Practice-based PhD Programme: ‘Documenting Practice'  

7th Mar 2018 

   

 

The Practice-based PhD Programme consists of a core curriculum of six Skills Workshops as well as a Seminar, Lectures and an annual Student-Led Conference. The aim of the programme is to bring together researchers from across different disciplines, opening up a space to share and present work as a community of practice and learning.

Originally developed for practice-based doctoral students in the arts at Royal Holloway, this year the programme extends to include all practice-based research students and academics across the AHRC TECHNE Doctoral Training Partnership. This includes Royal Holloway, Brighton, Kingston, Roehampton, Surrey, Royal College of Art and University of Arts London.

All are welcome! Please see specific details about this year's activities below, including information on how to get involved.

The Programme Director is Dr Libby Worth

Skills workshops

Co-presented by Royal Holloway academics from arts departments and/or another TECHNE institution, a series of Skills Workshops run across Terms 1 & 2. All workshops are held in Central London.

Topics covered in Term 1 are both common and central to all academic research, and here we look at these specifically in relation to practice-based research. In Term 2 we look at key elements of practice-based research, continuing to situating it within the wider academic context while exploring its uniqueness and transformative potential.

Students interested in attending any of the the Skills Workshops should email  pgrtraining@royalholloway.ac.uk, including your:

• Name
• Institution
• Full list of workshops you plan to attend

** Please note that there is a cap on student numbers for the workshops, but not for any of the other events listed below. **

‘Documenting Practice' 

 

Workshop Leaders: 
Dr Libby Worth (Royal Holloway)

 

Date: Wednesday 7 March 2018
Time: 2.00pm-4.00pm
Venue: Senate House Room 102. Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

 

NB: This is not our usual building but is very close by and here is the map link: http://www.london.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/home/map.pdf

 

This workshop is concerned with the role of documentation in practice-based research. We will explore the ontological status of the document, per se, and also look at specific methods of documenting practice. Participants will be invited to reflect on the role of documentation in their own research, and to consider how documentation, itself, can be part of a reflective creative and critical practice.

In advance of the session please could you read the following article:

Auslander, Philip. ‘The Performativity of Performance Documentation.’ PAJ 84 (2006): 1-10.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/4140006?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

 

Please also bring to the session a document of your own practice. This could be a design, a score, an image, a page from a portfolio/log, an object etc. We will be using these as a way to introduce your research and to think about how you currently document your work and why.