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Doing Together

Practice Research Symposium

 

doing together is a yearly two-day making and sharing practice symposium at Locksbrook Campus, hosted by the Art Research Centre (School of Creative and Cultural Arts) and the Creative Engagement Unit in collaboration with the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries.

doing together is a platform to connect staff, students, and the community through making, collaboration and experimentation.

Workshops, delivered by staff and PGR students from across the University, share practice-based research methods and a broad range of approaches to practice. doing together is proposed as a generous space to make/do/share and discuss practice with colleagues from a range of different Schools.

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Throughout the symposium, facilitators – alongside participants – test out ways of doing together in an effort to make their practice-based research explicit, rather than simply describe it.

doing together has taken the place of the Issues in Creative Practice Research yearly symposium.

doing together also maintains a  relevant to creative practice research, which will be updated each year throughout the symposium.

Find out more

More information for each iteration of doing together can be found on BathSPAdata, the University's Research Repository:

  • doing together 26 information coming soon.
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Upcoming events

The next doing together symposium will take place on Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 April 2027 at the Locksbrook Campus.
Writing The Workshop Writing Group (WTWWG) will be in residence across the two days.

Tickets will be available to book on TicketSource in January 2027. Booking for this event is essential.

The full programme of events will be announced in February 2027.

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Expressions of interest

We are now accepting expressions of interest for the 2027 iteration of doing together.

Expressions of interest are welcome from staff and Postgraduate Research (PhD) students across all disciplines at 黑料正能量. We actively encourage a playful/experimental/messy approach that will share/test out material thinking or methods of making with others.

The deadline for expressions of interest is Tuesday 15 December 2026, 09:00.

Information Pack:
( Doing Together 2027 - Calls for Expression of Interest.docx | Doing Together 2027 - Call for Expression of Interest.pdf )

Online information session

The doing together team will be hosting an online information session on Wednesday 18 November 2026, 16:30-17:30.

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Meet the team

Charlie Tweed

Academic Lead

Natasha Kidd

Academic Lead

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Simone Hesselberg

Creative Producer

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Charlie Tweed

Academic Lead

Natasha Kidd

Academic Lead

Person with short light hair and glasses smiling in white shirt

Simone Hesselberg

Creative Producer

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Want to get in touch?

Are you interested in practice research? We’re interested in hearing from staff and students who would want to have a voice in shaping the future of practice research at Bath Spa.

You can be from any discipline and at any place in your career, from student to professor. If you are interested in taking part in doing together or you’d like to find out more, please email Simone Hesselberg (Creative Producer: Community Building): s.hesselberg@bathspa.ac.uk.

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