Research Student Conference

Good Fences Make Bad Neighbours: a Postgraduate Conference for the Exchange of Ideas

A lively three day PhD conference for student researchers in the arts and humanities with the cross-fertilisation of ideas at its heart.  Including presentations by research students, panels, workshops, exhibits and an off-campus afterparty.

An opportunity for research students to take part and present to fellow researchers as well as learn about other PhDs students what what they are doing and why.

All academics and masters students are welcome to attend.

Students will present around one of the following six themes:

Design

Exhibit

Memory

Representation

Material

Language

An open stream will also be offered.

Papers

Submissions will be accepted for presentations by all students registered before September 2010 (20 minutes plus 10 minutes Q & A). Students registered after that date will take part in a workshop session on the challenges of the PhD in which they can discuss their experiences with fellow students.

Deadlines

Please submit a title and short abstract identifying under which theme you would like your research to be included: 100 – 200 words by Monday 10th January  to l.warming@brighton.ac.uk and c.j.singleton@brighton.ac.uk.  Include any specific requirements for the exhibition of practice. Please submit copies of PowerPoint presentations (should you choose to use one) by Tuesday 1st February.