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Phd january session

Saturday 31 january 2026

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phd TALK + WORKSHOPS

 Life outside the academy: reflections on life as an independent artist-researcher a talk by Jo Scott

In this talk Jo Scott reflects on her move from engaging with artistic research as a full-time academic within a university framework to her current positioning as an independent artist-researcher, collaborating with academics, practitioners, third sector and industry.

Entangling research, creation and ecologies: artistic research and creative field work, workshopS by Jo Scott

In this series of three workshops, Jo Scott introduces some underlying principles, ways of thinking and conceptual frameworks for approaching artistic research exploring the ecologies of a place. This involves considering creative practice as a research tool, asking how creative processes can be used to interrogate and investigate the ecologies of a place in a time of ecological and climate crisis.


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STUDENT to Student WORKSHOP
PROTEST WEAVING with BRITTA Fluevog

I am inviting TT students to learn about my research by participating in it. I am hosting a hands-on protest pin making workshop that is geared towards Transart Institute students, but is open to any who wishes to attend. I will discuss this project and how it relates to my other research and what methodologies I use, also speaking shortly about ethical approval. As this is a research project, all participants must fill out a consent form, ideally prior to the workshop. Participant Consent Form: Workshop – Fill in form.

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phd community management session

Monthly online gatherings will emphasize the shared (yet often isolating) experience of pursuing research practice while pursuing in a low residency PhD, through productive complaining, accountability checks and transparency.  Space will be provided within this framework for low-lift student-led initiatives including localized ‘pop up’ residencies and writing retreats/ social gatherings; visiting scholar invitations; student presentations of research ‘prototypes’; and other student-suggested spinoffs of these community gatherings. Absent any similar models of the forms of research being engaged in at Transart, this programming intends to provide useful support to students through comparative standards setting, allowing each students to see and be seen so that ‘success’ in research and writing can be reasonably framed within the context of a low residency doctoral program.

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