Dear All
The point I was trying to make was that we need to think seriously about
providing appropriate forums (fora?) for drawing researchers (especially
those doing MPhils and PhDs) to talk about their work in depth and obtain
feedback from peers. At present, there appears to be precious few
opportunities for us to do so. As a Drawing **Research** Network, perhaps
we could discuss how the situation might be improved.
My suggestion would be to restructure the meetings of the Network. For me,
the most interesting and relevant bits of previous meetings have been where
individual (MPhil, PhD) researchers have presented their work, but it's
been obvious that 10 minutes apiece is nowhere near enough time and, with
all the other items on the agenda, there has been little time for
meaningful discussions.
Is it possible that the bulk of the business of the Network (notifying
members of drawing related activities, publications, exhibitions and so on)
could be conducted electronically (on this list), so that future meetings
could be devoted to presentation and discussion of individual research
projects?
One respondent to my previous message spoke about his own, very
interesting, research topic and said that he "would be delighted to make a
presentation and/or take part in a dialogue about this and related areas
of...research in drawing". I daresay there are other researchers who feel
the same way.
1. Depending on the length of each meeting, we could invite maybe two or
three PhD/MPhil researchers to make in-depth presentations to the group of,
say, 30 minutes each. Ideally, each presenter would circulate a summary
beforehand, allowing group members to think about the issues before the
meeting takes place.
2. Each presentation would be followed by up to 30 minutes of (hopefully)
informed, focussed discussion about the specific content and context of the
research and related methodological issues.
3. We could ask presenters to provide text and images of their
presentations for publication on the website that Steve Garner put together
<www.drawing.org.uk>. In time, these contributions could build into a
valuable repository of current and recent drawing research.
I do feel very strongly that those of us who are studying for research
degrees or conducting post-doctoral research need to be more assertive in
setting the agenda and ensuring that our work gets a proper hearing.
Yours
George Whale.
At 04:43 PM 2/26/03 +0000, you wrote:
>...or could it be that such divisive dogma is a self fulfilling
>prophesy?
>Martin Salisbury
>Course Leader, MA Children's Book Illustration APU Cambridge
>(Practitioner/Researcher)
>On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:52:18 +0000 George Whale <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
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George Whale
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