Arts Research : The State of Play is a major international conference taking place on Thursday 8th and Friday 9th May 2008 Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, examining the future of arts research organised by my school the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media
This major international conference will examine practice-based doctoral research across the performing arts, visual arts, design, architecture and media. Organised by newly-established Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media (GradCAM) and the HETAC Working Group on Practice Based Research the conference “aims to foster a framework of understanding in cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary practice in the Creative Arts and Media.”
Speakers and participants include high profile practitioners, active in design practices, education and performance, across the spectrum of creative arts and cognate disciplines. The programme includes speakers from Denmark, Belgium and Scotland as well as Ireland and will address issues relevant to current researchers, doctoral supervisors, academic and institutional leaders, research funders and policy-makers.
Keynote speakers include Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Chair of Music at the University of Limerick, and Professor Chris Rust, Head of Art and Design Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University.
For full details of the Conference Programme and speakers see the GradCAM website at
