Archive for: September, 2025

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Event: Capturing Creativity Loughborough University | October 2025 hosted by Bath Spa University and Loughborough University

Capturing Creativity 2025 – Seminar Series, October 2025 We are delighted to announce another Capturing Creativity seminar series which are likely to be of interest to librarians, REF support staff, and practice researchers in the UK and beyond.  The aim of the series is to promote best practice around capturing and showcasing creative practice research via university research repositories, and the submission of this research to the REF. The seminars in the 2025 event are as follows, with full details of each event available via the booking links below: Monday 6th October 2025, 14:00 – 15:00 BST Introducing the Enact Practice Research Data Service (Jenny Evans) Booking link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5d456079-a726-42d9-9cad-50942fc8f85a@cf264fc0-aeb8-449f-9054-82ce4454084b Thursday 9th October 2025, 15:00 – 17:00 BST Two presentations: (1) Pathways to Practice Research: Developing Projects and Pedagogies in Contemporary and Experimental Music (Mira Benjamin, Lauren Redhead, Scott McLaughlin and Pete Furniss) (2) Practice Research Diaries: a project report (Claire Knowles, Scott […]

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Events: Alex Fitch’s forthcoming involvement at Lakes International Comic Art Festival and hosting of Panel Borders first Wednesday of each month

Alex Fitch is a Lecturer | School of Art and Media and is generally to be found on the Arts Council Station in London on the first Wednesday of each month, hosting a show called Panel Borders featuring interviews with comic creators and related folk. For information and and subsequent podcasts on his blog: https://panelborders.wordpress.com/ — o — Details on the various events  (both future and past) that Alex has been actively involved in, are to be found on the Research Excellence Group that Alex co-chairs:  Comics and Graphic Narratives Research Excellence Group Forthcoming in September: Brighton researcher hosting interviews at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival   Above: Excerpts from Aristotle’s Cuttle Fish / Ghosts / How to Make Life Better At the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Bowness-on-Windermere later this month, Comics REG co-lead Alex Fitch will be interviewing acclaimed veteran Italian Comics Artist Lorenzo Mattotti, a […]

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Grant Capture: R&KE initiatives have been launched and deadlines set

The first set of R&KE initiatives have been launched aimed at nurturing talent, and supporting your research ambitions and career development during 2025–2026, see further details here: https://unibrightonac.sharepoint.com/sites/home/SitePages/Apply-now-for-R%26KE-Initiatives-2025—2026.aspx   Please note that all schools are setting internal deadlines for sign off, see details below for the School of Art and Media: R&KE Development Fund Round One: (31st October 2025) school deadline: 24th October  Policy Support Fund: (7th November 2025) school deadline 31st October RKE Development Fund Round Two: (16th January 2025) school deadline 9th January   Charlotte Gould would be happy to meet if you would like to discuss any of these opportunities, Julie Doyle as Grant capture lead is also available for support. There will also be sessions to support people just getting started in bidding as well workshops for those with more experience during the SAM R&KE Festival in November.   Note also:Future Research & Knowledge Exchange Leaders […]

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Event: Exhibition Sue Gollifer Retrospective 19 September 2025 – 11 January 2026 | Phoenix Gallery, Leicester Free

Following on from Sue Gollifer’s recent London summer show at the Computer Arts Society,  Phoenix Gallery in Leicester will present her  original works with complementary video material. She will also hold an artist’s talk on 9 October 2025. For uptodate information, please refer to the website here: https://www.phoenix.org.uk/events/sue-gollifer-retrospective/   Background Sue Gollifer (b. 1944) began her career as a printmaker, having graduated with a master’s degree from the University of Brighton in 1969. She worked as an artist and academic at Brighton, gaining a reputation for her innovative silkscreen technique. Drawn to a “computational aesthetic”, she was initially discouraged from using computers in her work by an establishment that regarded computer programming as an unsuitable activity for a female artist. She reacted to this by “becoming a computer” in the production of her artwork, before later using digital devices to help create her art. She went on to curate the […]

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Event: Annebella Pollen in-conversation with Sally-Anne Huxtable – Design and the Occult | 26 November 2025 5.30-7pm Online

For millennia, people have sought to control the seemingly uncontrollable forces that surround them and find significance, structure, and comfort through the rich seams of occultism and magic that permeate the landscapes, places, lives, art, and objects of the cultures they inhabit. From folk magic and fortune telling, via alchemy and ceremonial magic, to popular astrology and WitchTok, these ideas, beliefs, and practices have been intrinsically connected to the creation and consumption of designed objects, buildings and spaces. However, in spite of the development of interest in occult subjects amongst art historians in recent decades, the relationship between design and the occult has largely been overlooked. This is an online event. Booking details are here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-and-the-occult-an-in-conversation-with-sally-anne-huxtable-tickets-1446982917859?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios&sg=f4000ccd75a652b98c5d76e798239f732784fbd5c429b36e2482b2f9b4dec19c39eed615e90407cc496f87d9b2e2f08d9c28375972100d21e328e0f1f0bcacd0085fc38939f10645a5720367 Professor Annebella Pollen will be in conversation with Dr Sally-Anne Huxtable. They will discuss the work Dr Huxtable is undertaking to address the lack of design histories of magic, occultism and esotericism with a […]

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Event: Annebella Pollen Unsettling Encounters: A Curious Histories Charity Fundraiser | 27 October 2025 7-9.30 pm at East Street Tap, Brighton

Curious Histories are back upstairs at Brighton’s quirky East Street Tap 4 East Street Brighton and Hove BN1 1HQ with a tantalising double bill, featuring two unusual cultural history talks from Dr Fiona Ponikwer and Professor Annebella Pollen. This event will raise funds for Lost Cats Brighton Book here for the event of 27 October 2025 – Unsettling Encounters: A Curious Histories Charity Fundraiser Tickets, Mon 27 Oct 2025 at 19:00 | Eventbrite Avant-garde Ambassadors What role has modern art played in international diplomacy? Can challenging contemporary art be used for global dialogue and debate? For nine decades, the British Council has exhibited British art and craft in over 100 countries as part of its cultural relations mission. Professor Annebella Pollen’s talk brings to light some curious histories unearthed in the Council’s archives. For example, why were handcrafted teapots shipped at great risk across the wartime Atlantic? Why were David Hockney […]

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Event: For PGRs Induction | 16 October 2025 3pm at 68 Grand Parade, PGR room GP155

This is an event for  all our new PGR students, including those who have started since last October and/ or missed my last SAM PGR Induction Session, I will be running a new school induction event on Thursday the 16th of October at 3pm in GP155, the SAM PGR room in 68 Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 9TS Please me know if you will be attending  p.sermon@brighton.ac.uk   Best regards, Paul   Professor Paul Sermon (he/him) Doctoral Studies Lead School of Art and Media, University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton, BN2 0JY p.sermon@brighton.ac.uk

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Call for proposals for SAM Research and Knowledge Exchange (R&KE) Festival – main week 10-14  November 2025 and with satellite events throughout November at City Campus

Dear Colleagues, I hope you are well and that you had a good break over the summer. As your planning continues for this academic year, please consider submitting proposals for SAM Research and Knowledge Exchange (R&KE) Festival with a main week which will take place from 10th–14th November 2025 and with satellite events throughout November. The Postgraduate Research Culture Symposium for PGR and PGT students and staff will take place on the 12th November in the Sallis Benney Theatre from 10am-4pm. This is a great opportunity for staff to share our research and make connections between our teaching, research, and knowledge exchange. We are aiming to offer a wide range of sessions and activities focusing on research or knowledge exchange that will be open to all students and colleagues, as well as sessions targeted for staff development led by R&KE Leads and the research central team, there will also be activities organised by […]

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Event Grant Capture: Joint bid writing day | 26 September 2025 at Moulsecoomb, Elm House

The Grant Capture Leads (GCL) from the School of Applied Sciences (SAS) and School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering (SATES) are holding a joint bid writing day on Friday 26th September (Elm House) that SAM staff have been invited to join. The main focus of the day will be on funding for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EPSRC and Natural Environment Research Council NERC Oyuna Rybdylova (Grant Capture Lead, SATE) will lead bid writing sessions for those preparing proposals. In parallel, Peter Cragg (Grant Capture Lead, SAS) and Martin Smith (Dean, R&KE, SAS) will run sessions on introducing the bid writing process (ideal for ECRs) and detailed information on EPSRC/NERC funding processes from panel members and successful applicants. There will also be a session for PGRs and ECRs on identifying and applying for small external grants. See the  Bid writing and UKRI intelligence agenda The day’s activities are open to […]

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Event: On Reflection new mirrored artworks by Cathy Lomax | Exhibition 22 September – 15 October 2025 at Grand Parade, Atrium Gallery, Seminar 3 October 2025 12-1 at Grand Parade, G4

On Reflection is an exhibition of archival material and film clips curated by Proffessor Tamar Jeffers McDonald  accompanied by new works from artist and academic Cathy Lomax. These are works that Cathy Lomax has created while spending time in the School of Art of Media as a Visiting Research Fellow sponsored by the Centre for Design History. The exhibition focuses on the themes of mirrors and mirroring, film and beauty. The ‘Mirrors’ issue (50)of the art zine Arty* will be launched for the exhibition. A seminar  Introducing ‘On Reflection’: Mirrors, Film and Beauty will take place 3 October 2025  12.00-1-00, Grand Parade G4, no need to RSVP. * Arty has tracked the subjects that its creator Cathy Lomax is preoccupied by. In its 40+ issues to date Arty’s eclectic content has put fame, romance, the Deep South, white, Rome, architecture, red, dresses and Venus under the spotlight.  Made up of […]

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News: Martin Seeds publication of MASKS project and future activities

Martin Seeds received  Research and Knowledge funding last year to produce a publication of his MASKS project. It is now finished and published and ready to get out into the world. Martin will be discussing  the book  at an event planned for November at Edward Street  (by the Photography REG with Photoworks). The work will be also featured at other events in the UK and Ireland. Watch this space but for now, see some of sample pages as a PDF here: MASKS Book sample pages Image: Martin Seeds MASKS