Archive for: April, 2025

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 […]

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