[Commlist] 5 PhD candidate positions at Tallinn University

Tallinn University announces 5 free study places in its PhD programme 
titled “Audiovisual Arts and Media Studies”. The places will come with 
attached scholarships and salaries - in the amount of 1400 euros per month.

The programme facilitates two study tracks: creative practice based 
audiovisual arts studies and empirical media studies. The curriculum 
focuses on contemporary forms and phenomena of media and audiovisual 
arts, first and foremost media production and content research. Special 
focus is given to the processes of change in media and arts.

In 2019, there will be two PhD students admitted to conduct research as 
part of the EU Commission funded Cultural Data Analytics (CUDAN) ERA 
Chair project and two PhD students admitted to conduct research as a 
part of the EU Mobilitas Pluss Top Researcher project of Prof. Pia 
Tikka. One study place will not be attached to a project and is 
thematically free.

The two doctoral places that relate to CUDAN projects need to relate to 
the following themes:

- Data based studies of audiovisual heritage (film and television, 
projects could focus on their histories, their databases and corpora, 
their metadata, the ways databases and corpora represent or mediate history)
- Data usage in contemporary media organisations (media organisations in 
smaller countries preferred, projects could focus on their data 
collection and analytic practices and opportunities, analysis of related 
value propositions)

The two doctoral places that relate to prof. Pia Tikka research projects 
need to relate to the following themes:

- Virtual reality/Augmented reality storytelling in immersive narrative 
environments, practice-based work requiring skills in working with game 
engines, 3D character animation, and/or 360 cinematic production. 
Programming skills are considered a plus.
- Biosensor-driven interaction between the participant and immersive 
narrative and/or virtual characters, requiring relatively advanced 
skills in programming, experience in conducting psychophysiological 
experiments is emphasised.

Deadline for applications is July 1st. Admissions to the programme take 
place in July.

Learn more about the programme here: 
https://www.tlu.ee/en/bfm/audiovisual-arts-and-media-studies#projects


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