On 29 March 2023, Carola Boehm gave a talk at CHIME https://www.chime.ac.uk/ , bringing together some key thematic discourses from both higher education policy.
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(It’s not) All about REF.
(It’s not) All about REF.
How preparing for REF can help with research.
The C3 Research Centre (Prof Ian Brown and Prof Neil Brownsword) will be delivering two sessions for our C3 members, to assist in understanding and preparing for REF for those who have practice-based aspects of their research. Linking to other related research contexts, such as AHRC criteria, we will focus on the two key elements that accompany the submission of research outputs for the REF submission and discuss the wider benefits for researchers in utilising them.
We particularly welcome those new to research, or the REF processes, as well as those who are more familiar or have been previously submitted to the REF. Indeed, those who have this experience will be invaluable in contributing to discussions on how the process was for them and lessons learnt.
- Session 1: 300-word research statement
- Date: 8th Feb 2023
- Time: 14:00-15:30
- Activity: Presentation and Workshop
- Room: T005 Beacon
This session will focus on the requirements of the 300-word REF research statement, what role this plays in the submission and how the production of research statements can support the development of research.
If you would like some support in writing research statements, please bring along any written material that you may have on current research projects (at whatever stage they are at) as we will be using a workshop format to support each other in their development.
- Session 2: Research Portfolio
- Date: 15th March
- Time: 14:00-15:30
- Activity: Presentation and Workshop
- Room: T005 Beacon
This session will focus on the requirements of the REF Research Portfolio, what role this plays in the submission and how the production of research portfolio material can support the development of research.
If you would like some support in producing the material for the Research Portfolio, please bring along any written and visual material that you may have on current research projects (at whatever stage they are at) as we will be using a workshop format to support each other in their development.
Practice-Based Research: Writing 300-word statements and Developing your (also REF) Portfolio
Prof Ian Brown, Co-Director of C3, will lead two sessions focussing on practice-based or practice-as-research.
When:
- 8th Feb 2023 – 2-3:30pm: Overview of Practice-based research (and related published research) along with a session on writing 300 word statements.
- 1st March 2023 – 2-3:3p: developing a portfolio.
More details will be announced on our C3 MS Teams channel, or contact Prof Ian Brown.
C3 and DTA PGR Research Seminar
C3 and DTA PGR Research Seminar
Research seminar open for all PGRs on the morning of Thursday, January 19th 2023, in the Catalyst Building. Contact Dave Payling for details.
- Marina Miltiadou – Teaching Music Visually
- Tim Anderson – Using Bricolage to Imagine/Image the Eschaton as a Solo Digital Artist
- Joel Morrey – Co-authorship and perceived audience ownership in participatory sound art: how does the perceived level of co-authorship influence an audience’s critical opinion of a work?
- Mike Knowles – The Producer in Independent British Film Making
- Calum Wilton – Environmental Audiovisual Composition
They will all present a talk on their research.
Please note, this is an in-person event. Tea and coffee will be available!
New Factory Events! In-person and Online!
Factory is delivering a number of events coming up. Do feel free to share this info on with others you think might be interested.
FACTORY is an ERDF funded project, delivered in collaboration with the Chamber, BCB, and Staffordshire University. It supports innovation-led-practices for the SME Creative Industries in Stoke-on-Trent. Our partner organisation BCB has also a webpage dedicated to FACTORY available here
Factory Seminar – A Beginners Guide to Funding and Grant Applications (In-person)
- Delivered by: Clare Wood
- Date: 26th October, 2022
- Time: 6-7.30pm
- Location: Room L410, Flaxman Building, Staffordshire University, College Road, ST4 2DE
- More info and to Book Now
Factory Lunch Hour – Keeping it Simple: Admin and Organisation
- Delivered by: Natalie Armitage and Rhiannon Ewing-James
- Date: 1st November, 2022
- Time: 1-2pm
- Location: Online
- More info and to Book Now
Artist Development Surgeries
- The BCB Artist Development Surgeries are an opportunity to talk about a project or idea that has a connection to Stoke-on-Trent, its people, place or industries. This opportunity is for people feel they would benefit from speaking about it with a member of the BCB Artistic Programme/Exhibitions team.
- Date: 7th November, 2022
- Time: 10am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm.
- Location: Online
- More info and to Book Now
Factory Seminar – To Pitch or Not to Pitch: Responding to Procurement Tenders and how this could be an opportunity (Online)
- Delivered by: Andrew Palmer
- Date: 7th November, 2022
- Time: 6-7.30pm
- Location: Online
- More info and to Book Now
Factory Seminar – The guide to knowing your audience
- Date: 30th November, 2022
- Time: 6-7.30pm
- Location: Online
- More info and to Book Now
Factory Lunch Hour – Knowing your worth: Pricing your work and time
- Delivered by: Fiona Wilson
- Date: 1st December, 2022
- Time: 1-2pm
- Location: Online
- More info and to Book Now
Factory Lunch Hour – Streamline Your Client Management
- Date: 14th December, 2022
- Time: 1-2pm
- Location: Online
- More info and to Book Now
DTA Research Seminar Series 2022-23 – Research Frameworks
The School of Digital, Technologies and Arts is again holding a series of seminars, chaired and curated by C3 member Becky Nunes, following a life-cycle of reserch: It will cover presentations by researchers about how projects start, how to work across teams, how to co-create research with external communities and in the second half of the season will moev to how research gets funded and reviwed.
Seminars are designed to be in person, but recordings will be available afterwards. Dates for the seminars are:
- WED NOV 9TH 3.30-5.00P.M : CA204 – BEGINNINGS – How do projects start? What are the catalysts for interesting research projects? (Michael Day, Alke Groeppel-Wegener)
- WED DEC 7TH 3.30-5.00P.M: CA204 : COLLABORATIONS – Working across teams, co-creating and other fruitful research partnerships (Neil Brownsword, Maria Martinez-Sanchez)
- WED JAN 11TH 3.30-5.00P.M : CA204: : COLLABORATIONS – Working across teams, co-creating and other fruitful research partnerships (Islam Abohela)
Catch-Up: #RebelliousResearch #1: Agnieszka Piotrowska
The recording from the first session of ‘Rebellious Research’ (Arts/practice-based research seminar series) is now available to watch online: ‘Tentacular thinking’ in Creative Practice Research as a Radical Intellectual Gesture by Agnieszka Piotrowska.
You can find the recordings from the last year’s edition of the series here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlngmRq1T-8&list=PLMUvev1_9LqMfwY4BBRR71vwa5YQaKxWw
‘Tentacular thinking’ in Creative Practice Research as a Radical Intellectual Gesture by
Agnieszka Piotrowska (Reader in Film, SODA, MMU & Professor, Film and Cultural Studies, The University of Gdańsk). Wednesday 26th October 2022, 15:30-17:00 (GMT)
In this talk, Agnieszka Piotrowska considere the notion of what ‘knowledge’ might be for a creative research practitioner and how ‘high theory’ might be of assistance in inspiring ideas and creative strategies. She will share her most recent experience of working across disciplines with the new experimental film Wash (2022). It is a hybrid documentary with element of animation and drama dealing with serious issues of development in Zimbabwe, a country in which she has done much work over the years. The piece of work has been funded by Strategic England Research 2021 and the University of Edinburgh.
Age of Creativity: Place Making of Making Place
This partnership, recorded on 19 May 2022, was co-devised by colleagues at Keele University, Staffordshire University and Age UK Oxfordshire, as part of the Age of Creativity Festival 2022 and Creative Later Life 2025.
The keynote presentations and panel discussions around creative aging and placemaking, is now avaiable from the link above.
C3 Centre’s Professor Carola Boehm gave a talk on #Culture30Walks: How Creative is your Place?
Speakers included:
- Professor David Amigoni FEA- Director, Keele Institute for Social Inclusion (KISI), Keele Deal Culture & ArtsKeele (chair)
- Carola Boehm– Professor of Arts and Higher Education, Staffordshire University
- Rose Gilroy-Professor of Ageing Planning and Policy, Chair of Future Homes Alliance, School of Architecture Planning and Landscape
- Steven Millington– Director/ Senior Fellow at The Institute of Place Management and Reader in Place Management at Manchester Metropolitan University
- Jason Jones-Hall– Director of Development, Five10Twelve
- Neil Johnson– Engagement Project Lead, Liverpool City Region
It covers topics and case studies exploring the following:
- How does creativity/ culture contribute to ‘vibrant’ places for older people beyond local tourism?
- What constitutes a creative/ cultural ‘asset’ to older communities experiencing inequality?
- What ‘value’ do we give creativity/culture and older communities experiencing inequalities in rebranding places?
- What role does place based leadership have in making places both ‘Creative/ Cultural’ and ‘Age Friendly’?
- How can inequalities be tackled by ‘making’ in place and is this place leadership?
Art/Practice-Based Research Seminar Series
Following the and popular first round of the Art/Practice-based research seminar series (and a Special Issue on Recontextualising Practice-based Research which followed), the seminar series, hosted by C3 Centre Agata Lulkowska, returns with a new title and some truly exquisite guests. As always, free and open to all (all sessions run online via MS Teams), this initiative aims at widening support and understanding around practice research in a friendly and inclusive manner, with some top experts sharing their experience and advice.
- For more info and to be added to the mailing list please contact Agata Lulkowska (Agata.Lulkowska@staffs.ac.uk)
- The programme is available from here
- The Youtube Channel of our past recorded seminars is here (below a taster from the first seminar)
Hawthorn Ridge : a forensic investigation into the archaeology and history of Hawthorn Crater
Recently released, in a warm and engaging audio interview, producer and Associate Professor Fiona Graham from C3 and historian Colin Winn walk to the craters and tour their perimeter. While doing so they share with us their stories behind this exciting project into the crater and talk about the special relationship that has developed with the local community. Colin is a military historian and tunnelling expert and Fiona an associate professor on the project.
The Hawthorn Redoubt was an formidable defensive position for the Germans which was blown up on the morning of 1 July 1916 by a mine that had been placed beneath the German stronghold on the ridge. The explosion, ten minutes before the whistles blew at 7:30am, destroyed the position but the timing of the detonation and the lifting of the artillery barrage meant that the position was reinforced by the Germans, leading to massive losses among the attacking British troops.
The full article and interview can be viewed and listened to at:
https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-articles/hawthorn-ridge-a-forensic-investigation-into-the-archaeology-and-history-of-hawthorn-crater/