationship between the magnetostriction, microstructure and magnetisation. The work has also involved the development of magnetostrictive MEMS devices, which includes magnetostrictive energy harvesters and mass MEMS sensors.

Organic Spintronics
This research investigates the spin transport within organic semiconductors, including the development of room temperature organic spin-valves. The spin transport has been investigated using a range of techniques including magnetoresistance, XPS, MOKE magnetometry, AFM and muon spectroscopy. The main aims are to understand how the interfaces influence the spin transport in organic spin-valves and develop novel organic spin devices, such as the spin switch. Research has studied both lateral and vertical devices at room temperature.

Multiferroics
This research involves studying multilayer multiferroics to investigate how the optical, electrical and magnetic properties are linked within the hetrostructures. Work has studied how the interfaces influence the overall properties of the structures. Characterisation techniques include XRD, SEM, TEM, AFM/MFM, MOKE magnetometry and electrical measurements.