Philosophy and Key Aims

Image: Shelley Simpson, Unthought (installation view), 2021. Corban Estate Arts Centre. Photo: Samuel Hartnett.

Key Research Aims

  • support and organize symposia with candidates and staff participation
  • support quality assured publication outcomes
  • increase project applications for funding to external sources
  • experiment with collaborative research practices between supervisors and candidates

Key Pedagological Aims

  • support group studio critiques
  • increase group supervisions
  • support a scholarly level of close reading and analysis of texts (reading groups)
  • support group workshops in writing an exegesis

Key University Aims

  • increase recruitment through a visible and active on-line research group (featuring PhD projects and abstracts) that gains reputation in the field
  • increase on time degree completions (through PhD festival group submissions/exhibitions)
Olivia Webb and Christopher Braddock, Skull Acoustics, 2017, collaboration, performance, sound.