Note!
The Norwegian Artistic Research School is in 2024-2025 reorganising from five seminars to four modules. PhD students who did start in the Research School before the study year 2024-2025, and only miss the last seminar or ARF, will still use the former course plan. Please read the course plan and find information here about the seminars in the old strucure.
The Norwegian Artistic Research School is always excited to welcome new PhD students from all Norwegian higher education institutions in the Arts, into its growing research community. Every new PhD student is not only offered professional training and a space for sharing knowledge, but constitutes an important contribution to an evolving research environment that aim to innovate artistic research across artistic disciplines and methods.
Mandatory Activites for PhD students
Through four interconnected modules The Norwegian Artistic Research School gives PhD students an introduction to methods, theory and ethics in artistic research, as well as training in disseminating the results of artistic research. Through these four modules, and the Artistic Research Forums, the research fellows’ artistic PhD projects are supported and included in a larger network offering professional depth and breadth.
As PhD student you must complete all four modules. You must also participate in four (eventually five) Artistic Research Forums.
The four modules have different but interrelated focus areas:
Module 1: Introduction to the Norwegian Artistic Research School and Artistic Research
Module 2: Methods, Sharing & Documentation
Module 3: Ethics, Relations & Context
Module 4: The PhD result
Progress plan
You will be asked to set up a progress plan showing when you are going to attend the seminars in module 1-4 and the Artistic Research Forums. Your institution must approve the progress plan and submit the plan to the research school´s administration.
Read more and see example of a progress plan.
Updated course plan
The four modules and the Artistic Research Forums are described in the yearly course plan.
Online introduction seminar
All PhD students new to the research school is invited to an online introduction seminar. In this seminar, you will be introduced to the Norwegian Artistic Research School; you will get a very brief introduction to artistic research and receive practical information about upcoming activites and what you need to hand in and prepare.
Link to Zoom will be shared by e-mail to all participants.
The online introduction seminar is offered twice a year. See calendar for next possible date.
Note! You need to complete the online seminar before you can attend the in-person seminar in module 1.
Upcoming events
In the calendar of the research school, upcoming events including possible dates for all seminars in module 1-4 and the Artistic Research Forums are regularly updated.
Resource pool
The Norwegian Artistic Research School has comprised a large digital resource pool giving insights into international perspectives on artistic reasearch and relevant texts and media from and about the field of artistic research. The resource pool comprises both all mandatory material for the modules and a dive deeper into relevant topics and information about the program and the field in general. The pool is under construction.