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Job Academic

Conference Open Call: Some Like it Hot

The 6th biennial PARSE conference (November 12-14, 2025) hosted by the Artistic Faculty at the University of Gothenburg invites proposals that address the topic of HEAT.

Job Courses

Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab

Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab operates a year-long advanced course at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and serves as the research environment for other artist-researchers, including a PhD fellow.

Job Awards

Salt Artistic Research and Production Grant Program

Initiated in collaboration with the BBVA Foundation and geared towards artists from Türkiye who investigate contemporary social questions through interdisciplinary approaches, the Salt Artistic Research and Production Grant Program continues in 2025.

Job Academic

Wellcome Discovery Awards

This scheme provides funding for established researchers and teams from any discipline who want to pursue bold and creative research ideas to deliver significant shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing.

Blog Post

notes

by Andrew Martyn Sugars

notes for an emerging research project in no particular order fine art basis intersecting well being psychology late diagnosis neurodivergence play theory reuse ethos play making/ play working extending the permission for adults research the work around sutton smith’s work […]

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notes after watching something

by Andrew Martyn Sugars

copied and pasted from a diary entry watch white lion episode wallander. at the end I cry. I cry because the end of the story shows me how as a person we have the choice to work towards something. something […]

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notes about hope

by Andrew Martyn Sugars

notes about hope after sending a message to the author of a research degree  thesis downloaded from acadeimia.edu write the notes while the feeling of hope is still present maintain a level headed ness about the message – its a […]

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thursday 25july – notes/thoughts for later

by Andrew Martyn Sugars

aspect of discovering what was discovered many years ago – peruvian weaving lines. wanting to do research my way – not being guided to do it the way in which the dominate neurotypical past methods have been done. a neurodivergent […]

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Leeds Creative Labs

by Holly Rowan Hesson

Working on ideas for the Leeds Creative Labs Smeaton300 project where I’m one of the artists paired with a researcher from University of Leeds Civil Engineering to explore creative ways of thinking together. Love the colour in the civil engineering […]

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a-n Artists Bursaries 2022-23

by Sheree Mack, Sheree Mack

I took a chance and shared a vision. I took a chance and trusted the process I took a chance and believed in myself. The result was being awarded an a-n Artists Bursaries 2022-23. And I am well pleased and […]

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The fun of the expo

by Stuart Mayes, Stuart Mayes

Supermarket My head is spinning with so many thoughts … thoughts that are closely related to being at the fair, and those that have a less direct connection but have been sparkled by something that I have seen, heard, or […]

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Watercolour Botanical Illustrators: Lucy T Smith

by Emily Knock

When learning botanical illustration, my first (and main) port of call is researching the works of other illustrators and attempting to emulate the detail and precision that they achieve in their works. This is a very different way of studying […]

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