Jacqueline Taylor is an artist, researcher, lecturer and writer based in the West Midlands. She was awarded her PhD titled 'writing//painting; l’écriture féminine and difference in the making' in 2013 from the Centre for Fine Art Research, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham City University.
Research interests include: non-representational articulations of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in painting, intermateriality, poetics, art practice research, Art & Design doctoral pedagogy.
“Uncomfortable truths and dislocated communities in changing times: barriers, bridges and hierarc... more “Uncomfortable truths and dislocated communities in changing times: barriers, bridges and hierarchies between researcher developer, PGR and supervisor communities” (with J. Taylor) SRHE International Annual Conference, Newport, December, 2018
“Practice-led research as changing practice: aspiration and identity in doctoral education”
Pres... more “Practice-led research as changing practice: aspiration and identity in doctoral education” Presentation at the SRHE Annual Research Conference, Newport, December 2015.
J. Taylor & S. Vaughan “Cake and conversations in the studio: difference and community in Arts & ... more J. Taylor & S. Vaughan “Cake and conversations in the studio: difference and community in Arts & Humanities doctoral praxis” Presented at the United Kingdom Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE) Annual Conference, Glasgow, July, 2015.
J. Taylor & S. Vaughan “Community amongst misfits: the role of peers in Art & Design research”
Po... more J. Taylor & S. Vaughan “Community amongst misfits: the role of peers in Art & Design research” Poster presentation at the 2nd International Conference in Developments in Doctoral Education and Training (ICDDET), Oxford, March 2015.
J.Taylor & S.Vaughan “A Different Practice? Professional Identity and Doctoral Education in Art &... more J.Taylor & S.Vaughan “A Different Practice? Professional Identity and Doctoral Education in Art & Design” in V. Staley (ed) (2016) International Perspectives on Designing Professional Practice Doctorates: Applying the Critical Friends Approach to the EdD and Beyond, Palgrave Macmillan [ISBN: 978-1137527059]
Taylor, J. & Vaughan, S. (2015) “The same but different: researching and enhancing PGR employabil... more Taylor, J. & Vaughan, S. (2015) “The same but different: researching and enhancing PGR employability and experience in Art & Design”, Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership & Change, vol.1, no.2, pp.89-105 [ISSN: 2055-4990]
Boultwood, A., Taylor, J. & Vaughan, S. (2015) “The Importance of Coffee: Peer Mentoring to suppo... more Boultwood, A., Taylor, J. & Vaughan, S. (2015) “The Importance of Coffee: Peer Mentoring to support PGRs and ECRs in Art & Design” in: Vitae Occasional Papers volume 2: Research careers and cultures, CRAC, pp15-20, [ISBN: 9781906774509]
“Uncomfortable truths and dislocated communities in changing times: barriers, bridges and hierarc... more “Uncomfortable truths and dislocated communities in changing times: barriers, bridges and hierarchies between researcher developer, PGR and supervisor communities” (with J. Taylor) SRHE International Annual Conference, Newport, December, 2018
“Practice-led research as changing practice: aspiration and identity in doctoral education”
Pres... more “Practice-led research as changing practice: aspiration and identity in doctoral education” Presentation at the SRHE Annual Research Conference, Newport, December 2015.
J. Taylor & S. Vaughan “Cake and conversations in the studio: difference and community in Arts & ... more J. Taylor & S. Vaughan “Cake and conversations in the studio: difference and community in Arts & Humanities doctoral praxis” Presented at the United Kingdom Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE) Annual Conference, Glasgow, July, 2015.
J. Taylor & S. Vaughan “Community amongst misfits: the role of peers in Art & Design research”
Po... more J. Taylor & S. Vaughan “Community amongst misfits: the role of peers in Art & Design research” Poster presentation at the 2nd International Conference in Developments in Doctoral Education and Training (ICDDET), Oxford, March 2015.
J.Taylor & S.Vaughan “A Different Practice? Professional Identity and Doctoral Education in Art &... more J.Taylor & S.Vaughan “A Different Practice? Professional Identity and Doctoral Education in Art & Design” in V. Staley (ed) (2016) International Perspectives on Designing Professional Practice Doctorates: Applying the Critical Friends Approach to the EdD and Beyond, Palgrave Macmillan [ISBN: 978-1137527059]
Taylor, J. & Vaughan, S. (2015) “The same but different: researching and enhancing PGR employabil... more Taylor, J. & Vaughan, S. (2015) “The same but different: researching and enhancing PGR employability and experience in Art & Design”, Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership & Change, vol.1, no.2, pp.89-105 [ISSN: 2055-4990]
Boultwood, A., Taylor, J. & Vaughan, S. (2015) “The Importance of Coffee: Peer Mentoring to suppo... more Boultwood, A., Taylor, J. & Vaughan, S. (2015) “The Importance of Coffee: Peer Mentoring to support PGRs and ECRs in Art & Design” in: Vitae Occasional Papers volume 2: Research careers and cultures, CRAC, pp15-20, [ISBN: 9781906774509]
This thesis critically interrogates the concept and practice of l’ecriture feminine as proposed b... more This thesis critically interrogates the concept and practice of l’ecriture feminine as proposed by Helene Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva to challenge phallocentric structures embedded in language and culture. It examines why abstraction has been so problematic for women and feminist artists and why, despite l’ecriture feminine being utilised in art practice it came to a standstill in the mid-1990s, ceasing to provide possibilities for women’s abstract painting. By using l’ecriture feminine as a ‘lens’ with which to see abstract painting, I have distilled particular aspects of it and put forward my own concept and practice of peinture feminine to move on from these problematics. I demonstrate that whilst the historicity of Modernist abstraction is embedded in abstract painting, it is not bound by rigid and fixed structures and conventions and these are not phallocentric per se. Peinture feminine as defined here reconceptualises abstract painting as a spatiality comprising m...
Tomando la forma de los retablos inspirados en el folk-art, la obra de la artista estadounidense ... more Tomando la forma de los retablos inspirados en el folk-art, la obra de la artista estadounidense Clare Rojas atraviesa diferentes medios para desafiar los roles tradicionales de género en la sociedad. Su exposición We They, We They, realizada en la galería Ikon, en Birmingham, Reino Unido, resonó con mi propio trabajo como artista-investigadora –no necesariamente por los temas o cualidades estéticas de la obra–, sino porque parecía funcionar como una forma de significación u «otro» lenguaje que escapaba de lo estrictamente comunicativo o representativo. Se alineaba con lo que he llamado una comprensión ‘poética’ de la pintura, en la cual era posible hacer significados (o entender el trabajo de ser significativo) a través del desconocimiento, el afecto y el encuentro en un nivel más corpóreo. Provocada por esta investigación, el texto a continuación surgió en un contexto más amplio de conversaciones sobre la escritura y el arte, y los diferentes niveles que esta interrelación puede j...
There has been an increasing focus on community in doctoral provision. Indeed, emphasis on doctor... more There has been an increasing focus on community in doctoral provision. Indeed, emphasis on doctoral training for groups of Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) alongside the more dyadic model of traditional supervision has been prompted by policy drivers from research councils and funding bodies (Research Councils UK 2011, Vitae 2010). Conceptualising PGRs as cohorts has also been encouraged by the formation of Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs), Doctoral Colleges and Graduate Schools (Smith McGloin & Wynne, 2015) as well as greater emphasis on timely completions. In addition, recent focus on PGR wellbeing and mental health (Levecque et al 2017) has highlighted community and belonging as important in supporting students during the doctoral experience, which is recognised as increasingly stressful in the context of increasing demands on those wanting to establish academic careers (Pitt & Mewburn, 2016). Indeed, as a recent Vitae report identifies, “pressures to gain experience of publi...
The Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change, 2015
We present and discuss two related projects at Birmingham City University undertaken by the same ... more We present and discuss two related projects at Birmingham City University undertaken by the same staff-student partnership: the first a research project to understand the aspirations and motivations of our PGRs; the second, informed by the first, a pilot project to enhance the PGR experience through peer mentoring. The complexity of Art & Design PGR identity and their nuanced professional aspirations means that our PGRs are an extremely individualised group who cannot easily be categorised. The challenge is in enabling individualised provision within a supportive cohort environment. We critically reflect on the significance and impact of each of these projects as having been undertaken through the framework of a staff-student partnership, drawing on our own and our PGRs’ experiences more generally as being the same yet different and individual.
International Perspectives on Designing Professional Practice Doctorates, 2016
The doctoral study of Art & Design has significantly evolved over the past 20 years; while in... more The doctoral study of Art & Design has significantly evolved over the past 20 years; while in the United Kingdom in particular, the increase in practice-led research and practitioners undertaking PhDs has contributed to the expansion of Art & Design doctoral study. Despite the growth of Professional Doctorates, only a small number of Universities in the United Kingdom offer one in Art & Design. Based on our research into doctoral study at Birmingham City University we argue that through the entwining of professional practice and practice-led research, the ethos underpinning the Professional Doctorate is encapsulated in the very nature of the Art & Design PhD. Our students have revealed aspirations and motivations in which academic, practitioner, industry and other creative roles are complexly entwined, blurring the traditional binary of academic and nonacademic professional roles both inside and outside the academe, nuanced aspirations which we locate as “para-academic.” Moving on from the PhD and Professional Doctorate viewed dualistically as either aligned with the philosophical and theoretical or the professional, doctoral study in Art & Design occupies a more fluid space in which the para-academic is a positive position in relation to professional identity. We contend that doctoral study in Art & Design and the Professional Doctorate in other disciplines can play the role of critical friends to one another, whereby both parties can be enhanced by not just seeing but recognizing reflections of the self within the other.
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Conference Presentations by Jacqueline Taylor
Presentation at the SRHE Annual Research Conference, Newport, December 2015.
Presented at the United Kingdom Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE) Annual Conference, Glasgow, July, 2015.
Poster presentation at the 2nd International Conference in Developments in Doctoral Education and Training (ICDDET), Oxford, March 2015.
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Presentation at the SRHE Annual Research Conference, Newport, December 2015.
Presented at the United Kingdom Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE) Annual Conference, Glasgow, July, 2015.
Poster presentation at the 2nd International Conference in Developments in Doctoral Education and Training (ICDDET), Oxford, March 2015.