My Glasgow Granny from Donegal

SCIS @UWS PhD student Rachael Flynn is currently developing her doctoral arts practice research around themes of migration and Irish women diasporic narratives. To explore Rachael’s work further visit her website detailing workshops and activity relating to this research.  http://womenslibrary.org.uk/event/my-glasgow-granny-from-donegal/ Rachael has worked closely with Glasgow’s women’s library on this project and is grateful to them for their support.

SCIS PhD Student Rachael Flynn presents at Picture this: postcards and letters beyond text conference at the University of Sussex, March 2011.

Rachael Flynn presents at the Picture this: postcards and letters beyond text conference at the University of Sussex, March 2011.

Funded by the Scottish Centre for Island Studies PhD student Rachael Flynn travels to the University of Sussex to take part in the Picture this: postcards and letters beyond text conference: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/7432

.Rachael’s paper is based on her current doctoral research and pertains to the use of archival documents in her creative practice research. See here for a link to her paper’s abstract:

Rachel Flynn: Using the written letter as a fine-art source to inform and stimulate a creative practice-led enquiry

SCIS Research Seminar,CCA March 11th 2011

Research Seminar on Creative Media Practice

Friday 11th March 2011

CCA, UWS Space, Sauchiehall Street Glasgow

14:30 – 16:00.

SCIS doctoral research student Rachael Flynn will present her paper “Using the written letter as a fine-art source to inform and stimulate a creative practice-led enquiry.”

All welcome.

SCIS Research-Teaching linkages: SCIS research projects presented to UWS MA Creative Media Practice students, 3rd March 2011

Narrative Approaches to Creative Media Practice Research

As part of the MA Creative Media Practice core module Research: Critical Development ( Module Co-ordinator Dr Kathryn A Burnett) both film lecturer Tony Grace and SCIS doctoral student Rachael Flynn delivered to the year 2 students on this postgraduate course as part of a thematic week exploring narrative approaches to community media research and practice.