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The teacher<\/strong>
\nI am a Professor at Goldsmiths College, University of London. I started this blog when I worked at City University, Hong Kong, \u00a0in the School of Creative Media <\/a>with undergraduate and graduate artists and theorists from art, design, social sciences and computer science. My PhD thesis Taste, Teaching and the Utah Teapot: creative, gender, aesthetic and pedagogical issues surrounding the use of electronic media in art and design education, with particular reference to hypertext applications.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Warwick University, 1995) was in arts education, with primary research into electronic art, university-level teaching and gender. My teaching, art practice and research are in the area of digital arts and humanities.<\/p>\n

I have supervised five\u00a0practice\/theory PhDs to completion, have three\u00a0students submitting in the next six months and have examined another eight PhD students. I\u00a0specialise in the supervision and examination of research that crosses disciplines and uses a mixed method, most commonly across new media, arts\u00a0and science.<\/p>\n

Back in the day, I was lucky to have a highly conscientious PhD supervisor, David Jenkins<\/a>. \u00a0Ignorance is bliss. When I think of it now, I’m amazed that he took me on. He agreed to meet me for a\u00a0brief but intense conversation before one of his chess games, which I followed up with\u00a0a no doubt\u00a0appalling PhD proposal. \u00a0How fortunate I was that he was my supervisor! Here’s a little more about my journey from first generation graduate to PhD<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The history of the course<\/strong>
\nI was formally trained in PhD supervision in 2000 at University of Westminster. Since then I have followed and contributed to international debate about what constitutes practice-based research in the arts, the pros and cons of doing such as PhD\u00a0and how to do practice-based research. Recently, I took part in a discussion that lead to a set of recommendations sent to the College Arts Association about whether the MFA should remain as the\u00a0terminal arts degree in the US. \u00a0I continue to talk with colleagues about\u00a0how best to structure art-science PhDs. All these experiences and interests inform this blog but this is not the place where I unfold that thinking.<\/p>\n

A practical guide<\/strong>
\nThis is intended as a guide to help you\u00a0get your PhD done, rather than being a thought piece about what a PhD might be, though at times I will pontificate (as most professors do).\u00a0\u00a0In an international academic culture where professors work a typical ten hour day, most\u00a0of us\u00a0cannot spend as much time, one-on-one, with PhD researchers as we used to. It is ever more important that the time we do have is used wisely and that PhD researchers take advantage of\u00a0flexible learning tools to develop their reading, writing and research. That’s one of the reasons I designed this course. In 2013 I taught the first version of this course and the materials were stored on an intranet. I am transferring my teaching materials to this blog.<\/p>\n

Jane Prophet, September 2015 (updated November 2016)<\/p>\n

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