SHAPING FUTURES
LAUNCH EVENT: NEW DOCTORAL SCHOOL
FRIDAY 17 MAY 2024
Schedule:
Gathering with refreshments & research student exhibition from 10.30am
Welcome 11am
Ceremonial ribbon by Adam Gefen, Research student at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK.
11.15-11.30am
Provocation by Professor Vida Midgelow Dean of Doctoral School, UAL.
Presentation by Professor James Purnell President & Vice Chancellor, UAL.
11.30am-12.00pm
Keynote by Professor Christopher Smith FSAS, FRHistS, FSA, FRSA, MAE, FRSE, Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
12.00-12.15pm break & research student exhibition
Session 1: ‘Innovations in doctorate training’ panel
12.15-1.00pm
Professor Lucy Kimbell
Professor of Contemporary Design Practices at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK. Her research looks at the emergence and development of ‘design thinking’ and the use of design expertise to address organisational, social and public policy issues.
Dr Paul Micklethwaite
Research Lead for Design at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Currently leading the activation of Manchester Design Factory, an innovation hub in the Design Factory Global Network, and exploring the impact of
sustainability agendas on how we think about and do design, via modes of practice which are explicitly social and take design (and designers) into new territories.
Ana Vicente Richards Research student at London College of Communication, Ana Vicente Richards is an Anglo-Portuguese artist-educator-researcher based in London. Her practice-based PhD is explores the body in artistic practice and learning using a posthuman and new materialist feminist framework to look at felt learning and practices of co-creation and colearning. Working with multidisciplinary methods such as performance, drawing, installation, video, bookmaking, writing and design to explore modes of attention and being-with, her work has been exhibited in the UK, Portugal, Ireland and the USA. She has worked in creative education for the past 16 years as Senior Lecturer & Course Leader in Art & Design and Media. She is currently a Senior External Moderator for the UAL Awarding Body. She co-convenes the cross-institutional practice-based research group Seeders and she is an active researcher and member of the Experimental Pedagogies Research Group (EPRG) at UAL.
Professor Sarah Whatley Director, Centre for Dance Research (CDARE) at Coventry University, UK. Her research focuses on the interface between dance and new technologies, dance analysis, somatic dance practice and pedagogy, and inclusive dance. The AHRC, the Leverhulme Trust, Wellcome Trust and the European Union fund her current and previous research, which is broadly focused on the impact of digital technologies on tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
Chair: Professor Lee Miller
Head of Postgraduate Research and lead for Centre of Blended Realities, at Falmouth
University, UK. Throughout his career he has been committed to interrogating the academic voice, and exploring the role of collaboration in the generation of knowledge. As a recognised expert in practice as research, he has spent the past two decades working to support undergraduate, postgraduate taught, and doctoral students across the wide variety of the contemporary arts.
1.00-2.00pm lunch & research student exhibition
Durational performance by Lynda Beckett, Research student at London College of Communication, UAL.
Performance writing by Jenny Maxwell, Research student at Central Saint Martins, UAL.
2.00-2.30pm
Presentation ‘Training futures’ by Dr Bob Whalley and Dr Alison Green Directors of Doctoral Training and Development, Doctoral School, UAL.
Session 2: ‘What is the value of an arts PhD?’ panel 2.30-3.15pm
Dr Sara Andersdotter Alumnus and Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication, Contextual & Theoretical Studies Lead, UCA: University for the Creative Arts, UK. She teaches and oversees the contextual & theoretical delivery on the Visual Communication courses and supervises PhD students. Her expertise and research interests include photographic practice and theory, memory, philosophy and fine art.
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Images:'Nether Space(s)' by Kate March, UAL Doctoral Researcher
SHAPING FUTURES
LAUNCH EVENT: NEW DOCTORAL SCHOOL
FRIDAY 17 MAY 2024
Schedule, Session 2 continued:
Professor Tony Fisher
Professor of Theatre, Politics and Aesthetics and Professor of Theatre, Politics and Aesthetics and Head of Research Strategy and Culture, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK; Deputy Director of London Arts and Humanities Partnership. As a researcher, his work has pursued two separate albeit related strands of thought: first, in the area of agonistic aesthetics, interrogating political understandings of contemporary critical art and performance practices; and, second, in exploring the cultural history of theatre, particularly in relation to the ambiguous proximity of theatre to state and governmental power.
Dr Yoriko Otomo
Research Degrees Leader at the Doctoral College, UCA University for the Creative Arts, and Director of the Global Research Network Think Tank. Board member of Minding Animals International and the Global Journal of Animal Law. Previously Senior Lecturer in Law at SOAS University of London. As a researcher her work promotes critical reflection on the global governance of human-animal relations, informed by theories of gender, materiality, and archival research on British colonial rule.
Chair: Dr Bob Whalley
Joanne 'Bob' Whalley serves as the Director of Doctoral Training and Development in the Doctoral School at University of the Arts London UK, where she co-leads the development and delivery of a cohesive, cross-university doctoral training and development programme. Recognised internationally as a leading figure in the field of practice as research, Bob has dedicated over twenty years to guiding and supporting students at undergraduate, postgraduate,
and doctoral levels, across the diverse spectrum of contemporary arts. As a fervent advocate for the artist-researcher's journey, she considers herself to be an artivist (artist + activist) teacher with a student-centred practice.
3.15-3.45pm break & research student exhibition
Durational performance by Vicky Tang, Research student at Central Saint Martins, UAL.
Session 3: ‘What does this all mean for the ‘doing’ of doctorates?’
3.45-4.45pm
Dr Katerina Athanasopoulou
Research Tutor in Animation, School of Communication, Royal College of Art, UK. An award-winning artist-researcher working with CGI Animation for screen, gallery space, and online. She is interested in the interplay between spaces, bodies, and archives as performed through immersive technologies, including VR and AR.
Professor Maria Delgado
Vice Principal (Research and Knowledge Exchange) at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK. She is part of steering group of PRAGUK increasing the visibility and accessibility of UK Practice Research, and has membership of Leverhulme Trust’s Advisory Panel, HEFCE’s Strategic Advisory Committee for Research and Knowledge Exchange (2015-17), HEFCE’s KE Framework Steering Group (2017-18), and the founding Council of Research England (2018-20).
Professor Roberta Mock
Professor of Performance and Executive Dean of the School of Performing and Digital Arts at Royal Holloway University of London. Principal Investigator for the Transitioning to Sustainable Production across the UK Theatre Sector project (co-commissioned by the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre and Arts Council England, 2022). Chair of the Theatre & Performance Research Association (TaPRA) between 2018 and 2022.
Chair: Professor Pratāp Rughani
Dr Pratāp Rughani is an award-winning filmmaker and Professor of Documentary Practices at University of the Arts, London. He is Assoc. Dean of Research and chairs the University’s Professoriate. He served on the UK’s REF Panel 34, is part of the European Art School’s Executive and a National Teaching Fellow. His documentary work spans broadcast (BBC 2 / Channel 4) & commissions for The British Council, Modern Art Oxford, NGOs and galleries. He is particularly interested in how documentary can evolve as a storytelling arena where peoples of radically different perspectives can come into relation to develop deeper listening and dialogue.
4.45-5.00 Wrap-up
5.00-6.00 Social mixer
Student exhibition with practice research from Philippa Bradbury, Lynda Beckett, Maya Finkelstein Amrami, Adam Gefen, Janine Goldsworthy, Nathalie Hankir, Jenny Maxwell, Jonathan Martin, Gareth Mitchell, Ana Vicente Richards, Megan Rowden, Miriam Sorrentino, Wilma Stone, Vicky Tang, Konstantina Votsika, Chen Wang, Joshua Whitaker, and others.
Student exhibition organised by Philippa Bradbury, Lynda Beckett, Emma Louise Rixhon.
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Images:'Nether Space(s)' by Kate March, UAL Doctoral Researcher