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UCL 2022 Creative Fellowships open - Encounters: Mapping the Future of Creative Arts & Humanities

14 February 2022

The Institute of Advanced Studies is delighted to open its call for creative practitioners to become one of our Creative Fellows for 2022.

Creative Fellowships

The Encounters programme of Creative Fellowships, now in its third year, is designed to create time and space for practitioners from any areas of creative practice to engage with researchers and students at UCL.

The Creative Fellowships award

This year we are offering four grants – two of £10,000 each and two of £5,000 each – to work on a project titled ‘Mapping the Future of the Creative Arts and Humanities’.

Encounters aims to unpack creativity and the creative method, and to explore how creative practice operates as a form of knowing, exploring or discovering as well as doing, seeking to recognise the value of creative practice as knowledge creation and knowledge disruption. The Fellowships aim to allow a creative practitioner to explore, through their own practice, one or more of the following questions:

  • What is the value of creative practices as forms of knowing, exploring or discovering, and how do these forms relate to more conventional modes of research?
  • How might creative or artistic practices be used to transform or amplify more conventional modes of research in the humanities?
  • How can academic research learn to speak more clearly to the needs of creative practitioners and to the Creative and Cultural Industries?
  • How can creative practice map the future?  How can it help map the future of research both at UCL and more widely?

The programme is broadly focused on the fields of performance, creative writing, visual arts or media.

The appointed Fellows will be asked to respond creatively to the questions posed above and then to plan and deliver at least two events aimed at staff or students at UCL, and, as appropriate, a wider public. These could be seminars, creative workshops, performance events or any other encounter that allows people to collaborate in exploring creativity.  

What we are looking for

We are looking for creative practitioners from any field who are interested in working within a university context for a period of time, to explore with researchers and students at UCL their shared interests in the value of the ‘creative humanities’.

We are particularly interested in working with practitioners who may not have any prior experience of working with a university, and are committed to providing support to help the Fellow to navigate our university ‘walls’ and engage meaningfully with our communities.

I think the openness and willingness to get involved is key; taking part in IAS seminars was the thing that I found most daunting, but it was the biggest surprise to me, how beneficial that was. The close scrutiny and attention of fellow researchers to one's work, was/is challenging at first but ultimately a really special experience.  Nicola Baldwin, Playwright and UCL Creative Fellow 2019-20

Timeframe

Completed applications should be submitted by Sunday 6 March 2022. You will be informed as to whether your proposal has been shortlisted by Friday 18 March, with short interviews taking place the week commencing 21 March.

Fellowships would be expected to start on 25 April (or by 3 May at the latest) and must finish (including all payments made) by 31 July 2022.

To apply

Please complete and submit an Expression of Interest Form along with your CV to the IAS Administrator and Executive Assistant to the Director by midnight on Sunday 6 March: Catherine Stokes: c.stokes@ucl.ac.uk.  In addition, you may also send a link to your digital portfolio/website.

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