Workshop: Cultural Understanding for a Global Future

On Friday, I attended the two-hour workshop ‘Cultural Understanding for a Global Future’ run by Jo Bloxham from the independent … More

Brushing up on Blogging…

Squeezed in between all my many work-life strands of practice and study, I went to a two-hour ‘Introduction to Blogging’ course by … More

Coming Up! The 8th CCVA Annual Conference – Transdisciplinary China: Research in Practice

A little information on The 8th Annual CCVA conference that I have co-organised, taking place on 22 October 2015 in Birmingham, UK. On … More

MEd Academic Practice – Curriculum Design 1

Back from a month of Asia, back from Summer hiatus, back to academia in full force. Yesterday was the first … More

CCVA: ‘Shoulders of Giants’ by Shen Xin

Since starting my part-time PhD studies in October 2009 (it’s definitely time to get it done now right?), I’ve been … More

Chinese Contemporary Art on Show (UK): Summer 2015

Time for another blog post on exhibitions of Chinese contemporary art on show in the UK. As always, there is a … More

CPD: Supervising Master’s Degree Research (Session 3)

At the end of March, was the final session of the ‘Supervising Master’s Degree Research’ course by the Centre for Enhancement and Learning … More

Lisbon 2015 – Symposium: “Chineseness” in Contemporary Art Discourse and Practice (Day 4)

The final day of the ‘”Chineseness” in Contemporary Art Discourse and Practice’ symposium but not my final day in Lisbon…that’s actually … More