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Experimental Approaches to Writing Research by Sarah Raine & Craig Hamilton
Experimental Approaches to Writing Research workshop | 9th June 2017 | organised by Sarah Raine and Craig Hamilton, Birmingham School of Media It was a dark and stormy night… (scratch that) …day. They came: bleary eyed yet still expectant to the...
Viva 60-second interview: Dr Rommany Jenkins
Hi Rommany, congratulations on passing your viva! How does it feel?! It’s a great feeling – although part of me can’t quite believe it has happened. I did my PhD part-time so it has been a long time coming. What was your PhD title? The origin and role of...
‘Making’ PhD Progress: Mentor-Mentee Memories by John Grayson
The life of a PhD researcher is simultaneously incredibly rewarding and challenging. The reward: one's close proximity with the subject you love - immersion...even obsession, with a field that you are passionate about. In my case it's 18th-century craft skills used in...
Viva 60-second interview: Dr Grace Williams
Hi Grace, congratulations on passing your viva! How does it feel?! It feels surreal and strangely not at all euphoric. What was your PhD title? The Supernatural Sex: Women, Magick & Mediumship, Assembling a Field of Fascination in Contemporary Art. Can...
Beyond Borders? Approaches and pathways to Arts, Design & Media research
Research in Arts, Design and Media is highly diverse, often redefining parameters and pushing boundaries. Whether dealing with more established approaches, theoretical ideas or explicitly experimenting with new methods it inevitably involves a degree of mess. Beyond...
Riffs: Experimental writing on popular music
The editorial team of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music invite 300 word proposals for the next 2017 volume from PhD, MA and outstanding BA students. A song can be about anything About peace or war, or the sins of industry Or the discontents of fame, or of...
Beyond ‘Reading and Writing’: Pondering the articulation of ideas by Emily Bettison
As a first year PhD Student in the School of Media at BCU I’m currently right in the middle of the ‘reading as much as possible’ stage of the PhD process. Telling people who aren’t doing a PhD that I’ve spent most of my time since September ‘reading and writing’ is...
Advice from a PhD student
An anonymous blog post by a current PhD student ... IF I COULD GO BACK AND OFFER MYSELF ADVICE BEFORE WRITING THE LITERATURE REVIEW … 1. Use you supervision team and talk to them. It’s tough to start writing to a blank criteria. Have conversations early on and...
What is mentoring?
Some words that our researchers have used to describe what mentoring is and can be ... New ideas / clarity / sharing / catalyst / learning / multidimensional / unexpected / common ground / dialogic / sounding board / new experiences / hugs / forum for 'stupid'...
My Brilliant Club story by Yi Wu
I gave a design course to 9 Year 12 STEM pupils. For both them and myself, it seemed like a challenge at the beginning as the two fields are very different. But I soon realised that it was a great facilitator to enhance the pupils’ strengths and develop their areas...
Research Matter(s)!
July 8th | The Parkside Building Our second annual conference Research Matter(s): conversations about Research in Arts, Design & Media brought together researchers, practitioners and everyone in-between from across a number of Universities and arts organisations...
6th International Conference on Landscape and Urban Horticulture
by Anastasia Nikologianni 20th -25th June 2016, Royal Olympic Hotel, Athens, Greece Participating at the 6th International Conference on Landscape and Urban Horticulture was a great opportunity to present a part of my PhD research to an international and broad...
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