22 November 2016: Workshop on Using Social Media to Promote Your Research

22nd November at 11am in Babbage Building, BGB 415 Social Media Manger, Russ Taylor, will be holding a workshop for Arts and Humanities post graduate students and staff on how to promote your research on social media. This session will include an overview of the main social media accounts (including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram), the tools… Continue reading 22 November 2016: Workshop on Using Social Media to Promote Your Research

Arts & Humanities research events this week at Plymouth University

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.  Artist talk by Lynn Lu on “Empathy and the Collective Body in Performance Art”. 4pm on 8th November 2016 in Jill Craigie Lecture Theatre, Roland Levinsky Building. Open to the Public. Presidential… Continue reading Arts & Humanities research events this week at Plymouth University

Professor Eduardo Miranda shortlisted for British Composer Award

The Paramusical Ensemble

A pioneering research project which enabled four people living with severe disability to ‘control’ a string quartet has earned its creator a prestigious award nomination. Professor Eduardo Miranda, Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) at the University of Plymouth, has been shortlisted in the Community or Educational Project category of the… Continue reading Professor Eduardo Miranda shortlisted for British Composer Award

1 December 2016: Workshop with Dr Sam Willis – Working with TV and Media

The Arts Institute and Graduate School at Plymouth University are delighted to invite postgraduate research students and staff at the University to a TV and Media workshop by historian, archaeologist and broadcaster Dr Sam Willis. In this workshop, Sam will look at the ways in which researchers work with TV and the media. The workshop will take place on… Continue reading 1 December 2016: Workshop with Dr Sam Willis – Working with TV and Media

23 November 2016: How to Develop a Slow Thinking Lab for Connecting People

Slow Thinking Lab, University of Lapland

‘Slow Thinking Lab for Connecting People’ a presentation by Prof Jaana Erkkilä-Hill (University of Lapland) 10am on 23rd November 2016 in Rolle 207, Plymouth University The idea of the Slow Thinking Lab emerged from the frustration that is felt all over the academic world: “produce more in a shorter period of time”. The same phenomena… Continue reading 23 November 2016: How to Develop a Slow Thinking Lab for Connecting People

Arts & Humanities research events this week at Plymouth University

The following arts & humanities research events are taking place this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. At Plymouth University: MIA (Moving Image Arts) Seminar: 4pm on 1st November 2016 in Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building (RLB) Artist Talk Series: Abigail Reynolds (“Folding Time and Space”). 4pm on 1st November in RLB… Continue reading Arts & Humanities research events this week at Plymouth University

New landscape photography series edited by Prof Liz Wells

© Jem Southam 2016

Professor Liz Wells, professor in photographic culture at Plymouth University, has been commissioned by Bloomsbury Publishing to edit a new series of books focusing on landscape photography. This ground breaking breaking series will foster a contemporary investigation into photographic methodologies and practices relating to the inter-relation of land, landscape aesthetics, place, culture and environment, historically and now.… Continue reading New landscape photography series edited by Prof Liz Wells

Plymouth University at International Inclusive Dance Symposium in Antwerp

Plymouth University researcher Adam Benjamin, Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, travelled to Antwerp, Belgium with eleven Plymouth students and graduates to take part in the LAB International Symposium of Inclusive Dance and Re-thinking Bodies at the Royal Conservatoire of Dance from 19-21 October 2016. LAB is an inclusive dance research project, and Adam is a contributor at… Continue reading Plymouth University at International Inclusive Dance Symposium in Antwerp

Arts & Humanities research events this week at Plymouth University

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. ICCMR (Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research) Seminar by Micheal McLoughlin: ‘Modelling the Evolution of Humpback Whale Songs’. 12.30 on 25th October 2016 in Babbage (BGB) 404 Design Knowledge Seminar at 1.30pm… Continue reading Arts & Humanities research events this week at Plymouth University

2 November 2016: Research Development Workshop – REF Strategy and Humanities

2nd November at 1.30pm in Babbage 405, Plymouth University Professor Martin Halliwell, University of Leicester, will be leading the first of the Art Institute’s Research Development workshops this year at Plymouth University. Professor Halliwell is the current chair of the English Association, a recent chair of the British Association for American Studies and the incoming… Continue reading 2 November 2016: Research Development Workshop – REF Strategy and Humanities