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Data4Devolution: Festival in My House – by Yatie Aziz
This post part of a series by DevoCulture in the North PGR Policy Correspondents. DevoCulture in the North aims to provide a critical space for civic, cultural and academic partners. It allows them to discuss plans and ambitions for arts and culture in times of...
New Modes of Art Writing 2 – Call for abstracts
New Modes of Art Writing 2: Intersections of the Critical and the Creative VoiceFriday 10th November 2017Is there a space where creating and experiencing art meets and converges with writing? If so, what is this space? And how might we theorize it? How can we use...
Announcing new Transformation North West Studentships
The NWCDTP is pleased to announce a new round of funding for September 2017 entry –Transformation North West Studentships – Deadline 3rd July 2017Transformation NW is a fully-funded doctoral training programme that applies design and creative techniques to maximise...
Devoculture Blog – Observation on Manchester by Bob Dickinson
This post is the first in a series by DevoCulture in the North PGR Policy Correspondents. DevoCulture in the North aims to provide a critical space for civic, cultural and academic partners. It allows them to discuss plans and ambitions for arts and culture in times...
NWCDTP Residential Writing Retreat – 12/13 July 2017
Places are available at the AHRC North West Consortium DTP residential writing retreat in July 2017 at the Gladstone's Library.Application form and guidance notes: http://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=32815The retreat will take place over two days in...
NWCDTP Annual Conference – Call for Papers & Performances
The AHRC North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership is delighted to announce that this year’s postgraduate conference, Exploring Identity: Between Being and Belonging, will be hosted by The University of Liverpool and FACT on Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th...
Student-Led Group Residency ‘Practice and Research in Action’
26th-30th June 2017 at the Sidney Nolan Trust, PowysFunded by Arts and Humanities Research Council, North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership.Practice-based research is a growing methodology within arts and humanities. It is though relatively young and there...
WOMEN ON THE VERGE – 16th June 2017- Call for Papers
WOMEN ON THE VERGETransformations in Literature, Gender and SocietyThe University of Manchester, 16th June 2017We are proud to announce Women on the Verge: Transformations in Literature, Gender and Society, the first of a planned series of one-day conferences aimed at...
Be Two Inches Taller: Collaborations (By Pete Kalu)
Some immediately spring to mind: Beyonce & Jay Z, Tosh & Marley, Kahlo & Rivera, McFadden & Whitehead, Westwood and McClaren, Laurel & Hardy…I love hooking up with other artists to try things. The effort of mutual attunement. The challenge that...
Art Writing and New Media Outlets in the North – Registration now open
New NWCDTP Event - 18th May 2017Although the academic thesis or journal is seen as the main output of writing for PhD students, there is a wealth of opportunity in arts journalism to explore different modes of writing and feed academic research into the arts ecology....