Postgraduate research supervision
Jeremy welcomes approaches for supervision towards a research degree. His interests span Design History, Modernism and Design, Graphic Design, German Design and Transnational design histories. His expertise is particularly relevant in the following university PhD programme application areas: Architecture and Design and History of Art and Design.
Current supervision:
Alex Todd, The Violence of Vision: Wild Plakken and the Crisis of Dutch Political Identity, 1977–1996, supervised with Dr Harriet Atkinson TECHNE studentship (2020-)
PhD supervisory completions:
University of Brighton
Caroline Hamilton, Les Ballets 1933: collecting, exhibiting and performing the avant-garde, supervised with Dr Annebella Pollen TECHNE CDP award with Brighton Museums and Gallery (2018-2022)
Dora Souza-Dias, Representing the Graphic Design Profession on the world stage: a history of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations, 1963-2013 [University of Brighton Studentship] Supervised with Professor Catherine Moriarty and Dr Megha Rajguru (2015-2019)
Tania Messell, Promoting industrial design on the world stage:the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design, 1957-1980 [University of Brighton Studentship] supervised with Dr Lesley Whitworth (2014-2018)
Michelle Henning, Re-animating modernism: Picture Language, Museum Display and Visual Reproduction, PhD by publication (2014-2015)
Hilary French, Adaptable Housing: Accommodating Change, PhD by publication (2015-2016)
Jane Barnwell, Production Design for Film, PhD by publication, (2017-18)
Royal College of Art
2018 Mary Ann Bolger, Designing Modern Ireland: the role of graphic design in the construction of modern Ireland at home and abroad
2014 Jessica Jenkins, The mural and visual communication in urban spaces in Communist East Germany, 1945–89
2014 Alice Twemlow, The Politics of Design Criticism since the 1950s
2012 Marina Emmanouil, Graphic Design in Greece since 1945
2011 Susie McKellar, Rational Consumption and Design 1927-1957
2010 Diane Silverthorne, Alfred Roller: Spaces of Art in Vienna 1890s-1920s
2009 Miya Itabashi, Japonisme: the representation of Japanese art in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain
2007 Lisa Godson, The Material Culture of Public Events in the Irish Free State, 1922-1949
2006 Harriet Atkinson, Spontaneous expressions of citizenship: Festival of Britain in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England, 1951
2005 Victoria Kelley, Soap and Water – cleanliness, class and gender, 1870 – 1917
2004 Trevor Keeble, The Domestic Moment: Design, Taste and Identity in the late Victorian Interior
2002 Viviana Narotzky, An Acquired Taste: the consumption of modern design in Barcelona, 1975-1995
2002 Deborah Landis, Scene and not heard, Hollywood Costume Design
2001 Yasuko Suga Ida, Representation of the State through Design in interwar Britain
2001 Diane Bisson, Museums in Transition: past and present interpretations of the concept of design
2000 Nicolas Maffei, Norman Bel Geddes: designer of the future
MPhil supervisory completions:
Royal College of Art
Rick Poynor, Modernism and Eclecticism in Typographica, 1949-1967 (1998)
Jane Audas, Reflections of Modernity: shop display, 1930-1940 (2001)
Line Pederson, The Design of Art Nouveau Jewellery in Denmark (2001)
Ana Fereira de Rocha National Identity, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Industry and Architectural Production after the Second World War – Museums of Modern and Contemporary Arts and Design in Rio de Janeiro, Paris and London (2008)