Shaping Futures: Revisioning Doctorates through Arts and Design
Launch Event: New Doctoral School at University of the Arts London
Date and time
Location
University of the Arts London
272 High Holborn London WC1V 7EY United KingdomAgenda
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Gathering with refreshments & research student exhibition
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Welcome
Professor Vida Midgelow, Dean of Doctoral School
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Presentations
Professor Vida Midgelow, Dean of Doctoral School
Professor James Purnell, President & Vice Chancellor
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Keynote
Professor Christopher Smith, Executive Chair of the AHRC
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
‘Innovations in doctorate training’ panel
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
lunch & research student exhibition
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
‘Training futures’, Presentation
Dr Bob Whalley
Dr Alison Green
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
‘What is the value of an arts PhD?’, Panel
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Break and exhibition
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
‘What does this all mean for the ‘doing’ of doctorates?’
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Wrap-up
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Social mixer
About this event
- 7 hours
We are pleased to invite you to the launch event of the new Doctoral School at the University of the Arts London, an exciting endeavour that promises to reshape the landscape of arts doctoral training here in the heart of London.
‘Shaping Futures’ and our new Doctoral School seek to be catalysts, supporting the community arts, design and communication scholars - exploring how doctoral researchers can use their creativity to meet the needs of rapidly evolving creative, cultural, and digital economies.
The event asks:
· How can the future doctorate respond to our changing world?
· How might doctorates the arts, design and communication be
re-envisioned?
· How can arts and design doctorates become more diverse and inclusive?
· What is the value of an arts doctorate?
· What does it mean to place creativity and social purpose at the heart of the doctorate?
We cordially invite you to join these debates and the research student exhibition at our new location in High Holborn, London, to celebrate the opening of UAL’s new Doctoral School. Together, let's embark on this journey of knowledge, innovation, and collaboration.
We look forward to your presence and the shared excitement of inaugurating this new chapter doctoral research.
Professor Vida Midgelow, Dean of the Doctoral School
University of the Arts London
Image Credit: 'Nether Space(s)' by Kate March, UAL Doctoral Researcher