13th January, 2021

How to Make an Ocean: Tears and Technology Read more

My concept “How to Make an Ocean” has been deeply rooted in grieving a loss of 3 people, close to me, in Autumn 2019. I cried many tears in winter months while dealing with this, and at some point I started to collect them in a small container. I was also reading “Flights” by Olga […]

Kasia Molga

15th December, 2020

Diversity in the arts and media Read more

Birmingham City University (BCU) is delighted to be a project partner with TCCE in its exciting new National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange. We’re looking forward to learning from the good practice of other institutions in their knowledge exchange and collaborative research initiatives, and to sharing some of our own experiences. BCU’s Institute of […]

25th November, 2020

Thinking about Leadership Read more

Over the next few months I will be spending some time thinking. Thinking on my own and thinking with other people. Thinking about what might be coming next. Things are very hard at the moment and things are changing. The world is changing, and it will be permanently changed by what is happening globally.  I […]

Dr Rebekka Kill

25th November, 2020

Making sure that inclusive knowledge exchange projects payoff Read more

How do you think about the payoff from your projects?  Perhaps, if you’re an academic, you’ll think about the REF-style ‘impact’ of a research project – the significance and reach of which measures its utility outside of the research community. If you’re used to developing social or cultural projects you’ll be thinking about the effect […]

Dr Mark Gray

5th November, 2020

An Adventure toward Equity in Higher Education and Research Read more

Is this a moment in history when there is just no appetite for an adventure? As the sun streams in through my living room window, it’s almost possible to forget that we are preparing for winter and yet another lock down, which may further buffet our already fragile existence in and outside of the academy. […]

Pauline Rutter

4th November, 2020

Hardcore Continued Read more

About halfway through my PhD at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, in 2015, I was Researcher in Residence at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, supported by Creativeworks London, AHRC and European Development Fund. One output was a short series of essays to accompany the ICA’s archival exhibition, Shout Out! Pirate Radio in the […]

Will Dutta