Dear Mark,
thank you very much for your initiative - the survey and the online workshop!
I just uploaded 2 cases and found it very remarkable / funny that
"Germany" is missing in the country-menu. Does that mean anything?
Anyway, it was possible to edit the field afterwards.
Best wishes, also to Chris Rust,
Jonas
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At 16:22 Uhr +0100 26.05.2006, Mark Elshaw wrote:
>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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>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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