BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-// BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:19700329T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts and Creativities Research Group SUMMARY:Doctoral Student Lunch Seminar: Rigour versus agil ity: Where does the self end in practice-led resea rch? - Portia Ungley\, Director of Learning and Te aching\, Critical Studies and Creative Industries DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180606T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180606T140000 UID:TALK106069AT URL: DESCRIPTION:Using one’s own practice as primary research offer s immense potential but how do you stop it becomin g self-indulgent and methodologically uncertain? A s Mitch Allen describes the goal of an autoethnogr apher\, you must "look at experience analytically. Otherwise [you're] telling [your] story—and that' s nice—but people do that on Oprah [a U.S.-based t elevision program] every day. Why is your story mo re valid than anyone else's?” (Ellis\, Adams and B ochner 2011) In this talk\, I will consider how my teaching practice aligns with my research project \, and offer a series of interventions I have deve loped to stop the agility of working with students confusing the rigour of working towards a profess ional doctorate\; these include metaphorical coher ence\, teaching generated research\, collaborating with students on curriculum and delivery\, and fl exibility of programme. \n\nPortia is currently st udying for a professional doctorate in education l ooking at the role of arts education and critical thinking in the TEF era. She is the Director of Le arning and Teaching for the School of Critical Stu dies and Creative Industries\, Kingston School of Art\, Kingston University\, one of the leading HE art schools in the UK. Her research and practice a re situated at points of uncertainty\, where ideas get messy and unclear\, where they flex and mutat e. In terms of educational practice\, this means p ushing for student experience while maintaining ac ademic rigour\, adopting new technologies while re taining core soft skills\, and engaging with metri cs while not being led by them. In terms of educat ional research\, this means acknowledging the prob lematic nature of the arts in current governmental rhetoric and using language accessible to those i n less creative disciplines to reinforce its impor tance for students\, education and society.\n LOCATION:Mary Allen Building\, Homerton College\, Hills Roa d\, room 106 CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR