14th September 2017: Research Leadership in the Arts and Humanities

14th September 2017 | Babbage 406 | 9am-3pm Research leadership is an increasingly important issue for humanities academics. Being a leader can mean actively shaping your field and your institution, growing grant income, developing new projects and research teams, and supporting the research aspirations of colleagues. This day-long workshop covers practical definitions of research leadership,… Continue reading 14th September 2017: Research Leadership in the Arts and Humanities

21st April 2017: Heritage Research Symposium

13.30-17.00, Room 108, Mast House The Arts Institute and School of Humanities and Performing Arts will be hosting a symposium around the theme of Heritage Research Programme 13.00-13.30: REF and Research Update (James Daybell) 13.30-13.45: Introduction and overview of ‘Cornerstone Heritage’ (James Daybell, History and Daniel Maudlin, History) 13.45-14.45: Session 1 Diana Walters (International Museums… Continue reading 21st April 2017: Heritage Research Symposium

Arts and Humanities research events this week at the University of Plymouth

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 14th March, 2-4pm in Rolle Building room 204 – Impact Case Study workshop with Dr Rebecca Sullivan (CEO of the HIstorical Association and REF 2014 panellist), hosted by the Arts Institute.… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this week at the University of Plymouth

From digital to post-digital memory

On The Arts Institute Digital Memory Symposium: Monday, 16th January 2017 By Hannah Drayson and James Sweeting The University of Plymouth’s Art Institute’s first one-day research symposium brought together researchers from across the Faculty of Arts & Humanities to respond to the theme of Digital Memory.  It aimed to explore how the ‘turn to the material’ across… Continue reading From digital to post-digital memory

Feature: “Rules to (perhaps) live by: Samuel Richardson and 18th century educational writing”

Samuel Richardson, by Joseph Highmore (died 1780)

BY BONNIE LATIMER One of the funniest texts of the mid-eighteenth century is Jane Collier’s acerbic An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (1753). Collier sardonically imagines that most people’s true goal in life is ‘to plague all their acquaintance’. She helpfully lays down rules for doing so, encompassing masterpieces of passive aggression—for example,… Continue reading Feature: “Rules to (perhaps) live by: Samuel Richardson and 18th century educational writing”