Practice-based collaboration

Forum for practice-based postgraduate research students

An inaugural meeting of the forum for practice-based postgraduate research students was held on 12 February 2011 from 10.30 – 2.30 in the Ben Pimlott seminar rooms 3 &4.

The session was designed to explore the nature of a practice-based PhD and to ask questions about expectations and innovations in this fast-growing area of post-graduate study.

Presentations included:

• Introduction by Les Back, Dean of the Graduate School

• Presentation by Alexandra Antonopoulou, professional designer and PhD researcher in Design and Story-making

• Reading by Jocelyn Page, poet and PhD candidate in Creative Writing

• Headline presentation by Lawrence Upton, composer and AHRC Fellow in Creative and Performing Arts (Music) at Goldsmiths College and Benedict Taylor, violist and composer

There will be further opportunities to meet other practice-based PhD students and to participate in this new forum and shape the future of this group.