seminars

 

 

ongoing fortnightly seminar series

 

 

Seminar groups meet fortnightly.

Seminar groups meet not only for discussion, but also for practical work.

 

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On this page there is information about research seminar series and other special workshops organised through the graduate school. If you would like to collaborate with the school in realising a meeting of a particular seminar group - or if you would like to develop anew seminar strand through the school - please contact the school administrator at aidan.mcelwaine@gradcam.ie

 

 

The seminars are the key means by which we develop collaborative initiatives and group work as part of the structured doctoral programme. They are also a means to promote cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary dialogues and to engage with colleagues from other institutions. It is intended that new and distinct seminar groups will emerge over time from researchers' own interests and concerns. The programme began with two discrete seminar series in spring semester 2008: (i) the everyday: from praxis to the infra-ordinary and (ii) thinking the ‘event’: Badiou, Deleuze, Agamben, and Ranciere. However, as the programme has evolved new seminars have been initiated which will be progressed through 2009. Participants in the core programme are expected to participate in a minimum of one seminar series on a regular basis, however, all participants in the School are welcome to attend all seminars. To facilitate this option we will - wherever possible - hold seminars at different times to allow attendance at all seminar events for those who so wish.

 

We are currently working with teaching and learning and elearning specialists to develop distance-mode participation in the seminar processes.

 

 

new seminar series in development

 

  • in development for 2009 - design: paradigms for design and material research
  • mooted for development in 2010 - organised labour: culture, dissent, and memory
  • mooted for development in 2009/2010 - politics, culture, death: mortality and cultural enquiry

 

inter-institutional thematic workshops

 

These are workshops that bring key researchers from across the partner institutions together to identify future directions in respect of key research thematics.

 

 

 

early-stage researcher seminars

 

These are occasional interdisciplinary seminars that focus on generic themes of relevance to all early-stage researchers.

 

 

 

users or modalities: paradigms for design research

 

In development for Autumn 2009. Dr. Lisa Godson.

Find out more...

 

 

curriculum development and the 'learning outcomes' paradigm

 

GradCAM, Thursday 12/2/09 Johns Street School.

 

This is a practical workshop in developing and writing up new curriculum content and structure based on 'live' research. An introduction to critical curriculum studies is also provided.

Workshop Team: Dr. Elaine Sisson, Martin McCabe, Kevin Atherton and Dr. Mick Wilson

Guest Speaker: Nuala Hunt, Head of Centre for Continuing Education in Art & Design, NCAD

We aredelighted to have Nuala Hunt kick-off the workshop by providing the introductory presentation on 'learning outcomes' drawing on her extensive workin this area at NCAD and elsewhere.

Nuala's slides here. Learning Outcomes (posted shortly)

Elaine's slides here. On Writing A Module # 1

Some notes introducing issues in Curriculum Studies.

 

curriculum development workshop #2

 

GradCAM, Friday 22/5/09 Johns Street School, 10:00-12:30

 

This is the second practical workshop in developing and writing up new curriculum content and structure based on 'live' research. This workshop will specifically address the development of new teaching and learning initiatives including: summer-school models; piloting experimental undergraduate teaching and learning; research teaching for both taught and research masters programmes.

 

peer review and the humanities – challenges, opportunities and future vistas

 

UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland and Gradcam Collaborative Seminar

UCD HII 12 March 2009 3-4 pm

 

 

Keynote speaker: Professor Shearer West,
Director of Programes, Arts & Humanities Research Council and Professor of Art History, University of Birmingham

 

Respondents:

Professor Desmond Fitzgerald, Vice-President for Research, UCD

Dr Mick Wilson, Dean GradCAM

Moderated by Dr Marc Caball

 

A special online resource on issues pertaining to peer review and academic publishing is available.

 

 

 

career pathways for early stage humanities researchers

 

UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland and GradCAM Collaborative Seminar

Thursday 7 May 4pm-5pm Room H204, UCD HII

 

Dr Marc Caball (UCD), Dr Tom McCarthy (IMI), Dr Porscha Fermanis (UCD),
Dr Francis Halsall (NCAD/GradCAM) and Dr Mick Wilson (GradCAM)

 

Keynote speaker: Dr Tom McCarthy
Chief Executive, Irish Management Institute

 

Respondents:

Dr Porscha Fermanis, UCD School of English, Drama & Film

Dr Francis Halsall, Faculty of Visual Culture, NCAD

Moderated by Dr Marc Caball (UCD) and Dr Mick Wilson (GradCAM)

 

 

design / technology / innovation

 

Thursday 5 Feb 2009 10:00-12:00 IADT CCTA

 

Colleagues from across the partner institutions meet to discuss future lines of collaborative enquiry. Facilitated by Dr. Mark Riordan and Dr. Mick Wilson

 

 

Participants included: Dr. Siun Hanrahan, Ron Hamilton, John O'Connor, Cearbhall E. O’Meadhra, Dr. Brian O'Neill, Eoin Kilfeather, Charlie Pritchard, Dr. Gearoid O'Conchubhair, Simon Dennehy, Katharina Pfuetzner, Joachim Pietsch, Dr. Timothy McNichols, Sorcha O'Brien.

 

The discussion engaged issues of emergent research priorities; the multiplicity of design as a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary construct; access; competing definitions of usability across domains e.g. HCI, product design, service design, universal design, multi-modal design; key points of research thematic confluence and convergence; economic contribution of research thematics and associated outputs; social inclusion and 'disabling' social formations that fail to design appropriately and flexibly; value of inter-institutional framework; potential points of growing collaboration and recurrent issues in current research landscape; contribution of material and visual culture, design history, technology history etc.; virtual worlds; social networking; massive multi-user online communities; second life and 'virtual' or 'networked' economies; mixed reality; ubiquitous computing; technology-push versus user-pull; mass-customisation; success and failure in national infrastructural projects; aand the centrality of 'people' in conceiving the design mission.

Dr. Mark Riordan and Dr. Mick Wilson have agreed to draft a provisional thematic remit for collabortaive research and seek feedback from colleagues present and those unable to attend but wishing to actively participate.

 

 

 

research trends in material and visual culture

 

Tuesday 10 Feb 2009 15:00 - 17:00 NCAD Conference Room 1, Thomas St. Dublin 8

 

 

Colleagues from across the partner institutions meet to discuss future lines of collaborative enquiry. Facilitated by Dr. Elaine Sisson and Dr. Siun Hanrahan

Participants included: Dr. Siun Hanrahan, Dr. Paul O'Brien, Dr. Elaine Sisson, Dr. Francis Halsall, Niamh Ann Kelly, Dr. Lisa Godson, Declan Long, Kevin Atherton, Dr. Linda King, Martin McCabe, Dr. Una Walker, Mary Ann Bolger, and Dr. Mick Wilson.

 

The discussion engaged issues of emergent research priorities; disciplinarity; depth of research expertise; successes already achieved in postgraduate space by existing programmes; interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes; changing doctoral researcher profiles; profile of research students integrally engaging both theory and practice; institutional and sectoral specificity; key points of research thematic confluence and convergence; social, economic and cultural contribution of research thematics and associated outputs; value of inter-institutional framework; role of modular architecture in enabling both deep and narrow niche specialisms and over-arching thematic coherence; potential points of growing collaboration and recurrent issues in current reserach landscape of material and visual culture etc.

Martin McCabe, Dr. Elaine Sisson and Dr. Siun Hanrahan have agreed to draft a provisional thematic remit for collabortaive research and seek feedback from colleagues present and those unable to attend but wishing to actively participate.

 

growing a research agenda: creative + critical pedagogies / cultural particpation

 

Monday 16 Feb 2009 Square 14:00-16:00, Room 205, DIT Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1

 

Colleagues from across the partner institutions meet to discuss future lines of collaborative enquiry. Facilitated by Martin McCabe and Kevin Atherton

 

architectural research in an interdisciplinary context

 

Tuesday 17/2/09

 

A workshop with UCD architecture on the potential directions for architectural research in interdisciplinary contexts.

 

competing conceptions of 'usability' and the 'user'

 

Date to be arranged - 2009 IADT CCTA

 

A symposium realised on an inter-institutional and interdisciplinary basis to foster better understanding across disciplines operating with reference to various understandings of usability, multimodal design and 'people-centric' ('user-first') approaches to technology application, product and service development and environmental and process design.