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Grant Capture: Applications open for 2025–26 Bid Builder Programme – deadline: 23:59 on 28 November 2025

Applications are now open for the 2025–26 Bid Builder Programme, designed to support staff in developing competitive external research funding proposals.   This structured, six-session programme offers expert guidance from the Pre-Award team, RaKE Department, and experienced academic peers. Participants will build a proposal from concept to completion, with the aim of submitting a grant application within 12 months of completing the programme.   Application deadline: 23:59 on 28 November 2025 Applicants must upload a School Sign Off Form, a one-page narrative statement, and an EDI monitoring form. Please ensure your Pure profile is up to date before applying. Full guidance and application details are available on SharePoint.   If anyone is thinking of applying please let me know (j.doyle@brighton.ac.uk) and we can have a chat about your application   In addition, Uschi Klein (SAM ECR Lead, and former Bid Builder participant) and Laura Shockley (Research Development Adviser) are hosting an (in person) […]

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Blog – School of Art and Media Knowledge Exchange Festival 10-14 November 2025

I am delighted to share the schedule for the annual SAM R&KE Festival, from the 10th to the 14th of November 2025. There are a wide variety of events on the programme, all are welcome to attend. Below is a snapshot of some of the events on offer, see more information on the RKE Festival Blog: There are several sessions aimed at supporting funding applications, including an introduction to the grant application process by Julie Doyle and Laura Shockley (Monday), the Bid Builder Session led by Laura Shockley and Uschi Klein (Thursday) with further support on future funding from the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing Common Room hosted by Nick Gant (Tuesday). The Postgraduate Research Culture Symposium on Wednesday 12th November is hosted by Paul Sermon with sessions from Amy Cunningham and Alex Pollard and includes guest speakers Mark Dunford and Trica Jenkins presenting DigiTales. There will be research presentations from Postgraduate […]

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Event: Workshops on Rights Retention Policy REF29 | 24 October 2025 2-3pm on Microsoft Teams

The launch of the new university Rights Retention Policy in line with open access compliance requirements for REF29. The next workshop will be on Microsoft Teams: Friday 24 October, 2pm-3pm, please see below for sign up details.  As you know we are launching a university Rights Retention Policy. Lee Christien (Libraries) and Simon Heath (RAKE) are running sessions next week at all sites plus one via Teams to introduce researchers to the policy and what it means for them. We’d be very grateful if you could encourage relevant staff in your schools to attend. The Teams meeting will be recorded for anyone that cannot attend any sessions in person. The details are in Lee’s email below, if you have any further queries please don’t hesitate to get in touch:   Open access compliance for the next Research Excellence Framework (REF 2029) requires a different approach from last time – and this is why […]

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Event: ‘What if […]?: An exhibition of speculative artworks by MA Fine Art. Exhibition until 5 November 2025 | Private view 29 October 2025 5-7pm at Grand Parade, Atrium Gallery

Dear Colleagues,   You are invited to the private view of ‘What if […]?: An exhibition of speculative artworks by MA Fine Art.’ Private View: Wednesday 29th October  5pm – 7pm. All Welcome. The grand parade café bar will be open from 5pm – 6.30pm during the event.  The exhibition continues until Wednesday 5th November. Best wishes, Amy Cunningham

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Event: Alex Fitch presents – Phantoms and Phantasmagoria – Reviving the Animated Haunted House on Screen | 20-25 October 2025 at Cine-Excess 2025

At the Cine-Excess 20th-25th October at Birmingham City University Ales Fitch will be presenting a paper about the haunted house as the original location of horror on screen. Puppetry animates phantoms, skeletons and bats in Méliès’ Le Manoir du Diable (1896), while Segundo de Chomón’s La Maison Ensorcelée (1906) brings its bewitched house to life using stop-motion animation. Indeed, any depiction of poltergeist activity on screen relies on bringing inanimate objects to life, so certain horror narratives cannot exist without animation as part of their technique. The success of de Chomón’s film might be judged by the number of copies produced, with The Haunted Hotel (1907, J. Stuart Blackton) and The Haunted House (1908, Segundo Ruiz) following in quick succession. In the introduction to the book ‘Hollywood Flatlands’, Esther Leslie notes the Nineteenth Century rise of Spiritualism, horror themed Phantasmagoria, and a peculiar Marxist interest in the inner life of […]

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Event: New Towns seen through the lens of Wolf Suschitzky – Curated by Julia Winckler / Fotohof Salzburg | Exhibition 28 October –1 November 2025 with launch 28 October 5-6.30 pm at Dorset Place Gallery

This exhibition is curated by Brighton Photography Research Group member Curated by Julia Winckler in conjunction with Fotohof Salzburg. Commissioned by the Town and Country Planning Association, renowned photographer and cameraman Wolf Suschitzky (1912-2016) photographed nine New Towns of the first wave of post-war New Town development within a decade of their initial construction. A small selection of these was shown at London’s Royal Academy in 1959 as part of the ‘Britain’s New Towns: Ten Years on’ exhibition. The bulk of the negatives were never printed, publicly displayed or published. During a research residency in 2022 at FOTOHOF Salzburg in Austria, where the Suschitzky archive is now held, Julia Winckler rediscovered the New Town photos and immediately recognised their significance. Through a sympathetic lens, and reflecting his belief in and optimism for a better post-war future, Suschitzky had captured an extraordinary record of the phenomenal achievements of post-war reconstruction and […]

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Event: CREAM 2025 Crane Kalman Brighton’s Annual Graduate Photography Exhibition | 22-30 October 2025 – Private view – 23 October 2025 5.30-7.30 pm at Edward Street

Crane Kalman Brighton and the University of Brighton warmly invite you to CREAM 2025, the annual graduate photography exhibition from across the UK,  curated by Crane Kalman Brighton. Private View: Thursday, October 23rd, 2025 5:30 – 7:30 PM Edward Street, University of Brighton (BN2 0JG) Exhibition open daily 22nd-30th Oct. 10-5pm weekdays, 10-4pm Saturdays (closed Sundays). Held at the University of Brighton’s Edward Street Gallery, this showcase features standout work by emerging photographers from across the UK. Join us for an evening of celebrating the bold visual storytelling of the next generation of photographic talent! We hope to see you there! — Posted on behalf of Crane Kalman and Rachel Gillies Image: Anna Warin

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Event: HEXTED Private view with live performance from Karen Tilley | 17 October 6-8pm 2025 Exhibition 13–25 October 2025 at Gallery 19a 

Please join us for the Private View. Venue: Gallery 19a, Hollingdean Terrace, Brighton BN1 7HB. Exhibition Open to the Public: 13–25 October, 11 am – 5 pm (closed Sundays). ‘These six artists bring their own histories, practices, and perspectives to question memory, movement, positionality, resistance, and identity. Their stories are carried through diverse media: print, moving image, fabric, light, performance, photography, and family heirlooms. Inspired by the exceptionality of everyday life and the domestic, these works hold the remarkable ability to transform ordinary objects and fleeting moments into intimate sites of reflection, renewal, and connection.’ We look forward to seeing you there. Posted on behalf of Rachel Maloney.    

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Event: Double book launch of publications about Austrian-British émigré photographers, Edith Tudor-Hart and Wolf Suschitzky – including presentation by Julia Winckler | 15 October 2025 7pm at the Austrian Cultural Forum, London.

Julia Winckler School of Arts and Media Lecturer and Research Ethics & Integrity Lead was  commissioned to write chapters for each of these new photography books and will be presenting at this event. This is an invitation to attend a free event: a double book launch accompanied by talks at the Austrian Cultural Forum, London.Link here: https://www.acflondon.org/events/book-launch-edith-tudor-hart-a-steady-eye-in-turbulent-times-wolf-suschitzky-exile-and-journeys/ This relates to the  Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize 2025  and is a  special event celebrating two exciting new photography book publications about Austrian-British émigré photographers, Edith Tudor-Hart and Wolf Suschitzky. Both publications include many photographs which have been published for the first time. In their respective talks, presenters Kurt Kaindl (Salzburg), Stefanie Pirker (London) and Julia Winckler (Brighton) offer insights into the photographers’ visual archives, largely now held at FOTOHOF>archive in Salzburg, and from which these two new publications extensively draw upon. Contextual biographies of the two siblings will foreground the strength and ongoing […]

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Exhibition: Ola Teper, Kirsty Thomas and Rachel Maloney – Hexted | 3–25 October 2025 and Private view 17 October 2025 6-8pm at Hexted, Brighton

Ola Teper, Kirsty Thomas and Rachel Maloney are exhibiting works at a group show Hexted (Gallery 19a, Hollingdean Terrace, Brighton BN1 7HB) in Brighton this month. The private view is on  17 October at 6pm-8pm. All are invited to experience the creativity of Brighton’s local artists at Hexted. The exhibition, thoughtfully arranged in a way that allows for a seamless exploration of the diverse practices, runs from 13–25 October at Gallery 19a, Hollingdean, open 11 am – 5 pm (closed Sundays). Admission is free. Brighton’s vibrant art scene comes to life in Hexted. In this exciting new exhibition, six local artists showcase experimental and diverse practices across a broad spectrum of art forms, including print, moving image, fabric, light, performance, photography, and family heirlooms. Opening at Gallery 19a in Hollingdean on 13 October, the exhibition invites viewers to explore themes of home, memory, movement, identity, and belonging through the unique […]

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EVENT: Postgraduate induction welcome and get together | 8 October 2025 5.30pm at Grand Parade, café and Atrium Gallery

There will be a postgraduate welcome for PGRs and MA students. This is to be held at the Grand Parade café and Atrium Gallery  where the Cathy Lomax exhibition, “On Reflection” is on show. There will be drinks and nibbles, and a chance to network and welcome our new PGRs, introducing them to our PGR student community and supervisors, together with our new PGT students and their MA course teams. I hope you can all join us. Please RSVP to Paul Sermon  

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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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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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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 […]