who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Ben Calvert
University of Gloucestershire, School
of Art, Media and Design, Pitville
Campus, Albert Road, Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire, GL52 3JG, United
Kingdom
Keywords supervision, media
studies, practice, theory, collaboration
Sheena Calvert
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield,
AL10 9AB, United Kingdom
Keywords language, philosophy,
photography, avant-garde book arts,
dada, logic
Minacha Camino
University of Manchester, Oxford
Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, United
Kingdom
Keywords qualitative research,
design, fine art, reflective practice,
practice and theory
Ben Calvert is Field Chair in Media Communications at the University
of Gloucestershire. His academic background is in the social sciences
and his doctorate was a study of the popular financial press in Britain
during the 1980s. He has taught on media studies undergraduate and
postgraduate programmes, and has recently published work on
television studies.
› Supporting and assessing dissertations and practical projects in media studies
degrees: towards collaborative learning, Art, Design & Communication in
Higher Education, 3.1, 47-60.
Sheena Calvert, BA, MFA, lectures in Critical and Cultural studies at
the University of Hertfordshire [UH], UK. She holds a BA in design
and typography from the Central St. Martins School of Art, and her
MFA was gained at Yale University in the USA. She has taught at the
University of Massachusetts, Rutgers University, NJ, and at various
UK art and design institutions. Currently, she is an AHRC Doctorate
Award holder, in the third year of a Ph.D. project within the School of
Humanities at the University of Greenwich, entitled: 'In Other Words:
A Poetics of Material Language'. Her Ph.D. research investigates the
relationship between material language and various philosophies of
language: engaging with both analytic and postmodern traditions in
philosophy. Other interests include various avant-garde and
experimental forms of typography and book arts, poetry, modern
architecture (and its discontents), Surrealism, dada, and, more recently,
logic.
› Recent PhD Abstracts, Philosophy of Photography, 1.2, 241-245.
Minacha Camino is currently a Lecturer in Critical Studies. She has
also published papers for various journals and conferences. Her article
in the Journal of Writing and Creative Practice forms part of the
preliminary research for Camino’s doctoral dissertation entitled
‘Critical Studies and the generation of text issue: synthesis of practice
and theory’.
› An examination of the Journal used as a vehicle to bring about a synthesis
between theory and practice in Art and Design higher education, Journal of
Writing in Creative Practice, 3.3, 317-340.