We are delighted to be taking part in the Being Human Festival 2018. This is a national festival that promotes public engagement with humanities research. The festival features hundreds of activities across the UK, highlighting the ways in which humanities can inspire and enrich our everyday lives, exploring big questions, debates and innovative ideas focused around… Continue reading 15th to 24th November: Being Human Festival 2018
Tag: David Sergeant
15th November 2017: Collaborative Research and Grants
Babbage 406 | 1pm – 5pm RESEARCH: Collaboration and Funding 1.00pm -1.15pm: James Daybell and Peter Hinds – Introduction to Collaborative Research: Micro to Macro Session 1: 1.15pm -2.45pm: 1.15pm -1.30pm: Susan Matheron – The Grant Application Process at Plymouth 1.30pm -1.45pm: David Sergeant – Applying for an AHRC Research Leadership Grant 1.45pm -2.00pm: Eduardo… Continue reading 15th November 2017: Collaborative Research and Grants
David Sergeant awarded AHRC Research Leadership Grant
Congratulations to Dr David Sergeant who has recently been awarded a 2 year AHRC Research Leadership Grant. The award is a 2 year AHRC ECR Leadership Fellowship, titled Imagining Alternatives: Utopia, Community and the Novel,1880-2015. The project explores how the novel has been used since the late nineteenth century to imagine better forms of community, and… Continue reading David Sergeant awarded AHRC Research Leadership Grant
The Pronoun Utopia by David Sergeant
By David Sergeant For a while now a lot of my research has been circling around ideas of utopia, and how it relates to prose fiction; a reading that has involved drawing on a range of fields and approaches, from narratology to environmental criticism. However, it wasn’t until I was a fair way into assembling… Continue reading The Pronoun Utopia by David Sergeant
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
Plymouth researcher, David Sergeant, publishes new collection on Doris Lessing
Dr David Sergeant, Lecturer in English at Plymouth University, has co-edited and published a chapter in the book Doris Lessing and the Forming of History (Edinburgh University Press). Co-edited with Kevin Brazil and Tom Sperlinger, the volume considers Lessing’s writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges thrown up by the… Continue reading Plymouth researcher, David Sergeant, publishes new collection on Doris Lessing
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 Seminar: Aurelien Antoine – ‘Designing a Sound Classification System’. 3.30pm on 11th October 2016 in Scott Building 105 Artist Talk: Tony Godfrey – ‘Painting in the age of Installation’. 4pm on… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University
7 July 2016: Symposium on the psychology of artistic creativity
You are welcome to attend the symposium, Psychology of Artistic Creativity, taking place on Thursday 7th July from 9:30am – 12:45pm as part of the Cognition Institute Conference at Plymouth University. It is free to attend. The session will feature talks from: Jon May (Plymouth University) – The psychology of artistic creativity David Sargeant (Plymouth University) – Thinking through fiction Emma Redding… Continue reading 7 July 2016: Symposium on the psychology of artistic creativity
24 March 2016: “Thinking through Space in Fiction” seminar
You are welcome to attend the following talk by Dr David Sergeant (Lecturer in English) on “Thinking through Space in Fiction” Thursday 24 March 2016 at 4.30pm in the seminar room on floor 3 of the Link Building, Plymouth University (as part of the CogNovo What’s Up series) Narrative is, by its very nature, temporal,… Continue reading 24 March 2016: “Thinking through Space in Fiction” seminar
Creative Writing Showcase Research Seminar: 24 February 2016
You are welcome to attend the following English & Creative Writing Staff Research Session. Feel free to bring friends, students and well-behaved pets. Wednesday 24 February, 3.30 – 5.30 pm in Babbage BGB405. This Creative Writing roundtable event will showcase the department’s best recent work by Prof Anthony Caleshu Dr Miriam Darlington Dr Lucy Durneen Dr David Sergeant Dr… Continue reading Creative Writing Showcase Research Seminar: 24 February 2016