We are delighted to invite researchers, scholars, artists and practitioners from any field engaged with music to participate in the GRS Spring Course 2024. The course will be offered as a blended learning course integrating online and in-person activities.
This course will focus on issues of communication and dissemination in practice-based, artistic and academic research in the arts. Through engagement with a diverse range of presentational formats and media, the course will offer a space for researchers to present project work, gain feedback and discuss the wider issues around what, how, why and with whom researchers communicate.
The ability to communicate with a diverse array of audiences and stakeholders is now accepted as an essential component of research work in any field. On the one hand, effective research communication is seen as crucial to sustainability, in the way it makes knowledge accessible, supporting research-led pedagogy whilst increasing public awareness and influencing policy. Yet the way researchers represent their work, and those they research, raises a complex array of practical, philosophical, and ethical challenges.
This course offers Ph.D. candidates, Post Docs, and senior researchers the opportunity to share their own research dissemination work. All formats are welcome including, but not limited to pre-recorded short talks and PowerPoint lectures, long and short format films, photo essays, artistic performances and exhibitions, sound essays, websites, audio or visual podcasts, blogs, vlogs and/or other forms of social media content.
The course is organized with synchronous and asynchronous activities to maximize accessibility for those wishing to participate.
- All participants will be invited to submit a digital presentation related to their research which will be made available as part of the new GRS Living Library platform. The platform will be available to anyone registered for the course.
- Synchronous activities will take place on 17th-19th June at the University of Stavanger and will feature discussions, feedback, and knowledge sharing related to the digital submissions. This in-person event will also include talks and debates in addition to hands-on workshops sessions focused on film making, visual documentation, and podcasting, respectively. This is planned as an in-person event with all sessions recorded and made available in the GRS Living Library platform asynchronously.
- Ph.D. candidates who are members of GRS consortium will be offered mentorship support and technical assistance in developing their digital content for their presentations. Please contact Jill Halstead for more information.