Hi Tam, congratulations on passing your viva! How does it feel?! Thank you! It feels overwhelming and so surreal! What was your PhD title? Creating & Curating a Practical Approach to Contemporary Islamic Design Pedagogy and Practice. Can you explain in a couple of sentences what your PhD was about? My research investigates the creative […]
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Susie Self’s brilliant new opera, Quilt Song, premiered on Friday, October 19, 2018, at the Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham, 100 years since the premiere there of Abraham Lincoln, the play by John Drinkwater from which much of the text for the opera is drawn. Woven around the assassination of Lincoln are the stories of Rosa Parks, civil […]
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Enamel | Substrate Enamel | Substrate –Revaluing lost craftsmanship Monday 26th November 2018 – Friday 18th January 2019 Closing Celebration with Artist Talk | Thursday 17th January 2019 6pm – 8pm Book your free ticket HERE We are delighted to host Enamel | Substrate, a solo exhibition by John Grayson, crafts maker, academic and researcher. John’s career in making spans some thirty […]
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The following is a plan and provocation for thinking about ‘routes out’ from the PhD in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media. ‘Routes out’ from the PhD might be interpreted as an instrumental and reductive term. Its utterance could very well make one want to blurt out ‘oh sh**!’ in a moment of existential crisis and panic. It raises […]
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We all know that feeling. You’ve finally made your mind up that you want to take the next big step – whether that’s a new job or going back to uni to do a postgrad degree. The only problem is that you need to go through the application process and you just don’t know where […]
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See here for a recent review of the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers. The Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers (“the Concordat”) is an agreement between funders and employers of research staff to improve the employment and support for researchers and research careers in UK higher education. The Concordat was […]
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