Research Training
Research training is enhanced through research groups and clusters to provide peer support and mentoring. A high quality of intellectual, physical and resource environments is maintained, as the result of substantial ongoing investment. Call for Presentations - WIRAD emerging researcher eventWednesday 12th October 6.30-10pm
The Promised Land, Cardiff WIRAD members are invited to a Pecha Kucha style networking and social event as part of the Cardiff Design Festival 2011. The aim of the evening is to bring together PhD students from across the WIRAD institutions in a relaxed environment. It will be a chance to present your research to like-minded people outside your own institution. The event is specifically for art and design PhD students to present and discuss their research and the associated challenges. Applications to present are encouraged from research students across the WIRAD partnership and at all levels of PhD study. Schedule 6.30pm Arrive 6.45pm Introduction to WIRAD 7pm Pecha Kucha style presentations 8.30pm Buffet & networking 10pm Finish
The event is free to attend, but places are limited and registration is required. The deadline for registration is 5th October 2011. To register to present, please use either of the email addresses below and include a short statement about your research. To register to attend, please use either of the email addresses below and include a short statement about your interest in the event. For more information contact: Jo Hare: jhare@pdronline.co.uk
Anna Whicher: awhicher@designwales.org
1st Ecological Built Environment Research Symposium1st September 2011
Cardiff School of Art and Design Organised jointly between the EBERE group at UWIC and the Graduate School for the Environment at the Centre for Alternative Technology, the 1st EBER Symposium is open to current and prospective research students, supervisors and industrial partners working and supporting research in the ecological built environment field based at UWIC and at CAT. The aim of the 1st EBER Symposium is to provide an informal half day where full time and part time research students meet and share ideas in relation to their research and debate appropriate research methods and ways of presenting the results of their work. Each student is invited to make a 15 minute presentation. In addition, a number of UWIC and GSE at CAT supervisors will also present on appropriate research methodologies for doctoral research and/or findings from their current research. The afternoon will be followed by an evening meal (optional) in Cardiff where discussions can be continued on a more informal basis. For more information contact Dr John Littlewood.
Super Vision: insight and interaction in graduate art and design research1.00 - 6.00 p.m. Tuesday 23 March 2011
CSAD Howard Gardens
CSAD is hosting a half-day symposium on graduate research in art and design, focusing on the supervisory process. Short presentations from research students and their supervisory teams are invited which cover the following points:
how supervisory teams plan and shape the research process; how the interests of supervisor and student might intersect, i.e. how they might become interlocutors, possibly with a view to co-authorship of an article; ideally, each team member should contribute and there will be an exchange of views on the topic selected by the team; the pleasures of supervision in art and design research (and some of the obstacles too, if appropriate at an open forum).
Ideally, point (2) will be the focus of the presentation. Presentations should be up to 20 minutes, with ten minutes of questions. Supervisory teams from Bath, Bristol, Gloucester and Swansea will also be invited. Dr Iain Biggs and one of his research students from UWE, Bristol, will be keynote speakers. A plenary performance writing session is planned, where insights from one of the afternoon's presentations will be written up as the beginnings of a co-authored article. A buffet lunch (charge of £10) and afternoon tea will be provided, and there will also be a post-symposium meal in central Cardiff.
To participate, please send a 300-word outline of how your supervisory team might address points 1-3 to Clive Cazeaux, Graduate Studies Coordinator, by Monday 1 March 2010.
Places are free but limited, so please register in advance. There will be a £10 charge for those wishing to attend the pre-event buffet. To register for a place at the symposium and/or book a place at the buffet lunch, contact Debbie Savage, Research Coordinator, by Monday 8 March 2010.
Sink or Swim? Residential Seminar for Early Career Researchers2nd - 4th December 2009Gregynog, Powys
This residential seminar aims to provide support and guidance for Early Career Researchers. You will find it helpful if you are about to complete or have recently submitted your PhD, or if you wish to become more research active in future. Day One will start with an introduction by the programme team. The day will conclude with a feedback and discussion session, dinner and (optionally) the bar. Day Two will concentrate on issues of research support and funding, with inputs from Funding Bodies. Once again, the day will conclude with a feedback and discussion session, dinner and (optionally) the bar. Day Three will focus on research planning. It will start with a session on getting published, and will then involve a practical session in which participants will discuss their plans and refine a personal action agenda. For more information or to book a place contact Joan Fothergill, Newport School of Art Media and Design.
Writing artists accounts of practice: layering, description, analysis, and evaluation
Following Research Methods for Practice-Based Doctorates in the Creative Arts, November 2008's AHRC residential workshop at Gregynog Hall, Chris Smith's presentation is now available to download (pdf). Chris Smith is Director of Research and Convenor of the Visual Arts Practice Research Group in the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design London Metropolitan University and editor of the Journal of Visual Art Practice published by Intellect. His research interests lie in the field of art and design philosophy, particularly the connection between theory and practice, relating to a concern with praxis in art and design. He collaborates with others from the Visual Arts Practice Research Group in projects related to the relationship of imagination and image, and with Art & Language on the question of 'What work does the artwork do?'. This has led to various national and international symposia and exhibitions. Chris supervises a range of doctoral students drawn from art and design as well as the crafts. He has run a number of workshops in collaboration with the Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art and Design, University of the Arts, London, on supervision of Masters and Doctoral students. He also sits on the Council for Higher Education in Art and Design AHRC working group, examining issues related to practice-led research.
Research Methods for Practice-Based Doctorates in the Creative Arts WIRAD Residential Workshop for PhD Candidates and SupervisorsGregynog House, Powys26th -28th November 2008
Of writing many books there is no end; and much learning is a weariness of the flesh
(Ecclesiastes, 12:12)
Writing and the Practice-Based Thesis: Practice Based Research Methods Workshop
The workshop is the latest in a programme of events designed to set up a training and development network in practice-based postgraduate research. The whole programme is focussed on developing the specific practical and theoretical skills required in the planning, conduct and analysis of practice-based research.
This event will deal with aspects of the formal writing needed in carrying out and submitting practice-based doctoral research. A draft outline is presented on the next page. The workshop will involve a "Writing Masterclass", in which participants will be able to present their writing strategies and issues and problems arising from their work-in-progress for critique by their colleagues and by a panel of expert doctoral supervisors.
The event takes place at Gregynog House, near Newtown, Powys. Gregynog is the University of Wales Residential Conference Centre.
The programme is open to postgraduate students and research degree supervisors who wish to focus on practice-based research. Participation is free to registered research degree candidates and academic staff members within WIRAD. Participants from other institutions are very welcome, at a nominal fee of £50.00 for full board, including accommodation and meals.
To find out more, or to reserve a place, please complete the application form and return it by email to Joan Fothergill.
Archived Events WIRAD Research Degrees Training Seminars 2008-09 Searching Beyond Exhibition and Symposium AVPhD Regional Workshop, South Wales and South West England Student Research Poster Symposium and Competition AHRC Proposal Workshops for Postgraduate Students 08/09 WIRAD Research Degrees Training Seminars 2007-08 AHRC Residential Workshops
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