Preparing For Publication, Peer Review Group is a collaboration between UAL's Doctoral School and Post-Grad Community and is being established to provide a platform for staff, postgraduate students, and alumni to share and discuss texts and other material intended for publication.
By circulating drafts among members, the group aims to facilitate constructive feedback prior to submission, and to encourage the exchange of ideas, enable interdisciplinary collaboration, and support networks across diverse disciplines and departments at UAL.
The group will provide an opportunity for its members to connect with other researchers at UAL and benefit from support throughout the process of making their research public. This might include preparing materials to meet specific standards, understanding ways to communicate ideas effectively, and sharing knowledge of open calls and opportunities available to present research.
Membership of the group also offers the opportunity to develop peer review skills, to learn how to provide supportive feedback and to connect with other researchers and their projects.
This group is open to all UAL postgraduate students, alumni and staff.
How to join
To participate either as a reviewer, reviewee, or as a session leader, contact Ana Teles at a.teles@arts.ac.uk
Ana Teles is an artist and researcher whose primary media encompass painting, drawing, photography, and performance. Her research is characterised by a critical engagement with contemporary discourses in the domains of replication, copying, appropriation, artistic language, and value within the context of contemporary art. Teles recently finished her PhD at Chelsea College of Arts and she manages UAL’s professional practice studios at Peckham Levels.
For information about academic journals, including lists and Calls for Papers for peer-reviewed journals, visit Bob Whalley’s Padlet.
Post-Grad Interest Groups at UAL
UAL’s Post-Grad Community Programme supports a growing number of issue-specific, cross-disciplinary interest groups led by postgraduate students and academics.
These groups connect creatives with shared research/practice interests across different specialisms and subject areas.
Students have launched interest groups in the past to coincide with exhibitions and symposiums that they have organised under the same theme, or have used Interest Groups as a working group towards research or a standalone event or series.
Interest Groups are a great way to build new networks at UAL for MA and PhD students with shared interests, a useful tool for finding cross-disciplinary students to work with on planned projects/activities, creating new audiences and ways to formally promote your practice.