Hi there…

I’m Katriona, and the Year 2 Leader on the BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts. I am new in post (Sept 2024). I have overall responsibility for 172 students in 2nd Year. I have my own tutor group of 28 students and do one to one tutorials, teaching and assessments as part of this role. I run the Year meetings and have been experimenting with turning this into a context for students to showcase work in progress as well as where the week to week timetable and events are discussed. I oversee the 2nd Year lecture series, working with colleagues to align it to the 2nd Year and also deliver lectures. I oversee a staff team of 6 fractional staff and 7 associate lecturers. I coordinate the assessment process and also run parity meetings. A key part of my role is to oversee all the students to participate in a series of exhibition projects over the year: a collective exhibition in Nov, a group off-site project in March and an on-site solo presentation in May.

I’m an artist and I make digital artefacts, objects, moving image and installation as well as participatory projects. Recent work includes new commissions at the V&A and Science Gallery London (both 2018); a participatory green screen installation at Autograph (2020); a commission for Disrupt & Reflect, online at IMPAKT, Netherlands (2020-21) and a commission for Sotheby’s Institute of Art that premiered at the V&A (2023).

I started a trade union for artists in 2014, Artists’ Union England and I am currently on the National Executive Committee for AUE.

ARP – Year meeting Observation log

Download the Observation log from the Year meetings recordings. I have included the links to Panopto so you can watch the recordings, although you will have to request access to Year meeting 1 and 3 due to the nature of some of the content.

You can also download the visualisations that this data generated as well as the Year meeting 1 slides as an example of the content I am displaying.

Observations of Year meetingsDownload
Year meeting interaction chartsDownload
Year meeting example of slides_3-NovDownload

ARP – AI log

I have used AI in the following ways during this Action Research Project:

  • Search tool embedded within Google search engine and Google scholar search engine
  • Transcription tool to transcribe the focus group conversations, via Adobe podcast transcription function available through UAL license.
  • Live Captioning software within Year meetings, via Microsoft Suite PowerPoint live transcription function function available through UAL license.

ARP – Bibliography

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ARP – Observations from Year meeting

Download the Observations from the Year meeting recordings. This document includes links to the Panopto recordings so you can watch the actual meeting. Some of these are protected files so you will need to ask for access permission when you click on the link.

Observations of Year meetingsDownload
Year meeting interaction chartsDownload
Year meeting slides 3-NovDownload

ARP – Questionnaires

Download Questionnaire 1 (Oct 2025), Questionnaire 2 (Dec 2025) and Data Poetry developed from student reponses to Questionnaire 1, Q2 ‘I care about developing community because…’

Questionaire 1 Developing Year meetingsDownload
Questionaire 2 Developing Year meetings – end of term reflectionsDownload
Data Poetry developed from Q1Q2 I care about community becauseDownload

ARP – Ethical Action Plan, Focus Group participant documents & ethics email discussion

Download the Ethical Action Plan, the participant documents for the Focus Group and an email discussion about the ethical considerations around the student video.

Ethical Action Plan Template 2025-26 final v3Download
ARP_Participants Information Sheet_KBDownload
ARP_Participant Consent Form_KBDownload
Re_ Feedback on student videoDownload