School of Art and Media - Research Knowledge Exchange

Event Outcome: REG Communication and Creative Ecologies meet up – What’s in a Pebble | 8 July 2025 10.30 – 14.30 at Grand Parade, 204

This workshop, led by Jules Findley and Julie Doyle, successfully brought people together from different academic disciplines and professional practices and provoked new ideas, insights and thoughts for research and collaboratiion. To be continued. What’s in a Pebble? Exploring creative research practice and making connections Participants walked down to the beach where each picked up a pebble and brought it back (as a loan from the beach) to observe, reflect and discuss as a potential object for research. Initially each person examined their selected pebble, describing it either in drawn or pictorial form, or written narrative or poem, Then the group collectively shared reflections exploring how the object and the responses to it could spark research ideas. Particapant’s renderings of the pebbles

Event: REG Communication and Creative Ecologies meet up – What’s in a Pebble | 8 July 2025 10.30 – 14.30 at Grand Parade, 204

What’s in a Pebble? Exploring creative research practice and making connections REG Communication and Creative Ecologies meet up July 8 10.30 – 14.30 Rm GP204 Join us for a walk down to the beach where we will each pick up a pebble and bring it back with us for observation, reflection and discussion as a potential object for research. We will meet up in GP rm 204 initially for introduction, then walk down together to the beach to choose a pebble and return to rm204. Initially you will be examining your pebble individually, describing it either in drawn or pictorial form, or written narrative or poem, whatever is comfortable for your analysis. Over a vegan working lunch, we will then collectively share our reflections exploring how the object and your response to it could spark research ideas. The event is intended to bring people together and to provoke new ideas/thoughts […]

Research and Knowledge Exchange Magazine – Issue 19

I am delighted to share the latest Research and Knowledge Exchange magazine with you. Research and Knowledge Exchange Magazine, Issue 19 Best wishes, Professor Rusi Jaspal Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Knowledge Exchange)

Events and news: Centre for Arts and Wellbeing. See latest

Latest: upcoming event, where community and industry partners will be able to talk directly with researchers such as yourselves regarding the opportunities for collaborative research in AI. Date: Tuesday 15th July Time: 10:00 – 15:00 Location: Grand Parade M2 See full details on the blog, as well as a link to book Centre for Arts and Wellbeing

Update from Susan Diab Honorary Research Fellow – June 2025 and forthcoming planned activities

Our Honorary Research Fellow, Susan Diab’s recent activities inlude an interview article about her current work, focussing on interdisciplinarity between languages and visual art practice. This was published this month on the Queen’s College blog – see here: https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/blog/layer-by-layer-making-ideas-visible/ More activities follow….. A chapter, Palimpself: a sculptural investigation of materiality in the works of Annie Ernaux is appearing in the first in a new series of books about Annie Ernaux studies to be published in 2026. This publication will include as its frontispiece an image from Susan Diab’s work made for the exhibition Palimpself, a University of St Andrews commission, which was shown in the Byre Theatre, part of the University of St Andrews, in October 2024. Plans are underway to show Palimpself in a venue in Oxford in 2026 with a roundtable discussion event at the Maison Française planned for 7 May 2026. An online catalogue of Palimpself with essays about the exhibition by […]

Grant Capture: Grant Holders Spotlight – Dr Nicola Ashmore and Dr Carolyn Watt – Grant: Guernica Remakings (AHRC)

Grant Capture Lead, Julie Doyle, has launched a spotlight blog series featuring current grant holders to give staff insight into the bid process. Through these features, we aim to share the experiences of successful applicants — their top tips for navigating the grant application process and the advice they would offer to those just beginning to consider applying. This will be a regular series, highlighting different projects and individuals, and exploring their journeys through the bidding process. Grant Holders Spotlight – Dr Nicola Ashmore and Dr Carolyn Watt, Guernica Remakings (AHRC) Tell us a bit about yourself and your research. Dr Nicola Ashmore is a Principal Lecturer in Art and Design History. Her research and curatorial interests include collective remakings of Picasso’s Guernica for social change and creative practices for sustainable development. She is committed to working collaboratively and developing international networks of artists and institutions interested in progressing […]

Grant Capture: Grant Holder Spotlight -Paul Sermon A Telepresence Stage for Disability Performing Arts (AHRC)

Grant Capture Lead, Julie Doyle, has launched a spotlight blog series featuring current grant holders to give staff insight into the bid process. Through these features, we aim to share the experiences of successful applicants — their top tips for navigating the grant application process and the advice they would offer to those just beginning to consider applying. This will be a regular series, highlighting different projects and individuals, and exploring their journeys through the bidding process. Grant Holder Spotlight -Paul Sermon A Telepresence Stage for Disability Performing Arts (AHRC) Tell us a bit about yourself and your research. Professor of Visual Communication at the University of Brighton, pioneered telematic video art since ‘Telematic Dreaming’ in 1992. Produced over 100 internationally exhibited installations, including commissions from ZKM Karlsruhe and the Millennium Dome UK. Directed AHRC telepresence art project ‘3×4’ in 2014 and advisory editor for ‘International Journal of Performance Arts […]

Event: Session of Introductory NVivo Training | 8-9 July 2025 at Mithras House 123 Booking required

The Introductory NVivo Training is open to both research-active staff and PGRs. NVivo is qualitative analysis software and is widely used in qualitative research to analyse data from interviews, surveys, field notes, web pages, and journal articles. This introductory training will provide participants with hands-on experience in organising, analysing, and visualising qualitative data, helping them identify patterns and insights efficiently. The training is provided by QDAS, and full two-day attendance is required. It is not a drop-in session, and booking is essential. Given expected high demand, an optional waitlist will be in place for cancellations or no-shows. Key details: Date and Time: 8th – 9th July 09:30am – 4:30pm (full two-day attendance required) Location: Mithras House 123 Registration: Booking required; waitlist available for late cancellations or no-shows This is likely to book up very quickly. To book a place or if you have any questions, please email ResearcherDevelopment@brighton.ac.uk

Grant Capture: Spotlight on grant holders – what others are doing

Grant Capture Lead, Julie Doyle, has launched a spotlight blog series featuring current grant holders to give staff insight into the bid process. Through these features, we aim to share the experiences of successful applicants — their top tips for navigating the grant application process and the advice they would offer to those just beginning to consider applying. This will be a regular series, highlighting different projects and individuals, and exploring their journeys through the bidding process. See the projects to date. Grant Capture – Grant Holder Spotlight -Paul Sermon A Telepresence Stage for Disability Performing Arts (AHRC) Grant Capture: Grant Holders Spotlight – Dr Nicola Ashmore and Dr Carolyn Watt – Grant: Guernica Remakings (AHRC)

Events and News: Centre for Design History. See latest

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Event: Katie Beecroft and Jill Vigus Nature Interrupting, Interrupted Nature – Exhibition 16 – 28 June 2025 Private View Invite 20 June 20 2025 6-8pm at gallery19a

Nature Interrupting, Interrupted Nature will be @gallery19a. Open Mon – Sat, 16 – 28 June, 10am – 5pm. Jill Vigus and Katie Beecroftboth studied on the MA Sequential Design/Illustration course and have since exhibited together in collective exhibitions in London. This will be our first joint show in Brighton and the forumulation of thier research. @kbeecroft2 @jillvigus

Events: Undoings – Vanessa Marr’s work included | 14 June 2025 6 July 2025 at BN9 STUDIOMarine Workshop, Newhaven

Undoings explores works that sit on the threshold between the made and the unmade. This exciting national open-call exhibition invites UK-based makers, artists, and craftspeople to respond to the theme UNDOINGS. Our ambition is to present work by contemporary UK creatives that responds to the theme and identifies a shared aesthetic. The selection panel will focus on ‘handmade’ artworks and structures. The works the panel will look for can be created using simple, repetitive actions, such as repetitive mark-making, crochet, plaiting, weaving, and winding, as well as stringing, shredding, binding, and crumpling. Drawing on a wide range of materials, colors, scales, and textures, the works can be as much bound together as they are poised to disintegrate. The exhibition is at BN9 STUDIOMarine Workshops, Railway Approach, Newhaven BN9 0ERSussex (map) See the website https://www.thesussexcontemporary.co.uk/events/undoings Image – Vanessa Marr The Making of Me

Event: Commoning sound: AmbiMuse in Brighton | 19 June 2025 2-6pm at the Waste House

You are invited to an afternoon of sharing and discussing creative wellbeing approaches to sustainable place-making. Join local and international researchers, practitioners, and artists to explore the potential of situated and critical listening practices as a way of “commoning”, that is of making and living well with human and non-human others, in often harsh and changing urban environments. 14:00 Part 1: Welcome by Dr Matt Adams then Interactive Listening Walk by Bela Emerson & Dr Bethan Prosser (Brighton & Hove Music for Connection) 15:30 Part 2: Talking & sharing with Dr Phillipe Woloszyn (researcher in architecture, acoustics and ambience studies, University of Bordeaux) and Sara Ducloy (doctoral student, National School of Architecture and Landscapes, University of Bordeaux) 16:30 Break 16:45 Part 3: Sounding out the Waste House & Béton Communs/Concrete Commons music- making with Dr Elona Hoover (University of Brighton) 17:45 Reception with refreshments All welcome to participate in exploring […]

Event: Forthcoming exhibition, Image, Memory, Place | 11-22 June 2025 with panel on 17 June 25 at Phoenix Art Space

You are very welcome to a panel discussion of the forthcoming exhibition, Image, Memory, Place at Phoenix Art Space. The panel is due to take place at Phoenix Art Space Project Space on Tuesday 17 June 6-7pm. The exhibition features work by Matthew Cornford, Fergus Heron, Alexander James Pollard, Naomi Salaman. Information about the exhibition can be found here Image – Fergus Heron Dorset Place

Event: Vanessa Marr’s dusters from Domestic Duster’s project are on display Friars St, Lewes, East Sussex and workshop 12 June 2025 10-12.30 am at Aterlier Beside the Sea, Brighton

This month a selection of dusters from Vanessa Marr’s long-running Domestic Duster’s project are on display in Lewes. They represent a selection from the hundreds held in the main collection and include those stitched by unpaid carers in a political call for improved rights, a reflection on the power of the duster from a workshop with women seeking asylum, reflections on motherhood, railing cries for domestic equality, heartfelt stories, playfully personal reflections, and Marr’s own collaged response. Collectively, they protest against the tyranny of the kitchen sink through the power of storytelling, stitching, and craftivism. The dusters can be seen in a shop window on Friars St, opposite the All Saints Centre, just around the corner from Lewes train station. For more information on Domestic Dusters, please visit https://domesticdusters.wordpress.com and follow @domesticdusters in Instagram Vanessa will also be running a duster collage workshop on with Sue Breakall from the Design […]

Event – Grant Capture: AHRC/ESRC Bid Writing Day | 23 June 2025 10-4pm at Moulsecoomb, Mithras 123

This is an opportunity for those who are currently writing, or starting to write, an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) or Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) bid: The day will provide supported, uninterrupted writing time in a computer room. There will be opportunities to link up with colleagues who are writing similar bids for the purpose of peer support, and Grant Capture Leads will be available for questions, support, and proof-reading where needed. The event will take place on Monday the 23rd of June from 10am until 4pm, although the room has been booked from 9am until 6pm for those who are keen to arrive early/stay late and make the most out of it. Yes: tea, coffee and lunch will be provided, so all you need to bring is an idea for a bid! How to sign up? To sign up, please email L.Tip@brighton.ac.uk, so that we know numbers for […]

Event: Private view invite 5 June 2025 6-8pm for New work by Ole Hagen exhibition – Black Sun | 6-15 June 2025 at Dorset Place

New work by Ole Hagen Work made under the paradoxical image of the black sun, the sun that swallows the day to reveal its own primordial luminosity. The black light of the sol niger of alchemy marks both an eclipse of the familiar and a light with no external source. The black sun demands a descent into darkness whether as egocide of the personal self or the killing of the King (collective superego). It can appear as a ‘dark night of the soul’ where everything that once gave a sense of joy and security collapses. There is a potential for deep healing here on the personal and collective level, if we don’t pathologise depression or bypass darkness too quickly in the name of developmental salvationism. When I first had the idea to make a ceramic fire I didn’t know I’d soon be participating in fire ceremonies led by marakames of […]

Event: Centre of Design History PGR Event 13 June 2025 – Call for papers deadline 2 June 2025

Event | CDH Postgraduate Research Symposium — 13 June 2025

Event: UoS Sussex Research Culture Symposium, Resilient Research, Resilient Researchers: Building Research Culture now and for the future | 17 June 2025 – online

We are hosting our first Sussex Research Culture Symposium, Resilient Research, Resilient Researchers: Building Research Culture now and for the future. This will bring together fantastic speakers from Sussex, Eastern ARC and UCL, to think about how collaboration in our research and a sense of belonging for our researchers are ways to build resilience in these difficult times for our sector, taking place online, 12-2pm on Tuesday 17 June. All welcome! This event is part of our annual Summer of Research, a festival celebrating and sharing research at Sussex, on campus and online, 9-20 June 2025.

Event – Grant Capture: Pathways to Bidding – Learning with/from others – Julie Doyle | 17 June 2024 10-11.45 am at Grand Parade, G4

Are you interested in applying for funding to support and deliver your research and knowledge exchange projects? Feeling overwhelmed or unsure about how to do this? Applying for funding can often feel overwhelming. This session aims to share some insights and experiences of applying for funding from a range of SAM staff who have been successful with bids, including dealing with unsuccessful bids! The session will also provide a collaborative space for exploring what support you might need to help you apply for bids, with the aim of identifying a range of future workshops for staff. This session is open for all SAM staff. Please email me to let me know if you will be attending j.doyle@brighton.ac.uk With thanks and best wishes Julie Julie Doyle (pronouns she/her) Professor of Media and Communication – Grant Capture Lead School of Art and Media, University of Brighton

Event: Communication and Creative Ecologies REG – Colloquium | 21 May 2025 13.30–15.30 at Grand Parade, M204

Members of the Communication and Creative Ecologies REG Alex Esculapio Mark Wells Jules Findley Will discuss their recent work. All are very welcome. See :Details Please join online here Jules Findley: Location for the online part of the colloquium. 13.30 – 15.30 If you would like to be added to the mailing list please email Jules Findley, j.findley@brighton.ac.uk (Participants external to the organisation University of Brighton will need to email Jules to be added to the Team as a guest) Looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible either in person or online.

Event: A Grand Narratives Day Out – Various (May/June) Centre for Arts and Wellbeing – The Waste House

Two upcoming events hosted by The Centre for Arts and Wellbeing at The Waste House on Friday 23rd May and Friday 6th June 9.30 – 12 noon. They are with Jess Moriarty and Emma Collins, both looking at Autoethnography but the second will also use hands-on creative methods. Contact Jennifer Jones <J.Jones36@uni.brighton.ac.uk> for more information.

Event Past: Experimental Print Workshop + Craft took place on 3 May 2025 at the Ditchling Museum of Art

There was a screen print workshop responding to the distinctive work of Tadek Beutlich MBE (1922 – 2011), a visionary textile artist, printmaker and teacher. The workshop at Ditchling Museuem of Art + Craft is part of the museums current exhibition. This workshop was led by Principal Lecturer Gavin Ambrose and Technical Instructor Chris Hunt from the University of Brighton, with staff and participants at the museum as part of an ongoing knowledge exchange programme. Images are responses to Beutlich’s work ‘Pollination I’ 1973 by participants at the workshop.

Book : Drawing in Health and Wellbeing: Marks, Signs and Traces – edited by Philippa Lyon and Curie Scott | publish date 15 May 2025

The book Drawing in Health and Wellbeing: Marks, Signs and Traces is being published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts this week (15th May 2025). It was initiated and co-edited by Philippa Lyon of the School of Art and Media, and Curie Scott (who completed her PhD at Brighton with Lyon, Moore and Haq). The book has chapter contributions from a range of international authors including from Australia, the USA, Canada and South Africa. It features chapters by current and recent Brighton staff Duncan Bullen, Vanessa Marr, Jane Fox and Edina Husanovic and cites drawing projects involving several other Brighton colleagues and alumni, Tom Ainsworth, Patrick Letschka and Martha Turland. It also features current SAM PhD student Caehryn Tinker. Other authors, Joanna Stevens and Judy Parkinson, have been SAM creative project partners and featured in the drawing exhibition Marks Make Meaning (Bullen and Lyon 2018). This is the publisher’s web page which […]

BOOK: Vanessa Marr artwork research artefacts in Normative Motherhood, Demeter Press (2022)

Vanessa Marr created artworks that are published as research artefacts in Normative Motherhood, Demeter Press (2022). These have been acquired by the Museum of Motherhood (The Fertile Mother) and sold to raise funds (The Desirable Mother) at their annual auction https://event.auctria.com/27bf46e2-87f0-4c73-a4ed-329d4a4c5a4f/a780d600ec2e11e9ae081db830846aa5 Image: Vanessa Marr – The Desirable Mother

Event: Uschi Klein – Family photography archives (HAP Summer Seminar) | 10 June 2025 1- 1:30 via Zoom

Uschi Klein will be delivering lunchtime talk on Zoom in June . This is the link to register: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/family-photography-archives-hap-summer-seminar About the event: This is the second History and Archives in Practice 2025 Summer Seminar. In this session, we will focus on the popular and ubiquitous visual images produced as part of the fabric of everyday life: family photographs. Drawing on the photographic family archive of three generations of amateur photographers from Romania covering the inter-war, communist and post-communist transition period of the 1990s, Uschi Klein (Senior Lecturer, School of Art and Media, University of Brighton) explores family photographs as visual narratives that document societal, cultural and political issues in a global context from a personal perspective. She will further investigate the practices, silences and ideologies of this particular family archive and how it constructs a narrative about Romania’s historical past, thereby functioning as the foundation of historical imagination and understanding. Uschi joins […]

Event: Conference Material Histories Group: Objects and Objectives | 15 to 16 May 2025 at Grand Parade

The School’s Material Histories research group is proud to share with you details of our first conference, Material Histories: Objects and Objectives, which runs at Grand Parade on 15 and 16 May. In keeping with the group’s focus on both making and writing as modes of research, we have a mixture of paper presentations and participatory workshops, and all are welcome. Registration is £50 for waged/£20 for unwaged, and includes refreshments, lunches, the first evening reception and all workshop materials. Information on how to register, plus the full and overview programmes can be found at our blog: https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/materialhistories/research-activities/ We very much look forward to seeing you at the conference. All best wishes, Tamar for the Material Histories Group Professor Tamar Jeffers McDonald Dean of the School of Art and Media / Academic Lead for the Brighton Doctoral College

Event: Time and Task management in research | 20 May & 22 May 2025 (2-3.30 on each day) – online

The Research and Knowledge Exchange department has commissioned a two-part workshop for our neurodiverse researcher community at UoB. The topic is time and task management in research. Provided by Vitae who support the career development of researchers, the online sessions will take place on Tuesday 20 May and Thursday 22 May 2025 for 90 minutes (2-3.30pm on each day). They take place across two sessions to allow time for information processing – attending both will be most beneficial. Details This workshop is specific to the workload of research-active members of staff who consider themselves neurodivergent.

Researchers in the school invited you to respond to CEDARS 2025 – completion deadline 5pm 9 May 2025

I am writing to you as researchers in the school to invite you to respond to CEDARS 2025. CEDARS is an important UK-wide survey that asks you to share your experience of being a researcher in UK higher education. This survey aims to gather feedback from our researchers and research leaders on important topics such as researchers’ experiences of their local research environment, the working conditions of our research staff and their experience of our professional development offering. Your anonymised feedback will contribute to UK-wide strategies relating to researcher development and research culture. Crucially, we use this information to inform policies and opportunity development across the University. Link to survey is here: University of Brighton Culture, Employment and Development in Academic Research Survey (CEDARS) 2025 The survey should take no more than 20 minutes and the deadline for completion is 5pm on Friday 9 May 2025. If you have any questions […]

Event: BOOK LAUNCH: NATURE’S GENUIS – Professor David Farrier | 6 May 2025 5-7pm at Grand Parade, Board Room/M2

Centre for Arts and Wellbeing (Arts and Ecology strand) event: Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/natures-genius-david-farrier-in-conversation-visit-to-the-waste-house-tickets-1311427808879?aff=oddtdtcreator Acclaimed author David Farrier will be launching his book in conversation with Brighton colleagues Duncan Baker-Brown and Nick Gant – places are limited. DAVID FARRIER BOOK LAUNCH

Calling all SAM PGRs – National Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) 2025

Dear SAM PGRs, May I remind you about the 2025 PRES. I would be immensely grateful if you could take a few minutes to complete the survey. The PRES runs every two years at Brighton. Since the last PRES in 2023, we’ve introduced a range of activities and initiatives, including our SAM Research Methods Programme and our SAM Postgraduate Symposium last November, to address some of the feedback we received concerning building our research culture and community. I hope these are having a positive impact on your doctoral study experience. Sincere thanks to everyone who’s taken the opportunity to engage with our activities and is helping to grow and strengthen our PGR community. The survey asks you to rate your experience in several areas, including supervision, resources, research culture and community, training opportunities and overall satisfaction. It should take around 15 minutes to complete and your feedback is confidential. The more […]

Event: Grant Support Session with Julie Doyle | 30 April 2025 2-4pm at Grand Parade, G4.

As Grant Capture Lead, Julie Doyle is hosting an in-person drop-in. This drop-in is for all staff, at any stages of career or grant bidding experience. Please drop in if you: Have any questions about research grant bids/bidding (internal or external grants) Want to discuss a Research Grant or Knowledge exchange idea Want advice on where to start you grant bidding journey Have anything else you would like to discuss related to research grants and knowledge exchange Please do email Julie Doyle <J.Doyle@brighton.ac.uk> if you have any questions.

Event: High Quality Public Engagement | Thursday 22 May 2025, 9:30am-12pm (Teams)

THis event is delivered by the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA). This training course focusses on the building blocks of high-quality engagement. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to examine frameworks and tools to develop high quality public engagement. In applying these tools, attendees will develop a more strategic approach to their public engagement practice. This session is aimed at those with an initial grounding in Public Engagement who wish to deepen their understanding of the value of engagement to their work and improve the quality of their practice. The NCCPE is a sector leading organisation advocating for the role of public and community engagement in higher education. If you are interested, please email ImpactAccelerationAccount@brighton.ac.uk and we will add you to the guestlist. For more training and funding opportunities see the IAA SharePoint […]

Event: Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Research Conference and call for contributions | 15 May 2025 at Westlain 100, Falmer Campus

The conference will provide an opportunity for University of Brighton researchers to showcase their work on EDI and form partnerships to address EDI barriers in research. It will also help to advance our understanding of changes in EDI within the research landscape. The conference will take place on 15 May 2025 at Westlain 100, Falmer Campus, with a full programme to be launched on the week beginning 22 April 2025. Our conference aims to: Highlight research initiatives addressing EDI challenges across diverse disciplines. Foster dialogue and collaboration among researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders to identify and address EDI barriers. Explore strategies for integrating EDI perspectives into research practices and grant proposals. Provide a platform for showcasing EDI-focused research projects and initiatives. Facilitate networking opportunities to build partnerships and collaborations that advance EDI in research. Call for Contributions We invite our staff researchers and PGRs to showcase their research in […]

Event: Symposium – Dissecting Aerial 2025 | 12-13 April 2025 – Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton

See the full symposium details here: https://gravity-levity.net/events/dissecting-aerial/ This event brings together world-class teachers, artists and researchers talk about all things aerial. It may be of interest to anyone working across the fields of wellbeing, sports science, performing arts and more! About Dissecting Aerial: 2 incredible days of presentations, talks and practical sessions that investigate the body in motion, particularly whilst aerial, but with so much of the information applicable across all movement genres. Available in-person in Brighton, UK, and live streamed globally, so you can join us from wherever you are. Incredible line-up. DAY 1: The ‘feltness’ of circus training & coaching: reflections & practical applications in flexibility & contortion – Dr Carolyn Ailsa Watt Concussion in the aerial arts – Dr Matilde Sassani Safeguarding questions for working in the Arts – Charlotte Vincent Pelvic floor health for aerialists – Brooke Winder Using physics to improve aerials (Part 1 – static) – Jacques Palardy-Dion Debunking Hair Suspension Myths: Rethinking […]

Event: Demystifying Research Funding – A Seminar With Professor Ann Hemingway (Bournemouth University) | 1-2:30pm April 9 2025 at Falmer: Checkland E513 / Teams

This event might be of interest to colleagues. Whilst the topic area is public heath, there may be some interesting general tips for funding. https://unibrightonac.sharepoint.com/sites/RAKE/_layouts/15/Event.aspx?ListGuid=b9555072-f420-4967-82c6-3c2b2b7d5480&ItemId=110 Recommended by Julie Doyle – Grant Capture Lead

Event: Curated by Lucia King – Citizenship, Kinship & the Making of Belonging @Apparitions |22-25 April 2025 – at Central Saint Martins

QR Link to the programme here: Central Saint Martins,1 Granary Square, King’s Cross, N1C 4AA 22-25 April 2025 Programme note How do we imagine a collective belonging as citizens, artists and filmmakers who have navigated cultural re-locations and re-rooting? Through film screenings and talks that give form to a range of voluntary and compulsory migrations, including the grey areas in between, our programme seeks to unsettle the way in which ‘belonging’ is often assumed to occur through systems of governance, land rights or the bonds of heritage and community cohesion. We present it, rather, as emerging from an imaginary we generate ourselves, prefiguring our futures to occur here and now. No comparisons are drawn between the very distinct modes of migration and mobility represented across this programme. The intention is that the films themselves and our discussions around them reflect on how cultural positioning is altered by distinct […]

Event: Exhibition launch of John Beck and Matthew Cornford’s – Art School Project – Gavin Bryers Ensemble | 3 May 2024 in Leicester

To celebrate the launch of The Art School Project now in Leicester – The Gavin Bryars Ensemble will play their first concert in Leicester in more than 25 years. for further information and tickets follow the link below Gavin Bryers Ensemble Jesus’ Blood at its source, and earlier work St Mary de Castro, Leicester. Saturday 03 May 2025 The Gavin Bryars Ensemble Tickets | Saturday, 03 May 2025 at 6:00 PM The Art School Project continues. See latest exhibition website here: https://thegallery.dmu.ac.uk/exhibitions/

Event: Exhibition by John Beck and Matthew Cornford The Art Schools of the Midlands | 26 April – 15 June 2025 at The Gallery, De Montfort University, Leicester

The Art School Project continues. See latest exhibition website here: https://thegallery.dmu.ac.uk/exhibitions/ The twin Victorian engines of industrial ambition and social reform powered the British art school system, which developed by the end of the nineteenth century into a complex nationwide network of institutions. Art schools could produce skilled workers and cultivate citizens, it was argued, at once raising the quality of British design and manufacturing and ameliorating the often harsh working conditions of factory labour through the cultivation of taste. When towns across the North and Midlands constructed their civic architecture, alongside the grand town halls they build libraries, galleries, museums, technical and art schools. By the mid-1960s there were still over 150 art schools in the UK and ‘art school’ had become shorthand for creative innovation across the arts, design, music and advertising. Yet at the peak of their influence on British cultural life, art schools in many towns […]

Event: Exhibition These Rooted Bodies by Epha Roe | 1 – 7 April 2025 at Edward Street

See the details of Epha Roe’s exhibition, taking place next week, in Edward Street. The exhibition is part of Epha’s practice-based photography PhD, supervised by Annebella Pollen and Xavier Ribas.|

Event: Passing the Brush: Feminist Art NOW | 28 March to 11 May 2025 at the Greenport, NY, Library Floyd Memorial Library, Greenport, New York

Vanessa Marr, School of Art and Media Principle Lecturer and also of the UK-based Domestic Dusters Project. The Project features in this New York exhibition. This craftivist enterprise invites women and girls to embroider their views of so-called “women’s work” on a yellow duster (a popular cleaning cloth in Britain). The duster artworks will be displayed in Passing the Brush. At the end of the exhibition, each duster will be sent to the Domestic Dusters touring collection in the UK, if its maker so chooses Please see press release Passing the Brush press release Vanessa Marr was interviewed about the project on US Radio Long Island’s NPR WLIW-FM morning show, hosted by award-winning multi-platform journalist, Gianna Volpe last week. Image: Vanessa Marr, Domestic Is Not a Female Word! Textiles on stitched-together dusters. This large-scale work is on display at Greenport’s First and South Restaurant & Bar; it will be transferred […]

Event: Course by Stephen Bull – Photography and Celebrity | May and June 2025 at The Photographers’ Gallery

Stephen Bull will be running a course for The Photographers’ Gallery, London running from May/June 2025 . This is based on his forthcoming book Photography and Celebrity (Routledge). Do refer to The Photographers’ Gallery for more information about the course timings. https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/online-course-photography-celebrity Image feature – Photographers’ Gallery post

Event: As part of Domesticity Under Siege Conference – Vanessa Marr’s Domestic Duster Exhibition | 2-4 April 2025 in Elm House.

The Domesticity Under Siege (DUS) Conference s hosted by the BA(Hons) Interior Architecture course at the School of Architecture Technology and Engineering critically re-examines domesticity as a concept historically shaped by tension, disruption, and negotiation. Traditionally framed as a site of refuge and stability, the home has long been subject to forces that destabilise its protective function—whether through war, displacement, surveillance, or shifting social structures. These pressures have intersected with gendered dynamics of domestic labour, security, and spatial agency, continually redefining normative structures of care and habitation. In the present era, this inquiry takes on renewed urgency. As geopolitical conflicts, ecological crises, and digital infrastructures reshape domesticity, the boundaries of home are increasingly blurred. Rather than solely a site of vulnerability, the conference explores how domestic precarity might foster resistance, empowerment, and new forms of spatial and social agency. Vanessa Marr’s Domestic Duster Exhibition will be displayed during the conference […]

Grant Capture: Ignite Community-university partnership seed-funding – Ignite 3.4 is now OPEN. Deadline 5pm 4 April 2025

This funding supports the development of community-university partnership projects, with impact outcomes central to the proposal. Each Ignite partnership project, whether local or international, will be awarded up to £5000 seed funding along with a programme of support including social learning events and a suite of opportunities for creative evaluation and knowledge exchange (e.g. digital case studies, films, and podcasts). Ignite 3.4 partnership projects will include a focus on co-creation, mutual learning, and community driven outcomes. The needs of community partners and their communities must be a focus of the project. Please review the guidance document and download an application form. Please allow yourself time to get your application signed off by your Dean/Associate Dean RKE Send your completed application to ImpactAccelerationAccount@brighton.ac.uk The deadline for this fund is 5pm Friday 4 April 2025.

Book: Procreate Landscapes on the iPad Paperback by Philip Tyler (Author) | Publish date – 24 June 2025

Phil Tyler is a practising artist and course leader and senior lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking at the University of Brighton. Having discovered Procreate in 2020, he now uses it extensively to capture the beauty of his beloved South Downs in West Sussex. Procreate Landscapes on the iPad explains how to use this ingenious package to paint powerful landscapes at the press of the Apple pencil. By breaking down painting a landscape into different steps, it shows how Procreate can help an artist find their direction and try new techniques to create more expressive work. Referencing the work of Masters throughout, shows how digital painting follows a long tradition of artists observing and interpreting the landscape, and how you can effectively use Procreate to develop your own ideas. The book is available now see link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Procreate-Landscapes-iPad-Philip-Tyler/dp/0719845149/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3ADN8SBST1GLG&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.mN-08kcl8EF6DVPQ_ND5LP74bwIYQMDcAwSl78vVyGYVcmresnG4PAgCGhWQRS1akkKk4hntJLEHR4yZPTEJemtLeg0LpVGnoj5Xw7Nm79TSxkpGvZUq68TkNkGoFpgiRgU4SrVuMddOfA15eyMMdBu8gZ9UqZT_YVIQ5D8M0nVCOvg8VUXtq9MCztwtYS4J.YiZf9uRScWjU2wUfbAw_DZrnIA_TzdZ4mlatvywuUwA&dib_tag=se&keywords=philip+tyler&qid=1742297919&sprefix=philip+ty%2Caps%2C88&sr=8-2#detailBullets_feature_div Image: Phil Tyler

Event: Duncan Bullen – Sunday Salon 33 |12-4pm 23 March 2025 at Saturation Point Projects, ACME Studios SE8

At Studio 14, ACME Studios , 165 Childers St, London SE8 5JR. Please call: 07581446335 on arrival for admittance RSVP: editor@saturationpoint.org.uk Saturation Point is pleased to announce an exhibition by the artist Duncan Bullen. This is his first solo exhibition focusing exclusively on drawings, and his first one-person show in the UK in two decades. The works on display comprise a selection of drawings made between 2021-2025 and focus on Duncan’s examination of compositional methods that use grids and geometries alongside slow, tactile mark-making. Some drawings consist entirely of points created with a graphite pencil, resulting in images that suggest circularity and hover at the edge of perception. In other works, the drawn points are connected by thin lines of silver pencil, allowing for an exploration of volumetric geometry. Patrick Morrissey and Hanz Hancock edit Saturation Point, the online editorial and curatorial project for systems, non-objective and reductive artists working in the UK. See more on […]

Event: James Murray Spring Exhibitions | Berlin & Edinburgh in April and May 2025

Up coming group exhibitions this Spring. The dr.J 100th Dr Julius Art Projects Leberstraße 60, 10829 Berlin, Germany 16 March – 4 May 2025 Finissage: Sunday, 4 May, 12–4pm (coinciding with Berlin Gallery Weekend) 40 Dimensions &gallery 3 Dundas St, Edinburgh EH3 6QG 5–26 April 2025 Opening Reception: Saturday, 5 April, 2–4pm If you’re in Berlin or Edinburgh, it would be great to see you there. For more details and/or PDF of works, feel free to get in touch. Best Wishes, James Murray Image: James William Murray, Cross Form Emerging, 2025, steel brazed with brass, 80 x 55 x 6 cm

Event: British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and University of Brighton Collaboration – Exhibition Opening 5.30 pm 20 March 2025 at Dorest Place – Exhibition runs until 30 March 2025

All are very welcome to the exhibition opening on 20 March 2025 at Dorest Place from 5.30 pm. This exhibition brings together artworks by staff and students in the University of Brighton (UoB) photography degrees and digital music and sound art degree. The exhibition comprises of image and sound responses to selected themes inspired from the British Antarctic Survey Archive (BAS), who have generously opened up their doors to welcome this collaboration. Artists have worked with the archive in a variety of ways, realising new visual work which reappropriates images within the archive using techniques such as collage, working with AI platforms, dark room processes, cyanotypes, Polaroid and installation. Source material has been as diverse as photographs themselves, maps, written communications and other records, all hosted at the BAS in Cambridge. Responses, exhibited in this exhibition, are inspired by a range of themes emerging from the glimpses possible of such […]

Call for Papers: Special Issue proposed for Design Issues journal – Tangible Archives, Guest Editors include Sue Breakell – deadline30 June 2025

See the full call at https://direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibrary/CallForPapers/Design%20Issues%20CFP%20Special%20Issue_Tangible%20Archives_2025.pdf This Special Issue seeks to explore the relationship between design and archives, using the lens of tangibility. The tangible, defined as the physical, the haptic, the made, allows us to explore the role of design in making, accessing, navigating, digitizing, researching, and experiencing the archive. There are multiple and varied definitions of archives, and we invite contributions that interrogate the relationships and boundaries of these definitions. This special issue will explore the archive of, as, and in design. Submission: full papers to Guest Editors by Monday 30 June 2025. Any questions, please direct to the Guest Editors: Jessica Kelly, Gina Pierce and Sue Breakell, tangiblearchivespecialissue@gmail.com

Call for Papers: For Material Histories Objects and Objectives Conference | 15-16 May 2025 at University of Brighton – deadline closes 21 March 2025

The University of Brighton’s Material History Group (MHG) welcomes participants and presenters to a conference on the topic of Objects and Objectives. The MHG is located within the University’s School of Art and Media, which has a long and esteemed history of colleagues conducting practice-as-research and research-informed teaching. The MHG builds on these foundations and is particularly interested in research that begins with and is conducted via objects and archives, whether by making, analysing, curating or teaching with them. We recognise that both the questions and answers that objects provoke as historical artifacts can be useful in furthering knowledge; as Peter N. Miller has noted, There is more depth to the use of objects as evidence than we might think, and a more sophisticated inventory of approaches and arguments on which to draw than we might imagine. (History and Its Objects, 2017) Of what tactics and methodologies would this ‘sophisticated […]

CALLING PGRS: The 2025 national Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) will launch at Brighton – 13 March 2025

Call from Professor Paul Sermon – Doctoral Studies Lead I would be immensely grateful if you could take a few minutes to complete the survey. The PRES runs every two years at Brighton. Since the last PRES in 2023, we’ve introduced a range of activities and initiatives, including our SAM Research Methods Programme and our SAM Postgraduate Symposium last November to try and address some of the feedback we received concerning building our research culture and community. I hope these are having a positive impact on your doctoral study experience. Sincere thanks to everyone who’s taken the opportunity to engage with our activities and is helping to grow and strengthen our PGR community. On Thursday you’ll receive an email from Prof Rusi Jaspal inviting you to complete the PRES. The survey asks you to rate your experience in several areas, including supervision, resources, research culture and community, training opportunities and overall […]

Grant Capture Events: Useful sessions in University Research and Knowledge Exchange Week

There are a number of useful sessions recommended by SAM Grant Caputre Lead – Julie Doyle For those of you interested in support with bid writing and information about the funding landscape then please come along to the Bid Writing and Funding Landscape 2025 session on Monday 31 March, 11-12.30pm Checkland Building A402 (Falmer) that Julie Doyle is taking part in. The pre-award team will be offering a presentation, including a discussion from staff of how interaction with external funders can benefit bid development methods, as well as time for Q&A from the floor. This is open to all career stages. In addition to the above the following two other sessionsmight be of interest for information about how to develop bids: Working with external partners through knowledge exchange Responding to rejection: learning and growing from feedback (lunch provided)

Event: University wide Research and Knowledge Exchange Week | 31 March – 3 April 2025

The University Research week will be taking place from 31st to 3rd of April 2025. The Festival of Postgraduate Research and the R&KE Showcase event are on Thursday 3 April from midday onwards. With funding from Research England, the Research and Knowledge Exchange Week will include activities designed to support our R&KE endeavours, bringing together colleagues and students at all stages of their research and knowledge exchange career and from all disciplines. Taking place at a time with fewer teaching commitments, colleagues can participate in activities throughout the week and select the sessions that interest them the most to create their own tailored programme. You can view the full timetable, read workshop descriptions and reserve your place by clicking through to the booking website. See link: https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/rakeweek/

Grant Capture: School of Art and Media Quality Research funding (QR) Bids

Applications can be submitted at any time during the academic year 2024/25, but activities must take place well before the end of the financial year, 31 July 2025. Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis, and we aim to get back to you within two weeks. Reports of all applications and decisions will be noted at the School’s Research & Knowledge Exchange Committee. Conference Support Bid – SAM Conference Funding Application Form 24-25.docx Research and Knowledge Exchange – SAM RAKE Funding Application Form 24-25.docx Further information about eligibility and the application process can be found on the forms. Please do read. Download then complete and return forms electronically to RKE Administrator Karen Gainsford via SAMRKE@brighton.ac.uk and RKE Dean Charlotte Gould C.Gould@brighton.ac.uk

Event: Seminar Aerial, circus arts, and light | 10.30-12 pm 18 March 2025 – Online

This seminar will focus on the use of light in live aerial and circus performances with two of the UK’s most exciting lighting designers: Jai Morjaria and Robbie Butler-Milroy. In particular, we will be discussing their work on Barnum and Death in Venice, respectively, while also exploring the role of light in aerial performance, how light affects aerial and circus performance, and what lighting designers should know when working in this performance genre. About the speakers: Originally from Ireland and based in the UK, Robbie Butler-Milroy is one of only a handful of Life members of the Association for Lighting Production and Design. Having trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, he won the inaugural Profile Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, an Off West End award for Best Lighting Design, and was also the winner of the 2015 ETC Award. More info at www.robbiebutler.com. Designs include: Reverberation (Bristol Old […]

Event: IOTA II Seminar Series – The Rise and Fall of the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Dr Zoë Hendon – 4-5pm 13 March 2025 at Mithras House, Design Lab 111

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Event: Chaired by Sue Breakell – Design and Latin America: New Research from the ICSID Archive | 3-4.30 pm 18 March 2025 on MSTeams

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Grant Capture: The deadline for the third and final call for the R&KE Research Development Fund has been extended until 23:59 14 March 2025

This relates to earlier Research and Knowledge Exchange (R&KE) Development Fund post. Deadline has been extended! The Research and Knowledge Exchange (R&KE) Development Fund supports a broad range of exploratory R&KE projects that require seed funding. The fund supports various activities, including: Partnership building activities; Co-developing research with community partners; Data collection/pilot projects to enable external funding proposals; Evaluation activities to assess a potential market or demand; Activities designed to test use of research in non-academic contexts; Stakeholder, partnership or audience engagement activities and events to increase reach of research into a wider audience. Maximum award amount: £10,000 Information about the fund, including the guidance document and application form can be found on the R&KE Initiatives SharePoint page. Email: RaKE Initiatives <RaKEInitiatives@brighton.ac.uk> See: RKE Development Fund Guidance for Applicants 24-25_ CALL 3 Form:RKE Development Fund Application Form 24-25_ CALL 3

Event: EXTENDED TO 26 APRIL 2025 Exhibition – Crawley New Town seen through the lens of Wolf Suschitzky | 6 February – 29 March 2025 at Crawley Museum

Historic photographs return to Crawley decades after they were taken A new exhibition at Crawley Museum featuring photographs by the renowned photographer Wolf Suschitzky (1912-2016) of the early development of Crawley are returning to the town and being shown to the public for the first time since they were taken six decades ago. This runs along with a series of talks, community events, gallery tours, school visits, half-term activities and workshops. The photographs were commissioned to capture life in the New Town ten years after construction had begun. Along with images made in the other emerging New Towns around the country, a small selection of images was featured in an exhibition held at the Royal Academy in 1959 to highlight the progress of the first wave of home building and new town development following World War 2. They were discovered in the Fotohof archives, Salzburg Austria, by photographer and researcher […]

Event: Material Histories REG seminar Make Up as Magic – Cathy Lomax | 3-5 pm 12 March 2025 at Grand Parade, G4

A Visiting Research Fellow kindly sponsored by the Centre of Design History and working in the School of Art and Media, Dr Lomax will be discussing some of her current research in a presentation entitled “Makeup as Magic”; she will consider the analogies between makeup and magic in makeup advertising and promotion, study makeup in film via some key moments in clips, and then go on to talk about her own artwork. As usual with the MHG, there will be the change to participate in some making, and refreshments. Please RSVP to REG-Material-Histories@brighton.ac.uk by 10 March to secure your place. Everyone is very welcome. Please RSVP to REG-Material-Histories@brighton.ac.uk by 10 March to secure your place. Everyone is very welcome. Images provided by Cathy Lomax

Event: Hold the Date – School of Art and Media Research and Knowledge Exchange Week | 10 – 14 November 2025

Please note for planning purposes that SAM Research and Knowledge Exchange Week next academic year is from 10th-14th November 2025. There will be a Postgraduate Research Culture Festival for MAs and PGRs on Wednesday 12th November. Please consider embedding research and knowledge exchange related activities into your teaching that week.

Event: The Health Innovation Hub internal launch | Wednesday 26 March at Moulsecoomb, Huxley Lecture Theatre

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Grant Capture: School of Art and Media Grant Capture Strategy

The School of Art and Media aim to foster research bidding culture in the school through Research and Knowledge Exchange activities and events supported by the REGS and Cores. Funding is a Key Performance Indicator for RKE and it is a priority for the school to build our bidding culture enhancing our reputation and our staff profiles across the sector. Through collaboration with external partners we aim to make a difference to the world, identifying and addressing global challenges, developing new knowledge, delivering innovative and creative solutions and positive impact for global, national and local communities. See PDF here: Grant Capture Strategy AIMS Raise the visibility for bidding culture – Raise the visibility of bidding culture to support talent and enable staff to engage with bidding activities through workshops and events. Visual communication is key and we share activities, events and success stories and top tips for bidding on the […]

Event: ‘Unfolding Practice’ by MA Fine Art | Exhibition runs until 6 March 2025 – Edward Street Gallery –

‘Unfolding Practice’ an exhibition by MA Fine Art 1st year part-time students. Edward Street Gallery Ground Floor, University of Brighton. The exhibition continues until Thursday 6th March and is open to University of Brighton students and staff. Amy Cunningham Senior Lecturer and Course Leader MA Fine Art

Event: Panel Discussion Åsa Johannesson Queer Methodology for Photography | 6.30-8 pm 20 Februrary 2025 at The Photographers Gallery in London

Åsa Johannesson will be partaking in a panel discussion this Thursday, 20 February, at The Photographers Gallery in London for their LGBTQ+ history month events . This event will comprise of talks by four artists (Åsa Johannesson, Sunil Gupta, Marc Vallee, Finley Gilzene) and is moderated by the V&A photography curator Isaac Huxtable. Åsa Johannesson’s Queer Methodology for Photography (Routledge 2024) will be for sale at The Photographers Gallery’s bookshop (with limited edition signed print). More info below! https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/panel-discussion-power-gaze-and-desire Featured below is the photograph that Åsa will discuss in the talk, from the body of work The Queering of Photography.

Event: Annebella Pollen – Brutal Brighton Valentines | 6-7pm 20 February 2025 at Brighton West Pier Centre

Annebella Pollen’s talk showcases the vicious and sometimes violent Victorian examples of Valentine Cards that were sold and sent in Brighton and beyond. In the mid-nineteenth century, valentine cards were bought and sent by the million. They were available in hundreds of different designs to cover a vast array of emotions. How about a valentine for your enemy? Your hated boss? Your annoying neighbour? Your despised ex? Victorian valentines included them all. Annebella Pollen is Professor of Visual and Material Culture at University of Brighton, where she researches the lives and afterlives of images and objects. This will be at Brighton’s West Pier Centre Kings Road Arches Brighton BN1 2FL To book follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brutal-brighton-valentines-tickets-1059775630439?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios Image Courtesy of Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton and Hove.

Grant Capture: Open AHRC Impact Accelerator Account (IAA)- Coastal Catalyst fund – specific details for SAM

See details of fund a highlighted by Julie Doyle – Grant Capture Lead AHRC Impact Accelerator Account (IAA)- Coastal Catalyst fund is now open! The University holds a prestigious UKRI Impact Acceleration Account (IAA), funded through the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). This call sets out the challenge-led fund, which is one strand of funding within the IAA. This strand enables arts and humanities researchers to translate their research into potential impact outcomes by addressing a challenge faced by an external sector or community. The Coastal Catalyst fund is now open for applications. The University has joined forces with the Coastal Catalyst Partnershipforthiscall. This call asks for applications that utilise research experience to respond to challenges facing young people in the region. The call asks for projects that will develop new pathways into the creative industries for young people aged 14-25 along the Sussex Coastal Corridor. It aims to unlock the […]

Grant capture: UoB – AHRC Impact Accelerator Account – Coastal Catalyst fund is now open | Deadline 12pm 31 March 2025

The University has been awarded a prestigious UKRI Impact Acceleration Account, funded through the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This grant will enable us to both showcase and advance how our arts and humanities research provides real-world change in response to key societal challenges. Impact is understood as the change, effect or benefit across all sectors and communities, deriving from research and knowledge exchange activities. The Coastal Catalyst fund is now open for applications. This call asks for applications that utilise research experience to respond to challenges facing young people in the region. The call asks for projects that will develop new pathways into the creative industries for young people aged 14-25 along the Sussex Coastal Corridor. Please see the guidance for more detail. Potential applicants are encouraged to contact the IAA team to discuss initial project ideas: ImpactAccelerationAccount@brighton.ac.uk Please download the guidance document: IAA Coastal Catalyst guidance 2025 and […]

Event: Crawley Museum Events / Blog by Julia Winckler – Conversation with exhibition curators 10.30-11.30am |Public Talk 2-4pm 22 February 2025

Crawley Museum in co-operation with the University of Brighton and Fotohof Salzburg take great pleasure in inviting you to various events to accompany the exhibition In conversation with the exhibition curators | 22 February 2025 10.30-11.30 Crawley Museum Details and Book Here Public talk to accompany the new exhibition | 22 February 2025 2-4pm at Crawley Museum Details and Book Here See recent blog by Julia Winckler on her co-curated exhibition “Crawley New Town seen through the lens of Wolf Suschitzky”

Event: Research Seminar Material Histories Group | 19 February 2025 5-7pm at Grand Parade, M2

The Material Histories Group invites all SAM colleagues to a research seminar on 19 February (5-7, M2, Grand Parade). We will be hearing from Reem Acason, Vix Koch and Devon McCulloch about their MA Fine Art work and participating in some making activities. Refreshments will be served, and all are very welcome to join in this relaxed and informative seminar. Please RSVP by 14 Feb.

Event: Exhibition – Alt: Analog 16 January – 15 February 2025 Phase 2 of the Chennai Photo Biennale (CPB) – Forum Art Gallery, Adyar, Chennai, India

School of Art and Media Lecturer Holly Birtles’s work Fighting Fish features in the Phase 2 of the Chennai Photo Biennale (CPB) – Alt:Analog exhibition at the Forum Art Gallery, Adyar, Chennai, India. This work was created during the 45 day dark room residency at the CPB Darkroom ( December and into January) awarded to Holly Birtles (see post SAMRKE) and two other artists (Arun and Soham Joshi). For details about the outcome of the residency and all exhibition see the CPB website – https://chennaiphotobiennale.foundation/biennale/projects/darkroom-residency-2024 FIGHTING FISH – produced by HOLLY BIRTLES during the residency Holly reflects on her work inspired by the Thames River and Estuary, where performers embody ‘Thames Monsters.’ In Chennai, she engages with the Adyar and Cooum rivers, exploring sentimentality, myth, care, and destruction. Her work juxtaposes environmental ecologies with personal responses to the sites, highlighting the paradox between devotion to sacred rivers and the environmental […]

Award: Holly Birtles Darkroom Residency Awarded – for the Chennai Photo Biennale (CPB) India

The Chennai Photo Biennale (CPB) – CPB Foundation and Photoworks supported by the British Council, selected three artists for their Darkroom Residency. School of Art and Media Lecturer Holly Birtles was one of the artists selected. This took place in Chennai, India from 5 December 2024 to 20 January 2025 with the objective to produce a body of work for display the Chennai Photo Biennale Phase 2 (See SAMRKE post for work produced/exhibited), Edition IV and the forthcoming Photoworks Festival, UK. The scope for Holly Birtles’s work (during the residency) was to continue working on her projects exploring the manifestation of histories and ecologies through performance images, landscapes, seascapes, and the creation of surreal creatures in recognizable spaces. Alongside photographs of local land, soil, water bodies, flora and fauna, Holly will also use Midjourney (software) to create images based on her own prompts. The digital and physical negatives will come […]

Call for staff research methods expertise to be rendered on Padlet – deadline 29 January 2025

We are currently collecting examples of staff research methods expertise in the school on the Padlet below: https://universityofbrighton.padlet.org/cgould37/SAMResearchMethods This request comes from the central research team, as we would like to establish a record of the researchers, and their research methods used in each of the schools. Please ensure that your entry includes your name, you may add images or examples of theorists or simply name your research methods, as you wish. The deadline is the 29th January 2025 To add an entry, click the red plus + button on the bottom right-hand corner of the Padlet page and type, you can edit later. It would be great if we can collate a good range of examples from across the school. If you have any questions please contact Charlotte Gould.

Call for Papers: Trans Asia Photography invites submissions for a general issue – deadline 1 April 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS – Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring 2026) Trans Asia Photography invites submissions for a general issue, Volume 16, Number 1 (Spring 2026). The journal examines all aspects of photographic history, theory, and practice by centering images in or of Asia, conceived as a territory, network, and cultural imaginary. It welcomes: articles (5,000–7,000 words) that broaden understanding of Asian photography in transnational contexts shorter pieces (1,000–2,000 words) in formats that include interviews, curatorial or visual essays, and portfolios Deadline: April 1, 2025. Trans Asia Photography is an international, refereed, open-access journal based at the University of Toronto and published by Duke University Press. It provides a venue for interdisciplinary exploration of photography and Asia. Guidance for authors on submissions can be found at: transasiaphotography.org/submit For more information, contact the editors: transasiaphotography@gmail.com The TAP Editorial Team Deepali Dewan, Royal Ontario Museum & University of Toronto Yi Gu, University of Toronto Thy Phu, University of […]

Events: Upcoming various Research and Knowledge Exchange Workshops and Training – February 2025

See forthcoming Research and Knowledge Exchange workshops. Tuesday 4 Feb – Creating an effective research poster A workshop to get attendees thinking about their R&KE Week Research Poster Competition entry. Winners will receive prizes of £350 towards research costs. Friday 21 Feb – Introduction to R for statistical analysis Content will address the R environment and how to navigate its features, plus the core concepts and syntax of R and basic operations. Additionally, you will learn how to perform simple statistical analyses using R, such as descriptive statistics and simple linear regression. This workshop is suitable for those with no prior experience with R, as well as those who have some knowledge but need a refresher. Monday 10 – Tuesday 11 March – Introductory NVivo training Provided by QDAS, the content of this training will be decided by attendees: please complete this MS Form by 10 February to let us know what […]

Grant Capture: University of Brighton Demand Management – UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Round 10

Round 10 of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships scheme opens 03 February 2025 with a deadline of 18 June 2025 and the University of Brighton is limited to a maximum of 2 bids. An internal demand management process will be undertaken to assess interested candidates so that potential applicants can complete the required steps. Full details of the scheme including eligibility* requirements can be found on the: UKRI website UoB RaKE SharePoint pages *UKRI are not willing to provide individual feedback on an applicant’s eligibility for the FLF scheme – it is therefore the responsibility of the individual to determine if they are eligible. Bids submitted by applicants not deemed eligible may be rejected at the technical checks stage. UoB Internal Demand Management Process: Any interested parties (internal and external candidates) must complete the Expression of Interest (EOI) Proforma ( available UoB RaKE SharePoint site) and an Equality, Diversity and […]

Call for recruitment of participants by 16 January 2025 for the Blind Paper Peer Review for the Domesticity Under Siege conference (April 2–4, 2025), hosted by the School of Architecture Technology and Engineering.

We seek blind peer reviewers for draft papers submitted to the Domesticity Under Siege International Architectural Conference (April 2–4, 2025), hosted by the School of Architecture Technology and Engineering. This is an excellent opportunity for PhD students and academic colleagues who have expertise, connection, or interest in the topic, to gain valuable experience in academic blind peer-reviewing processes. The conference explores themes such as: Domesticity under threat from wars, disasters, and climate change. The uncanny and invasive agents in domestic spaces. Gender, labour, and technology concerning the home. For more information, visit our website: https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/domesticityundersiege/ If interested, please email by 16th January 2025 to: Terry Meade: T.Meade@brighton.ac.uk or Judit Pusztaszeri: J.Pusztaszeri3@brighton.ac.uk We look forward to your participation! Best regards, The Domesticity Under Siege Conference Team

Event: UOB ECR NETWORK – RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE ON INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH | 29 January 2025 13-14 at Moulsecoomb Campus – Cockcroft 808

Roundtable discussants include: Prof Rusi Jaspal (Pro Vice-Chancellor Research & Knowledge Exchange) Dr Nicholas Gant (Director Centre for Arts and Wellbeing) Dr Linda Tip (Principle Lecturer, Psychology) Facilitated by Dr Barbara Grabher (ECR Ambassador) The discussion is followed by a work along session (2hours), with the ambition to protect time and space to advance ongoing or emerging projects. For Registration click here: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=kLsAqf6UWEaLNN1yCExQZNhPbx6CprtJtQFKp2JsEOtUQVozUFU5SzJXQjlLRkZGRVFRQTNGWDJTMi4u&route=shorturl For further information contact Dr Barbara Grabher (b.grabher@brighton. ac.uk)

Gavin Ambrose has published a new book with the ALTA Museum World Heritage Rock Centre in Norway and Norwegian Salmon Rivers

This features Jan Ekman, who fished the Alta in Norway for nineteen years, 1970-1988. He was a keen photographer and took over 6,000 photos from his trips. A few were used in his 1983 book about the river and the dam (re-published in English in 2013: Seven Nights on the Alta), but most of them were only shared with a few fishing friends. After Jan passed in 2004, his family donated the negatives to the Alta Museum so they could be properly archived and the Museum has kindly agreed to let almost 200 images be included in this book. These photos were taken long before the modern digital cameras that capture great images, even in low light. Fishing was done at night, often with clouds and rain. The midnight sun helped, but it didn’t reach the canyon floor so even though Jan used Kodak Tri-X film, apertures were large and shutter […]

Grant Capture: Now open two funds – R&KE Development fund (closes 24 January 2025) and Excellence fund (closes 7 February 2025)

Two internal funding opportunities now open. The R&KE Development Fund The Research and Knowledge Exchange (R&KE) Development Fund supports a broad range of exploratory R&KE projects that require seed funding. The fund supports various activities, including: Partnership building activities; Co-developing research with community partners; Data collection/pilot projects to enable external funding proposals; Evaluation activities to assess a potential market or demand; Activities designed to test use of research in non-academic contexts; Stakeholder, partnership or audience engagement activities and events to increase reach of research into a wider audience. Maximum award amount: £10,000 Applications are now open until 24 January 2025. The R&KE Excellence Fund The R&KE Excellence Fund offers seed funding to help staff initiate outstanding research and knowledge exchange projects. This fund covers staff time, enabling the start of unique and original projects with the potential for excellence. Maximum award amount: £25,000 Applications are now open until 07 February 2025. For application guidance and the application forms, please visit […]

Event: Holiday collage with Material Histories Group | 12 December 2024 2-5.30 pm at Grand Parade, G62

The Material Histories Group members invite you to our holiday collage session on 12 December. Please come along to G62 from 2pm and spend time in a wonderland of colour photocopies, scissors, craft paper and glue. Please RSVP to mathistgroup@gmail.com so we can cater our festive refreshments for the right numbers. This will also be an opportunity to meet Visiting Research Fellow Cathy Lomax, who will be with us from January. Drop in anytime from 2.00pm – we’ll start packing up around 5.30-6.00pm. We hope to see you there. All very best wishes, Tamar for the Material Histories Group

Sustainable Photography Call Out for Conference – The Institute of Photography at Falmouth University, in partnership with the Sustainable Darkroom – July 2025.

The Institute of Photography at Falmouth University, in partnership with the Sustainable Darkroom, are pleased to announce a conference in July 2025 on the theme of(un)sustainable photography. INVITATION FOR PRESENTATION PROPOSALS We invite proposals for 15-minute presentations. Contributions can take the format of indoor or outdoor presentations such as papers, workshops, performances, multimodal presentations, and co-designed experiments. Proposals can explore the question from any perspective: · Analogue or digital · Theoretical or practical · Past, present or future See the PDF about Sustainable Photography Call Out Do contact Fergus Heron should you wish to discuss.

Event: Global Challenges | 2-5 December 2024 – University of Brighton

Get involved in the Global Challenges week from the 2nd to the 5th of December. We celebrate the unique contribution that University of Brighton staff and students make to addressing the major challenges faced on our planet. Today we want to remind all students and staff of two major events. The Global Challenges Prizegiving offers substantial prizes that recognise the extraordinary contributions of all of our staff and students. Prizes range from £50 to £500 for students, for staff and for our student societies. Nominate your friends and colleagues here: Global Challenges Award Nomination form – https://forms.office.com/e/fxAxUxt56S?origin=lprLink and join us to celebrate the best of our University on Friday the 6th of December The Changemaker Challenge gives all students the opportunity to work with community, business and University leaders to creatively address the many problems we face across the globe. For one day – Tuesday the 3rd of December – you will collaborate across the Schools […]

Event: NCACE Evidence Café 14: Artists and Universities | 2pm 22 January 2025 – Online

NCACE’s Evidence Café sessions have been held regularly since March 2021. The café is an online space for presentations, evidence and information sharing, story-telling and a community of knowledge sharing and exchange. See the link to booking and details here:NCACE Evidence Café 14: Artists and Universities Tickets, Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM | Eventbrite

Event: Brighton as a Hub for Comic Artists | Wednesday 4 December 6pm – Brains at the Bevy

See here: EVENT | Brains at the Bevy: Raymond Briggs to Chis Riddell – Brighton as a hub for comic artists

Grant Capture: SAM Quality Research funding (QR) has now been confirmed

Quality Research funding (QR) has now been confirmed, colleagues can apply for funding to support a range of activities which will contribute to outputs for our next REF29 submission. There are two proformas one for conferences and the other to cover all other activities such as exhibition costs and open access images. All purchasing must be made through university suppliers and should be arranged in consultation with Karen Gainsford. All funds must be spent by July 4th 2025. SAM Conference Funding Application Form 24-25.docx SAM RAKE Funding Application Form 24-25.docx

Event: Knowledge equity as an applied method for avoiding extraction research (government, related professionals)| 2 December – Online

See this announcement about a workshop on Knowledge equity as an applied method for avoiding extraction research (government, related professionals) – Online Organised by the University of Southampton and taking place on 2 December. More information here: This and linked reports may be of interest to some.

Event: Exhibition All Roads Lead to Johannesburg by Em Walker | Friday 22 November 11-17 and Monday 26 November11-17 at Dorset Place Gallery

I am pleased to invite you to the exhibition opening of All Roads Lead to Johannesburg by Em Walker, 2023, BA Painting alumnus. The exhibition will feature a selection of monoprints that together form a map of the places where Walker has lived. A large floor-based painting sits alongside books and journals related to painting, Africa and protest. Dorset Place Gallery 1 Dorset Place, BN2 1ST (Just off Edward Street) Exhibition opening times: Fri 22nd 11-5pm Mon 26th – Fri 29th 11-5:30pm Em Walker is a South African born painter living and working in Brighton, East Sussex. Her work navigates the boundaries of Fine Art Painting by interrogating its long history of tradition and convention. Em dismantles our understanding of the painter, the canvas, and exhibition space, with a focus on expanded painting and alternative curation. Martin Seeds – Lecturer School of Art & Media

Event: Exhibition – A piece of sky – Georgia Rose Murray | 9 November 2024 – 31 January 2025 at Moray Arts Centre, Findhorn, Scotland

Principal Lecturer in the School of Art and Media, Gavin Ambrose has been working with Arctic Artist Georgia Rose Murray on a series of books replicating her sketchbooks from the Arctic Circle. Some of this work is now exhibited. The Exhibition. Runs from 9th November 2024 to 31st January 2025 at the Moray Arts Centre, Findhorn, Scotland. https://morayartcentre.org/events/a-piece-of-sky/ The opening has passed but the exhibition is featureed below: The original sketchbooks are recordings of the changing arctic scenes. The format, a concertina sketchbook, is a necessity. Due to the extreme weather conditions only small amounts of drawing and painting can be done at any one time. We have worked to replicate the format, which when unfolded is over 3 and half metres in length to allow the sketchbooks to be exhibited at museums and galleries. The first two books by Georgia are described as below: ‘Blandal: This book was painted […]

Call for papers for Domesticity Under Siege International Architectural Conference UOB (2-4/4/25) – Deadline 22 November 2024

School of Architecture Technology and Engineering wanted to bring to your attention the call for papers to the upcoming Domesticity Under Siege International Architectural Conference, University of Brighton, UK; 2nd-4th April 2025. To submit an abstract for consideration proposals should be emailed to dus-brighton25@brighton.ac.uk Deadline for entries is 22 November 2024. More information can be found at the DUS website With any questions please contact: Terry Meade – T.Meade@brighton.ac.uk or Judit Pusztaszeri – J.Pusztaszeri3@brighton.ac.uk

The Bid Builder Programme is now open for applications until Friday 29 November 2024

Bid Builder provides structured support to help colleagues develop skills for securing external research grant funding through effective bid writing. The programme is most suitable for Early and Mid-Career researchers. The programme is delivered by members of the Pre-Award team, R&KE Department, and academic colleagues who have developed successful grant proposals for relevant funding schemes. It involves attending 6 sessions across January-June 2025 (see attached programme). For application guidance, the programme outline, and the application form, please visit the Bid Builder SharePoint page. If anyone is considering applying for this, please get in contact with Julie Doyle as soon as possible. The application also needs to be signed off by Charlotte Gould as Associate Dean R&KE.

Call for Spoke Projects – AHRC Hub for Public Engagement with Music Research

All possible application must follow our University of Brighton Bid Development and Authorisation Process Funding amount: 4x Spoke Project collaborations between academic and non-academic partners, at £75,000–£100,000 per Spoke Publication date: 31 October 2024 Online webinar: 7 November 2024 (register on Eventbrite) PHASE 1 – Expressions of Interest due: 15 January 2025 PHASE 2 – Shortlisted applications due: 2 May 2025 Spoke Project duration: up to 12 months between June 2025–June 2026 The Hub for Public Engagement with Research has resource to fund projects against the following 4 themes, informed by the priorities of the AHRC, applications must align with at least one of these umbrella themes. Health and wellbeing Civic and cohesive communities Creative education Technological innovation More information https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/institutes-centres/centre-for-music-education-social-justice/call-for-spoke-projects-ahrc

Event: Sue Gollifer Exhibition | Current until 10 December 2024 at the Computer Arts Society, London.

Currently on view at the BCS London offices in Moorgate is a show by printmaker Sue Gollifer, organised by the Computer Arts Society, a special interest group of BCS. Sue Gollifer has enjoyed a 60 year career as an influential expert in the world of digital arts, taking on the roles of an artist, curator, administrator, researcher and academic. See details here: https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/mechanised-perfection-the-work-of-sue-gollifer/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGV8_NleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHdX99IRpZpVkr6e3j2wMPouXxulDb3mV6TD82EPHkxTNsI8GKdWZnV3MuA_aem_rO2y7mkoNdA7PkltvlvS8A Image – Work by Sue Gollifer

Event: Annebella Pollen – EARTH: A Multistory salon | 12 November 2024 15-18 Online via UCA Canterbury

Annebella Pollen is part of an event in Canterbury (University of the Creative Arts) on 12th November, with an online attendance option. It is led by design historian Cat Rossi and former Brighton colleague and architect Charles Holland. It is part of a salon event called Multistory that examines major themes in design and architecture; the theme for this event is ‘Earth’. All the info is below and may be relevant to those with interests in dsign and architecture. Here is the Event: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/bcebdf19-730c-4690-9ba1-83a5031ab3ee@069c310c-d4c2-4554-b166-90ca805a5eaa

Event: School of Art and Media Research and Knowledge Exchange Week (11-15 November 2024) schedule now published

Dear all, I am delighted to announce the programme for Research Week 2024 from 11th to 15th November 2024. See the blog for details https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/researchweek2024/ Or follow the QR code in the poster below. There are a wide range of events on offer throughout the week, from presentations to workshops, including Knowledge Exchange Creative Industries Networking, Pathways to Funding and a Mentoring Budding session. On Wednesday 13th November we have the Postgraduate Research Culture Symposium with Keynote Speaker Linda Candy, an authority on creative research methods, this is followed by presentations from staff on Research Methods and Lightening Talks from Postgraduate Students. See the blog page https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/researchweek2024/2024/10/13/sym/ Or follow the QR code in the poster below. Search the blog by day for events, it would be great if everyone could attend one event where possible. Sessions are in-person, blended or online only. For online sessions, join the MS Team […]

R&KE Development Fund deadline is Friday 01 November 2024

The R&KE Development Fund deadline is Friday 01 November. The R&KE Development Fund supports a broad range of exploratory R&KE projects that require seed funding. The fund supports various activities, outlined on the R&KE Initiatives SharePoint page, linked above. For more information on all internal funding initiatives this year, please visit the R&KE Initiatives SharePoint page where you will find all guidance documentation and application forms.

Deadlines extended for Student Research Experience Scheme (SRES) Project Lead applications to Friday 01 November 2024

The deadline for the Student Research Experience Scheme (SRES) Project Lead applications has been extended to Friday 01 November. SRES offers hands-on research opportunities for undergraduate and taught postgraduate students across all disciplines. Students can participate in real research projects in addition to their studies alongside academic staff and postgraduate researchers. This experience allows students to gain valuable research skills, insights into higher-level research work, and support for future career plans, including potential research degree study.