Free seminar on practice, the PhD and new forms of doctorate (2 March, London)


CADE members please note that this is the same day and venue as the Computer Arts Society evening event with Ron Chrisley & Joel Parthmore.

ESRC seminar series on New Forms of Doctorate
I am very pleased to announce the latest seminar in the ESRC series New Forms of Doctorate. Previous seminars in the series have been highly praised and very popular, so please book your place early.

Website
http://newdoctorates.blogspot.com/

Lansdown Centre Events
http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/?location_id=85

Venue
London Knowledge Lab
23-29 Emerald Street
London WC1N 3QS
 
Date and time
2 March 2010
coffee from 10:00; seminar begins 10:30; ends 3:30 approx

How to secure a place
Please email Richard Sheldrake at [log in to unmask]

About the seminar
The new seminar on 2 March 2010 follows the pattern of our previous events in combining strategic overviews of key issues in the modern doctorate and case studies of particular forms of research practice. Again key themes will be the kinds of knowledge created by research and how they can best be represented. The selection of participants is designed to give insights across discipline boundaries.  

We are very fortunate to have leading the speakers Prof. Chris Rust,co-author of the important AHRC Review of Practice-Led Research 2007, who is widely published on themes of tacit knowledge and the nature of design. Dr. Mine Dogantan-Dack will consider practice-as-research in music performance. An internationally respected musician, she has recently directed an AHRC project, Alchemy, rooted in rehearsal and performance with the Marmara Trio. Dr. Anna Milsom completed her PhD in translation at Middlesex University with a highly innovative multimedia approach to representing her research knowledge.

Dr. Catherine Hill continues our theme from a previous seminar, considering professional doctorates as well as the PhD. She has a particular interest in enquiry which occurs in and for advanced level practice and which has effective action rather than published output as its main aim. Dr. Kristina Niedderrer offers us a framework for the relationship between research methods, knowledge, and that so-tricky concept, rigour. Dr Nick Bryan-Kinns researches collaboration, engagement, and the design process. He has particular insights to offer in interdisciplinary studies, such as PhDs which veer towards the arts but which are located and examined in a science and engineering faculty, and is contributor to a major EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre.


The speakers

Prof. Chris Rust
Professor of Design
Director, Sheffield Institute of Arts
Head of Art and Design Department
Sheffield Hallam University
 
Dr. Mine Dogantan-Dack
Research Fellow
Chair of Music Research Group
Music Department
Middlesex University

Dr. Anna Milsom
Senior Lecturer in Applied Translation
London Metropolitan University

Dr. Kristina Niedderrer  
Reader in Design and Applied Arts
Chair of Material Design and Applied Art Research Group
School of Art and Design
University of Wolverhampton

Dr. Catherine Hill
Programme leader, Professional Doctorate
Centre for Health and Social Care Research
Sheffield Hallam University

Dr. Nick Bryan-Kinns  
Centre for Digital Music
and IMC Research Group
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science,
Queen Mary, University of London

The series is led by Prof. Richard Andrews at the Institute of Education.

The London Knowledge Lab is a collaboration between the Institute of Education and Birkbeck.

_____________________________________________________________
Stephen Boyd Davis
Reader in Interactive Media
Acting Head, Art and Design Research Institute
Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts
Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts  EN4 8HT
United Kingdom
Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072
.............................................................
The Lansdown Centre's Web Pages are at http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/