The Bartlett School of Architecture PhD WIP+ Season 2: Navigations

About WIP+

WIP+ (Work in Progress Plus) is a student-led initiative set up by PhD students at The Bartlett School of Architecture to connect and support doctoral cohorts across all streams of the PhD programme. WIP+ is a student-led peer support initiative to the BSA PhD Programme that works alongside existing training resources.

The initiative is a means to foster a platform for new and current PhD scholars to connect and share their knowledge, skills, and experience. The WIP+ has been developed through the volunteer efforts of previous PhD students who have launched and maintained this initiative since 2019.

Season 2: Navigations has been developed from the success of Season 1: Pilot. Moving forward Season 2 will draw on the voices of Bartlett staff and aim to link to other schools of architecture across London to learn from each other. The new season continues the working group structures of Writing Collab, Knowledge Share and Work Share and introduces  a new welcome week for new /returning students, WIPWeek, as well as an emergent PhD Network, Cross-Doc-Social_Round 1, across schools in the UK.

Programme structure

WIPWeek

An orientation week for new students starting in the programme. This event is a mixture of social and informative sessions to welcome and orient new students to the school and the PhD programme.

Writing Collab

The Writing Collab is a monthly session that will support writing practices  that are supported by external entities such as the UCL Writing Lab. It is a monthly session that involves peer-session to share in-progress writing work. To be held on the first Monday of each month in the morning.

PhD Knowledge Share

The Knowledge Share sessions are a space for students or staff to present or host an event that shares doctoral related skills, experiences, or lessons based on seasonal topics. To be held mid-month.

WIP Work Share

The WIP Work Share sessions are led by students who will share their own work through selected themes for peer discussion. This may include recent upgrade work, publications, conference materials, exhibitions, and other doctoral related work. To be held on the last Friday of each month.

Monthly posters will be shared at the start of each month with confirmed speakers, topics and dates.

Initiative credits

Former WIP+ Volunteers and Convenors: Danielle Hewitt, Aisling O’Carrol, Sol Perez Martinez, Claire Tunnacliffe, Jhono Bennett, Zahira El Nazer, Kirti Durelle, Sepehr Zhand, Tumpa Fellows,  Ecem Egrin, Thomas Parker, Jonathan Tyrell, Danielle Ovalle Costal, Danielle Hewitt, Thomas Dyckhoff, Kirti Durelle, Tumpa Fellows, Mine Sak Acur, Melih Kamaoğlu, Thomas Holberton

WIP+ 2022 Season 2 Committee: Jhono Bennett, Zahira El Nazer, Anna Wild, Elizabeth Selby, Thomas Holberton, Danielle Ovalle Costal, Jonathan Tyrell, Thomas Parker, Katerina Zacharopoulou  Ecem Egrin (Graphic Design)

Programme schedule

10 -14 October 2022 | PhD Introduction Events (various times): WIPWeek 2022

A series of events to welcome new and returning doctoral students:

• A Coffee Crawl (Informal PhD studio & campus introduction)
• PhD Introduction (More formal introduction by programme leads)
• The Exquisite Index (Informal Academic Speed Date workshop)

04 November 2022 | Cross-Doc-Social: Test#1_Tales from the Doctoral Crypt

Cross-Doc-Social is a collaborative London based architectural doctoral network between the AA, RCA and UCL. The collaboration is seen as a means of connecting between the various institutions in order to share critical peer-experience, learning insights and niche/bespoke/unique architectural methods/approaches to research.

The first iteration of exchanges, Round 1, will take place through a series of informal exchanges hosted by the different institutions. These will supplement a more formal set of exchange moments in the form of seminar, conference or symposiums that will take place once a term.

07 November 2022 | 12:00 | Writing Collab 1: Demystifying editing: What is editing and how do you do it?

Talk and workshop with Katharine Reeve: former Editorial Director and Senior Commissioning Editor at Oxford University Press

Room 5.04, 22 Gordon Street

16 November 2022 | 15:30 | PhD Knowledge Share 1: A Doctoral Drawing Workshop with Professor Sophia Psarra

A discussion and workshop on drawing as an instrument of knowledge and how it can be used as method by Professor Sophia Psarra, Director of the History & Theory PhD stream.

Room 5.04, 22 Gordon Street

07 December 2022 | 13:30 |Writing Collab 2: Finding your voice as a writer and positioning yourself for publication

Katharine Reeve (former Editorial Director and Senior Commissioning Editor at Oxford University Press) will continue discussion and workshop on writing and editing for doctoral researchers.

22 Gordon Street

POSTPONED | WIP Work Share 1: Lost and Found - Working from W.G. Sebald Through Acts of Translation and Salvage

Presentations and discussions from Doctoral students Anna Wild and Danielle Hewitt, who work with time-based media with W.G. Sebald as a source. They will briefly present their work and discuss their connections, common themes and methodologies, followed by an audience Q&A.

Room G.10, 22 Gordon Street

14 December 2022 | 16:00 | PhD Knowledge Share 2: Design Research into Practice Research for Architectural Doctorates for publication

Professor Murray Fraser will explore the background to and nature of design-based and practice-based research in the field of architecture. While also discussing the commonalities and differences between them in relation to a few selected samples.

Room 6.02, 22 Gordon Street

Previous Events | March - May 2022

The Season 1 programme carried 3 event types formats:

Writing Collab (held on the first Monday - 10:00): The Knowledge Share sessions are a space for students or invited staff to present or host an event that shares doctoral related skills, experiences or lessons based on seasonal topics.

The WIP Work Share sessions are led by PhD students who will share their own work through selected themes for peer discussion. This may include recent upgrade reflections, publications, conference materials, exhibitions, and other doctoral related work.

PhD Knowledge Share (held on mid-Month Wednesdays - 15:30): The Writing Collab is facilitated by UCL Writing Lab. It is a monthly peer-session to share in-progress writing work and get feedback through a semi- structured group- determined format.

WIP Works Share (held on the last Friday of each month @13:00)

Previous Event Dates this academic year: 

March

09/03/2022 - 10:00 GMT PhD Knowledge Share 1: Welcome Event - BSA Hot Takes! 

A cross-cohort introduction workshop session to share personal lessons and experiences of the BSA PhD programme. 

14/03/2022 - 15:30 GMT Writing Collab 1: Co-Structuring Exercise & Introduction for Season 1

An open workshop to co-develop the writing collab structure with Kerry-Jo Reilly from UCL Writing Lab.

31/03/2022 - 13:00 BST WIP Work Share 1: Research Questions Design

A presentation of work and discussion on research question development for doctoral research with Ram Shergill, Saptarshi Sanyal and Omar Abolnaga.

April

04/04/2022 - 10:00 BST Writing Collab 2: Working Session: Editing, Publishing & Writing

A discussion and working session with the Commissioning Editor from UCL Press with Kerry-Jo Reilly from UCL Writing Lab.

13/04/2022 - 15:30 BST PhD Knowledge Share 2: Citation, Writing & Production Management Tools for Architectural PhD Research 

An introduction, tip sharing and discussion on citation and note taking software for architectural doctoral research.

29/04/2022 - 13:00 WIP Work Share 2: Positionality & Practising Ethics 

A presentation of work and discussion on the challenges and concerns around navigating positionality and ‘ethics’ in doctoral research with Petra Seitz, Naomi Gibson and Jhono Bennett.

May

02/05/2022 - 10:00 BST Writing Collab 3: Working Session Abstracts

A feedback, presentation, discussion on abstract writing with Kerry-Jo Reilly from UCL Writing Lab.

11/05/2022 - 15:30 BST PhD Knowledge Share 3: Research production, publication and process for Architectural PhD Research 

A presentation and discussion from Stelios Giamarelos and Nathan Telemaque on publishing doctoral work during and after the dissertation.

27/05/2022 - 13:00 BST WIP Work Share 3: Archival Work & Field Work

A presentation and discussion on Archival and Field Work from Olivier Bellfamme, Kerri Culhane and Danielle Hewitt.

​​​​​More information

• Join BSA WIP+ Teams Group
• WIP+ Season 1: Pilot!
• Follow WIP+ on Instagram

Image: Ecem Egrin: WIP+ Season 2: Navigations_notanlseimage