Education Programme

Public Lecture Course

The Centre’s Public Lecture Course in autumn 2018 was titled The Artist and the Garden, and featured contributions from Christopher Woodward, Stephen Daniels, Martin Postle, Joy Sleeman, Nicholas Alfrey and Todd Longstaffe-Gowen. In spring 2019 the course was titled Photography and its Histories and was convened by Sean Robert Willcock, and featured lectures by Patrizia di Bello, Juliet Hacking, Liz Wells and the photographer Simon Norfolk.

Educational Networks: Doctoral Researchers Network (DRN)

The Doctoral Researchers Network continued to provide a forum for doctoral students to come together to network and to develop professional and scholarly skills. The network increased its activities to include trips to regional museums and special curated tours of exhibitions, with a total of eleven events over the course of the academic year. The DRN calendar culminated in a Summer Symposium in May, where members had the opportunity to present works in progress and new ideas. This will become a permanent feature of the annual DRN calendar. The convenors for the 2018–2019 academic year were Katherine Gazzard and Rosie Ram.

Educational Networks: Early Career Researchers (ECR) Network

The 2018–2019 academic year was the first in which the Early Career Researchers network operated under the umbrella of the Paul Mellon Centre’s Education programme. The network held an exciting array of events that included workshops on publishing PhD research, CVs, and the Research Excellence Framework. The convenors for the 2018–2019 academic year were Emily Burns and Thomas Hughes.