Dear MeCCSA PGN subscribers,

The agenda for the AVPhD April Fools Supervisors and Examiners Forum
(1st April 2008, Birkbeck College) has been finalised and the booking
line  ([log in to unmask]) is open for registration until close-of day
Friday 14th March.  This is a day for networking, reflection and to
make plans of action.  We encourage everyone who is potentially or
currently supervising and examining AVPhDs to come.

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AVPhD April Fools
Supervisors and Examiners Forum
1st April 2008, The Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, London

Since the big recruitment drive for practise-led PhDs just over 5
years ago, a critical
mass of AVPhD vivas are taking place and with them the first successes
and failures.
AVPhD April Fools is a day of networking for all potential and
experienced supervisors and examiners of audio-visual practice-led
doctorates. We shall reflect upon the critical institutional and
formal barriers that often limit successful research. In the final
plenary we aim to identify the main areas that need attention for
enabling high quality AVPhDs.

Rules and regulations – interpretation and application - how do
different universities compare? What are good models of
upgrades/transfers and vivas?

Supervisors and examiners – Who is suitable and how do you find them?
What questions do you need to ask?

Funding – What are the financial barriers to the creation and
exhibition of the practise? What can be expected of departments and of
funding bodies? What advice
should supervisors be given?

10am
COFFEE & REGISTRATION

10.30 am
Examination: Led by Prof Ian Christie, Birkbeck College, Al Rees,
Royal College of Art and Rosie Thomas, University of Westminster

12.30pm
BUFFET LUNCH

2pm
Supervision: Led by Dr Cahal McLaughlin, University of Ulster, Prof
Robin Nelson, Manchester Metropolitan University and Dr Joram ten
Brink, University of Westminster

4pm
TEA & COFFEE

4.30pm
PlenaryTony Dowmunt, Goldsmiths College and Gail Pearce, Royal
Holloway University

6pm
DINNER @ LOCAL RESTAURANT
The registration fee is £50, and this includes all meals, a
comprehensive delegate list and an anonymous summary of the day's
discussions.

To register please contact Zemirah Moffat at [log in to unmask] by close of
day Friday 14th March 2008.

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Other events:

On Wed 19th March, Northumbria University hosts All Maps Welcome, a
conference that explores the ways in which PhD's  may change with the
growth of practise-led research. For more information contact Gilly
Gosling: [log in to unmask]

Also AVPhD student Max Schlesser is hosting a  FILMOBILE CONFERENCE at
the Old Lumiere Cinema, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street,
London, 4th-5th April 2008.  For more details please visit
www.filmobile.net

Best Wishes
Zemirah Moffat
AVPhD Administrator

AVPhD is the AHRC funded training and support network for all those
doing, supervising and examining audio-visual practice based
doctorates. The practice research projects we cover centre on
audio-visual time based media, inclusive but not restricted to
documentary, fiction, narrative/non-narrative film, and non-linear/new
media.






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Iain Robert Smith
Institute of Film and Television
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
NG7 2RD