As part of this year’s SAM Research and Knowledge Exchange Festival we are having a full-day event focusing on our postgraduate research culture, with vital contributions from our Postgraduates on aspects of their research.
Postgraduate Research Culture Symposium Programme 2025
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| 09:40 to 09.55 | Welcome and Introduction
Paul Sermon, Doctoral Studies Lead for the School of Art and Media 15 mins |
| 10:00 to 10:40 | Keynote Talk: DigiTales https://digi-tales.org.uk
Mark Dunford and Tricia Jenkins 30 mins + 10 mins Q&A |
| 10.45 to 11.00 | How Videogames Express Queerness: Beyond Character and Storyline
Lydia Cooke 10 mins + 5 mins Q&A |
| 11.05 to 11.20 | An Archive of Fairies: Modernism, Fantasy, and Shy Ephemera 1890-1930
Sylvie Jane Lewis 10 mins + 5 mins Q&A |
| 11.20 to 11.30 | Break |
| 11.35 to 11.50 | Sustainable Fashion Terminology Workshop
Claire Dawson 10 mins + 5 mins Q&A |
| 11.55 to 12.10 | The Four Workhorses of The Apocalypse
Jenny Jones 10 mins + 5 mins Q&A |
| 12.15 to 13.00 | Collectives and Collaboration: practice-based fine art research by MA Fine Art graduates and alumni
Chair Amy Cunningham 45 mins |
| 13.00 to 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 to 14.20 | What is the transformative nature of drawing in real space?
Jo Bell 15 mins + 5 mins Q&A |
| 14.25 to 14.40 | The Greek Feminist Magazine Poli Gynaikon within the Countercultural Print Media Landscape of the 1980s
Maria Paganopoulou 10 mins + 5 mins Q&A |
| 14.45 to 15.10 | Shifting Perspectives, Sharing Processes
PGR Exhibition Panel, Chair Lydia Cooke 20 mins + 5 mins Q&A |
| 15.10 to 15.20 | Break |
| 15.25 to 16.10 | Fictive, Immersive, and Speculative Forms of Teaching and Learning on the MAFA
Chair Alex Pollard 45 mins |
| 16.15 to 16.40 | How do you watch a Lost Film?
Steph Harrison 20 mins + 5 mins Q&A |
| 16.45 to 17.00 | Painted Faces, Hidden Selves: The Influence of Peking Opera Masks on Counterculture Animation and Workplace Identity
Yilin Zhao 10 mins + 5 mins Q&A |
| 17.00 to 19.30 | Shifting Perspectives, Sharing Processes
PGR Exhibition in the Atrium Gallery Private View |
Date: Wednesday 12/11/25
Time: 10-17
MS Teams link: Group-School of Art and Media Postgraduate Research Culture Symposium 2025
MS Teams code: p8fx0em
Where: GP, Sallis Benny Theatre until 17
Followed by: Private View 17-19.30
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