Conferences and Publications
I am an artist researcher who completed an AHRC funded practice-led PhD at Northumbria University in 2018. My thesis title is: ‘The concept of noise in medical visualisations perceived through a contemporary drawing practice’. I am a member of CNoS (The Cultural Negotiation of Science), a Northumbria University fine art research group challenging the use of art as instrumental in science.
CONFERENCE & SYMPOSIUM SPEAKER
- ‘Day of Doubt’, The Good Science Project conference speaker, Imperial College London, 2023
- ‘Exploring Environmental Justice’, Creative Fellowship speaker, ESI, University of Exeter, 2023
- ‘Art & Science – Connections and Interactions’ Conference speaker, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, 2023
- ‘Brains Revisited’ symposium speaker, Kings College, London, 2022
- ‘Drawing Talking to the Sciences’ conference speaker, The Ruskin, Lancaster University, 2020
- ‘Silent Signal’ conference speaker, University of Derby, 2016
- Academic Practice Symposium speaker, King’s Learning Institute, Kings College London 2014
- ‘Slippage: The unstable nature of difference’ symposium speaker, University of Chester, 2014
- ‘Design for Desertification’ conference speaker, Centro Cultural Raiano Museum, Portugal 2013
- AHRC Conference, Northumbria University, 2013 and 2016
PUBLICATIONS
- Saunders, C. & Patel, D. (2024) ‘Diverse voices, sticky maps and wicked patterns. Using creative methods to explore environmental justice’, Green Humanities: A Journal of Ecological Thought in Literature, Philosophy & the Arts
- Patel, D. (2024) ‘Exchanges: Drawing out Parkinson’s Conversations’ Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History
- Coffey, S. & Patel, D. (2023) ‘Sparking the imagination: creative language pedagogies as intersemiotic translation’, The Language Learning Journal, Taylor & Francis, Routledge.
- Patel, D (2023) ‘Embodied and Coded: Drawings as Viral Networks’ in Pattern and Chaos: Making and Meaning, Intellect Books
- Patel, D. (2020) ‘Drawing to mirror, destabilize and enact’, in Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice journal, Intellect Books
- Patel, D. (2014) ‘The Diffusion Project’, in Kennedy, B. et al. (eds), ‘Triennial City: Localising Asian Art’ UK: Cornerhouse Publications