CHEAD PhD Research in Practice

Description

Sense | Experiment | Surprise | Understanding : a symposium for PhD students in the Creative Arts
KF as trustee and chair of the Research Alliance contributed to origination of this symposium with academic colleagues at Nottingham. Supported by CHEAD administrative support. KF co-chaired event and led panels and discussion.
A call for papers to currently registered doctoral researchers in CHEAD member universities (representing the majority or creative arts doctoral programmes in the UK.) and European universities.

This symposium will focus on the challenges encountered by researchers-practitioners when conducting and presenting research that involves creative practice. It intends to be ‘field neutral’, relating to work across art, design, media, performance, and writing.
PhDs that involve creative practice present particular challenges that may make themselves evident as knotty questions in the student’s mind:
 What research tradition am I part of – does it have any rules?
 What precedents can I appeal to in framing my research process?
 How can I do justice to my experiences in reporting my research?
 Are there risks in using ideas from other fields?
 How can I build claims to knowledge from experiences/ artefacts/ actions?
 What are valid material forms for my thesis?
If these or similar questions resonate with you as a PhD researcher join us in Nottingham on 21st- 22nd January 2016, to hear keynotes from Henk Slager, Stephen Scrivener and Rickard Lindqvist, to participate in discussions, to socialise with other PhD candidates and supervisors, and to experience the city of Nottingham.
If you are a PhD candidate, the presentations and discussions will help you develop your view on your research - please respond to the Call for papers below. If you are a PhD supervisor, please come and join us too - the symposium will help you guide your students on their research journey.
To facilitate travel and reduce costs, the symposium will start after Midday on 21st and finish by the early afternoon of 22nd January. Registration will open on 7th December.
Call for papers:
If you would like to present a short paper on your work, please send a 300 word abstract to Dr Iryna Kuksa ([email protected]) by 30th November. To help to shape the symposium, please address one or more of the questions above. The presentations should be 15 minutes long and PowerPoint / AV facilities will be available.

Period	21 Jan 2016 → 22 Jan 2016
Event type	Conference
Location	Nottingham, United KingdomShow on map