Location: School of Fine Arts
Block 2, Seminar Room
Time: 4pm
Date: 24th Thursday July
Supervising Creative PhD & Masters Research degrees : Prof Chris Braddock
This seminar discusses the complexities and challenges of supervising the Creative or Practice-Led PhD degree from the beginning of candidature through to examination. It will also be relevant to Master’s degree supervision. How might practice ‘lead’ research? How do we contain Creative PhD’s so they don’t become too large? How do we manage the written component? What are the typical expectations from examiners?
We will explore a number of typical questions and required amendments from PhD examiners gleaned from 50 past PhD examinations. In discussing the examination process for the Creative PhD, supervisors might better prepare candidates early on in their candidature.
Chris has supervised 78 research degrees including 44 Masters & 21 PhD completions. He has convened/chaired 30 PhD Oral Examinations. In 2018 he won the AUT University Research Excellence Award for Postgraduate Research Supervision.
BIO
Chris Braddock, artist and writer, is professor of visual arts at AUT University, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. He is director of doctoral studies and co-leads the Art & Performance Research Group. His work explores themes such as: animism, dialogue, material trace, ritual, silence, spirituality, Sufism, participation and performance. His most recent book Resetting the Coordinates: An Anthology of Performance Art in Aotearoa New Zealand (Massey University Press, 2024)—which he co-authored and edited with Ioana Gordon-Smith, Layne Waerea and Victoria Wynne-Jones—is the first anthology of performance art of Aotearoa. He is editor of Animism in Art and Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and author of Performing Contagious Bodies: Ritual Participation in Contemporary Art (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). His performance and installation works have been included in A Time of Waiting at Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū (2025), Public Relations at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, curated by Simon Gennard (2022), How To Live Together at AUT ST PAUL St Gallery, curated by Balamohan Shingade (2019), and Material Traces: Time and the Gesture in Contemporary Art curated by Amelia Jones in Montréal (2013).
