Date: 14 May 2014
Lieu: The Manchester Museum
University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester, England, M13 9PL
Increasingly postgraduate work in the performing and visual arts can be described as interdisciplinary, and there is significant ‘cross-over’ from art into performance and vice versa. This HEA workshop focuses on issues surrounding learning & teaching postgraduates in the performing and visual arts, and provides a forum to raise and discuss issues and concern, to share ideas and practices, and to inform future developments.
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‘Ways of Creatively ‘Me-searching’ and ‘Re-searching’ as Practitioner-based and Practice-based Researchers’
Abstract: Arts practitioners, as with artist researchers, are increasingly developing diverse research practices and in doing so have the potential to contribute ground-breaking analysis and construction of new forms of knowledge and creativities. Arts practice is increasingly being accepted as a form of research (i.e. practice-based research). Arts practitioner research, and the notion of artists as researchers researching their own practice, is also increasingly recognized as central to the development of arts education in cultural, school and community contexts. In this talk, Pam will provide a strong theoretical framework for these fields of research with identification of questions and issues, provocations and dilemmas underpinning the concept of researching ‘practice’ as it applies in cultural, educational and community sites. During this talk, Pam will share snapshots of her own ‘me-researching’ and ‘re-searching’ with invitations for audience reflections, discussions and questions.
Short presentations/provocations by:
Teresa Brayshaw with MA Students & Graduates (Leeds Metropolitan University)
Performance Intervention ‘In our own words’
Amanda Couch (University for the Creative Arts, Farnham)
Searching and Re-Searching for a Practice
Sadie Fields (Concert violinist/Doctoral student, Royal Academy of Music)
Musical Tradition and Individual Artistry
Ehsan Gill (Artist/Doctoral student)
An almost phenomenological account: the last thing I wanted to talk about was race
Nadia Malik (Costume Designer, Lecturer and Head of Costume at the University of Essex)
The Wear Project
Vida Midgelow (Middlesex University)
My Top 10 Do's and Don'ts of Supervising PaR Doctorates
Debbie Newton (Lecturer, Arden School of Theatre & Leeds Metropolitan Doctoral Student)
Rethinking Disciplinary Boundaries: Towards a New Ontology of Performance
Anna Seymour (Senior Lecturer, Dramatherapy, University of Roehampton)
Defining a performative ‘text’
Some of the questions the event will address...
- How do we re-think disciplinary boundaries at postgraduate level?
- What is the relationship between ‘professional’ creativity and ‘postgraduateness’
- What are the issues around practice-as-research?
- How do we teach post-graduate students to plan for ‘impact’?
- How do international/intercultural placements fit as part of PG research?
- What are the strategies and practices that enable successful PG teaching?
- What needs to be done?
- ...and other relevant questions
Who should attend:
Anyone involved in designing, delivering, evaluating postgraduate learning and teaching, including lecturers, deans, institutional managers, post-graduate students, etc.
About the keynote speaker:
Pam Burnard is internationally known for her creativities research. She researches the spaces between education and industry, creative partnerships, creative learning and teaching, assessing creativity and the sociology of music education. She is convener of the Commonwealth Creativities in Intercultural Arts Network
http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/cce/initiatives/projects/cian/
and co-convener of the BERA Creativity SIG.
This event is aligned with the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) through:
- supporting the initial and continuing professional development of staff engaged in postgraduate teaching and supporting postgraduate learning in the performing and visual arts;
- fostering dynamic approaches to postgraduate teaching and learning through creativity, innovation and continuous development in diverse academic and/or professional settings;
- acknowledging the variety and quality of teaching, learning and assessment practices that support and underpin postgraduate learning in the performing and visual arts.
Programme
Full programme to be confirmed.
09:30 - 10:00 Registration.
10:00 Welcome by Dr. Paul Kleiman (HEA)
10:15 Keynote: Dr. Pamela Burnard and Q&A.
11:15 Break
11:30: Provocations 1 + Key Questions & Discussion
Debbie Newton
Rethinking Disciplinary Boundaries: Towards a New Ontology of Performance
Amanda Couch
Searching and Re-Searching for a Practice
Vida Midgelow
My Top 10 Do's and Don'ts of Supervising PaR Doctorates
12:45 Lunch
13.30 Provocations 2 + Key Questions & Discussion
Teresa Brayshaw with MA Students & Graduates
Performance Intervention ‘In our own words’
Anna Seymour
Defining a performative ‘text’
Ehsan Gill
A phenomenological account: the last thing I wanted to talk about was race
14:45 Provocations 3 + Key Questions & Discussion
Sadie Fields (Professional violinist/Doctoral student, Royal Academy of Music)
Advanced Learning and the Language of Music: A Case Study
Nadia Malik (Costume Designer, Lecturer and Head of Costume at the University of Essex)
The Wear Project
15:45 Break
16:00 Plenary: What needs to be done?
16:30 Close.