Associate Professor
Art, Design and Architecture
Plymouth University
United Kingdom
She is a Principal Supervisor of The Planetary Collegium, an International Research Platform which promotes the integration of Art, Science and Technology and Consciousness Research under the rubric of Technoetic Arts. It is based at Plymouth University and has nodes in Lucerne, Trento and Shanghai. Currently there are 43 Doctoral candidates enrolled in the Collegium and 53 Ph.D graduates since its original inception. Since 2010 I have worked with PhD students at sessions in Trondheim, Kefalonia, Shanghai, Cairo, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and Prague. The Planetary Collegium was the winner of The World Universities Forum Award for Best Practice in Higher Education in 2011.
She is a co-director of the Art and Sound research cluster in the School of Art and Media at Plymouth University. There are many aspects to my role including research mentoring, advising with management of publication,grant proposal writing, and public dissemination of work. We operate a regular formal research meeting, which includes opportunities for staff and research students who are located in the Art and Sound Research Cluster to present on-going research. My role as co-director of the Research Cluster involves the organising of research seminars across disciplines and inviting speakers. I have organised and chaired several Research Symposia including Neuro Arts Plymouth (2010 and 2012) NeuroArts Istanbul 2014, NeuroArts: Noise in Sydney 2013 and The Undivided Mind, Plymouth 2015, the proceedings of which I was asked to curate as Guest Editor of a Special Issue of the Journal, Technoetic Arts (The Undivided Mind 2016). We also work collaboratively with Regional Institutions including the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery where we co-produced theArtists Rooms locative sound exhibition at alongside Gerhard Richter’s work. This project involved the coming together of several distinct Institutions within the city in addition to the City Museum; The University, The College of Art and dbs Music.