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Vaughan, Sian (2025) When Is a Boundary Not a Boundary? Exploring the Tensions and Potentialities of Creative Practice in Doctoral Research in Art and Design Education. International Journal of Art & Design Education. ISSN 1476-8062

Vaughan, Sian (2025) Creative contagion or missing story? – examining the REF archives for evidence of provision for creative practice in doctoral study. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education. ISSN 2398-4686

Vaughan, Sian (2024) Privilege and Practice—Challenges for Doctoral Education in Art and Design. International Journal of Art & Design Education. ISSN 1476-8062

Vaughan, Sian and Blackburn, Carolyn and Curzon, Rachel (2021) Continuing conversations: Moving support for doctoral supervisors’ professional development online. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 58 (6). pp. 716-726. ISSN 1470-3297

Vaughan, Sian (2021) Practice submissions – are doctoral regulations and policies responding to the needs of creative practice? Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 26 (3). pp. 333-352. ISSN 1359-6748

Hill, G and Vaughan, Sian (2018) Cirque du Research Supervision: New research approaches for research supervisor professional development. ICDDET Conference proceedings.

Vaughan, Sian (2018) Art and sonic mining in the archives: methods for investigating the wartime history of Birmingham School of Art. History of Education, 47 (2). pp. 225-240. ISSN 0046-760X

Hill, Geof and Vaughan, Sian (2017) Conversations about research supervision – Enabling and accrediting a community of practice model for research degree supervisor development. Innovations in Education and Teaching International. pp. 1-11. ISSN 1470-3297

Taylor, Jacqueline and Vaughan, Sian (2015) “The same but different: researching and enhancing PGR employability and experience in Art & Design”. The Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change, 1 (2). ISSN 2055-4990

Boultwood, Anne and Taylor, Jacqueline and Vaughan, Sian (2015) The Importance of Coffee: peer mentoring to support PGRs and ECRs in Art and Design. Vitae Occasional Papers, 2. pp. 15-20.

Book Section

Vaughan, Sian (2022) Musings on the Place of a Space for an Archive Encounter. In: Bummock: Tennyson Research Centre. FTB Press, Lincolnshire, pp. 86-87. ISBN 9781999883027

Vaughan, Sian (2021) Community-building for Practice-based Doctoral Researchers: Mapping Key Dimensions for Creating Flexible Frameworks. In: The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-based Research. Routledge, pp. 544-554. ISBN 9780367341435

Vaughan, Sian (2021) Understanding Doctoral Communities in Practice-Based Research. In: The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-based Research. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 122-138. ISBN 9780367341435

Vaughan, Sian and Hill, Geof (2021) Blending online and offline in a Community of Practice model for research degree supervisor development. In: Online Communities for PhD Researchers: Building Engagement with Social Media. Routledge, pp. 95-109. ISBN 9780367224097

Vaughan, Sian (2020) Confidence in Practice: positioning institutional and individual creative research as para-academic. In: Institution as Praxis: new curatorial directions for collaborative research. Sternberg Press, Berlin, pp. 200-213. ISBN 9783956795060

Cooper, Sarah Lucy (2019) A Strengths Based Inquiry of Research Supervision (Ten Ways to Investigate Research Supervision). In: Ten Ways to Investigate Research Supervision. SEDA Specials (43). SEDA, pp. 13-14. ISBN 978-1-902435-66-4

Vaughan, Sian (2019) Thinking Through Images and Metaphor. In: Ten ways to investigate research supervision. SEDA.

Vaughan, Sian (2019) Art and sonic mining in the archives: methods for investigating the wartime history of Birmingham School of Art. In: Sight, Sound and Text in the History of Education. Routledge, London, pp. 75-90. ISBN 9780367194710

Vaughan, Sian (2019) Artists' Methods in the Lace Archive. In: Bummock The Lace Archive. ftb Press, Waddington, pp. 74-81. ISBN 9781999883010

Vaughan, Sian (2016) Reflecting on Practice: Artists’ Experiences in the Archives. In: Engaging with Archives and Records: Histories and Theories. Facet Publishing, pp. 211-231. ISBN 9781783301584

Taylor, Jacqueline and Vaughan, Sian (2016) A Different Practice? Professional Identity and Doctoral Education in Art & Design. In: Perspectives on Designing Professional Practice Doctorates: Applying the Critical Friends Approach to the EdD and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 126-141. ISBN 9781137527059

Hards, L. and Vaughan, Sian and Williams, James J. (2014) Place-making and other purposes: Public art on campus. In: The Physical University: Contours of Space and Place in Higher Education. Taylor and Francis, pp. 106-130. ISBN 9781315813776 (ISBN)

Vaughan, Sian (2014) The Art School, Society of Artists and the City. In: in A Place for Art: the story of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists,. RBSA, Birmingham, pp. 39-44.

Vaughan, Sian (2013) The Archive and Public Art: Archiving the Materialities of our times. In: Wet-Dry-thick-Thin (Getting Beyond the Raw and the Cooked. Zetesis: Research generated by curiosity, 1 (2). Article Press, Birmingham, pp. 49-57. ISBN 9781873352076

Vaughan, Sian and Williams, Grace (2013) Student Engagement with Learning Resources in Art & Design: Seeding Possibilities. In: Student Engagement - Identity, Motivation and Community. Libri Publishing, pp. 17-35. ISBN 9781907471650

Book

Hill, Geof and Vaughan, Sian, eds. (2019) Ten ways to investigate research supervision. SEDA Specials (43). SEDA.

Thesis

Lopez, Lucy (2024) Instituting with Care: How Might Art Institutions Care Well? Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Dunn, Gregory Paul (2018) Touching Topography: Negotiating Landscape Encounters with ‘Several Parts’ of the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Chen, Sijing (2018) The Transformation of Guai Imagery in China (1949-78). Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.