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Dr. Bridget Conor (Kings College London) | Britain’s Hardest Workers: Developing a cultural political economy of the low wage economy Britain’s Hardest Workers screened for five consecutive nights in August 2016 on BBC2. This was after a groundswell of critical reportage about this programme which was dubbed variously as ‘Hunger-Games-style’ TV, ‘poverty porn’ and ‘exploitative’ […]

Creative Industries: Craft Explorations Alison Bell (University of the West of Scotland)  | Re _ connect: consequences of a re-imagining As part of an art practice based PhD exploring the subjective experience of the ageing woman artist, a textile installation embodying a series of ‘departing selves’ was created and subsequently filmed, with the artist becoming both […]

BCMCR Research Seminar: Screen cultures – Media, affect and sexuality Sebastian Svegaard (BCU) | "All the Feels!": Music, Affect and Critique in Fanmade Music Videos The fanworks known as vids (or fanvids) are short, remix music videos made by fans within what Henry Jenkins termed media fandom (Jenkins 1991). They are narrative and present a […]

This seminar is the first to be presented by members of the HEAD research cluster. The research within HEAD (History and Education in Art and Design) is wide-ranging, potentially embracing any aspect of visual culture from any period of history up to and including the present day, as well as exploring past and current issues and approaches in […]

Enfleshed writing practices – Are you feeling it yet? | Dr Amanda French Academic writing is a contingent yet ever present ‘thing’ in the Academy, which academics and students feel positive and negative about.  This paper draws on data collected for my PhD where became very clear that participants, especially female participants, had experienced the process […]

The Brilliant Club offers a unique paid opportunity for current and completed PhD researchers! Tutors deliver programmes of university-style teaching based on their research to small groups of high-performing pupils in schools that serve disadvantaged communities based on their research to help them secure places at top universities. Hear from Joe Loudon, Regional Director of The Brilliant Club about what […]

The MEME Research Cluster (Media and Education Methodological Encounters) invite you to ... “Who do you think you are?” Constructing theoretical and methodological frameworks for the investigation of professional identity formation. Dario Faniglione will be leading a conversation on professional identity formation which will focus on a range of theoretical perspectives. All staff and doctoral students […]

You are invited to the exhibition "By the Book", a traveling exhibition coming all the way from Bahrain, and a public talk as a part of a series of events under the name of "I am Khlaeeji".  

Preach R Sun’s work, a combination of protest activism and social critique (described as, Fugitivism and Conjuring) incorporates and fuses art and activism as a means to investigate and interrogate the nature and limits of freedom, while simultaneously posing a direct challenge to systems of oppression and injustice. Sun accomplishes this through implementation of unconventional protest […]