Upcoming events
Past event highlights
Using Imposter Methods
12 June 2024 | School of Law and Social Justice Building
What are imposter methods? This workshop explored how imposter methods – research techniques that attend to imposter positions as generative locations of knowledge production – can enable more survivable ways of knowing and being in academia. The aim of the workshop was to explore how thinking with imposter ‘syndrome’ can be a fruitful way to question who and what is welcomed into research, conditionally or tokenistically included, kept or forced out.
The Social Life of Creative Methods
11 June 2024 | School of Law and Social Justice Building
The Social Life of Creative Methods increased understanding of creative and artistic methods by showcasing the uses of collaborative film making practices as an innovative methodological approach for health and well-being research. Bringing together researchers in the social sciences, arts and humanities, artists and practitioners who deploy arts methods and filmmaking, the event outlined the use of creative methods and interdisciplinary methodologies for PGR’s and early career academics interested in, and engaged with, creative methods.
Culture is NOT an Industry
6 March 2024 | School of Law and Social Justice Building
Join Justin O’Connor, Professor of Cultural Economy at University of South Australia and Visiting Professor School of Cultural Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University, in conversation with Dr Peter Campbell, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology.
Culture is at the heart to what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as 'creative industries', valued for their economic contribution, and set out to launch the UK as the creative workshop of a globalised world. Where does that leave art and culture now? Facing exhausted workers and a lack of funding and vision, culture finds itself in the grip of accountancy firms, creativity gurus and Ted Talkers. At a time of sweeping geo-political turmoil, culture has been de-politicised, its radical energies reduced to factors of industrial production.
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