Monday 5 September 2022

Changes to your Programme Team this academic year

We hope you have all had good restful/busy/productive summers as needed!

As we approach the start of the new academic year and your next term of study (week 1 begins on Sept 12th with Welcome and Welcome back sessions Tuesday Sept 6th) we wanted to let you know that we are really pleased to have Dr Sam Murray taking over the role of Programme Leader for the BAPP programme for 2022/23. 

Pedro De Senna will remain as module leader for ACI 3611 and supervisor on the programme and I will be focusing more on the MA programmes for this coming academic year and my own studio choreographic practice, so supervising only module three students this term.

We are also pleased to have Dr Astrid Bernkopf continue with us as component leader for DAN4630 ETHICS, and we welcome Sarah Sulemanji and Kate Rogan, both experienced lecturers in our dance dept to the BAPP team this term. Sarah and Kate will be taking on the supervision of some of your research projects in module three. You will get to meet everyone at your Welcome / Welcome back sessions this week and we all look forward to a great term ahead with you!


Who to contact :

For Programme Updates please get into the habit of checking Sam's blog weekly.

For issues related to admissions, progression and finance please contact Sam.

To arrange supervisions, send drafts of work (as outlined on your schedule) please email your supervisor.

To discuss your Ethics process, status of your MORE application, please email Astrid.


Thursday 26 May 2022

WELL DONE!!

 

Well done to everyone on a great term's work

and to module three students on completing your BA (hons) Degree!!


As you will appreciate now we have to work with the External Examiners and then go through the university assessment boards to confirm all grades, you will see your grades published on Unihub by mid-June. Finalist students you will receive your final degree classification (1st / 2:1 / 2:2 / 3rd) the week after module grades are published. 


Module Two - Ethics Approval is due by the end of June, please remember you do not start your field research for your inquiry until September. 

Module three - graduates!! We look forward to celebrating with you at Graduation on July 4th if you're able to make it to London for this. Any queries about graduation or your certificates please contact the graduation office graduation@mdx.ac.uk NOT your supervisor!!

 

We look forward to working further with returning students in September. 


Term starts back September 12th.

 

 

Deferred submissions are due in by July 6, the folder and turnitin boxes are open now and close 23.59 July 6, you can submit anytime until this deadline for consideration for progression to the next module in September.

Monday 23 May 2022

 
 

Module Three - As you prepare for these presentations please consider the following:


You have 20mins in total, this time includes sharing your practice-based artefact with us. It will depend on how you are presenting as to how this happens, please practice to time!


You are not required to use a powerpoint or similar presentation tool. You may wish to include visual aids and prompts but consider how you do this, why and how the visual aids contribute to what you want to communicate - ie: don't read directly your slides to us. If using slides use as prompts/aids only.

Please ensure you are confident with sharing screen, including sound if needed for any element of your presentation/artefact. We will enable this, but should not be doing it for you as you present.

Please remember to talk to your learning through the process of the inquiry,  tell us what you have done this past 12 weeks and what you learned from the process, and overview your learning across the three modules of BAPP.  Please try and move away from 'findings' as the focus of the presentation. We want to hear about the process and your experience as a practitioner-researcher.

Ensure you have the schedule and double-check times if you are not in the UK - all times of the schedule are given in BST. You are strongly encouraged to be there for the whole session to support each other, not just deliver your own presentation.

Practice, breathe and celebrate the work you have done by sharing it with others!




Sunday 8 May 2022

Finalist Presentations May 23rd and 24th

 Well done to all those submitting work on Friday!!

 

An invitation to all to attend the presentations of research from our Module Three students

 

BA PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE ARTS AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

FINALIST PRESENTATIONS

 

May 23rd / 24th 2022

 

ON ZOOM (same link both days)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://mdx-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97242044326?pwd=bUxTV1lIWHlhVGZsR0VmRHNnT3BCdz09

 

Meeting ID: 972 4204 4326

Passcode: 557057

 

 

All times are given in UK/BST

 

Monday May 23rd

0850 Welcome and house-keeping for the smooth running of assessments

 

Programme One    

20mins sharing research including artefact with 10mins questions from supervisors                 

0900 Emily Forder

0930 Jessica Lee

1000 Shannon Webster

1030 Gabrielle Young

 

1100-1130 short break

 

Programme Two

1130 Ruby Sage-O’Connor

1200 Rosanna Smith

1230 Becca Everitt

1300 Kimberley Shauna

 

Break 1330-1415

 

Programme Three

1415 Larissa King

1445 Sally Sharp

1515 Eloise Sheffield

 

 

 

Tuesday May 24th

 

0850 Welcome and house-keeping for the smooth running of assessments

 

Programme Four

20mins sharing research including artefact with 10mins questions from supervisors                 

0900 Hannah Thickett

0930 Lizzie Burder

1000 Charlotte Yates

1030  Sam Doyle        

 

11.00-11.30  short break

 

 

Programme Four

1130 Jasmine Gardner

1200 Ellie Owen

1230 Melissa Tan

 

 

 


Tuesday 3 May 2022

Ethics MORE Process

 There is some confusion over the MORE process in Module Two. 


To clarify:


March - April :

You should have all shared your MORE form with Astrid Bernkopf (a.bernkopf@mdx.ac.uk) and received feedback comments to attend to and re-submit, requesting a signature to sign off your form. 

 

Early May:

Astrid will sign off, or offer further feedback as needed. 

 

Mid-May:

ALL MORE forms then get reviewed by the Programme Team before being sent to the Ethics Committee for final approval. 

 

End May-June:

You will receive final approval, or possible some final amendments suggested by the Ethics Committee before beginning your research data collection in September. 


Please note, that this process falls outside of your submission of work for this term - May 6. 

This is not a problem. 

 

Please note that beyond reading, you are not permitted to begin any data collection (interviews, surveys, observations etc) until the start of term of your Module Three study - September 12, 2022.

Sunday 1 May 2022

A reminder of Presentation Guidelines for Written work

 

 

As a guide, please adhere to the following in terms of presentation of essays. For more detailed understanding of academic protocal, learning more about citation and referencing and general conventions of academic writing PLEASE do use the Academic Writing Centre (online) and/or contact the Learning Enhancement Team as outlined in Peter Thomas's sessions earlier in the term.


Presentation of Essays

 

Guidelines

 

 

Essays should be typed, 1.5 or double spaced. 

 

Please justify the margins on both sides. Fonts: use Arial, font size 12. 

 

The first page of your essay should include at the top; 

-       your name

-       student number and link to your blog

-       year and term of study (ie: winter 2022)

-       module title and code

-       module tutor

-       full title of assignment

-       date written 

-       final word count (this excludes your cover page bibliography and any appendices but does include all in-text citations)

 

 

Please do not use bold type or underlining in your essay, but italicize any foreign words as well as book titles and titles of choreographic works, plays or films.

 

For direct quotes in your essay use single quotation marks ‘…….’ followed by a full citation (author, year, pg). Please do not italicize quotes.

 

For quotes of 3 lines or longer please indent the whole quote and citation from the body of the essay text (1cm margins on both sides).

 

 

References in bibliography: NOTE ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST INCLUDE A BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

A bibliography is a list of all source material you have used, whether or not you have quoted from it. It is important to show that you have extended your knowledge by referring to other texts/works. A bibliography should be presented in alphabetical order of author’s surname. There are various ways of setting out a bibliography, but the details should always include:

 

Book:

Surname, Initial(s). Date of publication. Title in italics. Place of Publication: Publisher.

 

ie:

Fraleigh, S.H. 1996. Dance and the lived body: A descriptive aesthetics. USA: University of Pittsburgh Press.

 

 

Edited book:

Surname, Initial(s). (ed.). Date of publication. Title in italics. Place: Publisher.

 

ie:

Fraleigh, S. ed., 2015. Moving consciously: somatic transformations through dance,

yoga, and touch. University of Illinois Press.

 

Book chapter:

Surname, Initial(s). Date. Chapter title. In Name of editor (ed.), Book Title. Place of Publication: Publisher, pages in book.

 

For example:

Akinleye, A. and Kindred H. 2018. In-the-between-ness: Decolonising and Re-inhabiting our dancing. In Akinleye, A. (ed)., Narratives of Black British Dance: embodied practices. London: Palgrave, chapter 6

 

Journal articles:

Surname, Initial(s). Date. Title of article. Title of journal volume (issue no.), page numbers.

 

ie:

Nelson,L. 2006. ‘Fragment of a tuning run’, Contact Quarterly, vol.39. no.1

 

Videography / DVDs (a list of videos /DVDs you have used):

Name of choreographer. Date of work. Title of work in italics. [DVD/video, etc]. Place of distribution, distributing company.

 

ie:

Khan, A. and Cherkaoui, S.L. 2008. Zero Degrees [DVD]. Sadler’s Wells on Screen. Axiom Films International Limited.

 

Media broadcast, e.g. television programme

Title. Year. Type of media. Originator (e.g. channel). Exact date and time of broadcast.

ie:

TEDTalks. 2018. https://www.ted.com/talks. TED conference Boston July 2002

 

Live performance:

Choreographer. Year of premiere. Title in italics. Company (optional). [Location. Date seen].

 

ie:

Morris, M. 2018. Layla and Majnun. [Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London. 8 November 2018].