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2019 Challenges of Doctoral Supervision
Challenges of Doctoral Supervision was the first event organised in the frame of the Erasmus Plus Strategic Partnership Project Advancing Supervision for Artistic Research Doctorates. On 24-25 September 2019, ELIA and the project partners hosted the international meeting, which took place at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart, Germany. Advancing Supervision for Artistic Research Doctorates produces intellectual, ready-to-use outputs for those involved in doctoral supervision across all artistic disciplines. The event Challenges of Doctoral Supervision sets the basis of the first project phase Setting the framework, and focuses on two strands:
Moderated by Kerstin Mey, the opening panel Triangulation in Doctoral Supervision: Challenges between interdependency and autonomy engages a discussion among representatives of the triangular doctoral framework: PhD student – Supervisor – Institution. Thanks to the cooperation with ELIA and the project partners, this event attracted a wide group of stakeholders from the higher arts education sector; particularly, students, supervisors, university leaders, and policymakers. Furthermore, the conference Challenges of Doctoral Supervision was organised in conjunction with the ELIA Academy, a unique, lifelong learning experience for academic and research staff, which explores emerging teaching and learning practices in the arts. For more info about the project please visit the website Advancing Supervision for Artistic Research Doctorates. Speakers & ModeratorsIn the opening panel Triangulation in Doctoral Supervision: Challenges between interdependency and autonomy representatives of the three dimensions of the triangular doctoral framework came to discuss the Challenges in Doctoral Supervision. Moderator:Kerstin Mey is a Professor of Visual Culture and Vice President Academic Affairs and Student Engagement at the University of Limerick since April 2018. Mey was also the Director of CREST and Vice-Chair of CHEAD and served on the Austrian Science Board. She currently serves the ISEA International Advisory Committee and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Irish Chamber Orchestra. PhD student perspective:Masha Godovannaya is a visual artist, queer-feminist researcher, and a PhD-in-practice candidate at Institute of Fine Arts, Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria. She holds MFA degree in Film/Video from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, USA, and MA in Sociology from European University in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her artistic and scholarly practices are closely connected to artistic research and draw on intersections of moving image theory, social science, queer theory, decolonial methodologies, and contemporary art. She is a co-founder of a queer-feminist affinity art group “Unwanted Organisation”, St. Petersburg, Russia. Supervisor perspective:Ellen J Røed is employed as a Professor of Film and Media for the profile area Art, Technology and Materiality at Stockholm University of the Arts. Røed is a visual artist and has made video, electronic/digital art and audiovisual installations within a variety of cross-disciplinary contexts since 1995. During recent years she has engaged in developing the frameworks that enable and support artistic research, in particular in the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme. Institutional perspective:Susannah Thompson is the Head of Doctoral studies at The Glasgow School of Art. She is an art historian, critic and writer based in Glasgow. Her research interests are in the broad area of visual culture, with a particular emphasis on contemporary art, feminist art practice, art criticism and expanded forms of art writing. Her current projects include a co-edited collection of essays on painting in Scotland in the mid-twentieth century, a book chapter on the role of boarding houses and spinsters in the novels of Muriel Spark, and ongoing work on the theme of art history writing as a creative practice. VenueThe event was held at State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart, Urbanstrasse 25. State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart is located next to the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart along Stuttgart’s “Culture Mile”.
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