Online workshop in your mailbox starting 12th June
AHRC Research Review - Practice-led Research in Art, Design and 
Architecture

Dear Colleague,

This is an invitation to join our online workshop to discuss some 
important aspects of practice-led research. 
It will operate as a moderated email conference on a JISCmail list set up 
for this purpose which you can join now at 
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/AHRC-WORKSHOP-PL.html

Each session will operate as an email discussion but there will be some 
constraints compared to the usual free discussion on email lists. The 
session chair will filter out any messages that go away from the session 
topic and there will be some limits on the size and number of messages 
people can send in each session - we want to encourage thoughtful 
contributions rather than fast ones. and we don't want this to overload 
your mailbox.

There will be three sessions:

Week 1.
Relevance to Professions and Society

We will discuss the direct and indirect ways that practice-led and other 
research in our disciplines affects the education and work of 
practitioners and identify other, wider contributions. One issue that we 
wish to understand is whether practice-led research in our subjects has a 
more immediate or different relevance when compared with other approaches.

Week 2.
Development & Impact of the PhD

There is a good deal of material already on the nature of doctoral 
education in our subjects and its organisational and philosophical 
underpinnings. We will attend to the more practical question of how the 
growing number of doctors in our subjects is affecting education and 
practice.

Week 3
Themes & Characteristics of Practice-led Research In the final session we 
will discuss the broad topics, methods and purposes of their research in 
terms that emphasise shared characteristics rather than individual ideas 
and interests.

Overarching Theme
Being an Academic
Something that we would like to develop in the debate is the question of 
being an academic. Academics are not just teachers, they have a particular 
role in society that is well understood in many disciplines but perhaps 
not so clearly in ours where we often look to professional leaders to set 
the pace for our disciplines. Can we develop a better shared understanding 
of how a practitioner/researcher can play a part in the intellectual life 
of our communities?

So please sign up for the workshop by going to 
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/AHRC-WORKSHOP-PL.html and following 
the "join the list" link and you'll be able to see and join the discussion 
in your email box from Monday 12 June. 

Best wishes
Chris Rust

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Professor Chris Rust
AHRC Review Coordinator
Head of Art and Design Research Centre
Sheffield Hallam University
Psalter Lane, Sheffield, S11 8UZ, UK
0114 225 2738
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www.chrisrust.net
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Dr Mark Elshaw 
Project Researcher AHRC Research Review of Practice-Led Research in Art, 
Design and Architecture 
Art and Design Research Centre 
Sheffield Hallam University
Psalter Lane Campus
Psalter Lane
Sheffield S11 8UZ
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