The SMARTlab PhD Programme

SMARTlab are running three yearly seminar sessions for their PhD students from around the world at UEL, London.

As well as giving students ample time for both one-to-one peer support and ideas exchange within the international group, the SMARTlab seminar week also includes a series of talks and seminars designed to meet the needs of each student.

The seminars cater to the wide range of subject areas, fields of research and specialities of our students. The current session aims to get back to basics and explore the nature of a practice-based PhD and the aim for an original contribution to knowledge in cross-disciplinary fields. The week-long programme also includes practical and academic advice on theory, writing and funding, as well as discussion, debate, and special events.

The seminar also gives students the chance to gain supervision with their supervisors across the different schools of UEL.

Artists, and indeed technologists working in artistic domains, have long encountered difficulties in placing their work in relation to the academy: in finding appropriate ways to measure artistic practice in research exercises, in identifying appropriately flexible and experimental forms for artistic research processes and outcomes, and in competing for academic funding as well.

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