Blog post by Frances Williams, PGR policy correspondent for the Art of Devolution Conference.Director of the Whitworth, Maria Balshaw, began her keynote speech at the conference, The Art of Devolution: Culture and the North, by quoting at length from an editorial in...
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An Interview with Common Ground
We had a chat with Pauline Hadaway and Sarah Feinstein, organisers of a new research community, 'Common Ground'. Back in May 2016, Pauline and Sarah convened a one-day conference, partly funded by the NWCDTP, at the University of Manchester.In their own words, 'Common...
Interview with Jackie Haynes, artist and Kurt Schwitters PhD Studentship holder (Interviewer: Pete Kalu)
Q:What’s your PhD focused on?JH: The Kurt Schwitters Studentship, University of Cumbria, is focussed on an art practice-based exploration of selected aspects of Kurt Schwitters’ one-man art movement - Merz. It has an underlying theme of movement in both the research...
The Art of Devolution: Culture and the North Conference review
Conference review by Bob Dickinson, PGR policy correspondent for the Art of Devolution Conference.A week before the Referendum in which Britain voted by a narrow majority to leave the EU, a conference gathered in the old studios of Granada Television in Manchester....
Placement at National Football Museum: Plunging In (Pete Kalu)
I recently started a placement at National Football Museum, UK. There's no doubt about the centrality of football in any analysis of UK nationalism and constructions of national identity. The terrace chants of "two world wars and one world cup", and the more recent...
What Dick Whittington Learned At London Book Fair (Pete Kalu)
From a seasoned professional: “flip your ID Badge so AUTHOR doesn’t rub in the face of anybody.” My guess at the best badge name? INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS BUYER. Everyone loves an international rights buyer.By size of space and position in the hall, Hachettes is the...
PhD Researcher Seeks Actors / Budding Actors For Film Project (Pavel Prokopic)
This is a call-out from NWCDTP AHRC PhD researcher, Pavel Prokopic. He is looking for actors. The suggestion is not that you abandon your PhD studies and chase Hollywood stardom (tempting though that might feel at times) but rather that you may know someone who could...
Setting up a postgraduate journal – the admin and the pay-offs / Seán Hewitt
Back in the summer of 2015, I had a sudden realisation that there was no postgraduate journal for my subject area (Irish Studies). Now, although there were ones for history, languages, politics and literature (the four main components of the Irish Studies department),...
Thesis Writing / You Never Step Into The Same River Twice (Pete Kalu)
This thesis chaptering. I’ve re-arranged it umpteen times. Each time the feel is different, the emphases shift. No arrangement so far has felt remotely satisfactory. What to do? Like those portraits whose eyes follow you across the room, I see the same problem...
High Heels, Clogs Or Espadrilles? A Walk Through Your PhD Social Profile (Pete Kalu)
I recently delivered a short session (with Christina @CongoMuse Fonthes ) on social profile for NWCDTP researchers. It focused on how to set up and use wordpress, twitter and facebook accounts – their different strengths and weaknesses. There were a few questions that...
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