The Network of Research: Annual Research Festival 2016

College of Arts and Humanities Annual Research Festival 2016

11 – 14 July

How are researchers in the College of Arts and Humanities developing and creating networks whilst engaging with others? How do these networks influence and increase their knowledge and understanding? How do partnerships affect the researcher’s experience? This year’s Annual Research Festival programme expanded on this theme.

Our main festival day on Monday 11 July aimed to provide a representative flavour of exciting research being developed in the College, across disciplines, methodologies and experiences; an opportunity to find out about colleagues’ work and to join in the discussions.

From Tuesday 12 to Thursday 14 July, a range of workshops, forums and presentations offered colleagues practical opportunities to explore further tools and knowledge in support of research development in their professional academic life.

The festival was open to all members of the College, the wider university community and partners, including academics, administrators, technicians and postgraduate students.

Full Programme

Report

Monday, 11 July
Presentations in Sallis Benney Theatre

Welcome and introduction
Professor David Cotterrell

Keynote
Research Now: Networks, Cultures and Conversations
Professor Dennis Doordan

Developing and Researching Networks, or: Research Takes you to the Strangest Places
Dr Annebella Pollen

The people’s pier: Regeneration, community engagement and popular culture heritage
Dr Olu Jenzen

Pecha Kucha session

An Anthropologist in Design
Professor Jo-Anne Bichard

Meaning; Media; Machines
Professor Karen Cham

Translations from Teaching to Practice
Professor Charles Holland

A 400-Year Burning Question
Professor Kelly Snook

Early Career Researcher
Our Machines
Louise Colbourne


PhD session
Chaired by Professor Darren Newbury

Shrimping & Embroidering Reasons
Gavin Fry

The Colonial Gaze and the Creation of the Other
Ekua Mcmorris

Negotiating Silence - How do we tell the stories of those whose stories have barely been told?
Jason Porter

 

Practice-based research session
Do humans need to be useful and to what end(s)?
Claudia Kappenberg

Workshops, seminars and forums
Tuesday to Thursday, 12 - 14 July
The festival this year included a wide range of workshops, seminars and forums which were planned to offer colleagues practical opportunities to explore tools and knowledge in support of research development in their professional academic life.
Report on sessions 12-14 July

Material, including the presentations and recordings of some of the sessions, is available to members of the university in the following folder: Presentations and supporting materials. You will need your university username and password to access the site. 

Image: 'Wind drawing' by Jane Fox ('Touching The World Lightly' Bullen, Fox, Lyon 2016)