RE/ Notes - Phd meeting - 24th Feb

Hello Bianca
Many thanks for the notes

1. Internal Seminar Series
a)Great idea to learn more about Bill and His work
b) I think the 1 to 1 aspect of a Phd Surgery would also be good- will we 
need to book this in advance
C) with the internal seminar series not every one is a full time Phd 
student, so would be great to have some sessions that are later in the day 
or 1/2 day - giving part-timers a better option of attending

2. Another Thursday the end of March
a) great idea re  theme of "documentation"
b) would be good to identifiy as a group what we define as documentation, 
or what is defined as documentation in a Mphil/Phd, does this change if you 
are doing a practice based Phd ???
c) An example of a practitioner who is doing this process and the issues 
related to it would be good
d) a collection of supporting text that explore the methodology of 
documentation would also be good- any susggestions ( content to support 
this can placed on learn.gold)

3. 5th May
The workshop on Mapping
a) would be great to have greater clarification on the concept of mapping, 
in relation to the seminar
b) is this a whole day workshop and what is the context??


4. 21st June
As all the other workshops are goldsmiths based it would be good to have a 
workshop/field trip off site: logistics/costs etc need to be considered
it might be good to use aspects of our own research practice to explore the 
notion of workshops etc
e.g a collaborative film e.g some are using film as a from of collecting 
data, but are not sure how to use software to edit this and the process, 
involved
many of the art& design museums offer workshops some free that could be 
tailored to the group
lots to think about

5. Open lecture series
A good idea, but needs long term planning, if thinking of bringing in guest 
speakers, then will need to think in terms of budget for travelling 
expenses, and or speakers fees
Might also draw on the lecturers from other departments in goldsmiths
You would need to draw up a plan in advance and book at least a term ahead 
again - think about flexibility of the day, it does not need to be a whole 
day, but could be a focussed am or pm session
Also we would also need to get a list of all the topic areas we all are 
covering to then identitfy speakers etc

6. Thursday lunch
I hope I can at least make one of these, unfortunately I am a part-timer 
and this is also the 1 day that I teach all day- so would not always be 
able to attend, but would be great to meet others. and discuss future 
tactics

7. Blog
We do need a central depository for both internal viewing and external 
exposure
as well as central area for depositing central information related to the 
course etc

For external profile
a)There are already some student profiles on the Design Dept website : 
<http://www.gold.ac.uk/design/research/student-research-profiles/>
b)A link to The Blog for the research students could be added to this page: 
need to decide on the blog type and who will take care of it??b) the 
department already has a blog space  <http://goldsmithsdesignblog.com/> - 
there could be a link added here as well. Also not everyone knows how to 
use a blog, there soul be clear instructions for upload etc to avoid 
accidents
c) The aim should really be for all  research students in the department to 
have a profile uploaded here with the ability to have it updated as and 
when

For internal
To make better use of learn.gold -especially for information related to 
course and events

Mahara ( internal version of Facebookish) without the ads
You access by logging on learn.gold then clicking on Mahara icon
It has various functions, including a blog space, the ability to link 
people and groups as well as video/audio/rss feeds
Might be good to set up on this in the internal  support can be given.
Might be good to set up a group session  with Dr Mira Vogel 
(m.vogel@gold.ac.uk)  in The Goldsmiths Enhancement unit to arrange a 
session on the use of Mahara and how as phd students you can use  for both 
group and individual options
Obviously there are other options to think about

Regards

Rose Sinclair