What’s it like being a researcher at HARTS? Read and listen to what our post-graduate students have to say about their research, activities, achievements and ideas that matter to them. Our students are a varied bunch that come from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines encompassing theoretical, empirical and practice-based enquiry. Stories is a place where disciplinary boundaries can be crossed and research ideas can be shared across the faculty, fostering knowledge exchange between researchers.
STORIES
THE SHARED EXPERIENCE | A #PGRLife PODCAST
The Shared Experience
In this new podcast series, PAHC PhD candidate Oli Delgaram-Nejad interviews postgraduate researchers to learn about their subject area, specific project, postgraduate journey and experiences of academia. Each episode focuses on a single theme. We talk frankly about our perceptions and reflect upon the consequences of our research. The series is suited to everyone but may be particularly relevant to early-stage PGRs and their supervisors.
You’re most welcome to:
- listen to the #pgrlife podcast (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1153526)
- follow the #pgrlife podcast by RSS feed (https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1153526.rss)
- read my blog (https://www.olinejad.com/blog)
- follow the blog by RSS feed (https://www.olinejad.com/blog?format=rss)
- join my Discord (https://discord.gg/pWhPHGF)
In Episode One we’re joined by Ffion Brown to talk about men’s mental health and postgraduate life in the context of the lockdown.
In Episode Two we’re joined by Jamie Halliwell to talk about qualitative digital research methods and postgraduate life in the context of the lockdown.
In Episode Three, we’re joined by Sarah Pustkowski to talk about video-mediated communication, belongingness, well-being and postgraduate life in the context of the lockdown.
In Episode Four, we’re joined by Martín Azar to talk about interdisciplinarity, private sector opportunities, transnational study, data as currency, and life in the context of the lockdown.
Did you enjoy the podcast? If you're a PGR who'd like to take part, let me know. Spaces for additional guests start from August. I love talking to people about their research, so do share what you're working on. Also, if you've any suggestions for how to improve the podcast format, I'd love to hear from you.
Oli Delgaram-Nejad - OLIVER.DELGARAM-NEJAD@stu.mmu.ac.uk
CONTRIBUTING TO HARTS ONLINE
A great opportunity to informally publish your work, keep the HARTS community up to date and to share experiences and achievements with your fellow students. Anything from conference/book reviews, exhibition images and new work to reflections on academic process, thoughts about your latest reading and opinion pieces are welcome.
Check the 'Harts Online Article Guidelines' below and look out for a rescheduled 'Writing for the Web' workshop in the new academic year. Use the online form on the 'Contact' page or email Lewis Sykes, HARTS ONLINE Coordinator – L.Sykes@mmu.ac.uk to share your story.
Video Voices – A Celebration
PAHC invites you to a celebration of the rich and diverse research conducted by our community of postgraduate research students via a gallery...
Call for Contributions to Podcast Series
From Nick Duffy, PAHC Deputy Head:
Please see below the message from Oliver Delgaram-Nejad, who is starting a new...
Video Voices – A Celebration, Applications open until 19th May
Video Voices – a celebration
PAHC invites you to contribute to a celebration of the rich and diverse research conducted by...
POSTGRADUATE EXPERIENCES
Rebel Dykes, Digital Archives and Sapphic Screenings Under Lockdown
My practice based PhD research focuses on using quilt making as a methodology for re-visioning lesbian archives. Much...
Reflection on the Experience of Conference Volunteering
Reflection on the Experience of Conference Volunteering
Rebecca Wynne-Walsh
One of the many extra-curricular activities...
Surviving Your First Conference
Fredrick Blanc
Postgraduate research is, more often than not, a rather solitary activity. Whether you are reading on a...
OPINION
Have something to say or an issue you’d like to raise awareness about? We welcome opinion pieces, articles and open letters from PGRs and staff about contemporary issues within the Arts & Humanities of interest to the wider PAHC community. Use the online form on the ‘Contact’ page or contact Lewis Sykes, HARTS ONLINE Coordinator – L.Sykes@mmu.ac.uk.
Why should we need to make gender explicit when talking about...
With the emergence of Covid-19, mental health as a topic of discussion has found itself within mainstream media in recent months. While...
Harts Online – Normal Service Will NOT Be Resumed Shortly
An opinion piece by Dr Lewis Sykes, Harts Online Coordinator
It goes without saying that the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has...
To the Holden: Past, Present and Future
machines will watch us die has now ended. A big thank you to all who visited.
With this letter, I want to thank Holden Gallery’s Steven Gartside...
ACHIEVEMENTS & CONFERMENTS
Recent research achievements and conferments from the faculty of Arts & Humanities as well as past details from Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences (HLSS) and Manchester School of Art.
Exciting news re MMU alumna Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi!
Greetings from the Windham-Campbell Prizes at Yale University. I am writing to let you know that a 2006 alumna of the Manchester Writing School...
Conferments: Manchester School of Art
Many congratulations to these students who have recently been awarded a research degree.
Hannah Allan, PhD
The Archival Context of Contemporary Practice: How Might Temporal Artistic...
Research Achievements: Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences (HLSS)
February 2017:
Claire Ellis, PhD candidate, InfoComms, has an article entitled: “Promoting Information Literacy: Perspectives from UK Universities” published in the farewell issue of...