All day (various times)

One-to-one Careers Consultations with Liz Wilkinson

Please note that one-to-one sessions with Liz Wilkinson are only available for Techne students. To book an appointment email techne.careers@careers.lon.ac.uk.

 

If you have any questions following on from Liz's sessions on Day 1 and 2, would like your CV checked, or have any other careers related questions, then book a one-to-one with Liz as part of the final day of the Congress. Appointments can be either 30 or 60 minutes long and are available throughout the day. You can discuss any aspect of career planning, for example:

• questions following on from Liz's sessions on Day 1 or Day 2

• making decisions about future career direction

• advice on developing your CV

• completing application forms

• developing an online profile

• approaching interviews

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9.00 to 9.30

Yoga for Focus with Terri Sinden

This session will be held on Zoom.

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Give your brain an express reset. Gather scattered thoughts and get clear about your goals. Class will include Nadi Shodhana, a balancing breathing technique for when you're feeling a bit too Yin or a bit too Yang, and a fiery Vinyasa flow to bring everything into sharp focus. Equipment needed: yoga mat or towel, a pillow to sit on. 

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10.00 to 11.15

How To Adapt Your PhD During A Pandemic - Dr Catherine Pope

This session will be held on Zoom.

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It's tough doing a PhD under normal circumstances, but it's even harder during a pandemic. Your original plan is no longer viable and you’re running out of time. In this practical and interactive webinar, I'll help you get back on track with your thesis. We’ll clarify your aims, map out some alternative routes, and create an achievable plan.

Here's what we'll cover:

1) Establishing your objectives - what are the requirements for your PhD?

2) Working out what's left to do - auditing what you've done so far and what needs to happen.

3) Reassessing your scope - reshaping your project to fit your timescale or COVID-related restrictions.

4) Identifying and overcoming obstacles – using creative problem-solving techniques to devise alternative (and possibly better!) ways of finishing your thesis.

5) Creating a realistic schedule - setting milestones, allowing contingency, and looking after yourself.

6) Keeping on track - monitoring progress, improving efficiency, and adapting to ongoing change.

By the end of the session, you'll have the confidence and clarity you need to take the next steps towards finishing your thesis.

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10.00 to 11.15

Design Ecology and the Commons - Dr Pandora Syperek, Dr Maurizio Teli, Torange Khonsari, Justin Sacks, Angela Chan

This session will be held on Zoom.

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At the onset of the COVID crisis, new commons emerged that constituted critical responses to frontline struggles in crucial and urgent ways – through the formation of solidarity networks, knowledge commons to support mutual aid and community groups who acted to reclaim decaying public spaces in the face of physical distance measures. At the same time, concepts, practices and visions of commons are not beyond reproach and instances of malpractice as well as reification, risk jeopardising practices and possibilities thereof. Conceiving the commons as a shared collective practice, this panel will focus on these issues and debates to unravel the relevance of commons today, through the lens of design.

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11.45 to 13.00

Technecast: Mindfulness, Meditation and Research - Polly Hember, Julien Clin, Dr Allan Kilner-Johnson

This session will be held on Zoom.

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Join us for a special episode of Technecast, where we invite you to step away from your screens for a reflection on how mindfulness, research and creativity work in tandem, and how we can learn from the past to move forward and shape the future. In this episode, launching on the 7th July at the Congress, Dr Allan Kilner-Johnson will share his work on mindfulness and cultural creatives, and offer a guided meditation. We encourage you to listen to this away from your computer screens. We will then (virtually) reconvene for a live Q&A with Allan, where we will discuss the intersection of research and wellbeing. Please subscribe to the podcast by searching “Technecast” on your favourite podcasting app, or visit the website on the day: www.soundcloud.com/technecast

11.45 to 12.30: This session will start with off-screen time to listen to the podcast - sit down and grab a drink, or go for a walk while you listen.

12.30 to 13.00: Join us on Zoom for a 30-minute panel discussion and Q&A to discuss the contributions.

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11.45 to 13.00

Creative Industries: Celebration, Innovation and Transformation - Prof. Andrew Chitty, Sarah Ellis, Angela Chan, Prof. Frank Lyons

This session will be held on Zoom.

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The creative and cultural sectors have been devastated by the impact of Covid-19 and lockdown. But many parts of the sector have used this period to accelerate a set of innovations in content development and performance. Digital and hybrid models of both production and performance have been trialled and the lessons from these experiences will provide vital knowledge and insight for the sector as we move out of lockdown. This session will celebrate some of what has been achieved, and will explore the ways in which innovation and transformation can be harnessed for the future.

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14.00 to 15.15

Building a Better Future One Story at a Time - Dr Antonia Liguori, Neil Pymer, Daniel Onyango, Philippa Rappoport, Tony Sumner

This session will be held on Zoom.

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Five experts in a variety of storytelling approaches will explore how they have adapted their creative practice during the pandemic and what impact has had in terms of audience engagement, personal wellbeing and community resilience. In particular they will focus on 4 case studies (two in UK, one in Kenya and one in the US) to reflect on how multiple storytelling techniques can be applied in the creative industries, NGOs, museum sector, and formal and non-formal education, to build a better future... one story at a time.

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14.00 to 15.15

Building a Venture Post-PhD - Dr Salman Malik, Ben Cole, Dr Will Stronge, Dr Joana P. R.  Neves, Amanda Holiday

This session will be held on Zoom.

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Are you interested in creating and shaping your own career off the back of your PhD? Then why not join us for a panel with Techne students and alumni who have founded businesses or consultancies whilst completing or having completed their PhD. Will Stronge is co-director of Autonomy, an independent think tank focusing on issues relating to the future of work. Amanda Holiday founded the UK's first crowdfunded poetry press Black Sunflowers Poetry Press and their first five poetry chapbooks were published earlier this year. Joana Neves is the Artistic Director of Drawing Now art fair and the co-founder of Worlding, an artist residency and project space in London.

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16.00 to 17.00

Keynote Lecture: Re-Imagining the Future: Creativity, Communities and Culture - Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey

This session will be held on Zoom.

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The phrase ‘Build Back Better’ intended as a clarion call for change, quickly becamesomething of a cliché, hardly penetrating the consciousness of political leaders whose response to the crisis has been inadequate, unprincipled and dangerously ignorant. Where might effective challenges to the inequalities highlighted – and exacerbated – by the spread of the coronavirus come from? Using fashion as a perhaps unlikely illustration, this session will explore the ways in which the pandemic, climate change, modern forms of enslavement, racism and historical amnesia intersect, and in doing so point towards the ongoing refresh of critical/analytical ways thinking about and implementing change.

After working as actor in theatre and television, Baroness Lola Young entered academia and became professor of Cultural Studies, a writer, cultural critic, public speaker and broadcaster. After a stint as Head of Culture at the GLA, Lola was appointed a member of the House of Lords. Lola founded and co-chairs All Party Parliamentary Groups on Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion, and Sport, Modern Slavery and Human Rights.

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