Arts and Culture University of Exeter Creative Fellowships 2020-21
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Arts and Culture University of Exeter Creative Fellowships 2020-21 Exploratory placements over 4-5 weeks, working in interdisciplinary contexts Introduction Arts and Culture Creative Fellowships offer creative practitioners the opportunity to engage with innovative research across the University of Exeter’s colleges and campuses. They are open to practitioners of any artform, including visual, digital, sound and performing arts, craft, design, film, literature and music. Rather than being a residency, these opportunities are described as placements. The creative practitioner is a peer, opening up new approaches and conversations with the University hosts while developing and enriching their own creative practice. This scheme encourages mutually-beneficial exchange, where both the host and the creative practitioner gain new insights and potential ways of working. The role of an Arts and Culture Creative Fellow The Creative Fellowships address the three aims of the Arts and Culture strategy: to develop purposeful encounters; enrich our cultural environment; and unlock resources and potential. The emphasis is on process, so documentation and evaluation will be intrinsic to project delivery, and we will be making short two-minute films summarising each Creative Fellowship. We anticipate that the Creative Fellow will work closely with Arts and Culture to disseminate their work with a broad audience, across the University and the region. The Creative Fellow will be introduced to key contacts working on a specific area of research. They will be supported to work alongside these research communities, producing creative outputs that investigate and interrogate the processes and practices of research undertaken at Exeter, using creative skills and supporting the aims of the University. On a practical level, this may involve attending informal department meetings, working with students and audiences, building 1-1 relationships with particular researchers and exploring novel perspectives on the activities that support the University’s work. It is important that a Creative Fellowship builds towards a tangible outcome that communicates the value of the project. Last year’s Creative Fellows were Lea Anderson, Alex Julyan and Domenico Vicinanza: https://www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/creative-fellowship/embodied-viewing https://www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/creative-fellowship/public-involvement-in-public- health-knowledge-mobilisation https://www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/creative-fellowship/human-movement- translating-data-into-art
The University and its Campuses
The University of Exeter’s campuses in Devon and Cornwall host around 22,000 students.
There are two campuses in Exeter (Streatham and St Luke’s), one in Penryn, and one in
Truro. The Streatham campus also holds the Northcott Theatre and the Bill Douglas Cinema
Museum. Further information on the campuses can be found at
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/life/ourcampuses/
Creative Fellowship Aims
• Connect individuals and disciplinary perspectives within the University through
creative engagement and outputs.
• Advocate for artistic processes and creative methodologies within the context of a
research intensive university.
• Work with specified research institutes, looking at interdisciplinary process.
• Document processes and ways of working using creative practice.
• Develop a tangible outcome that communicates the process of the Creative
Fellowship.
Outputs and Timetable – working in the context of Covid-19
The timing and detail of outputs are to be developed in discussion with hosts. No two
Creative Fellowships are the same and we are committed to an open and process-driven
approach.
The Creative Fellowship runs over a period of 4-5 weeks to be agreed with the University
of Exeter, split between in-situ research and production time. The Arts and Culture team
also aims to work with the Creative Fellows to offer dissemination events and activities to
showcase the process and resulting works. Our usual preference is for the research and
production time to be delivered Oct-Feb, with 1-3 events delivered Mar-Jun. In light of
Covid-19, we cannot predict when in-situ and remote working will be needed, but are
anticipating a blended approach. We will be flexible with the timings of the delivery – the
only caveat is that the project is completed within the 2020-21 academic year.
The fee covers the period from September 2020 to early July 2021.
Budget
The total budget per Creative Fellowship is £5,000 (inclusive of VAT). This must include
the practitioner’s fee, equipment, travel and accommodation, production costs and own
documentation. The Arts and Culture team will support additional expenses including film-
making and photography, event planning and delivery, promotion, and dissemination.Required Skills and Experience
• Experience of arts placements or residencies with non-arts professionals.
• Ability to plan and deliver projects to deadlines.
• Strong interest in use of creative processes and application of artistic insights and
behaviours in diverse contexts.
• Collaborative and enquiring outlook.
• Willingness and ability to spend time on the University of Exeter campuses
(dependent on Covid-19 restrictions).
Application Process
Three Creative Fellowships are being offered in the 2020-21 academic year –we are
advertising for TWO of the placements in this brief, and the third will follow in the next
couple of weeks. Details of all three Creative Fellowships have been included so that artists
can make informed choices about which strand to apply to. Following a call out across the
University in spring 2020, three institutes/cross-departmental groups were selected to
each host a Creative Fellow. Practitioners from any creative discipline are invited to apply
and will be selected following interview.
The interview panel is Professor Stephen Hodge, Academic Director for Arts and Culture,
Sarah Campbell, Associate Director for Arts and Culture, and the Lead Contact for the host
institute/cross-departmental group.
Apply by sending a one page written response (with up to six supporting images, or link to
one video file if appropriate), plus a CV to R.G.L.Day2@exeter.ac.uk by Friday 19 June
2020. Please specify which of the TWO Creative Fellowships you are applying for, and
what you would contribute to a mutually-beneficial exchange of knowledge and practice.
The two Creative Fellowships in this callout are Antimicrobial Resistance Network and The
Politics of Sexual Nature.
Please see the relevant appendices below for details on each of the three hosts.
Interview dates
Antimicrobial Resistance Network Mon 6 July Zoom link to be sent to
candidates, remote interview.
The Politics of Sexual Nature Thurs 9 July Zoom link to be sent to
candidates, remote interview.
Please note - £100 will be provided to cover the creative practitioner’s time to prepare and
attend interview.Creative Fellowships 2020-21
Exploratory placements over 4-5 weeks, working in interdisciplinary contexts
APPENDIX 1 – Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Network
Website: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/amr/
Lead: Dr Kelly Thornber
Wellcome Trust Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health and
Department of Biosciences, Streatham Campus
Team: Dr Demelza Curnow (host for Penryn and Truro)
European Centre for Environment and Human Health (ECCEH)
Prof Will Gaze ECCEH
Prof Steve Hinchliffe College of Life and Environmental Sciences
Prof Rich Smith College of Medicine and Health
Introduction to Research Area
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is considered one of the greatest threats to global public
health, whereby bacteria that cause disease are becoming resistant to the drugs we use to
kill them. My research looks at ways to engage different publics on the issue, with a focus
on reducing antibiotic pollution in the environment.
I am currently leading the co-ordination of a University-wide AMR network, which aims to
bring together researchers from all disciplines to create an active cross-disciplinary
network that will increase the University’s impact and access to AMR funding opportunities.
I would like to introduce a creative practitioner to our network. It is my hope that, by
working alongside our members, both they and the Creative Fellow would be introduced to
new ways of working and, ultimately, find novel or more creative perspectives on the issue.
Summary of Fellowship opportunity
The Creative Fellow would work directly with network members at the St Luke’s and
Streatham sites in Exeter, in Penryn and in Truro, but would also indirectly influence the rest
of the network through writing about their experience for our website and newsletter. I
would also invite them to talk about their experience and fellowship plans/outcomes at our
network meetings. It is hoped that this experience, and the wider engagement with the
Arts and Humanities, will facilitate new collaborative ideas for research and/or engagement
in the AMR field. These fresh perspectives on the issue will be invaluable in helping the
University and our network to widen the reach of our impact.Creative Fellowships 2020-21
Exploratory placements over 4-5 weeks, working in interdisciplinary contexts
APPENDIX 2 – The Politics of Sexual Nature
Website: http://sexualknowledge.exeter.ac.uk/
Lead: Dr Ina Linge
Modern Languages and Cultures (German), Affiliate of Sexual Knowledge
Unit
Team: Dr Jen Grove, Engaged Research Manager
Prof Kate Fisher, Professor in History
Dr Jana Funke, Senior Lecturer in English and Medical Humanities
Prof Rebecca Langlands, Professor in Classics
Dr João Florêncio, Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture
Katie Snow, PhD Researcher in English and PGR Lead of Sexual Knowledge
Unit
Introduction to Research Area
The Sexual Knowledge Unit (SKU) explores varieties of sexual knowledge and interrogates
the politics that inform their appeal, authority, purchase or value. Sexual knowledge
production often takes place by invoking categories of ‘nature’ and ‘naturalness’. My
current project, ‘The Politics of Sexual Nature: Sexology, Animals and the Arts (1862-1935)’
picks up on this key strand of the SKU by exploring the way in which concepts of nature
are used to inform, shape, ground and justify forms of sexual knowledge. Specifically, it
investigates how ideas about healthy human sexuality and gender diversity were historically
constructed by looking at nature and non-human animal life in early-20th-century Germany
and Britain. Other members of the SKU investigate the intersection of sex and nature in
other historical periods, for example Antiquity.
We are looking for a Creative Fellow who is excited to think through these multiple and
lasting relations between concepts of sex and nature. Collaborative and creative exchange
between the Creative Fellow and researchers at Exeter will ask the following questions:
- How are different understandings and concepts of nature, the natural, our
environment, and non-human animals used to reflect on issues of human sex,
gender and sexuality, e.g. female fertility, queer desire, or gender diversity?
- Who, and in what context, can produce knowledge about nature and knowledge
about sexuality?
- How can creative practice produce as well as question sexual knowledge
production?Summary of Fellowship opportunity Members of the Sexual Knowledge Unit are leading a Public Engagement Knowledge Exchange Network, in collaboration with the Humboldt University Berlin. We are currently preparing a workshop in spring 2021 in Berlin (or digitally, depending on travel restrictions), and the Creative Fellow will be given the opportunity to participate in this workshop (funded). Additionally, the Fellow will participate in and contribute to relevant research seminars and reading groups (incl. animal studies reading group, Sexual Knowledge research seminars). Finally, the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures has several exciting new undergraduate modules tackling the question how arts can help us think through issues of nature and environment and we would be delighted if the Creative Fellow were interested in participating in or contributing to teaching.
Creative Fellowships 2020-21
Exploratory placements over 4-5 weeks, working in interdisciplinary contexts
CALLOUT TO BE ANNOUNCED
The Playful University
Website: https://doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2020.1720128
http://eduplaytionblog.blogspot.com/
Lead: Dr Maarten Koeners
College of Medicine and Health
Introduction to Research Area
Our project will support students and university colleagues to integrate play within their
daily lives and through their teaching – facilitating playful learning as part of a
compassionate and Playful University (Koeners & Francis, 2020). We aim to make the
University of Exeter a place where learning is created and nurtured through joy,
engagement and play, where learning to solve problems and overcome obstacles is a
reward in its own right. The innovative aspect of this project is that it will develop and offer
holistic pedagogic practices for both students and educators – enabling individual and
institutional play and playfulness to foster a culture that supports joyous, authentic
transition to the co-creation of knowledge and skills, while counteracting a number of
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