June | 2025 | School of Art and Media - Research Knowledge Exchange

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

Event – Grant Capture: Pathways to Bidding – Learning with/from others – Julie Doyle | 17 June 2025 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

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)

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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

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