Arts and Culture, University of Exeter

📢 OPPORTUNITY 📢 The Inspiring Women Network exists to connect, inspire, and empower women across Cornwall. Their new IGNITE programme launches with IGNITE IDEAS — supporting women with business, creative, or social enterprise ideas, from the very first spark to the launch stage. What you’ll gain from this FREE programme: 🌱 Personal mentoring and one-to-one support 💼 Skill-building workshops and enterprise training 💬 Networking and collaboration opportunities 🐉 A chance to pitch your ideas and receive feedback at a Dragons’ Den-style showcase with Seasalt Cornwall in February 2026 If you’re ready to grow your idea or want to get involved as a mentor, volunteer, or partner, they'd love to hear from you! 📅 Apply by 3 November 2025 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e24pQkdW If you’re not ready with a business idea just yet but still want personal or professional development support, you can also register your interest in the wider IGNITE programme.   

Last week, our Associate Director Sarah Campbell joined Professor John Wedgwood Clarke and Professor Pascale Aebischer from the University of Exeter for a brilliant round table exploring creative and community practice in research as part of the University's Faculty for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research Showcase. We’re so lucky to collaborate regularly with our HASS colleagues, and it was inspiring to see such a wide range of exciting research being shared and celebrated. Huge congratulations to everyone who took part! Photography by Jim Wileman.

Huge congratulations to Chris Hoban, Laura Sangha and all the team for such a wonderful event at the weekend 👏 🥳

Friday 24 October: This focused lecture is part of the "African Dialogues 1.0", a three-part UK academic and cultural symposium in Exeter, London and Penryn, organised by Madeline R. Young-Touré in partnership with the "Black Dialogues 2.0" Netherlands events supported by the seed grant from University of Amsterdam’s Decolonial Futures RPA. It explores decolonial approaches to African and Black material cultures, embodied heritages, natural resources, law, and extractive legacies shaped by Africa–Europe entanglements. Everyone is welcome to this hybrid event. 👉 https://lnkd.in/er5Mnk4K #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #BHM University of Exeter University of Exeter, Cornwall Arts and Culture, University of Exeter Falmouth Exeter Plus Graduate School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Exeter Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) Cornwall - University of Exeter Exeter Marine University of Exeter Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter University of Exeter Alumni University of Exeter News Falmouth & Exeter Students' Union University of Exeter Business School Sustainable Futures, University of Exeter Business School Falmouth University RENEW Biodiversity ECEHH European Centre for Environment and Human Health Centre for Geography and Environmental Science Martin Siegert Rae Preston University of Exeter Law School Exeter Centre for Environmental Law Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter Madeline R. Young-Touré Chitzi Ogbumgbada, PhD SOAS University of London

FUTURES Festival is finally here and there are so many wonderful events happening across Devon and Cornwall in the coming days. Here's a run down of just *some* arts and culture highlights: 🎵 Stories and Songs: Wills and Windows onto Past Lives 🗓️ 11 October at the Exeter Phoenix Musician and 2025 Creative Fellow Chris Hoban is teaming up once again with Laura Sangha from the University's Archaeology and History Department to revive their evening of stories and songs, revealing some of the hidden stories contained within historical wills: https://lnkd.in/erGxaVsG --- 🥾 Walking Tour: Out in Nature 🗓️ 11 October, University of Exeter's Streatham Campus The Out in Nature trail is a collaboration between University of Exeter students, researchers (including Ina Linge, PhD, FHEA. and Taylor Butler-Eldridge ), the grounds team and visitors.  Each location invites you to explore the queerness of nature on campus and introduces a brief moment for reflection: https://lnkd.in/ev8ke9r2 --- 📝 Talismans, Kit Lists, and Recipes for Survival: Creative Writing Workshop 🗓️ 12 October at the Exeter Phoenix Led by Professor Hugh Roberts this workshop explores the renaissance of poetry happening in Ukraine. Using a series of poems as inspiration, you will guided through activities guided through activities to produce your own kit lists and recipes for survival. For ages 12+: https://lnkd.in/eGaZyhfC --- 🎤 A History of Hip-Hop 🗓️ 15 October, KCM Church, Falmouth Organised by Agile Rabbit, this event charts hip hop’s first five decades, from its birth in the block parties of the Bronx and origins in Jamaica, to commercial gangsta-rap and right up to today’s artists: https://lnkd.in/e9gz8EHd P.s these are all free to attend but please use the links provided to book in advance to ensure you have a space! You can see the full FUTURES Festival programme here: https://lnkd.in/e8qGfmdw

⭐ New opportunity to join the Health and Wellbeing of Women in Farming team! ⭐ We are looking for a Creative Project Coordinator to help us deliver a series of creative action research workshops with women in farming across England and Wales. Jointly hosted by Arts and Culture, University of Exeter and CRPR University of Exeter, the post would be ideal for someone with experience of managing arts projects with socially-engaged creative practitioners within a research environment, as well as an understanding of rural communities. More details here: https://lnkd.in/eTh2tuuZ This is part of a wider research programme led by CRPR University of Exeter and The Farming Community Network and funded by the ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council

🎨 Artist Callout: Creative Fellowship Opportunity We're inviting applications for our 2025/26 Creative Fellowship, a unique, 4–5 week exploratory placement with the University of Exeter, designed for artists who are curious about interdisciplinary collaboration. This isn't a traditional residency. As a Creative Fellow, you'll work as a peer alongside academic researchers, bringing your creative perspective to new conversations and approaches, while developing your own practice in an inspiring university setting. This year’s host is the Gender and Sexuality Collective, a group reimagining how gender and sexuality are researched and taught across the University. We welcome applications from creative practitioners of any artform, including visual, digital, sound and performing arts, craft, design, film, literature and music. The total budget for the Creative Fellowship is £6,000 (inclusive of VAT) on a freelance basis, to include practitioner’s fee, travel and accommodation, production costs and documentation. 🗓️ Applications close: Sunday 2 November 2025 🔗 https://lnkd.in/efVcvKgt Image: Musician and 2025 Creative Fellow Chris Hoban and historian Dr Laura Sangha from the University of Exeter's Archaeology and History Department. Credit Steven Haywood.

We're thrilled to announce the successful appointment of three University of Exeter academic colleagues to the roles of Academic Director. Professor Kerry Chappell and Associate Professor Katharine Earnshaw will be sharing the role for Devon, and Dr Rob Magnuson Smith will hold the remit for Cornwall. Their combined, diverse portfolio of research, teaching, and cultural sector expertise will be a huge asset to the Arts and Culture team, and we are very much looking forward to collaborating together. The Academic Directors will contribute to the strategic aims of the team, helping to strengthen partnerships, foster innovation, and enhance the role of arts and culture across the University and wider community. We would also like to acknowledge Professor John Wedgwood Clarke (Academic Director, Devon) and Dr Timothy Cooper (Academic Director, Cornwall), who have completed their term with us, for their fantastic support and contribution, and for championing of our work so effectively. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/ee7kvefg

Join us in the supportive, creative and fun Communications discipline! We are hiring a Lecturer in Media and PR. This is a permanent, full-time, research and teaching position 🤩 Deadline: 22nd October 2025 https://lnkd.in/gqH_VWRn

You've got until 30th September to see an exhibition of work by our 2025 FX Creative Together interns at the Penryn Campus Library 🎨 🎥 📸 In this film, introduced by 2025 programme co-ordinator Nao Szulc, hear from University of Exeter, Cornwall students Moraa Siekei, Joe Barton, and Amelia Thomas, and Falmouth University students Louis Perry, Erin Leahy, and Rose Jennings, as they share more about their recent creative collaborations. The students worked across disciplines and took inspiration from the FX Plus Archives and Special Collections to create a body of work titled 'In the Company of Land and Sea'. You can find out more about their collaborations and the work they created here: https://lnkd.in/ekvGse28 You can find out more about the FX Creative Together programme here: https://lnkd.in/eymmm8j9 FX Creative Together is made possible by funding from Humanities and Social Sciences Cornwall (HaSS), the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES) in Penryn in partnership with Arts and Culture, University of Exeter. Film by Sam Bestwick.