UCF Lecturers awarded Doctorates

Congratulations to BA(Hons) Fine Art and MA Illustration: Authorial Practice Lecturer, Neil McLeod and Senior Lecturer in BA(Hons) Theatre, Misha Myers, on the completion of their PhDs.

Neil completed his practice-led thesis, Narrative in the Margins, which explored the temporal and spatial properties of visual notation at The Glasgow School of Art. It also considered the function of the poetic within the context of an academic research framework. The examiners praised Neil's thesis, describing it as one of the best submissions they had received.

Misha's practice-as-research project, Homing Place, proposed a transferable participatory methodology of performance and research activated through dialogical walking practices. Misha completed her PhD at Dartington College of Arts, now part of University College Falmouth, and the examiners commented, "This thesis is a well guided exploration with deepening context and expanding reference, in particular in relation to its proposals for techniques of homing tales and conversive wayfinding."

For further information about BA(Hons) Fine Art at University College Falmouth, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/fineart, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 214376.

For further information about MA Illustration: Authorial Practice at University College Falmouth, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/authorialillustration, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 214372.

For further information about BA(Hons) Theatre at University College Falmouth, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/theatre, email admissions@dartington.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01803 862224.

University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name. It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns, and jointly manages with the University of Exeter) - and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.

This merger created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2012/2013 that will be unique to the South West.

The College is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One and Convergence), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall Council.

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For further information about University College Falmouth, please contact Jilly Easterby MCIPR, Head of Public Affairs, Telephone: 01326 213792, or email: jilly.easterby@falmouth.ac.uk

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