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
Research seminar open for all PGRs on the morning of Thursday, January 19th 2023, in the Catalyst Building. Contact Dave Payling for details.

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)
Factory Seminar – The guide to knowing your audience
Factory Lunch Hour – Knowing your worth: Pricing your work and time
Factory Lunch Hour – Streamline Your Client Management
WED JAN 11TH 3.30–5.00P.M : CA204:
DR. ISLAM ABOHELA. Islam is an Architect with experience in research and teaching
Architecture, Interior Design, Building Science and Design related modules. His research interests and publications focus on implementing simulation tools in understanding building physics, energy performance in buildings, retrofitting micro renewable sources of energy in urban areas and the effect of behavioural interventions on energy consumption in buildings. His publications also cover his research on the image of future city and its architecture in science fiction films.
DTA Research Seminar Series 2022-23 – Research Frameworks
COLLABORATIONS – Working across teams, co–creating and other fruitful research partnerships
WED DEC 7 TH 3.30–5.00P.M : CA204
DR. NEIL BROWNSWORD. Prof. Brownsword is an artist, researcher and educator. His
research into the legacy of deindustrialisation in relation to North Staffordshire’s ceramic industry has had national and international cultural impact, through reactivating associated post–industrial spaces and endangered industrial crafts.
DR. MARIA MARTINEZ SANCHEZ. Maria is Associate Professor of Architecture and the
Course Leader of the BArch (Hons) Architecture. She holds a PhD in Architecture and has a professional background in theatre and performance design, specializing in space design within devising theatre processes.
DTA Research Seminar Series 2022-23 – Research Frameworks
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)
BEGINNINGS – How do projects start? What are the catalysts for interesting research projects?#
WED NOV 9 TH 3.30–5.00P.M : CA204
DR. MICHAEL DAY. Michael is an artist, researcher, lecturer, and occasional curator. He is interested in the ways that digital technologies can structure experience, and produces artworks that explore relationships between technology and agency. Michael’s practice is interdisciplinary and uses a range of media and technologies, including digital media, sound, installation, electronics and print.
DR. ALKE GRÖPPEL–WEGENER. Alke is Associate Professor of Creative Academic Practice at Staffordshire University, where her teaching focus is Animation Studies. Her research interests are two–fold: within Learning and Teaching she explores the links between creative and academic practice, developing a number of visual analogies and creative activities to help students understand ‘hidden’ academic practice. Alke’s
other research interest is Experience Design, with a particular interest in theme parks
DTA Research Seminar Series 2022-23 – Research Frameworks