Comments on: Performance Media & English Social Café

By: Jon Hickman

Jon Hickman — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:43:23 +0000

Hopefully the caff (as I shall call it) will lead to some projects, partnerships, and outcomes that are a bit more outwardly engaged. But in its self it will no doubt continue in this manner until it has fulfilled its purpose.

It’s more of an incubator than a finished product.

By: Dave Harte

Dave Harte — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:22:30 +0000

Thanks for the clarification. More than happy to hear about it. Sounds good but do open up at some point. In the sector I work in the City still thinks TIC are the only game in BCU worth knowing….

By: Jon Hickman

Jon Hickman — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:35:43 +0000

To add to what Annette has said, but focusing now on the “voice” of this blog: yes this is an externally focused blog.

We are only publishing things on here that have some relevance in terms of explaining the scope of our activity, or communicating with partners current and potential.

Most readers of this post will only have a passing interest in it, and it is aimed more narrowly than other things we publish: at colleagues within our Faculty. While the Faculty is of course internal to BCU, university structures make it is easier to think of Faculty as an external partner, worthy of being communicated with at the same level as groups within the city and beyond.

This event has no other web presence due to it’s very small scale and remit, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worthy of being reported and we’re pleased to host information about the event.

The idea behind this post, and future posts on this event and in this category are therefore two fold:

1) To add to the overall picture of what we do (for when the AHRC, RAE et al take a look)

2) To provide a space for discussion with faculty colleagues after this event (assuming they wish to continue the discussion).

Hope that helps you understand us better!

By: Annette Naudin

Annette Naudin — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:29:35 +0000

In response to your comment Dave – at the moment this is an internal group for us to figure out what research goes on in PME. We are a new faculty – just trying to get to know each other and working out common ground. In time, we may well invite others and use this as a means to communicating and discussing ideas with the wider community.

By: Dave Harte

Dave Harte — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:42:05 +0000

Sounds like a good event. I’m unsure if this blog is about communicating to the outside world or is used for internal communications. Whichever, you’re in danger of making the rest of us feel like we’re on the same train as Woody Allen at the beginning of Stardust Memories.

Widen the events – have a dialogue with the city on these things. Position yourself as the place to talk about this stuff.

By: Jon Hickman

Jon Hickman — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:12:27 +0000

I had some really interesting conversations at the event. In particular, colleagues in English told us about an archive of letters they hold. These letters document the editorial process between authors and publishers in the early 20th century.

We discussed how this might inform a study into the early editorial and publishing practices of the mass media, which we might expect to have been informed by the processes of publishing.

While this wasn’t of direct relevance to my own current teaching and research interests, I can see a scenario in which the availability of this archive material might be of use to other colleagues or students. The Café is important to help develop these sort of ideas.