[ecrea] EPSRC/AHRC Funded PhD Studentship Digital Media

>EPSRC/AHRC FUNDED Digital Media PhD Research Studentship:
>Personal Narratives and Computational Provenance 
>⬠how does data tell stories and what stories can it tell?
>
>This studentship will form part of the 
>interdisciplinary EPSRC/AHRC funded PATINA 
>collaborative research project. PATINA aims to 
>provide researchers of all kinds, including 
>academics, creative practitioners and citizen 
>researchers, with new opportunities to create 
>research spaces that integrate physical, digital 
>and personal space and support the sharing of 
>research activities as well as results. The 
>consortium will build wearable prototypes that 
>can enhance research objects by projecting 
>related information back into their research 
>space. The PhD research will investigate the 
>relationship between the researcherâ¬"s 
>â¬Üresearch journeyâ¬", its capture in the 
>archive and how it is replayed and shared with others.
>
>
>Location: School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Greenwich.
>
>Funding award: UK/EU fees + £15,290 (inclusive 
>of London Weighting) annual maintenance.
>
>Closing date for applications 28 July 2010
>
>
>
>FULL DETAILS BELOW:
>
>Background and Context
>The University of Greenwich is offering a fully 
>funded PhD studentship, based at the 
>Universityâ¬"s Institute of Converging Arts and 
>Sciences (ICAS), to explore the relationship 
>between computational (data) provenance and 
>personal narrative as archival forms. This is an 
>exciting opportunity for interdisciplinary 
>research, forming part of the multidisciplinary 
>project PATINA (Personal Architectonics of 
>Interfaces to Artefacts), which is a 
>collaboration between six universities, 
>(Greenwich, Bristol, Brighton, Newcastle, 
>Southampton and Swansea) and involves 
>researchers from the humanities, the arts and computer science.
>
>Funded by the EPSRC and the AHRC through the 
>RCUK Digital Economy programme, this £1.7 m 
>project will provide researchers of all kinds, 
>including academics, creative practitioners and 
>citizen researchers, with new opportunities to 
>create research spaces that emphasise the 
>primacy of research material, and support the 
>sharing of research activities as well as 
>results. The consortium will build wearable 
>prototypes that can enhance research objects by 
>projecting related information back into their 
>research space. These technologies will also 
>provide the means to capture, record, and replay 
>the researcher's activities to support intuitive 
>archiving, sharing and publication of 
>interactions with research objects. The design 
>of the technologies will draw on theoretical 
>frameworks of space developed from studies of 
>research spaces as diverse as libraries, 
>museums, homes and archaeological fieldwork sites.
>
>Role Description
>The PhD Studentship field of study will be 
>situated within the established body of research 
>that explores the relationship between history 
>and archive, and within the study of 
>categorisation systems through which it is 
>possible to articulate knowledge and being. The 
>project will focus on the researcherâ¬"s 
>interaction with the research object and with 
>the archive that is created of his or her 
>activities. It will examine the relationship 
>between the researcherâ¬"s â¬Üresearch 
>journeyâ¬", its capture in the archive and how 
>it is replayed and shared with others. It will 
>explore and establish links between the 
>researcherâ¬"s personal narrative and the field 
>of computational provenance, which seeks to 
>model ways of recording and representing the 
>history and therefore the authority and 
>viability of data and information generated within computer systems.
>
>It is anticipated that the project will
>
>1) investigate similarities, differences, 
>overlaps and conflicts etc. between the 
>objectives and processes of computational 
>provenance, historiography and personal 
>narratives, e.g questions of authenticity, truth 
>and falsehood, ontology and teleology.
>
>2) contribute to current debates about the 
>social, political and economic implications of 
>contemporary proliferation of personal digital 
>archives on and offline, together with large 
>scale automated generation, capture and storage of digital data.
>
>3) seek to establish what new cultural 
>narratives are and might be produced from the meeting of the two.
>
>The Studentship will start on October 1 2010, 
>which is the start of the PATINA project.
>
>UK/EU fees and maintenance at the standard EPSRC 
>rate will be covered, including annual stipend 
>of £15,290 (inclusive of London weighting).
>
>Location
>The studentship will be based at the University 
>of Greenwich Maritime Campus, in the historic 
>buildings of the Old Royal Naval College.
>
>
>Entry Requirements
>Ideally, applicants will have an MA/MSc in 
>digital arts, multimedia, media or a related 
>subject. They should have a proven interest in 
>and aptitude for interdisciplinary research 
>across the humanities, arts and sciences, 
>encompassing both theory and practice. The 
>Studentship will require the successful 
>candidate to be fully committed to the aims and 
>the outcomes of the PATINA project, to which 
>their enquiry will make an important 
>contribution. The successful candidate will be 
>required to liaise frequently with colleagues 
>from other universities and a variety of 
>discipline areas and should have excellent 
>verbal and written communication skills.
>
>Academic Staff contact details: Rosamund Davies (R.Davies /at/ gre.ac.uk)
>
>Deadline 28 July
>
>Interviews will be held on the 7 September 2010. 
>Candidates will need to be available on this day 
>and to be able to start the studentship on 1 October.
>
>Application details.
>Please download an application form and 
>guidelines from http://www.gre.ac.uk/research/apply
>
>Please attach to the application a separate 
>statement giving evidence of how your research 
>interests and experience qualify you for this 
>Studentship, as outlined in the role 
>description, and how you meet the entry 
>requirements. Then EMAIL THE COMPLETED FORM AND 
>THE STATEMENT TO (R.Davies /at/ gre.ac.uk) by 28 July 2010.
>(DO NOT send to the Research Student 
>administrative office as it says on the application form)

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