Research student news: Awards, perfomances and talks

23 January 2013

Our brilliant and busy research students have started 2013 with a bang. Here is what a few of them are up to...

Research students in the School of Arts at Birkbeck, University of London and the University of York have been awarded an AHRC Collaborative Skills Grant for their project ‘Silent Spring: Chemical, Biological and Technological Visions of the Post-1945 Environment’, which uses Rachel Carson's Silent Spring to explore the relationship between arts and science research through two workshops in 2013.
Aimee Gasston, PhD candidate in the Department of English and Humanities, is the winner of The Katherine Mansfield Society's fourth international essay competition on the theme of 'Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial'.
Amanda Sciampacone, PhD candidate in the Department of History of Art and Screen Media, will be giving a talk at the Wellcome Collection in February.
Nicola McCartney, PhD candidate in the Department of History of Art and Screen Media, has been awarded the Getty's Library Research Grant to visit their archives in LA on the Guerrilla Girls, one of the case studies for her research.
Bruno Roubicek, a research student in the Department of English and Humanities, will be performing at the Arnolfini Theatre in Bristol this spring.
Two postgraduate students in the Department of History of Art and Screen Media at Birkbeck, University of London, are co-curating a radical new arts and performance exhibition beneath the streets of Shoreditch.

If you are a student in the School of Arts and have some news to share, please do get in touch! You can email n.campbell@bbk.ac.uk.

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