Part 1: What career? Presentations from practice-based/artistic research PhDs

<p>This week's episode is the first of two featuring audio recorded from the CHASE-funded Corkscrew Workshop held in June for practice-based PhD students. The host, Dr Sophie Hope, kicks off by welcoming the participants and provides a short outline of her own doctoral journey. There follow four more short presentations</p> <p>https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004718/sophie-hope</p> <p>https://sophiehope.org.uk/</p> <p>Reflecting on her career, Sophie admits how privilege has informed her decisions without realizing quite how much at the time.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Dr Josephine Coleman</strong></p> <p>https://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/josephine-coleman</p> <p>Jo outlines her doctoral research on community radio and explains that the reason for doing the PhD was primarily because she wanted to teach at a University level. She describes how the process has inspired her teaching practice, bringing reflexivity to her work.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Dr Rachel Hann</strong></p> <p>https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/h/rachel-hann/</p> <p>(See also episode 2 in this series)</p> <p>Rachel discusses the issue of how universities can frame (or struggle to frame) what we are doing through practice research, because the tendency is to be concerned with how much money (and how many students) we are bringing in. And she raises the challenge we face when asked to account for the impacts of our research; since outputs relating to practice are harder to pin down. Rachel is now accustomed to showing/arguing process. She always puts a Research Question at the start of a project to drive her intellectual investigation. Her practice gives the signposts for how she approaches answering that question. She is currently exploring how we stage trans and non-binary feeling and what that means in a critical context at the moment.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Writer Dr Olumide Popoola</strong></p> <p>https://www.olumidepopoola.com/</p> <p>Olumide shares her experience of doing a PhD in Creative Writing at University of