At MIRIAD where I’ve been doing my PhD for the last year and a bit, I’ve been running a class on blogging with colleagues Hannah Allan and Lewis Sykes. It’s been a great opportunity to learn how other people are using blogs publicly and privately as a way of documenting their research online. It’s also [...]

@the AHRC Digital Transformations Moot, Blackfriars, London

The Digital Transformations Moot yesterday was an  interesting collection of digital art and humanities research projects, talks and discussions from academic researchers, artists, designers, arts institutions and other AHRC partners involved in their Digital Transformations work.

One highlight amongst the many was Professor John Naughton’s keynote. [...]

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You’ve avoided working in 3D, and I read that part of the reason originally was practical, but also there’s an aesthetic there. Could you talk about that?

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I think that you’ve referred to Façade (Mateus and Stern) before as a kind of beautiful failure. It tries to be that, it tries to be the precursor of the holodeck, but it also exposes the [...]

Inger Bewman, AKA The Thesis Whisperer, is at pains to stress that the university is not a meritocracy for scholars. In fact, it is ‘more like a bad boyfriend that doesn’t notice when you’ve had your haircut’. She is making this comparison in her keynote at the  recent Manchester GRADschool 2012 on impact, and her [...]