The Postgraduate Research Culture Symposium

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

download  programme ( PDF) Postgraduate Research Culture Symposium 2025 Programme

download presentation abstracts (PDF)Postgraduate Research Culture Symposium 2025 Abstracts

 

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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