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EKSIG 2009: EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, METHOD and METHODOLOGY
International Conference 2009 of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential 
Knowledge

REGISTRATION for EKSIG2009 is now open!
Early Bird registration ends 1 May 2009.

Conference Date: Friday 19 June 2009
Organisers: Linden Reilly, Chris Smith, Kristina Niedderer, Seymour Roworth-Stokes
Venue: London Metropolitan University, London, UK
Conference home page: http://www.experientialknowledge.org
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We are pleased to announce that REGISTRATION for EKSIG 2009: EXPERIENTIAL 
KNOWLEDGE, METHOD and METHODOLOGY is now open. 

The conference aims to provide a forum for debate about methodology and methods for 
the inclusion and communication of knowledge in research and practice in the creative 
disciplines and practice-led disciplines. The need to be more explicit about research 
methods, frameworks, and methodologies has arisen from the increasing use of creative 
and professional practices as part of the practice of research in recent years. While 
research guidelines and regulations have been either generic enough, or were adjusted, 
to accommodate the use of some creative and professional practices under certain 
conditions, the debate about the nature, aims, validity, evaluation, and necessity of such 
research has continued.

With this conference, we wish to bring together people from different fields and 
disciplines with different approaches to address these issues. In this respect, we are 
delighted about the great response to our conference call with over 70  submissions from 
23 countries! The great interest promises to make the conference a truly international 
event with challenging multi-vocal debates around the conference themes, and to 
facilitate exchange and cross-fertilization between the creative disciplines and other 
practice-led disciplines such as education and knowledge management.
 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Prof Angie Titchen, Fontys University of Applied Science, NL
Angie Titchen is Clinical Chair at the Knowledge Centre for Evidence-Based Practice, 
Fontys University of Applied Science (NL), Visiting Professor at the University of Ulster, 
Northern Ireland, Adjunct Professor, Charles Sturt University, Sydney, Australia and 
Associate Fellow of the School of Health and Social Studies at the University of Warwick. 
Angie is passionate about practice development and doing research critically and 
creatively.She holds a PhD from Oxford University and she has published widely in the 
field of health care, especially on the nature of person-centred practice and professional 
knowledge and its acquisition; the facilitation of experiential learning, work-based 
learning, and expertise and; critical and creative qualitative research. 

Professor John Onians, BA, PhD, FSA.
John Onians is Emeritus Professor in the School of World Art Studies at the University of 
East Anglia, and he has held research fellowships in France, Germany, New Zealand and 
the United States. He was founding editor of the journal Art history (1978) and edited the 
first Atlas of world art (2004). His most recent book is Neuroarthistory. From Aristotle 
and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki (2007). His interest in the brain was first sparked by the 
work of his teacher, Ernst Gombrich, and is now leading him to apply a  neural approach 
to the art, first of Europe and then of the world.

For further details, please visit the conference website:  
http://www.experientialknowledge.org

To register for EKSIG2009,  please choose “fees & registration” from the menu and 
download the "registration form”.

 
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With kind regards,
 
Kristina Niedderer
Linden Reilly
Chris Smith
Seymour Roworth-Stokes