Free conference on the Doctoral Thesis in the Digital and Multimodal Age, London, 18 May 2010
Venue: British Library, Euston Road, London - Conference Centre
Date and time: Tuesday 18 May 2010 10.15am to 4.30pm
This is the final conference in the ESRC Research Seminar series "New forms of doctorate: the influence of multimodality and e-learning on the nature and format of doctoral theses." Find out more about this series: http://newdoctorates.blogspot.com/
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Keynote speakers
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Gunther Kress, Professor of Semiotics and Education and Director, Centre for Multimodal Research, Institute of Education, London "Social fragmentation and epistemological multiplicity: the doctoral thesis in an era of provisionality"
Steve Benford, Professor of Collaborative Computing, University of Nottingham "Interdisciplinary Research in Mixed Reality Performance - implications for the doctorate"
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Sessions/workshops
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Andrew Brown, Director of the Doctoral School, IOE, "Professional doctorates, electronic theses and other challenges and opportunities in the evaluation of 'a contribution to knowledge in the field'"
Joanna Newman, Head of Higher Education, British Library, "Ethos: opening up research"
David Durling, Associate Dean (Research), Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, "Designing the doctorate"
Jude England, Head of Social Science Collections and Research, British Library, "Preserving the present for the future"
Myrrh Domingo, Doctoral candidate, New York University, "Research into interactive multimodal texts"
Lesley Gourlay, Learning Innovation Applied Research Group, Coventry University, "Virtual worlds, textual limits? Doctoral research into the multimodal, hybrid and posthuman"
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How to register
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Please register with Richard Sheldrake, Institute of Education, London at [log in to unmask]
Attendance is free. Coffee, lunch and tea included.
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Website
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http://newdoctorates.blogspot.com/
The series and conference is organized by Richard Andrews, Erik Borg, Jude England and Stephen Boyd Davis.
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