Category: Research

Design Star PhD Studentships open for applications

The Design Star consortium, which includes Goldsmiths, is opening for applications 12 PhD studentships in its member universities. To be eligible, applicants will need to have been accepted for a PhD at their Design Star institution of choice (the deadline for applications is 27 February 2015). To find out more about the studentships, visit the Design Star website or go to the Open Day at the Open University on 14 January 2015. The contact person for the project is Ella Hutchings (e.hutchings[at]reading.ac.uk).

You can read the full call for applicants here.

 

On “PhD by Design”

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Research student Alison Thomson has sent us a few words on how the PhD by Design conference in November went:

“The PhD By Design conference was held in the department on 6/7 November and went down with huge success. The event attracted over 80 Practice-based PhD design students from over 45 institutions to vocalise, discuss and work through many of the topical issues of conducting a practice-based PhD in Design. The event enabled early career design researchers to explore a variety of aspects of knowledge production within an academic institution.

Some feedback from people who attended:

“That this kind of event is extremely useful as a development process, an exchange mechanism and a way of meeting up with people and so would be a brilliant thing to continue annually.”

“It was so well organised. Thanks one of the best events I’ve been to”

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It was organised by PhD students Alison Thomson, Maria Portugal and Bianca Elzenbaumer who completed her PhD in the department earlier this year. They are now working on how to keep these conversations going through satellite events in other institutions as well as PhD By Design 2015!

You can find out more about the event on its website and also keep up to date with PhD students in the department on their tumblr and twitter: @PhdDesignGold ”

 

 

PhD by Design

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“Phd by Design” is a conference that explores the messiness of practice-based research and it is organised by PhD students from the Design department at Goldsmiths. What’s it all about?
“The aim of this event is to vocalise, discuss and work through many of the topical issues of conducting a practice-based PhD in Design. It will enable early career design researchers to explore a variety of aspects of knowledge production within an academic institution. A secondary aim of the event is to share questions that emerge through doing practice-based research. Some of the questions we aim to tackle are:

+ What counts as practice-based research?
+ What are the politics of designing and conducting practice-based research?
+ Where are the boundaries of theory & practice?
+ How can we make practice-based research accountable?”

The conference will take place on 6 and 7 November this year, and if you want to get involved, as well as find out who else will be there, just go to the Phd by Design website.