Archive for: May, 2022

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Knowledge Exchange Resources and External Upcoming Events | June

Plastics, from Cradle to Grave and Resurrection III Wednesday 15th 10am – 3pm, Online On 15th June 2022, Innovate UK KTN, the UK Circular Plastics Network, and the Royal Society of Chemistry will be hosting this online event bringing together regulatory, academic and industrial speakers to stimulate discussion on the challenges and opportunities for researchers, industry and government. Register for free here https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/12beac67-3510-46b5-9826-3bfd3a2367d9/ summary   National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE) Culture and Collaborations on Climate EmergencyThursday 23rd June 10am – 1pm, Online Through this Culture and Collaborations on Climate Emergency workshop NCACE are setting out to create a space to: highlight the role of collaborative initiatives with a focus on climate emergency, climate justice, net zero and related areas that are occurring between key stakeholders including: Higher Education, the arts and cultural sector, local authorities, community partnerships and other relevant actors showcase a diverse range of research […]

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Festival of Postgraduate Research, 16 June 2022

Festival of Postgraduate Research, 16 June 2022 Dear Doctoral Students and Supervisors,   We are delighted to bring you details of our fourth Festival of Postgraduate Research!  This in-person event – our first for quite a while – will take place in Huxley, Moulsecoomb campus, on Thursday 16 June, 11.00-16.00.   Activities include: Blind date with a Living (PhD) Book The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition Research photo competition (online) Pure profile photo booth and drop-in workshop (open to students and supervisors) Doctoral inaugural mini-lectures Our calls for applications to 3MT and submissions to our photo competition are both open until Tuesday 31 May. We very much hope our doctoral students will want to participate in these competitions and bring their research to a university audience. Find out more and book your festival place! Everyone is welcome to attend – you don’t need to be presenting or entering a competition […]

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Brighton Festival of Open Research

The full programme is now available for the Brighton Festival of Open Research, which is taking place on Tuesday 21st June at the Watson Building in Falmer. You can find the programme and register for the event here. The festival will focus on embedding and improving open research culture here at the University of Brighton.  Professor Rusi Jaspal, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange, will open the event, and we are delighted to have a number of renowned experts to speak for us, including: ·     Prof Zoltan Dienes, Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex, will share his expertise in Registered Reports (where an acceptance to publish is made before the results are known) as a format for improving science. ·     Prof Chris Chambers, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Cardiff University and author of “Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the […]

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Call for papers: The Global Diffusion of Tailored Clothes for Women 1750 – 1930

Call for papers: The Global Diffusion of Tailored Clothes for Women 1750 – 1930 Friday 16th and Saturday 17th September 2022 Organised by the European-wide ACORSO Research Interest Group ‘Tailoring for Women 1750 – 1930’, this two-day conference entitled The Global Diffusion of Tailored Clothes for Women 1750 – 1930 seeks papers exploring the diffusion of, design, manufacture, technology, products, material culture, retailing, trade, commerce, and the related sartorial etiquette of, tailored clothes for women specifically between 1750 and 1930. In this period between 1750 and 1930, a greater proportion of socioeconomic classes and a global market increasingly gained access to tailored clothes for women. Tailored garments for women would also have been used by the colonial ruling classes as a signal of their continued Western sartorial tastes while in India, Africa and other colonised regions. Underpinning this access was diffusion – enabled by trans-national trade routes, the mass communication […]

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European Regional Development Fund ERDF funded RISE and BRITE programmes

The School of Art and Media continues to be active participants in the European Regional Development Fund ERDF funded RISE and BRITE programmes. Josh Newman from Film Production has been awarded £5,000 of funding from RISE to apply his expertise to support local SME Your Sales Partners with the production brief for their new online training package. Josh will be investigating educational technologies and prioritising content areas for Your Sales Partners to inform the production brief and providing quality assurance checking of completed work. This expertise support will help Your Sales Partners develop realistic and quality new online products enabling innovative growth by expanding into new markets. Rachael Taylor and Jules Findley from Fashion Coms have been awarded £7,000 of funding to work with BRITE member Ruby Moon, a Brighton (Plus X) based sustainable swimwear company. The funding will enable Rachael and Jules to research and develop a design process […]

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Roderick Mills wins Award of Excellence from the Society for News Design

Roderick Mills received an Award of Excellence from the Society for News Design (SND) earlier this year, for illustration work commissioned by the New York Times in a feature entitled the 52 Places We Love that included a cover Illustration. A poignant subject amidst the COVID-19 pandemic restricting global travel, and on a personal level the work was completed during the Christmas/New Year lockdown period in the UK. Subsequently as part of a series of L6 Professional Practice workshops and lectures in Illustration Roderick talked through working in editorial for mainstream media and the collaborative process of a commission, working with art directors and designers internationally.

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Prof. Julie Doyle’s climate communications research cited in the IPCC report

Three of Julie Doyle’s climate communications research outputs have been cited in the recently published UN IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (WGIII) Mitigation of Climate Change https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/ and Julie’s findings inform the report’s recommendations for climate action. The IPCC reports represent the most comprehensive and up to date overview of international climate science. The report states that ‘The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health. Any further delay in concerted anticipatory global action on adaptation and mitigation will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all’   Julie’s research on the climate branding tactics of fossil fuel company BP (Doyle 2011) and joint research on the co-option of ‘climate care’ by corporations (Doyle et al. 2019), is cited in Chapter 5 of the report as examples of how collective climate action are […]

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Jasper Goodall makes top three finalist for The Louis Roederer Photography Prize for Sustainability

Jasper Goodall, Senior Lecturer Photography, has been nominated for and made one of the top three finalists for The Louis Roederer Photography Prize for Sustainability in collaboration with Lux Magazine and Nobu Hotel London. Louis Roederer is an organic champagne and wine producer and set up the Fondation to foster arts and creativity.   https://www.mmdltd.com/about/photography-prize/   The winner, Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah was announced on the 12th May and all three finalists will have their work on display in the White Box – the Nobu Hotel street front gallery space.

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Holly Chard wins ‘Best First Monograph’ Award for 2022 British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies’

As reported in our last newsletter, following being shortlisted, Holly Chard, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Screen Media, has won the ‘Best First Monograph’ award for her book Mainstream Maverick: John Hughes and New Hollywood Cinema at the 2022 British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies’. Mainstream Maverick, published by University of Texas Press, is the first scholarly book to explore the films and career of John Hughes, one of the most prolific and commercially successful filmmakers of the 1980s and 1990s. It examines Hollywood’s complex relationship with genre, the role of the auteur in commercial cinema, and the legacy of movies such as Sixteen Candles (1984) and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986).   Holly was keen to produce a scholarly book which combined archival research and film analysis, but which remained accessible to a range of readers, including undergraduate students. She hopes she has achieved this goal. At the […]

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Research and Knowledge Exchange Development Programme

To reserve your place, email ResearcherDevelopment@brighton.ac.uk with the relevant workshop titles in the subject line. Workshops will be held on Microsoft Teams unless otherwise stated. Making the Most of the Research Mentoring Relationship Aristea Fotopoulou, Marcus Winter and Mel Flint Monday 13 June 2022, 10-12pm Online via Microsoft Teams Would benefit: mentors and staff who wish to be mentors or who are being mentored and wish to know how to make the most of the mentoring framework. The purpose of this highly interactive workshop for academic staff is to provide insight into modern research mentoring techniques and tools, exploring the benefits of research mentoring for the mentee as well as the mentor, and creating a solid foundation for a valuable learning process for both mentors and mentees. The key tool will be the Mentor + Game, an innovative game that will help clarify the different research mentoring roles or communication […]

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BOOK LAUNCH: Joint – Dr Julia Winckler and Dr Annebella Pollen | Grand Parade 12 May 2023

Dr Julia Winckler and Dr Annebella Pollen held a joint book launch at Grand Parade on 12th May. Jointly hosted by the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories and the Centre for Design History, this in-person event included two author talks, Q&A and discussion.   Fabricating Lureland: A history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea by Julia Winckler Julia Winckler’s Fabricating Lureland: A history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea mobilizes extensive and previously under-explored archival material – including photographs, postcards, promotional magazines and blueprints infused by social utopian ideals – in order to investigate contested marketing and construction narratives of place.   Nudism in a Cold Climate: The Visual Culture of Naturists in Mid-20th-Century Britain by Annebella Pollen examines social nudism, or naturism, from the 1920s to the early […]

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Results of the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF2021)

I’m sure by now you will have had chance to read about the results of the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF2021) which were published on Thursday 12 May. You can read a response from Professor Rusi Jaspal, Pro- Vice Chancellor (R&KE) and follow the links to find out more by clicking here.   Colleagues from Art and Media were submitted to three Units of Assessment (UoA), the highlights are summarised below.   D32 Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory 86% of our research is rated world-leading or as internationally excellent Over 80% of our research outputs are rated as world-leading or as internationally excellent 90% of our research impact is assessed as outstanding or very considerable in terms of reach and significance Our research environment is rated as 100% as world-leading or as internationally excellent. D34 Communication, Cultural & Media Studies, Library & Information Management 78% of our research […]