Widening the View – War and witnessing: Sarajevo then and now

As part of the successes of the last Research Excellence Framework, the School of Humanities and Performing Arts developed an initiative to support current Postgraduate Research students in 2019, to fund activities they may wish to undertake as part of their current research. This summer, Jayne Buchanan, University of Plymouth PhD Art History student, received… Continue reading Widening the View – War and witnessing: Sarajevo then and now

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

Ideas on sourdough bread, conferences, research and everything

By Jayne Buchanan (Plymouth University) So what does the art of making sourdough bread have to do with being a research student? As I reflect on my experiences at attending two conferences at Plymouth University and one at Leicester De Montfort University this month, it bought to mind cookery instructions on how to make a sourdough… Continue reading Ideas on sourdough bread, conferences, research and everything