South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership

Flash back to last week when SWWDTP researcher Kerstin Grunwald-Hope was awarded a joint prize for the 2022 Curriers' Company London History Essay Prize.

Needless to say we are tremendously proud of her achievement. 👏 😀

The art of the red nose clown was the focus of a 5 day workshop in Italy that SWWDTP PhD researcher James Oldham attended at the end of last year.

Read how this workshop gave much food for thought for his practice-based research 👉 🤡 https://bit.ly/3JmbxmS

Sublime Stupidity - clowning around in Italy, a workshop on the art of the red nose clown | SWW DTP Studentship In December 2021, I attended a 5-day intensive clown workshop with Giovanni Fusetti in Padova, Italy. The workshop was called ‘The Sublime Stupidity’ and was an exploration of the art of red nose…

Sifting through skulls & teeth in the Natural History Museum, Vienna produced a wealth of data for researcher Felix Sadebeck@FSadebeck's project “Conquest by Cattle” investigating the peculiarities of cattle husbandry in Roman Britain.

Read more here 👇
https://bit.ly/3Ji7iZE

Skulls and Teeth in Vienna - Felix Sadebeck shares his recent field trip experience with us. | SWW DTP Studentship The fieldtrip to visit the Adametz Collection in Vienna’s renowned Natural History Museum yielded the so far most important chunk of data necessary for achieving the first big milestone in my PhD.

researcher Jenny Harper has been sharing the delights of her recent study trip to East Lancashire to celebrate Ethel Carnie Holdsworth.

Find out more about this remarkable woman and Jenny's research focus here 👇
https://bit.ly/3NSD6Yr

Celebrating Ethel Carnie Holdworth on International Women’s Day - Collaborative Doctoral Award student Jenny Harper takes to the road | SWW DTP Studentship My research is centred on the East Lancashire writer Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, who was one of the first British working-class women to be published. She was born in 1886 and despite a prolific career…

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Welcome to the SWWDTP newsletter March 2022 Spring is well and truly with us, and everything from flowers to clubs and theatres are fully open once again. Happily, this includes the SWWDTP. In particular, we are delighted to be running Residential Retreats next month to allow us to get to know one another in person, either again or to meet fo...

researcher Julika Gittner has an exhibition opening in Stratford, London on Saturday 26th March 6-8pm: ‘Objecting’ at CLASSWAROOM.

‘The works explore how sculpture can communicate counter evidence to resist manipulative regeneration tactics. I aim to to counteract the deliberate abstraction and misrepresentation of facts by producing objects from household materials that make the contested data tangible and accessible to non-experts.’



https://bit.ly/3ivjoDK

Vexed history of wax anatomical models stirs artist Sarah Scaife’s practice-based PhD research funded by SWWDTP

Read about how Sarah put the SWWDTP placement funding to use to attend 'Drawing in the Anatomical Zoom room' training which brought performance research and techniques to the medical sector and how it stirred up her enquiry.

Read the full blog here 👉 https://bit.ly/3tHX9jd

📢 Summer Research Festival 2022 'CHANGES' - Call for Papers Now Open! ✨

The 2nd Summer Research Festival has the theme is Changes: Calibration, Rethinking and Adjustment. It follows on from last year’s theme, Futures, in order to allow for conversations on new, re-calibrated approaches to research and re-thinking themes and issues to unveil within the social, economic, cultural and historical background.

‘Changes’ could be a retrospective idea - looking back on differences between the present and the past - or it can be looking to the future with hopes, fears and expectations. When we think historically, we tend to perceive change as a slow and gradual process - however, change today is rapidly accelerating, and if the last few years have shown us anything, it is that tomorrow can look very different from today. Alongside the large-scale global and national changes, we have all made small, everyday, but vital changes to our own lives.

This interdisciplinary festival explores the various attitudes towards changes in terms of their adoption, adaption, effects and measurement. How do we as individuals and as a broader society navigate and perceive change? How might we learn and adapt, and how might past change inform our perspectives? How can we create change for a better future?
As researchers, we feel change is fundamental to everything we study - whether we are analysing changes of the past or looking to propose new changes for the future.

To examine these questions and more, we invite 15-20 minute conference papers, collaborative events, online exhibitions, panel discussion, round tables, workshops, performances, film or any other form of activity based on, but not limited to, the following themes:

>> The ways/circumstances under which communities/people change
>> The ways in which changes can be tracked
>> Attitudes to changes: denying, appreciating, desiring, fearing etc.
>> Adoption of, versus adaptation to changes
>> Temporality of changes
>> Future methods and research practices
>> Artistic representations of changes/transformations
>> Changes in research
>> Measurable and non-measurable changes

The first day of the festival (Thursday 16th) will be entirely online, while the second day (Friday 17th) will be hybrid - both online and in person at a venue in Exeter, as well as being open to the public with free admission.

Abstract submissions - Please submit abstracts or proposals (max. 250 words for a paper, or 350 words for any other type of event) via the Google form link below by Monday 25th April.
https://bit.ly/3svdR5Q

We look forward to reading your abstracts! Feel free to drop us an email with any additional questions: [email protected]

Languages: Past, Present & Future
In-person conference, Bristol 24 March 2022 10:30-16:30

SWWDTP students can book through Inkpath.
All other attendees can book here: https://bit.ly/3h3QHgD

Face-to-face attendance: Languages Past, Present, and Future: Conference Join the inaugural event of the SWWDTP Languages research cluster...introducing Languages: Past, Present, and Future on Thursday 24th March!

Full Switch, the Code-Switch Research Consultancy Programme, a course to boost the employability of PhD & postdoc researchers inside or outside academia.

The programme starts:19 April. Deadline to apply: 6 April.
students can find out more here 👉https://bit.ly/3LO2RZ0

Information Session - Code Switch Research Consultancy Programme Information session about the upcoming Code-Switch Research Consultancy Programme starting on 19th April 2022

Hey SWWDTP folks! Don't forget we've got this gem for you - a training day on self-employment on 29th March - all the ins & outs you need to know. Hear from experts who have been through the process.

students can register here, via Inkpath: https://bit.ly/3HZ9Ufa

Exciting times for the SWWDTP Creativity in Research Cluster with a new website, first blogs and details of its members. We're looking forward to seeing what the future brings.

Find out more here: https://bit.ly/3Bq98W9

Creativity in Research Cluster: An Introduction The SWWDTP Creativity in Research Cluster was founded in 2019 by Sabrin Hasbun, along with a group of other PhD students (including myself) from several different creative disciplines. Initially, our main aim was to investigate the synergies between our different research projects, focusing on pract...