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> NEW RESEARCH TRAINING INITIATIVE (RTI) WEBSITE
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> http://www.biad.uce.ac.uk/research/rti/
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> The RTI website is an online resource for postgraduate research students
> and
> supervisors in art, design, media and related areas of study.  Following a
> successful Teaching and Learning Project bid to the Art, Design and
> Communication - Learning and Teaching Support Network (ADC-LTSN) the
> website
> has been re-designed.  The new site now integrates existing and new
> content
> in three main sections:
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> The Research Training Resource Centre
> Includes reviews of books, conferences and websites, and a database of
> research training and doctoral programmes and courses.  It also includes
> an
> updated bibliography on research education and training.
> 
> Research Issues in Art, Design and Media
> An online series published three times a years.  Research Issues publishes
> overviews of new and emerging themes and research topics, reflections on
> the
> process of research, reviews of particular research methods or techniques,
> and discussions of current issues in art, design and media research
> 
> Issue No.4: Tracking "new traditions" in a (post)modern
> Balinese-Indonesian
> context - Laura Noszlopy
> http://www.biad.uce.ac.uk/research/rti/riadm/
> Ogoh-ogoh are giant papier-mâché puppets or effigies usually created by
> groups of young Balinese men as part of the annual 'cleansing ceremonies'
> (ngrupukan), which take place on the night preceding Nyepi, the
> Hindu-Balinese 'New Year' or 'Day of Silence'. While ngrupukan has been
> performed for generations, ogoh-ogoh, one of the defining features of the
> contemporary rites and discussed by many local practitioners in terms of
> 'tradition', were only introduced in the early 1980s. This essay tracks
> the
> difficulties of researching contemporary cultural and artistic innovations
> in a context where the notion of 'tradition', as a culturally legitimising
> trope, can sometimes 'dissolve' history in public discourse, both official
> and popular.
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> The Research Degree Case Studies
> 21 case studies of completed research degrees in art and design.
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> 
> CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
> 
> We welcome contributions to the website from supervisors, researchers and
> research students:
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> - Book, website and conference reviews
> - Submissions to Research Issues
> - Completed research degree case studies
> 
> Supervisors responsible for research training and doctoral programmes are
> also encouraged to enter details into the database facility on the
> website.
> 
> 
> Darren Newbury (editor)
> June 2003
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> http://www.biad.uce.ac.uk/research/rti/
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