Doing a Doctorate!

Have you ever wanted to broaden your horizons, fast-track your career or enrich your understanding of your area of specialism? If the answer to any of these question is ’Yes’, then Friday 16 May is a date to put in your diary to join staff and students at University College Falmouth for an exploratory research study day.

The day will be hosted by Course Leader Fiona Hackney and students of MA Twentieth Century Art & Design: Histories & Theories and supported by the Department of Learning and Teaching at University College Falmouth, and aims to explore what doing doctoral research means from the student's point of view.  Involving five case-study presentations from students working in a range of disciplines - from art to science - at different institutions, and at different stages of the research and writing process, it will provide insights both into specific research projects, and the experience of carrying out doctoral work. 

The day begins with a presentation from Dr. John Butcher, Director of Learning and Teaching, who will talk about the tricky business of forming a research question, whilst Dr. Robin Kirby, will provide information and ideas on the important question of how to fund doctoral research, a particularly important subject for those committing to post-graduate study. 

There will be a number of student presentations on the day including Mark Hobbs, a graduate from MA Twentieth Century Art & Design who is currently in his second year of study in the art history department at the University of Glasgow, will talk about visual representations of Berlin's working-class districts in the 1920s and ‘30s.

Isabelle Risner, a practice-based research student at UCF, will discuss the integration of digital technologies in designer-maker practice and two other graduates from the art and design history course, Peter Kwee and Jason Bate, who are in the first years of art history PhDs, will speak about their projects: the illustrated Book in Surrealist practice and First World War photographs of facial injury.  To complete these presentations, Jake Boex from University of Exeter will talk about his research on ice sheet dynamics in South America. 

The study day aims to highlight students' doctoral research, share good practice and establish links across disciplines.  It is open to all students and staff at UCF, Exeter and Dartington, as well as the general public and anyone who is interested in doing doctoral work. 

Anyone interested in attending the day should contact Fiona Hackney on 01326 213834 or email her at fiona.hackney@falmouth.ac.uk. 

University College Falmouth has a vibrant graduate community and encourages doctoral proposals on a wide range of research topics within the arts. For further information about MA 20^th Century Art & Design at University College Falmouth, please visit http://web4.falmouth.ac.uk/20centuryartdesign, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk, or telephone Admissions on 01326 214360. 

In April 2008, University College Falmouth merged with Dartington College of Arts to create 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 merger will pave the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall in 2012, creating a Higher Education institution unique to the South West. 

University College Falmouth 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), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council. 

For further information about MA Twentieth Century Art & Design: Histories & Theories at University College Falmouth, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/20centuryartdesign, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 213854. 

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For further information about University College Falmouth, please contact Jilly Easterby, Head of Public Affairs, Telephone: 00 44 (0)1326 213792; or email:  jilly.easterby@falmouth.ac.uk

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