CORKSCREW

Corkscrew is a network for practice-based/led research students and staff at Birkbeck and beyond, named for the spiralling feedback loop between practice-based investigation and critical/reflective work.

The group meets regularly to share experiences of being a practitioner-researcher in an academic context. Students lead discussions, show examples of their practice (in termly ‘show and tell’ sessions) and engage in group crits which foreground practice. There is also a programme of guest lectures and workshops led by experienced researchers from different arts fields. Students  and staff carrying out practice-research at Birkbeck come from a variety of disciplines, including fine art, curating, film, media, creative writing and performance.

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Contact s.hope@bbk.ac.uk if you would like any more information or would like to be put on the Corkscrew email list.

Corkscrew was established in 2013 to cater to the growing community of practice-based research students in Birkbeck’s School of Arts. Since then, we have welcomed speakers from a variety of contexts to reflect on their work with students, and provided opportunities for students to share their work in progress. Corkscrew has grown to also support a growing as a community of academic practice-researchers.

Click on the academic years below to find out more about our past events:

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

We have a growing number of practice-research students and staff at Birkbeck. We are starting to gather profiles of their work here. Watch this space!

Click here to see profiles of Birkbeck staff doing practice-research.

Click here to see profiles of current Birkbeck PhD students doing practice-research.

Click here to see profiles of past Birkbeck students doing practice-research.

This is an incomplete practice-research resource list which is continually growing. Please do contact us with anything you want to add.

Publications and articles

Journals

Websites

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