Doing Together: Practice Research Symposium

doing together is a yearly two-day making and sharing practice symposium at Locksbrook Campus, hosted by the Art Research Centre (Bath School of Art, Film and Media) in collaboration with the Centre of Cultural and Creative Industries.

doing together is a platform to connect staff, students, and the community through making, collaboration and experimentation.

Workshops, delivered by staff and PGR students from across the University, share practice-based research methods and a broad range of approaches to practice. doing together is proposed as a generous space to make/do/share and discuss practice with colleagues from a range of different Schools.

Throughout the symposium, facilitators – alongside participants – test out ways of doing together in an effort to make their practice-based research explicit, rather than simply describe it.

doing together has taken the place of the Issues in Creative Practice Research yearly symposium.

doing together also maintains a cross-disciplinary reading list relevant to creative practice research, which will be updated each year throughout the symposium.

Find out more about each iteration of doing together:

Upcoming events

The next doing together symposium will take place on Monday 30 and Tuesday 31 March 2026 at the Locksbrook Campus.

Tickets will be available to book on TicketSource in January 2026.

The full programme of events will be announced at the end of February 2026.

 

Expressions of interest

We are now accepting expressions of interest for the 2026 iteration of doing together.

Expressions of interest are welcome from staff and Postgraduate Research students across all disciplines at Bath Spa University. We actively encourage a playful/experimental/messy approach that will share/test out material thinking or methods of making with others.
 
The deadline for expressions of interest is Monday 12 January 2026 at 23:59. 

To apply:

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Doing Together 2024

  

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What do I want to be, Anna Gravelle

Get in touch

Are you interested in practice research? We’re interested in hearing from staff and students who want to have a voice in shaping the future of practice research at BSU.

You can be from any discipline and at any place in your career, from student to professor. If you are interested in taking part in doing together or you’d like to find out more, please email s.hesselberg@bathspa.ac.uk.

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