Art research education resources
The following web resources may be of assistance to researchers in the South Australian School of Art. These resources are available to staff, higher degree by research students and their supervisors.
- University wide
- Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences
- Learning Connection
- Library
- Other resources
University wide
The Research degrees website provides information about doing a research degree at UniSA, offers information for prospective and current candidates to UniSA research degrees, such as orientation details, search function for supervisors, support services, research degree and scholarship process information, forms, policies and key dates. Contact the Graduate Studies Office for more information.
Research Education Support Activities is an initiative of the Graduate Studies Office, Flexible Learning Centre and UniSA Library, offering on campus and online workshops and resources to students and supervisors.
For supervisors (Research degrees website) contains vital information for UniSA research degree supervisors about their responsibilities in the progress of their research degree students' candidature, information and application procedures for becoming a supervisor, relevant University policies, a database of supervisors, and other information relevant to the role of research degree supervisor.
Research and Innovation Services encourages and facilitates research activity by:
- providing advice on research policy implementation and interpretation
- providing legal advice in relation to research and consultancy
- administering research grants and fellowships
- managing research degrees and scholarships
- collecting, maintaining and distributing research information
- monitoring ethical research practices.
Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences
Research degrees in Education, Arts and Social Sciences contains information for current and prospective research degree candidates within the Division such as contact persons, the Division's 'Handbook for research degree students' (for download), links to Library resources and answers to frequently asked questions.
Research in the Division lists all of the research concentrations within the Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences and links will take you to their home pages.
Learning Connection
Doing a research degree provides resources for research degree students and supervisors under the headings: Getting started; Supervision; Ethics; Methodology; Methods; Research management; and Research writing.
Library
Research provides an extensive range of value added services to support university staff and postgraduate students with their research, such as the regularly run workshops 'Strategies for successful research: finding and managing information', information about publishing, library support and the Australian Digital Thesis (ADT) program, all linked from the page above.
The Library also hosts the South Australian School of Art Virtual Library and Postgraduate research pages with resources for researchers of all levels.
Other resources
The following articles may be of interest to researchers within the South Australian School of Art. Please note: this list is not comprehensive.
Wyndham, Allison, 'What is it like to be a PhD student? Advice to prospective supervisors' (PDF file) - This paper is based on notes for a speech given to the 'Supervising Research Students' workshop, organised by the ANU Graduate School and the Centre for Educational Development and Academic Methods (CEDAM) workshop on 30 April 1997 and 10 September 1997.
Art research methodologies - Practice-led research for visual artists from the University of Sunderland (UK).
Gray, Carole, 'Developing a Research Procedures Programme for artists and designers' (PDF file) - Masters and PhD level research information from the Centre for Research in Art & Design, Gray's School of Art, Faculty of Design, Robert Gordon University (Scotland).
Gray, Carole and Pirie, Ian, '"Artistic" research procedure: research at the edge of chaos?' (PDF file) - Visual arts research methodology from the Centre for Research in Art & Design, Gray's School of Art, Faculty of Design, Robert Gordon University (Scotland).
Relationships between art and research - The topics covered represent areas of research that artist Stephen Wilson has been following to varying degrees (San Francisco State University).