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Viva 60-second interview: Dr Emily Bettison
Hi Emily, congratulations on passing your viva! How does it feel?! Thank you! It feels like a massive relief to have passed the Viva. What was your PhD title? The Creation of Creativity in Radio: How does radio as an industry define, practice and negotiate...
Introducing our Research Assistants: Dr Corey Mwamba
Hello! I work with Bobbie and Jacqueline in the PGR Studio; and also as a research assistant in Arts, Design, and Media. I completed my Ph.D. in December 2019; it was a practice-based portfolio looking at the vibraphone, practice philosophy, and inter/intra-subjective...
Lockdown by Jonnie Turpie
Lockdown is difficult. No doubt about it. For artist and researchers alike it is not easy to focus on intellectual or artistic work. If one is a practice-based researcher, as many PGR members are, our practice has to be undertaken at home rather than in the studio or...
Introducing our Research Assistants: Dr Bobbie-Jane Gardner
Hello! I’m Bobbie, one of the PGR Studio Research Assistants. I recently completed a practice-based research degree in composition with support from the fab team at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (RBC). I’m primarily a composer and in the last few months have...
Viva 60-second interview: Dr Charlie Sarson
Hi Charlie, congratulations on passing your viva! How does it feel?! Thanks! Now that it’s had time to sink in, it feels really rewarding and gratifying. At the time of the viva when the decision was communicated I was still full of adrenaline which then quickly...
Which days are good for you?
We have been plotting away, thinking of different events and ways of finding out what you would like to do in our research community! But we first thought we'd start a very simple question... which days are good for you? We understand that everyone's research journey...
Inside//Out Festival 2020: A video and poem
Documentation of our last research festival, as a montage. We hope it gives a real sense of the festival, and sparks ideas for what we could do for our next conference in July! Here's a video from Dr Susie Self... https://vimeo.com/390836485 And here is the classic...
Attention PhD revellers – Inside//Out Festival#3 is incoming! By Sally Bailey
January 22nd 2020 will see the third Inside//Out Festival, organised by the PGR Studio, take place at BCU – and you would be CRAZY to miss it! If the thought of another dry and dull academic conference leaves you yawning, then this is the event for you!! Less mud than...
What is the ARCO Project? by Alistair Rutherford
Any eagle eyed students or staff of BCU may have noticed the new exhibition in the Curzon Building’s atrium, all about the fantastic ARCO Project... ... but, what is ARCO Project? Arco provides regular distance-learning opportunities for talented children in South...
The Saga Begins: Starting a PhD! By Emily Scarrott
“What have you been upto recently?” “Oh, actually I’m doing a PhD, I’m only about a month in though…” This is a conversation I’ve been having a lot recently. When you tell the outside world that you’ve started a PhD, they tend to respond in one of two ways: “Will you...
My First Day at BCU: Culture shock and exciting encounters by Vincent Obia
My first day at BCU. It was during the welcome week and a lot of activity was going on. My first shock was seeing that the campus had only a couple of buildings. If you were like me, you’d be used to having a university campus at least the size of Digbeth with its...
Why Did I Join the Mentoring Scheme? By Wanshu Li
A few weeks after I formally started my PhD programme at BCU, I was introduced to the PGR Studio Mentoring Scheme. Having heard so many good things about it, I decided to give it a go. Registration was a simple process and before long I was told that I had been...
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