Public Researcher Seminars
Our Research seminars are open to academics, researchers, and students from across the University. They provide an informal setting for intellectual debate, sharing ideas and collaboration. You can access previous webinar recordings on our YouTube Channel and keep up to date with our series of events on the Eventbrite page or by following us: @UCAROffice.
To propose sessions and facilitate talks, please get in touch with the Research Office at ROffcie@uca.ac.uk
Research@UCA public webinar series
- The Creativity of Life by Dr Philip Lambert
- The Future is Unwritten - Imaginaries Culture & Violence in Brazil & Colombia with Dr Simon Dance
- Culture Through The Arts In The Public Realm with Andrea Gregson and Gabor Stark
- Giving (Back) the Credit to the Heritage Communities with Fran Sheldon
- Locus of the Dress with Shelly Goldsmith
- Meditations: {ceramics} exploring spaces within space with Ashley Howard
- Crowdfunding for the arts, culture and the creative industries with Elisabetta Lazzaro
Showcasing Excellence Professorial Inaugural Lectures
Our UCA Inaugural Lectures provide an opportunity to recognise and celebrate the achievements of our professors who are undertaking research and scholarship of international significance. They enable our professors to showcase their research to a university-wide and public audience. The lectures also provide a networking opportunity for staff from across our University and the wider academic world. This offers valuable scope to establish new collaborations and to generate awareness of the value
Professor Camille Baker is an artist-performer/researcher/curator within various art forms: participatory performance and interactive art, mobile media art, tech fashion/soft circuits/DIY electronics, responsive interfaces and environments, and emerging media curating. Baker develops methods and approaches to exploring the body within performance & interactive art contexts, using soft circuits/e-textile, wearable electronics & mobile media. Her book New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance showcases exciting approaches and artists in this space as well as her own work.
She is the Principal Investigator for UCA for the EU funded STARTS Ecosystem (starts.eu) Apr 2019-Nov 2021 and founder initiator for the EU WEAR Sustain project Jan 2017-April 2019 (wearsustain.eu). She has presented artwork and media research at academic, media and art conferences, festivals and events around the world since 2004, details can be found on her new website , and UCA profile. She has now become a Professor in Interactive and Immersive Arts, and has been the Year Leader for the MA Games Design course since 2019, in the School of Film, Media and Performing Arts Farnham, Surrey.