MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be speaking at a symposium on Saturday 21 March, held by the VCA and University of Melbourne. The Deans and Directors of Creative Arts (DDCA) symposium is over a three-day period and is titled 'The Outstanding Field: Artistic Research Emerging from the Academy’. The symposium highlights practice-led methods used to obtain research throughout PhD projects in Australia and New Zealand. With Cardoso having undertaken a PhD from Sydney University in Art and Science in 2013, her discussion ‘The Marriage of Art and Science’ held at Sydney College of the Arts, will offer an insight into her artistic processes and methods of practice-led research.