RNUAL GUIDE 2013/14 Research Network University of the Arts London
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Research Management and Administration The University of the Arts London 5th Floor Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, London N1C 4AA T: 020 7514 9389 E: researchdegrees@arts.ac.uk W: arts.ac.uk/research @ResearchUAL facebook.com/UALResearch youtube.com/artslondonresearch issuu.com/ualresearch
The information in the RNUAL Guide is corect at the 2 time of going to print
Contents Introduction 5 Communications and Email 6 RNUAL Online 7 Overview of RNUAL Programme 2013-14 9 UAL Colleges, Centres, Units and Research Groups
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Section 1: RNUAL programmes 13 1.1 RNUAL Blocks 1-3 14 1.2 RNUAL Workshops 17 1.2.1 Basic Research Skills (1st year course) 17 1.2.2 Developing Your Research Skills to the Next Stage (2nd – 3rd year course) 19 1.2.3 Workshops on Specific Topics 20 1.2.4 Academic Writing Skills and other Skills towards Completion (2nd - 5th year course) 20 1.2.5 College Based Research Seminars and Activities 22 1.2.6 Centre-Based Research Training Seminars 24 1.3 Useful Books on Research Skills and Writing a PhD 25 1.4 Proof Reading offered by the Language Centre 34 1.5 Support for Research Students with Disabilities 35 Section 2: Research Training across the University 38 2.1 The Language Section 39 2.1.1 English Language Courses 39 2.1.2 Modern Language Learning at UAL’s Language Centre 39 2.2 CLTAD Developing Educational Practice for Associate Lecturers and Graduate Teaching Assistants 40 2.3 London Short Courses 41 2.4 Research Centres at UAL 43 2.5 Other Centres linking Research and Enterprise at UAL 52 Section 3: Research Student Facilities 62 3.1 3.2
Research Degree Student Facilities at the Colleges Other Personal and Professional Development Opportunities
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Section 4: The Researchers Guide to Library and Information Services
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4.1 Information Services: Library at University of the Arts London 68 4.2 Using the University’s Libraries 70 4 3 SCONUL Access 73 4.4 Copyright 73 Appendices 75 Appendix A: Libraries within UAL 76 Appendix B: Archives and Special Collections at UAL 78 Appendix C:
Library Services: IT, Reprographic and Production Facilities
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Appendix D: Appendix E: Appendix F:
Electronic Resources for Research at UAL
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Key Libraries and Archives within the UK
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Library Services Projects
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Appendix G:
Other useful Bibliographic Databases – British Library
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Introduction This handbook is a guide to courses and opportunities available to all research degree students at the University of the Arts, London. It incorporates The Researcher’s Guide to Library and Information Services at UAL. The Research Network of the University of the Arts London (RNUAL) is the platform for all activities open to UAL MPhil/PhD students and is organised on a cross-college basis.. RNUAL courses are also open to students in partner colleges whose research degrees are validated through the UAL Research Degrees Regulations: Arts University Bournemouth; University of Falmouth, and Norwich University of Art. The three compulsory intensive blocks of RNUAL, organised in September, February and June, are mandatory for all first year research degree students whether they are living/working in London or not. This is the only mandatory element of research training. Please note that all students must have 100% attendance at each of the blocks. You should contact the Research Student section of Research Management and Administration (RMA) if in exceptional circumstances this is likely to be problematic for you and alternate arrangements may be made on a case by case basis with the agreement of the Director of Doctoral Programmes. There are two student conferences each year as part of the compulsory RNUAL intensive weeks. This is an important opportunity to hear the work of other research students at UAL and to have the opportunity to ask questions about their work. Second year full-time students and third year part-time students will be asked to give a 20 minute presentation of a particular aspect their research in February 2014. First year students will be asked to give a 15 minute paper presenting the main thrust of their research project in June 2014. The February presentations are linked to confirmation stage interviews. Students who are presenting in February 2014 as part of their confirmation, regardless of mode of study, must attend the full day of their scheduled presentation. All other courses listed here are optional. Research degree students may attend any of the events included here and in any year. However, some courses specify terms and conditions for attendance. Please observe these. Any changes to the programmes or additional information about other courses open to research students will be added to the RNUAL Moodle site and sent by email to the research students email list. Director of Doctoral Programmes: Professor Helen Thomas For enquiries about RNUAL email researchdegrees@arts.ac.uk
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For enquiries about research student matters Research Student section of the Research Management and Administration Department: Research Student section, Research Management and Administration, University of the Arts London, 5th floor, The Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, King’s Cross, London N1C 4AA or researchdegrees@arts.ac.uk Communications and Email Research Degree students must keep UAL informed of any changes to their home address or contact details. If you change your contact details, always inform the Research Student Section via researchdegrees@arts.ac.uk At enrolment you will be provided with a University email and password as well as a student ID card. Although you may already have an email of your own, you should maintain your University email and password, either as a separate account or by using the forwarding service provided to your own email account. Please note that your University student email address is the only email address we will use when communicating with you Your University user name and password will allow you to access, from anywhere in the world:• • • • •
Moodle, the university’s online learning environment. WEBMAIL: Office OUTLOOK. The UAL PHONE BOOK, to contact any staff or students. YOUR LIBRARY ACCOUNT and all electronic resources provided by their e-library. And ACCESS to other services at UAL.
Links to all these pages are available at my.arts.ac.uk/ Students will receive postings of any changes and additional opportunities for research training via email through the research students email list [research-students@lists.arts. ac.uk] which uses students’ University email addresses only. This list is moderated by the Research Student section of RMA, principally to stop spam. Around 4-8 postings a week are sent about seminars, conferences and research events, generally within the University. Students and staff are welcome to mail information about research events they consider relevant to researchdegrees@arts.ac.uk for inclusion in the mailings via the research student list.
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PLEASE MAINTAIN YOUR UNIVERSITY EMAIL, USERNAME AND PASSWORD. YOUR ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC INFORMATION, EVENTS AND FACILITIES AT UAL IS PROVIDED THROUGH THESE. UAL Passwords Please be advised that UAL passwords remain valid for 18 weeks. You must change your password when prompted. Your password remains valid for your webmail until you change it but your access to other UAL log-in facilities online will be denied – after 3 grace log-ins – when the password is not updated. If you are not on a UAL networked computer, you can update your password through opening your WEBMAIL page. Go to OPTIONS, (this is visible on the top right of the page), go to CHANGE PASSWORD, retype a new password and save it. The new password will become active when you login again. If you have problems resetting your password or forget your password, you must contact the IT service desk (020 7514 9898 or Servicedesk@arts.ac.uk). The RMA research administrators cannot help you do this. Please note: the UAL OUTLOOK system has two versions online: one full, the other “light”. Some browsers, Firefox, Safari and versions of Internet Explorer (other than v.6.00 or over) will only display “light” versions of this programme. MAC users will only be able to access “light” versions of this programme. The option to switch between versions can be found in a tick box on the log-in page above username/password, as you enter WEBMAIL. Email forwarding If you wish to redirect University email to a home email address and you are not using a UAL networked computer, open your WEBMAIL, then open OPTIONS and then RULES. On this page, open the menu choice ‘NEW RULE’, choose ‘Create a new rule for arriving messages’. In the next window, select ‘Redirect’, then click on ‘people or distribution lists’ and type in the email you wish to redirect your messages to at the bottom of the dialog box. Please note: if you cannot see the RULES choice on the menu of the OPTIONS page, you are only using a “light” version of this programme. You must either change the browser you are using, use a different computer (PC, not MAC) or come into the University and use one of its PCs to set up the redirect on your email Moodle - RNUAL Virtual Learning Environment Please visit the RNUAL Moodle site on a regular basis to obtain up-to-date information on RNUAL workshops and access to other relevant research study tools. The user name and password for Moodle are the same as those used to access your UAL email
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account - login is on the following webpage - http://moodle.arts.ac.uk/ The Moodle site contains: • Announcements, updates and invitations to upcoming RNUAL sessions and workshops • Presentations, handouts, reading lists and recordings (audio and where possible video) of RNUAL sessions in the current year • A reference and citation guide • Three videos called ‘The Good VIVA Guide’, ‘The Good Presentation Guide’ and ‘The Good Doctorate Guide’ (all Angel Productions, with Birkbeck College) • Epigeum Course - Research Methods in the Arts and Humanities This self-directed online course is full of information, tips and guidance on research and follows the work of several researchers as they develop their studies. • Epigeum Course - Research Methods in the Literature Review This self-directed online course is full of information, tips and guidance on how to construct a literature review and discusses what a literature review is in the context of a research degree. • Information about where to look for jobs and opportunities • All the forms in a downloadable format that you will need at different stages of your research degree • Copies of the RNUAL Guide and Research Degree Students Handbook and Regulations • Ethics Guidelines and links • Contact information for the Research Management and Administration staff • Links to external websites and online resources that may be of use to you in your studies The RNUAL Moodle site has AV and online chat tools available through the RNUAL site for online supervisions or to initiate debates between students and staff. All students are welcome to use these. For an introduction to Moodle and other resources/guides please visit the above Moodle login webpage For Moodle support please email - elearning-support@arts.ac.uk
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Overview of RNUAL Programme 2013-2014 Students are advised to consider with their supervisors which optional activities within RNUAL would be appropriate to them. It is important to note that the optional programme in RNUAL is not envisaged as a ‘taught’ course, it is offered as a highly flexible training programme and students should negotiate their own use of it in relation to their field of study and their training needs. RNUAL mostly offers generic and transferrable skills training along with some subject specific training, which complements the work which students undergo with their subject specific supervisory team and in their college. The programme seeks to develop ‘effective researchers’ who can use their skills in a variety of ways to expand their employment opportunities and contribute to their personal development. Personal and Professional Development Planning (PPDP) is a key element of your research degree programme at UAL. Details of personal development planning, aims and objectives are given in the UAL Research Student’s Handbook and a review of each person’s skills and goals should run alongside consideration of courses or professional development opportunities taken. Your professional plans and your research project should be discussed with your supervisors and your participation in the RNUAL optional programme should be planned within the context of progressing both your research and professional life as a whole. All first year students must undertake the three intensive weeks of RNUAL offered in their first year. Beyond this, as a general guideline, we advise full-time students to not commit themselves to more than half a day a week to our RNUAL courses and part-time students not to more than half a day every second week across the year. This guideline is to ensure that sufficient time is spent working on the research project itself. Training needs will vary over the course of a research degree and students are asked to think carefully about this when planning the use of their time. It is envisaged that as your research degree progresses into its 3rd year full-time or 5th year part-time, your involvement in formal activities in RNUAL will decline and your engagement with external professional networks and communities relevant to your research will increase as you seek to present your research findings externally. Research training in the context of research degree programmes does not just involve attendance at the formal programmes offered in RNUAL, it also consists of the many other informal activities in which you are likely or expected to become involved: i.e. attending, participating or even organising conferences, scholarly seminars; organizing or participating in exhibitions; involvement in other professional activities for arts organizations, networks, or other external research groups, courses and seminars. When planning your activities, please consider these commitments as part of your involvement in research training. UAL’s Research Centres, Research Hubs and Clusters all organize events, seminars and projects. Information about these is available on the research websites of the colleges and www.arts.ac.uk/research. Information about forthcoming events throughout
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the year will be forwarded by email to the research-students list. As research degrees place emphasis on independent learning, students are also encouraged to organize events, seminars, reading groups and symposia. These events and activities can also be advertised and promoted to all students via the research-students list. There are a large number of MA courses across UAL. Some of the MA courses have agreed to let PhD students attend selected parts of their visiting lecture or seminar series. Students must contact the named course leader of the MA and ask to attend. At Induction and in their annual report meetings, all students will be asked by their supervisors to consider their training needs. Students are advised to consult with their supervisors and undertake their own skills audit with a view to developing a training plan and a programme of attendance for the many courses and options offered in this handbook, only some of which may be useful or appropriate to their chosen field of research. This is an important discussion for your first supervision meeting each year. Your Director of Studies is responsible for filling in a training needs analysis form (for first years) and returning copies to the Research Student section of the RMA Office at The Granary Building. Every student’s annual report is also a time to reflect on training needed and undertaken. UAL Colleges, Centres and Research Groups The University is made up of 6 distinctive and distinguished Colleges: Camberwell College of Arts (CCA) Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design (CSM) Chelsea College of Art and Design (CCAD) London College of Communication (LCC) London College of Fashion (LCF) Wimbledon College of Art (WCA) Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges work closely together as part of a three-college partnership to form CCW within the University of the Arts London. Located within London, the Colleges are at the heart of their respective communities. Drawing on and contributing to the local culture, they foster closely-knit and welcoming environments in which to study, supported by all the resources of the larger University and the wider arts community. The Colleges offer the University’s 20,000 students a diverse range of courses at all levels from foundation and undergraduate to postgraduate and research. The University’s 1,228 teaching staff, as active professional artists, practitioners, designers, critics and theorists, lead the way on creative and experimental practice alongside historical and theoretical analysis. The combination of a varied student group, cutting-edge research and highly-experienced staff creates a unique, multifaceted learning experience for students at the University.
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Research Centres and Groups Research Centres and Networks operate across the University, providing a focus for excellent research in identified areas of strength. They support groups of researchers in a range of activities that extend beyond the remit of individual projects, creating an environment where debate can flourish, providing a sound foundation for future work. Research Centres CRiSAP: Centre for Creative Research into Sound Art Practice CSF: Centre for Sustainable Fashion DAC: Design Against Crime Ligatus: Bookbinding History, Archiving Conservation and Digitisation PARC: Photography and the Archive Research Centre TFRC: Textile Futures Research Centre TrAIN: Transnational Art, Identity and Nation Research Groups Hybrid Practices Critical Practice Subjectivity and Feminisms Textile Environmental Design (TED) Fine Art Digital Environment Art: Public Realm and Archive Art: Science and Technology Artist: Academy and Archive Exhibitions: Histories, Practices Fashion: History, Theory, Curation and Film Identity, in, and through, the Built Environment
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Image: Performance, Object Moving Image: Practice, criticism, discourse Practices of Writing and Publishing Publishing: Modern and Contemporary Practice Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Socially Responsive Design and Innovation
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Section 1:
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Section 1: RNUAL Programmes 1.1 RNUAL Blocks 1-3 The University of the Arts London is primarily concerned with higher education in the fields of arts, communication and design. The focus for our research students lies in practice and theory within that field, and includes science and technology, business studies and the humanities. A wide range of UAL staff and external guest speakers lead different sessions in the taught RNUAL courses. For enquiries, contact Research Student section staff in the UAL Research Management and Administration Department: researchdegrees@arts.ac.uk RNUAL Block 1: 23– 27 September 2013 Venue: LCF John Princes Street Map: http://www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/about/locations/johnprincesstreet/ There will be a drinks reception on Monday 23 September in the RHS Terrace from 16:30 – 18:30
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Monday 23/09/2013
09.45 -11.15 RHS Centre
11.30 – 13.00 RHS Centre
13.45 – 14.45 RHS East
15.15 – 16.30 RHS East
Welcome introduction to RNUAL and Introductions – Professor Helen Thomas (RMA)
Getting started on your research project: Professor Helen Thomas (RMA)
Library Research Skills: Library and Learning Resources – Leo Clarey & Sarah Mahurter
Three students, past and present will present their PhDs and their experiences of studying for a PhD at UAL, followed by Q&A
Welcome – Dr Philip Code of Practice for Broadhead (Deputy Vice Students and Supervisors Chancellor – Academic) and Registration process: Professor Helen Thomas Welcome – RMA (RMA) Students + Communications Teams Research Topics: Group Discussion Welcome – Student Services
15.30 registered student, Katie Elliot (CCW Student) 15.45 confirmed student, Mark Wright (LCC Student) 16.00 completed student Robert Luzar (CSM Student) Chair: Professor Helen Thomas (RMA) Followed by drinks reception
Tuesday 24/09/2013
10.00 – 13.00 RHS Centre
10.00 – 13.00 JPS 607
13.45 – 16.45 RHS Centre
13.45 – 16.45 JPS 607
Group 1: Student Workshop: the secrets of a successful research degree: Professor John Wakeford
Group 2: Student Workshop: Part 1 Developing academic practice - Dr Hilaire Graham + Part 2 The different stages of the research degree Professor Helen Thomas
Group 2: Student Workshop: the secrets of a successful research degree: Professor John Wakeford
Group 1: Student Workshop: Part 1 Developing academic practice - Dr Hilaire Graham + Part 2 The different stages of the research degree Professor Helen Thomas
Wednesday 25/09/2013
Thursday 26/09/2013
Friday 27/09/2013
College Induction Day Programme and time table to be distributed by the Colleges 10.00 – 13:00 RHS Centre
10:00 – 13:00 JPS 511
13:45 – 16:45 RHS Centre and JPS 511
Group 1: The literature is yours – but how do you use it? – Professor Vernon Trafford
Group 2: The Road through Research: reflection on learning as an integral part of doctoral study – Dr Alison James
Group 1 & Group 2 Swap rooms
10.00 – 11.15
11.45 – 13.00
13.45 – 15.00
Film: materiality of time and the ‘eternal present’: Professor William Raban (LCC)
Looking: the experience of seeing, a scenographic perspective: Professor Jane Collins (CCW)
Design research Collaborative methodologies: Artistic Practice – Professor Lorraine Gam- David Cross man (CSM)
15.30 -16.45
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RNUAL Block 2: 10 - 14 February 2014 Venue: TBC, which will be communicated via mailing list and on Moodle. February 10, 11, 13 and 14 will comprise 2nd year full-time and 3rd year part-time student confirmation presentations, Wednesday 12th February will be a day of lecture presentations
Monday 10/02/2014
Tuesday 11/02/2014
9.00 - 13.00
14.00 - 17.00
17.00 -18.00
2nd year/ 3rd year student confirmation presentations
2nd year/ 3rd year student confirmation presentations
9.00 - 13.00
14.00 - 17.00
2nd year/ 3rd year student confirmation presentations
2nd year/ 3rd year student confirmation presentations
17.00 - 18.00
9.00 - 17.00 Wednesday 12/02/2014
Thursday 13/02/2014
Friday 14/02/2014
17.00 - 18.00
Day of lecture presentations and discussion with UAL and guest speakers on: e-resources; UAL Online; online thesis; intellectual property; enterprise and employability; theory/methods lectures on a range of topics* 9.00 - 13.00
14.00 - 17.00
2nd year/ 3rd year student confirmation presentations
2nd year/ 3rd year student confirmation presentations
9.00 - 13.00
14.00 - 17.00
17.00 - 18.00
2nd year/ 3rd year student confirmation presentations
2nd year/ 3rd year student confirmation presentations
Drinks Reception
*Please note that the lecture topics on Wednesday 12 February may be subject to change RNUAL Block 3: Venue: 23/06/2014 9.00 - 17.00
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23 to 27 June 2014 TBC, which will be communicated via mailing list and on Moodle 24/06/2014
25/06/2014
26/06/2014
27/06/2014
1st Year Presentations and Employment Opportunities Sessions
1.2 RNUAL Workshops The RNUAL workshops are run on Wednesdays throughout the year, almost all from 11:00-12:30, changes to this will be communicated via mailing list and posted on Moodle, along with the workshop venue. Some sessions are longer in length and may be timed differently and therefore, it is important to check the times of sessions. Students may attend any or all seminars/workshops in each block. The Basic Research Skills workshops aimed at supporting first year research students, although second or third year students also attend depending on the methods they wish to use for their project; the Developing your Skills to the Next Stage workshops are aimed at preparing students for confirmation, although a number of first year students also regularly attend these sessions. The Academic Writing /Completion Skills workshops are aimed at second-fifth year students, but all students are welcome to attend. Although we try to hold as many sessions as possible in one site, this is not always feasible over the course of the year and therefore, it is important to note the venues for each session. 1.2.1 Basic Research Skills (1st year course) Basic Research Skills is aimed at supporting first year students embarking on their research project, writing your application for registration, considering any ethical issues involved in the research and beginning to think through the use of research methods/ techniques. It is divided into two sub-sections; Getting started on your research and Research methods/ design. Getting started is designed to work through some strategies and methods for organizing and progressing your research towards registration; Research methods/design workshops offer a range of approaches and techniques as research tools. Some of these are broadly social science based, while others are more specific to practice based research. However, the sessions are open to all students and continuing students often like to take advantage of the methods workshops in particular. Getting started on your Research 9 October 2013 – How to develop your proposal for registration (11.00 – 12.30) There are two sessions on developing your proposal (registration form), both of which are designed to be interactive. Using existing funded research projects as examples, this first workshop looks at headings that have to be considered to develop the Application for Registration. Venue: TBC. Professor Helen Thomas
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16 October 2013 – Fine-tuning your Application for Registration proposal (11.00 – 12.30) The second workshop on the Application for Registration centres on discussing and working through in small groups, the students’ individual proposals. Venue: TBC. James Swinson 23 October 2013 - Research ethics (11.00 – 12.30) Knowledge and awareness of research ethics are essential to the researcher when developing a research project. The students will work through a range of ethical issues that arise in conducting research and the assessment of potential risks to participants (and researcher) involved in research. Venue: TBC. Professor Paul Ekblom 30 October 2013 – Academic writing skills (11.00 – 12.30) This workshop is a brief introduction to forms of academic writing. It will consider theoretical approaches and academic writing in terms of how to deal with theory in academic writing whilst introducing them to several philosophical perspectives. Venue: TBC. Dr Nicola Foster Research Methods/Design 6 November 2013 – Quantitative and qualitative methods (11.00 – 12.30) This workshop explores quantitative and qualitative methods that are commonly used in research projects; considers the different kinds of information they yield and how to understand which methods are best for your project. Venue: TBC. Dr Caroline Gardiner 13 November 2013 – Questionnaire and interview design (11.00 – 12.30) This session will look at when and how to use a questionnaire, a semi-structured or an open-ended interview for your research. Providing examples from questionnaires and interview schedules developed for specific funded projects, this hands-on session will encourage first attempts at constructing and testing a draft questionnaire or interview schedule. Venue: TBC. Dr Caroline Gardiner 20 November 2013– Interpreting quantitative and qualitative research (11.00 – 12.30) This seminar will consider how research data from qualitative and quantitative research can be used, referring to case studies. Venue: TBC. Dr Caroline Gardiner
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27 November 2013 – Oral history research in practice (10.30 – 13.00) This practical workshop delves into oral history research and its uses in art and design research. Venue: TBC. Dr Linda Sandino 4 December 2013 - Good academic practice: how and when to quote (11.00 – 12.30) This workshop will cover how and where to quote, plagiarism awareness and how to compile a bibliography in a consistent style. Venue: TBC. Library and Learning Resources/ Professor Helen Thomas Summer Term RNUAL Sessions for First Year Students 28 May 2014 - Life: post-PhD (11.00-13.00) A career-based workshop on opportunities after your PhD and how to present your skills effectively on your CV. First year students and continuing students can also attend this session as it is important for thinking through your Personal Development Plan. Venue: TBC. 4 June 2014 – A workshop about how to make a presentation from your research (11.00 - 12.30) This session prepares first year students for the Block 3 presentations in June. It is facilitated by a professional voice coach, Anne Walsh, formerly of the Drama Centre. Anne works with students to assist them to develop their voice, gesture and posture when presenting their work. It is a confidence building workshop which is also great fun to do. Venue: HH309 Anne Walsh 1.2.2 Developing your Research Skills to the Next Stage (2nd – 3rd year course) This workshop block of 5 sessions aims to prepare 2nd year full-time and 3rd year part-time students for the confirmation stage and to also take you beyond that phase of their degree programme. The first 3 sessions will address how to organize and assemble the materials that are required for the confirmation, prepare for the confirmation interview and the presentation at RNUAL Block 2. The 4th session focuses on how to present your work in journals and other publications for a wider audience. There is also a workshop dedicated to assist you to develop your presentation skills to a large audience, in the week prior to the RNUAL Block 2 Student Symposium (10-14 February 2014) at which all confirming students give a presentation on their project as part of the Confirmation process. As with the previous RNUAL workshops, different speakers, internal and external, will lead the sessions. Each session will take place on the following Wednesdays from 11.00– 12.30.
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8 January 2014 - Confirmation process 1: gathering, organizing and synthesizing your confirmation materials (11.00 – 12.30) Venue: TBC. Dr Malcolm Quinn 15 January 2014 - Confirmation process 2: presenting your case at the confirmation interview; written and aural communications skills. (11.00 - 12.30) Venue: TBC. Dr Caroline Gardiner 22 January 2014- Making a paper into a presentation (11.00 – 12.30) Venue: TBC. Dr Caroline Gardiner 29 January 2014 - Editing and writing for journals and professional publications (11.00 – 12.30) Venue: TBC. Professor Sandy Black, Professor Helen Thomas 5 February 2014 - ‘How to’ make a presentation from your research (11.00 – 12.30) This session is to prepare confirmation students for the RNUAL Block 2 presentations in February 13-17. It is facilitated by a professional speech coach, Anne Walsh, formerly of the Drama Centre. Anne works with students to assist them to develop their voice, gesture and posture when presenting their work. It is a confidence building workshop which is also great fun to do. Venue: TBC. Anne Walsh 1.2.3 Workshops on Specific Topics We have a slightly different format for the Wednesday sessions after Block 2 (10-15 February). After Block 2 there will be a break for two weeks, after which there will be two practical workshops on consecutive Wednesdays to which all students are invited. There will be limited places on the workshops so students are advised to book early. 5 March 2014 – Using software tools – 12.30-13.30; 13.45-15.45 This is a hands-on workshop focusing on the use of software tools for the collection of research resources and the development of the thesis text by automating the layout formatting process and bibliographic referencing. If interest is high we will run two workshops one after the other. Venue: TBC. Dr Thanasis Velios, Alberto Campagnolo 12 March 2014 – The Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding– 12.30-15.30 Venue: TBC. Luke Blaxill 1.2.4 Academic Writing Skills and Other Skills towards Completion Wednesdays each week, usually 11.00-12.30 but please note the longer sessions for the workshops on 7, 14 and 28 May. All session venues are TBC, and will be commu-
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nicated via the student mailing list and posted on Moodle. These 6 workshops on academic writing skills and skills towards completion are mostly for students in their 2nd-5th years , except for the final session. However, students may attend any or all sessions which are of interest to them. The first 3 address how to write your thesis and would be helpful for all students who are writing up. The second 3 on preparing a strategy for launching your work and your results, undertaking the VIVA and career planning for after you finish, may be of more relevance for students who are nearing completion of their PhD. 23 April 2014 – Part 1: Summarising, paraphrasing, commentary (11.00 – 12.30) A practical writing workshop exploring how to use your reading effectively in your writing. The workshop will explore how to write a summary, the uses of paraphrase and how to construct effective commentary on other texts. Venue: TBC. Dr Caroline Gardiner Wednesday 30 April 2014 – Part 3: Organising and managing your material (11.00 – 12.30) This exploratory workshop will look at some common methods for creating a structure for theses and organising large amounts of information or managing different kinds of materials. Venue: TBC. Dr Caroline Gardiner Wednesday 7 May 2014 – Part 4: Formatting and preparing your thesis (10.00 – 16.00) This one day practical workshop will explore the format of your thesis and will include guidelines on how to prepare your text and illustrations for submission. Venue: TBC. InDesign trainer Wednesday 14 May 2014 – Viva: What is a viva? (11.00 – 13.00) A workshop on how to prepare for your own Viva. Venue: TBC. Professor Vernon Trafford Please note: The Good Viva Video is available on Moodle all year for students to consult. Wednesday 21 May 2014– How to publish your work (11.00 – 12.30) A workshop about approaching academic publishers and journals and trying to publish the results of your research. Venue: TBC. Professor Ian King Wednesday 28 May 2014– Life: post-PhD (11.00 - 13.00) A career-based workshop on opportunities after your PhD and how to present your skills effectively on your CV. Venue: TBC. Hannah Clements
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1.2.5 College Based Seminars and Activities CCW CCW Graduate School Public Programme and MPhil/PhD Seminar Series Locations: Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon colleges. The Graduate School programme, along with the activities of research centres and networks, hosted by CCW, provide a rich calendar of events to inform and enhance the broader course. One of the most important functions of the Graduate School is to facilitate greater communication, focus and debate of key issues across the communities of practice that exist within the three colleges. Some of our key activities include: Graduate School Public Research Platforms Designed to explore and develop relationships between contemporary art and design practice and notions of identity, environment, social engagement and technologies and bring together the whole Graduate School community. The Practice Exchange (TPE) A seminar series facilitated by research degree students. It explores art and design research and provides a platform where practitioners can present their practice to their peers and receive feedback. Student Exhibition First year research degree students at CCW also have the opportunity to lead and take part in an annual exhibition that takes place at the end of the spring term. MPhil/PhD Seminar Series A fortnightly programme of seminars for Research students; these seminars will provide a context for discussing all aspects of the MPhil/PhD, with an emphasis on the integration of practice within that process. Seminars are open to all research students but there will be sessions specifically focussed towards 1st years, as well as a Confirmation Group and a Finishers Group. TrAIN Lectures The TrAIN (Transnational Art, Identity and Nation) Research Centre Open Series is a forum for invited speakers to present exhibition, publication and research projects in the form of lectures, discussions and screenings. For further information about CCW Graduate School events contact Laura Lanceley, Graduate School Administrator l.lanceley@arts.ac.uk
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CSM ‘Occasional Series’ A programme of seminars will be run by Caterina Albano to assist CSM students with the formal stages of progression, plus other topics throughout the year. Please contact c.albano@csm.arts.ac.uk for more information. DESIS This Way Up: Public and collaborative lecture series An ongoing series of public lectures from diverse actors ranging from design practitioners to policy makers related to social innovation and sustainability. The aim of the talks is to stimulate discussion and knowledge exchange as well as assist staff and students to deliver design for social innovation and sustainability. Open to all. Please contact Chloe Griffith for more information c.griffith@csm.arts.ac.uk LCC Seminars at LCC are to be confirmed at a later date and students will be informed once the programme has been agreed. LCF Research Themed Away Day – Students present their work to the staff in 5 min presentations, workshops will also run in the afternoon if time will allow. A Research Student Exhibition in the LCF gallery space will enable students to present work in progress. A Digital / Social Media Workshop for research students will be taking place. Research Degree Hub Events; organised by research degree students with a schedule of meetings – including social events – conference and annual working paper publication. Annual LCF Research Event: all research staff and students invited to present their work in progress. LCF organise their shared interest in research hubs in Performance, Pedagogic, Artefact, Fashion Media & Imagery, Historical & Cultural Studies, Aesthetics & Management, and the Forum for Drawing. Presentations and seminars are open to all members of staff and research students across the University. These will be taking place on every Wednesday evening. With a final event taking place at the end of the year to celebrate the hubs.
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In Conversation at LCF A series of open events between research students and their supervisors during the year, with the aim of exploring new and emerging research themes and methodologies. For further information about LCF research degrees events contact Rita Bardoshi, Research Administrator, r.bardoshi@fashion.arts.ac.uk 1.2.6 Centre-Based PhD Workshops Centre for Transnational Art Identity and Nation (TrAIN); PhD Workshops Every month TrAIN Research Centre invites its students to participate in a discussion focused on particular within transnational context. These are lead by the members of the Research Centre with occasional guest speakers and visits to galleries or museums. A limited number of places are available for UAL research degree students whose research topics are relevant, to attend specialist Research Seminars at TrAIN which will take place on Tuesdays (every second week of term), 2pm-4pm, at Chelsea College of Art and Design, Millbank. Students could apply for a whole year or for a single term. A fortnightly Open Lecture Series on Transnational Art will take place in the Lecture Theatre at the Millbank site, on Wednesdays 5.15pm-7pm at regular intervals throughout the year – to which all PhD students are welcome. The full events programme is on TrAIN’s website (www.transnational.org.uk), Twitter @ TrAINCentre or on the Facebook Page www.facebook.com/TrAINCentre. For more details regarding the PhD Workshops please contact TrAIN’s administrator, Nick Tatchell (n.tatchell@arts.ac.uk, 020 7514 2165).
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1.3 Useful Books on research skills and writing a PhD General Guides for PhD students Rebecca Boden, Debbie Epstein, Jane Kenway Academic’s Support Kit (Sage, 2005) Harriet Churchill, Teela Sanders Getting a PhD: An Insider’s guide (Sage, 2007) Pat Cryer The Research Student’s Guide to Success (Open University Press, 2006, 3rd edition) Patrick Dunleavy Authoring a PhD: How to plan, draft, write and finish a doctoral thesis or dissertation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2003) Chris Hart Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the social science research imagination (London: Sage, 1998) Estelle M. Phillips and Derek S. Pugh How to get a PhD: A handbook for students and their supervisors (Open University Press, 2005, 4th edition,) Gordon Rugg and Marian Petre The Unwritten Rules of PhD Research (Open University Press, 2004) Vernon Trafford and Shosh Leshem Stepping Stones to Achieving your Doctorate by Focusing on your Vviva from the Start (McGraw Hill/Open University Press 2008) Gina Wisker The Postgraduate Research Handbook: Succeed with your MA, MPhil, EdD and PhD (Palgrave, 2001) Viva and Examination Rowena Murray How to Survive Your Viva (McGraw Hill/Open University, 2003) Penny Tinkler and Carolyn Jackson The Doctoral Examination Process: A handbook for students, examiners and supervisors (McGraw Hill/Open University, 2004) Research Methods in Social Sciences and Visual Analysis Mats Alvesson and Kaj Sköldberg Reflexive Methodology: New vistas for qualitative research (Sage, 2009, 2nd edition ) Paul Atkinson and Martin Hammersley Ethnography: Principles in practice (Routledge, 1995)
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Paul Atkinson and Amanda Coffey Making Sense of Qualitative Data (Sage, 1996) Paul Atkinson et al. Handbook of Ethnography (Sage, 2001) Marcus Banks Visual Methods in Social Research (Sage, 2001) MW Bauer and G Gaskell Qualitative Researching with Text, Image and Sound: A practical handbook (Sage, 2000) Patricia Bazeley and Kristi Jackson (eds) Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo (Sage, 2nd edition 2013) Howard S. Becker Tricks of the Trade: How to think about your research while you’re doing It (University of Chicago Press, 1998) Ina Bertrand and Peter Hughes Media Research Methods: Audiences, institutions, texts (Palgrave, 2004) Alan Bryman Social Research Methods (Oxford University Press, 2012, 4th edition) Kathy C. Charmaz Constructing Grounded Theory: A practical guide through qualitative analysis (Sage 2006) Amanda Coffey The Ethnographic Imagination (Sage 2000) John W. Creswell Research Design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (Sage, 2009, 2nd edition) Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln (eds) The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research (Sage, 2011, 4th edition) D.A. de Vaus Surveys in Social Rresearch (UCL Press, 1996, 4th edition) Margrit Eichler Nonsexist Research Methods: A practical guide (Allen & Unwin, c1988) Richard Ekins Male Femaling: A grounded theory approach to cross-dressing and sexchanging, foreword by Anselm Strauss (Routledge, 1997) Floyd J. Fowler, Jr. Survey Research Methods ( Sage 2009 ) Floyd J. Fowler, Jr. Improving Survey Questions: Design and evaluation (Sage, 1995) Norman Fairclough Analysing Discourse: Textual analysis for social research (Routledge, 2003)
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Bill Gillham Case Study Research methods (Continuum, 2000) – Researching Interviews (McGraw-Hill, 2005) – Developing a Questionnaire (Continuum, 2000) – The Research Interview (Continuum, 2000) Ann Gray Research Practice for Cultural Studies: Ethnographic methods and lived cultures (Sage, 2003) Davvyd J. Greenwood and Morten Levin Introduction to Action Research: Social action for social change (Sage, 2007 2nd edition) David E. Gray Doing Research in the Real World (Sage, 2004) Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein (eds) Handbook of Interview research: context and method (Sage, 2002) Peter Hamilton Visual Research Methods Volume 1 (Sage , 2006) Anders Hansen, Simon Cottle, Ralph Negrine, Chirs Newbold (eds) Mass Communication Research Methods (Palgrave MacMillan, 2006) Christian Heath, Jon Hindermarsh and Paul Luff Video in Qualitative Research: Analysing social interaction in everyday life (Sage, 2010) Kathryn Herr and Gary L. Anderson The Action Research Dissertation: A guide for students and faculty (Sage, 2005) Susanna Hornig Priest Doing Media Research: An introduction (Sage, 2010 2nd edition) Phil Johnson and Joanne Duberley Understanding Management Research: An introduction to epistemology (Sage, 2000) Eileen Kane Doing your own Research: Basic descriptive research in the social sciences and humanities (Boyars, 2001 2nd edition) Geoffrey Keppel and Thomas D. Wickens Design and Analysis: A researcher’s handbook (Prentice Hall, 2004, 4th edition) Richard A. Krueger & Mary Anne Casey Focus Groups: A practical guide for applied research (Sage, 2009, 4th edition)
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John Law After Method: Mess in social science (Routeldge, 2004) George E. Marcus Ethnography through Thick and Thin (Princeton University Press, 1998) Theo Van Leeuwen and Carey Jewitt (eds) The Handbook of Visual Analysis (Sage 2001) Catherine Marshall and Gretchen B. Rossman Designing Qualitative Research (Sage, 2011, 5th edition) J. Mason Qualitative Researching (Sage, 2002) Gary McCulloch Documentary Research: In education, history and the social sciences (Routledge Falmer, 2004) Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead Doing and Writing Action Research (Sage, 2009) Jon Prosser (ed.) Image-Based Research: A sourcebook for qualitative researchers (Falmer Press, 1998) Sarah Pink Doing Visual Ethnography: Images, media and representation in research (Sage, 2006) - Doing Sensory Ethnography (Sage, 2008) Michale Pryke, Gillian Rose and Sarah Whatmore (eds) Using Social Theory – Thinking through research (Sage, 2003) Stephen Spencer Visual Research Methods in the Social Sciences (Taylor and Francis, 2010) Jane Ribbens and Rosalind Edwards (eds) Feminist Dilemmas in Qualitative Research: Public knowledge and private lives (Sage, 1998) Colin Robson Real World Research: A resource for social scientists and practitioner researchers (Blackwell, 2002, 2nd edition) Gillian Rose Visual Methodologies: An introduction to the interpretation of visual materials (Sage, 2000) Clive Seale (ed) Researching Society and Culture (Sage, 2012, 3rd edition)
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David Silverman Doing Qualitative Research: A practical handbook (Sage, 2010, 3rd edition) - Interpreting Qualitative Data: Methods for Analyzing Talk, Text and Interaction (Sage, 2006, 3rd edition) – A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research (Sage 2007) Anselm Strauss, Juliet Corbin Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and procedures for developing grounded theorys (Sage, 2008, 3rd edition) Paul Willis The Ethnographic Imagination (Polity, 2000) Robert Yin Case Study Research: Design and methods (Sage, 2014, 5th edition) Academic Writing Skills Stephen Bailey Academic Writing: A handbook for international students (Routledge, 2006) Caroline Brandt Read Research Write: Academic skills for ESL (English as a second language) students in Higher Education (Sage, 2009) Sandra Hargreaves Study Skills for Dyslexic Students (Sage, 2007) book plus CD-Rom Eleanor Harman, Ian Montagues, Siobhan McMeneny (et al) The Thesis and The Book: A guide for first-time academic authors (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2003) Sylvia Moody Dyslexia: Surviving and Succeeding at College (Routledge, 2007) Jenny Moon Learning Journals: A handbook for reflective practice and professional development (Routledge, 2006 , 2nd edition) Rowena Murray How to Write a Thesis (Open University Press, 2002) – NB. This book contains much useful information on writing and organising your text. Rowena Murray and Sarah Moore A Handbook of Academic Writing: A fresh approach (Routledge, 2006) Elizabeth Orna and Graham Stevens Managing Information for Research (Open University Press, 2009, 2nd edition)
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Angela Thody Writing and Presenting Research (Sage 2006) Mike Wallace and Alison Wray Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates (Sage, 2006) Ben Yudkin Critical Reading: Making sense of research papers in life sciences and medicine (Routledge, 2006). Writing Pad was a research project on writing in art and design, 2002-2005 between Goldsmiths, RCA and University of the Arts, London You can still visit Writing Pad via its home page http://writing-pad.org/HomePage but joining the Writing PAD network is now formally connected with subscription to the new Journal of Writing in Creative Practice: www.writing-pad.ac.uk. On Grammar, Punctuation, Citation and Academic Writing Styles James Aitchison Cassell’s Guide to Written English (Cassell, 1994) William Strunk and E. B. White The Elements of Style (Longman, 2000, 1959) Modern Humanities Research Association MHRA Style Guide: A handbook for authors, editors, and writers of theses (Modern Humanities Research Association, 2002) Kate L. Turabian A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations (University of Chicago Press, 1996) Research Methods in Practice-based/ Practice-led Research Estelle Barratt and Barbara Bolt (eds) Practice as Research: Approaches to creative enquiry (IB Tauris, 2006) Michael Biggs, Jane Rendell, Chris Rust and Ken Friedman four position papers from the AHRC Review of Practice-Based Research: http://aces.shu.ac.uk/ahrc/ahrcreview/positionpapers/positionpapers.html Brad Buckley, John Conomos (eds) Rethinking the Contemporary Art School: The artist, the PhDd, and the academy (NSCAD University Press, 2009) Lesley Duxbury, Elizabeth M Grierson & Dianne Waite Thinking Through Practice: Art as research in the academy (RMIT Publishing, 2008) James Elkins Artists with PhDs: On the new doctoral degree in studio art (New Academia Press, 2009)
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Stuart Evans and Malcolm Le Grice ‘The state of the art: research in the practical arts – doctorates – autonomous methodologies’ European Journal of Arts Education (U.K.), vol.3, no. 2-3, 2001, pp. 105-13 Christopher Frayling, Colin Painter and Jonathan Woodham, ‘Transcript of Research Seminar on Practice-Based Doctorates in Creative and Performing Arts and Design’ (Foreword by Professor Anthony Harrild) 14 July 1998 published as an occasional paper by The Surrey Institute of Art and Design University College Carole Gray and Julian Malins Visualizing Research: A guide to the research process in art and design (Ashgate, 2004) Mika Hannula, Juha Suoranta, Tere Vaden Artistic Research: Theories, methods and practices (Gotesborgs Universitet and Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, 2005) John Hockey ‘Writing and Making: Problems encountered by practice-based research degree students’ Art and Design Research Journal Spring/Summer 1999 Brenda Laurel (ed) Design Research: Methods and perspectives (MIT, 2003) E.Lupton and J.Abbott Miller Design, Writing, Research – Writing on graphic design (Phaidon, 1996) Katy Macleod and Lin Holridge (eds) Thinking Through Art (Routledge, 2005) Sally J. Morgan ‘A Terminal Degree: Fine Art and the PhD’ in Journal of Visual Arts Practice 1 (1) 2001 pp. 5-15 Robin Nelson (ed) Practice as Research in the Arts: Principles, protocols, pedagogies, resistances (Palgrave 2013) Ian Noble and Russell Bestley Visual Research: an introduction to research methodologies in graphic design (AVA Publishing SA, 2005) G. Rose Visual Methodologies: An introduction to the interpretation of visual material (Sage, 2001) Hazel Smith and Roger T. Dean (eds) Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts (Edinburgh University Press, 2009) Graeme Sullivan Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the visual arts (Sage, 2010, 2nd edition) John Wood ‘The Culture of Academic Rigour: Does design research really need it? ’ The Design Journal Vol 3 Issue 1 2000 pp.44-57
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Writing Pad - a research project on writing in art and design, 2002-2005 between Goldsmiths, RCA and University of the Arts, London. www.writing-pad.ac.uk You can still visit Writing Pad via its home page http://writing-pad.org/HomePage but joining the Writing PAD network is now formally connected with subscription to the new Journal of Writing in Creative Practice. Students may also find the following postgraduate and research training websites of interest: Theses.com This database represents a comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. There are 589,028 theses in this collection (355,862 of which have abstracts)– and it is invaluable as a resource to check research done at PhD level in your field. Access to this database is password protected. Access can be obtained through the UAL e-Library, please search for the database and then click on the “P” next to the link to obtain the password. Web: www.theses.com Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (Research Training Initiative) This site offers 21 case studies of PhD research in art and design and has a useful section on Ethics in art and design research Web: www.biad.bcu.ac.uk/research/rti/ University College, London: A Key Skills Grid for Research Students This site has links to information sheets on many aspects of research skills from a number of colleges in the UK. As a benchmark for what other PhDs in other disciplines regard as key skills, this contains much useful information. Web: www.ucl.ac.uk/keyskills/resources/Grid University of London Library, Senate House Senate House have developed a useful Library Research Skills Tutorial online. This offers a step by step guide to using any library effectively and how to access material for research. Web: www.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/tutorial Skills4Study: The Academic Publisher, Palgrave Macmillan’s Online Study Guide This site offers MP3s summarizing some of the publisher’s study skill books; links to online tutorial and study guides from other universities, as well as games Web: www.palgrave.com/skills4study/index.asp
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Intute: Virtual Training Suite Intute offers a virtual training suite – a set of free online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their Internet information literacy and IT skills. Work in your own time at your own pace – no one is monitoring you! There are quizzes and interactive exercises to lighten the learning experience. Read more information about the tutorials. Simply pick the tutorial that interests you. Web: www.vts.intute.ac.uk Design History Society The Design History Society was founded in 1977 in response to the growth of interest in this subject as a distinct field of study through its journal, newsletter, annual conference and other events. The Design History Society have also established an electronic discussion list – to facilitate the exchange of information, a regional network, a prize for academic scholarship and a number of initiatives for students. Web: www.designhistorysociety.org Association of Art Historians The Association of Art Historians promotes the study of art history for professionals and students involved in all aspects of the discipline in the UK. Web: www.aah.org.uk Research Ethics There are many relevant professional bodies, charities and funding organisations that will also provide researchers with guidelines and ethics procedures for the conduct of research. The following associations provide useful online information if you are planning to work with young people or children; or in communities which require a “gatekeeper” to provide you with access to participants (i.e. through a school, a clinic, an association or a club); to conduct experiments, workshops or projects with participants as a major part of your research; or to conduct interviews to obtain data, quotations or other kinds of material for your research: • American Anthropological Association – www.aaanet.org/profdev/ethics/ • American Psychological Association – www.apa.org/ethics/ • Association of Research Ethics Committees – www.arec.org.uk/ • British Medical Association – www.bma.org.uk/ethics/index.jsp • British Sociological Association – www.britsoc.co.uk • British Psychological Society – www.bps.org.uk/what-we-do/ethics-standards/ethics-standards • Criminal Records Bureau – www.homeoffice.gov.uk/agencies-public-bodies/crb/ • Department of Health – www.dh.gov.uk/health/policy/ • Medical Research Council – good practice www.mrc.ac.uk/Ourresearch/Ethicsresearchguidance/index.htm • National Children’s Bureau – www.ncb.org.uk
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• NHS National Patient Safety Agency – www.npsa.nhs.uk/ • Oral History Society – www.ohs.org.uk/ethics/index.php • Own It – Creative London Intellectual Property Advice Service – www.own-it.org/ • Social Research Association – http://the-sra.org.uk/sra_resources/research-ethics/ethics-guidelines/ 1.4 Support for Proofreading offered by the Language Centre Research Degree Students who are seeking support in proofreading their work can contact Language Centre. The student’s work will be proofread by a member of the Language Centre’s Academic Team. If the meaning of much of the writing is difficult to understand, or too much correction is needed, the Language Centre will not proofread the work and we will return it to the student. Students must pay for proofreading BEFORE the academic team does the work. The Language Centre will return the work to students within 72 hours of payment. Proofreading charges are £30 per 2000 words. (Please note that this the minimum charge. For word count larger than 2000 the charge is rounded up to next 500 words). When proofreading a student’s work the proof reader should aim to ensure that neither the general writing style nor the academic content of the paper is changed. This is to ensure that the proof-reader does not compromise the student’s authorship of the work submitted and that the substance of the work remains the student’s own. It is also to ensure that the proof reader does not influence the grade. The proofreader may correct/insert: • Spelling • Tense • Punctuation • Word order • Style e.g. use of contractions • Wrong word • Wrong part of speech • Agreement • Missing word • Unnecessary word The proofreader may indicate • Where joining or dividing paragraphs or sentences would be beneficial • Where sentences are incomplete • Where meaning is unclear • Which areas the student must pay attention to The proofreader will not: • Make changes to the academic content of the text. If the proofreader believes there to be inaccuracies in the academic content of the text, they will refer the
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student to their academic tutor. • Make assumptions about the intended meaning if the standard of the writing is so poor that communication is very difficult. In such cases, the proofreader will indicate that the author needs to rewrite certain sections. • Re-phrase unnecessarily to make a particular phrase smoother. For example the following corrections would be considered unnecessary: Original version ‘In his works he was criticising the social-political milieu he was living in.’ Corrected version ‘In his works he criticised the social-political milieu in which he lived.’ To book the service, please e-mail the centre. Address: The Language Centre, 4th Floor, 272 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7EY Email: language-centre@arts.ac.uk 1.5 Support for Disabled/Dyslexic PhD Students The University is committed to inclusion and equality. Our aim is to remove disabling barriers that students face and support students to work as independently as possible. We make adjustments and provide support so that disabled and dyslexic students can succeed on their courses. The University Disability Service works with a range of students, including students who have: - - - - -
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note-takers, technical and practical assistants, equipment, mentoring, interpreters) - Help to communicate your needs to other staff who may need to know If you would like to know more about the support available, please visit our website: http://www.arts.ac.uk/student/studentservices/disability/ And /or please contact us using the details below and a Disability Adviser will get back to you: Email: disability@arts.ac.uk Tel: 020 7514 6264 Address: University Disability Service 272 High Holborn London WC1V 7EY Funding: If you have UK citizenship: You may be eligible to apply for Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSAs) funding. DSAs cover the additional disability-related costs that you might incur whilst studying. The support you get from DSAs depends on your individual needs (and not your income). DSA funding pays for things like: - Assistive software - Equipment - Support workers – e.g. note-taker, mentor, study skills tutor, practical assistant DSAs can also cover additional costs including: - Photocopying - Printing - Books - Travel DSAs do not cover maintenance, tuition or other costs which you would incur regardless of whether you are studying – e.g. personal care. DSAs are funded by different bodies, depending on which part of the UK you normally live in and how your fees/maintenance costs are being paid. If you are receiving funding for maintenance and fees from the Arts and Humanities
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Research Council, your DSAs will be administered by the University. Contact the Disability Service as early as possible so we can help you to apply. If you are self-funding your fees and maintenance, the funding body for where you live will administer the DSAs, e.g. Student Finance England. For more information about DSAs and how to apply, visit: https://www.gov.uk/disabled-students-allowances-dsas/overview If you have any queries about applying please contact the University Disability Service. If you are not a UK citizen: Please contact the University Disability Service. The Service will assess the support that you need and inform you what we can fund. It is sometimes necessary for students to top-up this funding from other sources. We will provide advice about how to do this.
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Section 2: Research Training Across the University 2.1.1 English as a Second Language The Language Centre offers free Academic skills classes, workshops and one-to-one tutorials to all research students for whom English is a second language. Times and dates of these sessions will be confirmed during the first term through your supervisors.. Course contact: Insessional Course Leader, Karen Matthewman: k.matthewman@arts.ac.uk Venue: The Language Centre, 272 High Holborn, WC1V 7EY If further support for English language skills is required, students should make their training needs known to their supervisors and contact their College Associate Dean of Research. 2.1.2 Modern Language Learning at the Language Centre, UAL Languages: Art and Culture Languages currently offered: French - German - Italian - Mandarin - Spanish These classes are available to any UAL students for a fee. Why not learn a language while learning about the art and culture of the country? Each class begins with a presentation given by your teacher, introducing you to an aspect of the country’s art and culture. The language learning comes from this topic with listening, speaking, reading and writing activities. By the end of the course you will not only have a grasp of a modern language but you will also be able to use this skill in an interesting and practical way. Classes are once a week in the evenings making it manageable if you study or work full time and run on a termly basis. Course contact: Modern Languages Course leader, Conrad Heyns: c.heyns@arts.ac.uk Course Details and Booking Please contact the Language Centre at the end of September 2013 for exact dates, times, fees and enrolment information for 2013-14.
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The Language Centre 4th Floor 272 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7EY Email: language-centre@arts.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7514 2309 2.2 Developing educational practice Developing Academic Practice - DAP (10 Level 6 Credits): This unit forms part of the CPD Framework (see below) offered by the Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art and Design (CLTAD). Developing Academic Practice has been designed as an introduction to the range of contexts, approaches and activities you will encounter as a teacher. Having attended two compulsory face-to-face sessions, providing opportunities for you to explore questions and problems arising in your own experience, you are required to present a short presentation and reflective statement on your current and future teaching practice. This unit is aimed at those who are beginning to teach, and other professionals interested in understanding methods and approaches used in Further and Higher Education today. If you are a registered PhD student and have no previous teaching experience, you are required to complete this course before taking up a Graduate Teaching Assistant role at the University. Unit dates: - DAP A on Tuesday 25 & Wednesday 26 February 2014 - DAP B on Wednesday 30 April and Thursday 1 May 2014 Applications must be received by 1 November 2013, and should be submitted via the Research Administrator in your College. Please download and submit an application form from the CLTAD Website - http:// www.arts.ac.uk/cltad/ Other opportunities through CLTAD: CLTAD offers a range of units through the CPD Framework for Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication. Units may be undertaken on a standalone basis or in combination towards a named qualification, for example a Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma or MA. Specific combinations of units lead to conditional accreditation through external bodies such as the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and
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the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA). CLTAD also offers workshops and individual advice to support the implementation of learning technologies, including Moodle, blogs, wikis, podcasting and virtual classroom solutions. If research degree students would like support in using these technologies, they should contact the e-learning team (elearning-support@arts.ac.uk) in the first instance. Workshop details, dates and application forms for 2013-14 are listed on the CLTAD web pages. CLTAD, University of the Arts London 6th floor, 272 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EY http://www.arts.ac.uk/cltad/ 2.3 London Short and Professional courses The University also offers many short courses. These are particularly good in IT, video-editing, photography, fashion practice, design skills (including web design, Photoshop), professional development courses, proof-reading and presentation skills. There are a wide range of specialist skills courses in design offered. MPhil/PhD students at UAL may attend these courses for free, on the same basis as UAL staff members: namely that, places are offered when the course is undersubscribed (in terms of the numbers of external fee-paying students). Sometimes if courses that have been advertised do not run or are filled up at the last minute with paying customers, then the place available to PhD students cannot be guaranteed. (This is the same arrangement for staff). Many of the courses offered take place in the evenings, weekends and holidays and can be found on the college websites. When booking a course, please make clear that you are a research degree student at UAL and entitled to a free place via the scheme above. CCW Chelsea College of Art & Design, Camberwell College of Arts and Wimbledon College of Arts are three of the six Colleges that make up the prestigious University of the Arts London. As well as delivering high quality Foundation, Undergraduate and Postgraduate degree programmes, our Colleges have been delivering Short Courses for over 25 years. We
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are known globally for teaching short courses that are suitable for people of any age, ability and availability; our flexible approach to teaching means that people can study with us at a time that suits them. Small class sizes, coupled with second to none facilities and excellent, supportive tuition means that year-on-year, we welcome more and more students into our short course alumni. To reserve a free place as an MPhil / PHD student we ask that you contact us two working days before the course is scheduled to begin. A place is only available if the course has reached its minimum number of students, but not yet reached its maximum numbers. A materials fee will be charged for each booking and will be required at the time of booking along with valid student ID. MPhil / PHD students may book a maximum of one short course (across CCW) per term. Apologies, advanced reservations cannot be made. Please contact the Short Course marketing office for further information. The majority of our courses are taught at the Chelsea College of Art & Design but some of our specialist courses are delivered at our sister Colleges, Camberwell College of Arts and Wimbledon College of Art – please see each website for full details Short course office CCW 16 John Islip Street London SW1P 4JU Web: www.camberwell.arts.ac.uk/shortcourses/ www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/shortcourses/ www.wimbledon.arts.ac.uk/shortcourses/ Email: ccwshortcourses@arts.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 20 7514 6311 CSM Short courses at CSM can only offer spaces on courses that have plenty of spaces left to allow for last minute paying customers so the college don’t lose any customer revenue. To enrol, a research degree student should complete a booking form from the website and have it signed by a member of the RMA student section /supervisor confirming they are students. This will help the short courses teams to recognise their application as PhD students and as places without charges. RMA students will also supply CSM short courses with a list of fully enrolled students in October to simplify the process. For the booking form visit: www.csm.arts.ac.uk/media/csm/documents/artscomdocuments/Short_Course_Booking_Form.pdf Web: Email: Phone:
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LCC London College of Communication, a world leader in education for design and media, now offers an innovative range of short courses. The creative industries are constantly developing and our courses have been designed by professionals to reflect cutting-edge trends. Several of our short courses including Visualising Complex Information, Creative Copywriting and Social Media Marketing could be very useful when writing and presenting research. We offer a 10% discount to current UAL students and offer a limited number of courses free to MPhil/PhD students. To find out more and to make a booking please visit our website or send us an email: Web: http://www.lcc.arts.ac.uk/courses/shortcourses/ Email: shortcourses@lcc.arts.ac.uk LCF Courses at LCF eligible for a free staff place are decided about 2 weeks before the course is due to start. MPhil/PhD students will be asked to pay the cost of materials used in the course. You can see a published list of courses available for staff on the University shared network drive, which can be accessed form any University computer, at “X:\Everyone\LCF Short Courses_Free Staff Places“. To enrol, each research degree student should complete a staff place booking form found at this location and return it to the short course office or by email. Short course office, Room 111, London College of Fashion, 20 John Princes Street, London Web: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/shortcourses/ Email: shortcourses@fashion.arts.ac.uk Tel: 0207 514 7552 2.4 Research Centres at UAL Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) The Centre for Sustainable Fashion, we engage with a dynamic process, informed by participants, centred around human actions, relationships and their associated material effects. Sustainability lies at the heart of our exploration; Fashion is our scope and reference point. Ecological, social, cultural and economic imperatives offer grand challenges and opportunities inviting imaginative new ways to connect us as citizens, communities and societies. There are critical and evolving roles for designers in the creative industries,
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co-operating with business, academia, government and public endeavours. Our work explores these roles and their points of intervention within systems within and beyond fashion itself. As fashion is inherently innovative, there is a significant scope for the messaging of it as an artistic means to connect us and for its tangible globally significant aspects to be a kernel for positive change in society. This context of ecological and social imperatives of our times and the role and scope of fashion to respond to and shape change is guided by underlying principles upon which we base our work. Taking a holistic, interdisciplinary, multi levelled approach towards design for sustainability relating to fashion, we seek ways to Live Within Nature’s Limits, through work that contributes to restorative practices and we seek Better Lives, through work that contributes to honouring integrity and fulfilment for those directly and indirectly involved in its activities. Our methods and the disciplines they touch are developed in accordance with the research as it unfolds. Balancing the need for mitigation and adaptation in our changing world, we seek to engage in Transformational Thinking and Practice, to dissolve our currently unsustainable practices rather than finding fixes in the current system, whilst simultaneously testing out ideas in live industry environments. The lifeblood of the centre is the interaction of a diversity of world leading researchers, designers, educators and learners from across demographic, geographic and cultural spheres. The centre is a place of ideation for all of our participants and our PhD students are greatly valued assets in this sharing and critically supportive community. Framing our projects are five paths of enquiry, with projects and activities within each relating to research, industry, education, government and public platforms to: Radicalize practice - to shape and respond to the world that we all want Dream with your eyes wide open - design to be life viable, feasible and desirable Be a Voice for Change - speak truth to power Challenge Conventional Aesthetics - seek beauty and you will find it Engage Citizen Action - as individuals, community members and societal contributors For details of our work, please visit www.sustainable-fashion.com Director: Dilys Williams Research Staff: Prof. Sandy Black, Prof. Helen Storey, Prof. Lucy Orta, Dr. Kate Fletcher, Prof. Danka Tamburic Research Centre Administrator: Zoe Norton z.norton@fashion.arts.ac.uk Tel: 020 7514 2280 Web: www.sustainable-fashion.com
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Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) CRiSAP is a research centre dedicated to the exploration of the rich complexities of sound as an artistic practice. Our aim is to promote dialogue, debate and creative activity in sound arts practice through the production of new creative work, exhibition and curation, publication and public debate and the formation of new collaborative relationships. Our main, but by no means exclusive, areas of activity can be categorised as: - Sound and the Environment - Sound and Language, exploring the spoken word in artistic practice - Digital Improvisation and Performance - The development of new creative tools - Creative practice and cross arts collaboration - Investigating the potential of archival materials to animate contemporary sound art debate CRiSAP derived its initial impetus from the research activities of key personnel in the London College of Communication’s School of Media. It has since gone on to foster connections with many of the other colleges in the University and to develop the potential for collaboration with relevant external individuals and institutions. To date, activities include published books: In The Field (Uniformbooks), On Listening (RGAP), Autumn Leaves (Vibro / Double Entendre) with an accompanying audio compilation (winner of a Qwartz Electronic Music Award 2008); and Playing With Words: the spoken word in artistic practice (RGAP/CRiSAP); Performance: Events connected with the Her Noise archive at the Tate Modern, London and in Oslo; Events connected with Playing With Words at the Small Publisher’s Fair, Conway Hall, London and Gallus Theatre, Frankfurt; Co-curation of a Sound Escapes exhibition at Space; commission of two innovative software applications: Speechcutter or the manipulation of recorded vocal material and Déjà Vu, a powerful ‘sound seeker’ designed to work with large audio databases. CRiSAP has curated a series of online exhibitions including Clickanywhere, exploring the edges between the audible and the visible, Vermilion Sounds, a showcase of the long running environmental sound radio programme, and most recently Not For Human Consumption, an online exhibition of material related to sound phenomena that is inaudible or impossibly loud. We hold the whole archive of the London’s Musician Collective. We have also organised a conference on Sound and Anthropology (with the University of St Andrews), three symposia – Sound Body and The Performance of Sound (with Tate Britain) and In The Field,International Symposium for Field Recording at The British Library as part of the Sounds of Europe partnership. We have delivered numerous conference papers and presentations and have organised master classes for students with Francisco Lopez, Nic Collins and Taina Riikonen. Our members have lectured and performed around the world and have had their work
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produced on BBC Radio 3, Channel Four, ResonanceFM and elsewhere. We have a large network of national and international associates. CRiSAP is also involved with the delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in the Sound Arts and Design department at LCC. Directors: Dr Angus Carlyle and Dr Cathy Lane Web: www.crisap.org Research Centre Administrator: Joel Cahen j.cahen@arts.ac.uk Design Against Crime Research Centre (DACRC) Design Against Crime Research Centre (DACRC) and Socially Responsive Design and Innovation (SRvDI) Hub The Design Against Crime Research Centre (DACRC), as socially responsive design and Innovation (SRvDI) uses the tools, processes & products of design and innovation to work in partnership with agencies, companies, individuals and communities to deliver a range of creative responses to deliver behaviour change. Our main remit is to prevent all kinds of crime – including bag and bike theft, ATM and retail crime, antisocial behaviour, drug abuse/ dealing and terrorism; and to promote quality of life and sustainable living through enhanced notions of social well being and community safety. It does so through delivering socially responsive design, and other creative services and innovation, that are ‘fit for purpose’ and contextually appropriate in all other respects, solving the design dilemma of how to design objects, systems, services and environments that reduce crime and criminality, or address other “wicked” social problems, whilst improving the quality of life’. DACRC and SRvDI aims to... 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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Demonstrate why “Secure design doesn’t have to look criminal” via practice-led design and social innovation aimed at creating benchmarks for public space and the public realm. Reduce the incidence and harmful consequences of crime, through design of products, services, communications and environments that are fit for purpose, sustainable and contextually appropriate Equip design practitioners with the cognitive and practical tools and resources to design out crime, and to cope with social and technological change and out-innovate adaptive offenders. Address ‘environmental complicity’ with crime in the built environment and reduce crime whilst increasing wellbeing of individuals and building sustainable communities with enhanced quality of life. Prove and promote the social and commercial benefits of creativity in addressing crime and other social issues linked to behaviour change to government and to manufacturing and service industries, as well as to those concerned with the ‘social economy’.
6. Transfer successful practice – in particular models of the DAC and SRVDI process – that have a strong evidence base of success, to other social issues to be addressed by design (such as health, ageing, climate change and finance) via our ‘Socially Responsive Design and Innovation’ (SRvDI) focus. 7. Build interdisciplinary and international collaborations to develop and share the richest academic and cultural base for DACRC and SRvDI. 8. Recruit PhD students to maintain and enhance the leading edge in practice-led research. Director: Prof. Lorraine Gamman Deputy Centre Director: Adam Thorpe Research Centre Manager: Dani Davies Creative Director: Adam Thorpe, Research Fellow: Marcus Willcocks, Project Manager: Dani Davies, Research Centre Administrator: Chloe Griffith. Tel: 020 7514 7366/ 8351 Email: l.gamman@csm.arts.ac.uk Web: www.designagainstcrime.com LIGATUS Research Centre LIGATUS offers a unique environment within the University of the Arts London, where the study of the history of bookbinding and book conservation is combined with research into semantic data structures and collection survey tools. Current activities include: Bookbinding terminology LIGATUS is leading the development of a terminology for historic bookbinding. Following a project which resulted in a detailed bookbinding glossary and a methodology to record historic bookbindings, LIGATUS is now leading a large network of European partners in the development of a bookbinding thesaurus based on semantic web technologies which should become a widely-adopted standard. Saint Catherine’s Monastery Library, Mount Sinai, Egypt The monastery of St Catherine in the Sinai, Egypt, is the oldest active Christian monastery in the world. The monastery’s library holds a unique collection of Byzantine manuscripts. Ligatus undertook the task of assessing the condition of the manuscripts, has designed a new conservation workshop, a stainless steel box for the storage of the manuscripts and is advising on further conservation work. The project has been funded by the St Catherine Foundation with additional support from the Headley Trust. Digital bookbinding collections 30,000 slides of the bound manuscripts in the St Catherine’s Monastery Library, taken as part of the survey, have been digitized and have been joined by 10,000 digital images of the bindings on the early printed books. Based on this material, LIGATUS is
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planning a repository of an additional, unrivalled, collection of materials relating to the history of bookbinding donated by key scholars who have worked internationally in major public and private collections. Decorated Papers Ligatus is launching a project to photograph and put on the web examples of historic European decorated papers to act both as a guide to the identification and description of these papers as well as a research tool which will help to identify where and when these papers were used. Archiving LIGATUS is pioneering the development of methodologies for documenting heritage archives. Following the proposal of Creative Archiving where the archivist’s subjectivity is turned into an advantage by introducing an interpretation layer through modern software tools; LIGATUS is developing ways to enable the conceptual linking of heritage archives based on semantic technologies (Linked Open Data). LIGATUS is also working with the John Latham Foundation on the John Latham Archive. The archive has been digitised and is available for study online. Director: Prof. Nicholas Pickwoad Deputy Director: Dr Athatnasios Velios Research Assistant: Aurelie Martin Research Centre Administrator: Ewelina Warner (St Catherine Foundation) Web: www.ligatus.org.uk Photography & the Archive Research Centre (PARC) The UAL Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC) was designated by the University of the Arts London in 2003 and is based at the London College of Communication. It is a dynamic and growing Research Centre which responds to, and initiates, significant developments within research into photography practice, history, theory, curatorship and writing. PARC is concerned with a range of important questions related to both the archive and contemporary and historical photographic practice. PARC acts as a catalyst for practice-based research alongside academic scholarship. This rich vein of work relates to an expanding field of both creative and scholarly activity. As the Centre has grown and developed over the last ten years, and responded to the interests of its members, students and the UAL community, it has increased its range of activity to fully encompass ideas and issues around the practice, theory and history of photography. The Centre initiates new and innovative research into photography and culture and organises seminars, study days, symposia and conferences, both within UAL and externally. Most recently it has organized a new Biennale of Research and is co-convening the peer-reviewed Nostalgias conference with Canterbury Christ Church University, November, 2013.
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The Centre’s interests span the history and culture of photography, with particular emphasis on post-war British photography, the documentation of war and conflict, the photography of fashion and style, the visualization of the counterculture, and photography and sexuality. Past projects from PARC include AHRC-funded ROAD: Artists and the M11 Link Road Campaign, and The New British Photography of the 1970s; Daniel Meadows: Early Photographs (National Media Museum and touring, 2011-); Growing Up in the New Age (Street Level Photoworks & Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 2012); the Considering Vietnam conference (with the Imperial War Museum, 2011); A Day in the World (Kulturhuset, Stockholm and Museum of World Cultures, Gothenburg, 2013). Individual PARC members work across a wide variety of areas, including the archives of studio photography, women and photography, photographic practice, Nordic photography, photography theory and history, photography and the contemporary imaginary and photography & queerness. PhD supervsion is available in all these areas, as well as within the Centre’s core research themes. PARC’s members play an important part in the Centre’s work. These include: Professor Tom Hunter; Dr Wiebke Leister; Dr Sara Davidmann; Dr Jennifer Good, Reader Patrick Sutherland; Dr Alistair O’Neill, David Moore, Reader Pam Skelton and Paul Lowe. Centre staff and members supervise a growing number of research students, who are active in organizing seminars and masterclasses on behalf of the Centre. PARC’s staff and members contribute to the international research culture around photography in many ways, as exhibiting artists, curators, writers, educators, editors and speakers at a wide range of conferences. PARC’s Director, Val Williams and Deputy Director (Brigitte Lardinois) are noted curators, with exhibitions initiated in partnership with institutions which include Tate Britain, the National Media Museum, and the Barbican Art Gallery. Within LCC, PARC also works closely with the Faculty of Media, and PARC members, staff and research students are active participants in the college’s recently developed research hubs. The Centre also worked with LCC to curate the 2012 exhibition of PhD practice. Research outcomes from PARC members can be found at UAL Research Online: www.ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk The Journal of Photography & Culture is co-hosted by the Centre, and PARC Director Professor Val Williams is a co-editor. Continuous work with the Journal from 2008 onwards means that P&C has developed a unique international network of academics with photography as their core interest. PARC publishes Fieldstudy twice a year, covering its key areas of research, and commissioning issues on new photographic practice. The Centre also leads the online Directory of Photographic Collections in the UK. PARC also manages the Camerawork Archive and the Archive of Photography Exhibition Posters. In May 2013 it launched the Biennale of Research, Moose on the Loose, with events taking place at the London College of Communication and venues across London. For more information on the Biennale visit www.mooseontheloose.net. Current PhD students are working on both practice-based PhDs and thesis-based projects. Their work includes studies of the single Saudi woman, the political and social
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relevance of photography in the landscape and community photography in the 1970s and beyond. Full details of research students at LCC can be found at www.lcc.arts. ac.uk/research/research-degrees/student-projects/. The Centre has also welcomed visiting research students and visiting research fellows. PARC works frequently with external partners, who have included: University of Sunderland; Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; ffotogallery, Cardiff; Birmingham Library and Archive Services; the Imperial War Museum, London; Photoworks, Brighton; University of Western Ontario, Canada; Canterbury Christ Church University; Bloomsbury Publishing; Expressions of Humankind, Stockholm; Sune Jonsson Archive, Umea; Stockholm; University of Wales, Newport. Director: Professor Val Williams v.williams@lcc.arts.ac.uk Deputy Centre Director: Brigitte Lardinois Centre Administrator: Wendy Short w.short@arts.ac.uk PhD Ambassadors: Corinne Silva and Noni Stacey www.photographyresearchcentre.co.uk www.facebook.com/PARC.UAL www.mooseontheloose.net Textile Futures Research Centre (TFRC) The Textile Futures Research Centre (TFRC) is a cross college practice-based and design-led centre that is comprised of researchers from Chelsea College of Art and Design and Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design at the University of the Arts London (UAL). The centre provides a wide support network for PhD students and is at the forefront of collaborative research concerned with textiles and material design. It brings together UAL research staff, PhD students, national and international academic researchers, cultural institutions, industry and commerce. TFRC and PhD researchers explore the areas of: fashion, product, architecture, environment, medicine, well-being and social innovation through the Centre’s three platforms of Science and Technology, Sustainable Strategy and Well-Being. In Science and Technology researchers investigate the potential of new technologies and emerging science fields in the context of future sustainable design. The Sustainable Strategy platform examines sustainability as a broad, holistic approach to drive industry innovation – from experimenting with new fibres and technologies to extending the life of textiles. The Well-Being platform explores how designers can work towards social change and improve health and well-being. The centre and its research degree supervisors support both PhD practice and theoretical research within and across these platforms. All our PhD supervisors are world leading researchers and experts in their field. TFRC is a strong, vibrant and active research community with diverse research activities and outputs. These range from the creation of new materials, products, services, textile processes and techniques, through to critical academic papers, publications and participation in national and international conferences and exhibitions.
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Current PhD students actively contribute to these activities, and are firmly integrated within TFRC’s research community. The Centre’s many multidisciplinary collaborations provide our PhD students with the opportunity to combine theory with action – working with scientists, technologists, engineers, designers or makers – translating research and innovative methods into the commercial world. Our research approaches and outputs are continually evolving; with current and future undergraduate and postgraduate textile programmes, we are shaping the future of the textile industry. Textile design and production have played a pivotal role in economic, social, educational and cultural development worldwide. The diverse range of research projects, including PhD research projects within TFRC, seek to explore this role to benefit future social systems by situating designers in the vanguard of new social, cultural, scientific and technological development by contributing empirical and innovative research to support sustainable and resilient design to realise the potential of textiles’ aesthetics, production, function, application and cultural influence to advance the textile industry. Director: Prof. Rebecca Earley Deputy Centre Director: Carole Collet Centre Manager: Angela Hartley Research Centre Administrator: Ania Stawarska a.stawarska@arts.ac.uk Web: www.tfrc.org.uk Transnational Art Identity and Nation (TrAIN) The Centre is a dynamic research forum for internationally recognised scholars and practitioners, working on research in transnational issues in art and design, both globally and locally. It is no longer easy to define the nature of the local and the international and many cultural interactions now operate on the level of the transnational. Transnational relationships are understood here as challenging the long-standing binaries of centre/ margin and as crossings through the different media of fine art, design, craft, curation, performance and popular art forms. The activities of TrAIN encompass historical, theoretical and practice-based research in which the impact of identity and nation on the production and consumption of artworks and artefacts is central. TrAIN grew out of an established Chelsea/Camberwell research group active since 1993. Key partnerships include the TrAIN/Gasworks Artists’ Residency, an international residency which raises specific questions for individual artists, and wider issues regarding how both local and international contexts are negotiated in practice and a series of Fulbright Visiting Distinguished Chairs which take on a 6 month residency in Chelsea College of Art and Design. Current TrAIN research projects include; The Birth of Cool (British Council), Translating and Writing Modern Design Histories in East Asia for the Global World (AHRC), Pop Art in Latin America - Collaborative Doctoral Award (AHRC). Previous TrAIN projects include Meeting Margins, Transnational Art in Latin America and Europe, 1950–1978 (in collaboration with the University of Essex, AHRC funded). Forgotten Japonisme, the
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Taste for Japanese Art in Britain and the USA, 1920s–1950s (AHRC funded); British Empire and Design; Ruskin in Japan, 1890–1940, Nature for Art, Art for Life; Other Modernities; Refracted Colonial Modernities: Identities in Taiwanese Art and Design; and Modernity and National Identity in Art: India, Japan and Mexico, 1860s–1940s; Dress and the African Diaspora Network (AHRC funded). Research Centre Director: Prof. Toshio Watanabe Deputy Centre Directors: Prof. Deborah Cherry and Dr. Michael Asbury Tel: 0207 514 2165 Research Centre Administrator: Nick Tatchell n.tatchell@arts.ac.uk Web: www.transnational.org.uk Twitter: @TrAIN Centre Facebook: www.facebook.com/TrAINCentre 2.5 Other Centres linking research and enterprise at UAL University Enterprise Development Alisdair Aldous Enterprise Development Manager University of the Arts London 5th floor, Granary Building 1 Granary Square London N1C 4AA For further information about Enterprise activities and services, please go to: CCW: www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/enterprise/enterprise-collective/ CSM: www.csm.arts.ac.uk/innovation/ LCC: www.lcc.arts.ac.uk/businessandinnovation/ LCF: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/business-innovation/ There are a wide range of enterprise activities and services at UAL which provide support to the Creative Industries. CCW The Enterprise Collective works for Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon colleges (CCW) in business, innovation and enterprise. By drawing on and promoting the unique creative knowledge capital across the colleges, our vision is for each institution to be recognised as a major centre for creative industry development in London, and for leading creative enterprise at an international level. • The Enterprise Collective is driven by a deep-lying commitment to sustainability, creativity, innovation and social enterprise.
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Supporting and collaborating with individuals, businesses and the communities we work in, the Enterprise Collective can offer creative solutions at all levels of enterprise. • Seeks out opportunities for each college to utilise their expertise by promoting services externally around creative consultancy, training, research and collaboration • Develops existing and new relationships with industry for the benefit of the colleges • Helps staff and students develop the commercial potential of current enterprise projects • Provides support by facilitating new and potential projects across CCW through advice and collaboration Contact Enterprise Collective: 020 7514 9300 enterprisecollective@arts.ac.uk Or contact the team directly: Alanah Cullen – Head of Enterprise CCW – 020 7514 9301 - a.cullen@arts.ac.uk Michael Lehnert 0r Annick Collins - Business Relationship Manager – 020 7154 9302 m.lehnert@arts.ac.uk / a.collins@arts.ac.uk Elizabeth Cameron – Business Relationship Manager – 020 7514 9303 – e.j.cameron@ arts.ac.uk CSM ARTAKT, curating exhibitions in art/science (CSM) Artakt’s mission is to cross the boundaries of art and science, subtly, imaginatively, and distinctively. We take an innovative approach to exhibition making by exploring diverse and topical subjects rooted in art and science, including Leonardo da Vinci, art and neuroscience, the history of genetics, and the representation of sex. One of the distinctive traits of our projects is the constructive juxtaposition of historical and contemporary art works and objects. We research, curate and produce high level exhibitions, publications, and related events for major national and international museums and galleries. We facilitate dynamic collaborations between artists, scientists, designers and architects. We advise private individuals including collectors and artists. Artakt’s motivated team provides a wealth of resources and expertise and offers an extensive network of relationships within the public and private sectors of art and science. Associating with Artakt brings exposure at national and international level in major museums and art galleries, alignment with top-level artists, scientists, academics and cultural institutions.
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Web: www.artakt.co.uk/ Email: info@artakt.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7514 8715 BAFVSC – British Artists Film and Video Study Collection: CSM Established in 2000, the Study Collection is a research project concentrating on the history of artists’ film and video in Britain. The Collection is open to post-graduate researchers, curators, programmers and artists. The Collection consists of an extensive and unique range of reference materials including over two thousand video copies of artists’ works, collections of still images, historical posters and publicity materials, files on seven hundred individual artists files and a library of books and periodicals. Researchers are welcome to make an appointment to visit and browse the collection. Details of Study Collection holdings can be accessed in the online catalogues at www.studycollection.org.uk/ catalogue.html Study Collection Projects have included a series of specially curated Online Exhibitions drawing on material from the collection, a web-database of known British artists and titles, exhibitions such as Tate Britain’s A Century of Artists’ Film in Britain, (May 2003 – April 2004), the touring exhibition Figuring Landscapes – Artists’ Moving Image from Australia and the UK (2008-) and the CSM Lethaby Gallery exhibition Systems of Nature (Nov-Dec 2007), conferences such as Expanded Cinema – Activating the Space of Reception, Tate Modern (May 2009) and published research papers relating to the study of British artists’ film and video. BAFVSC is led by Research Fellow Steven Ball Web: Email: Tel:
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The Design Laboratory We are a design studio that delivers media, graphics, fashion and product consultancy for a wide range of international clients. We employ the best emerging talents in design, communication, fashion and film from the University of the Arts London, overseen by experienced creative managers. The Design Laboratory team consists of five established teams of permanent staff working alongside carefully selected graduate interns and freelancers. Based at Central Saint Martins, we allow clients to benefit from the freshest creative thinking and provide talented graduates with the opportunity to start their careers on exciting projects. Web: Email: Tel:
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www.designlaboratory.co.uk info@designlaboratory.co.uk, +44 (0)20 7514 7028
DESIS Lab – based in DAC Research Centre DESIS (Design for Social Innovation towards Sustainability) is a network of design labs, based in design schools and design-oriented universities, actively involved in promoting and supporting sustainable change. The Socially Responsive Design and Innovation Hub (SRvDI) is the home of the UAL DESIS Lab and is at the centre of a research and practice network at the University of the Arts London. It works with partners to research, create and implement design led strategies that respond to social issues, prioritise social impact and embrace social change. Located within the award winning Design Against Crime Research Centre at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, SRvDI engages with students from many CSM courses to help them apply a design led approach to meeting societal goals and challenges in sustainable ways. This approach necessitates community engagement and collaborative and participatory research across diverse disciplines and sectors inside and outside of academia Web: Email: Tel:
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Method Design Lab The next frontier of innovation is not solely about technology. Rather, it is about user experience and design—why and how customers interact with, and develop attachments to, products and services. Method Design Lab is the first accelerator to leverage this new frontier by taking a design-centric, user experience driven approach to innovation. We are creating huge value for both consumers and investors by focussing on design and user experience as true market differentiators. MDL is a powerful partnership between Method, a world-class innovation and design consultancy based in San Francisco, and London-based Central Saint Martins, one of the world’s foremost design Colleges. Web: Email:
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CSM Innovation Central Saint Martins Innovation harnesses the creativity of our staff and students to accelerate the development of ideas, research and businesses as well as offering training and venue hire. Business services – We enable knowledge transfer between the College and business
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through a range of specialist business services and consultancies. Research – We house research projects which combine disciplines and create new knowledge for commercial or social use. Professional training – Our courses on innovation, creativity and business take advantage of our staff’s knowledge and our 150 years of teaching experience. Graduate enterprise – We nurture young creative start-ups through training and advice. We apply our creativity to the 300 businesses that we work with each year to help them to meet new challenges – should we be working with you? Web: Email: Tel:
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LCC The DigiLab At its core is the view that engagements across the areas of design and media needs to be varied, open and theoretically underpinned from a range of perspectives. DigiLab researchers have a combined collaborative interest in the digital providing consultancy, continuous professional development, master classes and contract research. However big or small, our ambitions are to challenge and poke at existing norms, their methods and digital attributes to understand what could be understood as social. Researchers at the DigiLab particularly enjoy engaging in projects that are deemed impossible, complex or messy. The sort of stuff that leads us into the unknown rather than to narrowed specialisations and quick fix innovation strategies. The DigiLab is not driven by the premise of a technology push but driven by a social understanding of current convergence issues across specialisms and technologies. We currently work with large technology providers as well as museums and cultural institutions. Web: Email: Tel:
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LCF DISC DISC gives you and your business access to a team of highly skilled industry experts. Their specialist experience covers the manufacturing industry incorporating factory production, global sourcing, jewellery production and sustainable manufacturing. DISC offers free support in three ways: - On-line resources offering toolkits, market intelligence reports, case studies, news and other useful information for both designers businesses and manufacturing businesses. - Our series of workshops, seminars and demonstrations promotes innovative ideas,
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solutions and techniques to both designers and manufacturers. Click here for the series programme. - The DISC Experts offers businesses unique one-to-one advice and support in all areas of fashion production. Web: Email: Tel:
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Fashion Business Resource Centre, LCF Fashion Business Resource Studio has been established as a single point of contact sharing the creative, business and technical expertise of London College of Fashion with the fashion and lifestyle industries in order to generate a mutually supportive culture dedicated to improving the integration of emerging talent, technical expertise, new knowledge and entrepreneurial advice into industry. It offers consultancy to industry; Knowledge Transfer Partnerships; Tailormade training & up-skilling; Creative insights; and Networks. It primarily helps London College of Fashion students in short and long term work placements within industry via FashionAIM. The FashionAim initiative by FBRC seeks to support graduates from London College of Fashion in making the transition from creative graduate to innovative employee and provides a network to harness and present skills to industry contexts. These include an Employability Toolkit through an online guide providing students and alumni access to employability advice and support; application guidance including CV tips and advice; job search and proactive ways to approach companies; best practice with portfolio and presentation; guidance on project management, networking and entrepreneurial schemes; and international graduate schemes. Web: Email:
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UAL Cross-College Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network The University of the Arts is the lead partner in hosting the national Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network. The Creative Industries KTN stimulates and encourages innovation in the creative industries, helping people to realise the potential of the creative industries to motivate lasting change. We put innovation into context within the current structure for change in the creative industries. We engage with all sectors across the creative industries to ensure a landscape perspective of communities and their potential for innovation. We provide secure platforms for innovation by signposting access to funding and other resources you might need. The Creative Industries KTN presents a broad range of
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opportunities for innovators within the creative industries. We organise Creative Industries-KTN-led events showcasing the best of technology and innovation in the sector, as well as supporting other creative industries events. We strive to create a space in which like-minded people can communicate and collaborate. We bring together leading thinkers and practitioners from the UK and beyond, to share the latest technology insights and find ways to maximise their potential within the creative industries. Web:
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Artquest Information and advice for artists; helping artists to make work, sell work, find work and network, Artquest provides the information to drive creative practice and help artists thrive on some of the lowest incomes in the creative sector. Run by artists, for artists, we build a bridge from student experience to sustainable working life, and throughout your professional career. Artquest launched in 2001, is hosted by University of the Arts London and is a National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England, http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/ Web:
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Own-It Own It is a free intellectual property advice centre. Within your business or your practice, you’ve probably created a wealth of in-house ideas, designs, music, writing, images – in short, ‘intellectual property’ – which can make you extra money, as long as you give it the proper legal protection. www.own-it.org will show you how. Own It provides free legal contract templates available for download, free legal advice and seminars to enable creative people to make the most of their ideas. Own It is a partnership between Creative London and London College of Communication, University of The Arts London Web:
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and an application form, please go to: http://see.arts.ac.uk/opportunities/seedfund/ The Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art and Design (CLTAD) CLTAD provides professional development and support to University of the Arts London staff in learning and teaching, develops and assists the implementation of technology to support learning, undertakes and supports pedagogic research, and contributes to the strategic development of learning and teaching across the institution. CLTAD supports Blackboard development and web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis and podcasts, and undertakes research projects to produce tailor-made e-learning solutions for curriculum development. CLTAD, University of the Arts London 6th floor, 272 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EY Email: l.lencovic@arts.ac.uk Tel: 0207 514 6052 Web: www.arts.ac.uk/cltad.htm Student Enterprise & Employability Service (SEE) SEE is a centre of excellence at UAL. We use our expertise, resources and networks to help UAL’s students and graduates to make, take and connect to ideas, opportunities and networks so that they can go on to be successful creative professionals and world-leading innovators, practitioners, employees and entrepreneurs. SEE values and supports the diversity of practice and motivations of our students and graduates. We want them to profit from their own creativity and ideas by developing their practice and businesses, whether that is for profit or for broader social, ethical and environmental purposes, what we term ‘more than profit’. SEE celebrates the culture and creativity of the whole UAL community and is committed to fairness, equality and access in the way we design and deliver all of our services and opportunities. For more information please take a look at our ‘We Are SEE’ document http://see.arts.ac.uk/assets/library/documents/SEE_We_are_See.pdf How we do this: SEE helps our students and graduates to help themselves in reaching and fulfilling their ambitions and potential. SEE delivers useful, high-quality and thought-provoking events, talks and seminars. SEE provides funding, awards, scholarship and fellowship opportunities, as well as
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business mentoring and best practice support for paid work placements. SEE connects UAL’s creative talent to the outside world, where we’re committed to sharing our knowledge and insight for the benefit of our students and graduates. SEE builds national and international partnerships and relationships with industry, business, commerce, the public and voluntary sectors to deliver projects and products which test and expand creative practice, knowledge, ideas, innovation and social progress. SEE has access to a pool of creative talent and celebrates the ‘stories behind the stats’, illustrating that our students and graduates are supremely employable, enterprising, innovative and skilled for today’s rapidly changing world; and that we are supporting them for tomorrow’s challenges, not only today’s. SEE is passionate about the role that technology can play in supporting and connecting our students and graduates to each other and to UAL, the creative community and the wider world. SEE supports learning and teaching to enhance the student experience and development within the curriculum. This year’s SEE events programme has now almost come to an end and we haven’t yet scheduled the events programme for next year, however some key events which you may wish to highlight in the guide would be: • Professional skills for employment • Newly self-employed – the basics • Professional skills for enterprise • Career Lab • Business start-up funding workshops And also our key bookend events: Artsmart – which offers over 70 events for new professional and emerging graduates) including for example • Starting out in...(these panel talks cover a range of different creative professions) • CV checks • Life after UAL • Building your networks through social media • Business idea one to ones • Legal advice clinics
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Enterprise Week – with around 40 events, talks and workshops on self-employment, freelancing and starting and owning a business), including for example: • Getting Funding • Setting Up Online Portfolios • Low Cost, Low Risk Start-up Spaces, with Meanwhile Space • Get Your Social Enterprise Funded: Unltd SEED Fund Launch • Question Time for Entrepreneurs * • Positioning Yourself in the Art World, with Jotta • Getting Clients as a Sole Trader, with The Design Trust • Start-up Surgeries, with Natwest • Panel Discussion: Successful Creative Collaborations • Standing Out in a Competitive Market, with Consurgo • Improving Your Prospects Through Online Profiles
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Section 3: Research Student Facilities 3.1 Research Degree Student Facilities at the Colleges Research degree students are free to use any of the open access student facilities in the University for computers or in the UAL libraries. These include the Learning Zone on the Lower ground Floor at 272 High Holborn. Research degree students should discuss additional needs for access to technical equipment or studio space with their supervisors first and then the College Associate Dean of Research. This is a short guide outlining what is available in terms of dedicated facilities for research degree students in each college. CCW Graduate School Research students at the CCW Graduate School have access to the resources of Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges and a shared programme of lectures and events across the three sites. There is a designated CCW PhD student space at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Resources available within the constituent colleges of CCW include: • • • • •
A Graduate School that capitalises on the combined strength of the graduate and research communities of the three Colleges to disseminate research and address the School’s chosen thematic areas of Social Engagement, Environment, Identities, Technologies; A dedicated student space at Chelsea equipped with networked PCs, scanners, a high spec colour laser printer and Apple Mac G5 computers with Cinema Screens, full Adobe Suite and Final Cut Studio software for video editing; Technical resources at the Colleges which include excellent wood, metal and ceramic 3D workshops, a foundry, an audio visual workshop for working with sound and moving image and a professional standard photography studio. PhD students have access to technical expertise, inductions and technical workshop sessions as appropriate. There is also a range of various bookable exhibition and project spaces. These resources are all accessible via negotiation with Technical and Resources staff. The use of AV & IT portable equipment for field, practical and exhibition projects; Library and learning resources and special collections across UAL.
College Contact: Claire Mokrauer-Madden (c.mokrauer-madden@chelsea.arts.ac.uk) CSM At CSM, research degree student accommodation is located on the first floor of the Granary Building. The space dedicated to research students is intended to provide a base to work from when in College. Facilities are provided for general IT and internet access, video-editing, photocopying and printing. The space has PCs and Macs and
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a two-screen video – editing suite. Software provision includes MS Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Macromedia applications and Final Cut Pro. All computers are connected to a range of scanners and printers. There are lockers for personal possessions. This dedicated space is located adjacent to the Library’s ‘Learning Zone’ which includes presentation and a range of formal and informal meeting spaces. The rooms are WiFi enabled for use with personal laptops. College Contact: Aman Sagoo (a.sagoo@csm.arts.ac.uk). The following loan equipment is available exclusively for research student use: video camera, laptops and a data projector. Equipment loans are done through the Loans Store on the ground floor or via this link: www.orb.arts.ac.uk/csm Other general Open Access and special purpose facilities are available; the majority are on site, some (e.g. print making) are at the College’s Archway site. LCC At LCC, the research degree students’ accommodation and IT facilities space is equipped mainly with Apple G5 computers set up primarily for photography and graphic design work running a range of applications including Adobe Creative Suite. One of the computers has headphones set up for editing video/sound or working with multimedia applications and runs Apple Production Suite (Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Motion), Macromedia Director, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and specialist sound software. Other equipment available to research students includes further computing, scanning and printing facilities, specialist equipment comprising Canon XM2 video camera kit, Canopus analogue/digital converter, Sanyo moby system, Sony digital data projector and 2 cased HHB minidisk recorder kits. A Hasselblad Flextight X5 drum scanner for fast high quality scanning is accessible through a booking system. College Contact: Jennifer Tomomitsu (j.tomomitsu@arts.ac.uk) LCF At LCF, research degree students have their own designated study space at the College’s main John Princes Street site. The ‘hotdesk’ space is equipped with PCs and Mac facilities, a B&W laser printer and a scanner. The computers provide access to Microsoft Office applications, Adobe CS2 applications, Macromedia applications and the bibliographic software EndNote. Printer supplies are provided by the LCF research office. Studio space for practice-based Research Students is available at the Lime Grove site. Research students also have access to a number of other IT suites across the College’s sites, a presentation skills room, the Archives and Special Collections, technical equipment for photography, knitting, fabric printing and body-scanning across the LCF sites. This specialist training, facilities and software are provided, where possible, to students on request via the LCF research office. Access to any rooms or studio spaces within LCF are managed by LCF Resources, including the Rootstein Hopkins
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3.2 Other Personal and Professional Development Opportunities VITAE Students in their second or third full-time year of study or for part-time students in their third or fourth year of study may wish to attend a National or Regional Grad course in personal development and business skills. This is an opportunity to meet MPhil and PhD students working in a wide variety of disciplines across the UK. Courses are typically residential and last between 3-5 days. For more information: www.vitae.ac.uk and go to the postgraduate researchers section. This website has a lot of information on career development for early career researchers and PhD students. It also has a lot of information about the various stages of a research degree and an important and useful planning guide, The Researcher Development Framework (RDF). Web: www.vitae.ac.uk National Postgraduate Committee (npc) NPC is an independent charity that represents and promotes the needs of UK postgraduates on a national and international stage. NPC forms a national support network issuing UK Universities and Colleges with up-to-date guidelines and advice on current affairs. Through regular annual general meetings and mailing lists the NPC fulfils the role of a national postgraduate forum providing formal responses to government and nongovernment papers and proposals. Web: www.npc.org.uk Prospects Prospects is a website listing career development advice and opportunities for postgraduates. Web: www.prospects.ac.uk Eurodoc EURODOC is the European Council of doctoral candidates and young researchers. It takes the form of a federation of national associations of Ph.D. candidates and young researchers. EURODOC’s objectives are: • To represent doctoral candidates and junior researchers at the European level in matters of education, research, and professional development of their careers. • To advance the quality of doctoral programmes and the standards of research activity in Europe.
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EURODOC was founded in Girona (Spain) on 02/02/02 Web: www.eurodoc.net Beyond the PhD This website, developed through University of Reading, has lots of good advice offered in short audio clips about the experience of doing a PhD and what it lead to in future careers, as well as articles and links providing resources on researcher development after a PhD. Web: www.beyondthephd.co.uk/ British Library Higher Education Initiatives The British Library underpins business and enterprise through its contribution to knowledge transfer, creativity and innovation. They aim to ensure that UK researchers have access to the very best information resources. In order to achieve this goal the BL is developing various initiatives for Researchers, including Postgraduate Research Students; one of these initiatives is the ‘Post Graduate Open Days’ which were first introduced in 2011-12. For more information and dates for 2012-13 please consult the BL website. Web: www.bl.uk/aboutus/acrossuk/highered/heoverview.html
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Section 4: The Researcher’s Guide to Library Services Researchers traditionally use a broad range of information services and resources which are provided by the library service of their own University and other organisations. Archives, company records/ archives, special collections within associations or professional bodies, museum or gallery collections may all prove important to a research project alongside conventional library research, use of online resources and e-journals. 4.1 Library Services at University of the Arts London The University’s six libraries, Archives and Special Collections Centre and two Learning Zones represent a major resource for arts, design, communication & performance research, with a wide range of specialist journals, audiovisual materials and many electronic resources as well as books. Each college has its own library with different areas of emphasis in its collection. As a research student at the University, these libraries are the first port of call for your research (see Appendix A for a list of Library Services facilities at UAL) Who to ask for help The following librarians are available in each college to offer one-to-one advice sessions for research degree students, particularly with regard to accessing or using electronic resources. Please contact them by phone or email or go into the library to make an appointment with them for a one-to-one session. Camberwell: Catherine Lauriol c.lauriol@camberwell.arts.ac.uk ext 6349 Chelsea: Sarah Turk s.turk@chelsea.arts.ac.uk ext 7840 CSM: Nick Lloyd n.lloyd@csm.arts.ac.uk ext 7804 LCC: Tania Olsson t.olsson@lcc.arts.ac.uk ext 6777 LCF: Jane Holt j.holt@fashion.arts.ac.uk ext 7574 Wimbledon: Jan Warman j.warman@wimbledon.arts.ac.uk ext 9695 Electronic information: Paul Mellinger or Sandra Reed e-info@arts.ac.uk ext 6485 UAL Research Online, inclusion of e-theses: Stephanie Meece s.meece@arts.c.uk, or ualresearchonline@arts.ac.uk University Archives and Special Collections Centre: Sarah Mahurter s.mahurter@arts. ac.uk ext 9330 The Library Services web pages www.arts.ac.uk/library/ Full information on the libraries, including address and contact details, can be found on the Library Services web pages at www.arts.ac.uk/library. These pages provide access to the library catalogue, to electronic resources, including online journals and
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image databases, to information on other libraries and much more. They are your introduction to the range of services provided by the Library and the staff who can help you. Library catalogue The library catalogue voyager.arts.ac.uk provides details of all items in the library’s holdings and information about your own account. The button labelled ‘My Account’ shows what you currently have on loan, and also any reservations you have requested. At the top of the page is a tab for ‘My Loan History’ which shows all the items you have borrowed in the last two years. You can email this list to yourself to inform your bibliography. The library catalogue can be accessed from anywhere in the world via the Library Services web pages, through computers in the libraries or directly at voyager.arts.ac.uk. Library Services has over 30 special collections and archives (see Appendix B) that reflect the rich and varied histories of the 6 colleges. Many of these collections have been the focus of research and other projects that Library Services staff have been involved in (see Appendix F). Library Services also provides a range of open access IT, reprographic and production facilities (see Appendix C). UAL Research Online www.ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk This is the University’s repository of its scholarly research. Its primary aim is to collect, preserve, and provide open access to the research outputs produced by the University. Material in the repository is free to view, browse and download, by anyone with an internet connection, anywhere in the world. It holds items in many formats, from still and moving images, to audio recordings, websites and texts, and includes the outputs of practice-based as well as traditional research. Research-active staff of the University are able to deposit material according to criteria endorsed by the University Research Standards and Development Committee; student work is limited to accepted PhD theses. UAL Research Online services the university’s submission to the Research Excellence Framework, provides scholars with the ability to fulfil Open Access requirements of their funding bodies, and showcases the wealth of our research to a world-wide audience. It is managed by Stephanie Meece in Library Services, in close collaboration with the research management and administration office at the University. UK theses and other research outputs Most Universities have similar online repositories, and this an increasingly important way for research to be disseminated. You can search across UK repositories by using IR Search www.irs.mimas.ac.uk/ (see Appendix F). EThOS - http://www.ethos.bl.uk
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EThOS offers a ‘single point of access’ where researchers the world over can access ALL theses produced by UK Higher Education. It supports Higher Education Institutions through the transition from print to e-theses. The British Library offers UK Higher Education Institutions a service to expand available content by digitising paper theses. This demonstrates the quality of UK research and helps attract students and research investment into UK HE. To view a thesis online, search across 300,000+ theses for free and order full text quickly and easily, through the ethos web site. 4.2 Using the University’s Libraries Once you have enrolled as a student, you will be able to use the services offered by Library Services across the University. Your University ID card is also your library card and can be used at any library within the University. You will need to obtain and maintain your University username and password to use the various electronic resources available via the University e-Library (within www.arts.ac.uk/library) Research students and staff are entitled to borrow a maximum of 20 items at any one time. Various loan periods are in use so please check due back dates as fines are charged for overdue items. Check due dates via the receipt provided by Self-Service kiosks or electronically via the Library Catalogue. You can renew items you have on loan a maximum of 10 times via the Library Catalogue voyager.arts.ac.uk which is also available on PCs at all University libraries or by the Self-Service kiosks in the libraries. If any items you have on loan have been reserved you will be unable to renew them. Extended loan periods are available for staff or students with disabilities. All students who have registered with the University as dyslexic or with a disability will automatically be entitled to extended loans. There is an item fetching service for next day item collection, if the items are in stock, to put books or DVDs aside for you, or a named helper to collect the next day. Assistance can be provided to enable access to the library catalogue and to electronic resources and assistive software is available in college library spaces. Please contact your college study support, disability and dyslexia support offices to make sure you are registered for these services and visit the library web pages or speak to local library staff for more information. If an item is already on loan to another borrower, reservations can be made via the Library catalogue voyager.arts.ac.uk which is available at all University libraries. You can check whether your reserved item is available on the My Account option on the Library Catalogue and you will also be notified via your university email. Library Services staff roam the libraries and are available to help you. They will do their
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best to assist you in locating material for your research both within the University and outside. Each library has a team of Academic Support Librarians who are professionally qualified and have a wide range of subject expertise. Do ask them for help if you are having difficulty in locating information or need help with using the range of facilities provided within library services. Copies of theses completed by past PhD students at the University are available from the libraries and listed on the library catalogue. Theses are for reference only. ETheses are available on request, via the British Library. Off Campus Access to E-Resources The University is a member of the UK Access Management Federation. This enables the University to authenticate off-campus access to a wide range of online journals and bibliographic databases that are invaluable for research purposes. Most of the resources listed in the e-library can be accessed off campus by users typing in their university network username and password in order to prove that they are members of UAL (see guide in Appendix D). A few resources require their own passwords; please see information posted next to each resource on the e-Library web page. Using Databases and Other Electronic Resources www.arts.ac.uk/library If you want to know whether anyone else has written about elevator design in the 1950s or what Zizek had to say about multiculturalism or if there exists a Lacanian analysis of Louise Bourgeois or who the experts are in game theory... then a bibliographic database is the best place to start your research. As a research student, you need to ensure that you know who has published in your field (s), when and what they had to say, and searching through bibliographic indexes is a fast way to identify other research in your area or related fields. Bibliographic databases will provide you with the reference to a journal article, catalogue or book. You then need to search for the actual item with this information. The e-Library at UAL is an information portal providing a single point of access to resources including more than 100 databases and more than 19,000 e-journals, many of them full text. The e-Library features a Google-style resource discovery system. This service facilitates searching across a range of e-resources and library catalogues. Please see library services web pages for further information. It can also supply RSS feeds to personal accounts to keep you up to date with the latest information in your subject area. A list of useful bibliographic databases and brief descriptions is given in Appendices D and G. You are advised to familiarise yourself with the key resources that are useful to your subject and be aware of their uses and limitations for your research. None of the bibliographic databases listed are exhaustive so you will need to search across a num-
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ber of them to locate useful material and/or reproductions of works (another invaluable resource for your final thesis). If the article you require is not available as full text on-line, or the periodical is not available in hard copy within the UAL libraries you may arrange for an interlibrary loan of the material you require (of articles or books) or locate a library where the material is available. You may also be able to use other university libraries through the SCONUL reciprocal access scheme. (Further information on SCONUL is detailed in a later section of this guide.) Full text resources are becoming increasingly available, and the library subscribes to these wherever possible. Art Full Text is a notable example that provides not only the bibliographic details but in some cases also provides the full text of articles, often giving the option for either HTML full-text, showing keywords highlighted, or PDF of the original article, as it appears in the hard copy journal. The latter is particularly useful for viewing the layout and illustrations in context. Art Full Text also now provides audio files to some articles. However, a quick comparison using the same search term with ProQuest: Art Bibliographies Modern will often reveal a different range of articles from more academic and scholarly journals. The ProQuest platform hosts a number of databases including Art Bibliographies Modern, Arts & Humanities Full Text and Design and Applied Arts Index, which allows you to combine searches across these 3 databases. Good sources of multi-disciplinary full-text articles are Academic Search Complete and SAGE Journals Online, which provides access to many articles in the Humanities and the Social Science fields from over 500 journal titles. Daily newspaper articles are available in full text from Nexis® and full text UK marketing reports can be obtained via the Mintel Report database and Business Source Complete. Many of the social sciences, sciences and engineering databases are now linked to full text online provision of articles from journals published by major academic presses so if your research extends beyond art and design you may find these services particularly useful. You can search for e-journals by title or subject in the ‘e-Journals Portal’ section of the e-Library. You can search for e-databases using by ‘Databases A-Z list’ – soon to be in Libguides. If you are having problems finding relevant material in these electronic resources and are working in the library, please ask library staff to assist you or ask for a demonstration. Interlibrary Loans and Finding Information about Other Libraries Interlibrary loans can be requested through the libraries. Photocopies of articles in journals not held within the University or available on-line via the e-library may be obtained, principally through the British Library Document Supply Centre. Theses, conference papers or books may also be requested through interlibrary loans. Electronic versions of theses are available from the British Library Electronic Theses Online Service. (EThOS)
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Interlibrary loans may take 2-4 weeks to arrive, so please plan your research needs with this in mind. Alternatively, you can search for items on the COPAC union catalogue, a consortium of 27 large university and national libraries at www.copac.ac.uk or you can search InforM25, a consortium of 52 university and other HE libraries within London and the South East, at www.m25lib.ac.uk Further links to many online catalogues for other libraries can be found in the Library Services web pages to help you to locate material you need. Also library staff may be able to refer you to the library that holds the item you require and to advise you about access schemes that can give you reference and borrowing rights at a number of libraries within the UK. These schemes are also listed on the Library Services web pages See Appendix E for a list of specialist libraries and archives for arts, design and communication research. 4.3 SCONUL Access This important scheme provides staff and postgraduate research students registered for a PhD, MPhil or similar qualification awarded purely by research, with borrowing access to participating higher education libraries around the country. Most university libraries in the UK and Ireland participate in this scheme, including the Courtauld Institute, Senate House Library and Kings College, London. Most of these libraries provide free borrowing rights to people registered with the SCONUL Access Scheme although there are a few isolated cases where libraries may charge fees for this. The libraries participating in this scheme and the access rights offered are listed in full at www.access.sconul.ac.uk. If you wish to join the scheme please ask at your college library for further details. Alternatively you can download the application form from www.access.sconul.ac.uk/ users_info/application_html and return it to library staff, who will provide you with your card. Contact any library you wish to visit in advance to find out their arrangements for SCONUL Access visitors. You are advised to take your SCONUL Access card and your University ID card with you. 4.4 Copyright As a researcher an awareness of copyright, data protection and patent legislation is essential to your research and knowledge of copyright restrictions for all formats of material, whether they be printed, audio-visual or electronic, is absolutely critical. Copyright is the right to control the reproduction, distribution, use and manipulation of intellectual property. The Copyright Licensing Agency monitors and advises on copyright in the UK: www.cla.co.uk. A limited amount of photocopying and or copying for individual study is allowed under the licence that the University purchases from the Copyright Licencing Agency. This permits to the following: •
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or extracts amounting to 5% of a book. Number of copies: one copy only should be made by any individual. Artists works: Photographs or art works should not be copied without the consent of the copyright holder. Other unpublished items may be copied under ‘fair dealing’ arrangements. The Library Services web pages contain a set of signposts to up-to-date information on copyright. There are also books on copyright in the University’s libraries that you can consult for more detailed advice.
Obtaining permission to use visual material for your research or for your thesis may not be the same as obtaining permission for publication. Reproduction rights may have to be renegotiated at different stages, depending on the final outcome of your research. Please consider carefully how you intend to use or distribute other people’s work as part of your research project.
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Appendices Appendix A
Libraries within the University of the Arts London See www.arts.ac.uk/library/ for all contact details Camberwell College of Arts Peckham Road, London SE5 8UF Tel: 020 7514 6349 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design Library The Granary Building 1 Granary Square London N1C 4AA Tel: 020 7514 x7037 or x7190 or x7191 Location within building: 2nd and 3rd floor, Granary Building. Learning Zones Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design Library The Granary Building 1 Granary Square London N1C 4AA Location within building: 1st floor, Granary Building. Chelsea School of Art & Design 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU Tel: 020 7514 7773 or 7774 London College of Communication Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6SB Tel: 020 7514 6527 London College of Fashion 20 John Princes Street, London W1G 0BJ Tel: 020 7514 7455 or 7453 Wimbledon College of Art Merton Hall Road, London SW19 3QA Tel: 020 8408 9690
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Archives and Special Collections The University has a state-of-the-art Archives and Special Collections Centre, located within London College of Communication. To make an enquiry please send an email to archive-enquiries@arts.ac.uk The team comprises professional archivists, a part time archive assistant and a manager to support researchers and care for the collections. Currently housed in the Centre are the following collections: C&A Archive The collection contains materials relating to C&A Ltd., clothing retailers and manufacturers. It is rich in visual material related to advertising and store display, 1922-2001. The University of the Arts Archive and Special Collections Centre holds slides, photographs and information on advertising campaigns c1940-1990 and materials relating to the history of the company in the UK, 1922-2001. The London College of Fashion holds a collection of fashion adverts designed by Margrit Seck. The Archive is of use to students interested in the development of retail advertising and point of sales advertising. Charles Pickering Collection Charles Pickering was an Inspector of Education [HMI]. The collection contains material collected by Pickering covering the history of printing, typography and the book trade from the 16th to 20th centuries. It includes early bindings, a collection of posters and memorabilia of the Double Crown Club. There is also material relating to Pickering’s work. The Clive Exton Archive Clive Exton (1930-2007) was a screenwriter for ABC Television’s Armchair Theatre series in the 1960s and in later years wrote for television productions of Jeeves and Wooster (1990-1993) and Poirot (1965-1985). The Archive contains draft screenplays as well as press cuttings and press packs. Comic Book Collection The comic collection includes a wide range of titles from the second half of the 20th century covering UK and US mainstream and underground comics, and other specialist and international publications. There are also graphic novels, a number of strips and related comic ephemera such as posters and free gifts. The collection is an invaluable resource for researchers interested not only in comic graphics but also graphic design and illustration, alternative communication and social trends. Edward Bawden Collection Bawden (1903-1989) was a British painter, illustrator and graphic artist famous for his prints, book covers and posters. The collection contains examples of his design work for commercial companies such as Fortnum and Mason and Transport for London.
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Her Noise Archive The Her Noise exhibition was held at the South London Gallery in 2005 with additional events across other London venues including Tate Modern. It investigated music histories in relation to gender, bringing together a wide network of women sound artists. The Exhibition’s curators conducted dozens of interviews with artists and compiled sound recordings and printed materials which grew to form the Her Noise Archive. The Archive includes over 60 videos, 300 audio recordings, 40 books and catalogues and 250 fanzines as well as administrative records. Hubert Foss Archive Hubert Foss (1899-1953) was a printer and musician. He worked as Musical Editor (1923-1941) for Oxford University Press and was a founding member of the Double Crown Club where printers met and exchanged ideas. His Archive contains material relating to the printing of music, personal letters and booklets, and menus of the Double Crown Club. John Schlesinger Archive John Schlesinger (1926-2003) was an English film and stage director, and actor. His Archive contains storyboards, contact sheets and photographs, posters, press cuttings and equipment, as well as his personal library. Archive material relating to Schlesinger is also held at the British Film Institute Archive. John Westwood Collection The collection contains items, mostly related to printing techniques, typography and design collected by Westwood, a former Head of Design at Her Majesty’s Stationary Office. The items Westwood collected include programmes, invitations and menus as well as posters for European travel, Transport for London, the Post Office and the Ministry of Information. Joy Cuff Archive Joy Cuff trained in design specialising in painting and worked as a sculptor for AP Films in 1964 modelling puppet heads for characters in episodes of Thunderbirds. Between 1966/7 she worked on 2001: A Space Odyssey as Special Effects Department Assistant creating table-top moonscape models and she later worked on films including The Vengeance of She, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Erik the Viking. The archive includes notebooks, sketchbooks, photographs and props relating to Joy’s work. The catalogue can be viewed online. London College of Communication Papers The papers document the history and work of the College and its predecessor bodies from 1893 to the present day. The collection is strong in prospectuses, in-house periodicals such as college magazines, examples of student work, yearbooks and photographs. It also contains some College administrative records. Of interest to students of art and design disciplines are the teaching examples collections of c. 4000 items
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of printed ephemera collected for teaching purposes, this includes celebratory cards, posters, bookplates, printers samples books and examples of graphic work; all of which represent developments in printing and design during the 19th and 20th Centuries, the posters in particular span this period. The collection also contains items collected from other organisations. Of note are boxes of Christmas cards, late 1880s-early 1900s, and calendars printed by Royle Publishing, in the late 1900s. Phillip Knightley Archive Phillip Knightley is a journalist, reporter and previously a special correspondent for the Sunday Times (1965-85). Included in the Archive is correspondence underpinning his books First Casualty, the Vestey Affair and his memoir A Hack’s Progress. Robert Fenton Collection Fenton (1891-1989) was a letterpress printer and teacher .The collection covers his early years when studying at the Aldenham Institute and working for the National Institute for the Blind to his work as a lecturer at the London School of Printing [now London College of Communication]. It includes: material relating to his lessons such as annotations on diaries; and metal type samples. This collection reflects the development of printing and its techniques, and the history of the college where Fenton worked for nearly 40 years. Stanley Kubrick Archive Kubrick (1928–1999) was a photographer and filmmaker. The archive spans the entire of Kubrick’s career from his time as a photographer for Look Magazine to his final film Eyes Wide Shut. The main concentration is of records created during the making of his films. The archive also includes records created posthumously by the Kubrick Estate relating to projects such as the creation of boxed sets of Kubrick’s films, and material relating to the development and pre-production of the unfinished projects Aryan Papers, Napoleon and AI Artificial Intelligence among other prospective projects. The film production material includes records created during the Development, Pre-production, Production, Post-production, Distribution and Marketing of all Kubrick’s feature films, such as draft and completed scripts, research materials including books, magazines and location photographs; set plans, production documents such as call sheets, shooting schedules, continuity reports and continuity polaroids; correspondence, props, costumes, poster designs, posters, film and video material, sound tapes and records, publicity such as press cuttings and magazines; awards and nominations, drawings and artwork and many photographs documenting the making and marketing of the films. The collection is of interest to a range of research disciplines including: costume and set design, photography, model making, screen writing, cinematography, filmmakers and advertising.
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Tell Us About It Archive A joint collaboration between Creative Learning in Practice and the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and the University of the Arts London Diversity Team, the Tell Us About It project explored the positive learning experiences of students with diverse backgrounds. The aim was to extend the range of institutional strategies to support students effectively in their learning and progression. Between 2007-2012 around fifteen students from across the University were involved in the project creating written pieces, photo books, sketchbooks, mind maps, artefacts and DVDs which now form the Tell Us About It Archive. The Thorold Dickinson Collection Thorold Dickinson was a film director and educator. The collection contains Dickinson’s books and periodicals (many of them rare) as well as archives relating to his later career for the United Nations, British government and the establishment of the Slade School of Art’s film department. It includes scripts and treatments, research material, press cuttings, reports, correspondence, course outlines and screening notes. The Tom Eckersley Collection Tom Eckersley was an eminent poster designer throughout mid-1930s until late 1990s. The collection consists of published posters and original artworks from Eckersley’s own private collection. Represented in the collection are works for General Post Office, Gillette, Ministry of Information, The United Nations Children’s Fund, Transport for London, Imperial War Museum, Inner London Education Authority, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), Crisis and World Wide Fund for Nature. There are also magazine covers for example for, The Queen, Graphics 31 and The Director and other printed works such as 1930s illustrations for newspaper stories. There are also posters for Eckersley’s one off shows of his own work and others work. In addition to printed works there are original artworks by Eckersley, these demonstrate Eckersley’s production techniques. Camberwell College of Arts The following collections are available to members of University of the Arts London by appointment. Contact: Gustavo Grandal Montero Tel: 020 7514 6351 Fax: 020 7514 6324 Email: g.grandal-montero@camberwell.arts.ac.uk Artists’ Books This small collection of artists’ books began in the 1990s. It represents the work of Camberwell students, particularly those from the MA Book Arts course, but it also includes a small number of significant examples from external artists and publishers, to support teaching and learning at the College.
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Camberwell College of Arts Archive Collection of primary material documenting the history of Camberwell College of Arts from 1898 to the present. It includes prospectuses, minutes of meetings of Boards of Governors, exhibition and degree show catalogues, photograph albums, private view cards and other College ephemera. The collection is not catalogued, but partial hand lists exist. Please contact Library staff for further information. A more detailed collection level description for this archive is available on the AIM25 website. Access the AIM25 website. Designer Toys Collection New collection of ca. 50 vinyl toys. It includes work by artists and designers active in illustration, animation, graphic design and 3D design, among those James Jarvis, Gary Baseman, Michael Lau or Mori Chack. Walter Crane Collection The collection contains ca. 150 books, including numerous first or rare editions, by and about Walter Crane (1845 - 1915), illustrator, educationalist and social reformer. The collection was given by Lewis F. Day to his god-daughter, and this was acquired by the College for the Library and has since been added to. Items from the collection were part of the South London Gallery exhibition ‘Nils Norman: Geocruiser’ (2001), presenting the work of Walter Crane alongside that of contemporary artist Nils Norman, and also of ‘James Joyce and other stories: books at the London Institute’, an exhibition held at the London Institute Gallery (1999). Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design: Materials & Products Collection The Materials & Products collection is a collection of new and innovative materials which represent current trends in design and manufacturing. The collection also contains a range of resources to help research materials and processes, including suppliers’ and manufacturers’ catalogues, key reference books, magazines and online resources. Jess Lertvilai, Materials Collection Co-ordinator, can provide inductions to the Collection for individuals and for groups of students and staff at UAL. Please contact Jess via materials at csm.arts.ac.uk for more information. Chelsea College of Art and Design These Special Collections are used for teaching, learning, research and curating, and have a strong emphasis on modern and contemporary art. As well as important collections of rare books and periodicals, and catalogues raisonnés, they include:
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African-Caribbean, Asian & African Art in Britain Archive De Appel Archive Artist Placement Group Archive Artists’ Books Collection Artists’ Multiples Collection Bow Gamelan and Paul Burwell Archive CAB Gallery Archive Chelsea College of Art & Design Archive Contemporary Art Slide Scheme (CASS) Archive Coracle Press Ephemera Collection Delfryd Celf Archive Dom Sylvester Houédard Archive Dorothea Rockburne Archive Ephemera Collection Facsimile Sketchbook Collection Gilbert & George Ephemera Collection Henry Moore Archive Ian Hamilton Finlay Archive Inventory Archive Jean Spencer Archive Kurt Schwitters Archive Lawrence Weiner Archive Mariko Mori Archive Nigel Greenwood Gallery Archive Peter Liversidge Archive Stephen Willats Archive Womens International Art Club Archive A 66-page Special Collections Guide (pdf, 8.49MB) published in December 2009 and featuring a preface by Prof. David Garcia, Dean of the College, and a text by Maria Fusco, writer and academic, provides full descriptions of 27 collections. It is also available in print from the library (ISBN 978-0-902612-13-6). The first edition of the Guide (pdf, 6.68MB, ISBN 978-0-902612-08-2) included an essay by art historian and curator Jo Melvin. Access / use arrangements Detailed information about all these collections is available through the Library Services web pages at www.arts.ac.uk/library The collections are available to members of University of the Arts London by appointment. Contact: Gustavo Grandal Montero Tel: 020 7514 6351 Fax: 020 7514 6324 Email: g.grandal-montero@camberwell.arts.ac.uk
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Chelsea College of Art and Design Library 16 John Islip Street London SW1P 4JU London College of Communication A range of exciting collections covering typography, printing and book arts. All collections are accessible by pre-arranged booking via the Library unless otherwise stated. Bess Frimodig Collection Camerawork Archive Catherine Arthur Collection Decorated Books from the Netherlands Edward Clark Collection Film Script Collection Historic Journals Collection Photographic Exhibition Poster Collection Printing Historical Collection Talwin Morris Collection Zine Collection Access/ Use Arrangements Please contact Leila Kassir Tel: 0207 514 6722 Email: l.kassir@lcc.arts.ac.uk Library access enquiries can be made by telephoning 0207 514 6638 or checking the LCC Library webpage. London College of Fashion London College of Fashion has a range of inspiring collections covering all aspects of fashion, including advertising and garments. Business Archives Council Collection C&A Archive Cooling Lawrence & Wells Collection Cordwainers College Archive EMAP Archive Gaiety Girls Gala Collection Hat Collection Hayes Collection of Textiles Hester Borron Collection International Wool Secretariat Photographs (Woolmark Company)
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Jenifer Rosenberg Collection Korner Collection London Alliance of West End Cutters Collection London College of Fashion Archive Louis Bund Collection Mary Quant Make-up Collection Materials Collection Paper Patterns Collection Rare Publications Collection Tailor and Cutter Academy Archive Tailors and Outfitters Assistants’General Friendly Society Collection Women’s Home Industries Archive Access / use arrangements All collections are accessible by pre-arranged booking via the LCF Archive Centre unless otherwise stated. Email:
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Library Services: IT, reprographic and production facilities Camberwell College of Arts Peckham Road Library and Open Access Computer Centre – black and white photocopiers; colour photocopier; video and DVD players; computers (Macs and PCs); black and white laser printers; colour laser printers; scanners. Wilson Road Site Open Access Computer Centre – computers (PCs only); black and white laser printer; scanners. Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Kings Cross Library MFDs which provide black and white/colour copying, black & white /colour printing and scanning; computers (PCs only); video & DVD players; and audio listening facilities. Byam Shaw School of Art – Black and white photocopier; video player. Learning Zone Kings Cross Black and white photocopiers (A3, A4); black and white laser printers (A3, A4); colour laser printers (A3, A4); scanners (A3, A4), desktop computers with screens larger than 24 inches (MAC and Windows); laptops for use in Learning Zone only (MAC and Windows); computer accessories for use in KX (computer mouse; A4 and A5 wacom tablets; USB pen drives; headphones; portable A4 scanners; card readers; dictaphone; video camera); Group study/presentation pods with LCD screens/projectors(bookable); 2 DVD/VHS player/recorders; laminator (A3, A4); paper trimmers (A1 and smaller); spray glue booth; light boxes (A3); cut and paste facilities throughout; adjustable computer table; hearing loop; (as from September 2013) Texthelp Read and Write Gold; (as from September 2013) Inspiration; Adobe Creative Suite; Microsoft Office; Final Cut Pro 7 workstation (bookable); 2 Solidworks workstations. www.arts.ac.uk/library/about/learning-zone/ Chelsea College of Art and Design Millbank Library and Open Access Computer Centre – black and white photocopiers; colour photocopier; video and DVD players; computers (PCs and Macs); black and white laser printers; colour printers; scanners. London College of Communication Elephant and Castle Library – A4 and A3 black and white photocopiers; colour photocopiers. Video and DVD players. Computers (PCs and Macs); MAC laptops for loan within the Library. Black and white laser printers; colour laser printers. A4 scanning facilities for Macs and PCs and A3 scanning facilities for Macs. Loan of card readers and headphones for use within the Library.
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London College of Fashion John Princes Street Library black and white photocopiers; colour photocopiers with usb scanning; PCs, black & white laser printer, colour laser printer, A4 & A3 scanners John Princes Street Reprographics Area (access via the library) serviced photocopiers; guillotine; laminators; binding equipment; video & DVD players; artwork table; slide viewing equipment. Loan of voice recorders, hand held digital camera, USB pp clickers & card readers. Sale of blank CDs & DVDs & tracing paper. Mare Street Reprographics Area Black and white photocopiers; colour photocopier; guillotine; artwork table; laminator; binding equipment. Lime Grove Black and white photocopier; colour photocopier; guillotine; artwork table; laminator; binding equipment. Curtain Road black and white photocopiers; colour photocopier. Golden Lane black and white photocopiers. Wimbledon College of Art Merton Hall Road Library Computer Centre: 2 Black and White photocopiers, 1 Colour photocopier,3 Video and DVD players placed at TV’s, 20 computers (12 PCs and 8 Macs), 1 Black and White Laserjet Printer, 2 Colour Laserjet Printers, 2 A3 scanners, 4 A4 scanners Please also note we have 2 wacom tablets and assistive computer equipment for individual needs.
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Guide to Electronic Resources for Research in Arts, Design and Communication. A selection of useful electronic resources is listed below and many more are available via the e-Library (www.arts.ac.uk/library). Also available are a range of e-journals, many of which provide access to full text electronic journal articles. Full text copies of journal articles are becoming increasingly available and many are accessible via the e-Library. For modern and contemporary visual and performing arts: Arts and Humanities Full Text (ProQuest) • ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) (ProQuest) lists materials from over 500 journals and museum bulletins worldwide from 1969 to the present. • Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective list materials from US and Europe since 1929 to the present, covering exhibitions reviews, features and reproductions plus some books and theses. Selected journal articles are available in full text. • International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA) provides full text articles from a wide range of international journals. For architecture and design: • Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) is a database covering designers, studios, workshops, firms, interior design, architecture, graphic design, fashion, textiles, photography. • PIRA is a printing, pulp, packaging and publishing industries database. • Textile Technology Complete is a bibliographic and full-text database providing extensive coverage of the scientific and technological aspects of textiles production and processing. This collection contains over 400 periodical titles. Other Resources from the e-Library: • Index to Theses at www.theses.com is a list of M.Phil and PhD theses awarded in the Great Britain and Ireland. Some list abstracts. • Nexis® is a full-text database. It provides a 20 year archive of international news papers, professional and trade journals, press releases, web reports and increasingly transcripts of media broadcasts. • Mintel Reports is the key UK market information provider. It gives online access to the full-text of reports covering key market sectors, consumer products and services. The database includes data on the UK consumer markets, and demographic and household expenditure statistics. • ZETOC zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/ is a service that enables you to select journal titles of interest to your research, and receive a table of contents by email when the latest issue is published. • FIAF Index to Film Periodicals is a bibliographical resources offering coverage of hundreds of the world’s most foremost academic and popular film journals right up to the present day. Many of these key titles are available here in full text including complete runs.
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The e-Library provides access to core electronic resources in subjects taught and studied at the University UAL, but is not exhaustive. The British Library has a wide collection of electronic resources, and these are listed on the BL web site at: www.bl.uk/eresources/main.shtml Please see information provided on the British Library web pages about visiting the British Library. British Library holdings include: • International Film Archive • Dissertations and theses • Periodicals Archive Online • The Philosopher’s Index (OVID and CSA) • Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts ASSIA • The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) • PsychINFO (OVID) • American Film Scripts Online • Early Russian Cinema • Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals (further details of these databases are listed in Appendix G)
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Appendix E
Key Libraries and Archives within the UK for Arts, Design and Communication Research. Please see the Library Services web page for a listing of other libraries and archives that may be of relevance to your research. Links to the online catalogues of these libraries are provided where possible. National Libraries: The British Library 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB. (British Library Newspaper holdings at Colindale Ave, London NW9 5HE) www.bl.uk (links to online catalogue) The British Library is the national repository for all copyright books published in the UK. It is a reference only library with material housed in stacks and delivered to readers on request. Average waiting time is 1 hour but access to some specialist material may require a 24 hour delay. You are advised to plan your visits and the books you wish to see in advance by making good use of the online catalogue. Books can be ordered online in advance of any visit. You can apply for a reader’s pass in person or in advance, by post. It is recommended you apply in person and fill out the form electronically when you arrive. They also make a photo of you for the card. Students should bring University ID card and any other course information (such as a letter of registration) when applying for your pass. Other identification is also required: 1. 2.
Proof of your home address, i.e. a utility bill, bank statement, driving licence or national identity card (if address included). Proof of your signature, i.e. a bank or credit card, passport, driving licence or national identity card. Please note that original documents are required; no copies or faxes.
Passes are issued for different lengths of time and issued subject to the Library’s Conditions of Use. If you do not comply with the Conditions of Use your reader pass may be suspended. Other Libraries with National Collections for Arts, Design and Communication: British Architectural Library Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place, London, WC1N 4AD www.architecture.com/ (then follow links to online catalogue). The catalogue also includes an index to articles within architectural periodicals and other specialist services.) The Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects collects material from all over the world in all languages, with an emphasis on the architecture of the United Kingdom.
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Related subjects such as building, civil engineering, and structural engineering, landscape architecture, interior design, town and country planning and construction law are well-covered. In addition to its book collections, RIBA has collections of photographs, manuscripts, drawings and other specialist resources some now held in the V&A and RIBA Architecture Partnership, the Drawings and Archives Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The BFI Reuben Library BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XT http://www.bfi.org.uk/education-research/bfi-reuben-library In the library at BFI Southbank you can access a huge collection of books, journals, documents and audio recordings about the world of film and television. The library collection spans the history of cinema. The priority is comprehensive coverage of moving image in Britain, but the collection is international in scope. National Art Library Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL www.vam.ac.uk/nal/index.html (links to online catalogue) The National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum is a major public reference library for the fine and decorative arts of many countries and periods. The Library contains various specialist collections, including an extensive collection of artists’ books and book art, a collection of trade catalogues from the 19th century to the present day, and acts as a major centre for art sales catalogues from the major auction houses. Before you can consult any of the Library’s resources you must register as a reader. This can be done on your first visit. There are different categories of readers – full details are available on the National Art Library’s website. Some other Specialist Libraries within London: The Library Services web page ‘Other Libraries and Archives’ provides links to many specialist libraries and archives within London and the UK. You are advised to check the online catalogues for these libraries before visiting them. It is worth planning your visit in advance to ensure that you can obtain material at these libraries that could not be found elsewhere. A guide to Libraries for Art History can be found at www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/subguides/artshum/historyofart/ahll Courtauld Institute of Art Somerset House, The Strand, London, WC2R ORN www.courtauld.ac.uk/booklibrary (page links to the book catalogue) www.courtauld.ac.uk/research/photographic/witt/ (no online catalogue for the photographic collections) In addition to a large book library that focuses on the history of art in the western tradition, the Courtauld houses The Witt Library, 2 million photographs cuttings and
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reproductions of paintings from 1200 AD to present day, and The Conway Library, photographs of sculpture and architecture from Ancient Greece to present day, also architectural drawings, manuscripts, stained glass and decorative art from 9thC onwards. The Library is a member of the SCONUL Access Scheme. InIVA Library Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA www.iniva.org/library (page links to online catalogue) The collection focuses on contemporary art from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the work of British artists from different cultural backgrounds. The library is open to the public on a reference only basis. St Bride Printing Library St Bride Institute, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 8EE www.stbride.org/library St Bride Printing Library’s contains world-famous collections covering printing and related subjects: paper and binding, graphic design and typography, typefaces and calligraphy, illustration and printmaking, publishing and book-selling, the social and economic aspects of the printing, book, newspaper and magazine trades. The Library is open to the public free of charge. The library catalogue is available online as part of the Corporation of London’s library catalogue: go to stbride.org and click on ‘search the catalogue’ The Tate Gallery Library Hyman Kreitman Research Centre, Tate Britain, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG www.tate.org.uk/research/ (page links to online catalogue) The Hyman Kreitman Centre houses the library and archive of the Tate Gallery. It broadly covers those areas in which Tate collects: all aspects of British, modern and contemporary art. Limited access by appointment only. Westminster Reference Library Art and Design Department, St Martin’s Street, London, WC2H 7HP www.westminster.gov.uk/libraries/special/artdesign.cfm Westminster Reference Library is a specialist public reference library in London’s West End. It holds key subject collections on art and design and the performing arts The Women’s Library @ LSE http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/newsandinformation/womenslibraryatLSE/home.aspx LSE Library is now managing The Women’s Library Reading Room service following the transfer of ownership from London Metropolitan University in January 2013. The Women’s Library @ LSE is Europe’s largest collection of material relating to the lives of women and is a key part of British heritage. Objects related to the suffrage movement within the collection are already internationally recognised and The Women’s
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Library @ LSE is committed to further enhancing the profile and reputation of this exceptional collection. See the web site for up to date details of access. Key Archives: AIM25 www.aim25.ac.uk/index.stm This site provides electronic access to collection level descriptions of the archives of over 50 HE institutions and learned societies within London and the South East, including the University of the Arts London. Archive of Art and Design Victoria and Albert Museum, Blythe House, 23 Blythe Road, London W14 0QX. www.vam.ac.uk/nal (follow the link for archives) The Archive of Art and Design (AAD) was established in 1978 to house the Victoria and Albert Museum’s holdings of archival material. It collects, conserves and makes available for research the archives of individuals, associations and companies involved in any stage of the art and design process. Particular emphasis is placed on the records of British 20th and 21st century design. Material from all sections of the archive is available for consultation in the Archive Reading Room. Access is by appointment only. The Archives Hub archiveshub.ac.uk/ The Archives Hub provides a gateway to a wealth of archives held in over 200 UK repositories. At present these are primarily at collection-level, although complete catalogue descriptions are provided where they are available. The Hub also hosts monthly online exhibitions. It is part of the UK’s National Archives Network. Artists’ Papers Archives www.hmc.gov.uk/artists This is a computerised register of artists’ papers and primary sources relating to artists, designers and craftspeople located in publicly accessible collections within the UK. Design Council Archive Design History Research Centre, University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 2JY http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/collections/design-archives The Design Council Archive is located within the Design History Research Centre at the University of Brighton. It charts the extensive activities of the Council of Industrial Design, founded in 1944, through to its re-designation as the Design Council in 1972 and its eventual restructuring in 1994. The archive is of importance to historians of design and visual culture and also to economic, business and social historians. It is also a valuable resource for those concerned with the study of material culture and changing
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patterns of design education. The National Archives Off Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ This archive was formed in April 2003 by bringing together the Public Record Office and the Historical Manuscripts Commission. It is responsible for looking after the records of central government and the courts of law, and making sure everyone can look at them. The collection is one of the largest in the world and spans an unbroken period from the 11th century to the present day. Visual Arts Data Service www.vads.ac.uk/ VADS is the online resource for visual artists. It has provided services to the academic community for some 12 years and has built up a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK. VADS also offers advice and guidance to the visual arts research community on all aspects of digital resource management, including preservation. www.vads.ac.uk
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Library Services Projects Herbert Cataloguing Project The University Archives and Special Collections Centre has been working in collaboration with Wimbledon College of Art and the Herbert family, to catalogue and make available the collection of Jocelyn Herbert, stage and screen designer. The Jocelyn Herbert Archive consists of material relating to Herbert’s training at the London Theatre Studio (1937- 39) and her long career as a designer. There are over 4,000 set and costume drawings, production photographs, masks and puppets, research material, sketchbooks and diaries, correspondence and paperwork relating to her roles as a designer. NAM This JISC funded project initially seeks to bring together the photographic archives of Phillip Jones Griffiths, the film archive of Stanley Kubrick, and the journalistic archive of Phillip Knightley in an interactive multimedia resource that looks at the resonances of the conflict in Vietnam today. The project will continue in the future to expand its coverage and critique of the role of media in conflict by adding more resources and critical material. As such, it will be a valuable resource for history, politics, film, photography, media and journalism scholars and students. The resource will be developed by the a team from the Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC) based at the London College of Communication (LCC), University of the Arts London (UAL). The Artists’ Multiples Collection The Artists’ Multiples Collection at Chelsea College of Art and Design Library comprises over 500 artworks produced in a limited edition. The collection is of international significance, with items recently loaned to exhibitions at Tate Modern and the Barbican. The library received two consecutive CLIP CETL small awards to enable the cataloguing of the entire collection and the creation of a visual aid containing photographs of every item. Descriptions of the Artists’ Multiples can be found on the online library catalogue and both UAL and external researchers can view items in the library. DIAD – Digitisation in Art and Design LCC was the lead partner in the consortium of colleges that were involved in this JISC funded project that started in 1995. It is an electronic library containing a digitized record of Design magazine from 1965 to 1974. There are around 100 pages in each magazine, which are available as full screen size black-and-white or colour images. It is available through the AHDS Visual Arts website vads.ahds.ac.uk/resources/DIAD.html
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Other useful bibliographic databases available at the British Library include: The FIAF International Film Archive Database is published by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and contains several databases: • International Index to Film Periodicals • International Index to Television Periodicals • List of Periodicals Indexed • Treasures from the Film Archives • Bibliography of FIAF Members Publications • International Directory of Film and TV Documentation Collections The main database International Index to Film Periodicals contains almost 230,000 article references from more than 300 periodicals. American Film Scripts Online An ongoing project to digitise and thoroughly index 1,000 film scripts. The database is searchable by writers, scripts, scenes and characters. Early Russian Cinema A unique collection of Russian film periodicals published during the last decade of the Tsarist regime. The collection includes sophisticated, bi-monthly periodicals as well as more popular weeklies released by the major Russian film studios. Containing, amongst others, interviews with movie stars and screenplays that are now irretrievably lost, these journals are an invaluable source of information for researchers interested in the silent movie era and Russia’s entertainment industry at the eve of the Revolution. Published by IDC as part of the series Mass Culture and Entertainment in Russia. Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals Covers 42 periodicals published in the United States during the 19th century, and indexes the entire contents of each issue-articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements.Dissertations & Theses. A significant index of North American and European doctoral dissertations and master’s theses dating from 1861 to the present day. Dissertations published from 1980 onwards include a 350 word abstract while Master’s theses published from 1988 include 150 word abstracts. Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI full text) An archive of digitised scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences, full text searching is possible. This resource includes British Periodicals Collection I, comprising over 100 British journals published between 1681 and 1920. (Full text of some of the journals listed is available through JSTOR Arts and Sciences 1 and Business Collection: www.jstor.ac.uk)
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The Philosophers Index A bibliographic database with informative author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy, published in journals and books since 1940. Nearly 570 journals are cited, from 43 countries. Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts ASSIA Covering 650 journals from 1987 in health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional, 312,000 records from journals in 16 different countries, including the UK and US. The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) Is an art history database created by the J. Paul Getty Trust’s Art History Information Program (AHIP) in conjunction with the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique. (INIST) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. It contains abstracts and indexes of current publications in the history of art, including scholarly journals, conferences, book, exhibition reviews, and exhibition catalogues. The records consist of bibliographic citations, abstracts, and indexing; abstracts may be in English or in French, index terms (descriptors) are in both English and French. This information is also available in print with the same title. Prior to the creation of the BHA, this information was maintained in the RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) from 1975 to 1989 and RAA (Répertoire d’Art et d’Archéologie) from 1973 to 1989; these records are also included in this offering. PsychINFO (OVID) The American Psychological Association’s PsycINFO database is the comprehensive international bibliographic database of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Journal coverage, spanning 1872 to present, includes international material selected from more than 1,900 periodicals written in over 35 languages. For a comprehensive listing of electronic resources and journals available in British Library Reading Rooms please refer to the list provided at: www.bl.uk/eresources/dbstptitles/eresourcese.html
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