Dear Colleagues,
A large number of people have already signed up for our online workshop on
Practice-Led research in Art, Design and Architecture. If you have not
done so yet you can join the workshop discussion list at (Jiscmail home
page for the list). The discussion will come straight to your email and
it will be moderated to avoid contributions that are too long or off-topic
and to keep the "traffic" down to a manageable size.
The workshop is intended to inform our review of practice-led research for
the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (but we are hoping to have an
international debate). It wioll be archived for all of us to refer to in
future on the JISCmail website and it will be reviewed in our public
report.
It will run over three weeks and will discuss three themes:
Week 1.
Relevance to Professions and Society
We will invite you to 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 ask contributors to describe 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 now (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/archives/ahrc-workshop-
pl.html) and we look forward to "meeting you" online. We will be
circulating more information about how the workshop will operate at the
end of this week.
best wishes from Sheffield
Chris Rust, Review Coordinator
Mark Elshaw, Review Researcher
***************************************
Professor Chris Rust
Head of Art and Design Research Centre
Sheffield Hallam University
Psalter Lane
Sheffield S7 1SF, UK
+44 114 225 2686
[log in to unmask]
www.chrisrust.net
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
www.digitalartsforum.org.uk
The Digital Arts Forum Website is a new site which offers its members the
opportunity to publish news, events and weblogs, as well as take part in
discussions, forums and online chat.
The Digital Arts Forum is aimed primarily at digital artists and arts
workers in the East Midlands region of the UK, although we welcome input
from members elsewhere. The Forum is managed by Gareth Howell, Digital Arts
Development worker at Arts and Technology Partnerships in Loughborough.
The Digital Arts Forum provides a meeting ground for digital artists and
arts professionals to discuss work, strategy and development. Through its
regular meetings and email discussion lists, it aims to bring together a
network of artists to develop collaborations and partnerships which will
build the quality and profile of digital arts in the region
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|