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Grant Capture: Placement Opportunity via Techne Doctoral Training Partnership | Expression of Interest deadline 5 January 2026

We have had the a placement opportunities come through to share with you in partnership with the  Smithsonian and University of Brighton.  The placement will be remote/virtual and not in the USA. See file here:AHRC Techne Smithsonian virtual placement FINAL The research project invites AHRC Techne Researchers to research and contribute to the cataloguing of 129 Constable daguerreotypes held by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (Washington, D.C. USA). You will work with an American curator (Shannon Perich, National Museum of American History) and an English academic (Annebella Pollen, University of Brighton) to research the photographer’s history, his contributions to the field and to improve the museum’s catalogue records. You will learn about museum work, curation, interdisciplinary research, and writing for the public. To apply: Please send an Expression of Interest, max 500 words, outlining eligibility and experience, plus a two-page CV, to a.pollen@brighton.ac.uk  by 5th January 2026. Appointments will be […]

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Research and Knowledge Exchange Magazine – Issue 20

This issue provides a timely opportunity to reflect on what we have achieved together and to look ahead with clarity and confidence. It comes at a time when the higher education sector is experiencing unprecedented challenge and uncertainty. Yet, in the face of these pressures, our research and knowledge exchange community continues to demonstrate resilience and a shared determination to make a positive difference and reimagine our future. Research and knowledge exchange are central to our mission. They enrich our teaching, strengthen partnerships and collaborations, and generate new knowledge that responds to real-world needs. This digital magazine provides a snapshot of the reach, relevance and impact of our work, celebrating contributions from colleagues and students across the university. Link is here:Research and Knowledge Exchange Magazine, Issue 20 In this issue, you will discover how our work in health, sustainability and society is shaping public conversation and informing policy and practice. […]

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Grant Caputure: Pre-Award Team have introduced new SharePoint pages

The Bid Support team have been re-visiting the information and training resources  they offer on their sharepoint pages; particularly how to enhance the quality of bids and help researchers find out information about application processes.   As part of this endeavour, they have just launched two pages on their sharepoint page:   Successful Bids Library   The Successful bids library is an archive of previously successful examples of applications submitted by UoB researchers, that is open to all members of staff across the university to access.   Just a couple of things to note: They have only uploaded bids were UoB were the lead (or joint lead), and where we have been able to obtain direct permission from the PI to share. This is a work in progress – the first batch of applications have been uploaded but they are intending to send out another round of permission requests soon. […]

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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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Call for proposals (deadline 15/10/25) for the Research and Knowledge Exchange Festival 10-14 November 2025

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 the REGs. We are inviting proposals for sessions that may be about research and knowledge exchange at any stage of development: it might involve sharing initial thoughts, talks about work in progress, […]

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: SAM Postgraduate Research Culture Symposium 2025 | 12 November 2025 9-5pm at Grand Parade, Sallis Benney

Dear School of Art and Media PGR Students, Please hold the date… Wednesday 12th November 2025, 9am to 5pm for our second Postgraduate Research Culture Symposium, in the Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade, as part of this year’s SAM Research Week, from 10th to 14th November 2025. Following last year’s successful symposium, we are again planning a full-day event focusing on our postgraduate research culture, and we are once again calling for your vital contributions. This could include any aspect of your PhD research, and at any stage. It could be a 10 minute talk or a longer 20 minute presentation from a paper based on a chapter or project, a demo of a practical outcome or activity, a screening of a video, a performance, a panel discussion or workshop proposal, or whatever format best suits your research. Please submit a brief outline of your proposal to me (p.sermon@brighton.ac.uk), including […]

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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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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 […]

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Book : Drawing in Health and Wellbeing: Marks, Signs and Traces – edited by Philippa Lyon and Curie Scott | publish date 15 May 2025

The book Drawing in Health and Wellbeing: Marks, Signs and Traces is being published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts this week (15th May 2025). It was initiated and co-edited by Philippa Lyon of the School of Art and Media, and Curie Scott (who completed her PhD at Brighton with Lyon, Moore and Haq). The book has chapter contributions from a range of international authors including from Australia, the USA, Canada and South Africa. It features chapters by current and recent Brighton staff Duncan Bullen, Vanessa Marr, Jane Fox and Edina Husanovic and cites drawing projects involving several other Brighton colleagues and alumni, Tom Ainsworth, Patrick Letschka and Martha Turland. It also features current SAM PhD student Caehryn Tinker. Other authors, Joanna Stevens and Judy Parkinson, have been SAM creative project partners and featured in the drawing exhibition Marks Make Meaning (Bullen and Lyon 2018). This is the publisher’s web page which […]

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BOOK: Vanessa Marr artwork research artefacts in Normative Motherhood, Demeter Press (2022)

Vanessa Marr created artworks that are published as research artefacts in Normative Motherhood, Demeter Press (2022).  These have been acquired by the Museum of Motherhood (The Fertile Mother) and sold to raise funds (The Desirable Mother) at their annual auction https://event.auctria.com/27bf46e2-87f0-4c73-a4ed-329d4a4c5a4f/a780d600ec2e11e9ae081db830846aa5 Image: Vanessa Marr – The Desirable Mother

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Event: Passing the Brush: Feminist Art NOW | 28 March to 11 May 2025 at the Greenport, NY, Library Floyd Memorial Library, Greenport, New York

Vanessa Marr, School of Art and Media Principle Lecturer and also of the UK-based Domestic Dusters Project. The Project features in this New York exhibition. This craftivist enterprise invites women and girls to embroider their views of so-called “women’s work” on a yellow duster (a popular cleaning cloth in Britain).  The duster artworks will be displayed in Passing the Brush. At the end of the exhibition, each duster will be sent to the Domestic Dusters touring collection in the UK, if its maker so chooses Please see press release Passing the Brush press release Vanessa Marr was  interviewed about the project on US Radio Long Island’s NPR WLIW-FM morning show, hosted by award-winning multi-platform journalist, Gianna Volpe last week. Image: Vanessa Marr, Domestic Is Not a Female Word! Textiles on stitched-together dusters. This large-scale work is on display at Greenport’s First and South Restaurant & Bar; it will be transferred […]

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Book: Procreate Landscapes on the iPad Paperback by Philip Tyler (Author) | Publish date – 24 June 2025

Phil Tyler  is a practising artist and course leader and senior lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking at the University of Brighton. Having discovered Procreate in 2020, he now uses it extensively to capture the beauty of his beloved South Downs in West Sussex. Procreate Landscapes on the iPad explains how to use this ingenious package to paint powerful landscapes at the press of the Apple pencil. By breaking down painting a landscape into different steps, it shows how Procreate can help an artist find their direction and try new techniques to create more expressive work. Referencing the work of Masters throughout,  shows how digital painting follows a long tradition of artists observing and interpreting the landscape, and how you can effectively use Procreate to develop your own ideas. The book is available now see link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Procreate-Landscapes-iPad-Philip-Tyler/dp/0719845149/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3ADN8SBST1GLG&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.mN-08kcl8EF6DVPQ_ND5LP74bwIYQMDcAwSl78vVyGYVcmresnG4PAgCGhWQRS1akkKk4hntJLEHR4yZPTEJemtLeg0LpVGnoj5Xw7Nm79TSxkpGvZUq68TkNkGoFpgiRgU4SrVuMddOfA15eyMMdBu8gZ9UqZT_YVIQ5D8M0nVCOvg8VUXtq9MCztwtYS4J.YiZf9uRScWjU2wUfbAw_DZrnIA_TzdZ4mlatvywuUwA&dib_tag=se&keywords=philip+tyler&qid=1742297919&sprefix=philip+ty%2Caps%2C88&sr=8-2#detailBullets_feature_div   Image: Phil Tyler

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Call for Papers: Special Issue proposed for Design Issues journal – Tangible Archives, Guest Editors include Sue Breakell – deadline30 June 2025

See the full call at https://direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibrary/CallForPapers/Design%20Issues%20CFP%20Special%20Issue_Tangible%20Archives_2025.pdf This Special Issue seeks to explore the relationship between design and archives, using the lens of tangibility. The tangible, defined as the physical, the haptic, the made, allows us to explore the role of design in making, accessing, navigating, digitizing, researching, and experiencing the archive. There are multiple and varied definitions of archives, and we invite contributions that interrogate the relationships and boundaries of these definitions. This special issue will explore the archive of, as, and in design. Submission: full papers to Guest Editors by Monday 30 June 2025. Any questions, please direct to the Guest Editors: Jessica Kelly, Gina Pierce and Sue Breakell, tangiblearchivespecialissue@gmail.com  

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Call for Papers: For Material Histories Objects and Objectives Conference | 15-16 May 2025 at University of Brighton – deadline closes 21 March 2025

The University of Brighton’s Material History Group (MHG) welcomes participants and presenters to a conference on the topic of Objects and Objectives. The MHG is located within the University’s School of Art and Media, which has a long and esteemed history of colleagues conducting practice-as-research and research-informed teaching. The MHG builds on these foundations and is particularly interested in research that begins with and is conducted via objects and archives, whether by making, analysing, curating or teaching with them. We recognise that both the questions and answers that objects provoke as historical artifacts can be useful in furthering knowledge; as Peter N. Miller has noted, There is more depth to the use of objects as evidence than we might think, and a more sophisticated inventory of approaches and arguments on which to draw than we might imagine. (History and Its Objects, 2017) Of what tactics and methodologies would this ‘sophisticated […]

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CALLING PGRS: The 2025 national Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) will launch at Brighton – 13 March 2025

Call from Professor Paul Sermon – Doctoral Studies Lead 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 try and 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. On Thursday you’ll receive an email from Prof Rusi Jaspal inviting you to complete the PRES. The survey asks you to rate your experience in several areas, including supervision, resources, research culture and community, training opportunities and overall […]

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Award: Holly Birtles Darkroom Residency Awarded – for the Chennai Photo Biennale (CPB) India

The  Chennai Photo Biennale (CPB) –  CPB Foundation and Photoworks  supported by the British Council, selected  three artists for their Darkroom Residency. School of Art and Media Lecturer Holly Birtles was one of the artists selected. This took place in Chennai, India from 5 December 2024 to 20 January 2025 with the objective to produce a body of work for display the Chennai Photo Biennale Phase 2 (See SAMRKE post for work produced/exhibited), Edition IV and the forthcoming Photoworks Festival, UK. The scope for Holly Birtles’s work  (during the residency) was to continue working on her projects exploring the manifestation of histories and ecologies through performance images, landscapes, seascapes, and the creation of surreal creatures in recognizable spaces. Alongside photographs of local land, soil, water bodies, flora and fauna, Holly will also use Midjourney (software) to create images based on her own prompts. The digital and physical negatives will come […]

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Call for staff research methods expertise to be rendered on Padlet – deadline 29 January 2025

We are currently collecting examples of staff research methods expertise in the school on the Padlet below: https://universityofbrighton.padlet.org/cgould37/SAMResearchMethods This request comes from the central research team, as we would like to establish a record of the researchers, and their research methods used in each of the schools. Please ensure that your entry includes your name, you may add images or examples of theorists or simply name your research methods, as you wish. The deadline is the 29th January 2025 To add an entry, click the red plus + button on the bottom right-hand corner of the Padlet page and type, you can edit later. It would be great if we can collate a good range of examples from across the school. If you have any questions please contact Charlotte Gould.    

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Call for Papers: Trans Asia Photography invites submissions for a general issue – deadline 1 April 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS – Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring 2026) Trans Asia Photography invites submissions for a general issue, Volume 16, Number 1 (Spring 2026). The journal examines all aspects of photographic history, theory, and practice by centering images in or of Asia, conceived as a territory, network, and cultural imaginary. It welcomes: articles (5,000–7,000 words) that broaden understanding of Asian photography in transnational contexts shorter pieces (1,000–2,000 words) in formats that include interviews, curatorial or visual essays, and portfolios Deadline: April 1, 2025. Trans Asia Photography is an international, refereed, open-access journal based at the University of Toronto and published by Duke University Press. It provides a venue for interdisciplinary exploration of photography and Asia. Guidance for authors on submissions can be found at: transasiaphotography.org/submit For more information, contact the editors: transasiaphotography@gmail.com The TAP Editorial Team Deepali Dewan, Royal Ontario Museum & University of Toronto Yi Gu, University of Toronto Thy Phu, University of […]

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Call for recruitment of participants by 16 January 2025 for the Blind Paper Peer Review for the Domesticity Under Siege conference (April 2–4, 2025), hosted by the School of Architecture Technology and Engineering.

We seek blind peer reviewers for draft papers submitted to the Domesticity Under Siege International Architectural Conference (April 2–4, 2025), hosted by the School of Architecture Technology and Engineering. This is an excellent opportunity for PhD students and academic colleagues who have expertise, connection, or interest in the topic, to gain valuable experience in academic blind peer-reviewing processes. The conference explores themes such as: Domesticity under threat from wars, disasters, and climate change. The uncanny and invasive agents in domestic spaces. Gender, labour, and technology concerning the home. For more information, visit our website: https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/domesticityundersiege/   If interested, please email by 16th January 2025 to: Terry Meade: T.Meade@brighton.ac.uk or Judit Pusztaszeri: J.Pusztaszeri3@brighton.ac.uk   We look forward to your participation! Best regards, The Domesticity Under Siege Conference Team    

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Gavin Ambrose has published a new book with the ALTA Museum World Heritage Rock Centre in Norway and Norwegian Salmon Rivers

This features Jan Ekman, who fished the Alta in Norway for nineteen years, 1970-1988. He was a keen photographer and took over 6,000 photos from his trips. A few were used in his 1983 book about the river and the dam (re-published in English in 2013: Seven Nights on the Alta), but most of them were only shared with a few fishing friends. After Jan passed in 2004, his family donated the negatives to the Alta Museum so they could be properly archived and the Museum has kindly agreed to let almost 200 images be included in this book. These photos were taken long before the modern digital cameras that capture great images, even in low light. Fishing was done at night, often with clouds and rain. The midnight sun helped, but it didn’t reach the canyon floor so even though Jan used Kodak Tri-X film, apertures were large and shutter […]

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Call for papers for Domesticity Under Siege International Architectural Conference UOB (2-4/4/25) – Deadline 22 November 2024

School of Architecture Technology and Engineering wanted to bring to your attention the call for papers to the upcoming Domesticity Under Siege International Architectural Conference, University of Brighton, UK; 2nd-4th April 2025. To submit an abstract for consideration proposals should be emailed to dus-brighton25@brighton.ac.uk Deadline for entries is 22 November 2024. More information can be found at the DUS website With any questions please contact: Terry Meade – T.Meade@brighton.ac.uk or Judit Pusztaszeri – J.Pusztaszeri3@brighton.ac.uk      

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Deadlines extended for Student Research Experience Scheme (SRES) Project Lead applications to Friday 01 November 2024

The deadline for the Student Research Experience Scheme (SRES) Project Lead applications has been extended to Friday 01 November. SRES offers hands-on research opportunities for undergraduate and taught postgraduate students across all disciplines. Students can participate in real research projects in addition to their studies alongside academic staff and postgraduate researchers. This experience allows students to gain valuable research skills, insights into higher-level research work, and support for future career plans, including potential research degree study.    

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News: PURE profile – help and what to do

Now is a great time to make sure your Pure profile is up-to-date and does justice to all the work you’ve put into your Research and Knowledge Exchange. Pure provides the detailed public face of the university’s research. It feeds search engines very well and is the main way peers, senior staff and students, as well as the press and public get to find out more about you and your work. There is a Sharepoint site to help you through the mechanics of adding material to the system. Access to the editor is through the link  https://cris.brighton.ac.uk/.   Any problems or questions with this end of things, please contact Pure Support <Pure-Support@brighton.ac.uk> A few reminders of the basics. You should have an image – either a portrait or an image of your work. You should create profile text under suitable headings, prioritising ‘Research interests’. These should be in paragraphs rather than […]

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News: Payment deadline for invoices 2 July 2024 for current SAM QR RKE Projects and IAA projects

Please send all payments to Karen Gainsford – K.Gainsford@brighton.ac.uk for start of day Tuesday 2nd July 2024 or if a regular supplier Tuesday 9th July 2024. Deadline should be worked to for all payment requests – from RKE Central Team Deadline is: End of June please. 31st July 2024 is the financial year end and we must have placed the order, received the goods, been invoiced for them and paid for them before 31st July 2024 . End of June gives us enough lead time to sort all this out If it’s an item from a ‘usual’ supplier (who send invoices regularly) and will be sent in a day or two then next week at the latest (5th July 2024) ”    

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News: The University of Brighton Design Archives will receive £315,000 from the Research England Museum, Galleries and Collections Fund –

Retaining their position among the country’s top archives to receive support, the Design Archives will receive £63,000 in each of the next five academic years. The award recognises that the Design Archives team, collections and facilities provide a unique and significant contribution to research, scholarship and research impact in the UK and internationally. Funds are only granted to institutions that serve both their own and the wider research community. The funding followed a competitive review of university museums and galleries, led by Dr Nick Merriman OBE, Chief Executive of English Heritage, and formerly, Chief Executive and Director of Content for the Horniman Museum and Gardens. See the University SharePoint feature for more details https://unibrightonac.sharepoint.com/sites/home/SitePages/University-of-Brighton-Design-Archives-receives-%C2%A3315,000-funding.aspx?dm_i=1SNX,8LD0W,9WGGSV,ZLP5G,1  Image: Sue Breakell Archive Director at the University of Brighton Design Archives, and a Principal Research Fellow and Lesley Whitworth  Deputy Curator and Senior Research Fellow in the University of Brighton Design Archives. Posted by Karen […]

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News: University of Brighton Design Archives, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), are working in collaboration with The National Archives to explore and problem-solve the challenges of archival collection management

If you are a conservator or an archivist interested in joining the network, please contact Sirpa Kutilainen – (s.kutilainen@brighton.ac.uk) Preservation and Digital Resource Coordato from The Univeristy of Brighton Design Archives   Read about a forthcoming project event: https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesignarchives/2024/03/27/shutdown-protecting-collections-in-a-changing-climate/ Developed by the University of Brighton Design Archives, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), and working in collaboration with The National Archives, the event will explore and problem-solve the challenges of working with existing buildings housing archival collections whilst building capacity for more sustainable and cost-effective practices. The event is conservator-lead, driven by professionals from across the sector experimenting with reducing energy consumption whilst centring the historic collections in their care. It will facilitate discussion and discovery, sharing methodologies and evolving innovative approaches to this work, and will establish a support network for colleagues across the archive sector who seek a […]

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Organisation: Global Creative Economy Council

The Global Creative Economy Council (GCEC) brings together academics, practitioners, policy professionals and investors from five continents to identify and discuss emerging trends of global significance in creative economy practice and policy. In particular, it aims to provide inclusive perspectives on global policy issues that span both Global South and Global North, and consider ideas for transnational policies and standards. Supported by Creative PEC and the British Council, it contributes to the work of both organisations by providing targeted insights and related research. https://pec.ac.uk/people/global-creative-economy-council/ Posted on behalf of  Stuart Hedley – Research and Knowledge Exchange    

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£500 prize Research and Knowledge Exchange = Research Poster Competition has been extended to Monday 18 March 2024

The deadline for submissions to the Research Poster Competition has been extended. The Research and Knowledge Exchange team would like to encourage all research staff, as well as postgraduate research students, to participate. There will be three categories for judging and a prize of £500 each for research-related expenses for each of the following: People’s Prize Postgraduate Research Student prize Staff prize Voting for the People’s prize takes place at our Research and Knowledge Exchange Showcase Event, open to our entire University of Brighton community, including all academic and professional staff and students. Taking place at the Sallis Benney Theatre at Grand Parade (3pm-4.30pm). You can vote for your favourite research poster on display in the Grand Parade foyer. Competition winners will be announced at the Showcase Event and there will be an opportunity for networking over refreshments at the end of the day. Visit the Research and Knowledge Exchange Week blog to see the timetable for […]

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Call for Papers: by 12 April 2024 for Symposium Vestiges of Memory – Intersections between photography and autobiographical memory – University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, UK | 18 July 2024

“I cannot penetrate, cannot reach into the Photograph. I can only sweep it with my glance, like a smooth surface” (Barthes, 2000: 106) We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the International research symposium that focuses on the intricate relationships between photography and autobiographical memory, which is scheduled to take place on 18 July 2024 at The University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury, UK. This interdisciplinary event aims to explore ways in which 21st century artists, photographic practitioners and other researchers attempt to reach and rummage beyond the smooth surface of the photograph, and contemplate its relationship and contributions to the construction of autobiographical memory. We invite scholars, artists, academics, practitioner-researchers, researcherpractitioners, and other professionals doing research into relationships between memory and images created through the “frightfully speculative eye” (Deleuze, 1990: 243) of the photographic camera to propose papers and panels that explore, but are not […]

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Call for submissions Symposium – “After AI” | 17 May 2024 – Deadline abstract submission: 28 March 2024

This is organised by “Shifting Power”  a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project exploring the long-term impacts of AI, particularly those that do not centre (primarily) White, Western European notions of innovation, morality and justice. I have copied part of the call below. Call for submissions to be found here: https://afteraisymposium.com/ The symposium date: 17 May 2024 Information about:“Shifting Power” and the research project This UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project explores the long-term impacts of AI, particularly those that do not centre (primarily) White, Western European notions of innovation, morality and justice. To help us explore the future of this technology, and the consequences we expect it to have on people, society, the planet and beyond, the Shifting Power team is hosting a symposium on what happens “After AI”. As part of our current explorations into the topic with researchers and enthusiasts from all over the world, we have learned that our understanding of […]