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My summer internship at Hollywood Universal Pictures – by James Moffatt
My recent Researcher-Led placement in Los Angeles was a profound experience that has had significant impact on my development as an industry practitioner in film music composition and audio post-production as well as my research and ongoing PhD. The placement...
My experience documenting the low brass-wind collection at the Grassi Museum – by Jack Adler-McKean
Music instrument museums operate a difficult balancing act. Like any other historical collection, they have a responsibility to preserve the past in a manner that is relevant for the present, and also able to inform the future. However, what is contained within are...
Queering Plas Newydd historic house through textile art – by Sarah-Joy Ford
For my Researcher-Led placement project, I partnered with Plas Newydd Historic House and Gardens to undertake an artist residency, where I would produce new artworks for a site-specific installation. The exhibition was the first of its kind to take place inside the...
My placement experience at an independent publishing house – by Rory Cook
I recently completed a six-month part time placement through the NWCDTP Researcher-Led Placement Scheme, working at Prototype Publishing, an independent publishing house working with fiction and poetry through an interdisciplinary approach. This was an excellent...
Consultation for a new DTP Sustainability Toolkit to start in March
The climate emergency is the most important issue facing us today. Without fast, thorough, and structural change we will not be able to avert catastrophe. This crisis affects all of us. For those working in the Arts & Humanities, how might we respond? What kind of...
How to… Organise a Conference (Online): A Dozen ‘Dos’ and ‘Don’ts’
This week’s blog post comes courtesy of Naomi Adams, one of the organisers of our last NWCDTP conference, Research, Resilience, Resurgence. Here she writes about her experience of organising an online conference and gives few tips of dos and don'ts on successful...
A new podcast project to showcase NWCDTP research
NWCDTP Alumna Dr Nia Davies explores the insights and questions raised by a collaborative project with the British School at Rome as part of the 2021 Collaboration Labs programme that has made a fine arts archive digitally accessible to the public for the first time....
British Library Placement Scheme: Our PhD researcher Jemima Paine shares her experience.
NWCDTP-funded researcher Jemima Hodgkinson is completing her PhD at the University of Liverpool. Her research compares black-edited periodicals published in New York and Paris during the interwar period, 1919-1932. In this piece she reports about her placement...
Antony Hall’s art residency at Gallery Oldham
NWCDTP-funded researcher Tony Hall talks about his artistic residency at Gallery Oldham, where he explored the secret life of moss to raise awareness of the unseen nature in the local environment and to discuss climate change. During my three month placement...
Can we research Rome and art history without setting foot in the city or touching the contents of the archive?
NWCDTP Alumna Dr Nia Davies explores the insights and questions raised by a collaborative project with the British School at Rome as part of the 2021 Collaboration Labs programme that has made a fine arts archive digitally accessible to the public for the first time....