Tuesday 9th June - 10.30 - 5pm- Practice Research: anti Methods, active Approaches & reciprocal Engagements. Join Dr Kimberley Foster and Dr Esther Sayers @esthersayers for this one day, practice focused workshop designed to enhance the relationship between creative practices - bodies of work- and your PhD thesis textural contents. This event @goldsmithsuol and funded by CHASE is designed to provide useful and tangible ways of grappling with the fluxing and emergent knots of practice research. For PhD candidates at any time in their research process. For details to sign up see link in bio or training.
Fun and games on hallowed ground. Here for the Southbank 50 opening 📷 experimenting with @amandafordycephoto and 🎥🙏🏼@jacob_b_sawyer along with essential gaffer tape from 🧑🏼🍳 at rotisserie chicken stall🙏🏼🙌🏼
Doubles can we super fun and a great way to learn new Tricks. It’s all about timing ⏱️ 🛹@esthersayers and @queenlaturkaskates skate the Ben Raemers bowl at Victoria Park skatepark…
Diving back in. All the feels scoping out new lines at the bumps. Warmth of friends, wheels on smooth concrete, soft light. Body remembering rhythm. Satisfaction x
Huge congratulations to Dr Amy Pomerand Petzoldt who has successfully completed her PhD: ‘Resisting and Repairing Ruptures: co-iterating joyful moving bodies within neoliberal schooling’ at Goldsmiths 🥳👏 with supervisors: Dr Esther Sayers, Dr Sheryl Clark and Prof Tara Page.
Many thanks to examiners Dr Paul O’Connor and Dr Åsa Bäckström for your thoughtful and thorough reading and examination (here with us to celebrate after the viva).
Amy has made a careful and incredibly valuable contribution to understandings of the potential and challenges for joyful moving bodies in schools and the role skateboarding can play. You can read her full thesis online. And may be interested in a book review by Amy of Dani Abulhawa’s fabulous book Skateboarding and Femininity.
Good Luck Amy 👏👏👏
Enjoyed, as always co leading the Practice Research Methods sessions last week for doctoral students across Goldsmiths with @esthersayers - untangling the complexities of subjectivities - conjecture- material weight- narratives and autobiographical status with a thoughtful group of researchers. Over the last 4 years of leading PR methods courses we continue to question and position the significance of approaching emergent research carefully and attentively with others. The key word that emerged last week was listening - to listen. So we listen to each other, to human and non human participants, to other voices and we listen in advance of things we don’t yet know.
Learning about the world, self and others at New Year 2025. Thank you family for your love and patience. This gracious mountain has given challenge and joy 🙏🏼. Can’t wait to find a way to return ❤️.
Props to the IG teachers who helped me on this trip -
@malcolmmooresnowboarding for advice
@andfurther for keeping me sane
#snowboardingover50
#snowboardingmum
